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Parama Guru’s Success Pill

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Om
Uttarkashi
22 – 2 – 52

Dear Shri Swami Chinmayanandaji,

“Om Namo Narayanaya”
I am in due receipt of all your letters and booklets. Glad to know from the report of the Editor that you are successfully conducting this gyana yagna. To a modern mind success means a big attendance of hearers. But that is not a real success. Success of such Upanishad discourses depends upon the number of aspirants who are prepared to follow and practice gyana yoga. This is a kind of Sravana which is now being conducted there. Sravana leads an aspirant to Self- Realization. If it does not lead so, then it cannot be called as a success.
Lectures are all good and clear and highly useful to a beginner of gyana yoga. Philosophically also there is no any contradiction with the great and a……….. principles of “ Adwaitha Thought”.

Here we are all doing well. Now cold is not severe: it is decreasing. I am not going down this year to Rishikesh.

With love and best wishes
S/d …
Swami Tapovanam

Conference of Sadhus

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Om
Uttarkashi
17- 2- 56

“Om Namo Narayanaya”
I received a letter from you written from Calcutta and no any letter from Madras received. Afterwards I received some woolen clothes – 2 sweaters and 1 shirt – sent by one Iyer from Delhi as you wrote in your Calcutta letter. I sent an acknowledgement letter to the sender.
Hope you are now in Delhi and conducting the Geeta yagna there. I am writing this letter to your Delhi address which I saw in the ‘Tyagi’ paper.
We are all doing well here. I have not gone to Rishikesh until now.Here there was no severe cold or snow fall this year.We know that there will be a Sadhus’ conference at Delhi on 18th and 19th to induce the Sadhus to help the Government by their services. Swami Brahma Swarup has gone to Delhi from here to attend the conference. Perhaps you will attend the conference as you are now in Delhi.

With love and best wishes
S/d…
Swami Tapovanam

Drop It Down

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Once, a young man came all the way from Sri Gurudev’s (Swami Tapovanam’s) native village in Kerala. This man must have rushed out of his home in a moment of economic crisis. However, he had deep devotion and an ardent sense of reverence towards Sri Gurudev. He announced himself as a distant relative of Sri Swami Tapovanam and narrated non-stop the present welfare and well-being of various members of the ‘family’ in Kerala, in its various ‘branches’.
All the time — it was more than an hour — Swamiji sat, listening to the music of the roaring Ganges. Now and then he gave an encouraging and indulgent “Hm… Hm… Hm…” to the young man’s unilateral bombardment.
In the stream of his empty talks, he mentioned his present state of need and poverty. Finally, as an apology for coming without some gift, he said, “What would you say if I came to you empty-handed!”
Snap came the answer from Sri Gurudev, “Drop it down.”
But the noisy speaker, in his incorrigible innocence, went on, “I said, if I came to you really empty-handed?”
The answer shot out from Sri Gurudev, “Then gather and carry away as much you can!!”
When the mouth is noisy, little do we understand what others say, and much less can we comprehend what our mystic masters indicate with their rare words.
The young man understood nothing. He grinned, and Swamiji with a knowing look at me, smiled at the visitor. The visitor was consoled. He must have considered it as some joke Swamiji had cracked, which of course, he could not understand! The young man from Kerala continued his reports of his native village. Swamiji, still smiling, moved his eyes from the visitor to the refreshing flow of the ever-pure mother Gangaji!! Only empty hands can gather and carry away even when given freely by another.

Chinmaya Creations

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‘Upanishad Ganga’ – a teleserial – was conceptualised by Swami Tejomayananda – Head of Chinmaya Mission Worldwide, with a vision to take the message of the Upanishads to the masses.

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Upanishad Ganga covers the entire gamut on Indian culture, heritage, philosophy and wisdom spanning more than 5000 years.

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