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NAMASTE

Message from our President

Hari Om! Are we creating a society where Swamini Vimalananda visits us
everything has a price, but nothing again in March. Our Autumn
Limitations, Contradictions,
Changes has value? Yagna next year with Swami
Swaroopananda will be on a much
As we go to print, the Human
Infinite, complete, constant larger scale with the highly popular
Rights Legislation will have become
Amid all these questions, changes Hanuman Chalisa as the focus
law, designed to give us rights and of the yagna. All these and more
greater freedom. Strange, that as and contradictions, Swami will help to stir the sugar in the
we strive to build a modern society Swaroopanandaji encouraged and constantly changing and
giving us more independence of inspired us to look at our Greater
Self - a constant, beyond our contradictory world. We urge you
choice, we are becoming
limitation and above the to take full advantage of all these
increasingly more dependent, to opportunities.
the extent that the withdrawal of a continuous changes of the world.
single commodity (the recent fuel A complete vision waiting to be In His Service
crisis in the UK) can bring the rediscovered.
whole country to a stand still.
Swamiji spent a fortnight in England,
leaving us with the sweetness of
It is interesting to note that in the
recent Olympics, hailed as the best knowledge – ‘sugar’. To quote Rupin Vadera
ever, fewer records were broken, Swamiji, ‘now the sugar needs to be
stirred’. The questioning, exploring,
especially in events that have
and understanding of Vedanta can
introduced a greater degree of
drugs testing. More reflective of only be stirred and digested through
today’s values and attitudes is that participation in study groups and “Self clothed in mind is the
national sporting bodies have been Bal Vihars, several of which are
active and available to you. ego (Jeeva) in man.
involved not only in the use of
Evolution and change are all
artificial stimulants by their athletes,
but also in trying to hide the facts. We now mark the first anniversary for the mind and intellect and
Today the financial rewards for a of our magazine Chinmayam, and not for the Self.”
medal winner can be huge. have recently launched a website
‘www.chinmayauk.org’ where – Swami Chinmayananda
together with articles, news will be
As many athletes are tempted into
taking drugs to win, we have a posted on a regular basis.
situation where in other sports, Chinmaya Mission Worldwide has
sportsmen accept inducements several websites that you may like
to visit (see details in this issue).
to lose!

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2 Editorial Sevaks: Ziaji Rawji, Kiran Panjabi, Suresh Wadhwani, Kanchan Wadhwani, Tushar Karia