Methodology for building psychological models from scriptures: Contributions of Indian psychology to indigenous and global psychologies

Implications for future research in Indian Psychology (IP) are discussed. It is hoped that this article will stimulate the Indian psychological movement by providing a template to bridge psychology, philosophy and spirituality. First, models exist in the scriptures, and they need to be discovered and polished to fit with the relevant literature. Building on the Indian Psychological literature, this article presents a methodology of how to construct models from scriptures.