Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Early religious and cultural beliefs are not innate but develop through social learning, language, imitation, and early cognitive environments. A critical developmental phase—pre-experiential belief formation—stabilizes beliefs before critical reasoning and direct experience mature. The paper proposes Vedanta 2.0 as a contemporary analytical framework built on three pillars: experience is primary, reasoning is indispensable, and self-observation is necessary. Using Chalmers' distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness, it shows how children often repeat beliefs without living them. Vedanta 2.0 offers interiorized epistemic auditing to transform inherited certainty into reflective understanding. The paper is conceptual, not empirical, and invites interdisciplinary dialogue on childhood curiosity, cognitive conditioning, and belief revision.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
The greatest tragedy is not that truth is hidden but that the mind itself veils it. This paper integrates Upanishadic teachings (mind as bondage and liberation, the Self beyond speech) with neuroscience (the default mode network consuming 60-80% of brain energy to create the self-story, Metzinger's phenomenal self-model showing the self as a transparent model, predictive coding revealing we live in a controlled hallucination) and quantum physics (the observer effect, Bohm's implicate order, Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR). It argues that liberation is not a future event but the restoration of pratyakshata—direct perception—when the mind-veil is recognized as such. Vedanta 2.0 is a method: treat scripture as map, the teacher as bridge, and experience as evidence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 30, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
This research proposes an interdisciplinary bridge between ancient Indian philosophy (Vedanta, Upanishads, Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita) and modern cognitive neuroscience, reframing the fundamental distinction between learning and understanding as 'Vedanta 2.0'. Learning is described as an external-to-internal process limited to memory accumulation, repetition, and cognitive biases, reinforcing the doer and survival science. Understanding is presented as a direct manifestation of consciousness, where insight (Aha moments) involves neuroplasticity and gamma bursts. The 10-slide outline parallels concepts like flow state, predictive coding, and metacognition with ancient texts, challenging traditional education's memory-focused approach and advocating for a lifestyle based on witness consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 28, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
This paper reinterprets Vedantic philosophy not as a static ontology but as a dynamic philosophy of becoming, where reality is understood as continuous systemic reorganization. The five great elements (panchamahabhutas) are seen as interdependent processes within an open, living system. Drawing on modern systems theory and ecology, the paper redefines moksha as Jivanmukti (liberation while living), systemic freedom from ego, ownership, and fixed identity. It argues that inner liberation co-arises with ecological conditions, citing May 2026 atmospheric CO₂ levels of 432.34 ppm, global temperature anomalies of 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels, and demographic expansions. Severe environmental stress disrupts the equilibrium needed for deep contemplative practice, so true flourishing requires a conscious, desire-free, ecologically balanced existence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Psychological suffering stems largely from comparing oneself to others rather than from material lack, and cultivating awareness can reduce that suffering regardless of external circumstances. The paper introduces a Vedanta 2.0 framework that contrasts a cycle of comparison leading to suffering, then awareness leading to freedom, with the classical Advaita Vedanta path from ignorance to bondage to knowledge to liberation. A 99+1 Model distinguishes worldly pursuits (99) from foundational awareness (1), arguing that awareness allows wealth, beauty, achievement, religion, and social identity to be experienced without becoming sources of psychological bondage.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
A conceptual framework called Vedanta 2.0 proposes that much psychological suffering stems from comparison-based consciousness rather than material lack. Drawing on modern psychology, Advaita Vedanta, and existential philosophy, the paper develops two hypotheses: comparison-based cognition increases suffering, and awareness-based cognition (Bodh) reduces suffering regardless of material conditions. It contrasts a Vedanta 2.0 pathway—Comparison leads to Suffering, then Bodh leads to Freedom—with the classical Advaita Vedanta path from ignorance to liberation. The 99+1 Model describes worldly pursuits (99) and awareness (1), arguing that awareness is the foundational dimension through which wealth, beauty, achievement, religion, and social identity can be experienced without psychological bondage.