p24 We, the Vice- Chancellor, the Members of the Board of Management and Academic Council of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana Request your esteemed presence at the SIXTEENTH CONVOCATION At 10 am on Saturday, the 12th January, 2019 Chief Guest Dr. Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog will deliver the Convocation Address Dr. H R Nagendra Chancellor will Preside over the Function Dr. Srinidhi K Parthasarathi Prof. Ramachandra G Bhat Registrar Vice–Chancellor Venue Samskrti Bhavanam, Prashanti Kutiram Giddenahalli, Jigani Hobli, Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Rural Dist. Bengaluru – 560 105 | Ph: 080-2263 9998 2 Yoga Sudha t< iv*aÊ>os<yaegivyaeg< yaegs<i}tm! Vol.XXXV No.1 January, 2019 CONTENTS Editor Dr. H R Nagendra Chancellor, SVYASA Editorial 2 Bengaluru Division of Yoga-Spirituality Brahmasutra - Änandädayaù pradhänasya - Prof. Ramachandra G Bhat 3 Asst. 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Editor Dr. H R Nagendra Disclaimer: The information and opinions expressed in this magazine reflect the views of the authors and not of the publisher or the institution. © CopyrightedJan material. 2019 3 EDITORIAL New Year Greetings in a sense underwrites all the others - it from Prashanti Kutiram. requires a radical leap of transformation to elaborately designed, meticulously The New Year has brought with it a planned, scrupulously delegated, and new resolve- of professionalization, superbly executed operations geared dedication and discipline - to take at elevating S-VYASA to the Yoga S-VYASA to newer heights. The progress Institution of Global Eminence. and developments in academia are today maintaining an exponential pace. The It is significant that we do not have to underlying organization of knowledge start from scratch. After a generation that defines academics is in a state of brick-by-brick composition of this of continual upswing.Our methods, edifice the S-VYASA is today perched processes, targets, and even assumptions on the threshold of the quantum surge. need to be revisited more frequently. Our research and scholarship have been Since higher education has become recognized and UGC has conferred more accessible to people of different Category-1 status opening the doors to backgrounds - ethnic, social, cultural, autonomous operations and somewhat and religious - it is important that our unbridled curricular experiments and system, and with it, the curricular innovations. Moment is therefore ripe knowledge becomes more representative for us to synergize our intellectual and expansive. The impending changes resources and distinctively equip are evident in three main areas, each ourselves with disciplinary discourses framed by own sets of obligatory actions. that will give us the desired generation- The first of these includes redefined transit into universally acknowledged ways of thinking about Yoga Academe, realms of academia and erudition. It about written and practical discourses will be a unique experience of Anasakti and the structures within which these Yoga - immediate rewards and ultimate modes shape a normative curricular intellectual accomplishments without framework. The second, mechanisms altering equanimity. We have to be that take Yoga Studies to communities, ready for this experience, and the New nationally and globally, transcending Year’s clarion call is articulating the barriers of space, time, and also same intentions. discourse. A third area of substantial With best wishes and with the hope that rethinking relates to the renewed all of the S-VYASA family attention to what might be termed the will rise to this call, material and institutional base of the Yoga University - the preeminent Yoga g Dr H R Nagendra University that S-VYASA is. This third, 42 Yoga Sudha äüsUÇm! (Brahmasütram) g Prof. Ramachandra G. Bhat Vice Chancellor S-VYASA Deemed to be University, Bengaluru Änandädayaù pradhänasya (Brahmasütram-3-3–11) Meaning: Bliss and other attributes (which depict the true nature) of the Principal or the Supreme Self, i.e., Brahman (have to be combined from all places in meditation on Brahman). The main subject area here is to examine the properties are attributed to the base. Is Brahman characteristics of Brahman – the theory of also similar to this, having qualities? Even in everything and directing the mental energy modern science there are different forms such towards them as focus for meditation. In the as energetic from, nuclear form, physical forms, Upanishads there are areas which describe material form etc. A vessel may be attributed the mundane properties adjoined to supreme with a structure, shape and colour because an existence similar to Puranic perspectives. entity called ‘vessel’ holds those properties. Qualifying attributes – all pervasive, all Modern science has been developing theories capable, all knower etc are given to one entity to after theories at functional and structural levels distinguish from all temporary beings. of matter; namely, quarks, molecules, atoms, particles etc wherein even energy and form play ‘Vävåttirvyavahäro vä lakñaëasya prayojanam’ - a major role in modern science. The purpose of adjectives at any given context is to distinguish or to communicate. When In contrast to this, according to the Upanishads, it is said, ‘Sat-Cit-Änandaà Brahma’ - eternal, in Vedanta everything is Sat-Cit-Ananda which energetic, blissful etc, these are the adjectives is in the form of Shakti (energy). These three (sat- of Brahman in Upanishads. In some Upanishad, cit-ananda) are the nature of Brahman, not the it is said that Brahman is ‘Nitya-Çuddha- properties which can be segregated; in technical term it is called (nature itself is Buddha-Muktasvabhäva’ - ever liberated, ever Svarupalakshana enlightened, ever perennial, itself ever pure property, indicator or adjective). Its nature itself is adjective or characters of Brahman. The word etc, all these adjectives are used to characterise Brahman doesn’t indicate just vastness or big to Brahman. be a property of that entity. Here is an ambiguity; if Brahma is characterized Next Sutra (3.3.12) says that the qualities such with these adjectives how is it different from as joy being Its head, etc., are not to be taken attributed material? Consider ‘Gandhavaté as being subject to increase and decrease; such påthivé nityä anityä ca’ - having fragrance is the changes are possible only if there is difference characteristic of earth, it’s eternal and non- (and not in Brahman in which there is non- eternal too. Dravyas (substances) according to difference). Vaisheshika are bases for Padarthas (nameables) to rest, where physical, chemical, spiritual It (Brahman) is not that kind matter which can p36... Jan 2019 53 6 Yoga Sudha 4 Yoga Sudha WORLD’S FIRST SYMPOSIUM On “Role of Meditation In Prevention And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Diseases.” At All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh vf[ky Hkkjrh; vk;qfoZKku laLFkku] _f"kds’k 9 th- 10 th March 2019 Virbhadra Road, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand- 249203, India Chairman Vice Chairman Steering Committee Organising Committee Steering Committee Organising Committee H R Nagendra Prof. Ravi Kant Vinay P Sahasrabuddhe Manjunath N K Program Director Program Director Co-Program Director Co-Program Director Co-Program Director Dr. Indranill Basu Ray Dr. Bhanu Duggal Dr. Darshan Mehta Dr. Raghavendra Rao Jan 2019 7 Jan 2019 5 INVITATION Dear all, We, the organizing committee members, invite you to the International conference on - “Role of Meditation in Prevention And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Diseases.” The biggest and the most comprehensive Yoga and Cardiology meeting in India will be held at Rishikesh, a magnet for spiritual seekers, the “Yoga Capital of the World”, also known as “Dev Bhumi” or the