7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (UTC+5.5)
Devi In Upanishads
In this talk, the Acharya will discuss how Devi is depicted as the ultimate principle in the Upanishads. Further he will will discuss the references to Devi worship in multiple Upanishads, especially in the Shakta Upanishads and key passages within the principal Upanishads such as the Kena, Mundaka, and Shvetashvatara Upanishads. The session will also highlight the importance of Devi Upasana in the pursuit of the Moksha Purushartha.
Speakers
Acharya Jaishankar Narayanan
Vedanta Acharya. Runs Aarsha Vidya Varshini Gurukulam at Kallidaikurichi
Jaishankar Narayanan is a sishya of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji and has undergone a three-year residential Vedanta course with Pujya Swamiji at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam (AVG), Anaikatti, Coimbatore, India from 1995-1998. An alumnus of IIT-BHU Varanasi, Jaishankar graduated as an Engineer and was working in India and later USA as a Software Engineer. He met his Guru Pujya Swami Dayananda ji first at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Saylorsburg, PA at USA and then decided to study Vedanta with Pujya Swamiji. After completing the three-year residential course at AVG, Anaikatti, Jaishankar married Srividya who was also a student of the same course, as per Pujya Swamiji’s wishes. Pujya Swamiji asked Jaishankar and his Gurubhai Kalyankumar to buy some land in a rural area and build a Gurukulam around 2010. As a tribute to his Guru, Jaishankar along with Kalyankumar and Srividya, is now building Aarsha Vidya Varshini Gurukulam at Kallidaikurichi, Tirunelveli District, India. . Jaishankar plans to teach Vedanta and Sanskrit primarily for adults but also plans to have yoga camps, children’s camps and youth camps in future. As of now he is conducting online classes on Vedanta, Samskritam and chanting.