Obituary for Shri Jairam Jaisinghani

Shraddhanjali :

Shri Jairam Jaisinghani, an ardent devotee, attained the holy feet of Pujya Gurudev on July 9, 2020. A keen disciple of Gurudev’s teachings, he would accompany his father to the jnana yajnas since the early sixties. It was Gurudev who arranged his match with his late wife Pushpa, who started the two Chinmaya Nursery schools in Mumbai.
After a short stint as a medical representative, Shri Jaisinghani joined Sandeepany Sadhanalaya as a full-time manager in 1980. A strict disciplinarian and a tireless worker, the ashram saw much growth and improvement under his tenure. He became the CEO and later a trustee of Tara Cultural Trust in 2005. Gurudev used to refer to ‘Jairam’ as his Hanumanji.
In 2006, Jairamji suffered a stroke and retired to his home. He was lovingly cared for by his son Jagdeesh, daughter Harsha and their families.
An online Shraddhanjali via Zoom was held on July 11, 2020. After kirtan, tributes were paid by Pujya Guruji and Swami Swatmananda followed by the marka ceremony, where rich tributes were again paid by family and friends from around the world.
The entire Chinmaya Family wishes the departed soul sadgati and offers its condolences and prayers to the family.

Talk 18

We have seen the hymn that Prahladaji sang in praise of the Lord. In the beginning of the stuti, Prahladaji expressed his doubt whether the Lord would be pleased by his hymn, because when even Brahmaji and other devatās were unable to please the Lord in entirety, read more …

Talk 17

Prahladaji while singing the hymn in praise of the Lord, said that in the Vedas there were three kinds of forms of the Lord mentioned. The first is in the form of an effect (kārya rūpa) and the second is in the form of a cause (kāraṇa rūpa). read more …

Talk 16

Prahladaji told the Lord that he does not want to be the only one getting liberated, leaving behind the ignorant people who keep suffering and experiencing sorrows in this world, and that the Lord alone is capable of liberating them all. read more …

Talk 15

Bhakta Prahlada addressed the Lord, ruing the state of his mind that does not find sufficient joy in the glorious tales of the Lord and is given to wandering. He said that when he sees the woeful beings (jīvāḥ) experiencing the worldly sorrows, read more …

Talk 14

Yesterday, we saw that Prahladaji, while singing the hymn in praise of the Lord, had described the Lord’s essential and eternal nature as Brahman, His Īśvara form and His saguṇa form. Prahladji said that the Lord takes various incarnations and therefore, one of the names of the Lord is triyuga. read more …

Talk 13

The principle of Vedanta is that in the beginning, Existence alone is, and it is also called Brahman. The entire creation we see is only the names and forms of the subtle and gross. It exists initially in the Unmanifest or seed form and in Existence. read more …

Talk 12

Yesterday, we saw that Prahladaji’s devotion had a strong foundation in the knowledge of the Self, and with this knowledge he knew that the one Brahman (parama tattva) alone, through the conditioning of His Māyā, appears in numerous names and forms, read more …

Talk 11

Prahladaji’s devotion was not emotionalism but it had a strong foundation in the knowledge of the Self and this is clearly reflected in these few verses. He said to the Lord, “You alone are the non-dual Self (tattva) of everything, read more …