Inaugural Plenary – I (East Wing)
Chair: Karl H. Potter, University of Washington

Stuart Sovatsky, Assoc. for Transpersonal Psychology
"Kundalini, Consciousness and Bodily Development"

Jonathan Shear, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Meditative Experiences and Western Philosophy"

T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University
"Dharmameghasamadhi : A Critique based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"

Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation
"Native Informants Talk Back : Cross-Cultural Interactive Hermeneutics"

Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah
"Is Karma a good justification for Rebirth?"

Carl Olson, Allegheny College
"The Disappearing Self : The Postmodern Vision of Mark C. Taylor and the Vedantic Vision of Sankara"

Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia
"The Body as Paintbrush: The Idiom of Classical Indian Dance (based on Visnudharmottara Purana)."

Panel Session – I
I.1
Gita and Gandhi
Chair: Sandhya Chakrabarati
Export, PA
Room 186

Hope Fitz, Eastern Connecticut State Univ.
"Importance of Ahimsa in Yoga Sutra, Gandhi and the Modern World"

Sitansu Chakrabarti, Univ. of Toronto
"Amartya Sen on the Gita"

Kathy Tiege, Monmouth University
"Interpretations of Gita : Gandhi and Oppenheimer"

I.2
Studies in Hinduism – I
Chair: Sushil Mittal
Millikin University
Room 112

Shive Chaturvedi, Ohio State University
"Meditation on Human Nature : Vedic vs. Western Rational and Existential Traditions."

D. R. Sharma, Little India Foundation, Chicago
"Zero, Infinity and God : A Vedantic Perspective"

Gopala Rao, John Hopkins University
"Why Hinduism in an Age of Monotheism?"

I.3
Yoga – I
Chair: Michael Brannigan
LaRoche College
Room 184

Veena Howard, University of Oregon
"Hesychasam : A Christian Yoga?"

Mahesh Mehta, University of Windsor
"Consciousness and Intentionality : Yoga and Vedanta"

Ira Schepetin, Woodstock, NY
"Yoga and Advaita Vedanta"

I.4
Science and Spirituality
Chair: B.D.N. Rao
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.
Room 180

P. Venugopala Rao, Emory University
"Dialog between Science and Religion : Indian Perspectives"

Mark McDowell, Lourdes College
"Duality and Cosmology"

Adarsh Deepak, Science & Technology Institute
"Dharma as Harmony in Diversity, in terms of scientific Bhasya"

Plenary Session – III
Chair: Stephen H. Phillips, University of Texas-Austin

Sangeetha Menon, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
"Being and BEING : Current discussions on 'consciousness' and the Yoga Traditions"

R. Puligandla, University of Toledo
"What is it to scientifically study Consciousness"

Walter Benesch, University of Alaska
"Advaita Vedanta : The Possibility 'of' and Possibilities 'for' consciouness in a non-linear world"

Anand Rangarajan, University of Florida
"Pan-Awareness : Building a bridge between Panpsychism and Vedanta"

Nick Gier, University of Idaho
"Gandhi as a Postmodern Thinker"

Panel Session – II

II.1
Meditation – I
Chair: Nalini Bhushan
Smith College Room 180

Stephen Smith, Krishnamurti Foundation of America
"Krishnamurti's Meditation : A Quantum View of Mind"

Satish Telegar, Towson State University
"Krishnamurti on Meditation"

Bart Gruzalski, Center for Pacific Living
"Through the Eyes of a Butterfly"

II.2
Ayurveda
Chair: Alex C. Alexander, MD
Baltimore
Room 102

Gregory Fields, Southern Illinois Univ.-Edwardsville
"Buddhsit Psychotherapeutics : Ayurvedic roots and Modern Applications"

Arvind Khetia, Overland Park, Kansas
"Essentials of Ayurveda"

K. N. Dileepan, University of Kansas Medical Center
"Science and Philosophy of Ayurveda"

II.3
Indian Aesthetics
Chair: G. Bhamati
University of Texas-Austin
Room 184

John Quinn, Univ. of Dayton & Joseph Petrick, Wright State University
"Aesthetic Theory and the Interpretation of Indian Art"

S. V. Rama Rao, Artist, Palos Hills, IL
"Yogic Mind and Art"

William W. Higgins
"The Idea Game : Religious and Symbolic Game Theory"

II.4
Tantra
Chair: Michael Myers
Washington State University
Room 186

James Robinson, University of Northern Iowa
"Is There a Distinctive "Tantric Spirituality?"

