Bioethics is one of the fast est grow ing dis - ci plines in ap plied eth ics and clon ing

of hu - man tiss ues exe mp lif ies the ethi c al dil emma that conf ronts bioethicists.
This months edi - to rial, Bioethics and Cloni ng, ex am ines the sci ent ifc facts
about clon ing and the Vedan tic ap proach to the ethi cal ques tions it raises.
rabuddhaBharata! "## $ears %go en - &is ages nat ure as the model for ef f cient
ac- tion in '(ard ) or* and True la+ b+ ,m il+ almer Cape, then -ecr et ar+,
Vedanta -o ci - et+ of .ew $or*.
-wami %tulananda/is 0e 1ec tions on the Bhaga&adgita ta*es us through &erses 22
to 33 of Chap ter ,le&en of the 4ita. %s -ri 5ri- shna re& eals to %r/una the real mean
ing and im pli ca tion of (is uni &er sal form, the lat ter is gripped b+ awe and
brea*s forth into spon ta ne ous ad o ra tion, the fa mous '-ri 5rishna -tuti. This is
the theme of the pres - ent in stal ment.
The tran scend ent truth of %d&aita Ved- anta, as ex pounded b+ -ri -han*ar
achar+a, lies be +ond the realm of ac tion. -wami Vi&e*ananda too* the same
%d&aitic truth as the bas is of his phi los o ph+ of ser &ice and programme for 6n dian
re /u &e na tion. 6n Ve- danta in ract ice-rimat -wami 4am bhira- nanda/i 7ahara/
pro &ides deep ins ights into the reso lu tion of this par a dox. 6n this is sue, the frst
part of this il lu mi nati ng dis course ex am ines the be ha& iour of the siddhas and
/i&anmu*tas and the 8panishadic upasanas based on the per &a si&e ness of Brah
man as *e+s to the prac tice of %d&aita.
6n the seco nd part of Bioethics for -ci - ence and Techn olo g+9 % (indu ers pec-
ti&e, his pre sen ta tion be fore the 6n ter na tional Bio ethics Com mit tee at the
8.,-C: head -
quar ters in aris, -wami ;itatmananda/i dis- cusses the 6n dian &iew of hu man e&o
lu tion based on con scious choice, the need to loo* deeper than genes to und er
stand true hu - man po tent ial, and the spe cif ics of the (indu &iew on med i cal
eth ics.
The +ear-long cel eb rat ions, in 6n dia and abroad, to mar* (ol+ 7 other -ri -arada
<e&is "=#th Birth %n ni &er sar+, conc luded last ;an ua r+ with a three-da+
programme at Belur 7ath. -wami -at+ama+ananda/i of %d &aita %shrama, 5ol*ata,
prese nts a col- our ful re port.
-ri 0ama*rishna! The ) orld Teacher is -mt -udeshs of feri ng on the occ as ion of
-ri 0ama*rishnas ">?th birth ann i &ers ar+. Tai loring ones mess age to the needs
of the in di &id ual, personif+ing of the ideal of househ old ers as well as mon*s, and
helpi ng the err atic and the un rul+ to progr ess on the path of spir i tua l it+, are
some of the dist inc- ti&e fea tures of -ri 0ama*rishna the teacher. These the au
thor, a de&o tee from %mbala, has brought into foc us.
a&ing the ath for <h+a na is an in - sightf ul anal+ s is b+ -wami -at+ama+an an-
da /i of some of the ba sic ph+s i o log i cal and ps+ cho log i cal is sues per tain ing
to pos ture and the pre lim i nar+ pro cesses in &ol&ed in med i ta tion.
The eighth in stalm ent of arabrahma 8pani@ad, transl ated b+ -wami %tma pri+a-
nanda/i, rinc i pal, 0ama*rishna 7is sion Vid +amandira, Belur, cont inu es the
analo g+ of the +a/Aopa&Bta as a s+mb ol of Brah man.
This months 4limpses of (ol+ Ci&es con tin ues with the in spir ing ren di tion of 7a-
thuradas/is re mar* able per son al it+.