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Faculty: Dr. Sailesh Rao

Sustainability is Sanatana Dharma

Course Content:

This course explores the case that we are in a double Galilean moment in human history: whereas Galileo had to overcome one false axiom that the “sun goes around the earth” in order to trigger the Scientific Revolution in the 17 th century, we have to overcome two false axioms, the false axiom of consumerism, or the “Greed is Good” rule, and the false axiom of supremacism, or the “Might is Right” rule, in order to trigger the Sustainability Revolution in the 21 st century. In this course, we will create quantitative models for implementing the correct
axioms of inner peace and unity and thereby chart a path for personal and social transformation towards a sustainable, thriving future for humanity.

The topics that will be covered are as follows:
Session 1: Overview of the course
Session 2: Why Separation is a Delusion
Session 3: The Urgency of Reversing Environmental and Social Degradation
Session 4: The Two False Axioms of Modern Industrial Civilization
Session 5: The Killing and Burning Machines
Session 6: The Climate Bathtub Formulation
Session 7: The Berkana Two Loops Model for Transformation
Session 8: The Two Correct Axioms of a Sustainable Civilization
Session 9: The Greatest Transformation in Human History
Session 10: The Seven Strategic Actions
Session 11: Student and Teacher Reflections on the Course

Course Learning Objectives:
In this course students will be able to:
1. Understand the profound impact of Hindu teachings on our worldly outlook and how it changes our story telling
2. Appreciate the impact that the games we play have on the world around us.
3. Devise new games that can transform ourselves and transform our world.
4.Understand that the quest for global sustainability is a collective one in which we all have a duty to help our fellow humans and fellow beings.
5.Discover the enormous breadth, variety, and depth of Hindu Dharmic teachings.

Class Structure:
The class will meet once a week for up to 90 minutes. The teacher’s presentation, with the help of audio and video recordings, will last approximately 45 minutes. The remaining time will be devoted to questions and open discussion. There will be 10 such sessions followed by an additional session devoted to the presentation and discussion of student and teacher
reflections regarding what they learned from the course and how they expect it will influence their lives

Prerequisites: None

Area of Study: Conflict and Peace Studies

Faculty / Instructor:  Dr. Sailesh Rao

Required / Elective: Elective

Start Date: October 12, 2022

End Date: December 21, 2022

Time: 9.00 pm EST – 10.30 pm EST

Day: Wednesday

Quarter Offered: Fall 2022

The Dharma Of Global Sustainability

The Dharma Of Global Sustainability Course Content:

The course is intended for the youth of this world who are facing some of the gravest environmental challenges ever faced by any generation of human beings. It is also intended for all those who love the youth of this world, for the youth cannot solve these challenges on their own while their parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts continue to pile on more grave challenges for them to solve.

The course will rely heavily upon an updated version of the 2011 book, “Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies”.  The nine chapters of the book will be the basis for the course material for Sessions 2-10 of the course, while the introductory session will provide an overview of what the course will cover. The topics that will be covered are as follows:

Session 1: Overview of the course
Session 2: Focusing on transformation through the metaphor of metamorphosis
Session 3: The law of Karma and why actions and inaction matter
Session 4: An exploration of Hindu Dharma and how it informs our actions today
Session 5: Applying Dharmic concepts to our sustainability challenges
Session 6: Framing the Kurukshetra of our times and how the Bhagavad Gita informs our right action
Session 7: The Caterpillar culture – an examination of the “Kaurava” side that we must shed
Session 8: The Butterfly culture – an examination of the “Pandava” side that we must nurture
Session 9: How do we all become Climate Healers – the many stepped journeys towards global sustainability
Session 10: Awakening through awareness into the realm of global sustainability

Course Learning Objectives:

In this course students will be able to:

  1. Understand the profound impact of Hindu Dharma on any plausible solutions to our environmental challenges
  2. Appreciate the impact that our daily actions have on our environmental and social predicaments.
  3. Identify the power that we have to transform our world.
  4. Understand that we have all the tools and technologies we need to transform our world.
  5. Discover the enormous breadth, variety, and depth of our Dharmic teachings.

Class Structure:

The class will meet once a week for up to 90 minutes. The teacher’s presentation, with the help of audio and video recordings, will last approximately 45 minutes. The remaining time will be devoted to questions and open discussion. There will be 10 such sessions followed by an additional session devoted to the presentation and discussion of student and teacher reflections regarding what they learned from the course and how they expect it will influence their lives

Prerequisites: None

Area of Study: Conflict and Peace Studies

Faculty / Instructor:  Dr. Sailesh Rao

Required / Elective: Elective

Start Date: October 6, 2021

End Date: December 22, 2021

Time: 9.00 pm EST – 10.30 pm EST

Day: Wednesday

Quarter Offered: Fall 2021

The Yoga of Global Transformation

The Yoga of Global Transformation Course Description:

This course explores the impact of applying the fundamental Hindu axiom, “Everything happens for the best” on the modern questions of environmental degradation and social injustice. It will advance and explore the hypothesis that humanity has been engaged in an unconscious quest to stabilize the earth’s temperature and prevent the earth from going back into another ice age ever again. We did this by playing a game that rewarded selfishness, greed, and apathy similar to the loaded dice game organized by Shakuni in the Mahabharata.

As a consequence, the Earth is marinating in ever accumulating toxic pollution even as ecosystems are degraded and the climate is changing. Now, we are each called to fight our personal battle of Kurukshetra and transform ourselves to treat all Life as sacred in order to preserve that on which we depend for our own survival. The course will rely heavily upon an updated version of the 2016 book, “Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis”.  The nine chapters of the book will be the basis for the course material for Sessions 2-10 of the course, while the introductory session will provide an overview of what the course will cover. The topics that will be covered are as follows:

Session 1: Overview of the course
Session 2: The “fundamental axiom” of Hinduism
Session 3: Why a Western beginning in the industrial era needs an Indian ending
Session 4: Why everything is perfect, and everything must change
Session 5: The first question: “Who Are We?” as a species
Session 6: The second question: “What Is Our Relationship with The World?”
Session 7: The third question: “Why Are We Here?”
Session 8: The new game of Aquarius to promote selflessness, generosity, and activism
Session 9: How to transform yourself and transform your world
Session 10: The lifelong journey towards moral singularity

Course Learning Objectives:
In this course students will be able to:

1.     Understand the profound impact of Hindu teachings on our worldly outlook and how it changes our story telling

2.     Appreciate the impact that the games we play have on the world around us.

3.     Devise new games that can transform ourselves and transform our world.

4.     Understand that the quest for global sustainability is a collective one in which we all have a duty to help our fellow humans and fellow beings.

5.     Discover the enormous breadth, variety, and depth of Hindu Dharmic teachings.

Class Structure:

The class will meet once a week for up to 90 minutes. The teacher’s presentation, with the help of audio and video recordings, will last approximately 45 minutes. The remaining time will be devoted to questions and open discussion. There will be 10 such sessions followed by an additional session devoted to the presentation and discussion of student and teacher reflections regarding what they learned from the course and how they expect it will influence their lives.

Prerequisites: None

Area of Study: Conflict and Peace Studies

Faculty / Instructor:  Dr. Sailesh Rao

Required / Elective: Elective

Start Date: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

End Date: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Time: 9.00 pm – EST – 10.30 pm – EST

Day: Wednesday

Quarter Offered: Spring 2021

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