Agamas and Art: Revitalizing World Through Hindu Thought| Ācārya Dr. Timalsina| Sivasri Skandaprasad

Discover how ancient Indian knowledge systems offer empirical consciousness sciences that modern civilisation desperately needs, while exploring the intersection of Tantra, Kashmir Shaivism, and classical arts.
Dr Timalsina, a leading consciousness researcher, exposes how Western scholarship both helped and hindered the transmission of Indian wisdom traditions while demonstrating why thousands of students now seek authentic tantric and yogic education with scholar-artist Sivasri.

Essential viewing for spiritual seekers, consciousness researchers, and anyone seeking alternatives to materialistic worldviews and discovering how Vedic oral traditions preserved profound knowledge for millennia.

Key Points
How Indian consciousness sciences provide empirical frameworks for mental exploration
Colonial scholarship's dual impact on preserving and distorting Indian philosophical traditions

The civilizational difference between Indian and Western approaches to reality and consciousness

Protecting tantra from mischaracterisation and stereotyping based on fringe practices
Traditional Vedic education methods and the power of oral transmission lineages

Traditional Vedic education methods and the power of oral transmission lineages

Why modern AI-driven job markets require alternative philosophies and lifestyle models

About the Speakers:
Ācārya Dr Sthaneshwar Timalsina from Nepal is the founder of the Vimarsha Foundation. Trained with sarvādhikāra-sarvasāmrājya dīkṣā, He has also received academic and philological training from Sampurnananda Sanskrit University in Varanasi, as well as Martin Luther University in Germany, where he acquired his PhD. Dr Timalsina taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently the Endowed Chair of Indic Studies at Stony Brook University, New York, in the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies.

Vidushi Sivasri Skandaprasad is an Indian musician and dancer, known for her contributions to Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam, and the visual arts. She is the founder of Ahuti, an organisation dedicated to promoting spiritual growth, artistic excellence, and social transformation through the teachings of Sanatana Dharma.
Dr Abhinav Tiwari is a professor of philosophy at GLA University Mathura. He is an aesthetician and scholar on Indian philosophy and culture.

Topics Covered:
0:00:00 Defending Indic Spiritual Practices from Mischaracterisation and Stereotypes

0:01:38 India's Contribution to Global Knowledge: Colonial Scholarship's Dual Legacy

0:05:43 Western Philosophers, Influence: Ways of Our Thinking Universalised

0:08:45 Western Secularism Failed to Touch Indian Spiritual Thought

0:10:11 Appropriation of Indian Spiritual Thinking by Western Philosophers

0:16:15 Needs for Critique

0:20:08 The 92 Agama Lineages: Universalism in Tantric Philosophy

0:27:19 Art and Spirituality as Unified Systems: Devotion and Aesthetic Experience

0:32:56 Mainstreaming Tantric Studies in Academia: Choosing Banaras over Germany

0:42:23 The Necessity of Guru Guidance, Shastra, and Personal Practice Experience

0:46:42 Krama Diksha

0:53:09 Modern Society's Awakening and Dilution: Preservation vs. Innovation

1:03:20 Mind Over Matter: Western Individualism vs. Indian Collective Support

1:13:14 Modern Job Crisis and AI: Why Alternative Philosophies Matter Now

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