Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Early religious and cultural beliefs are not innate but develop through social learning, language, imitation, and early cognitive environments. A critical developmental phase—pre-experiential belief formation—stabilizes beliefs before critical reasoning and direct experience mature. The paper proposes Vedanta 2.0 as a contemporary analytical framework built on three pillars: experience is primary, reasoning is indispensable, and self-observation is necessary. Using Chalmers' distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness, it shows how children often repeat beliefs without living them. Vedanta 2.0 offers interiorized epistemic auditing to transform inherited certainty into reflective understanding. The paper is conceptual, not empirical, and invites interdisciplinary dialogue on childhood curiosity, cognitive conditioning, and belief revision.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Psychological suffering stems largely from comparing oneself to others rather than from material lack, and cultivating awareness can reduce that suffering regardless of external circumstances. The paper introduces a Vedanta 2.0 framework that contrasts a cycle of comparison leading to suffering, then awareness leading to freedom, with the classical Advaita Vedanta path from ignorance to bondage to knowledge to liberation. A 99+1 Model distinguishes worldly pursuits (99) from foundational awareness (1), arguing that awareness allows wealth, beauty, achievement, religion, and social identity to be experienced without becoming sources of psychological bondage.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
A conceptual framework called Vedanta 2.0 proposes that much psychological suffering stems from comparison-based consciousness rather than material lack. Drawing on modern psychology, Advaita Vedanta, and existential philosophy, the paper develops two hypotheses: comparison-based cognition increases suffering, and awareness-based cognition (Bodh) reduces suffering regardless of material conditions. It contrasts a Vedanta 2.0 pathway—Comparison leads to Suffering, then Bodh leads to Freedom—with the classical Advaita Vedanta path from ignorance to liberation. The 99+1 Model describes worldly pursuits (99) and awareness (1), arguing that awareness is the foundational dimension through which wealth, beauty, achievement, religion, and social identity can be experienced without psychological bondage.