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, ...
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Love makes the world go round. If is love that units, sustains and delights us. Rama Charita Manas of Goswami Tulasidasa exemplifies all that is true love/devotion. Devotion as envisaged in this immortal work has been sensitively and creatively capsulated by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda in Manas Bhakti Sutras-Aphorisms on love. The reader is sure to love these simple and deep aphorism on devotion and their endearing explanations.
This is the story of how an ordinary man, deeply attached to wealth, through suffering and the right thinking born therefrom, develops dispassion and becomes a Man of Wisdom. As the story progresses, Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda takes us through the harsh realities of the world and uplifts our minds to the Supreme Reality. His commentary gives each of us hope that the seemingly unattainable spiritual Goal is quite close to us if only we think deeper.
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 ...
Sri Daksinamurty Stotram is one the shortest and the most inspired works of Sri Adi Sankara which is known for its philosophical import, subtlety of expression and confident assertion. With unerring dexterity the master addresses these stanzas to the students who have already fully studied the sastra-s to reach new heights in the seats of their meditation. In the revised edition, diacritical marks are used for transliteration of samskrta words in verses 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 ...
Sanatana Dharma the most ancient of all the living religions of today, a non-prophetic religion popularly known as Hinduism since the last few centuries, based on all-embracing universal love, the eternal values of life and human endeavour, time-tested knowledge and wisdom, and all-comprehensive in its vision, has a permanent message enshrined in it, for the entire humanity irrespective of time, place and circumstances. Herein, wherever the words Hinduism and ...
Sri Krishna-the very name sends a thrill of joy through one who has had even a passing glimpses of His greatness. The name at once evokes memories of the divinely sweet child of Vrindavan, the blue boy clothes in yellow silks, crowned with peacock feathers and adorned with a garland of fresh fragrant flowers, the maddening beauty and love of the Gopis, the stealer of hearts, the dispeller of sins, upholder of righteousness, protector of the humble and simple, and ...
This scholarly work is a comprehensive guide combining the original text with transliteration and translation of Astavakra Gita.
Bhaja Govindam is one of the seemingly smaller but, in fact, extremely important works of Adi Sankara. Here the fundamentals of Vedanta are taught in simple, musical verses so that, even from early childhood, the children of the Rsis can grow up amidst the melody of Advaita. The musical rhythm in these stanzas makes it easy even for children to remember and repeat these pregnant verses. For an intelligent young man, a sincere study of this poem can remove ...
Pujya Swamini Saradapriyananda Amma, A shining spiritual luminary of our times had an inimitable style of putting across the most profound thoughts in a simple yet powerful manner. Amma wrote a number of articles on varied subjects for souvenirs and magazines over the years. This book is a beautiful compendium of many of these articles as a token of our gratitude to the life and work that Amma epitomizes. Amma’s unique insights make this book a veritable ...