From science to spirituality

Shyamrao B Kannur believes that it’s not impossible to balance one’s spiritual and material life.Kannur, an ardent follower of S S Shri Ganapatrao Maharaj Kannur, said spirituality may not make the life free of problems or difficulties but it does help the person in dealing with such situations and that’s exactly why loves to read the spirituality page in the City Express.“I think your newspaper is doing a great service by publishing such soulful and motivating articles by various spiritual leaders,” said Kannur, who has actually compiled all the articles by Ganaptrao Maharaj being published in the paper so far.“Ganaptrao Maharaj is different because he never advises anybody to become a saint to experience God in any of his writings.He philosophy is simple — just do your best and leave the rest to God.He is not against money, but only tells you to use it properly.A knife can be used by the surgeon to save one’s life and the same knife can be used to kill a person.So what’s really important is how you use money,” he explained.Kannur said such articles only helped him overcome the loss of his son who died in an accident four years ago.“Of course, it was disturbing but spirituality helped me a lot during that time.I realised that we are not the body but the Atman — which never dies.I’m t h a n k f u l t o y o u r paper also for showing the spiritual side of life to all your readers including me,” he summed up.His life so farShyamrao B Kannur has done MSc in organic chemistry from Karnataka Science College, Dharwad.After completing his PG in 1957, he started working at a medical college in Mysore.In 1962, he joined DRDO.He served at the Defence Food Research Laboratory, College of Military Engineering, Pune.He was the director at Defence Research Laboratory, Tezpur, for sometime and retired from DEBEL Bangalore in 1995.Now settled in Bangalore, Kannur spends most of his time in writing articles on spirituality."During my early days of spiritual practices, I used to perform bhajans four times and meditation twice a day .I used to read a lot of spiritual books.Even today, I get up early in the morning and do prayer and meditation.I also like to meditate in the evening.I feel that's the best way to end one's day," says Kannur.