First Class Dialogue with Scientific and Scholarly community – Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami’s Matchless contribution to the BI mission
By Subal Shyam Das and Jaganmohini Devi Dasi
This year(2017), on Nov. 24th, Friday, disciples, servants and well-wishers of H.H. Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami will be celebrating his 80th vyasa-puja. On this most auspicious occasion, for the pleasure of all vaishanava community, we recall one of his vital contributions to the BI-scientific mission which was visible since the inception of Bhaktivedanta Institute by the blessings of Srila Prabhupada. Today we would like to emphasize on this aspect, namely, Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaj's unique approach of first class dialogue in dealing with scholarly community. He adopted this even while he was preparing and arranging the first international congress on 'Life comes from Life' before Srila Prabhupada's departure in 1977 at Vrindvan and Srila Prabhupada was indeed very pleased with it.