Karma Index – Measuring Real Growth
May 2nd, 2010 | posted by vkam
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Karma Index – Measuring Real Growth
Date: June 2nd, 2010 (6:30pm-8:30pm)
Location: Multifaith centre (569 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON Canada)
CMA Ontario invites you to “Karma Index – Measuring Real Growth” where Devamrita Swami, a world renowned monk, Yale Graduate, researcher and author based out of New Zealand will be speaking on this leading-edge topic. Devamrita Swami is the guiding force behind an 'Institute for a Sustainable Society' in New Zealand and he is an advisor on Spiritual Economics to the Russian Chamber of Commerce. Modern civilizations around the globe use sophisticated indices to make a quantitative assessment of the health of a nation/region’s economy and market. Their hope is to try and predict the future of a sector, industry, organization or nation based on some key indicators. Conventional corporate growth indicators like retention, net profits, and stock market index are now set to meet their match.
Recent series of events have started to shape money markets and corporations in ways never seen before. Corporations are beginning to stop and consider the long term impacts of their short term decisions. This thoughtful reflection has spurred an interest in socially responsible investing – a practice that has exploded in recent years and now encompasses about 10 percent of the $24 trillion investment marketplace.
Karma – a key indicator driving the long and short term health of an organization or nation – is almost never accounted for. Join us for an evening of intriguing discussion as Devamrita Swami, a monk, author and founder of the Institute of Sustainability, introduces the concept of ‘Karma Index’ to evaluate business decisions and measure real growth in the cosmic market place.
**About the speaker**
Devamrita Swami is a monk, international speaker, and Yale graduate with profound spiritual practices that go back four decades. He is the founder of the Institute of Sustainability, an advisor on Spiritual Economics to the Russian Chamber of Commerce and the author of several international books. This is his fourth annual tour of Toronto. In the past three years, he has addressed over 3,000 people on topics as diverse as yoga, environmentalism, vegetarianism and spiritual economics.
He was born 1950 in New York City. At the age of thirteen, he received a scholarship to prep school in the mountains of New Hampshire. There he studied until the age of seventeen when he received a scholarship to Yale University. In 1972, Devamrita Swami graduated from Yale University. At that time, he came into contact with the ancient teachings of the East. He discovered that the knowledge presented in these books was the beginning of his real education. His attraction to this transcendental information was immediate and the effect was profound. Ever since then, Devamrita Swami has contstantly travelled around the world to fulfill invitations by prestigious universities like Columbia, Yale, New York State, Melbourne University, The Rotman School of Management and several others in Toronto and around the world.
Currently based out of New Zealand, he is the author of several books like “Searching for Vedic India”, “Perfect Escape”, “Beyond the Barriers of Limited Science” and “Spiritual Greed”. His strategic guidance has proved invaluable to students and professionals seeking to balance their spiritual and professional life. He has presented at universities such as: Columbia University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Cardiff University, University of Toronto, York, Indian institute of Technology and many other universities around the world. Main stops on his global circuit are Australia, New Zealand, the USA, South Africa, Russia, India, Argentina, Chile, the UK, Scandinavia, and Central Europe.
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