“Guru Brahma Gurur Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwaraha
Guru Saakshat Para BrahmaTasmai Sree Gurave Namaha”
The true meaning of the sloka was rendered in the form of a centenary birthday celebration for Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda in the campus of “School Of Inspired Leadership in collaboration with chinmaya mission, Gurgaon on 8th of May. The a function started with “Guru Paduka Pujan” at around 5:30 PM with the chanting of Shanti Mantra “Om Sahana Vavatu..” followed by chanting of various stotras and slokas by devotees and Balavihar student of the Chinmaya Mission. Later “Gurudev Arti” was chanted with offering of flowers. From the newly baptized ‘Self-Starters’ batch of 2017, there was a devotional performance in the praise of Swami Chinmayananda which mesmerized the entire audience.
The flamboyant leader, Anil Sachdev shared his nostalgic childhood memories which he shared with his family concerning Gurudev. He also narrated a few stories from his childhood, be it how his family followed the teachings of Swami Chinmayananda or the miracles that he saw with his own eyes depicted by Gurudev.
At around 6:30 P.M, ‘On a Quest’ – a biopic on the journey of Swami Chinmayananda from Sceptic to Sannyasi was screened. The movie gave an insight reflection of Swami Chinmayananda journey of life. A contemptuous atheist, fiery revolutionary, skeptical academician, interrogative journalist, a spiritual seeker with an ardent quest for truth, a visionary reaching out to the world with his inspired teachings. This was a story of an ordinary man and his many facets – a transformation that is too spectacular to be true. This inspirational movie was highly admired by everyone.
As mentioned earlier, the current batch of 2017 was named by the Teacher himself Anil Sachdev with the aspiration and motivation that he saw in the current batch, as “Self Starters”. Lastly ‘Prasad’ was distributed to all the devotes and visitors thereby concluding the auspicious occasion of celebrating the 100 th birthday of Pujya Gurudev, Swami Chinmayananda.