Robert Gordon, University of Oregon
"Tantra and Transcendentalism : The Philosophies of Emerson and Aurobindo"

Don Salmon, Greensville, SC
Sri Aurobindo and the Future of Consciousness Studies"

Panel Session – III

III.1
Bhattacharya, Buber and Quest for Self-Knowledge
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
University of Hawaii
Room 184

Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College
"Revising Krishnachandra Bhattacharya's Absolute And its alternative forms : A Holographic model for Simultaneous illumination"

Michael Meyers, Washington State University
"Non-Duality: A commentary on Buber's I and Thou : Part III"

Sandhya Chakrabarti, Export, PA
"Krishna Yoga – A form of Psychotherapy"

Ramon Sewnath, Southern Connecticut State University
"Quest for Self Knowledge"

III.2
Indology, Radhakrishnan & Sri Satya Sai Baba
Chair: S. K. Singh
Savage, MD
Room 180

Arvind Sharma, McGill University
"Indology: An Epistemological Approach"

David Rodier, American University
"Presenting Vedanta to the West : The Example of Radhakrishnan's Commentaries"

Boyd H. Wilson and Donald L. VanSlyke, Hope College
"Radhakrishnan, Rauschenbusch and a New Christianity: Eternal Religion and Social Ethics"

Witz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagn
"Sri Satya Sai Baba on Mind and Atman"

III.3
Yoga – II
Chair: Stuart Sovatsky
Assoc.for Transpersonal Psy.
Room 186

Stephen Parker, St. Thomas University
"The Spiral Path Continua Versus Linear stages in Patanjali Yoga"

Nalini Bhushan, Smith College
"The Logic of Mourning : Mental Discipline and Liberationin the Yoga Sutra and Freud"

Ed Barton, Michigan State University
"Reinterpreting Mythopoetic men's work And Kundalini Yoga"

Ashok Malhotra, S.U.N.Y. at Oneonta
"Yoga and Yoda : Star Wars Connection"

III.4
Vedanta in the West and the Problem of Evil
Chair: Wallace Martin
University of Toledo
Room 112

Joseph Thompson, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks
"Postanalytic Affinities : Indian and German philosophy in America"

K. Sundaram, Lake Michigan College
"The Vedas and the Vedanta in Pre-Revolutionary France"

Joseph Bracken, S.J., Xavier University
"Evil: Reality or Illusion?"

Uday Rao, Pittsburgh
"Evil and its Elimination in Molla Ramayanamu"

Plenary Session – III (East Wing)
Chair: P. Venugopala Rao, Emory University

E. C. G. Sudarshan, University of Texas-Austin
"Language, Computing and Creativity"

Jagdish Srivastava, Colorado State University
"Derivation : Beyond philosophcial speculation of Basic Tenets"

:Subhash Kak, Louisiana State University
"Inner and Outer Cosmologies in India"

D.V.L.N. Rao, University of Massachusetts-Boston & A.N. Murty, Grambling State University
"Reflections of Reality"

Plenary Session – IV
Chair: Jitendra Shah, L. D. Institute of Indology'
Ahmedabad, India

Panel Session – IV

IV.1
Swadhyaya & Environmetnal Ethics
Chair: Bart Gruzalski
Center for Pacific Living
Room 102

Bindu Madhok & Selva J. Raj, Albion College
"The "Cafeteria" approach on environmental scholarship: Problems and Possibilities"

