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Leaders of Religions of India

 

H.H. Shri Shrikant Jichkar

Dr. Shrikant Jichkar holds 20 post-graduate University degrees. In 1980, as the youngest member ever, he was elected Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and subsequently became a powerful Minister with fourteen portfolios. Jichkar has served as a Member of the Indian Parliament (MP) and is President of the Marathi Encyclopedia Production Board. He is one of the great ritualists in India and an Agnihotri, one who continuously maintains the three sacred Vedic fires.

 

Sister Maureen Goodman

Sister Maureen is the Programme Coordinator at the Brahma Kumaris (BK) International Coordinating Office in London and the BK NGO representative at the UN in Vienna. She has served on several committees for interreligious dialogue including the International Interfaith Centre Advisory Committee, World Congress of Faiths Executive and the Prince's Trust Forum of Faiths. She is on the UK Committee of Rights and Humanity and travels widely conducting seminars and lectures on personal development. Sister Maureen attended the Second Meeting of the Board of World Religious Leaders (2005).

Sri Vast

SriVast2.jpgSri Vast teaches spiritual connection between Human and the Nature at the Sri Vast Centers for Ecology and Spiritual Studies in Sweden and India.  Sri Vast Teachings have transformed thousands of people, whose lives have changed towards a simple ecological way of living and a celebrative every day life.

 

 

 

Swami Amarananda

Swami Amarananda is the President of the Centre Védantique in Geneva. Shortly after receiving a Civil Engineering degree, he joined the Order of Ramakrishna in 1966. He sat on the Committee of World Faiths Development Dialogue (1998-2000), and the Interreligious Platform, Geneva since its inception. Swami Amarananda participated in European peace meetings under the auspices of Sant’Egidio and the Third and Fourth Parliaments of World’s Religions. His printed works include Stories from Vedanta, Views from the Vedantic Window (in press), drama texts for use by children, and Biographie de Ramakrishna (co-author). He participated in the Fourth Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders Meeting in Haifa and Galilee (2009).