{"id":19140,"date":"2014-12-20T07:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayapurvoice.com\/svagatam\/?p=19140"},"modified":"2016-02-24T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:45:52","slug":"south-africas-constitutional-court-hears-jayadvaita-swami-iskcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayapurvoice.com\/svagatam\/south-africas-constitutional-court-hears-jayadvaita-swami-iskcon\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court hears from Jayadvaita Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th&nbsp;of December 2014 marked the 18th&nbsp;Anniversary of the signing of the South African Constitution. This day was also the commemoration of the disappearance of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. These two seemingly arbitrary events in history converged in the shape of a lecture entitled&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Law Meets The Vedas<\/em>&nbsp;delivered by ISKCON-guru Jayadvaita Swami at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Constitution enshrines the principle of equality as one of its core values. Addressing the injustices of inequality has been, arguably, this young democracy\u2019s primary focus in its first 20 years. Jayadvaita Swami, however, explained how &#8220;inequality cannot be denied when it is explicitly manifest before us. Some of us are strong and others weak. Some are endowed with certain qualities and others not. Inequality is, however, only superficial, for it is related only to the material body. The principle of true equality of<br \/>\nall living beings is fully realized on the platform of the soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iskcon.org\/media\/images\/Jayad2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lecture was organized by Itumeleng Mphake, Law Clerk to Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga.<\/p>\n<p>To download the full lecture click&nbsp;<a title=\"The Intersection of Law and Spirituality\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbtafrica.co.za\/downloads\/lectures\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags:<\/p>\n<p>[ <a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/africa\">africa<\/a> ] [<br \/>\n<a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/constitutional\">constitutional<\/a><br \/>\n] [ <a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/court\">court<\/a> ] [ <a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/jayadvaita\">jayadvaita<\/a> ] [ <a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/south\">south<\/a> ] [ <a class=\"tag-item\" href=\"\/tag\/swami\">swami<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.iskcon.org\/jayadvaita-swami-speaks-at-south-africas-constitutional-court,4734\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jayadvaita Swami Speaks at South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th&nbsp;of December 2014 marked the 18th&nbsp;Anniversary of the signing of the South African Constitution. This day was also the commemoration of the disappearance of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. These two seemingly arbitrary events in history converged in the shape of a lecture entitled&nbsp;The&nbsp;Law Meets The Vedas&nbsp;delivered by ISKCON-guru Jayadvaita Swami at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":19998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,481,45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"category-outreach","9":"category-times-and-trends"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court hears from Jayadvaita Swami - 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