Spiritual Giant Swami Chinmayananda: Part 1

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Chinmayananda's Lectures and Chinmaya Mission

Swami Chinmayananda's lectures were an outpour of wisdom. He introduced the Geetha Gnana Yagna. He wrote a lot of books on spirituality, commentaries to Vedantic texts, children books etc. He then started spreading His teachings globally. He organised the Bala Vihar and the Yuva Kendra for kids and weekly study groups. Chinmaya Mission sponsors 62 schools in India with the Vedic Heritage included in the curriculum. Chinmaya Mission also saw the emergence of management and nursing colleges, free clinics, hospitals, vocational Hari Har schools, orphanages, and old peoples homes.

A lot of Chinmaya ashrams came up in Indian with the main ones in Bombay and Siddhabari, Himalayas. Piercy, San Jose, Washington, Chicago, Flint, New York state, and Florida in America also houses Chinmayananda ashrams.

Swami Chinmayananda's Achievements

Swami Chinmayananda was selected as a President of Hindu religion for the Centennial Conference of the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda had addressed. He was honoured at World Vision 2000 for His invaluable spiritual contributions. However He attained Mahasamadhi before attending the last two functions with regards to World Vision 2000 where he was to be honoured by an award.

Swami Chinmayananda left His body in San Diego on August third 1993. His body was taken to Siddhabari ashram to be buried. However the teachings of this great master records His presence eternally reaching out to all those aspiring for the higher ideals in life.

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