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cognitive faculties referred to as drstti (truth- lived (7).”
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seeing) and srti (truth-hearing) where Truth
is self-existent. This is hard for the modern For the Vedic Rrssis, the experience was not
intellect steeped in its own logical processes and for confirmation of what intuition and revela-
materialistic worldview to grasp. However, seen tion brought in but for the transformation
from this perspective, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s of their ordinary human nature into a higher
swift methods of arriving at profound evolutionary capacity. Opening not only
mathematical truths become more relatable. to the higher-order cognitive functions,
There are cognitive faculties higher than the but also making its dynamic and creative
rational intellect but it is active only in some powers active in life is a goal sought by the
exceptional individuals like Ramanujan. Since Vedic seers, a method that transformed the
Ramanujan was in the field of mathematics, researcher as a result of confirmation, as a
his confirmatory process was by following the truth lived, an embodied truth in oneself.
logical process of a precise intellect. However,
in the field of psychological research, the Adapting the Vedic method
metaphysical method is insufficient.
Unlike the Vedic Rrssis, we live in the 21st
century with a highly developed intellect
actively leading the frontiers of research.
Besides this, the higher-order cognitive
function is not as accessible to the modern
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man as it was for the Vedic Rsis who preceded
the development of the age of reason. People
like Srinivasa Ramanujan are exceptions
who had the privilege of having access to
a swift higher-order cognition beyond the
labouring intellect. Nevertheless, people like
him represent proof of the concept, applied in
the field of mathematics and confined within
In the case of the Vedic Rrssis: the framework of metaphysical research.
“Experience by the mind and body is necessary
not for confirmation, but and for realisation in But while adapting the Vedic method for
the lower plane of consciousness on which we psychological research, “...when we moderns
mental and physical beings live. We see a truth attempt to repeat the Vedic revelatory processes,
self-existent above this plane, self-existent in experience by the mind and body becomes an
the satyam ritam brihat of the Veda, the True, indispensable confirmatory process… (8)” It is
the Right, the Vast which is the reality behind indispensable to us because, “we, habitually
phenomena, but we have to actualise it on the intellectual, pursued into the higher processes,
levels on which we live, levels of imperfection when we can arrive at them, by those more
and uncertainty, striving and seeking; otherwise brilliant and specious movements of the intellect
it does not become serviceable to us; it remains which ape their luminosity and certainty,
merely a truth seen and does not become a truth could not feel entirely safe and even, one might

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