Rural Upliftment, Chinmaya Style

With Vedanta as the guiding principle and selfless seva (service) as the driving motto, the Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development (CORD) took its first steps as the Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre (CRPHC&TC) on 10 April 1985. Inaugurating it, Gurudev Chinmayananda expressed His purpose behind CORD thus: “The people of the Himalayas, especially women, have selflessly served the wandering sadhus. This will be our repayment of rna (debt) to them. I want to serve them.”