Blog
Sankara Bhashya – 7
Neither kills nor gets killed If you think that I am killing Bhishma and the others in this battlefield and I am the killer, that thought is illusory. How? Verse 19: The one who knows himself as the killer of...
Read More
Sanskrit – Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged
Sanskrit – Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged The ‘Middle Age’ is that peculiar time period in the life of an individual where the youth is starting to fade away and old age is starting to come...
Read More
The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth
The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth Swami Vivekananda has rightly said “Youth is the best time. The way in which you utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.” The youth today, indeed have...
Read More
Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster
Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster There is a famous saying “Health is Wealth.” And how rightly so in today’s times! The level of stress and anxiety especially among youth has greatly increased and their health is deteriorating. Ordinarily, a health practitioner/doctor...
Read More
Beyond Chanting
How Sanskrit Deepens Yoga, Meditation & Inner Well-Being Yoga, meditation and mantra chanting often reach us first through sound. Yet beneath every familiar term — asana, prāṇa, dhyāna — lies Sanskrit, the language that gives these practices their philosophical and...
Read More
Lost in Translation: Learn Sanskrit to get to the Source
Lost in Translation: Learn Sanskrit to get to the Source How many times have you read the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads in English, only to find three different translations giving you three different meanings for the same verse? Many...
Read More
CIF Gita Jayanti
Bhagavad Gita Video Lectures, Chanting, Meditation, Mentorship, Certificate . Register Now!! Bhagavad Gita Course Master Gita Master Life Course Bhagavad Gita Album Srimad Bhagavad Gita – A Manual for Life The Mahabharata declares: “If you master the Bhagavad Gita, what...
Read More
Sankara Bhashya – Part 6
What is Sat? What then is that Sat which is always there? It is said… Verse 17: That by which everything is covered is indestructible. None indeed can destroy that which is inexpendable. Avinashi is that which does not have...
Read More
Sankara Bhashya – Part 5
“What is” exists; “What is not” doesn’t 16: For what does not exist, there is no existence. For what is, there is no non-existence. The people who knew the truth, know the reality of these statements clearly. For the qualities...
Read More
Aligning Actions with Inner Nature
When Something Feels Effortless and Something Else Drains You Have you noticed how some things just flow when you do them? You sit down to work, and before you know it, two hours have passed, and you still feel fresh....
Read More
Sankara Bhashya – Part 4
Sense organs and sense objects Verse 14: Bhashyam: That by which something is measured – sound etc. is Matra. Beginning with the sense of hearing, the sense of touch – when they join well with sound and feeling, the experiences...
Read More
The Final Word of the Gita
The Final Word of the Gita: Why Chapter 18 Still Speaks to Us Today Think about it – how often do we find ourselves at crossroads, wondering if we’re doing the right thing? Whether it’s about quitting a job, chasing...
Read More
Shankara Bhashyam Part 3
Wisdom and Ignorance The actual commentary of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Bhagavan Sri Sankaracharya begins with chapter 2, Verse 11: Shri Bhagavan said: You are worrying about Bhishma, Drona and others who need not be worried about as they...
Read More
Finding cosmos within chaos
The chaos of modern living Life is a flux, almost all the time. There is stress and tension, hustle and bustle, deadlines to meet, choices to make, decisions to take. If we slip for a few seconds, we have...
Read More
Shankara Bhashyam Part 2
Purify mind with action. Realise the Self Here furthermore, beginning from ‘Drishtwa tu Pandavaneekam,’ up to the statement ‘Na Yotsya Iti Govindam Uktwa Tushnim Babhuva Ha’ , the text has highlighted the grief and delusion of beings. The grief and...
Read More
Shankara Bhashyam Part 1
The Bhashyam for the Srimad Bhagavad Gita begins with a prayer to Bhagavan Sriman Narayana who is beyond the manifested creation. From the unmanifest, he created this egg. From this egg came all these worlds, the seven oceans and this...
Read More
Chinmaya Mission Pledge
I learnt the Pledge way back when I was in lower kindergarten at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Allapuzha. Within a year I had also been enrolled into Balvihar, where too the Pledge was taught to me. This time in Malayalam.In both places,...
Read More
Hinduism Today
“Hinduism Today” magazine is a global public service to the family of Hindu faiths, produced by a small monastic community based in Hawaii. In its July-Aug-September edition the team published an exclusive set of articles on the Life and works...
Read More
Panchadashi: A Prakarana Grantha
In continuation of the ‘Story of Vidyaranya’ in our previous issue, we bring you this section on‘ Prakarana Granthas’ as an introduction to the Panchadasi. Both these are unpublished so far. Since they were written carefully by Pujya Gurudev himself,...
Read More
Story of Vidyaranya
Among the treasures housed in the Chinmaya Archives in Mumbai is this manuscript prepared by Pujya Gurudev, with the seeming intention of publishing a commentary on the Panchadasi by Swami Vidyaranya. The introduction about Swami Vidyaranya is typed,with corrections in...
Read More
