Chinmaya Vanaprastha Sasthan Meet - March 2011

Chinmaya Vanaprastha Sansthan, Senior Citizen Wing of Chinmaya Mission Madurai, organized a camp for its members on Marh 27 (Sunday) from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 noon. at Chinmaya Meenakshi.

Prof. Govindasamy speaks on the role of Senior citizens in the present scenerio and gave tips , to lead a happy life .. In the second session, after the tea break, Sri Gopalsamy presented a simple meditation technique, to overcome the stress in the life, to the participants.

Sri Thilagar, Secy., welcomed the gathering, while Selvi Guha Kumari, thank the audience. Under the guidance of Acharya Swami Sivayogananda, Mrs. Malika Sekar, coordinated the events, successfully ...

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Mahabaratha Gnana Yajna - Tirunagar, Madurai

MAHABHARATHA- throws light to the hidden treasures of this ‘Great Barath’- the men and the values they carried! Sure to make every honest Indian ever indebted to this sacred soil.

A great sage, a perfectionist imbibed with all the noble qualities, though compelled to stay with Duryodhana, ever reveled in Sri Krishna is none other than Bhishma.

On His advice, Bheeshma pronunced the ’Code of conduct’to Yudhishtra-the king in general, and to the human in particular.

Aacharya Swami Sivayogananda, thus by his narration, not only propounded the episode interestingly but also gave the hand-outs in Tamil for easy reference.

Listeners were gifted indeed!

A few inspiring thoughts:

• The world revolves on the wheels of Time and Actions.
• If the actions are done without expectations of the results,one can easily get liberated from the gravitation of time.
• Knowing that the body deteriorates,as the time slips off,one is not yet turned towards the Eternal.Quite surprising.
• Effort should be consistent & there is no time scale for it
• Effort coupled with enthusiasm pays rich dividends.
• The thirty-six code of conduct given by Pitamah is the right direction to lead a contented & a happy life.
• The place of ‘father’, ‘Mother’ and ‘Guru’is unparalleled in one’s life.If we are aware of their presence and our duty towards them, then Bheeshma says that it is ‘Dharma’ of life.................( given in 15 slokas)
• Again he gives sixteen ways in which sorrows can be relinquished.
• In eight slokas, he gives the power of ‘Sweet Speech’.

Thus it is not mere 36+15+15+8 statements. They are Crystal clear drops of Wisdom.

Attend the yajnas, to experience it yourself.

8th Year Anniversary of Chinmaya Meenakshi, Madurai...

Kenopanishad Classes - March 2011

This lecture on Kenopanishad—from Sama Veda, at Chinmaya Mission, Madurai, from March 4 to 9, 2011, was not an intellectual analysis. It is an inquiry into ‘Self’. Tuned already for such an adventurous journey, the devotees of Gurudev assembled to listen attentively.

Acharya Swami Sivayogananda, with simple & lucid examples, pictures, ’THAT’ to the best of his abilities, in a trackless path, and left the seekers to travel in and alone.

Points to ponder:

· Mind is an internal instrument endowed with knowledge.

· Who activates the mind/or by which the mind is activated?

· Prana sakthi stirs the sense organs as expressions of the mind.

· By which ‘prana’ is locked up, to stir the sense organs?

· Thus the sense organs & prana are the tools of the mind.

· The mind is insecure as it always revels on perishable objects.

· So the frequency of the mind should be increased towards ‘Reality’.

· IT transcends both the ‘known’ and ’unknown’.

· THAT that remains as the base and illumines the speech, sight, taste, touch and hearing is inactive and unaffected.

· This experience cannot be expressed.

· Thus' IT ' is the cause for all... But the effect is unaware of the cause.

• All we have to do is to sit & meditate on IT.

March - 2011 Programmes .....

Gnana Yajna at Geetha Bhavanam, Madurai..

The Sourashtra Community of Madurai, has a great adoration & devotion to Sri Krishna to name the hall ‘ Geetha Bhavanam’. Aarthy to Sri Krishna is only Geetha Aarthy. With such an ambience, Chapter XVI of Bagavad Geetha was taken as a continuation of ‘Geetha Gnana Yajna’ regularly conducted there.

The simplicity, the sincerity and the spontaneity of the Aacharya, Swami Sivayogananda kept the listener’s heart attached and attuned to the gunas one should possess.

All through the yajna, one could feel the moving rhythms of soft and smooth unfoldment of one’s personality.

Not only it was said to Arjuna, but it is a manual to tide over crisis of modern man.

· Be fearless, by disassociating oneself from self imposed attachments.

· Fear is due to ignorance.

· Assume responsibility, which gives self-confidence.

· Faith in our Vedas, Upanishads, Puranic scriptures and daily practice of poojas is sure to illumine one’s mind.

· When the mind is so pure, the intellect will always revel in Supreme.

· Hospitality is our national strength and ‘giving’ is our symbol.

· Don’t do anything for the sake of doing it. It should be like doing a ‘yajna’. So committed, so truthful.

· Aspire for the control of sense organs & achieve it. This in turn, conserve tremendous energy for the right action.

· Always contemplate on what is read & heard. …meditate.

· The up-rightness / honesty of mind, words & actions gives one, the guidance of ‘guru’ the essential aspect of one’s life.

· Non-violence is ‘satyam’.. it is always victorious.

· The real never ceases to exist, the unreal has no existence.Much more...

To explore, please attend the yajnas .