CHENNAI: Chennai Chapter (CAM), is organising a lecture by Shri Ram Madhav, national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundations, on April 25. The lecture, which is part of the Known to Excel series, will dwell on the topic ‘India and her neighbourhood, opportunities and challenges’.
The series had personalities like former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam addressing Chennaites. Chinmaya Mission is celebrating 2015-2016 as the year of H H Swami Chinmayananda’s birth centenary. Chinmayananda was born on May 8, 1916, and was one of the most powerful orators of the truth.
He challenged the conservative minds, teaching time tested truths expounded in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads in English, thus catering to the educated modern person in a language he or she would understand. As an unconventional seeker himself, Swami Chinmayananda did not follow in anyone’s footsteps. He paved his own path and left an eternal trail for those on a quest. A revolutionary and a saint – his story is one of a person who was once a man known as Balan.
The metamorphosis was one from Balan the student, the freedom fighter who was arrested and beaten, taken for dead and thrown on the road by British soldiers. Balan recovered only to fight the British through his pen rather than the gun.
The seeking atheist that Balan was, his uncompromising quest to discover the truth took him from high society parties to ethereal peaks of the Himalayas. The river Ganges was a constant source of inspiration to Swami Chinmayananda. CAM has been organising such lectures each year with the intention of gifting to Chennai the path to character and excellence.
CAM conducts regular workshops on various aspects of mind-management for school students, teachers, college students and corporate. The lecture by Ram Madhav is free for all, and will be held on April 25, 2015, at 6.30 pm, at Tapovan Hall, Chinmaya Heritage Centre, 13th Avenue, Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai 600031.