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======================================================================= Thursday, 01 June, 2023. 05:30. Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) ======================================================================== Adi Sankara Nilayam Adi Sankara Marg Ernakulam Dist. Veliyanad 682313 Kerala , India +91-484-2747307,+91-9207-711-144 omtatsat@chinfo.org ======================================================================== Swami Advayananda, of the Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF), began his spiritual journey with the Chinmaya Mission at the young age of 18. Inspired by Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda, he joined Sandeepany Sadhanalaya* and was bestowed diksha by Pujya Gurudev himself in 1992. He was initiated into the holy order of sannyāsa in 2003 by Pujya Guruji, Swami Tejomayananda, the Head of the Chinmaya Mission. While he served the Mission initially at their Centres at Kodaikanal and Trichy, Swami Advayananda took charge of Spiritual and Cultural Education at the Chinm...

======================================================================== Wednesday, 31 May, 2023. 05:30. Swami Swaroopananda is global head, Chinmaya Mission. ========================================================================= The only thing we all seek is happiness. But, we indulge in contrary actions: one gets married because one wants to be happy; one seeks divorce because one wants to be happy!  Is permanent happiness really possible? ‘Yes’, says Sri Krishna, and gives wonderful tips for happiness, success, satisfaction and self-discovery in the Bhagwad Gita. His first message is, ‘Refuse to be miserable’. Life can be painful, but it need not be sorrowful.  If you want to be happy, find occasions to be cheerful. Before you fall into self-pity and blame games, remember that responsibility comes to only those who feel responsible. Challenges are faced by the strong and courageous, and if life brings you such opportunities, then turn failures into success. This is the a...

Chinmaya Mission Diwali ( Deepavali) celebration 2021.  Swami Tejomayananda ========================================================================= Tuesday, 30 May, 2023. 05:30. Source: Bharatbharati.com Published by  chinmaya-admin at  29th October 2021 ================================================= “Diwali is the day when we harvest the results of our hard work blessed with wealth by Mother Lakshmi. We pray to her with gratitude and ask the gracious Divine Mother to shower Her blessings in abundance for the coming year, give us the intelligence to use our wealth in the right manner and give us the heart to share it generously with our fellow beings.” – Swami Tejomayananda In India, festivals are not only known for the celebrations and festivities, but also for their spiritual significance, inspiring us to raise the standard of our life. Rather than merely exhausting ourselves physically and mentally, they purify the mind, enabling us to face life with more enthusia...

========================================================================= Monday, 29 May, 2023. 05:30. Published from the book – ‘A Life of Inspiration – Swami Chinmayananda’ by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust Original article published on Chinamaya Upahar in 2018. ========================================================================= “Only in the silence of quiet mind can you realise your oneness with the supreme reality [Brahman].” - Swami Chinmayananda. ========================================================================= 1. Swami Chinmayananda: How He Taught In early years, Swami Chinmayananda held Marathon discourses of 41-100 days duration. Later, as he crisscrossed the globe, delivering one lecture series after another without respite, his jnana yajnas settled to around 7 to 10 days each. Swamiji recast the age-old yajna (fire sacrifice) as a jnana yajna, or ‘knowledge sacrifice,’ wherein the yajna becomes the symbolic burning of one’s ignorance in the fire of knowledge, k...

======================================================================= Sunday, 28 May, 2023. 19:00. This article is from the book Walk in This Light. ======================================================================= ‘Essentially, each seeker should know “What am I aspiring for? Is my aspiration being fouled by the occasional reverse gear–if not frequent reverse gears or a permanent inbuilt reverse gear–or am I totally out of gear?” All the calls of the Gita to Arjuna are to stand up and shake off weakness. “Strive” is what all the scriptures say. Some time back one of our Divine Life Society Branches printed a card with the title “Spiritual Barometer.” It was meant to show the progress a person had made upon the spiritual path, in spiritual qualities and in all the various dimensions of spiritual life. For example, how far had you moved towards maturity in your newly unfolded spiritual consciousness; how far are you gradually trying to become established in your native dimension...

======================================================================== Saturday, 27, May, 2023. 05:30. ======================================================================== The earliest statement of the Nature of Reality occurs in the first book of the Rig-Veda: Ekam Sat-Viprah Bahudha Vadanti. "The ONE BEING, the wise diversely speak of." The tenth book of the Rig-Veda regards the highest conception of God both as the Impersonal and the Personal: The Nasadiya Sukta states that the Supreme Being is both the Unmanifest and the Manifest, Existence as well as Non-existence, the Supreme Indeterminable. The Purusha-Sukta proclaims that all this Universe is God as the Supreme Person – the Purusha with thousands of heads, thousands of eyes, thousands of limbs in His Cosmic Body. He envelops the whole cosmos and transcends it to infinity. The Narayana-Sukta exclaims that whatever is anywhere, visible or invisible, all this is pervaded by Narayana within and without. The Hiranyag...

========================================================================= Friday,  26 May, 2023. 05:30. Srimad Bhagavad Gita  ========================================================================= Man is a composite of three fundamental factors, namely, will, feeling and cognition. There are three kinds of temperament–the active, the emotional and the rational. Even so, there are three Yogas–Jnana Yoga for a person of enquiry and rational temperament, Bhakti Yoga for the emotional temperament, and Karma Yoga for a person of action. One Yoga is as efficacious as the other. The Bhagavad Gita formulates the theories of the three paths without creating any conflict among them. It harmonises most wonderfully the philosophy of action, devotion and knowledge. All three must be harmoniously blended if you wish to attain perfection. You should have the head of Sri Shankara, the heart of Lord Buddha and the hand of King Janaka. The three horses of this body-chariot–action, emotion an...