a small comment on swami Chinmayanandaji's commentary

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namaste.

 

I have the highest respect for swami Chinmayanandaji as a modern

day Shankara. Swami Chinmayanandaji saw the need for propogating

the message of the vedic scriptures. He established the Chinmaya

Missions all over the world, travelled extensively spreading the

message of the vedas, wrote commentaries on the upanishads and

the bhagavagItA. He had a vision, and was untiring in his efforts

to bring that vision to all the people. It is no exaggeration to

say that he is the one most responsible for bringing the vedic

philosophy into the thinking of the spiritually-minded of the

modern world.

 

When he sees a person of bad virtue, bad habits and one who mis-uses

the human life, he had no patience with that sort of person.

I attended many lectures by Swami Chinmayanandaji where, at the end

of the lecture, if the questioner either missed the main point of

the lecture or was asking questions which make no sense after the

swamiji's efforts to put the point across, the swamiji quite often

used to get mad and berate the questioner. However his anger is only

for a few seconds, and may be it is with a purpose.

 

The reason I wrote the above is: When I read the swamiji's comment

on bhagavadgItA verse 1.23 (first paragraph of verse BG 1.23 as

presented by shri Madhava), I notice swamiji putting the kauravas

and Duryodhana down. I can see at least six adjectives in one clause

itself. He describes the Kaurava side

 

low-minded,

power-mad

greed-ridden

palpably tyrannical

evidently unjust

unscrupulous

 

All these in one clause of a sentence!! That too the main part of

that sentence deals with Arjuna. The swamiji certainly would not

tolerate people who mis-use and waste their lives. And there is

a message there.

 

Regards

Gummuluru Murthy

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