Keynote: Shankara’s Non-Duality

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Satya Syngal is a professional engineer. His working career was primarily in industrial management. His professional career required him to delve into all aspects of business.

Despite his full time involvement in the secular world, Satya felt a deep dissatisfaction and was always in search of something beyond the material domain. He found that ethics were generally overlooked in the corporate pursuits of wealth and pleasure.

After retiring from industry, he got fully focused on the higher goals of life in general and on Advaita (non-duality) in particular of which he pursued an extensive and deep study extending over a ten year period.

Although the concept of non-duality, being vedic in origin, is thousands of years old, it was presented systematically by Shankara in the 8th century. Satya will present to us a summary of his study.

According to Shankara’s non-duality, each and every one of us is none other than Brahman, the Absolute ultimate reality and we humans can realize this non-duality in practice in our lives with the help of the scripture, reason, experience and spiritual practices. Human search for a meaning in life is reviewed in the light of this philosophy. This search, though initially intellectual, becomes a part of one’s nature. “Brahman is all there is” is a far reaching vedantic conclusion, extremely meaningful in the emergence of one global family that the world needs today.

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