Message of Swami Chidananda to Mankind - The Divine Life Society

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MESSAGE OF SWAMI CHIDANANDA TO MANKINDthe greater will become your awareness of your higher divine nature. You will become spirituallyaware of your true inner Self. The more your life becomes an active manifestation of dynamicexpression of Yajna, Paropakara and Nisvartha Seva, the greater will be your conquest oversorrows and sufferings and your ascent into peace and higher bliss into life.Let the spirit of Yajna pervade your entire life. Vexing problems of this modern world, itsclashes and conflicts, its greed and exploitations, its hatred and hostilities, its mad craze for selfishacquisition and egoistic aggrandisement will never cease or be relieved until and unless there is achange of outlook in man towards his neighbour and towards his life around him and until a newapproach of life is taken by men now. Man makes life as what it is. And life around man is but areflection of what he is. The only rational and lasting solution to the afflictions that beset theorganised society of civilised men is a reinstating the SPIRIT OF YAJNA into its rightful place inyour life in all its aspects. Adopt the spirit of Yajna. Let the concept and attitude of Yajna prevail inall your relationships and activities. Let the principle and the ideal of Paropakara and Seva reignsupreme in your daily life and day-to-day activities. In the home, let the members of each family beimbued with and inspired by this noble spirit and thus may they live and act to serve and to give joyto all the other members of the family. Life in the domestic field will now be elevated to a new andsublime plane.Persons in each and every profession must now take a new look at their profession andreconsider their ideas of what their professional activity really implies. It constitutes their serviceand their contribution to the welfare and progress of the rest of the entire society in which they areliving. Professional life is Yajna. Professional practice is Paropakara. Its income-bringing aspect issecondary and not primary. This must be clearly understood. It must be subordinated to the basicideals of Yajna, Seva and Paropakara. Otherwise man is not man. He is but a beast in human form, awolf in sheep’s clothing. Similarly too, your social life should not become mere frivolity,dissipation, extravagant entertainment and waste of time, energy and money in meaninglessstatus-keeping. Social life has to be constructive, creative, ennobled by fellow-feeling, compassionand the spirit of sharing. It must be gainful in terms of increased happiness, welfare and benefit toyour neighbours and to all beings amidst whom Providence has placed you in this present earth-life.Human beings individually as well as collectively must adopt the spirit of Yajna andexercise the principles of Seva and Paropakara in all the relationships either personal or groups orparty or racial, national and international. This is today’s need. This is mankind’s need. The worldneeds this. If life is to prosper and progress and if it is not to become a destructive process of mutualannihilation then Life itself needs to accept Yajna as the governing principle and the innermotive-force for its total expression. This is the one hope for man and his future. This is one way tofriendship, abiding harmony and commonweal. This is ultimately the pathway to Liberation and thehighest attainment of Supreme blessedness.Man is not a predatory creature. Man is divine. There is that-of-God in each one of you andin all of us. To awaken this God-essence, man has come into this world. Yajna helps you to do thisby liberating you from selfish pettiness and releasing the sublime Grandeur of your true divinenature. Let men do this.O beloved friend! O radiant Atman! Do it now.28
CALL TO MANKINDThus urges this servant of the worshipful master Swami Sivanandaji.Glory be to the Divine. May abundant Grace and blessings ever be upon you. I amimmensely happy to greet you and express my good wishes through this message.APPENDIXSRI SWAMI CHIDANANDAJI MAHARAJ(Life Sketch)Swami Chidananda was born as Sridhar in Mangalore, South India on September 24, 1916,the first son of an orthodox Hindu Brahmin family. When he was sixteen, he shifted to Madraswhere, in 1938, he graduated with a B.A. from the prestigious Loyola College. During these years,devotional songs and stories from the scriptures, as well as the lives and teachings of modern saintssuch as Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi and Swami Ramdas awakenedin him a fiery aspiration for the life spiritual.In 1943 he joined the Himalayan Ashram of the sage and saint Swami Sivananda, thefounder of the Divine Life Society, whose dynamic spiritual writings had long attracted him. Soonhe was put in charge of the Sivananda Ashram medical dispensary, where his compassionateservice to all, including the lepers, earned him the affectionate title of Dr. Raoji. He also headed upthe Correspondence Section and was frequently called upon to give lectures as well as attend to thespecial needs of many of the guests. In 1948 he was appointed General Secretary of the Society andon Guru Purnima, 1949, was initiated into the holy order of Sannyasa.Ten years later, in 1959, in response to many requests, Swami Sivananda sent him to theWest, a trip that lasted for over two years. Succeeding Swami Sivananda as President of the DivineLife Society in 1963, his life since has been one of almost continuous travel throughout India and toall continents of the globe in the holy Master’s service and in the cause of the central objective of theDivine Life Society, dissemination of spiritual knowledge.Although, in his travels, he is frequently received by high dignitaries and he is the head of aninstitution with many branches both in India and abroad, yet he still remains at heart a simple monk,whose aim in life is to do as much good as possible for as many people as possible and, above all,bring to them the heartsolacing and liberating message of Yoga, Vedanta and the living of a divinelife.29
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