VEDIC MATHEMATICS NEWSLETTER
Newsletter of the World Academy of Vedic Mathematics (part of the
International Research and Resource Foundation for Indian heritage)
ISSUE No. 39
A warm welcome to new subscribers.
Vedic Mathematics is becoming increasingly popular as more and more
people are introduced to the beautifully unified and easy Vedic methods.
The purpose of this Newsletter is to provide information about developments
in education and research and books, articles, courses, talks etc.,
and also to bring together those working with Vedic Mathematics. If
you are working with Vedic Mathematics - teaching it or doing research
- please contact us and let us include you and some description of
your work in the Newsletter. Perhaps you would like to submit an article
for inclusion in a later issue or tell us about a course or talk you
will be giving or have given.
If you are learning Vedic Maths, let us know how you are getting on
and what you think of this system.
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This issue's article is about a new initiative and a Trust that has
been set up in India by Dr S. K. Cosmic Kapoor.
The series of free internet lessons provided by Dr Cosmic Kapoor
came to an end on 5th July. These are being followed by Yajur Veda
Chapters 1 to 40 up till 14th August 2004. All the previous lessons
are still available at the web site: http://www.learn-and-teach-vedic-mathematics.com/.
But please note that they may be removed after that date. From 15th
August a new series of Lessons will begin, based on "The Cosmic
Trust Vedic Mathematics Cause". Some of the text of the Trust
is reproduced below.
THE COSMIC TRUST VEDIC MATHEMATICS CAUSE
New series of Lessons under the caption: "The Cosmic Trust Vedic
Mathematics Cause" for literacy and proficiency in Mathematics
are being planned for their launch on 15th August, 2004. It is going
to be of one year duration as an endeavour to reach general people
of the developing countries, particularly India, by having a focus
upon one of its Districts as a unit as a practical test of the potentialities
of the Ancient Wisdom.
TRUST DEED
'COSMIC TRUST FOR VEDIC MATHEMATICS CAUSE'
I
INTRODUCTORY
God has blessed our family with mathematics intelligence. We have
accepted "Cosmic-as existence's middle name to remind ourselves
of transcendental grace". This Trust is our family gratitude
for the grace continuingly showering upon us for sharing bliss thereof
with the fellow beings.
It is the Vedic Mathematics cause which is the inspiration source
for the present step for the establishment of the present cosmic trust.
It has been my rare privilege to learn while sitting in the feet of
His Holiness Sri Sri Pad Baba Ji Maharaj of Vrindavan and His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ji Maharaj of transcendental meditation enlightenment.
This privilege initiated me for understanding and experiencing the
potentialities and promises of Vedic Mathematics (which includes Vedic
science and technology as well).
Three cosmic sources of inspiration for the cause of the Vedic Mathematics,
Science and Technology are:
Cosmic Source Great exponent
Ganita Sutras His Holiness Bharati Krishna Tirtha Ji Maharaj
Maheshwara Sutras His Holiness Sri Sri Pad Baba Ji Maharaj
Saraswati Mantras His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ji Maharaj
The practical lessons of the Exponents are that dissemination of knowledge
of Vedic Mathematics to include establishment of Ved press, Sashtra-Varsh
Yajna and Statorams recitations for prosperity, knowledge and bliss.
My interests and attempts to understand the basic values of Vedic
Mathematics, Science & Technology, during these three and half
decades, have convinced me that it is a cosmic cause to disseminate
the Vedic Mathematics values.
With this urge, the present step for establishment of the Cosmic Trust
for Vedic Mathematics Cause is being taken.
II
VISION
Vedic Mathematics vision of knowledge is that the whole range of knowledge,
pure as well as applied, manifests and constitutes a single Discipline.
This enlightenment of Ancient Wisdom with proper dissemination has
great promise of complete knowledge within shortest possible time.
As the unification of whole range of knowledge avails manifestations
along geometric formats, as such the dissemination process gets further
facilitated with availability of formats for chasing the manifestation
phenomena, as well as the transcendence there from up till the ultimate
Absolute state.
Therefore this chase process of existence phenomena within frames
has transcendental promises whose bliss is being envisioned to be
shared with fellow beings as ideals and vision of 'the Cosmic Trust
for Vedic Mathematics Cause'.
III
INSTRUMENT OF CHARITABLE TRUST
This instrument is being executed this day 3rd of July 2004 by me,
the undersigned, as settler and as the first sole trustee. The vision,
an urge and the motivation, being as has been expressed above and
whereas, there being the transcendental nature of Vision which at
initial stage requires my personal focus, attention and the needed
direction for the cause, as such the decision that till further enlightened
beings may be persuaded to be trustees, the initial responsibility
is taken as being upon me to perform and continuing as sole trustee
of this Trust.
