Gandhi Jayanti to CV Raman Jayanti! What can you and I do?!!!

Amongst the many messages from even the relatively recent lives of Gāndhi & Rāman, 1️⃣ crucial common thread that I perceive is this: Gone are the ages when many needed to die for their motherland... it’s now time for us to live for our Mother Earth 🌏! 

Where else could this transformation (from wanting to sacrificially die ☠️ for the nation to consciously living 💃🏻 for the planet) begin, than in the very land which has not only recognised, but actually practiced, the spirit of 1️⃣ universal family <vasudheiva kutumbakam> from times immemorial⁉️

Every precious moment of such a dedicated life encompasses 1️⃣ or more of the following 3️⃣ fundamental & experiential activities:

1. searching & unlearning through keen observation & outer listening <śravanā>;
2. researching & learning through total involvement & inner reflection <mananā>; &
3. seeking & relearning through dedicated planning & outer implementation <nithidhyāsanā>.

Endeavouring to & enabling us with a networking platform to accomplish precisely such a noble vision in a devoted collaborative mode for mutual benefit across the globe is the Global 🌏 Indian 🇮🇳 Scientists 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 <Vaiśvik Bhāratīya Vaijnānik (VaiBhaV)> Summit 🤝 from MK Gāndhi’s birthday today, Oct 2nd until CV Raman’s birthday on Nov 7th. The official motto for the summit ‘शुद्धा हि बुद्धिः’ is from the following Nītī ślokā:

श्रिय: प्रसूते विपदः रुणद्धि, 

यशांसि दुग्धे मलिनं प्रमार्ष्टि। 

संस्कार सौधेन परं पुनीते, 

शुद्धा हि बुद्धिः किलकामधेनुः ।। 

The gist of what I infer from this profoundly 🧐 jam-packed policy nugget <nītī-ślokā> is that through conscious behaviour, time-tested well-proven techniques & tireless efforts in dedicated devotion, we can establish a sanctified & pure access to the omnipresent intelligence of the universe. Such an universal intelligence is analogous to an omniscient & omnipotent wish-fulfilling cow 🐄, which, if only we know how to beseech it, can & will 

1. manifest wealth & prosperity in all realms of life, including the physical, emotional & spiritual;
2. protect us from calamities, such as COVID-19 & the ensuing mental pandemic 😷 & economic crisis;
3. wash away any of our remaining impurities with its prestigious & famed milk 🥛, symbolising the essence of wisdom;
4. cleanse & purify all those who come into Kāmadhenu’s or our own field of influence around the universe by virtue of its/our evolved nature.

Inspired by this meaningful couplet on polity, the VaiBhaV Summit will help tap the fantastic knowledge resources of highly-accomplished & enormously-potent group of 1,500+ NRI/PIO/OCI scientists, academicians & researchers from NASA, leading government labs, topmost universities such as MIT, Stanford, CalTech, Georgia Tech & Harvard in USA 🇺🇸, UK 🇬🇧, Germany 🇩🇪, Australia 🇦🇺 & 30+ other countries of the world 🌍 🌎 🌏 in collaboration with 65 champion institutions of Bhārat such as IISc, IITs, IIMs, ISRO & CSIR labs, to name just a small sample. This will help reawaken a long-slumbering Bhārat 🇮🇳 & her enormous latent potential & thus accelerate her progress towards becoming self-reliant to serve not only herself but the flattened world 🗺 at large in more ways than she always has.