Do we need to be
spiritual?
Can we be spiritual
without being
religious?
Seminar Presenter : Chaitanya Charan das
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Chaitanya Charan Das has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
from the Govt College of Engg, Pune.
He subsequently served as a software engineer in a multinational software company,
Patni Computer Systems.
He also secured 2350 out of 2400 in the GRE exam, bagging the top rank in
Maharashtra.
Seeing the prevalent problems of stress, depression, addiction and overall misdirection all caused by a lack of spirituality, he felt inspired to dedicate his life to the cause of jnana
daan, offering systematic spiritual education, under the aegis of ISKCON.
He has done the Bhakti Shastri course and is also a teacher for Bhakti Shastri courses.
Presently he conducts seminars at various reputed educational institutes all over
India including IITs and NITs as well as leading MNCs like Tech Mahindra and Idea
Mobile.
He serves as the spokesperson for ISKCON, Pune. He has presented papers as an
invited ISKCON delegate at national and international conferences, speaking on the
interface of science and spirituality.
He runs an international cyber magazine called ‘The Spiritual Scientist’, which has
published over a hundrd gives a scientific presentation of Vedic philosophy.
His writings have been published in newspapers like Times of India (in the
prestigious Speaking Tree Column) , Indian Express, Economic Times, Hindustan
Times, and The Maharashtra Herald as well as global spiritual magazines.
His writings in English have been translated into several foreign languages
including German and Chinese and several Indian languages including Kannada,
Telgu, Bengali, Hindi and Marathi.
He is the author of six books including ENERGY – Your Sutra for Positive Thinking,
Science and Spirituality and ‘The Spiritual Scientist’ series, volumes 1 & 2.
PURPOSELESS PROGRESS?
You know in the west we have
built a large, beautiful ship. It has
all the comforts in it, but one thing
is missing: it has no compass and
does not know where to go.
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THE AMERICAN PARADOX
Since 1960,
 The divorce rate has doubled.
 The teen suicide rate has tripled.
 The violent crime rate has quadrupled.
 The prison population has quintupled.
 The percentage of babies born outside marriage has
sextupled.
 Depression has soared - to ten times the pre - World
War II level.
Soul in the Body
“ The brain is a
computer…But it is
programmed
by
something
that
is
outside itself.”
Dr. Wilder Penfield – Canadian surgeon, Noble Laureate
Spirituality, a Higher Dimensional Science
Philosophy
Theory
Science
Spirituality
Experiment
Religion
Philosophy
Spirituality
Religion
Srila Prabhupada - “Philosophy without
religion is just mental speculation”
Philosophy
Spirituality
Religion
Srila Prabhupada - “Religion without
philosophy is at best sentimentalism and at
worst fanaticism.”
THE WORLD NEEDS INDIAN WISDOM
“It is already becoming clear
that a chapter which had a
Western beginning will have to
have an Indian ending if it is not
to end in the self-destruction of the
human race. At this supremely
dangerous moment in history,
the only way of salvation for mankind
is the Indian way.”
Sir Arnold Toynbee
“I am convinced that India could
become once again the cradle of a
new school of thought that may
significantly influence the fate of
the globe during the third
millennium.
Perhaps
the
contribution of India to nuclear
power technology and space
science will turn out to be
irrelevant, but the contributions
toward a new ethical foundation
could be turning the wheel of
history in the proper (balanced)
way."
- Dr Richard Ernst, 1999
Noble Laureate in
Chemistry