*LIVING GITA : SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA

14/04/2019.

In 1968, Swami Mitrananda’s (Acharya Chinmaya Mission Chennai) father got Pujya Gurudev’s autograph in the Holy Gita. Pujya Gurudev wrote: “Read five verses daily and meet me after three years.” Twenty years later, Swami Mitrananda gave the same book to Pujya Gurudev for his autograph during his yajna at Tirupati. He saw the old signature and asked, “Whose book is it?” When he told him about his father, Pujya Gurudev smiled and wrote on the same page: Son also, advice the same.” To the people sitting around, Pujya Gurudev said “This is our culture; the book should be handed over to the next generation.” In 1989, Swami Mitrananda joined the Ashram at Mumbai. On the day of his diksha in 1991, he showed the book to Pujya Gurudev. He wrote: “Father missed it, but son got it.” It has become a rare book with three signatures of Pujya Gurudev on the same page of the Bhagavad Gita Book.

In chapter 6 of Bhagavad Gita it is said, the mind, through the practice of #concentration, comes to get itself absolutely restrained. Here is the instruction by Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda on the final flight in #meditation. "Totally relaxed but still alert, thinking nothing but full of the presence of the Infinite, demanding nothing yet every cell in you drowned in a Supreme expectation – This is the hour of meditation the Gate-way to the Release."

The sun and the moon and the stars and everything else in Nature adds #beauty, #life, and #energy to this world just by being there. In the same way, a realized soul inspires people by his mere presence alone. This is our great and blessed opportunity to pay homage to Pujya Gurudev who knew only one way to love-by working selflessly for the good of all others. Let us follow His example and continue the stream of loving work He began, in whatever way we know how, whether by teaching children, leading study groups, giving gnana yagnas, working on publications, serving in hospitals, helping the underprivileged, training medical practitioners, administering and organizing Mission projects, or performing any one of a myriad of social service activities. As He kept reminding us all, not only with words but through every action of his life,”*Work is *love made visible.”

Never think of the "two things that can happen." Let only one thing happen -- reach the Supreme *Oneness. Shamelessly embrace in love divine, the 'Most Glorious,' in a mood of total *meditation. Let Him pervade you, penetrate your "stone" and give the pulsations He wants. Reach the joyous Peak of the Bliss Beatitude. You have heard enough. Now reflect -- and "*live"

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