Based on 'INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH', senior students, research scholars and Post-Doc Fellows are invited to join the Center of Excellence for Indian knowledge Systems (CoE-IKS), which will integrate two worlds, the traditional Indian past and the modern scientific world, with right overlaps between the two. The historic meeting points of patron-sage Swami Vivekananda with Scientists Nikola Tesla, Herman Helmholtz, and Lord Kelvin in Chicago 1893; and further meetings between World poet and Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur and Scientist Werner Heisenberg (1929 in Kolkata) and Sir Albert Einstein (1930 in Berlin) are the important precursors. Furthermore, a making of the American Institute of Integral Studies, the Esalen Institute in California, and the triple contributions coming from Sir Arnold Toynbee, Professor Alan Watts and renowned Trans-personal psychologist Abraham Maslow, soon after Dr. Haridas Chowdhury introduced the works of Sri Aurobindo to the West, are the latest landmarks. Eventually in 2004,
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research has accepted the non-linear causal pattern behind India's ageold concept of space-time-causation and change (Karya-karan-vada of the Vedas and Pratyud-samutpada of Buddhism) in the form of a dancing Cosmic Purusha, i.e., Shiva or Nataraj, which stands for a deeper non-local reality behind our surface existence. From that point-onward, IKS has secured worlwide acceptance, and IIT Kharagpur now makes a historical landmark to pave an integral (normative-positive) evolutionary course of IKS for our better future, and make a great dream come true.
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