Websites from the ISKCON Universe
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Youth meeting at Radha Vrindavanachandra temple, Pune
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Talk at Bhaktivedanta Hospital
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Bhagavatam class at Radha Vrindavanchandra Mandir, Pune
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Talks to Western audiences
Due to a slight scheduling glitch, my visit to Australia occurred when the college semester had just started, so not many college programs could be arranged. Still, I had a few programs for Western audiences.
After my talk “You are bigger than your habits” at the University of Queensland in Sydney, a student asked whether our emotions are caused by our brain chemicals. I explained that the question got the causality wrong: the secretion of chemicals is primarily the result of emotions, not their cause – just as laughter is primarily the result of happiness, not its cause.
In a talk at Urban Yoga in Melbourne, I spoke on “Discover your inner power,” where I divided the talk into four parts, each part focusing on one word in the title: discover – appreciating the spiritual underpinnings of discovery; your – understanding the real you; inner – grasping the complexities of our inner world; and power – linking with the source of all power. After the talk, an Australian boy asked several brilliant questions about quantum physics and consciousness. This turned out to be the most in-depth scientific discussion I have ever had after a class. I have spent hours and years studying science and spirituality and I felt enlivened to see that knowledge coming to use in my speaking.
At the Queensland College of Art, I was part of a panel discussion, wherein I, as a representative of Hinduism, along with representatives of Christianity, Buddhism and Sikhism, spoke on “How faith contributes to harmony.” I started by explaining that the hope for harmony itself rests on faith – if we were just selfish genes geared for survival in the struggle for existence, the stronger among us would prey on the weaker, even in the field of religion. Only because we have the faith, even if unacknowledged, that we are more than our biological drives do we enquire about harmony instead of hegemony. The more we understand how our spiritual core transcends our biological shell, the more we can see our essential commonality with everyone and progress towards harmony.
During the QA session, the MC asked the panelists what faith exactly is. Quoting the Gita (17.03), I explained that faith is the substance of our being – our faith is what makes us who we are. Thus, even atheists have faith: faith in their faithlessness. The more our faith is rooted in knowledge of reality, the more our existence becomes grounded in truth and we relish true happiness.
Later, a Christian youth mentor who had attended the meet told me that the explanation of faith as the substance of our being was the most concise understanding of faith he had ever heard.
“From Dharma to Prema” Retreat at Melbourne
The highest point of the whole tour was the two-day retreat on “From Dharma to Prema” held at a scenic resort on Comfort Hill a couple of hours drive from Melbourne. Thanks to the vigor of Muralidhara Prabhu, who was the main organizer of […]
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