Swami Chinmayananda’s Vision of CHYK

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“Youth is a stage in human development when the personality is bursting with energy, enthusiasm and dynamism. This is also a phase in life when receptivity and retentivity are at the optimum. What they require is a clear vision of a goal in life and exercises for the cultivation of the right values of life to enable them to mould their personality and harness their inner resources along constructive channels. This systematic preparation alone can equip the youth to face the challenges of life with a smile.
This essential training of youth for leadership in life is being successfully accomplished through the Chinmaya Yuva Kendra(CHYKs) – the youth wing of Chinmaya Mission. Over the years, under my guidance many CHYK centres are functioning effectively as healthy limbs of the Chinmaya Mission Centres. “

- Source: Chinmaya Yuva Kendra Guidelines

“There is nothing wrong with our modern times. It is a wonderful era of glorious human endeavor. The modern times symbolize and point out vividly what man can do with his intellect and the co-operative strength of his individual biceps – a shrunken world which can be blasted with a touch of the switch, peopled by men whose eyes go round the world and ears embrace the globe. There is nothing wrong with our modern world. It is a time when the youth of this modern world have to discover their hidden potential and tap it to the maximum, thus unfolding them into a beautiful personality and making them capable of contributing towards the process of societal growth. Let us first get at least hundred, inspired, purposeful, sincere, dedicated youngsters convinced to a cause, unfolded to the maximum, turned brilliant both in their academic studies as well as in their spiritual understanding of the culture of India, and thereafter it shall be the duty of these youngsters to bring in the others.”

“The youth of today have to be the very process of rebuilding the nation. We may have political freedom but we have not reintegrated our inner personality. In our teaching centres knowledge is pushed into the student, proficiency is attained, but we cannot rise out of the gutters of poverty and inefficiency. How can we walk out of this miserable state? Where are the geniuses and how to create them? For this purpose the Yuva Kendra was created, to teach not my own words but the words of the geniuses, the Rishis who wrote the Bhagavad Geeta and the Upanishads. The Chinmaya Yuva Kendra is trying to impart this knowledge, how to conceive and strengthen your mental qualities in whatever field you desire so that you may become more creative, assertive, efficient and capable. ”

- Source: Crescendo Peaks P.40, 41 about the inauguration of CHYK in 1975:

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