About Agra

Agra—the city of the inimitable Taj Mahal—has a heritage

and culture that dates back to the Mughal era. Situated on the
banks of the river Yamuna, it is home to several world famous
Heritage monuments which include the Taj Mahal, Red Fort,
Itmad-ud-Daulah and the tomb of Emperor Akbar at Sikandra.
The city of Fatehpur Sikri (a UNESCO World Heritage City)
is situated 45 kms from Agra. There is an amazing fortified
heritage monument on Dayalbagh road commemorating the
Samadh of Founder-Saint of Radhasoami Faith which is in the
final stages of construction. Agra is also famous for its leather
goods, handicrafts, zari, zardozi, marble and stone carving, and
inlay work. Situated three and a half hour’s by road from New
Delhi, it is well connected by rail (major stations being Agra Quantum-Nano Systems Centre &
Cantt., Agra Fort and Raja Ki Mandi (nearest to Dayalbagh). The
weather in Agra in November is cool (Max. temp. 13°C, Min. Centre for Consciousness Studies
temp. 10°C).
Dayalbagh Educational Institute has established the twin
facilities, Quantum-Nano Systems Centre and Centre for
Consciousness Studies which are developing in close associ-
About Dayalbagh Educational Institute ation with each other and these have now been bolstered by the
frugal innovation Quantum Jugaad Centre and Quantum Cloud
The Dayalbagh Educational Institute is located amidst the Computing MEG facility in Dayalbagh community prayer hall
tranquil environs of Dayalbagh, a self-contained colony with a capacity of over 20,000 and electronically connected to
renowned for its serene environment and secular establish- more than 400 locations all over the world. These Centres jointly
ments, in which its inhabitants lead an active, disciplined and host the Annual International School on Quantum and Nano
co-operative community life dedicated to service, conforming Computing Systems and Applications (QANSAS) in end-No-
to the high spiritual ideals of their faith. On the outskirts of the vember every year since 2008, which also features a ‘Special
historic city of Agra, the campus is situated in garden settings, Forum on Consciousness: Integrating Eastern and Western
away from the din and noise of the city. Nestled between Perspectives’ as a pre-school event since 2012. Quantum-Nano
lush green fields, it provides an excellent ambience and Centre is equipped with 15-channel SQUID-based MEG facility
academic setting which is in harmony with nature. This, along and a smaller 2-channel facility is also housed in the Central
with a simple, disciplined and principled life, undoubtedly Satsang Hall, Dayalbagh which must be perhaps the only MEG
contributes to the strength of the social, moral and spiritual facility in the world housed in a community prayer hall and
fiber of the institute’s educational system. is aptly named as Quantum Cloud Computing. The Centres
Dayalbagh Educational Institute has embarked on a mission work in close collaboration with Divinity Study Forum of the
entitled ‘Vision 2031’ to emerge as one of the topmost Univer- Radhasoami Satsang Sabha.
sities in the country in the next two decades. This transfor- QANSAS has hosted leading scientists in the field from all over
mation has spurred the process of establishment of MoUs the world including Nobel Laureates in Physics Prof. Douglas
with several leading national and international institutes like Osheroff and Prof. Robert Richardson, Dr Lov Grover, Dr
University of Maryland, University of Waterloo, IIT Kanpur, IIT Charles Bennett, Prof. Stuart Hameroff, Prof. Vlatko Vedral,
Delhi and TIFR Mumbai to name a few. Prof. Richard Jozsa, Prof. Gilles Brassard, Prof. Artur Ekert,
Prof. Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Prof. Mani Lal Bhaumik, Prof.
John Hagelin, Prof. James Barrell, Prof. Leonard Mlodinow,
Prof. Gyorgy Buzsaki, Prof. Semir Zeki, Prof. Leon Chua, Prof.
Jack Tuszynski and Prof. Elizabeth Behrman among others.
DEI hosted the Twentieth International Conference on Science
of Consciousness (TSC 2013) from March 3-9, 2013 with over
400 leading scientists and researchers from all over the world.
At the end of this conference, when Prof. Hameroff returned
to Arizona, he spontaneously described it as the time and
place where the quantum theory and the eastern philosophy
and therefore, in a way, western science and eastern thought
(perspective) have begun to make sense and come together.
Prof. A.K. Mukhopadhyay, a renowned researcher in the field at
AIIMS, New Delhi called the Dayalbagh model as a rare evolu-
tionary leap from homo sapiens to homo spiritualis! In fact,
we are blessed with sustainable neuro-theology or Jugaad Yog
Sadhna at Dayalbagh.
 The DEI-UW MoU was first signed in July 2008 in a unique
video-conferenced ceremony by Prof. David Johnston, then QANSAS 2019 @ 50
President of University of Waterloo who went on to serve as The Divine Inspiration and Guiding Beacon of the DEI-
Governor-General of Canada. The Memorandum of Under- Waterloo MoU is the benign leadership of Revered Prof. Prem
standing was renewed for another 5 years in March 2013 and Saran Satsangi, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Education,
further renewed for 5 years in October 2017. There has been Dayalbagh Educational Institutions.
considerable progress under the umbrella of the MoU, in
the form of joint research, publications, faculty and student This year, the event has been most aptly rechristened as
visits, joint colloquia and conferences, joint authorship of ‘QANSAS 2019 @ 50’ in honour of the 50th year of conferment
books and a clause on undergraduate student exchange in of Doctorate by the University of Waterloo upon Revered
the form of internships, coop visits and entrepreneurship has Prof. Prem Saran Satsangi in 1969. Such events are regularly
Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi with Late Prof. Jack Ellis organized by research groups at Universities the world over in
been added to the MoU renewal agreement. DEI and Waterloo
Dei-Waterloo Collaboration jointly organized the Indo-Canadian Research Colloquium at
Waterloo in summer 2016, 2017 and 2018 and Prof. Roe was
honour of leading Professors.

