Exploring the Mind of God: How Technology Guided by Spirituality Can Lead to Happiness; Author: Anil K. Rajvanshi; Publisher: Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) According to the author, the mantra for India’s and the world’s development should be spirituality with high technology This book is about exploring the larger issues of life and cosmos, aided by spirituality and technology. Anil K. Rajvanshi, who has more than 40 years of experience in renewable energy R&D and rural development, is convinced that a spiritual path can lead to positive transformation in humans. In simple language, spread over 65 easily digestible chapters, he explains how. Years of personal experience have convinced the author that one of the prerequisites to having happiness and a sustainable lifestyle is the development of a powerful and smart brain. He reveals how one can lead a happy life by making the brain powerful through spirituality, and then using it to solve our problems through technology. Spiritual progress can submerge emotions of greed and lead one towards humility and simplicity – and from there to happiness and rewarding life. Spirituality and technology Rajvanshi is equally confident that as people evolve spiritually, they will also become a technologically advanced civilization. According to him, the mantra for India’s and the world’s development should be spirituality with high technology. Meditation of course helps in the calmness of mind and happiness. Rajvanshi wants people to realize the link between spirituality, technology and happiness so as to understand the bigger picture of life and universe. We are what we think. The propensity to hoard wealth and material goods is the result of a shallow mind. It is also the mind that leads to overindulgence, at times leading to sexual disorders. Rajvanshi admits that today’s society does not put a premium on reading or thinking deeply on something. Deep thought, on the other, requires energy, application and a will to achieve it. This is why, he underlines, that it is vital that we consciously inculcate in our children, from a very early age, the desire to read – which will cultivate the habit of imagination. One way of making the brain powerful is by yoga, which the book suggests should be introduced in schools. If people take to yoga in large numbers, conserving energies that are too often frittered away in unfulfilled desires and emotional knots, human beings will become more benevolent and sharing in another 100-200 years. Anil Rajvanshi
