The First Successor

Three weeks after Gurudev’s Mahasamadhi, on 22 August 1993, the CCMT trustees unanimously resolved to appoint His Holiness Swami Tejomayananda as the Chairman of the Central Chinmaya Mission Trust and the Spiritual Head of Chinmaya Mission worldwide, with immediate effect. When someone asked Swami Tejomayananda how it felt to be “in Pujya Gurudev’s shoes,” he replied with great humility: “I am not in His shoes; I am at His Feet.”