Andhra Pradesh

Seminar on ‘yogic enquiry’ begins

VIJAYAWADA: A three-day national seminar on ‘yogic methods of enquiry’, being conducted by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research and Maris Stella College, was inaugurated by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Vice-Chancellor Vempati Kutumba Sastry in the college campus here on Monday.

Mr. Sastry said that the philosophical enquiries of the country were thousands of years old and, therefore, time-tested.

And, of all the six lines of philosophical enquiry, such as Dwaitha, Sankhya, Vaiseshika and so on, which developed over several centuries, ‘Advaita’ was based on sound logic and most scientific.

Only the Indian philosophical enquiries address questions like ‘What is knowledge?’ ‘Who am I’ and so on, in all their totality, he said.

Delivering the keynote address, V.N. Jha, a former director of the Centre of Advance study in Sanskrit and the present advisor in Sanskrit to the Prime Minister of India, said it was unfortunate that this tremendous wealth of indigenous knowledge was not available to students.

Their right to such knowledge was being undermined, he said.

Prof. Sastry released a book on the importance of Advaita in Bhagawad Gita written by Maris Stella College lecturer and seminar director Dhulipala Rama Krishna.

Dr. Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Foundation director-general C. Nageswara Rao released a special souvenir brought out on the occasion.

College principal Thresiamma and Sanskrit scholar V. Subramanya Sastry participated.

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