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Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Cinmayānanda Sarasvatī),also known as Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati,born Balakrishna Menon; 8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993, was a Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher.
On the holy day of Mahashivaratri, February 25, 1949, Balakrishnan was initiated into the sannyasa order by Swami Sivananda, who blessed him with the name ‘Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati’. Chinmayananda means ‘filled with the bliss of pure Consciousness’.
Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes. Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get. Chinmayananda Saraswati. Happiness, Spiritual, Positive Thinking. "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org. 151 Copy quote.
Chinmaya Mission follows the Vedic teacher-student tradition (guru-shishya parampara) and makes available the ageless wisdom of Advaita Vedanta, the knowledge of universal oneness, providing the tools to realize the wisdom in one’s life.
The Chinmaya Mission is a Hindu religious and spiritual organization that disseminates Vedanta, the science of the self as described in the Vedas, particularly the Upanishads, and other Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita. Followers of Chinmayananda Saraswati established the Chinmaya Mission in India in 1953.
Profoundly influenced by the writings of Swami Shivananda, a teacher of orthodox Vedanta, Menon renounced the world and joined Shivananda’s ashram in 1949, taking the title swami and adopting the name Chinmayananda Saraswati (Sanskrit: “The One Who Revels in the Bliss of Pure Consciousness”).
Swami Chinmayananda was one of the 20th century’s most world-renowned and revered exponents of Vedanta, the foundation of Hindu religion and culture. Childhood and Youth.