George James, University of North Texas
"Religious and Spiritual Dimensions of Environmental Movements in India"

Betty Unterberger, Texas A&M University
"Swadhyaya : Personal and Communal Transformation Through Self-Study"
Film on Pandurang Shastri Athavale

IV.2
Vedanta, Sufism, Buddhism
Chair: K.L. Seshagiri Rao
University of South Carolina
Room: 184

K. R. Sundararajan, St. Bonaventure University
"Embodiment : A Vedantic Perspective"

Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State Univ.
"Vedanta, Sufism and Spiritual Ecology"

Omar S. Alattas & James W. Kidd, Univ. of San Francisco
"The Metaphysics of Divine Love"

Frank Hoffman, West Chester University
"Buddhism and Non-Violence"

IV.3
Studies in Hinduism
Chair: Avinash Sathaye
University of Kentucky
Room 180

Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
"Nectar of Wisdom : Jnaneswara's Amritanubhava"

William Jackson, Indiana Univ-Purdue University
"The philosophical symbolism of H indu Temple Designs – especially fractal-like recursive shapes"

Pasquale J. Simonelli, Monmouth University
"The eschatological role of the 'son' in the Vedanta philosophy"

G. Mishra, University of Madras
"From Ramanuja to Ramaraya : The Dialectical journey of Maya-Avidya in the history of Vedanta"

IV.4
Yoga and Meditation: Physiological Perspectives
Chair: A. R. Srikantiah, M.D.
Cambridge, OH
Room 186

Tom Egenes & Robert Oates, Maharishi University of Management
"Consciousness, Physics and World Peace : How to stop terrorism throught he Field Effect of Consciousness"

Patricia Reynaud, Miami University
"Meditation as a Spiritual Discipline"

Narayan Reddy, M.D., Pulmonologist, Dayton, OH
"Being and Breathing"

Gopala Rao, Johns Hopkins University
"Yoga: Physiological Perspectives"

Fred Dallmayr, Indiana University
"Eliot Deutsch's Cross-cultural Meditations"

Stephen Phillips, University of Texas
"Creative Emotion : Rasa in the Philosophy of Eliot Deutsch"
Kisor Chakrabarti, Duke University

Students of Eliot Deutsch:
Michael Myers, Washington State University
Ashok Malhotra, S.U.N.Y., Oneonta

Response: Eliot Deutsch, University of Hawaii

Special Plenary of Philosophical presentations And discussions in Sanskrit
"Brahmodya"
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarty, Univ. of Hawaii

Ashok Aklujkar, Univ. of British Columbia/Harvard Univ.
"bharatiiya samaaja vijnaanam: vilhelm haalbafaasa-mata-samiiksaa" (Indian Social Theory: A Critique of the view of Wilhelm Halbfass)"

M. Narasimhachari, Universityof Madras
"The commentary 'Bhushana' by Sri Govindaraja on Sri Ramayana"

Arvind Sharma, McGill University
Sanatana-dharmasya caturmukhatvam

Vidyut Aklujkar, Univ. of British Columbia
"Who am I?: A Riddle of Identity in Mahipati's Bhakta-vijaya"

Mahesh Mehta, University of Windsor
"Role of Jnana and Karma : Two Advaitic Views"

Kisor Chakrabarti, Duke University
"Vyaptigrahopayavimarsah" ( the problem of Induction).

Ramesh Patel, Antioch University
"Nasadiye Dasa Vadas-tesam Paramesthi-Prajapati-krtah Samanvayas-ca" (Ten Cosmogonies In the Nasadiya and their reconciliation by Pramesthi )Prajapati

Keynote Address and Second Infinity Distingusihed Lecture

Marzenna Jakubczak, Silesian University, Poland
"Aspects of Subjectivity in Patanjali's Yoga"

"Business" meeting
"Open Forum"
Room 186

Discussion Facilitators:
Rama Rao Pappu, Adarsh Deepak, Arvind Sharma, Rajiv Malhotra, Etc.