DEI has a five decade long association with the founding fathers
pleased to address the colloquia in the following words :
of the systems movement spread over several campuses all
over the world, including Michigan State University, University
of Waterloo, IIT Delhi and DEI, Dayalbagh. Revered Prof. Prem
Saran Satsangi, Leader of Radhasoami Faith (Dayalbagh) and
Chairman, Advisory Committee on Education, Dayalbagh
Educational Institutions obtained his Master’s degree in 1961
from Michigan State University under the tutelage of Prof.
Herman Koenig, father of Physical System Theory. Revered
Prof. Satsangi obtained his Ph.D. from University of Waterloo
in 1969 on the topic “A Physical System Theory Modelling
Prof. David Johnston, then President, University of Waterloo
Framework Generalized for Large Scale Economic Systems” addressing DEI-UW MoU signing ceremony in July 2008
under the Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship with Late Prof.
Jack B. Ellis as the supervisor. Prof. Satsangi has fond reminis- “It was in the mid sixties that I met a young man called
cence about his association with Prof. Peter Roe at University Prem Satsangi. Little did I know the consequences of this. He
of Waterloo during the period from fall 1966 to summer 1969, enrolled in my Advanced System Analysis graduate course.
He was only one of about 10 students who was able to Revered Prof. Satsangi introduced himself at the DEI-Waterloo
which he was pleased to share at the signing of the DEI-UW
answer my somewhat unusual exam. Engineering graduate MoU signing ceremony in 2008 according to the format of the
MoU in July 2008 in the following words :
students don’t expect to write an essay in an exam for a UW alumni survey :
“Let me reminiscence very briefly about my experience of the
mathematical course. Is UW still part of my life?
course on Advanced System Theory which I took from Prof.
Peter Roe in the very first term at University of Waterloo in The point is that I taught Graph-theoretic modelling Yes. I owe my researchability ever since my days at Waterloo
fall 1966. Prof. Peter Roe gave our graduate class, a surprise methods, and Prem understood how to apply them to from 1966-fall to 1969-summer to the research exposure
of our life in setting up the final examination as an essay systems outside those I discussed in the course. Prem and opportunities which I found in that lofty institute.
on application of system theory to soft systems such as Satsangi went on to a PhD, and returned to India. He Of course, I knew about Waterloo even from earlier days,
socio-economic systems, which he had not even remotely had an illustrious career, and rose to Head of Electrical from fall 1960 in fact, when I had joined Michigan State
touched in the entire term. At my wit’s end, I let my imagi- Engineering at IIT Delhi. And he became Director of the DEI. University as a USAID TCM Scholar, for my Master’s degree
nation have a complete free play and composed an essay He later was elected as world-wide head of the Religion of in Electrical Engineering where Prof H.K. Kesavan used
on socio-economic system theory, which as a sequel, I could Saints Radhasoami. The best way to describe this position to be a frequent visitor to the system theory group led by
even pass on as a preliminary version of my synopsis for the to most North Americans is to line it to the Dalai Lama. The Prof. Herman E. Koenig, verily the father of physical system
Ph.D. research on generalization of physical system theory to Most Revered Dr Prem Satsangi is the Spiritual Head of the theory. Prof. Kesavan, in fact served as an excellent goodwill
socio-economic systems, in particular large scale economic Dayalbagh Community, which houses among other things, ambassador for UW and soon after meeting him, Waterloo
systems. Apparently Prof Roe liked my essay and gave me the the DEI. He has endeavoured with a great deal of success, to became my preferred destination for research abroad.
only A grade in his course. The rest of the course participants explain the religion and the universe using graph-theoretic Is UW a school I am proud of?
had to settle with B grades or other grades.” system theory - the same theory to which he was introduced
in my graduate course in about 1966. Most certainly. This is one strong reason why Dayalbagh
Today, we can only imagine those heady days at Waterloo when Educational Institute is so happy and proud to enter into
these renowned personalities must have worked together. The Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) collaborative relationship with the University of Waterloo
grew out of the founding, 100 years ago, of a middle school through the wonderful MoU that has just been signed.
in Dayalbagh; the University of Waterloo received its first
students 50 years ago, as a Faculty of Engineering. 2017 is What’s Waterloo to me?
an especially auspicious year, not only for those anniver- Waterloo to me is, above all, the spirit of “why not?” which
saries, but also because it is the 200th Anniversary of the we share deeply with UW in the quest of Total Quality
founding of the Radhasoami Faith, the 150th anniversary of through excellence, creativity, innovation and initiative
the birth of Canada as a nation and the 70th anniversary of which I believe are the hallmarks of success in the modern
Indian independence. UW and DEI are decidedly different world which is highly competitive today.
Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi institutions, yet they are both devoted to education to form Our five decade long ties with University of Waterloo will be the
with Late Prof. H.K. Kesavan with Prof. Peter Roe well-rounded persons and research to create a better world.” focus of this scientific event.