Foundations of Indian Psychology, Volume 1

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Indian Psychology: Implications and Applications

K. Ramakrishna Rao

Over the years, I have used two metaphors to describe the psychological content in classical Indian thought. Psychological insights in the Indian tradition are rich diamonds in the raw, buried deep in the ravines worn by philosophical streams and covered by issues and concerns extraneous to academic psychology. So they need to be mined and recovered by modern investigative tools, cut into contemporary categories, polished by concepts currently in vogue, and displayed dressed in fashionable discourse. Only then can we see their radiating natural brilliance and their many-sided splendour. In the second metaphor, classical Indian thought is a treasure trove of psychological ...