This poet and scientist is Professor of Physics at the Rochestor Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and is the author of over twenty books on science and religion.

Robert Jancula was born to parents of eastern European descent in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) on December 7th 1952. He was raised Catholic and educated in Catholic school and college but throughout his youth he showed little interest in religion until a friend introduced him to vegetarianism and Hindu philosophy.

Brahma Das has traveled extensively, to India, the Middle East and Africa, teaching Yoga and giving discourses on the Bhaghavad Gita and other Hindu scriptures.

Currently Brahma Das assists his long time friend and mentor Swami B.V. Tripurari in running a Vaisnava monastery in the redwoods of Northern California.

Brahma Das responds daily to letters and questions on Hinduism sent in by readers and is recognized for his ability to make Hindu philosophy easily understandable to people of all backgrounds and religions. A fascinating speaker, he is available for lectures or discussions in classrooms and religious organizations in the Bay Area.

Brahma Das can be contacted by emailing sangaeditor@swami.org

Swami Jyotirmananda is a sanyasin and the co-author of a monumental study on Swami Vivekananda.

Born in South Kanara, Karnataka in 1945, he was graduated by the Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in Mangalore, which emphasized the universal spiritual teachings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. In 1973, Sri Eknath Ranade, the moving spirit behind the Vivekananda Rock Memorial at Kanyakumari, selected him to be one of the first trainees of the Vivekananda Kendra, a grassroots social service organization.

In 1976 he took sanyas, and lived an itinerant life for two years in South India. More recently, he participated in the World Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1993.

Hinduism Today article on Swami Jyotirmayananda can be accessed at
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/1993/12/1993-12-16.html

He can be reached at: at swamijyoti@hotmail.com. He resides at 'Mataji Kripa', Anandashram, P.O Anandashram, Kanhangad, Kerala - 671531, India.


• Dr. Bala N. Aiyer
  Dr. Bala Aiyer is the author of Principles and Practice of the Hindu Religion, published by Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.

  
  

• Prof. Vasudha Narayanan
  Vasudha Narayanan is a Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and the President of the American Academy of Religion (2001-2002). She was educated at the Universities of Madras and Bombay in India, and at Harvard University. Her fields of interest are the Sri Vaishnava tradition, Hindu traditions in India and America, Hinduism and the environment, and gender issues. She is the author and editor of five books and over seventy articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries.

  
  

  
  

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