Course Content

The Hindus have been known to be a Giving Civilization. Hindu Contributions To The World can be listed from two mutually independent, but naturally supplementing perspectives. One way is to list them from the perspective of Matter, which explores the contributions of the Hindus to the world so as to have shaped the material progress of humanity.

The other perspective, Hindu Contributions To The World In The Realm Of Mind, explores the contributions which have influenced Human thought, sciences, and spirituality through time. Both these perspectives and courses modelled after them, investigate the question – “Are Hindu ideas obsolete? Or do they have contemporary relevance?”

Hindu Contributions To The World – In The Realm Of Mind has been designed to be delivered in 2 parts.

1. Sciences and Arts

This part will focus on concepts and practices from the Hindu Civilization which went on to influence and revolutionize the development of world thought as well as practice in the fields of Sciences and Arts.

2. Living and Lifestyle

In this part, focus will be on how the Hindus have laid stress on balance and have provided thought leadership to the world and steered it, especially in the areas of how to lead a balanced life. How was this undermined and how can the leadership status be regained?

In contemporary times, following the European Colonization of India, it has become ‘received knowledge’ that the Hindus were and continue to be ritualistic, superstitious, poverty ridden, timid, bare, and barely noticeable people, whose history is nothing more than the history of successive waves of invaders and colonizers who made India their home for a time.

These set of courses “Hindu Contributions To The World In The Realm of Mind” move past the modern myth that the Hindus, were backward and primitive, throughout time, and might have remained so, but for a western intervention.

This course, Hindu Contributions To The World In The Realm Of Mind – Sciences And Arts, looks beyond this myth set in motion by a 200-year long colonial encounter, and will cover a variety of areas of innovation, inventions, development of ideas and thought, that characterized the Hindu civilization for millennia. It uncovers the way Hindu thought traveled and diffused into other world civilizations and cultures, throughout history as it continues to do so today. It addresses the question, why did everyone, seemingly the world over, seek out the Hindu civilization, and for what?

This course, Hindu Contributions To The World In The Realm of Mind – Sciences and Arts, is open to all, across the globe. It is meant for both teenagers, parents and grandparents, together or separately and will focus on exploring the spirit of Hinduism with an intent to stimulate meaningful conversation about Hinduism between teenagers and their parents.

This series of courses is designed to take discussion and contemplation from beyond the course window, into the portals of home, family and society. This course can be taken as a standalone course during a quarter or as part of Credit based Certificate Programs of the University.

This course spans 10 sessions of 100 minutes each. These sessions will cover aspects of the Contributions of the Hindu Civilization to the World in the Realm of Mind, towards Sciences and Arts and will include knowledge areas such as Ayurveda, Vaccines, Mathematics, Astronomy, Models in Management and Sciences, Music, Rhymes, Fables and Stories etc. The Course will explore how Hindu thought travelled the world over, impacted the world and how it morphed and adapted to different cultures and environments as well.