Sat Ma­haraj

Gau­ri Shankar Gup­ta, High Com­mis­sion­er of In­dia to T&T wrote a num­ber of books be­fore tak­ing up his po­si­tion in Port-of-Spain.I was priv­i­leged to meet with Mr Gup­ta and to re­ceive an au­to­graphed copy of his lat­est book Un­rav­el­ing Mys­ter­ies of Life, Mod­ern Sci­ence and An­cient Wis­dom.As one who has spent al­most a life­time study­ing and pro­mot­ing Hin­duism, and even mak­ing com­par­isons with the oth­er ma­jor re­li­gions like Chris­tian­i­ty and Is­lam, I find Gup­ta's pre­sen­ta­tion to be very frank and in­trigu­ing.

He has writ­ten on top­ics like, Ori­gin of the Uni­verse, Pow­er of the Emp­ty Space, Cos­mic Or­der and Cos­mic En­er­gy.And in Part Two of his present work, he writes about Con­cept of Dhar­ma, Law of Kar­ma and the Sci­ence of Maya.

Gup­ta had Mr Michael A Cre­mo write a fore­word to the book in which he says: "In ad­di­tion to draw­ing on the vast reser­voirs of In­dia's Vedic tra­di­tion, he has al­so deeply in­ves­ti­gat­ed the teach­ings of the an­cient Greek philoso­phers. He is thus well equipped to speak to an in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ence of in­tel­lec­tu­als, re­li­gion­ists and po­lit­i­cal lead­ers about the na­ture of our mod­ern prob­lems and the way for­ward to prac­ti­cal so­lu­tions. The so­lu­tions Gup­ta presents are based on the best that mod­ern sci­ence and an­cient wis­dom have to of­fer us.

"In his fas­ci­nat­ing book, Gup­ta demon­strates that the civ­i­liza­tions of an­cient In­dia and Greece were not with­out as­ton­ish­ing sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal achieve­ments. Thus, these sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal achieve­ments were em­bed­ded with­in larg­er sys­tems of wis­dom that of­fered the chance to avoid some of the dis­tur­bances and prob­lems as­so­ci­at­ed with the growth of mod­ern sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers