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Let Us Be Hindus: Swami Chinmayananda

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  =================================================================================== Tuesday 31, December 2024, 08:55. Let Us Be Hindus:  Swami Chinmayananda Published by  chinmaya-admin at  25th December 2020. =================================================================================== A Hindu Swami to talk. A Hindu temple for the background. A crowded hall with a Hindu audience, and the subject for discussion: “Let Us Be Hindus,” Strange! It sounds like a ridiculous paradox and a meaningless contradiction. I can very well see that you are surprised at the audacity of this sadhu (Swami)! It has become a new fashion with the educated Hindu to turn up his nose and sneer in contempt at the very mention of his religion in any discussion. Personally, I too belong in my sympathies to these critics of our religion. But when this thoughtless team begins to declare that we will benefit ourselves socially and nationally by running away from our sacred religion, I have...

Manage your mind and all becomes possible: Swami Swaroopananda.

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   ======================================================================================== Monday 30, December 2024, 08:50.  Manage your mind and all becomes possible:  Swami Swaroopananda. Published by Chinmaya-admin on 3rd January 2022. ======================================================================================== Change management is a topic that is frequently discussed in the corporate world. People constantly change their minds; economic and political situations are volatile and subject to change. How is such uncertainty to be managed? Those who are familiar with the backdrop of the Mahabharata War are aware that the Pandava prince, Arjuna, knew that a day would come when a war would be waged against the Kauravas. He prepared for it for 30 years. While others merely anguished at the injustice meted out to the Pandavas, Arjuna trained rigorously and acquired divine weapons to battle against Karna, and even his revered Grandsire Bhishma and teacher, Dro...