By: Krishnapriya Thirumala While the coronavirus pandemic has presented a unique challenge for everyone, it has also provided an opportunity to more deeply reflect on societal problems and ways to alleviate them. Recognizing this, the CommUnity for Society movement, organized…
By Theos Stamoulis On October 17, 42 seekers from 21 cities around the globe completed the Running from the Mind Challenge. The Running from the Mind Challenge, organized by Chinmaya Mission Niagara, invited seekers with various levels of experience to…
Notes by Meghnaa Vasudev The first virtue we are learning about this year is fearlessness. To become fearless we must first understand fear. We discussed what fear causes: insecurity, inability to focus, irrational thinking. We also anonymously shared our greatest…
Notes by Dwija Ramesh Recap: What is the manual that helps us live, survive and thrive? Our scriptures: teaches us how to relate with the world around us teaches us about our nature, Happiness how to realize our nature while…
Noted by Dwija Ramesh Recap: Happiness is our nature unlike what we decided last week. Discourse: At a high level, all of our actions are motivated by two things: Sukha prapti – Seeking happiness Dukha nivritti – Escaping sadness We…
By Dwija Ramesh Recap: Last week, we talked about Dharma and how it means to integrate and uphold This is the essential nature of a thing. Discourse: In today’s class, we had a debate. Each team had 10 minutes to…
Notes by Dwija Ramesh Recap: 2 weeks ago, we talked about the Bhagavad Gita – a text on one who is wise that has lived life well – so that we can live well. When we discussed this manual of…
Hari Om! Every week, we’ll be updating this post with the Reflection Adventure of the Week. We encourage you to reflect + respond in the comments below. RAW for Week 19 (02/14/22): Count how many people you talk to face-to-face…
September 13th 2021 | Notes by Dwija Ramesh Discourse: We started with an activity where Sumanji showed us a long piece of rock with notches in it and put us into breakout rooms to talk about what the object could…
54 seekers of all ages from around the world had the incredible opportunity to experience SILENCE for 60 hours guided by Vivekji virtually. Throughout the “Re-treat” seekers committed to a vow of SILENCE, no technology, reading, writing or rituals to…
