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Vishwa Adhyayan Kendra Organized for Its Depth of Content As Well As a Lecture by Ma Report of lecture by Ma. S. N.Chandak The topic was ‘Vishwa Adhyayan’. Swami ji delivered an outstanding lecture which was noted Vishwa Adhyayan Kendra organized for its depth of content as well as a lecture by Ma. S. N. Chandak ji superlative oratory. The audience was (Sah Sanghchalak of HSS Mid West th spell bound by the flow of ideas and Sambhag) on Wednesday 8 April words that came out from Swami ji just from 7.30 to 9.00 pm at Vidyanihi Info as water gushes down from a waterfall. Tech Academy (VITA), Juhu. He elaborated on the words ‘Vishwa’ The topic was ‘Impact of HSS and allied activities in USA’. and ‘Adhyayana’ in depth and gave multi-dimensional explanations Through a PPT Ma. Chandak ji gave a very detailed account of the for them. Swami ji recommended useful suggestions that would multifaceted activities starting from HSS Shakhas, Balagokulam and enable VAK to be a larger platform for understanding the rich programmes like Surya Namaskar Yagna, Yuva Sangam, Speaker on contribution of India and Campus and Exhibition on Hinduism. disseminating the knowledge to the He also elaborated on the role of organizations where HSS is directly world. He also wished that VAK related viz. Sewa International, VHPA, become a centre for study of OFBJP, Hindu Education Foundation, traditional knowledge of Bharat the Hindu American Foundation, Hindu greatest gift received from our rishis and sants. Society of America, Ekal Foundation, International Centre for Cultural He gave numerous examples from the ocean of Indian philosophy to Studies, Hindu Students Council an emphasize the glorious contribution of India to the world for the Friends of India Society International. benefit and welfare of the whole world. After the lecture there was a very lively Q/A session where Shri He appealed to the audience to become ‘social drivers’ and remarked Chandak ji could give replies to various questions related to HSS that 100 such ‘social drivers’ would be sufficient to guide more than activities as well as the influence of Hindus in general on American 100000 persons from the society. social life. Earlier Shri Ratan Sharda welcomed the gathering and briefly About 35 members attended the program. explained the profile of VAK and its activities since inception. Report of VAK meeting held at Thane Shri Sanjay Kelapure offered a shawl to Swamiji and he along with H.H. Chaturvedi Swami, an erudite scholar of the Vedas and the Shri Narasimhan also offered the Honorary Life Membership of Spiritual Head of Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust addressed the Vishwa Adhyayan Kendra to Swami ji in recognition of his members of Vishwa Adhyayan Kendra on Thursday 16th April at a outstanding contribution to the fields of Art, Science, Literature, function organized by the Thane Chapter of the VAK held at Sriram Philosophy, Education, Social Service and providing Spiritual Vyayamshala Hall. Leadership in carrying forward the glorious values and principles as propounded and promoted in Bharat since time immemorial by numerous rishis and saints belonging to the gamut of Vaidic Synopsis Sanatana Dharma. Kautiliya Arthashastra is the treatise on the science of polity, composed by Kautilya, around 460 B.C. The function came to a close with a Vote of Thanks by Shri Sumant Kelkar. Shri Ganapathy Narasimhan and family had arranged for Kautiya, Chanakya and Vishnugupta are the three names of one very delicious South Indian dinner that was as enjoyable as the person. In the text two names Kautiya and Vishnugupta are proceedings of the evening. mentioned by author himself. Overall, all the 40 participants were enthralled, enchanted and In the first Adhikarana of the first captivated by the immense knowledge of Swami ji and his powerful Adhyaya he has mentioned that, oratorical skills. It was a thrilling experience of basking in the "This science which is easy to sunshine of knowledge picked from Indian philosophy and focused understand, without ambiguity in on to the audience by Swami Chaturvedi. the words, meaning and the principle is composed by Report of lecture on 'Kautilya Arthashastra' Kautilya". While at the end he Ms. Padma Bapat delivered a thought-provoking lecture on says," having observed the contradiction of commentrators on the 'Kautilya Arthashastra' on Friday 8th May 2009 at Utkarsha Mandal, text, Vishnugupta himself has commented on it". From the above two Vile Parle East, Mumbai. references in the text itself, we can conclude that Kautiya and Vishnugupta are the two names of one person. VAK members and a select audience had a very wonderful treat of Padma ji's intellectual recipe. She was full of information and kept Ms Padma ji informed the audience that Arthshastra comprises of everyone completely engrossed. 