Date:-Sunday, June 23rd, 2013
Program Details :-
5:30 – 6:00 PM - Meet and Greet
6:00 – 6:15 PM - Meditation
6:15 – 7:45 PM - Talk by Sraddhalu Ranade
8:00 PM - Dinner
Place:- 631 Vale Drive, Morganville, NJ 07751
Information:-
New Jersey ---> Vivek Sinha ---> 732-772-0864
Pennsylvania ---> Devendra Patel ---> 215-970-5170
New York ---> Govind Nishar ---> 914-400-3444
Sraddhalu Ranade is a scientist, educator and scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram where he grew up in the care of the late Sri M. P. Pandit. He is presently involved in the production of video programs based on India's cultural roots, and conducts teacher-training programs based on a soul-centered approach to education. He has conducted numerous intensive teacher-training workshops on Integral and value-based education all over India. Over 4,500 teachers from more than 200 schools and colleges have benefited from these programs. He has been involved in various research projects including artificial intelligence based on neural networks, multimedia search and retrieval, and educational tools. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on science and spirituality and lectures around the world on the yoga teachings of Sri Aurobindo.
Quotes:
“There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.” - Sri Aurobindo
“When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.” - Sri Aurobindo
Question from a disciple:
Disciple: Is it true that when the Higher Consciousness comes the brain stops thinking?
Sri Aurobindo: The brain is not the seat of thinking. It is the mind that thinks, the brain only reacts to it. There is a parallelism between the movements of the brain and those of the higher mind. But the brain is only a communicating channel; it is only a support for the higher activity. If the mind is passive it receives things from above – from the Higher Mind – and passes them on to the brain. Now, if the brain is dull, the mind cannot transmit its action correctly, it does it imperfectly. Sometimes – not always – the lapse in Sadhana (spiritual practice) also is due to the brain getting tired.