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Following the inauguration of a gargantuan dome dedicated to world peace last year, Maharashtra Institute of Technology’s World Peace University (MIT-WPU) will now unveil a massive prayer hall
Veteran social activist Anna Hazare will be inaugurating the prayer hall, Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Dnyan Bhavan, on Saturday. The prayer hall, with its objective of disseminating universal peace, features inscriptions from holy books and scriptures from all religions that have flourished in India
The inscriptions — sayings from the Gita, the Koran, the Bible, the Guru Granth Sahib among others — are to found on the panels of the prayer hall, said computer scientist, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, who is closely associated with the MIT-WPU project.
The Bhagwad Gita, which has been a repository of knowledge for the past 5,000 years of the Indian civilization, is the embodiment of eternal truth. Hence, the naming of the hall after the Gita itself,” said Dr. Karad. He further said that the prayer hall was an extension of the concepts behind setting up the WPU and building the ‘World Peace Monument’ dome
Indian spirituality has too often been dismissed as ‘religious humbug’ by the Occident. One of the purposes behind the WPU, the dome and the prayer hall is to reclaim our glorious Indian heritage for the youth,” said Dr. Karad,
He further observed that Indian philosophy, which was too often confused with ‘religion’, had engaged very early with a number of questions that the Western philosophers — from Socrates to Aristotle to Spinoza and Immanuel Kant — had asked
The teachings of the Gita, and those of Indian, and regional, saints like Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram proved they were philosophers well before ‘philosophy’ became an academic vogue,” Dr. Karad said, remarking that the prayer hall was an attempt to underscore the philosophic traditions in Indian civilization. Dr. Bhatkar said that the prayer hall was an attempt to unify the seemingly disparate strands of science and spirituality
Last year, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu had inaugurated the MIT’s ‘World Peace Monument’ dome on occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The institute’s authorities have claimed that the structure took nearly 13 years to build and is the largest of its kind in the world. At 160 ft in diameter, 263 ft in height, it is larger in diameter than the dome at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City (which is 136 ft. in diameter and 448 ft. in height)
| Updated on: 06 - Apr - 2019
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