Formation 1953 Purpose Spirituality, Vedanta Headed By Swami Swaroopananda Founded 1953, India | Legal status Trust Location India Founder Chinmayananda Saraswati Headquarters Mumbai, Coimbatore | |
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Type Non-Profit Organisation Motto To give maximum happiness to the maximum number for the maximum time Similar Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushott, Isha Foundation, Ekal Vidyalaya Profiles | ||
Guru strotram chinmaya mission
The Chinmaya Mission is a Hindu spiritual organisation engaged in the dissemination of Vedanta, the science of the self as expounded in the Vedas, particularly the Upanishads, and other important Hindu scriptures including the Bhagavad Gita. The Chinmaya Mission was established in India in 1953 by devotees of the renowned Vedanta teacher Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati. Under his guidance the devotees formed the nucleus of a spiritual renaissance movement that now encompasses a wide range of spiritual, educational and charitable activities touching the lives of thousands in India and outside its borders. It also conducts activities such as Balavihar, a program that helps educate Hindu children, especially those outside India, about their culture and values, and the Chinmaya Organization of Rural Development (CORD), which helps empower people from villages across India.
Contents
- Guru strotram chinmaya mission
- Practical application of the bhagavad geeta in daily life
- Founder
- Activities
- Medical facilities
- Educational field
- Rural development
- Studies in Indology
- Cultural field
- Area of influence
- Ashrams
- References
Administered by the Central Chinmaya Mission Trust in Mumbai, India, the mission was later headed by Swami Tejomayananda and is now headed by Swami Swaroopananda. There are over 313 mission centres all over India and abroad. North America had more than 30 centres.
Practical application of the bhagavad geeta in daily life
Founder
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, the founder of Chinmaya Mission, taught spirituality as the art of living. Through jnana yoga (the Vedantic path of spiritual knowledge), he emphasized the balance of head and heart, pointing out selfless work, study, and meditation as the cornerstones of spiritual practice.
Not satisfied by worldly aspirations or his degrees in literature and law, Balakrishna Menon pursued spiritual studies for nine years in the Himalayas, under the guidance of Swami Sivananda (Divine Life Society) and the tutelage of Swami Tapovanam (Tapovan Maharaj). He eventually came to share this Vedantic knowledge with the masses, in the form of the dynamic teacher known as Swami Chinmayananda.
Swamiji is a teacher of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. He is credited with the renaissance of spirituality and cultural values in India, and with the spreading of Advaita Vedanta, as expounded by Adi Shankaracharya, throughout the world.
Activities
The following activities are conducted at mission centers on a weekly basis:
Medical facilities
Educational field
Rural development
Chinmaya Mission undertakes activities of Rural Development via its wing Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (CORD)
Studies in Indology
Cultural field
Imparting knowledge of Indian scriptures in English and regional languages (Free two years residential course, for college graduate students) – 6
Area of influence
The Chinmaya Mission has influence in India, especially in Southern, Northern and Western India and among Indian as well as many foreign communities in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England and other countries.
Ashrams
- Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Mumbai
- Chinmaya Tapovan Trust, Sidhbari
- Chinmaya Sandeepany, Karnataka
- Chinmaya Sandeepany, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
- Chinmaya Gardens, Coimbatore
- Tapovan Kuti, Uttarkashi
- Chinmaya Vibhooti, Kolwan, Pune
- Chinmaya Krishnalaya, Piercy, CA, USA
- SharadaSannidhi, Mangalore, Karnataka
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Chinmayaranyam, Andhra Pradesh