G. SVYASA Ph. D. Theses
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Item Spirituality and sexuality: The yoga model of spiritual transformation of western marriage(S-VYASA, 2025-05-31) Anastasia Mikheeva; B.R. Ramakrishna; G. AgoramoorthyBackground: The fascinating subjects of sexuality and spirituality are often considered complex and controversial in contemporary society. World religions in general tend to enforce restrictions regarding sexuality, sexual behavior and sexual morality. But, Hindu religion, which is one among the world’s ancient religions, balances these two complex subjects quite exceptionally. Hinduism has an active following of over 1.2 billion believers, which is roughly 15% of the world’s population. The connection between sexuality and spirituality has become more intellectually stimulating lately in academic debates, but less research has been focused on this often ignored scientific subject. But, this thesis for the first time has synthesized the sexuality and spirituality association rather logically with analyses from both Hindu scriptural records and contemporary scientific literature to develop a conceptual model involving yoga, and how it could mitigate conflicts among couples to minimize breakups and divorce leading to a spiritually enhanced life. Divorce, by the way, has become a serious social and psychiatric problem in modern society and therefore there is an urgent need to find solutions to sustain happiness among families. Spirituality has the capacity to contribute in this polemical endeavor. Aims and Objectives: I have explored the potential of Yoga and how it could enhance sexual health by preventing infidelity, reducing divorce, building emotional bond between partners, strengthening monogamous relationship, providing partners the chance to realize life values and in the end, transcends the Western marriage scenario from social construct to spiritual union. In order to explicate the above highlighted ideas connected to sexuality and spirituality, I have presented scriptural and scientific annotations and viewpoints under diverse chapters with an in depth rationality to pursue practical advances. viii Methods: The working hypothesis of this study envisages that Yoga transforms sexual connection in couples from a proximate mundane physical outlook to an ultimate spiritual prospect based on the below mentioned predictions. I used databases such as the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar to catalogue information to gather scientific data for a detailed theoretical scoping review. I also used secondary sources of information by referring to classical ancient Hindu scriptural texts (Sanskrit and Tamil languages), Yoga and Tantra Sastras, reference books and open data manually from online for their relevance. Results: I have presented results and discussions covering nine major chapters. In the first chapter, I presented the overall introduction of the entire doctoral thesis. It synthesizes the objectives and need for the study that include specific chapters on sexuality, spirituality and the yoga conceptual model of spiritual transformation of Western marriage. The second chapter describes the objectives, working hypothesis, methodology and analysis. The third chapter explores literature research with details on the concept and practices of the Hindu marriage systems that existed in ancient India. It also provides citations from various scriptural documentations. Chapter four presents the Yoga model of spiritual transformation of Western marriage. The chapter five discusses the sacred relationships of couples and how it will lead to spiritual transcendence. The chapter six deals with the importance of erotic temples, sexual energy and spiritual advancement. The chapter seven highlights contemporary India’s sexual spiritual paradox. The chapter eight outlines details on the transformation from social evil to spiritual redemption with an example from ancient scripture. The last chapter nine concludes by reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of the information presented in this thesis. ix Conclusion: Spiritual growth has played a key role as an essential protagonist in humanity’s extended insightful journey. Yoga as a spiritual technique plays an invaluable role in achieving the task of divine uplift. By integrating Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, couples can enhance their lives in a transformative voyage towards the ultimate spiritual bliss. What’s unique about Yoga is that it works on three crucial levels, physical, emotional and spiritual. I have analyzed how the yogic transformation of sexual relationships could transcend couples through these three levels from the initial physical facet to the final spiritual facet to sustain harmony and happiness in relationships among couples.Item Role of finance in yoga related to health, education, and allied industries(SVYASA, 2022-12-22) Dayananda Swamy, H. R.; Karuna Nagarajan; G. Agoramoorthy; Judu IlavarasuYoga has been popularized worldwide mainly due to its utility in health and education. Hence, Yoga has gained a societal relevance in contemporary world. Thus, the traditional purpose of Yoga, which is for spiritual upliftment, has changed to fitness and other immediate physical and mental health benefits. As a result, it may appear that the contemporary practice of Yoga has been largely deviated and diluted. The strength of momentum that is gained in physical culturing through Yoga is indomitable. But it cannot neglect altogether the traditional source and purpose. Yoga, however, should be acknowledged as the easiest and fastest means to bring the first impression about holistic health, and harmony and hence can be a best anchor for building further foundation, deep-rooted in traditional values. In order to facilitate addressing the current needs of the society in a large scale, and to put an anchor through Yoga for later higher spiritual practices, understanding the economic dynamics around Yoga is essential. Economic analysis of Yoga-based activities in India is not adequately presented in terms of scientific research publications. Policy-makers in the government largely depend on accurate data on the economics of Yoga, which is crucial to make strategic decisions. Gathering data on these least explored aspects of Yoga finance is a monumental task involving many government, non-government and corporate agencies. In this thesis, I have attempted to explore these unique dimensions to propose a set of recommendations for policy makers in the state and central government systems. The ideas, options and recommendations proposed in this thesis could create, shape and vi implement a systematic scientific approach to generate financial insinuation records surrounding all Yoga-allied activities that include healthcare, education, and commerce. This will immensely help future stakeholders in various industries to take evidence based decisions on using Yoga as a means to develop their service or business ventures to suit the needs of their targets, goals, and clients. Thus, this thesis has sown a tiny seed in the form of Yoga finance for future development of an entirely new sub-field of intensive research in the economic studies of Yoga. In order to elucidate this idea, I have attempted to present precise observations and outlooks under different chapters with an in-depth logic to pursue practical advances. Chapter 1 provides the general introduction of the entire thesis, covering the important aspects of the whole thesis, that includes role of finance in health, education, and business. Chapter 2 explores the scriptural perspective of Puruṣārthas that forms the foundation for the human pursuit to incorporate Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa. Furthermore, it is elaborated on how Artha is the basis for even Kāma and Mokṣa. Particular focus has been made on Dāna and how the Corporate Social Responsibility can be naturally groomed to achieve it. Chapter 3 explores the needs, challenges and opportunities for using Yoga as the core intervention to treat various types of ailments. In order for the government and policy makers to decide on using Yoga as an important tool to address health care needs, vii systematic studies and quantitative data on financial viability of implementing Yoga interventions should be available. Chapter 4 attempts to review the contemporary issues related to the implementation of Yoga in the Indian education system. There is an urgent need to integrate the wisdom of ancient education system to the modern education system, because there are many pitfalls in the modern education system that is difficult to manage with the current approach followed in schools and colleges across India. Chapter 5 presents how Yoga is emerging as a huge business opportunity in India and elsewhere in the world. The key strategy to tap into the emerging economic resources are discussed in this chapter. Specific attempt has been made to evaluate the extent to which tourism sector was affected especially during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Chapter 6 focuses more on elaborating how Yoga can be promoted to meet the expectations of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. The role of Yoga-based learning and how it could possibly enhance the SDGs are discussed in detail. Chapter 7 summarizes all the previous chapters to propose action-oriented list of recommendations, which can be easily acted upon by the government, policy makers, local bodies for the effective promotion of Yoga to reap the best financial benefits out of this huge economic opportunity emerging out of Yoga. The last chapter 8 concludes by appraising the strengths and weaknesses of the presented thesis.