Discover Your Self - An Introductory course on the Bhagavad Gita starting Saturday, Aug 25th @6:30pm - From Sundar Prabhu

Dear Devotees

Please accept my respectful obesisances. 
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Here is the mail from Sundar Prabhu.  They are starting the below Discover Your Self - An Introductory course on Bhagavad Gita from this week. Anybody interested can join the course.

Thank You very Much

Your humble servant
Damodara Vamsidhari Das (Deepak Chandani)

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From: Sundar Sethuraman <smsundar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:03 AM
Subject: Discover Your Self - An Introductory course on the Bhagavad Gita starting Saturday, Aug 25th @6:30pm
To: dys-members@googlegroups.com

Dear All,

 

Modern science and technology in recent years has showered the modern human society with comforts unimaginable just a few decades back. It has also tried to reason many of our questions and  satisfied some of our curiosities. But has science been able to solve all our problems, has it been able to answer some of our inherent questions, like?

 

- Who am I?

- What is the purpose of my life? Who created this world and why?

- How do I solve the mystery of death? What happens after death?

- Does God exist?

- Why do bad things happen to good people?

 

Surprisingly, the proposed answers to many of these questions from the modern system looks a little incomplete with missing links or with no information. Does that mean that there could be no objective/scientific explanation to these questions? The ancient text from India (Vedas) especially Srimad Bhagavad Gita ponders upon these questions that has plagued us from time immemorial satisfying the curiosity of great thinkers and philosophers over many centuries. Here's a reference:

Ralph Waldo Emerson - "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."

Therefore, our proposal is let's give it a chance.  Spoken 5000 years ago, this knowledge is as applicable in today's modern world as it was to sages, kings, and people millenniums before.

 

We would like to extend a warm welcome & invitation to all of  you to this comprehensive program on the "The Introduction to Bhagavad Gita". Please join us on this journey of Self Discovery. Our first session starts this Saturday. Below are the timing and venue details:

 

Date:   Saturday, August 25

Time:   6:30- 8:30 pm

Venue : Jayendran and Renuka's home

233, Marylinn dr, Milpitas, CA – 95035

 

Delicious vegetarian food (prasadam) (dinner) will be served at the end of the session. We eagerly look forward to your presence. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at 408 705 0316

 

Regards,

Sundar & Vidya

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