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Chinmaya International Residential School (CIRS) was established by Swami Chinmayananda on June 6, 1996. Affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi and the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), Geneva, Switzerland, CIRS is currently headed by chairperson Swami Swaroopananda,(the global head of Global ...
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, [7] the founder of Chinmaya Mission, was born in the city of Ernakulam in present-day Kerala, India. [8] Doubting the teachings of the sages in the Himalayas, Balakrishna Menon met Swami Sivananda ( Divine Life Society ), who taught him in spiritual studies and then placed him under the tutelage of Swami Tapovanam ...
Swami Chinmayananda entrusted Natarajan with the responsibility to set up Chinmaya Mission's Madurai branch. [5] In 1955, Natarajan accompanied Swami Chinmayananda to Uttarakashi and helped him in the preparation of a Gita manuscript for publication. In Uttarakashi, he met Swami Chinmayananda's Guru, Tapovan Maharaj, who advised him, 'You have ...
Today, Chinmaya Mission encompasses more than 300 centres in India and internationally and conducts educational, spiritual, and charitable activities. [3] Swami Chinmayananda's approach was characterized by an appeal to the English-educated Indian middle class and Indian diaspora; he gave lectures and published books in English.
In 1966, Swami Chinmayananda first mentioned in a casual conversation that Chennai should have a Chinmaya Vidyalaya; the first of the seven Chinmaya Vidyalayas was inaugurated in October 1968 by the famous Bharatanatyam dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale. These Vidyalayas are considered amongst the best in this metropolitan city and are headed by ...
He was a contemporary of Swami Sivananda Maharaj who was the Guru of Swami Chinmayananda Maharaj. Swami Tapovan Maharaj was born in 1889 on the Suklapaksha Ekadashi day of MÄrgasirsa month. [ 1 ] : v His mother, Kunjamma, belonged to an ancient aristocratic Nair Hindu family at Mudappallur in Palghat Taluk of Kerala .
Swami Prakashananda was born in California, Trinidad and Tobago. While studying for a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from York University in Toronto , he met Swami Chinmayananda during Chinmaya Mission's jnana yajna.
The story of the Pope converting Hindus, and Chinmayananda converting people back, has appeared in multiple sources -- Chinmayananda's own words in Divine Enterprise and the recounting in Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World and the article in Hinduism Today. Llightex 21:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)