Chinmaya Sandesh February 2016 Spiritual Monthly Bulletin of Mumbai. ContentContent President’s Desk ................................................... 5 Chinmaya Chintan ............................................. 7 Tejomayam ………………................................... 12 Acharya Manan .................................................. 14 Guruji’s Itinerary ............................................... 15 Shraddhanjali ...................................................... 17 o Central Prog. & Reports ............................... 18 o Chinmaya Sagar Zone ................................... 24 o Chinmaya Mahima Zone ............................... 29 o Chinmaya Jayam Zone .............................. 30 o Chinmaya Priyam Zone .............................. 32 o Jagadeeshwara Zone .... ................................. 40 o Chembur - Ghatkopar Zone .......................... 44 o Chinmaya Prerana Zone .............................. 46 o Other Announcements ................................. 49 Tariff & Sponsors ................................................ 54 Chinmaya Sandesh Team Editor : Mr. Mukul Patel Designer : Priya Graphics Write to us on : [email protected] February 2016 3 About us : Annual Membership Rs. 500/-. 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If sincere efforts and proper presentation over few hours can get attention of so many people then we must not leave any stone unturned “To Give Maximum Happiness To Maximum People For Maximum Om Shree Chinmaya Time” which is the motto of our Sadgurave Namah!! Mission. We must reach out to “I Transform India Transforms, maximum people and bring to You Transform India Transforms, them the glory of Pujya Gurudev’s We Transform India Transforms”. vision and mission. “My Transformation Transforms Although Chinmaya Ananda The Nation”. “Chinmaya Mission Utsav is over, but Pujya Transforms The Nation”. “Go Gurudev’s Birth Centenary Year Through Geeta-Grow Through is still going on. We must resolve Geeta”. These slogans filled that for the coming few months the streets of South Mumbai we all shall put in our best efforts as Chinmaya Mission Mumbai to reach out to maximum people. participated in the Mumbai Pujya Gurudev always said “keep Marathon. Our Acharyas, your goal so high that you can never Members and Chyksters carried reach the goal”, “striving to reach the sign boards with famous the goal is the real goal”. Our goal quotes of Pujya Gurudev and is our motto. We must reach out chanted various slogans. It took to “Maximum People”. So till we many other participants and touch each and every individual onlookers by surprise as they gave our goal is not reached. But us a curious look. Many came striving to touch each and every close and were impressed by what individual is our real goal. was conveyed through these sign February 2016 5 Last year, we had made grand themselves. It is the greatest plans for celebration of Chinmaya service to mankind. Ananda Utsav. We were thinking Let us put in our best efforts to and talking of “Big” plans & “Big” start maximum grass root level things. And it was a grand success classes be it a Study Group or Devi with the Grace and Blessings of Group or any other class. Pujya Pujya Gurudev and Pujya Guruji, Gurudev used to say “Catch them able guidance of our Acharyas Young” meaning start teaching and sincere efforts of all team small children at an early age. So members. Now, in this new-year we must put emphasis on starting 2016, let us change our focus new “ShishuVihar, Balvihar and from “Big” to “Small”. Small does CHYK classes”. Let us not forget not mean mediocre. But “Small” “Setukari & Vanaprastha” also. means “Grass Root Level”. Let We must have something for all us now focus and concentrate age groups. Come forward to on our grass root level activities. become a Sevak or Sevika for Pujya Gurudev, a great visionary, conducting such classes. If you gave us the concept of grass root need any training then get in level activities like Study Groups, touch with the office and you Devi Groups, Balavihar and so will get the details of the training on. Pujya Gurudev pioneered sessions. Kindly offer your home Gyan Yagnas where thousands of or any suitable premises for people used to attend. But Pujya conducting such classes. You Gurudev gave equal importance may also coordinate to make a to a Study Group or Devi Group group of people or children to class where only 10-15 people form a new class. Support these attended. The vision was to grass root level activities in every bring the study of the Geeta to possible way. Most important is each and every householder, that everyone must themselves which can be achieved only attend atleast one such class through grass-root level classes. every week. This is how we can expand our “Chinmaya Family”. The Sevak Then it will be truly our offering or Sevika who facilitate the study “UNTO HIM OUR BEST”. in such classes themselves gain so much more clarity of Vedanta Mukul Patel and those new people who President - attend gain knowledge about Chinmaya Mission Mumbai 6 Chinmaya Sandesh Chinmaya Chintan Devotion Swami Chinmayananda Impatience with the present and analyse, classify and completely anxiety to conquer new realms apprehend the inner inhibitions of perfection are inherent in and the consequent emotional the animal-man. His intellect and intellectual restlessness in searches and seeks to liberate man. Specialists have been trying itself in this very life from all through personal experiments to limitations - both gross and find how best the human mind subtle. This revolt against the can be weaned away from its outer conditions inaugurated the continuous destiny of sorrows, progress in political thoughts, agitation, worries and anxieties. economic theories and scientific One of the most important paths advancement. The methods repeatedly advocated by almost discovered by man’s intellect all the prophets of the world to free human beings from is ‘devotion’. This devotion is all external limitations by re- generally explained as ‘love for organising, adjusting and, if God’. necessary, re-constructing his outer world led to the growth of Communities have been striving the material sciences. to practise devotion for centuries. Although we have had spectacular Various attempts have been made, results of self-expansion through generation after generation, to devotion, exemplified in history February 2016 7 by the enchanting lives of a few despairing deep within and on rare saints and sages, generally the verge of rejecting religion speaking, however, the majority, because of their disappointment. in spite of their daily mechanical In my intimate conversations practice of devotion, have failed with them, some interesting to find a rewarding result, and facts emerged and I discussed it have therefore become disgusted, with them and advised them on despairing and even skeptical. how best they could correct their path. Time was, when a few spectacular successes could inspire the rest of Devotion, as already mentioned, mankind and rekindle hopes in has been defined as ‘Love for their bosoms. However, because the Lord’. But, the difficulty is of widespread education and that the word ‘love’ has come to cheap availability of media for gather a spectrum of variegated mass propaganda, today the meanings. We love our mother; rare reports of such unique the businessman loves his examples are over-shadowed business; the artist loves his art; by the majority’s experience of the owner loves his dog; the dissatisfaction. Hence, intelligent money-grabber loves money; people have come to regard it the drunkard loves his rum; the as a failure of religion, a definite sportsman loves his sport. How