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Swami Paramananda Bharathi, an Indian monk returning from Rio Visits 
the Bay Area and speaks on RHuman Development: Eastern and Western 
PerspectivesS (June 21 - 23)

The Mithya Institute for Learning is honored to sponsor the visit of Swami 
Paramananda Bharathi, renowned scholar and thinker from India.  Swami 
Paramananda Bharathi will be visiting the Bay Area from 21st. through 
23th of June and will be giving several lectures in the area of human 
development.  He is currently in Brazil, participating in Rio conferences 
and will be visiting Chicago, Seattle, New York and Houston in addition 
to San Francisco Bay Area during this visit. 

During his visit, Swami is planning to give a series of talks on eastern and 
western perspectives on human development.

This is his tentative schedule.  Please call (408) 866-8511 or the numbers 
listed below for more information.  

All talks are free and open to public

Sunday 21st June: 12-2 PM	Fremont Temple (Hindu Dharma 
Samaj) Call for more info. 510-659-0655

Sunday 21st June: 3 PM: 		Siva Vishnu Temple, Livermore	
Call for more info. 510-449-6255

Sunday evening - ??to be confirmed

Monday 22nd June: 11:45-1:15 PM	Brown bag lunch talks at UC 
Santa Cruz Extension, Trimble Road/De la Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara 
Call for more info. 408-866-8511

Monday 22nd June 7:30 - 9:30 PM: 	Stanford India Association 
Sponsored by Stanford India Association Call for more info. 415-329-9339
Cubberly #133 (Education Department).

Tuesday 23rd June 11:45 to 1:15 PM	Brown bag lunch talks at UC 
Santa Cruz Extension, Trimble Road/De la Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara		
Call for more info. 408-866-8511

Tuesday evening - Siva Vishnu Temple? Sandeepany? House visits?

Swamiji will be available for personal interviews and conversations on 
religion, spirituality and other topics of interest to Indians in the Bay Area.
Please call (408) 866-8511 for more information.  

Biodata of Swami Paramananda Bharathi

Swami Paramananda Bharathi, is attached to Sringeri Sharada Peetam 
located in southern part of India.  Sringeri is located in the Western part of
India about 110 miles from Bangalore.  The Sringeri Mutt was started by 
one of the main disciples of Adi Shankara Charya, Sureswaracharya and 
has served the interests of India and Hindus since 8th century.
Swami Paramananda Bharathi is in the illustrious chain of Sringeri 
heritage.  He is currently 59 years old and is a true scholar in both ancient 
Vedas and modern sciences.  Before he renounced the world and became a 
monk, he was a well known professor of physics and mathematics in 
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (One of the top six educational 
institutions in India).  He became a monk in early 80Us and till then he kept 
one feet in each tradition.

Generally, Shankaracharyas do not leave India.  Due to his special 
qualifications, he received blessing and the full support of the head of 
Sringeri Mutt to undertake tours in the style of Adi Shankara.  He toured 
extensively in and out of India to propagate the profound values 
associated  with the Hindu philosophy in life.  During 1989 and 1991, he 
visited several US cities and addressed several hundred scientists and 
engineers in Princeton University campus and Bell Labs at Murray Hills, 
New Jersey.  

Following his successful tour of the US, Swami toured several Western 
and Eastern European cities.  His reception and the participation in the 
mammoth Global Environmental Forum held at the Kremlin of the Soviet 
Union was historic in many ways.  He addressed over 2000 delegates 
representing 83 countries.  He recited several hymns from the Vedas as 
part of his closing prayer for peace in the world in the presence of 
President Gorbachev and the entire leadership of USSR.  At the end he 
requested everyone to join him in reciting the holy OM mantra three times 
in a row and everyone including President Gorbachev followed.  The 
great hall of Kremlin reverberated with the sound of OM for several 
minutes for the first time in the history of Soviet Union and the mankind.  
For this daring service, Hinduism Today, a publication of North America, 
announced THindu of the YearU award which was presented to him in 
March 91.  He is currently attending the Earth Summit in Brazil.

Swami has published several papers and books on the Vedic and Scientific 
issues.  He organized several conferences in the area of computers, human 
resource management in which perspectives from both modern science 
and ancient scriptures were presented. He also initiated a research 
institute to study the relationships between Science and Indian Scriptures 
in New Delhi, India. In addition he started a residence hall in Bangalore 
for students who want to study both aspects in parallel.

About the Mithya Institute for Learning

The Mithya Institute for Learning is a not for profit, research, educational 
and consulting organization committed to breakthroughs in human 
learning.  We operate at the interface between human-human, human-
organization and human-technology  and we investigate what is 
fundamental to human development.  Our expertise is in the integration 
of different kinds of knowledge, in designing learning communities and in 
developing optimal learning environments and technologies. 

Mithya in Sanskrit, an Indian language, means 'unreal.'  It reminds us that 
breakthroughs in learning occur as a form of unlearning, in suspending 
one's conditioning and in breaking the mold. 

Press Release: Contact Prasad Kaipa at (408) 866-8511 for more information

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