Bhaktivedanta Academy International is an educational institute which will house a world school and a university where general education would be integrated with values, culture and spirituality. A committed group of professors and students from IIT have come together to launch an innovative education process inspired by vedantic tradition. Teachers of the school will lead an ashrama life committed to exemplary form of sacrifice and discipline.
The first project of the Academy will be located in a sprawling campus of 100 Acres in Ahmedabad.The campus is very serene and beautiful with nearly 100 cows, lemon orchards, mustard farms etc.
Phase I of the project would consist of a school with a capacity of
150 students with boarding facility. The classes are scheduled to commence in June 2010.
Dr. Ashish Pandey would be the principal for the first phase of the project. He would be joined by Himanshu Singh, Radhakant Das, Lokeshwara Prabhu, Vipul Arora and Pawan Goyal.
A winter summer school is being planned in December 2009 at Ahmedabad ISKCON temple as a launching pad for the Ahmedabad project.
vidyāḿ cāvidyāḿ ca yas tad vedobhayaḿ saha
avidyayā mṛtyuḿ tīrtvā vidyayāmṛtam aśnute
Only one who can learn the material knowledge and spiritual knowledge side by side will enjoy the bliss of immortality while conquering death.
(Iśopaniṣad mantra 11)
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare | Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ||
