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#OnThisDay Swami Chinmayananda (birth name was Balakrishna Menon), was born on May 8, 1916, devouted his life to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta

He inspired lakhs & founded the #ChinmayaMission Mission which propogates the knowledge in Upanishads in India & abroad
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He plunge into the Freedom Movement of India against British rule and was arrested and imprisoned

K. Rama Rao gave his his first job, as a journalist at The National Herald. He wrote a series of articles on the imperative of socialism
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He travelled to Sivananda's ashram in Rishikesh for this purpose of writing an exposé of the sadhus

With Sivananda's blessing, he sought out one of the greatest Vedantic masters Tapovan Maharaj of Uttarkashi, and devoted his life to study of Vedanta under his tutelage
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#ChinmayaMission formed on 8 August 1953, follows the Vedic Guru-Shishya parampara and makes available the ageless wisdom of Advaita Vedanta

To date, millions worldwide have benefitted directly or indirectly from Chinmaya Mission's
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