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Our annual gala event that filled with fun and festivities! Each year we wrap up the year with a grand celebration dotted with dances, songs, speeches and much more to reflect and remember for a lifetime.

Guru Purnima:

A wonderful occasion to pay obeisance to our guru who showed us the path and always guides us through one’s spiritual journey. Each year we celebrate this day renewing our spiritual vows and re-dedicating ourselves at his lotus feet seeking blessings for the journey ahead of us.

Summer simmers with activities once the hustle bustle of the school year settles in. Last summer our youth group amped up the ante with a series of Camps spanning a wide variety of service camps. These camps are testament to what our youth channeled with right focus and seeds of service sown can achieve.They carefully thought though and efficiently planned various camps harnessing the amazing talents within Chinmaya Family. Pictures speak louder than words!!!!

Public Speaking Camp:

Medical Camp:

 

First Lego League Camp:

Indian culture celebrates celebrate Life with a tapestry of festivals around the clock. We at Chinmaya mission embraces this with full fervor and unabated enthusiasm with CM family members of all walks of life and all ages joining hands to enjoy every moments of it. Here is a glimpse of our trip down the memory lane….through these pictures.

New Year’s Ganesh Pooja

Karwa Chauth

Deepavali

 

Maha Shivarathri

Chinmaya Mission is a vibrant World wide organization with many who dedicated their lives for the service of humanity carrying the light of inspiration and living the motto of  realizing ‘ Maximum Happiness to Maximum People for the Maximum Time’ as their lives goal. Each year we are fortunate to meet with a few of those blessed souls visiting and sharing the words of wisdom and fountain of Love. Here are some pictures of these cherished moments last year…

 

Mukhya Swamiji Swaroopanada Visit:

Swami Shivatmananda:

Acharya Vivek Gupta:

Swami Chidatmananda:

Swamini Akhilananda :

Arguably a key milestone and a poignant moment in a Bala Vihar student’s journey in Life. This is also celebrated on the along with the auspicious day of Guru Jayanthi and Mother’s day, what a great way to give respects to give respects and share love with one’s true guides in the Life.

Fathers in Action to treat Mothers:

Mothers Day Lunch:

Chinmaya mission family is always growing, hence we need to accommodate the growing needs physically too. We are at a point where our current home ‘Haridwar’ space is getting constrained and fortunately our corner unit became available for purchase with Gurudev’s grace. We had to jump into this window of opportunity and the CMP board got into action! We purchased that unit! Now we have to pay….and here comes another opportunity to raise some funds, apart for the generous contributions from several Chinmaya Family members and well wishers. Glimpses of the Fundraiser event- TRANCE by Shobana!

Hustle bustle of the First Day of Balavihar!

 

India Day Participation

 

Janmashtami Celebrations

Janmashtami is the day Lord Krishna was born. People visit Krishna temples on this day, conduct Puja and have a whole day of celebration. Krishna Janmashtami is an important festival which is celebrated with great fervor at Chinmaya Haridwar.

 

Gift for the needy.

 Every month volunteers from Chinmaya mission get together and cook a sumptuous meal for the most needy in our society. This is a wonderful experience for all involved and typically we get more volunteers than we can accommodate! Activities include collecting donations from local bakery, shopping and bulk cooking and delivery and serve.

Kapil Varma

Two years ago, I, along with a few other high schoolers, came together to try to give back to our community. Though we’d been exposed to CORDUSA many times over the years through the CORD walks, our passion was really kicked into high gear when some of us visited CORD’s centers in rural India. Here, we were able to meet the people who CORDUSA was trying to help in person, and that ignited a spark within our souls. We started small that summer, just running two camps, a medical checkup and a LEGO Robotics camp. Both were extremely well received, so we began to meet over the course of the school year in order to better prepare for the next summer. Last summer, we ran two more camps in addition to the first two, a public speaking camp and a cooking camp. I ran the public speaking camp, and was motivated to work my hardest when I saw my students improving before my eyes. Not only did we teach valuable skills to our community’s youth, CORDUSA Youth was able to raise over $2000 for CORDUSA through summer camps last year alone. This year, we plan to expand our camp selection even further, and working out the details now. We’re also conducting two sessions of the Medical check up so that we can establish how our attendees’ vitals have changed over time.  As I am heading out to College this year, I am looking forward to coming back and contributing whenever I get a chance.

Samu Kumar

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their own humanity” ~ Nelson Mandela

Today’s society is plagued by poverty, paucity of peace, scarcity of sanity, famine of faith yet inundated with information tsunami.

It is difficult to ignore the gnawing daily battles facing majority of world as it is gut wrenching, distressing & tormenting to throw a deaf ear, being oblivious to all the unimaginable ordeals dealt across the globe so fundamental to basic human rights.

Given such a discordant divisive drama influencing our day lives, be it the kids, youth, adults or seniors, we all are a vulnerable population in this modern era of multitasking, multifaceted, malfunctioning model of outer world.

How does one make a difference, create serenity in daily life accessing resources to the the necessitated population including the underprivileged?

How does one bring calmness in chaos?

One can attend the discourse provided by Acharya Vivekji if you are so privileged or one can attend Chinmaya mission regularly, an immense wealth of spiritual resource to delve into seeking that calmness.

Mission abodes wealth of Hindu scriptures & doctrines of various formats made suitable to novices of all stages of comprehension unraveled by a tight knit group of intellectual, selfless, service oriented, passionate patrons. Blessed also to have visiting spiritual leaders, Swamijis & Acharyas whose personal preaching is easier to decipher. At the same time made accessible are inspirational activities lending hands in joining to give back to the community, local & global.

Spirituality & spiritual education lets one focus on self, looking inwards rather that outside for solutions, unfold to unveil the divine within by unlearning the ego fortress built over years. It creates & reminds awareness of bigger than life true nature of self.

Sincere appreciation to Chinmaya organization, particularly Chinmaya  Haridhwar of Portland to have opened doors for many new families alike to benefit the rich wisdom to lead a path of virtuous living.

Ever so significant for us & to our youth, the future of this world is to inculcate these values to make them resilient with integrity, build bridges amongst communities, countries to uplift themselves & the downtrodden around as they proceed to excel in every stage of life.

Paradigm shift is an uphill endeavor, a paramount task to undertake to infuse spirituality which is a huge void in today’s academic curriculum.

“Until someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It is not” ~ Dr. Seuss.

Hari Om,
Samu