The Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture
The Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture series was started in 2013 and has become one of BBT Africa’s hallmark events.
This innovative forum engages current and future leaders in analyzing the issues facing our world today and provides insights from the vantage point of Vedic knowledge. The Lecture has drawn the attention of a global audience tackling issues in education, leadership, economics, and social transformation.
The Lecture series is named after His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of The BBT.
It honors his important literary and social contribution. He has authored and translated more the 70 volumes of books based on timeless Vedic wisdom, that were previously locked in the Sanskrit language. Today, his books are the preferred authoritative academic texts in Indology studies by universities across the globe.
Constitutional Court of SA
On 10th December 2014, a day that also marked the 18th Anniversary of the signing of the South African Constitution, Jayadvaita Swami gave a lecture at the Constitutional Court of SA, entitled The Law Meets The Vedas.
The South African Constitution enshrines the principle of equality as one of its core values. Addressing the injustices of inequality has been, arguably, this young democracy’s primary focus in its first 20 years. Jayadvaita Swami, however, explained how inequality cannot be denied when it is explicitly manifest before us. Some of us are strong and others weak. Some are endowed with certain qualities and others not. Inequality is, however, only superficial, for it is related only to the material body. The principle of true equality of all living beings is fully realized on the platform of the soul.
The lecture was organized by Itumeleng Mphake, Law Clerk to Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga.
Pictured above from right to left: Itumeleng Mphake, Jayadvaita Swami (BBT Africa Trustee), Justice Johan Froneman, Govardhana Dasa (BBT Africa Manager), and Mukundanghri Dasa.
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Africa 