RAVI RAVINDRA

Ravi Ravindra has been the guide of the Gurdjieff Foundation of India since its inception in 2003.

He was born in Patiala, India in 1938 and obtained his early education in India. After earning a B.Sc. and a Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, he received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, with the support of a Commonwealth scholarship.

Later he did an M.A. in Philosophy. He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics at the University of Toronto, in The History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton University, and in Religion at Columbia University.

Later he did an M.A. in Philosophy. He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics at the University of Toronto, in The History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton University, and in Religion at Columbia University.

Ravi Ravindra is now Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from where he retired as Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion, Professor of International Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, in the United States in 1977 in the School of Natural Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla in India in 1978 and 1998.  He was the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge, and chair of its international and in­terdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980.  Ravindra was the pilot professor of Science and Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1989.  He was appointed to the nine-member international Board of Judges for the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for 1999-2001.  He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, England.

In addition to a profound study of the great traditions, Ravi Ravindra has had a longstanding and serious engagement with spiritual search. He has been nourished by his close association with Krishnamurti, with the traditions of Yoga and Zen, and with the ongoing responsibility in the Gurdjieff Work.

Ravi met Mrs. Louise Welch, his spiritual mother, who had been a student of Gurdjieff, in New York in 1968 and he worked closely with her and with Dr. Welch from that time.  He established a group interested in the practice of the Gurdjieff teaching in Halifax. In 1980, he also began to work closely with Madame de Salzmann, the closest associate of Gurdjieff who became the spiritual head of the Gurdjieff Work after his death in 1949.  Ravi continued working with her until her death in 1990.  Since then he has worked with many different individuals and groups in Europe, in North America and he has guided the formation of several groups in India i.e. in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai.

The book, Heart Without Measure, is a collection of excerpts from Ravi’s journals in the 1980s based on his meetings with Madame de Salzmann. It gives a glimpse of the extraordinary teaching of Gurdjieff as lived and taught by Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, and some idea of Ravi’s own struggles.

RAVI RAVINDRA

Ravi Ravindra has been the guide of the Gurdjieff Foundation of India since its inception in 2003.

He was born in Patiala, India in 1938 and obtained his early education in India. After earning a B.Sc. and a Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, he received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the

University of Toronto, with the support of a Commonwealth scholarship. Later he did an M.A. in Philosophy. He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics at the University of Toronto, in The History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton University, and in Religion at Columbia University.

Ravi Ravindra is now Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from where he retired as Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion, Professor of International Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, in the United States in 1977 in the School of Natural Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla in India in 1978 and 1998.  He was the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge, and chair of its international and in­terdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980.  Ravindra was the pilot professor of Science and Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1989.  He was appointed to the nine-member international Board of Judges for the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for 1999-2001.  He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, England.

In addition to a profound study of the great traditions, Ravi Ravindra has had a longstanding and serious engagement with spiritual search. He has been nourished by his close association with Krishnamurti, with the traditions of Yoga and Zen, and with the ongoing responsibility in the Gurdjieff Work.

Ravi met Mrs. Louise Welch, his spiritual mother, who had been a student of Gurdjieff, in New York in 1968 and he worked closely with her and with Dr. Welch from that time.  He established a group interested in the practice of the Gurdjieff teaching in Halifax. In 1980, he also began to work closely with Madame de Salzmann, the closest associate of Gurdjieff who became the spiritual head of the Gurdjieff Work after his death in 1949.  Ravi continued working with her until her death in 1990.  Since then he has worked with many different individuals and groups in Europe, in North America and he has guided the formation of several groups in India i.e. in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai.

The book, Heart Without Measure, is a collection of excerpts from Ravi’s journals in the 1980s based on his meetings with Madame de Salzmann. It gives a glimpse of the extraordinary teaching of Gurdjieff as lived and taught by Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, and some idea of Ravi’s own struggles.

RAVI RAVINDRA

Ravi Ravindra has been the guide of the Gurdjieff Foundation of India since its inception in 2003.

He was born in Patiala, India in 1938 and obtained his early education in India. After earning a B.Sc. and a Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, he received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, with the support of a Commonwealth scholarship.

Later he did an M.A. in Philosophy. He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics at the University of Toronto, in The History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton University, and in Religion at Columbia University.

Ravi Ravindra is now Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from where he retired as Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion, Professor of International Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, in the United States in 1977 in the School of Natural Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla in India in 1978 and 1998.  He was the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge, and chair of its international and in­terdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980.  Ravindra was the pilot professor of Science and Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1989.  He was appointed to the nine-member international Board of Judges for the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for 1999-2001.  He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, England.

In addition to a profound study of the great traditions, Ravi Ravindra has had a longstanding and serious engagement with spiritual search. He has been nourished by his close association with Krishnamurti, with the traditions of Yoga and Zen, and with the ongoing responsibility in the Gurdjieff Work.

Ravi met Mrs. Louise Welch, his spiritual mother, who had been a student of Gurdjieff, in New York in 1968 and he worked closely with her and with Dr. Welch from that time.  He established a group interested in the practice of the Gurdjieff teaching in Halifax. In 1980, he also began to work closely with Madame de Salzmann, the closest associate of Gurdjieff who became the spiritual head of the Gurdjieff Work after his death in 1949.  Ravi continued working with her until her death in 1990.  Since then he has worked with many different individuals and groups in Europe, in North America and he has guided the formation of several groups in India i.e. in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai.

The book, Heart Without Measure, is a collection of excerpts from Ravi’s journals in the 1980s based on his meetings with Madame de Salzmann. It gives a glimpse of the extraordinary teaching of Gurdjieff as lived and taught by Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, and some idea of Ravi’s own struggles.

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