Understanding the Vedas (ancient Hindu texts) by Dr. Ramakrishna Narayanaswami - Lecture Series

 

Understanding the Vedas (ancient Hindu texts) by Dr. Ramakrishna Narayanaswami - Lecture Series - Starting September 26, 2021  Those who plan to attend these zoom session lectures are requested to register for the course by sending an email to 'RNVEDABOOK@GMAIL.COM'. The zoom session details and the lesson plan will only be sent to those who register. About the lecture, request from the Speaker:   Hello All,   I plan to offer 12 zoom session lectures on "Understanding the Vedas". The "zoom session" lecture will start on Sunday, September 26, from 8 am to 9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time and will run consecutively for 12 Sundays at the same time of 8 am to 9:30 am Pacific Time (Daylight time presently, when changes to Standard time in November, we will use Standard time 8 am to 9:30 am) and end with the end of zoom session on Sunday, December 12.   The lectures will follow closely the contents of my book, "Understanding the Vedas". There are 11 chapters and 7 Appendices in the book. The 11 chapters of the book are planned to be covered in the first 11 zoom session lectures. Due to the uneven length of the various chapters as well as due to the 'varying degrees of' importance of the content of these chapters, some sessions will cover more than one chapter while others may cover less than one chapter. However all 11 chapters together will be completed in 11 zoom session lectures. Detailed lesson plans for each session will be sent later to attendees. All the 7 appendices, together, will be covered in the 12th zoom session lecture.   Learning any course based on a class-prescribed text book is the best way to learn the material being covered in the session. This will also help the attendees to mark the sections in the book that require greater emphasis and re-reading as needed. The preference is that all attendees have access to my book and preferably read ahead the material planned to be covered in each session. Those who want to listen to lectures only and not want to read the book are certainly welcome to attend.   Those who plan to attend these zoom session lectures are requested to register for the course by sending an email to 'RNVEDABOOK@GMAIL.COM'. The zoom session details and the lesson plan will only be sent to those who register. Each session will use the first 75 minutes of the session (8 am to 9:15 am PDT) to cover the material from the book. The remaining 15 minutes (9:15 am to 9:30 am) will be used to answer questions from class attendees. All those who register for the course and who have received email back of their registration can send their questions on any topic of the book by 9 pm Thursday PDT prior to the Sunday session to follow. I will review all questions and address answers to as many of the questions in the 15 minutes at the end of the following Sunday class. All those who posed questions by email will also receive a written reply to the questions from me by email before 9 pm PDT of the following Monday.    Please forward this email to, and publicize these zoom lectures amongst, your friends and those in other mailing lists that you may be part of. I am also attaching two book release flyers on my book so that those who may have not known about the book or those who may not have as yet purchased the book may know the details of the book and its availability. These lectures are open to all Sanatana Dharma followers wanting to attend - not only those residing in Los Angeles but also those residing in other parts of the USA and those in India, Canada, Europe etc. All students over age 16 (high school juniors and above) will be able to read and follow my book and these lecture.   About the speaker:   Dr. R. Swami Narayanaswami is an Engineer by profession. He got his B. Sc (Engg.) degree form the College of Engineering, Trivandrum and M. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Ph. D. from the Texas Tech university, Texas. He was selected to the prestigious National Science Foundation – National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship to spend 2 years at NASA, after which he spent another 3 years as a Research Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. He was the founder-President of 2 companies on Engineering Software Solutions, the first an IP company (1984-1999) and the second a Services company (2000 to 2016) with offices in US, India and Europe. He is now fully retired and lives with his wife, Sarasa Narayanaswami, in Westlake Village, CA.   He is a Veda practitioner from his initiation (diksha) in his teens to the present. He has lectured on Gita and taught the ‘Major Upanishads (dasopanishads)’ to his friends in the early 2000s. He is  teaching Vedic Chanting from his home every Sunday for the past 15 years. He was involved with the Malibu temple from its earliest planning stages and served in the Temple Board in the 1980s as Chairman of the Religious Committee. During the past 6+ years, he is lecturing on the ‘spiritual’ meanings of Veda Mantras and doing research on the Vedas under Prof. Kashyap. Mission Statement of Bharatiya Vichar Manch: To promote dialogue by which Dharmic philosophy, culture, and traditions can positively influence global thought and action. Some of the past lectures are available at: http://www.youtube.com/bharatiyavicharmanch http://www.facebook.com/bhartiyavicharmanch.la If you want your email address to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to bvmanchla@gmail.com   Please forward the lecture invitation to your contacts who might be interested in attending. Sign up for our list! Going forward flyers will be posted at this web address, please save this address in your favorites section of your web browser. We will try to post the flyer for the following month lecture by 25th of each month.  This way, if you do not get an email for the lecture for any reason, the flyer can be viewed at this address.  https://bvmanchflyers.blogspot.com/  Feel free to send an email to bvmanchla@gmail.com if you have any comments/suggestions about the lectures, would like to volunteer few hours a month to organize the lectures or want to recommend a speaker who can be invited to give a lecture.