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  ========================================================================= Sunday, 22 Oct 2023 05:30. Spiritual Excellence in Man - Who is a Leader: ========================================================================= VIEWS: What is spiritual excellence – its nature, scope and potency? Normally, the coveted aim before an earnest spiritual seeker is to know the Supreme Truth himself, to actualize it as a personal living experience, and thereby to become ‘fulfilled’. The path followed is essentially of self-absorption and withdrawal from world involvements to transcend the dwandwaas (dualities) posed by the mind and to reach a state of oneness of vision and experience. Samyak darsanaBrahma-jijnaasaa. The only function, if at all, he will take up thereafter is the dissemination of spiritual wisdom for the benefit of seekers and the afflicted. But, this does not mean that spirituality has its application only to this field. or comprehensive vision is the zenith to which he reache...

#Chinmaya Vidyalaya Tripunnithura Navaratri Events =========================================================================. Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 05:30. Significance of Navaratri:  [Excerpts from a letter written by Swami Chinmayananda from Uttarkashi to a devotee on Vijayadasami Day (20th Oct 1950). Pujya Gurudev started writing the letter around midnight & completed it at 4am – the auspicious Brahma-muhurtham on Vijayadasami Day] ======================================================================== The DUSSEHRA festival is celebrated throughout the country. During this festival, everyone spends his time in worship, devotion, and study of the Sastras, and every house assumes the sanctity of a temple. The ten days are divided into three stages of three days each, for worship, and the culmination of the festival on the tenth day is called VIJAYA DASAMI. The first 3 days we invoke Mother Durga, the “Power Terrible” to help us, by eliminating from within us all negative force...

========================================================================= Friday, 20 Oct 2023 05:30.  Occasions and Festivals Sri Ganapati – Vinayaka Published by Chinmaya-admin in December 2013 ========================================================================= These names clearly show that He is a Master of all circumstances and not even the divine forces can ever obstruct His path. Since He is thus the Lord of all Obstacles, no Hindu ritual or auspicious act is ever undertaken without invoking Him. With His Grace, it is believed that no undertaking can fail due to subjective or objective obstacles. He is considered as having married both Lakshmi and Saraswati, the Godesses of Wealth and Knowledge repectively. In short, He is the Master of Knowledge (Vidya) and champion of worldly achievements (Avidya). In this characterisation Shri Ganapati represents a Man of Perfect Wisdom, and a fully Realized Vedantin. Westerners are shocked to notice that Hindus revere a Divine Form w...