New Member Introduction: Let us welcome Sri Rakesh Krishnan

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Namaste:

 

With great pleasure, we welcome Sri Rakesh, a new

member to the list. We invite and encourage the new

members to actively participate in the list

discussions with their thoughtful questions and

comments.

 

Warmest regards,

 

--- Rakesh Krishnan <rakeshkrishnan wrote:

>

> Namaste,

> Thank you for your prompt response to my request to

> join your group. Based in New Zealand , I often miss

> the access to Hindu philosophy, especially during

> the last year and my circle of friends with whom I

> used to have chats on the finer points of philosophy

> and that is why I requested to join your group.

> I am no learned savant in Advaita, just a physics

> graduate with a business management degree, who has

> worked in India and Africa before emigrating to New

> Zealand for some personal reasons.

> Out here, we do have a religious establishments but

> none that give me an answer to a fundamental

> question that is bothering me, that is ,"Why does

> anything exist?" or "What is the purpose of this

> universe?". Now it is not that I have not had

> answers to these questions, but none that satisfy my

> logic as a student of physics or as a practical man

> of business.

> However, even discussing such a thing does not

> interest most people, and I was hoping some one here

> might just be willing to spend some time on such

> subjects! Wonder if this sort of thing interests

> you. A retired Army colonel In Nigeria, one of my

> friends hinted that there may be some answers in the

> Bhagavata Purana, or the Srimad Bhagavatam, but I

> could not bring the volumes I purchased from the

> Gorakhpur Press here, so I figured that one of you

> might have some acquaintance with the text and

> enlighten me to some extent at the very least.

> Hope this gives you what my interests are; apart

> from this Marketing, Astronomy and History are my

> interests

> Yours sincerely

> Rakesh Krishnan

>

 

 

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