25/04/2026
We think that modern psychology has it all figured out but in reality despite the vast number of literature and research west has produced it has only managed to touch the surface. If we compare what has been achieved to what remains unexplored the achievement is very humble.
What started as the study of soul, was reduced to mind - a concept Western psychology itself still struggles to clearly define. Then later consciousness was questioned when Freud and Adler explored the unconscious fields. The behaviourists define it as the study of behaviour which was again refuted by contemporary psychologist.
The very core of psychology - soul and the mind without which the subject has no legs to stand on has been casually omitted by western psychologists. Why? Because soul and mind could not be studied through the limited methodology of modern science.
When we approach therapy with the limited lens of behaviourism, people may put in effort yet see limited results: symptoms managed but unresolved, repeating emotional cycles, frustration, and the sense of hitting the same wall again and again.
This is where Indian Darśan offers something profound. It explored self, mind, body, consciousness, suffering, tendencies, and liberation as one integrated whole—and it offered methods, not just theories.
Through Sāṅkhya, Yoga, Vedānta, and other traditions, it developed tools for observation, discipline, emotional balance, inner clarity, and self-realisation.
