Guest guest Posted October 14, 2000 Report Share Posted October 14, 2000 Namaste, advaitin , "S. V. Subrahmanian" <svskotra@h...> wrote: > Dear Members, > > I recently read the book "Ishwara Darshan" by Sri Swami Tapovan Maharaj and published by Sri Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. > > In fact he did not even give formal initiation to anybody [this book covers his life till 1948]. ****Swami Chinmayananda is mentioned as his disciple, in the Translator's Note.. > The book is in English, punctuated with some quotes in Sanskrit, not too frequently though [many of it has been translated too, for convenience]. ****The original was in Sanskrit, and translated into Malayalam by Mridanandaji Maharaj, and from that into English by Shri T.N.Keshava Pillai. Regards, s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2000 Report Share Posted October 15, 2000 >"sunder hattangadi" <sunderh >advaitin , "S. V. Subrahmanian" <svskotra@h...> >wrote: > > Dear Members, > > > > I recently read the book "Ishwara Darshan" by Sri Swami Tapovan >Maharaj and published by Sri Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. > > > > > In fact he did not even give formal initiation to anybody [this >book covers his life till 1948]. > >****Swami Chinmayananda is mentioned as his disciple, in the >Translator's Note.. >"sunder hattangadi" <sunderh > >advaitin , "S. V. Subrahmanian" <svskotra@h...> >wrote: > > Dear Members, > > > > I recently read the book "Ishwara Darshan" by Sri Swami Tapovan >Maharaj and published by Sri Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. > > > > > In fact he did not even give formal initiation to anybody [this >book covers his life till 1948]. > >****Swami Chinmayananda is mentioned as his disciple, in the >Translator's Note.. Swami Chinmayanandaji was initiated by Swami Shivananda. As the story goes Chinmayanandaji being a journalist went to Rushikesh to write an article on how the swami-s are cheating the pubic. Swami Shivananda asked him to stay for six months and observe the life there. In six months, Swami Chinmayananda got convinced of the ascetic life and decided to take sanyaasa. As he was more interested to learn Vedanta Swami Shivananda sent him to Tapovan Maharaj where he stayed with Tapovanji for the next seven years. Tapovan Maharaj agreed to take him as his student on one condition - he will teach only once that too in Hindi (both being from Kerala) and if the student is slaking in any thing he will kick him out. After learning at the feet of the master for seven years and inspired by the knowledge, Swami Chinmayanandaji wanted to come down to plains to propagate the knowledge. Tapovan Maharaj first discouraged the idea but later agreed and blessed his student and kept himself informed of his progress. When Swami Chinmayanandaji first started teaching Geeta and Upanishads in Pune, First day there were only five people, and the days that followed the number increased in geometric proportion to the degrees they have to change the Venue. Thus Geeta JNaana yagna-s started along with the protests from Orthodox community for mass propagation of the sacred scriptures in English to the public. After a 50 plus days of Bhagavad Geeta Yagna in Madras in 1952, the core attendees of the yagna decided to continue the studies after the yagna and formed "Chinmaya Mission". First Swamiji protested but later got convinced the need of an organization and that is the birth of Chinmaya Mission. It is the light of the ancients, nurtured by Tapovan Maharaj passed on to his Student Swami Chinmayanandaji that spread all over India because of the intense longing of the propagation of the Vedantic teaching to all earnest seekers. First Sandeepany Sadhanalaya was started to train teachers of Vedanta. Swami Dayananda, who has later established Arshya Vidya PiiTam was the achaarya of the Sandeepany. The current head of the mission, Swami Tejomayanandaji was a student of Dayananda. Many of the students have established their own missions and are spreading the glory of the Vedanta following a Shankara Sampradaaya. Tapovan Maharaj’s intensive training of one student spread the flame of knowledge all over the five continents. Bharat and particularly Kerala is indeed blessed with sons like Shankara, Tapovan Maharaj and Swami Chinmayananda. Swami Chinmayanandaji used to tell us so many anecdotes about Tapovan Maharaj. He is the very incarnation of Tapas. One by name of Shastri from Behar has write slokas called “Tapovana Shatakam” praising the glory of Tapovanji Maharaj. This is chanted with full devotion in all Chinmaya Mission centers throughout the world. Hari Om! Sadananda > > > The book is in English, punctuated with some quotes in Sanskrit, >not too frequently though [many of it has been translated too, for >convenience]. > >****The original was in Sanskrit, and translated into Malayalam by >Mridanandaji Maharaj, and from that into English by Shri T.N.Keshava >Pillai. > >Regards, > >s. > > > _______________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2000 Report Share Posted October 15, 2000 advaitin , "Kuntimaddi Sadananda" <k_sadananda@h...> wrote: > > >"sunder hattangadi" <sunderh@h...> > >advaitin , "S. V. Subrahmanian" <svskotra@h...> > >wrote: > > > >****Swami Chinmayananda is mentioned as his disciple, in the > >Translator's Note.. Namaste, A brief biography of Swamiji is at URL: http://www.chinmaya-chicago.com/biograph.htm Regards, s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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