Bhaktivedanta Institute is happy to launch a unique lecture series – My Journey of Discovery. It is an interesting lecture series to bring out the ‘complete’ journey of researchers – their ‘whole story’, covering their profound contributions to humanity, their inner experiences and reflections as well as the hidden flashes of insights or inspirations received during their discovery.

The Journey of discovery is full of excitement and mystery. It brings to life the dramatic and enthralling character that research involves. The researcher gets propelled by the newer knowledge and getting a step closer to truth.

On one hand, it involves hard work, persistence, commitment and patience to walk in this adventurous journey. However, there is much more to this. Researchers undergo marvelous inner experiences as well as flashes of insights unknown to the public in general.

The inner experiences involve feelings of astonishment, joy, contentment, certainty, clarity, humility, strong conviction and sometimes even heart-touching gratitude to the divine for the gift of newer knowledge.

The flashes of insights emerge sometimes suddenly like a stroke of lightning and sometimes as a gradual unfolding of phenomenon at hand. Some even get an intuition of the entire end result even while one is still on the journey. Intuitions, impulses, sudden flashes of inspirations, even sometimes in dreams and visions, form part of this exciting journey of discovery. It is not always a purely deductive journey.