Swami Chinmayananda
32 books
Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda, in Kindle Life initiates the novice into the essentials of a higher, value-based life. A preliminary text of Vedantic Studies, this work lays a very good foundation for all advanced studies. Full of guidance for right living, the book inspires every reader to pursue true spirituality.
The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow. To mould their thoughts and aspirations is the true fulfillment of a national education. The ideal given to them in their early childhood alone can again and again inspire them in their future years of life and supply them with the courage to face their problems, the guts to pursue their purposes diligently, the faith in themselves and in their country, and the heroism to live and act according to their own ...
This book, especially written for children by Bharati with the assistance of the Swami, awakens in one a sense of beauty and wonder. The language is lyrical the sentences are short and crisp and the style is racy. The story of Sri Rama is not just narrated as an ancient tale full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The narration is interspersed with descriptions of the sights and sounds of Nature. Truly a thing of genuine beauty evokes in us a sense of ...
The entire art and literature of India is moulded in the beauty and divinity of Bhagavat. From childhood onwards the Hindu heart is taught to beat in unison with the tenth-chapter here, which narrates the childhood stories of Lord Krishna. He is the one solitary symbol that generated and sustained the spiritual ideal in the heart of the children and appealed to the head of the elders. The learned and the erudite reveled in the depth of the philosophy, packed away ...
No text book can be prescribed to the students without an initial chapter giving the definition of the terms and terminology that are used in the body of the book. The Scientist visualizes the world from his view point. He sees truths that are not visible to others. And since he sees visions which are not the common property of all, in his language he will have to use unconventional words which have for him some special imports and secret suggestions. If these ...
The Mandukya Upanisad is the shortest amongst the principal Upanisad-s having just 12 manta-s but presents the quintessence of our entire Upanisadik teaching. It analyses the entire range of human consciousness in the three states of waking (jagrat), dream svapna) and dreamless sleep (susupti) which are common to all men. It asserts unequivocally that the Absolute Reality is non-dual (advaita) and attributeless (nirguna). It has a unique method of approach to ...
Strong men and women constitute the bulwark of a nation. Swami Chinmayanandaji's 114 talks based on the Bhagavad Geeta were floated on AIR and addressed to the youth of our country. These lectures were then compiled in a text form - the art of Man-Making - and became very popular with people of all ages, creeds and religions as evident from its record-breaking circulation. While, on one hand, this book is in great demand in schools and colleges for its ...
Prasna means a question. Prasnopanishad is a question and answer session where six genuine, advanced seekers approach a rishi called Pippalada. The seekers questions could be yours and mine and the rishi’s answers signify the scriptural voice gently guiding us through the tunnel of darkness to the light at the end. If you have questions on creation, on life, its purpose and fulfillment, then just go for this text. Gurudev’s commentary, on this Upanisad, like ...
Hymn to the Lord of Badri is a rare work of artistic elegance, of Philosophical depths and of emotional beauty. It is the joyous adorations of a divine heart of love, pouring itself out in ecstasy the blissful inspiration of its subjective spiritual experience. The Hymn is at once a summary of the Highest Truth, as discussed in our Upanishads, and a lyrical song of flooded love. In these hundred stanzas Gurudev, Sri Swami Tapovanam, has painted vividly both the ...
This short spiritual treatise of just eighteen mantras has inspired great minds for ages. A chapter in Sukla Yajurveda, the teachings here point out the Self-the divine essence-in every one of us. A crisp summary of the Vedanta, this Upanishad shows us the way to rise above all our attachments to the finite objects of this world. The glittering sense objects, the sweetest emotions and even the lofty ideals of human life are but a golden disk, covering the face of ...
“Sankara is not an individual Sankara is an institution. No single person could ever have achieved what he had achieved in his short span of life. No Master or Prophet had ever achieved so much, for so many, in so short a time. Very often this tempts us to consider that Sankara was an Avatara.†Sankara work represents the total turnover of a highly competent person, working intensively every hour of the day, under conditions of the highest mental and ...
Having heard the roar of Mother Ganga that fulfillment of any possession is in sharing it with others, Swami Chinmayananda was inspired, encouraged and re-inforced to take up the great mission of explaining the Eternal Truth scientifically and logically to a common man in the present day language. His life represents a model of one who pursued the goal with concentrated dedication demonstrating in his own life-time the secret of success. Swami Chinmayananda was ...
Hindu culture is founded upon the sacred scriptures of the Vedas, which are revered even today, for they contain revelations of eternal truth and embody the spiritual and cultural heritage of the Hindu people. The Vedas are the legacy of the rishis, or subjective scientists, who touched a deep cord within, far beyond the physical, mental, and intellectual layers, which allowed them to see all life as interconnected. They saw the One manifested throughout ...
This scholarly work is a comprehensive guide combining the original text with transliteration and translation of Astavakra Gita.
Shri Hanuman is a great source of inspiration for all sincere pilgrims on the journey towards spiritual evolution. He is the very expression of divinity, unconditional love, wisdom, courage, loving service and incomparable strength. He is like a compassionate teacher and an affectionate friend to one and all. For the members of the Chinmaya Mission, Shri Hanuman evokes the image of Sidhari and Pujya Gurudev. The present worksouvenir begins with the story of the ...
These Notes which were originally published in the Tapovan Prasad, the monthly journal of Swami Chinayananda, have been edited and gathered together for the Western students. "In this revealed path of self-development, which is inherent in all the Indian philosophies, there is an attempt on the part of the student to sublimate his own weaknesses, to beautify his own perversions, to straighten his own crookedness. This conscious effort of self-improvement ...
Srimad Bhagwad Geeta, the divine song of the lord, occurs in the story of Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters. This great hand-book of practical living marks a great revolution in Hinduism, and brings about renaissance of the then decadent Hindu religion. The story of Mahabharata rings an optimistic note of hope to man that even though the diviner impulses are seemingly less in number in an individual, if the good in his is organized fully and brought under the ...
The present alone is the only time when we can work and achieve, gain and gather, give and serve. In the past we can now do nothing, in the future, again, we can now accomplish nothing. In the dead moments of the past, in the unborn moments of the future we can never act. These living dynamic present moments are the only fields to be hammered at and wherein are all the glories of life, all the gains in existence. Times never stops; it is fleeting. The now alone ...
This book brings together 18 talks by Swami Chinmayananda on diverse subjects of concern in modern times. In this Edition, diactritical marks are used for transliteration of samskrta wards in the commentary. Non-English words have been italicized. This will help readers to identify and pronounce the words correctly. The English plural signs has been added to untranslated samskrta words after a hyphen - to show that it is not elemental to the word eg ...
The Timeless appeared in time to give the timeless message of the Timelessness of man to a confused and broken Arjuna. The time was Karttika bahula amavasya 3141 B C. Ever since volumes have been written explaining, expounding and interpreting this invaluable message from the Lord Himself. Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda’s Gita Yajna talks were compiled to make the classic The Holy Gita. He firmly believed that nation building could happen only through individual ...
It is, quite often, contended that science and religion are opposed to each other. The protagonists of science and the so called rationalists maintain that religion is unscientific and superstitious. It is surprising that the man of science who is supposed to have an intimate knowledge of the baffling universe should try to maintain that the whole of the Reality and the Truth is amenable to his methods. An outline of the basic presumptions of the Vedanta, the ...