October 10, 2010,
Chennai, 5.30pm
Oxford Bookstore in association
with Prakriti Foundation
Venue: The Oxford Book Store,
Haddows Road
The inauguration will feature book readings by: * Ms Malini Ramakrishnan: A Director of Synergistix (India) P.Ltd, Malini Ramakrishnan has been on the Editorial Board of Self Knowledge a monthly magazine published by Samvit Sagar Trust , Chennai. * Ms Sarla Panchapakesan: Taught as Associate Prof. Accountancy, University of Hong Kong. After retirement Ms. Sarla took over as the Managing Editor of Tatvaloka a spiritual monthly magazine. She is a student of Swami Suddhananda. * Mr. Raja Krishnamoorthy - Has a multi talented profile as an organization development consultant, trainer and human dynamics facilitator, Motivation & Inspirational speaker and Personal growth and Evolution Coach. He is also an Artist and Creative explorer and has been a popular character artiste on the silver screen. Smt Menaka Parthasarthy will release
the book.
About the Author
While still a schoolgirl Suraksha had the blessing of listening to Swami Chinmayananda. An emotional and moving reconnect with Swamiji in 1993 at Delhi reminded Suraksha of her desire for Self Knowledge, helped her to move out of a career matrix and return to Madras to study with Swami Suddhananda. Suraksha is married to Damerla Venkata
Giri a fellow XL'er. They live in Chennai with their two daughters who
work with her in Good Counsel. Suraksha is involved in community service
in Health and Peace Education.
About the Book
The second part of this book “pot-Space”
celebrates the Vision of “Being”. When I “see”, then I recognise the unique
Oneness, which runs through everything in this creation however intricate
or simple the design. The example to illustrate this is the pot and Space
“Ghatakasa is Chidakasa”. The space in the pot is the same as the Space
everywhere. When the pot is broken it is not as if the space inside joins
with the space outside. There is no inside outside for Space. For some
time a pot defined it, the pot breaks, Space Is. Our Being is eternal a
part of the Total Reality. For a while we have a name and form. When these
drop off, Being is.
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Suraksha's
growing years were an interesting combination of personalized boarding
school education at Nazareth Convent Ootacamund and a spirited correspondence
with her maternal grandfather Dr Vepa Varha Narasimham. He would write
her several letters each week filling up the pages in his small close writing
and imparting lessons from the Bhagavatam or Bhagavad Gita. The strong
influences on her thinking were her mother Latha Vepa who instilled a love
for words and father Chaganti Sankara Rao who challenged her ideas to prepare
her to reason and think without preconditioning or bias. She imbibed the
subtle messages of nationalism and non violence of Mahatma Gandhi. Her
college education was in Stella Maris Madras for a Math degree followed
by an MBA from Xavier Institute Jamshedpur in 1972. Suraksha had a career
in Marketing and was with ITC Welcomgroup when she “retired” in 1994
to start her own entrepreneurial venture ´GOOD COUNSEL´ in
Hotel Services.
The
ideas introduced in the first part of the book do not provide an answer
but facilitate each one of us to think out our own solutions, based on
ones own personal experience. To know how to distinguish between the perceptions
of the “menacing snake” seen on the Rope when walking in the dark or in
poor light and the knowledge through validated analysis that confirms it
is only a rope. The illusion of the “snake” disappears, as it is resolved
in the light of the validated knowledge. We know that the earth is round
but our perception shows it as flat. We place our feet on the ground as
though it was flat and this does not cancel the knowledge that the earth
is round. We continue with our perceptions but we need no longer escalate
the perception of illusions into an emotional drama of sensations that
dictates our thinking.
