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SUMMARY:Symposium on Vedic Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Spirituality is a widely popular idea but without a single widely agreed-upon definition. According to one survey by McCarroll\, there were as many as twenty-seven explicit definitions with little agreement between each other (McCarroll\, O’Connor & Meakes 2005). \nAccording to Kees Waaijman (2000)\, the traditional meaning of spirituality is a process of re-formation or transformation which “aims to recover the original shape of man\, the image of God. To accomplish this\, the re-formation is oriented at a mold\, which represents the original shape: in Judaism the Torah\, in Christianity there is Christ\, for Buddhism\, Buddha\, and in Islam\, Muhammad.” Thus\, in Western context\, spirituality has largely been informed by the theological context of Judaism and Christianity. \nDuring the 19th and 20th century\, modern notions of spirituality were developed by mixing Christian ideas with Western esoteric traditions and elements from Indian spiritual traditions. After the second world world\, spirituality became more and more divorced from traditional forms of religion such as Christianity (Waaijman 2000) and instead the emphasis shifted to subjective experience (Saucier & Skrzypinska 2006).  Today\, spirituality is sometimes associated with philosophical\, social\, or political movements such as liberalism\, feminist theology\, and green politics (Snyder & Lopez 2007). In general\, spirituality has been understood as an individual’s search for deeper and sacred meaning in life\, a seeking for personal growth\, religious experience\, belief in a supernatural realm or afterlife\, or to make sense of one’s own inner dimension. \nEtymologically ‘Spirituality’ means ‘concerning the Spirit’ and indicates something which is beyond the material.  Bill Cosgrave (2017) examines the notion of ‘spirit’ and ‘spiritual being’ in his article ‘Understanding Spirituality Today’. Citing the views of Karl Rahner\, he writes “being spirit or having a spiritual dimension means that we human beings have the ability to move out beyond ourselves or to transcend ourselves in and through pursuing knowledge\, acting in freedom and loving others…. We may say\, then\, that because we are spiritual beings\, there is a dynamism within us that enables us to reach out in love and commit ourselves to good causes\, to seek to grow in knowledge and wisdom\, and to deepen our freedom to give ourselves more fully and wholeheartedly to our chosen goals.” A similar view is expressed by John Macquarrie (1972) that Spirit may be described as a capacity for going out of oneself and beyond oneself\, or\, again\, as the capacity for transcending oneself. \nCosgrave (2017) adds that” a person’s spirituality is simply how a person\, as a spiritual being\, as spirit in the world\, believes\, lives and acts in his/her personal life\, in his/her relationships\, in his/ her communities\, in God’s creation and\, of course\, for the religious person\, in his/her relationship with God.” \nHe lists six aspects of Spirituality: \n\nEveryone has a spirituality.\nSpirituality concerns the deeper dimensions of life.\nSpirituality gives meaning to our lives.\nSpirituality has a necessary moral dimension.\nSpirituality is concerned with experience.\nSpirituality is a communal reality.\n\nIn the Indian context\, the term Spirituality is used as the English counterpart of Sanskrit term ‘Adhyatma’ which means ‘pertaining to Self (Atma)’ and Vedic Spirituality refers to the pursuit of Atma (Self) as understood in Vedic tradition. This pursuit of Atma is considered as the ultimate life-pursuit as it grants freedom from the cycle of life and death (hence called Moksha) through the attainment of knowledge of true nature of Self (Atma-Jnana) which is of the nature of Sat-Chit-Ananda (existence-consioucness-bliss). \nThis pursuit Atma-Jnana\, also called as Brahma-Vidya\, primarily enunciated in the Upanishadic portion of the Vedas\, but also elaborated in Itihasa-Puranas\, Brahmasutras\, and other later works of different Acharyas\, constitutes the heart of Vedic Spirituality. The goal\, the process\, the different paths\, the competancy requirements\, the means of developing those competancies- the entire road-map of this pursuit of Vedic Spirituality has been laid down in the primary texts and elaborated by different Acharyas. \nOne of the distinguishing features of this Vedic Spirituality is the stress given to ‘Devotion’. Devotion is generally defined as love\, loyalty\, or enthusiasm for a person or activity. In the context of Vedic Spirituality\, Devotion is an umbrella term which can refer to a number of things. Three important strands  include: \n\nShraddha towards Guru & Shastras.\nBhakti & Dhyana towards Bhagavan\nAnusandhana & Nidhidhyasana towards Brahman/Atman\n\nThis symposium intends to highlight the contours of Vedic Spirituality by focusing on the role played by Shraddha\, Bhakti and Anusandhana in the pursuit of Moksha. \nWorks Cited: \n\nCosgrave\, Bill. “Understanding Spirituality Today.” The Furrow 68\, no. 11 (2017): 593–602. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44739117.\n\nMacquarrie\, John. (1972) Paths in Spirituality. SCM Press\, London.\n\nMcCarroll\, Pam; O’Connor\, Thomas St. James; Meakes\, Elizabeth (2005)\, Assessing plurality in Spirituality Definitions. In: Meier et al\, “Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations”\, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press\, pp. 44–59\n\nSaucier\, Gerard; Skrzypinska\, Katarzyna (1 October 2006). “Spiritual But Not Religious? Evidence for Two Independent Dispositions” (PDF). Journal of Personality. 74 (5): 1257–92.\n\nSnyder\, C.R.; Lopez\, Shane J. (2007)\, Positive Psychology\, Sage Publications\, Inc.\n\nWaaijman\, Kees (2000)\, Spiritualiteit. Vormen\, grondslagen\, methoden\, Kampen/Gent: Kok/Carmelitana.\n\n***SCHEDULE*** \n\n\n\nS.No\nName of the Speaker\nTopic\nTime\n\n\n1.\nNithin Sridhar\nChief Curator\, Indica Moksha\nIntroduction\n9.00 AM to 9.05 AM\n\n\n2.\nHari Kiran Vadlamani\nFounder\, INDICA\nOpening Remarks\n9.05 AM to 9.15 AM\n\n\n3.\nSwamini Svatmavidyananda Acharya of Arsha Vijnana Gurukulam\, Eugene\, OR\nInaugural Address: Cultivating Shraddha and Bhakti for Spiritual\nGrowth and Emotional Maturity’\n9.15 AM to 10.00 AM\n\n\n4.\nDushyanth Sridhar\nVedic Speaker\, Writer & Researcher\nNava-Vidha Bhakti: The Vedic Notion of\nDevotion as Enunciated in Srimad Bhagavatam\n10.00 AM to 10.30 AM\n\n\n5.\nDr. Arjun S\nAssistant Professor\, Department of\nLiberal Arts\, Humanities & Social\nSciences\, Manipal Academy of Higher\nEducation\, Bengaluru\nThe Concept of Bhakti in Madhva Paramparā\n10.30 AM to 11.00 AM\n\n\n6.\nDr. Prasad Kaipa\nCo-founder\, CCSIT &\nChairman\, Samskrita Bharathi\, USA\nSpirituality in Contemporary World: Bhakti & Shraddha in the Lives of Millennials\n11.00 AM to 11.30 AM\n\n\n7.\nVidwan Jammalamadaka\nSrinivas\nAssistant Professor\, School of Shastric\nLearning\, Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit\nUniversity\, Ramtek\nDevotion Through Action: Role of Bhakti- Samyukta-Karma in the Pursuit of Moksha\n11.30 AM to 12.00 PM\n\n\n8.\nDr. Tulasi Kumar Joshi Assistant Professor\, Department of Sanskrit\, Vasanta College for Women\, Rajghat\, Varanasi\nAdhyatma: A Perspective from Adi\nShankaracharya’s Commentaries\n12.00 PM to 12.30 PM\n\n\n\nLUNCH BREAK \n\n\n\n9.\nVidwan Jammalamadaka\nSuryanarayana\nAssistant Professor\, MIT IIKS. Pune\nFunction of Shraddha & Bhakti in Moksha\nMarga: A Perspective from Yogasutras\n1.30 PM to 2.00 PM\n\n\n10.\nDr. Gauri Mahulikar\nAcademic Director\,\nChinmaya International Foundation\nSeven Golden Rules of Vedic Spirituality\n2.00 PM to 2.30 PM\n\n\n11.\nRajarshi Nandy\nUpasaka\, Author & Speaker\nRole of Bhakti in Tantropasana\n2.30 PM to 3.00 PM\n\n\n12.\nAditi Banerjee\nAuthor\, Speaker & Attorney\nMore Than Faith: Shraddha as Suspension of Disbelief\n3.00 PM to 3.30 PM\n\n\n13.\nRaghu Ananthanarayanan Founder\, Ritambhara Ashram & Co-Founder\, CCSIT\nThe Practice of Shraddha and Bhakti in the Yogasutras\n3.30 PM to 4.00 PM\n\n\n14.\nDr. Nagaraj Paturi\nSenior Director &\nChief Curator\, INDICA\nSummary & Closing Remarks\n4.00 PM to 4.20 PM\n\n\n15.\nNithin Sridhar\nChief Curator\, Indica Moksha\nConclusion & Vote of Thanks\n4.20 PM to 4.30 PM\n\n\n\n 
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