1st ‘Bhagvad Gita’ conference in UK

A first-of-its-kind conference on the contemporary relevance of the ‘Bhagvad Gita’ was held here in the UK, during which Indian and British experts came together with an aim to seek answers to the “innumerable questions that exercise and confound all of us today.” 

“The conference aims to deal with the innumerable questions that exercise and confound all of us today, like how does the ‘Bhagvad Gita’ help us tap into our own unique transformational energy? 

“It has been said that, of all the sacred texts of Hinduism, the ‘Bhagvad Gita’ is the most widely read and crucial one for the understanding of Eastern mysticism,” said the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), one of the organisers of the conference that concluded on Friday.

The ICCR and the High Commission of India organised the conference in collaboration with the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Experts and historians from India and Britain got together for the two-day sessions which included aspects such as ‘Bhagvad Gita and Yoga’, ‘Impact of <g data-gr-id="15">Bhagvad</g> Gita on Modern Sanskrit 

Writings’ and ‘The <g data-gr-id="20">Bhagvad</g> Gita Timeless Values for Today.’