Chinmaya Sandesh September 2015 Spiritual Monthly Bulletin of Mumbai. ContentContent President Desk ................................................... 5 Chinmaya Chintan ............................................. 7 Tejomayam ………………................................... 10 Guruji’s Itinerary ............................................... 14 Mumbai Acharya Manan ................................... 15 Mission News o Central Prog. & Reports ............................... 18 o TITI News ................. ................................... 36 o Chinmaya Sagar Zone ................................... 44 o Chinmaya Mahima Zone ............................... 53 o Chinmaya Jayam Zone .................................. 56 o Chinmaya Prakash Zone .............................. 58 o Chinmaya Bhakti Zone ................................. 61 o Jagadeeshwara Zone .... ................................. 62 o Chembur - Ghatkopar Zone .......................... 64 o Chinmaya Prerana Zone ................................. 68 o Other Announcements ................................. 73 Tariff & Sponsors ................................................ 78 Chinmaya Sandesh Team Editor : Mr. Mukul Patel Designer : Priya Graphics Write to us on : [email protected] September 2015 3 About us : Annual Membership Rs. 500/-. 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Chembur Ghatkopar Zone st Our Where Abouts Flat No 103, 1 Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Siddharth Residency, P Y Thorat Marg Adjacent to Chembur Railway Station, Chembur (W), Mumbai - 400089 Website : www. chinmayamission.com www. chinmayayuvakendra.org www. chinmayakid.org 4 Chinmaya Sandesh Our Where Abouts From the President’s Desk reached an unbearable level. We feel that in spite of being “Good” people, why do we have to suffer? And we question, why is God not coming and saving us and the world?? Why is God not keeping his promise?? But the question here to ask is “Are we really Good enough to qualify as Sadhu?” Do we not have evil The month of September starts tendencies hidden behind our so when we will be celebrating called goodness? We may have various festivals of Shraavan good intentions most of the time, Maas. Janmashtami is on 5th but we also fall prey to some September. This day we celebrate wrong temptation sometime birth of Lord Vishnu in “Krishna” and act in an evil way. Till our avataar. It is celebrated all over intentions are not absolutely the world in many different pure how can we expect God ways. In Bhagwad Geeta, Lord to protect us? Pujya Gurudev Krishna has announced and has taught us to have “Purity assured “Paritranaya Sadhunam, of emotions, clarity of thoughts Vinasaya Ca Dushkritam, and dexterity in action”. Let us Dharmasam Sthapanarthaya, celebrate this Janmashtami by Sambhavami Yuge Yuge”. That resolving to purify all our intent I shall come again and again to and becoming absolutely “Good” establish Dharma, to protect the and then surrender to God for righteous and destroy the evil. protection which is assured by Many of us refer to the decline in Him. values and culture in the society and spread of evil tendencies Ganesha Chaturthi is on 17th like corruption, terrorism, etc September. We bring Ganesha as effect of “Kaliyuga”. We see Idol home and do the worship for wrong happening everywhere few days. Our scriptures say that and suffering of people to have the Absolute Truth “Brahman” September 2015 5 is formless. But this “formless” We have been announcing is beyond capacity of mind various programs, events and and intellect to comprehend. projects which are being taken And therefore our Rishis have up by Chinmaya Mission as part introduced the concept of of Chinmaya Birth Centenary “Form” like idols and pictures. Celebrations. Remember, they It is the easiest way to connect. are all in the name of our Pujya But ultimately we have to move Gurudev, and therefore they are from “Form” to the “Formless”. all bound to be successful whether So when we bring Ganesha idol I or you support or contribute home we are getting a “Form” of for them or not. But if I or you the God to worship and when we do not support or contribute for do visarjan after few days the idol them then it is for us to think looses the Form and becomes about what we will lose?? Don’t “Formless” which indicates that you think that the centenary year we must also evolve to shift is a special opportunity to serve attention from the “Form” to in the name of Pujya Gurudev?? that “Formless” Truth. May Lord This is our once-in-a-lifetime Ganesha remove all obstacles on opportunity so let’s grab it and our path of evolution and bring do our bit. us Riddhi (Prosperity) and Siddhi Let us all pledge to support these (Spiritual progress). programs, events and projects. Have you ever thought about what Look for announcements in the name “Chinmaya” has done to Sandesh about them. This is you or has brought difference in month of September and the your life? Pujya Gurudev touched grand event of December is just and transformed so many lives. few days from now. Let’s gear up. Think, how he changed your To become volunteer or to life?? Are you not a better You support any of these events/ now?? He relentlessly worked activities please contact the for revival of Hindu culture and office or respective zones or write spread of wisdom of Vedanta. For to [email protected]. his Birth Centenary Year, are we offering enough unto him as our Unto Him Our Best. tribute to the great master?? Mukul Patel There is so much to do. Don’t President - Chinmaya Mission ask what can I do?? Mumbai 6 Chinmaya Sandesh Chinmaya Chintan A Narration Of Lord Ganesha Swami Chinmayananda The Supreme Reality is unknown; the human equipments cannot The Lord sits with directly come in contact with It. Hence various idols are provided one leg folded up in the Hindu Mythological and with the other literature, to serve as means to reach the unknown Ideal. Idols resting on the ground by themselves are not the Reality, which signifies that but only pointers, indicating It. he is in single pointed Lord Ganesha is one such idol having a mystic significance. concentration Besides being a figurative upon the Supreme representation of the Supreme Goal, the idol of Vinayaka itself Brahman while suggests the means and the he still lives in the method by which one can reach the goal of Perfection indicated world. therein. Christ representing his Father- Ganesha is one of the sons of Lord in-Heaven, symbolizes the Man- Siva. Siva means auspiciousness of-Realization. or Brahman, and his son, like September 2015 7 Lord Ganapati has a human happy combination of these two form with a conspicuously large faculties. This idea has been stomach and an elephant’s well brought out by the trunk, head, in which one of the tusks which represents the intellect, is broken. He sits with one leg protruding from out of his head. folded up and at his feet is his The trunk of an elephant has the vehicle, a tiny rat, sitting amidst unique capacity of engaging both an abundance of food, but looking in gross activities like uprooting up to him without touching any a tree and in subtle operations of it. such as picking a needle from the ground. Ganapati is described in the Puranas as having been beheaded A Man of Realization is therefore and his head replaced with that of perfect in his discrimination, an elephant. The idea expressed judgement and application not therein is that man gains only in the subtle themes of profound knowledge and wisdom spiritualism but also in the gross through study of and reflection world of materialism. on the scriptural truths. Even in Such a Man of Perfection, who common parlance, we figuratively is ever rooted in the Supreme use ‘big-head’ to denote superior Wisdom, has no longer any likes wisdom. or dislikes and consequently he The intellect or the is not swayed by agreeable or discriminating faculty in man is disagreeable circumstances and said to be located in his head. environments created by such So too, in Ganesha’s supreme pairs of opposites. This idea is wisdom we find two types of represented by having one of the intellectual discrimination – the two tusks broken. gross and the subtle. The field of Even when man does not create discrimination of the gross is the any likes and dislikes by himself, realm of objects and beings of the the outside world itself provides world which is purely objective; disturbances like heat and whereas the field of the subtle cold, peace and war, birth and is the subjective discrimination death and such other trials and between the Real and the unreal, tribulations.