Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) : CIF campus is always abuzz with activity and yet at its heart it is the serene silence of divinity that rings true for those who tune in. This last weekend CIF was hosting two camps – the first was the Narada Bhakti Sutra Camp, facilitated by Br. Anand Chaitanya for participants from the upcoming centre at Chinmaya Mission Vellore and members of CM Chennai.  Participants reveled in the sessions as well as learnt more about the history of Adi Sankara Nilayam and visited various temples in Ernakulam.   Also on campus was the enthusiastic Youth Alliance team, from Uttaranchal, who made the best use of the various spaces on campus to conduct a fun orientation workshop for young participants from the Southern zone.  ========================================================================= Wednesday, March 01,  2023. 07:00. Chapter Three: Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya - 24. =========================================...

========================================================================= Tuesday, February 14,  2023. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya :22&23. ========================================================================= SECTION 22: HAPPINESS : Continued So Sanatkumara says, "My dear Narada, happiness is not anywhere and yet it is everywhere; it is in a completeness of Being that you can find happiness." It is not in any kind of accumulation of particulars that happiness can be found. It is not in any aggregate of finitudes that happiness can be discovered. The finitude of a particular situation does not get obviated merely because of the aggregate of finitudes. Even millions and millions of finite objects put together do not cease to be finite in the end. The finitude which is the character of things persists even in an aggregate of finitudes. Even the whole world put together is finite. It cannot be regarded as infinite, because it is limi...

========================================================================= Monday, January 30,  2023. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya : SECTION 22: HAPPINESS : ========================================================================= "Yada vai sukham labhate'tha karoti,  nasukham labdhva karoli,  sukham eva labdhva karoti,  sukham tveva vijijnasitavyam, iti,  sukham, bhagavah, vijijnasa iti." "Well, O Narada, I tell you, nothing can be done unless it is propelled by happiness. Everywhere you will find happiness is the object of every kind of aspiration, activity, desire or enterprise. You will find, prior to everything conceivable, there is the presence of happiness. Everyone, irrespective of the character of one's individuality, tries to be, to act and to conduct oneself in different ways, because of this happiness. You must know what happiness is. It is this that is the propelling force behind everything in creation," says...

========================================================================= Monday, January 16,  2022. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya : SECTION 19: FAITH SECTION 20: STEADFASTNESS SECTION 21: ACTIVITY : ========================================================================= SECTION 19: FAITH : Yada vai sraddadhati, atha manute, nasraddadhan manute, sraddadhad-eva manute, sraddha tveva vijijnasitavyeti, sraddham, bhagavah, vijijnasa iti. Sraddha, faith in the existence of Reality, and the working of this tendency of movement of one's being towards Reality are almost simultaneous. How do we know that Reality exists? That is a faith that is in our mind, introduced into us by the very tendency of Reality urging itself forward towards its own Self-realisation. This faith is superior to thought and understanding. It is not what we call blind faith, but an irrepressible feeling in us that Reality is. It must be there. We do not have any doubt about Its ...

 ========================================================================= Chinmaya Mission  :  A mind that is connected to Shri Hanuman is determined, decisive and devoted. May we serve Him and serve like Him. Glimpse of 17th anniversary celebrations of Chinmaya Maruti Mandir on 27th of December 2022 at Chinmaya Vibhooti during the Gopika Geet Global Family Camp.  The celebration started with blissful Havan and Puja. It was heartwarming to see Swami Swaroopananda offer Archana and Aarti to His beloved Lord Hanuman.  Indeed a glorious sight to behold. ========================================================================= Monday, December 12,  2022. 08:00. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya :  SECTION 17: TRUTH AND UNDERSTANDING : SECTION 18: THOUGHT AND UNDERSTANDING ========================================================================= SECTION 16: TRUTH : "Esa tu va ativadati yah satyenativadati;  so'ham, bhagavah, saty...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Monday, December 12,  2022. 08:00. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya :  SECTION 15: LIFE(continued) ========================================================================= Mantram-3. "Atha yady-apy-enan utkranta-pranan sulena  samasam vyatisandahet naivainam bruyuh pitrhasiti,  na matrhasiti, na bhratrhasiti, na svasrhasiti,  na acaryahcasiti, na brahmanahasiti." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bhashyam (Vyakyanam) : The whole of life is nothing but this inscrutable thing which we call prana. This is the great reality manifesting itself in various names and forms. We mistake the names and forms for this supreme Being which is masquerading here as the objects of sense, as human beings and everything ...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Thursday, November 24,  2022. 10:00. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya :  SECTION 15: LIFE ========================================================================= SECTION 15: LIFE Mantram-1. "Prano vava asaya bhuyan, yatha va ara nabhau samarpitah,  evam asmin prane sarvam samarpitam, pranah pranena yati,  pranah pranam dadati, pranaya dadati, prano ha pita,  prano mata, prano bhrata, pranah svasa,  prana acaryah, prano brahmanah." Nobody can understand what life is. We utter the word 'life' many times, but we cannot explain what it means. It is not what we do daily that is called life. Though we generally identify life with our activity, it is a mistake that we commit. Life is something inscrutable. Life is really what we are. Here, it is called prana. It is not the breathing proces...