15 Adhikaranas, 180 Prakaranas, 150 Adhyayas, 360 Karikas and She deserves a pat for her good 60000 Shlokas. contribution to our ADHYAYAN The book begins with the foremost duty of a king, ie. obtainment of efforts. No one was bored even for the earth and protection of the earned land. The term 'Artha' in a moment and many did not bother Arthashastra, according to Kautilya ,' means of acquiring and about the time. Shri Ravi Kumar ji maintaining the earth." requested that his time also be allotted to Padma ji. Excerpts from the letter sent to the consulates along with The programme was attended by 47 participants. Some notable copies of Business of Freedom. among those being Shri Deepak Ghaisas, Shri Shriram Dandekar, Dr. “Recently, we have published a book comparing thoughts of some Indian Mrs Alka Mandke, Shri Purushottam Chaturvedi, Shri Jayraj freedom fighters with those of management gurus. The author of the book, Salgoankar, Shri J J Arora, Shri Gopal Kamat and Shri Mr. Sandeep Singh is a management professional and a student of freedom Radhakrishnan Pillai. Many had come just by invitation sent through movement of India. These studies have resulted in the book ‘Business of vakmumbai googlegroups list. Freedom.’ While searching for the parallels between modern management thoughts and what is most urgent is the need for a sincere effort at providing the styles of Indian freedom fighters he was amazed to find that many of the sustained aid for the thousands who have been displaced. This should modern management models were actually applied by the Indian freedom be the immediate priority for Colombo. fighters. It is the application of these management models at the lowest level at the societal level that made these ideas so powerful. We are pleased to The next important effort should be the opening of dialogue with the send you a copy of the same. Tamil population and their representatives to agree on a devolution package - whose contours were already identified in 1987. We feel that, this phenomenon can’t be country specific and there must be Rehabilitation of the refugees, reconstruction of the ravaged Tamil parallel examples in your country, as well as in every other country that went areas and reconciliation between the Sinhala-Tamil political through a freedom struggle. It will be a great pleasure for us to know about representatives constitute the long-term agenda that Colombo needs such leaders, their lives and thoughts; and study those thoughts. We would to pursue. be greatly thankful if you could send us some material about such great personalities (past and present) from your country. Does the government in Sri Lanka have the perspicacity to extend an olive branch to the Tamil minority and be magnanimous in victory? We shall also be pleased to get information about some scholars from your Or will the traditional ‘triumphalism of Sinhala majoritarianism’ get country who may have done such studies and interact with them. Mr. the better of them? They can no longer blame that the situation in not Sandeep Singh and our team can interact on this subject, or study any other conducive as they have complete control of the areas now. In fact, material provided / suggested by you. the world is waiting to see how much of its promises will be kept by Colombo from now. We believe that the contribution of all the freedom fighters and their genius must be appreciated, realized and recognized all over the world.” To enjoy the fruits of military victory, it is important that Colombo consider Sri Lankan Tamils as partners in progress and make the Press note on Sri Lanka scenario sent to media on 26th May much-awaited beginning in giving the due to them without any With the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran and the top leadership of further delay. the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the country can look forward to a future of peace and development. Any viable solution to the Tamil problem will require substantial devolution of powers to Tamil majority areas in the north-east of the No doubt the Sri Lankan army has won a decisive victory in its three- country. That might not be easy. Politically, federalism finds little decade fight against LTTE and its terrorism. The triumphal mood of favour in Sri Lanka. At the same time, in 2006 the Supreme Court of the Rajapaksa government is therefore understandable, but the Sri Lanka had ruled against the administration of the northern and fervent hope that this marks the beginning of a new dawn of peace in eastern provinces as a single unit. This was a key demand, and its the long troubled island nation will depend on the manner in which denial at the hands of the judiciary is viewed as going against Tamil this emphatic military victory is interpreted. interests. Rajapakse needs to tread carefully here. Over 70,000 people have been killed in this three-decade conflict that On the Sinhalese side, any “unification” of the eastern and northern pitted the LTTE against the armed forces over appropriate devolution provinces, even if Rajapaksa were to try it, is considered suspect.
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