NCVEE aims to integrate science, technology and human values in education so that the proper blend of knowledge and wisdom can be offered to students.
IIT Delhi is one of seven Institutes of Technology in India. Business Week calls IIT alumni the "hottest export from India."
IITs have produced the likes of Victor Menezes, vice-chairman of Citibank; Rajat Gupta, managing director of McKinsey; Vinod Khosla, General Partner at the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; US Airways chief Rakesh Gangwal; Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys; and many others.
Welcoming Maharaji, the Deputy Director of IIT said: “ I would like to thank Maharaji profusely for kindly accepting our invitation. We are glad that NCRCEE has chosen to arrange this event as a part of its distinguished lecture series. PR speaks on a theme which is individually as well as globally very vital and his approach is also very unique and fundamental. I observed that he brings a message that it is every individual’s birthright to experience peace in this lifetime. He asserts that peace needs to be in everyone’s life. The peace we are looking is within, he says, it is in the heart, waiting to be felt and he can help people getting touch with it. He asserts that in addition to fulfilling our obligations to society we have an obligation to fulfill our ultimate obligation, which is to ourself, and to finding fulfillment in this lifetime. This message is truly remarkable in that it does not put the responsibility for peace on institutions or on other but on each individual. Maharaji has providing inspiration and guidance on this topic for decades and has received much acclaim throughout the world.”
The event at IIT Delhi marks the beginning of a tour of India. On November 7, Maharaji addressed an audience of more than 100,000 in Mehrauli, near New Delhi.
Read an excerpt from the IIT address
