Source: Press release
PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, August 11, 2010: The 2010 World Association of Vedic Studies — WAVES — conference held in Trinidad last week attracted over 100 scholars from all over the world. Participants shared their insights on the inner meanings in the Vedic literature and discussed the future of Vedic knowledge systems such as yoga and Ayurveda. Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad & Tobago, who addressed the conference, observed that there could be no clash of civilizations in a global society when governed by Hindu wisdom.
Inaugurating the conference, the Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago His Excellency Malay Mishra observed that “the Vedic message of ‘service to people is service to the supreme’ transcends time and place and that listening to the Vedic scholars had created a new enthusiasm to examine the current global issues in a harmonious light.”
Leading scientists, artists, and philosophers deliberated on many deep issues at the beautiful St. Augustine Campus of University of West Indies in Trinidad. “The universal insights of the Vedas have much to guide and inform us in this challenging global climate, especially in building ethical, functioning democracies,” said Prof. Bal Ram Singh, conference chair .
Among the attendees were Swami Jyotirmayananda, Yogini Sambhavi, Professor Ved Nanda, Dr. Ramkissoon, Dr. David Frawley, Professor Subhash Kak, Professor Adesh, Prof. Subhash Kak, Dr. Kalidas Shetty, Jeffery Armstrong, Kavita Pallod, Dr. Dyer Narinesingh, T.S. Rukmani, Douglas Allen, Sethuraman Rammohan, Oleg Perzashkevich, Sampadananda Misra, Aseem Shukla, S. Kalyanaraman and K. Ramasubramanian.