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 Swami Chinmayananda
is the founding Father of Chinmaya Mission, World-wide. He was one
of the world's foremost Vedantic scholar and one of India's most
respected spiritual leaders. A gifted speaker, Swami Chinmayananda
built an intense rapport with his audiences and communicated the
teachings with vibrancy and wit. He taught Hindu philosophy in its
most ancient and purest form, Vedanta, as it has been passed on from
teacher to student since time immemorial.
Swami
Chinmayananda was born in Ernakulam in Kerala, South India, in
April, 1916. He began his study of Vedanta as a skeptical
journalist, bringing with him the secular knowledge gained through
degrees in science, literature and law. After spending many years in
the Himalayas under the tutelage of Swami Sivananda and Swami
Tapovanam, he started spreading the joyous vision of Vedanta, which
was shrouded in rituals, secrecy and Sanskrit, to the inquiring men
and women around the world.
Swamiji established Centers for
Learning called Sandeepanys in several locations in India. Young
aspirants who received the call to devote their lives to the study
of Vedanta, received intensive education in the scriptural studies
while living a highly disciplined life. The students who graduated
from these institutions as Brahmachari-s and Brahmacharini-s went
into the world to spread the knowledge to all seekers. Some students
received sannyasa (order of monks) from Gurudev. Thus over 200
teachers were trained to teach Vedanta in India and
abroad.
He had also established schools, colleges, Hari Har
Schools for the under privileged, old-age homes for the senior
citizens, hospitals, clinics, temples, community outreach programs,
in Sidhabari in the Himalayas, to name a few of the social
upliftment programs.
All these programs are continuing to this
day, directed and guided by his students under the leadership of Swami Tejomayananda.
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