The International Conference on ‘Science and Spirituality for World Peace’ was held on November 23-24, 2007 at Imphal, Manipur (India).

The conference was organised by the University of Bhagavat Culture at Jubilee Hall, in collaboration with the Department of Clinical Psychology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal.

The moment I received invitation with programme, I started thinking that it would be a conference wherein interwoven conceptual discourses on science and religion would be coming up for discussion and understanding.

From the programme I knew that the International Conference was mainly organised with a view to giving a tribute to late Dr TD Singh who is also known as His Holiness Bhaktisvarup Damodar Swami by his students and disciples.

Dr T D Singh was the student and disciple of the World Famous spiritual teacher and saint His Divine Grace Shrila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, the founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) as well as Bhaktivedanta Institute.

Damodar Swami was the International Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institutes and Founder-Rector of the University of Bhagavata Culture (UBC). The UBC is a centre for learning in the deeper meaning of life and universal knowledge.

Dr TD Singh established the richly coloured Shri Shri Radha Krishnachandra Manimandir as the centre-piece of the University of Bhagavata Culture. Dr Singh was also the Founder-President of Manipur Peace Committee. He authored and edited several books - Seven Nobel laureates on science and spirituality and Towards or Culture of Harmony and Peace.

Dr TD Singh himself was a scientist. Once he spelt out the theory of life. He remarked that scientists might be able to find out the reality of ingredients of life and put them to-gether as a lump to form a life. It is not so.

Such is the stage of thinking reality where further search for the origin of life is considered to be the handiwork of God. Under such circumstances the scientists and spiritualists come to a common platform where thought and deductions help each other.

"Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind".
— Albert Einstein.

• Considering contents of the topic of International conference on Science and spirituality for world peace, Dr Wardhana tried to explain the impact of science on human body and his character and habit even including diet habit. Members and supporters of ISKCON insist people on having vegetarian diet. A vegetarian is a person who, for humane or religious reasons or for his health’s sake eats no meat.
• Dr Wardhana aroused the attention of listening mind with his speech, ‘If a person is deeply involved in his or her religion with special interest, his or her immune system becomes stronger. He or she may not be attacked by infection or other disease frequently’.
• It was also pointed out, as per valid statistics and datas, ‘If women eat meat, the number of sufferers of breast cancer was found to be four times more than those who do not eat meat’.
• Dr Wardhana mentioned this point also, ‘If a person is in the habit of eating fish frequently or constantly, the membranes in the body might become thinner. The result is that immune system is becoming weaker’.
• In his concluding part of his speech, Dr Wardhana pointed out with his recommendations that human living required space and greeneries, such as space of the plot (campus), buildings and rooms should not be congested. If the members of the family live in congestion without proper system of space, the women inmate who was a pregnant mother could face a trouble of abortion.