Chinmaya Mission Trust
55 books
It is usual in Hinduism that when parents go to religious festivals, or ritualistic yagnas, They bring home something to be shared by all: and this is called Prasad. Till now in our yagnas we had been distributing Prasad only for the parents, as my children were then too small to take in any Prasad. Now the Balavihar children have started not only demanding, but even invading my yagnasalad! They sit knee-to-knee with their parents and enjoy aspects of the talks ...
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 ...
Krishna an Invisible Friend aim to introduce Shri Krishna and His wisdom to today's children so that they may be inspired by Him and relate to Him as a lovable friend and role model to look-up to, in their everyday life situations and challenges. This story has been adapted from Shrimad Bhagavatam. Chinmaya Bala Katha is a series of books designed to being home to the hearts of children everywhere simple truths such as the importance of love, genuineness, ...
Krishna Photocopies Himself aim to introduce Shri Krishna and His wisdom to today's children so that they may be inspired by Him and relate to Him as a lovable friend and role model to look-up to, in their everyday life situations and challenges. This story has been adapted from Shrimad Bhagavatam. Chinmaya Bala Katha is a series of books designed to being home to the hearts of children everywhere simple truths such as the importance of love, genuineness, ...
Krishna's Butter Bash aim to introduce Shri Krishna and His wisdom to today's children so that they may be inspired by Him and relate to Him as a lovable friend and role model to look-up to, in their everyday life situations and challenges. This story has been adapted from Shrimad Bhagavatam. Chinmaya Bala Katha is a series of books designed to being home to the hearts of children everywhere simple truths such as the importance of love, genuineness, sharing, ...
Krishna Rocks aim to introduce Shri Krishna and His wisdom to today's children so that they may be inspired by Him and relate to Him as a lovable friend and role model to look-up to, in their everyday life situations and challenges. This story has been adapted from Shrimad Bhagavatam. Chinmaya Bala Katha is a series of books designed to being home to the hearts of children everywhere simple truths such as the importance of love, genuineness, sharing, humility, ...
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 ...
Enter the fascinating world of Gods, kings, holy sages, wicked giants, animals and birds...See how ego destroys, meet the foolish lion and attend Sri Rama's coronation. Laugh with the clever monkey and sweet the greedy barber run. All these and many more characters come alive in this series of three books for 8-12 year olds.
Small children in their formative and most impressionable ages offer a tremendous potential for achieving the national goal. Bala Vihars run by the Chinmaya Mission not only lead the children on the correct path, but also serve as an arena of glee and mirth. The Chinmaya Bala Vihars have been very popular from the day of its initiation and we have been growing in stupendous strides everywhere, and therefore we are confident that this movement of Bala Krishna Seva ...
The book, divided into three sections, contains comprehensive essays on the Bhagavad-Gita in the first part, Upanisads in the second part and a few general essays in the third. The readers can get the elementary idea as well as the indepth philosophy of Vedanta. The contributors are either Gurudev’s disciples or devotees or his co-workers, who have expressed the complicated concepts in simple language, easily comprehensible to an average reader.
Conceptual thinking is hard to the many. To contemplate upon the formless and therefore the Transcendental Essence is given but to a few. The majority needs some grosser expression of the Pure and the Infinite, for their mind to conceive It and their intellect to contemplate upon It. These symbols of the Eternal Ground, the Supreme Truth, are called idols. Thus, an idol represents an ideal. When we do not know the ideal which a given idol represents, it is ...
My experience of Sanskrit Teaching from 1976 onwards, in Bombay, Coimbatore, Madras, etc revealed to me that general teaching of Sanskrit only makes the student gain working knowledge of Sanskrit, with capacity to translate English passages into Sanskrit, but does not inculcate in the student, the fluent methods of speaking simple Sanskrit sentence, connected to day-to-day living. This becomes a great service to the society to make them interested in Sanskrit, ...
The Bhaagavatha Puraana was first graciously revealed by the Supreme Lord to His son, Brahmaa, who was seated in His naval, at a time when he was afraid of Birth and Death, BHAVA BHEETHAYE, - to one who was afraid of samsaar. It is full of lessons extolling the glory of dispassion (Vairaagya). It is like nector to the devotees of the Lord as well as to gods. Its theme is “There is ONE REALITY with out a second.†This is the essence of Upanishadic ...
Kathopanishad is a unique Upanishad which starts with a katha (a story) of a young boy who is ready to face the Lord of Death in his quest for Truth to know what lies beyond death. He asks the very pertinent and philosophical question, Is there or is there not, and if it is what is it? In short, this teaching is an extravaganza of spiritual knowledge and meditation that guides a student step by step to the glorious state of immortality, peace and bliss.
It is difficult to get to the Truth even in worldly matters. Much more difficult is the subtle enquiry into the nature of the Absolute Truth (Tattva Vivekah). In this first chapter of the famous text Pancadasi, Svami Vidyaranya enables us to conduct this enquiry by answering questions like, Why do we love ourselves the most? Who created God? Do thoughts exist in meditation? Swami Tejomayananda, in this easy-to-follow and lucid commentary makes our journey to the ...
How to live in Old Age was originally written in Hindi. The book is based on Adi Shankaracharya’s book Sadhana Panchakam. Swamiji’s commentary on this book describes the forty steps to divinity, following them one could lead a contented life as well as attain spiritual unfoldment. Adi Shankaracharya, the premier Vedantin, talks of how man squanders his entire life - childhood is lost in play, youth in pleasures, and old age in worries. Shankaracharya ...
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 ...
Mundaka removes the superimposed veil of Ignorance obscuring the Atma through direct and penetrating exposition of the Higher Knowledge like a razor removes the hair from the head. This Upanisad contains most famous, oft quoted analogies in language which is picturesque, couched in charming metre and diction. As the spider projects and withdraws (unto itself) the web, as the herbs, and plants sprout out form the earth, as hairs grow on the head and body of man, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...