PM to inaugurate Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will inaugurate the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan, marking the culmination of the year-long celebrations commemorating 75 years of the Chinmaya Mission. The three-day event will bring together over 9,000 participants from India and abroad.

The PM will inaugurate the event and address gathering, an official statement said. The event marks the culmination of the year-long celebrations commemorating 75 years of the Chinmaya Mission, a global spiritual movement founded by Swami Chinmayananda in 1951 to make the wisdom of Vedanta and Bhagavad Gita accessible to all. Over the decades, the Mission has expanded its work across spiritual education, cultural preservation, youth empowerment and community service. The year-long celebrations began last year with the PM releasing Tamil versification of Bhagavad Gita, produced by Chinmaya Mission with music by Ilaiyaraaja, at Gangaikonda Cholapuram in TN. Several initiatives and events were organised during year, including mass havans at multiple locations, consecration of the Maa Soundarya Chinmayi Temple in Tripura, and Chinmaya Gita Samarpanam under which over one lakh people across the world chanted the 15th chapter of Bhagavad Gita together online. A major initiative of the celebrations was Gita Panchamrit, centred on five select verses of the Bhagavad Gita.

To take message of Gita across country, 15 young members of Chinmaya Yuva Kendra undertook Chinmaya Amrit Yatra, travelling over 40,000 km across the country, the statement said.