Online Essay Event for Overseas Abhyasis - Results

Online Essay Writing Competition was conducted for the first time in the year 2010 for abhyasis residing outside India.

The theme for the essay writing competition was YOUTH.

Our Masters have laid great emphasis on the paramount importance of this period in one’s life, being a time not only of great promise and opportunity but also one ridden with dangers and distractions at every step. As abhyasis we are exposed to profound spiritual truisms, and this essay event seek to draw out, from within us, our thoughts and ideas on this important stage in life which impacts our own future as well as the future of our world.

Essay Event Winners

Category: Age 20 and under (Topic: Character Protects Life)
1st place: Carolyn Grace Romano - Virginia, USA
2nd place: Bhuma Kantamsetty - Singapore

Category: Age 21 to 25 years (Topic: Freedom does not mean license, but the wisdom to choose what is right for oneself)
1st place: Asankhaya Sharma - Singapore
2nd place: Olga Pocherniaeva - Dublin, Ireland

Category: Age 26 to 30 years (Topic: From Ambition to Aspiration, from Acquiring to Becoming)
1st place: Raghavan Gopalakrishnan - Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2nd place: Jayshika Mahida - Johannesburg, South Africa
3rd place: Dheeraj Kapoor - Toronto, Canada