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SiVIC Interreligious Leaders Forum: May 2018

May 6, 2018 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Free
Interreligious Leaders Forum

SiVIC Forum May 2018:
The Ultimate Goal: Yoga Beyond the Mat

May 6, 2018, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Sunnyvale Hindu Temple
450 Persian Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Join us for a discussion with Swami Vedananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and
Kundan Singh, PhD, the Vice President of the Cultural Integration Fellowship.

Swami Vedananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, which was founded by Sri Ramakrishna in 1886 and organized by his chief disciple, Swami Vivekananda. This Order follows the monastic tradition that comes from very ancient times and which was organized and systematized by the Acharya Shankara in the ninth century. Swami Vedananda followed a science major in college and in graduate school, earning a Ph. D. In physics, before joining the Order in 1970. In addition to his regular activities he conducts a weekly class on Vedantic subjects organized by the Hindu Students Council at Stanford University.

Kundan Singh, PhD is the Vice President of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, an institution founded in 1951 in San Francisco by Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri and Bina Chaudhuri, disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother who put together a new vision in the yoga and philosophical world called Integral Yoga. Integral Yoga is a synthesis of all forms of yoga, with its beginnings in the Vedas and the Upanishads. Kundan is a faculty at Sofia University and has taught in the bay area for more than a decade. He teaches in the areas of spirituality, philosophy, and psychology.

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Date:
May 6, 2018
Time:
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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