Course details: 90 free program

Description: This program is open to everyone begins with the singing together of uplifting, spiritual songs leading into a short silent meditation. The meditation will be followed by the presentation.

This month’s Program: Prabháta Samgiita Program

Join us for Iowa City author Andy Douglas (Alok) as he reads from:

 Songs of the New Dawn: Selected song-poems of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. 

"Andy Douglas's stirring 'transpirations' echo a world of transcendental beauty. These poems bring to an English-speaking audience some of the 5018 Bengali songs composed by Shrii Prabhát Ranjan Sarkar between 1982 and 1990, songs that came to be known as Prabháta Samgiita, Songs of a New Dawn. An extraordinary spiritual master, Shrii Sarkar once defined mysticism as 'the never-ending endeavor to find a link between the finite and the infinite.' Each song glows with this spirit of ceaseless search, and Douglas's renditions beautifully capture the delicacy of feeling and simplicity of the original Bengali."

- Dr. Ayesha Irani, Assoc Prof of Asian Studies, UMass Boston



Andy Douglas is a writer and musician, and has been a student of P R Sarkar's teachings for 40 years. He holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from University of Iowa. He is the author of The Curve of the World: Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga, and Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir. 



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