Dear Friends,

Congratulations to you all. Uttishthata Groupzine has entered 2^nd year with this issue.

Herewith we present you first issue of second year.

We heartily thank and express our gratitude to all those who supported us for all these months.

We make reverential pranam to Swami Bodhamayananda and Swami Atmajnanananda for their encouraging words and contribution to monthly Uttishthata Groupzine.

We thank P. Gopi Krishna for his able editing of monthly issues of Uttishthata Groupzine and valuable suggestions from time to time. He has given his valuable time from his busy schedule. We wish him and his family all the best.

We thank and wish all the best to all the contributors for Uttishthata Groupzine especially to Dr. Manohar Abhay, IAS and ex-UN official and Radhakrishnan Pillai, Management Trainer.

We take please in having among us my friends Aniruddh Tendulkar and Shailesh who supported and encouraged us during the initial periods.

We extend our thanks to members of Uttishthata community spread all over the globe.

We request you to send your contributions to the Uttishthata Groupzine. This Groupzine is YOURS and it will be run by YOU for YOU.

The preset issue contents:

1. Swami Vivekananda on Himself: What I learnt form Sri Ramakrishna
2. Education for Character
3. Glory of the Gita: Bhagavad Gita for Executives
4. Character Formation: Divine Message of the Veda – Truth
5. Are values necessary today? – Topic discussed by college students
6. What a leader should not do: Management lessons from Chanakya
7. Brahman and Sakti are identical: visual teaching of Sri Ramakrishna
8. Vedanta and Ethics: Swami Abhedananda explains the origin of ethics
9. Teachings of Swami Abhedananda
10. Wisdom from the scriptures: Wealth, Service, good actions, friend.

You may download Uttishthata Groupzine July 2007 here.

Download previous issues of Uttishthata Groupzine.

With love and namaskar,

Yours in the service of Swami Vivekananda.

Rajan, Moderator
on behalf of Uttishthata Mailing Team