Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) embodies the visionary ideals of its Founder – Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. Through a spectrum of on-campus and online activities – Courses, Webinars, Camps, Seminars, Conferences and Research Projects – CIF serves as a guiding light for individuals across the globe to explore the profound depths of Indian philosophy, culture, art, and science
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Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) is the heart and sinew of its founder sage Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda whose idea was to build a study and research centre to facilitate academic alliance among scholars across the globe and to bring out the ancient terms and terminologies employed in the Vedas to the context of the modern way of life.
He wanted to build a bridge to embrace the western minds with our heritage. CIF Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS) is a leading centre for advanced learning in Sanskrit and Indology in India with a good academic environment.
Manuscript section of CIFSS is a step towards preserving the ancient source of Indic knowledge. There are several manuscript libraries in our country. Unfortunately, there is no coordination among them. As a result, it is very difficult to retrieve information or copy of the manuscripts from the manuscript libraries for research purposes.
To bridge this big communication gap, and to ensure better coordination, we are planning to make our centre ‘a point of contact’ among the manuscript libraries and their users.
Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan has a reference Library that holds a carefully selected collection of about 22 thousand printed books and around 1800 non-printed manuscripts of paper and palm leaves in different scripts and languages. The book collection comprises of updated reference books, original texts of Sanskrit and commentaries on different subjects of Indology, bibliographies, monographs, catalogues of unpublished manuscripts of Indic and Asian origin, biographies and autobiographies, among other reference materials of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, journals, periodicals, etc.
The Library has covered almost all the subjects of Indology, Poetics, Dramaturgy, Sanskrit literature, Vyakarana, Subhashitas and Suktis, Arts and Humanities, Indian Mathematics, Tantras, Ayurveda, Silpa, Indian Philosophies, Vedas, Manuscriptology, Hindi literature, English literature, Malayalam literature and so on.
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Timeless Wisdom, Beyond Pages, Beyond Limits: Texts for Every Seeker, Every Inquiry.
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The journey through the Bhagavad Gita was truly an eye opener and personally a remarkable one as I had imbibed such depths that hitherto was not clear in previous studies of this Holy Text. My heartfelt gratitude to the entire team.
I loved the course and I have told many people about it. The course is well organized. Thank you so much for designing the course. I was lucky to have found it.
I am extremely privileged to have attended the Online Foundation Vedanta Course. The various study materials are of excellent quality and helped explain the Vedantic concepts in a systematic and simple manner. Thank you!
I feel very fortunate and very very blessed to have had this opportunity of studying Gita. I would not have had a chance to study the entire text in continuity without the help of thorough lesson notes with video and audio formats.
A big thank you to all the people who made it possible to study Vedanta in such a detailed and elaborate way (especially for me as a westerner who was missing a proper foundation as well as Sanskrit terms).
Very interesting and useful video discourse. Along with the written material, this gives a perceptive view of the Gita making one want to read and explore further. I am grateful to the entire team.
The program is an excellent starting point and summary of the much larger ocean of Advaita Vedanta. The videos of Br. Ved Chaitanya are beautifully presented in a lively manner. I strongly recommend this program to all.
Good is too less. Even excellent is only a word, which cannot capture the real meaning. My gratitude to Swami Advayananda ji for the clarity given. It is now my job to do the sadhana and live the teachings.
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