On a Spiritual High

BY: ROHAN SWAMY & PREETI SRIVASTAV

Dec 27, PUNE, INDIA (INDIAN EXPRESS) — From bringing Bhagwad Gita in scientific light to helping people come out of 2012 fear — spiritual organisations plan to begin the New Year with much more than religious ideas While a few plan to celebrate the New Year with spirit and DJs at discotheques, many other want to begin their New Year in the company of good and spiritual thoughts. City-based spiritual organisations are organising a number of programme to welcome the New Year in their own special way.

Apart from having a one-week Bhagvad Katha Festival, International Society for Krishna Concern (ISKCON) Pune, is planning to start a programme, Discover yourself, which will be based on scientific understandings of Bhagvad Gita. The organisation would also challenge Darwin's theory of evolution on an international basis. This six-session course, which will be held on six successive Sunday evenings is designed by ISKCON President Radheshyam das, President of ISKCON, Pune and the course has 10,000 graduates in India as well as in Germany and USA.

"We are ready with our study that proves Darwin' theory wrong and we would start our New Year with some good and correct thoughts," says Krishna Bhajan Das, public relation officer, ISKCON Pune.

Among other routine events, ISKCON will have Mahabishek of Lord Krishna on December 31 at Golibar Maidan from 9 pm onwards.