Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ======================================================================= Chinmaya Mission  During the holy month of Karthika several Chinmaya Mission centres had special celebrations worshipping Lord Shiva and Vishnu.  Featuring here the celebrations from Chinmaya Amarnath, Pittsburgh, USA and Sripaadakshetra, Bengaluru, India. Swami Brahmananda of CM Bengaluru conducted a power packed profound Satsang focussed on Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s Upadesha Sara. In Pittsburgh, over 500 plus devotees and community members came together for the Kartika Deepotsav 500 devotees to witness the festive Deepa Prajvalanam. Chinmaya Mission Visakhapatnam hosted a Panchayatana Maharudra Yaagam in this auspicious month with daily Mahanyasa Poorvaka Rudrabhishekam to one of the Panchayatana deities Surya, Lalita Devi, Vishnu, Ganapati and Rudra, including a Sudharshana Homam. ======================================================================== Tuesday, November 22, 2022. 07:00. Chapter 2...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission : Chinmaya Mission Members of Melbourne, Australia were blessed to have Pujya Swami Swaroopananda in their midst once again in 2022 for an interactive Satsang during his brief stop over before traveling to New Zealand. ======================================================================== Sunday, November 20, 2022. 07:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ======================================================================== Slokam-56.   "sarvakarmanyapi   sada   kurvano   madvyapasrayah, matprasadadavapnoti    sasvatam   padamavyayam." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation :Tatvam...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission  : Chinmaya Mission members of Auckland New Zealand were waiting with bated breath during the second week of November 2022 to host Pujya Swami Swaroopananda at their new Centre - Chinmaya Nikunj.  Due to the pandemic Swamiji could not be there in person for the grand inauguration of the new centre in 2021. Members rejoiced and celebrated Pujya Swamiji's presence with a special weekend retreat and public talk series on the topics Re-Program Your Mind and Discover the Wellbeing Code respectively.  During the weekend retreat the workshops and lectures emphasized on how our mind, thoughts and our world are all inter-related, hence the emphasis on auspicious thoughts to bolster transformation and change for a happier living. When speaking on Wellbeing, Swamiji reiterated how a life lived in line with the teachings of our scriptures can facilitate the rediscovery of our natural state...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission  Even after more than seven decades of independence, access to education is still a challenge. The Chinmaya Mission is working at multiple levels to make quality, value-based education accessible to all strata of society.  Your support will enable merit-based scholarships and ensure young children from marginalised communities can continue their studies without interruption. Reach out and transform a child’s life today : bit.ly/3FKwU3h ========================================================================= Friday, November 18, 2022. 08:00. Chapter 28: Sitting for Meditation-4. ========================================================================= Tatraikāgraṃ manaḥ kṛtvā:  Thus collecting all thought, the entire psychic organ, mustering the whole force of it in a given direction. Which is the given direction? This is a question of initiation. There is a process called init...

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Wednesday, November 16, 2022. 09:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ========================================================================= Very important slokams Read carefully and  understand  well. ========================================================================= Slokam-55 : "bhaktya   mam tattvatah   yavan   yascasmi   tattvatah, tato   maṁ   tattvato   jnatva   visate   tadanantaram." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : "One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God."...

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, November 15, 2022. 07:30. Chapter 1: The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita - 1. ========================================================================= The Bhagavadgita is a well-known gospel. Very few might have not heard the name, ‘Bhagavadgita', for it is almost universally accepted as a scripture, not merely in a sense of holiness or sanctity from the point of view of a religious outlook, but as what has been regarded as a guide in our day-to-day life, which need not necessarily mean a so-called religious attitude of any particular denomination. Our life is vaster in its expanse than what we usually regard as a vocation of religion. And if religion remains just an aspect of our life and does not constitute the whole of life, the Bhagavadgita is not a religious scripture, because its intention is not to cater to a side of...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission Under the guidance of Swami Sivayogananda, Bhagavad Gita Chanting Competition and Prize distribution function was organized by Chinmaya Mission, Madurai on 6th November at Sethupathi Higher Sec School, Madurai. The competition has been organized consecutively for the past 23 years. Around 12000 children from 38 schools have participated at the preliminary level, out of which 500 such young stars were shortlisted for the finals.  The Best ones were bestowed with Gold and Silver Coins and special certificates. Notebooks, Stationery Kits certificates were presented to all the participants by Sri.Nagaraj Krishnan, Managing Director, Aparajitha Corporate Services. Smt.Jamuna, Rajapalayam lighted the lamp. Sri.K.S. Pradeep, DeputyGeneral Manager, Canara Bank Circle Office, was the Chief Guest for the function and inaugurated the competition.  The event ended with Swami Sivayogananda expla...