Authentic Vedanta - chance to know

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Introduction to Vedanta

 

 

• Swami Paramananda Bharati has been conducting graded courses

on Vedanta by Prior arrangement at Bangalore, Delhi and has conducted

the Introductory Course at Coimbatore and Trivandrum.

 

• The introductory course covers a period of 9 to 12 days,

with a 90 minute session on each day and could be conducted in

HYDERABAD during his forthcoming visit between 28th. November and

15th December, if adequate committed response is available. Language

for instruction would be English and discussions can be in English,

Telugu and Hindi

 

• Venue and timings will be fixed in consultation with the

prospective Participants.

 

• The course would be conducted Free of Cost

 

• Persons desirous participating in the course may contact

tensriram by email or call Tenneti Sri

Ram 9441901651(mobile)

 

 

 

 

 

snippets

• Swami Paramananda is the authour of the book* Vedanta

Prabhoda* first published un Kannada and therafter in Hindi. This

book is to be shortly available in

Telugu;

 

 

• The most important link between science and the Sastras is an

uncompromising logical attitude to everything. According to Prof.

T.S.Shankara, who took up " sanyas " and became Swami Parmananda

Bharati after teaching physics for 15 years in Indian Institute of

Technology at Chennai, some basic concepts of modern-day physics are

found in the Sastras; According to Swamiji, " if only some of our

students had known this, one of them could have developed Einstein's

theory of relativity much before it was done. Pithy statements in the

Sastras can help our scientists make significant contributions " .

http://ak2.net/node/28

• July/August 2000 Hindisim Today

INSIGHT

How to Ease Karma

Hindu pennance is an unpopular subject, but it's mystical powers

bring relief and solace to those courageous enough to perform the

rites of expiation

A few years ago, a devout hindu couple pulled up to the drive-in

window of their local Taco Bell fast-food Mexican restaurant in

Ventura, California, and ordered a bean burrito--one of the few items

on the menu these strict vegetarians could eat. After a few bites,

the man suddenly realized that his spicy burrito was made not with

beans but ground beef--the first time in his life he had ever tasted

the flesh of the sacred cow. Aghast, he did the American thing: he

sued Taco Bell, demanding the company pay for his expenses to return

to India to do penance: specifically, to bathe in the Ganga River.

Unfortunately, he lost the suit on the technicality that he could not

prove to the court's satisfaction that he had actually consumed any

beef. Early in the proceedings, Hinduism Today was contacted by an

attorney in the case and asked about the need for purification. We

explained that indeed the man's plight was quite real, and he did

need to do something for having inadvertently eaten beef, a

transgression codified in the Hindu law books.

We wrote to Swami Paramananda Bharati of Bangalore, our 1990 " Hindu

of the Year, " for advice. Swami, who is attached to Sringeri Mutt,

replied ..........

text see www.hindu.org/penance/.

 

 

March 1990 HINDUISIM TODAY

Earth's Survival Questioned in Moscow

…………. ……

At Om in the Kremlin: Before Mikhail gave his remarks to the

delegates, Paramananda Bharati was called of offer a blessing to all

gathered. The Sringeri monk, who had been a physicist before

renouncing the world, approached the podium in his saffron robes,

carrying the traditional danda or staff. He removed his slippers and

strode to the podium. Before him were the leaders of all the world's

major religious traditions and political councils. Before him were

scientists, artists, media, UN representatives and experts in the

fields of ecology, population, deforestation, global warming,

urbanization, water management, agriculture and more. As they grew

silent, the swami began his prayer, " We are in an age of

disillusionment, confusion and panic. We do not know from what point

to commence our journey to enlightenment, in what direction and at

what speed. Fortunately, there exists one course of knowledge which

determines all of these parameters. That is the immortal Veda. Here I

give two hymns from the Veda. These are prayers to the Gods pervading

the various celestial bodies like the sun, the moon, the stars, nay,

all the five elements of the environment. Herein we pray for Shanti,

that is for peace in the kingdom of the animals like cows, peace in

the kingdom of the humans. Let this Shanti, this peace descending by

the grace of God, reverberate in the depths of our hearts to give

each one of us everlasting bliss. Let it augur peace and prosperity

to the leaders and to the people of this great nation, our host

country, to the rest of the world and to the Global Forum.

 

Swami Paramananda Bharati then chanted from the Vedas. His sweet

Sanskrit filled the Kremlin Hall. He closed by asking all present to

join him in saying aloud Omkara, the all-encompassing sound, three

times. Swami chanted Om and lifted both hands to invite ..... ......