Jnana YajnasA 108 Day Pilgrimage with Swami Chinmayananda

As much as the audience was captivated by His incredibly rational, scientific explanations, they were enthralled by the way Pujya Gurudev would carry the thousands in the crowd as one to the heights of silence. Being a Master Teacher, He was aware that the modern minds were too hurried and fragmented to latch onto the evolved thought patterns in any Upanishad. So, the aspect of meditation that He had mindfully incorporated from His first yajna provided the perfect base; it encouraged seekers and showed how the abstract spirit of Vedantic learning could be imbibed practically. In the silence of meditation, the potent teachings of the Upanishad became greatly amplified. The ardent seekers of Madurai who had tasted the sweet silence strived to practice meditation regularly after that fifth yajna.

In Admiration 

Mrs. Kamala from Madurai beautifully encapsulates the core of her experience attending Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda’s Yajnas: Swamiji’s Yajnas can be otherwise termed as “Vedanta Made Easy.” It is not only easily understandable, but also convincing. The practice of meditation at the end of the daily discourses is the practical experiment, after the exposition of the theory earlier, which goes a very long way to help the seekers in their endeavour to realize what life in reality is. It is impossible to discontinue the practice of sitting up for a few minutes of meditation, after undergoing the rigourous training every evening under Swamiji’s direction. It certainly helps one to develop the proper attitude towards life as such, and greet its apparent miseries with a smile. 

If one attends Swamiji’s Yajna with utmost sincerity, understands the discourses properly and practises regularly, one will, without the least hesitation, admit that “The Yajna Acts.”