V
OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
The objectives and goals of the Trust center around the sole cosmic
cause for dissemination of the knowledge of Vedic Mathematics amongst
the fellow beings for the mathematics literacy, mathematics proficiency
and enrichment of life through Vedic Mathematics basic values inputs
for development of technologies needed for our existence.
VI
INITIATIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The sole trustee shall be endeavoring for following initiatives with
responsibilities as:
(1) To persuade enlightened fellow beings to join for the cause and
to share the responsibilities as trustees.
(2) To draw concrete plans for dissemination of knowledge of Vedic
Mathematics.
(3) To take all other initiatives and discharge all other responsibilities
for the cosmic cause of Vedic Mathematics.
(4) To take all other steps, and to workout the details for furtherance
of the interests of the present trust.
[For more information or if you are considering assisting Dr Kapoor
in this worth-while venture please contact us at mailto:news@vedicmaths.com]
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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WORKSHOPS IN AHMEDABAD, INDIA
From Mr R P Jain:
The L D Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat are going to organise
3 days VM workshops at their Institute (from August 9th to 11th, 2004
in the evening, each day 2 hours) in association with World Academy
For Vedic Maths. Manish Soni from Baroda will be conducting these
workshops. Am also trying to fix morning workshops on the same dates
which, perhaps, "Akshardham" may be organising which they
would be confirming little later. Before these workshops I shall be
going to Ahmedabad for extensive Press coverage. In all likelihood
we shall be arranging 2 Press Conferences in the last week of this
month. The contact # L D Institute is (079) 2630-7326 whoever wished
to come can register.
VEDIC MATHS IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
[Please note 'Jain' is an Australian and is not Mr R P Jain who is
Vice-President of the World Academy of Vedic Mathematics and who lives
in India]
Jain will be one of the guest speakers at the next International
Nexus Conference (Friday 24th-Saturday 25th-Sunday 26th September
2004. Venue: The Chifley at Lennons, Queen St., Brisbane, Australia).
He would like to invite you to attend a fascinating 1 and a half hour
Lecture on the bridging of Vedic Mathematics, Magic Squares and Sacred
Geometry on Friday the 24th September 2004, 11.30am to 1pm.
You can also check his website: www.jainmathemagics.com for further
details to book online for a post-Conference 2-day workshop on the
27th and 28th September.
(He will also be teaching in Sydney and Canberra all of June and then
to America as a guest speaker at the International Feng Shui Conference
in San Luis Obispo, California from the 6th to 8th August. Boulder,
Colorado in September. Back to Brisbane for the Nexus Conference).
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RECENT EVENTS
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VEDIC MATHS IN MALAYSIA
From Sue Patel:
I wish to share our experience of introducing VM to the Indian Expatriate
Community here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
My colleagues, mathematics teachers and I had held a preview workshop
in
Vedic Mathematics for the Indian Expatriate Community at the Indian
High
Commission Auditorium on 19th June 2004. We had about 60 adults and
53 (ages
from 6 to 16) children attending the workshop. We introduced the rule
All
from Nine and the Last from Ten. Multiplication near base 10, 100,
1000 was
demonstrated and we invited the audience to participate interactively
to
solve a few problems posted on the board. The young children were
most
excited and enthusiastic towards solving the problems. We also introduced
topics on recurring decimals, squaring numbers and multiplication
of
11,111,333. Overall, the audiences were very fascinated at arriving
to a
solution in one line! Parents were excited and shared their enthusiasm
in
learning some of these rules. They showed interest in wanting their
children
to learn Vedic Mathematics. Some parents had shared their concern
on the
increasing use of calculator in the secondary schools.
Currently we have about 10 students ages from 10 to 14 who are coming
regularly, once a week to be coached in Vedic mathematics.
Contact Person: Sue Patel
Tel: 603-40438300
e-mail: commexco@tm.net.my
VEDIC MATHS IN INDIA
From Raji Sharma:
This year I conducted Vedic Maths workshops almost every week since
April and many of them were on behalf of the Lohana classes and on
behalf of The Indian Planetary Society. Each workshop was for 9 hours
spread over 3 days. The participants were from all age groups and
many were engineering students who were planning to appear for the
CAT/CET exams this year. One student was interested in inviting me
to his college. I, of course answered in the affirmative. These children
definitely were very much interested in learning more of the advanced
level. The basic level has aroused their interest so much that many
wanted to learn more. I conducted about 10 workshops since April 2004
in the basic level and one in advanced level. They were very thrilled
with the methods especially the one liners and the at sight methods.
They definitely agreed that the methods increased their speed levels
as well as understanding the numbers better. They said specifically
that even with a little practice they could see improvement in their
performance in the competitive exams. This is definitely a positive
sign that VM is welcome among the student community.
