Department of Philosophy, JU organizes a Public Lecture entitled “The Brain-Brahman Dichotomy”

The Department of Philosophy, University of Jammu today organized a public lecture titled “The Brain-Brahman Dichotomy”. 

The lecture was delivered by Dr. Madhu Mangal Chaturvedi from Department of faculty of Philosophy at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra-J&K (UT). Prof. Jasbir Singh, Head, Department of Philosophy welcomed the guests and invited speaker. He also introduced the topic and urged that such type of interactions are important for students, scholars and faculty. Dr. Chaturvedi in his address stress on the problem of the nature of consciousness. He attempted to explain the relationship between individual consciousness (brain consciousness) and absolute, cosmic consciousness (Brahman consciousness). He elaborated on the problem that if the universe is fundamentally physical then how and why there is a non-physical consciousness? Dr. Chaturvedi emphasized on the generational problems and explained in detail, how a physical brain generates something like consciousness. He refers to the contemporary debates that exist in relation to the nature of consciousness in both Indian and Western Traditions. He referred to the concept of adviata and sources of Vedanta to explain the relationship between body and mind. In order to be successful one has to go for meditation to establish the track and goal in one life. He stressed upon that students should read sources to clear their mind and thoughts so that proper debates could be generated. After his lecture participants asked number of questions and there was fruitful interaction. 

The comparer was by Dr. Ruby Bharati and Dr. Sushain Raina, coordinated the programme and vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Panu Sharma, Department of Philosophy. Among prominent who attended that lecture were Prof. Anupama Vohra and Prof. Anju Thappa, students from the department of Philosophy, Economics and Political science.