Do we need to

be spiritual?
Can we be
spiritual
without being
religious?
eminar Presenter : Chaitanya Charan da
Chaitanya Charan Das has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
from the Govt College of Engg, Pune.
He subsequently served as a software engineer in a multinational software company,
Patni Computer Systems.
He also secured 2350 out of 2400 in the GRE exam, bagging the top rank in
Maharashtra.
Seeing the prevalent problems of stress, depression, addiction and overall misdirection -
all caused by a lack of spirituality, he felt inspired to dedicate his life to the cause of jnana
daan, offering systematic spiritual education, under the aegis of ISKCON.
He has done the Bhakti Shastri course and is also a teacher for Bhakti Shastri courses.
Presently he conducts seminars at various reputed educational institutes all over India
including IITs and NITs as well as leading MNCs like Tech Mahindra and Idea Mobile.
He serves as the spokesperson for ISKCON, Pune. He has presented papers as an
invited ISKCON delegate at national and international conferences, speaking on the
interface of science and spirituality.
He runs an international cyber magazine called The Spiritual Scientist, which has
published over a hundrd gives a scientific presentation of Vedic philosophy.
His writings have been published in newspapers like Times of India (in the
prestigious Speaking Tree Column) , Indian Express, Economic Times, Hindustan
Times, and The Maharashtra Herald as well as global spiritual magazines.
His writings in English have been translated into several foreign languages
including German and Chinese and several Indian languages including Kannada, Telgu,
Bengali, Hindi and Marathi.
He is the author of six books including ENERGY Your Sutra for Positive Thinking,
Science and Spirituality and The Spiritual Scientist series, volumes 1 & 2.
 You know in the west we
have
built a large, beautiful
ship. It has all the
comforts in it, but one
thing is missing: it has no
compass and does not 3
Since 1960,
The divorce rate has doubled.

The teen suicide rate has tripled.

The violent crime rate has quadrupled.

The prison population has quintupled.

The percentage of babies born outside

marriage has sextupled.
Depression has soared - to ten times the pre -
World War II level.
 Soul in the Body

The brain is a
computerBut it is
programmed by
something that is
outside itself.
Dr. Wilder Penfield Canadian surgeon, Noble Laureate
 Spirituality, a Higher Dimensional Science

Theory Philosophy

Science Spirituality

Religion
Experiment
 Philosophy

Spirituality

Religion

Srila Prabhupada - Philosophy without

religion is just mental speculation
 Philosophy

Spirituality

Religion

Srila Prabhupada - Religion without

philosophy is at best sentimentalism and at
worst fanaticism.
It is already becoming clear
that a chapter which had a
Western beginning will have to
have an Indian ending if it is not
to end in the self-destruction of the
human race. At this supremely
dangerous moment in history,
the only way of salvation for mankind
is the Indian way.
Sir Arnold Toynbee
I am convinced that India could
become once again the cradle of a
new school of thought that may
significantly influence the fate of
the globe during the third
millennium. Perhaps the
contribution of India to nuclear
power technology and space
science will turn out to be
irrelevant, but the contributions
toward a new ethical foundation - Dr Richard Ernst, 1999
Noble Laureate in
could be turning the wheel of Chemistry
history in the proper (balanced)
way."