Topic: Lokasangraha Karmayoga-Dharma: Structure, Meanings, and Purpose- A Wake-up call September Ist, 2019 at Cerritos Library 1:30 PM - 3 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703
Speaker:
Professor (Emeritus) Shive K. Chaturvedi
Topic: Lokasangraha Karmayoga-Dharma: Structure, Meanings, and Purpose- A Wake-up call
Date/Venue: September
Ist, 2019 at Cerritos Library 1:30 PM - 3 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703
Subject:
As we all know that we are constantly
engaged in all kinds of activities for our living, and most of these
activities are primarily directed toward two means -and- two ends
spectrum: economic stability and prosperity for ourselves
and for our children, and that is coupled with some superficial
entertaining activities which may help us to a short-lived relief from
our stressful chronic painful condition. As we get closer to our
retirement age, we get worried about what to do now as the
imminent most painful human conditions-old age, diseases and death-are
hovering over our heads round the clock. What happened to that
“rat-race”; what happened to my “identity” (I call it a “false
Identity”) that I have been busy earning throughout my productive
days.This talk is primarily aiming at to addressing these issues: how all this can be radically transformed into most enriching experience, erasing the anxieties and suffering, and creating a ground toward great blissful satisfaction of human life-our very existence. And this is through holding and practicing a yoga-dharma called “lokasangraha karmayoga-dharma”, as instructed in the Bhagavadgita. This very powerful idea will be addressed with its hidden structure, meanings, and purpose that can be adopted through our thoughts, speech and real actions while working, by all-young, retirees and old. How this idea can permeate in our very existence at various enclosing levels-individual, family, groups, social, national, international and cosmic. How we can recognize our yogic integration and act accordingly to fulfill our duties and responsibilities toward all these levels. Let us learn together; sing together; dance together; and achieve blissfulness together.
“Satyameva Jayate”
About the Speaker:
Professor (Emeritus) Shive K. Chaturvedi was a faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Geodetic Science at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He was also an adjunct graduate faculty in Biomedical Engineering as well as in Comparative studies in Humanities. His research contributions and interests include the foundational issues in almost all the fields – sciences and technology; arts and aesthetics, and Natyashastra and Indian classical and folk music; humanities, ethics, morals, theism, atheisms and secularism and Humanism. He has made more than one hundred presentations, publications on Hindu wisdom traditions in National and International conferences and has also given lectures using English and Hindi languages in various churches, synagogue, temples, schools, universities, and private homes. He has delved deeply into comparative understanding of Ancient Greek knowledge traditions, Abrahamic Religious traditions, as well as other Asian and African Intellectual traditions.
His latest publication on Hindu Dharma has appeared in the book, “Religions in Ohio”. He is currently engaged in germinating a kind of renaissance in Vedic wisdom through researching, reexamining, rearticulating and unfolding of the hidden seeds of wisdom scattered throughout the Vedic and other Indic traditions starting with the Rig-Veda. He strongly believes that the ancient wisdom needs to be brought out in new forms (ontological, epistemological, and pedagogical) to reestablish its potential connections and correlations, and relevance with contemporary human experiences encompassing all fields of knowledge.
Dr. Chaturvedi is a member of many educational and dharmic organizations. He has served also Bharatiya Hindu Temple of Columbus in various capacities, including a guide and educator for community education and also as a coordinator for some major temple festivals. He strives to live his intellectual and family life with simplicity and austerity, and practices meditation and various types of yoga including Seva-yoga -selfless service to humanity.
Dr. Chaturvedi also writes poems, songs, and essays in Hindi, and does the singing as well. He gave the following talks in his recent visits to Bharat.
- Health, Healing, and Yoga Body,
- My (a bucolic) Intellectual Journey From IIT-Kanpur through American Academy and Intellectual World: Critical Lessons
- Health, Healing, and Yoga Traditions: New Dimensions,
- Murtipuja-Yoga-Dharma: Foundational Principles, Structure, Meanings and Purpose:
- On Bhagavad Gita: Practicality and Contemporary Expectation,
Mission Statement of Bharatiya Vichar Manch: To promote dialogue by which Dharmic philosophy, culture, and traditions can positively influence global thought and action.
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