In the Regeneration and Divinisation of Human Beings

Swami Chinmayananda: Benefits of Gayatri mantra! chanting, mantra, prayer, spiritual growth, powerful ================================================================================ 1.#Opinion : June 2024. 05:30. 3561// Article 1.#Yoga and Meditation: Yoga: Its Meaning and Application in Our Lives -2. (Spoken to Officials of the Government of India) Post-2. ================================================================================= 3.Yoga in National Life: Provided people take sufficient interest in acquiring this knowledge and take the initiative in applying it in their daily lives, the government will naturally have to pay proper attention to it. Public support is based on public interest, and this interest again is based on right understanding. The first thing to be done is to dispel ignorance. The expected result will follow. What are the cultural and national interests? An answer to this question will bring out the extent to which human society is in need of the practice...

=================================================================================== Thursday, 06 June 2024. 05:30.  In the Regeneration and Divinisation of Human Beings  HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 9.Raksha Bandhan: Post-8. =================================================================================== 9.Raksha Bandhan: RAKSHA BANDHAN is called Avani Avittam in South India. This falls on the full moon day of the month of Sravan (August-September). It is an important Hindu festival. Hindus wear a new holy thread and offer libations of water to the ancient Rishis on this day. Recitation of the Vedas on this great day is highly beneficial. This festival is also known as Upakarmam, and is specially sacred to the Brahmins, who have been invested with the sacred thread. When the Brahmin boy is invested with this holy thread, symbolically his third eye, or the eye of wisdom, is opened. This festival of Upakarmam reminds the wearer of the sacred thread of its glorious spiritual s...