WORKSHOP AT RAJARHAT NEAR KOLKATA
The World Academy for Vedic Mathematics, an integral part of the
main foundation in Nagpur, the International Research & Resource
Foundation for Indian Heritage is the core body working for the cause
of Vedic Mathematics across the world. The Academy, in association
with "Divya Chaya Trust", an organization primarily working
for the upliftment of rural women and orphan people organized an introductory
workshop on Vedic Mathematics on 12th July at a village at Rajarhat,
a place near Kolkata.
The workshop, which was first of its kind received overwhelming response
from the 100 percent rural participants (village folks) and lasted
for more than two hours. Twenty-two participants whose academic background
ranged from Class X passed and above attended the same. The workshop
started from 11:00 a.m. in the morning and continued till 01:15 p.m.
The workshop was conducted by Debmalya Banerjee, the faculty of the
academy on the subject from Kolkata.
The expert not only explained the Vedic Methods of Calculation but
also gave a brief introduction of the subject too. The organisers
were eager to know the books, which are available on this subject
and also the kind of courses.
A comprehensive idea about Vedic Maths supported by examples in Nikhilam,
Ekadhikena Purvena, Urdhava Tiryagbvyam, digital roots etc. were shown
and also various types of multiplication rules were explained.
The academy plans to hold more such workshops in future in order
to reach the ultimate common mass.
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OTHER NEWS
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ARTICLE
An article, by Marco Swaen, has appeared in the Dutch journal 'Pythagoras',
June 2004 edition. It is called "Rekenen met sutra's - Ontbinden
in factoren" and is on factorising quadratic and cubic polynomials.
This is the sixth and last of a series of well-written articles by
Marco; the diagrams alone make the Vedic method very clear.
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WORLD ACADEMY FOR VEDIC MATHEMATICS - contact details
Registered Address: Vishwa Punarnirman Sangh, Raval Bhawan, Near
Telankhedi Garden, Nagpur-440 001, India.
Contacts in other Cities in India :
Delhi R.P. Jain, MLBD bookstore
91(011) 2385-2747 / 2385-4826 / 2385-8335 / 2385-1985.
mail@mlbd.com & mlbd@vsnl.com
Varanasi 91 (0542) 2352331 mlbd@rediffmail.com
Kolkata MLBD bookstore 91 (033) 22824872 shantiniketancenter@yahoo.com
Mumbai MLBD bookstore 91 (022) 24923526 / 24982583 mlbdmumbai@vsnl.net
Nagpur Alka Sahani 91 (0712) 2531363 / 2550906 / 2545637
IRRFIH@vmacademy.com / worldVMacademy@vmacademy.com
Pune MLBD bookstore 91 (020) 24486190 mlbdpune@eth.net
Dr. Bhavsar 91 (020) 25899509 / 21115901
Bangalore School of Ancient Wisdom - Devanahalli, 91 (080) 768-2181
/ 7682182 / 558-6837
ancientwisdom@vsnl.net / rammenon1995@yahoo.co.in
MLBD bookstore 91 (080) 6533729 / 6542591 mlbdbgl@vsnl.com
Chennai 91 (044) 24982315 mlbdbook@md3.vsnl.net.in
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Your comments about this Newsletter are invited.
If you would like to send us details about your work or submit an
article or details about a course/talk etc. for inclusion, please
let us know on news@vedicmaths.com
Previous issues of this Newsletter can be copied from the Web Site:
www.vedicmaths.org
Some articles from previous newsletters are:
Issue 1: An Introduction
Issue 2: "So What's so Special about Vedic Mathematics?"
Issue 3: Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji: More than a Mathematical Genius
Issue 4: The Vedic Numerical Code
Issue 6: The Sutras of Vedic Mathematics
Issue 7: The Vedic Square
Issue 8: The Nine Point Circle
Issue 11: Is Knowledge Essentially Simple?
Issue 14: 1,2,3,4: Pythagoras and the Cosmology of Number
Issue 16: Vedic Matrix
Issue 17: Vedic Sources of Vedic Mathematics
Issue 18: 9 by 9 Division Table
Issue 19: "Maths Mantra"
Issue 20: Numeracy
Issue 21: Only a Matter of 16 Sutras
Issue 22: Multiplication on the Fingertips
Issue 23: India's System of Mental Mathematics
Issue 24: The Sign of Nine
Issue 25: Maharishi's Vedic Mathematics
Issue 26: Foreword
Issue 27: Mathematics with Smiles: the Vedic Way
Issue 28: The Absolute Number
Issue 29: Report on India Tour
Issue 30: Vedic mathematics - excerpts from research paper
Issue 31: Why Vedic Mathematics?
Issue 32: Kolkata Workshop - an Overview
Issue 33: Report on Vedic Mathematics Workshop
Issue 34: LETTER TO NCERT DIRECTOR
Issue 35: LETTER FROM NCERT
Issue 36: WAVM Brochure
Issue 37: VM PROJECT
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18th July 2004
