Chinmaya Yuva Kendra - Acharyas for Youth Programmes

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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

 

 

 

 

 

What is CHYK?

 

 

CHYK stands for Chinmaya Yuva Kendra. Its members represent the youth wing of

the Chinmaya Mission. CHYK chapters currently operate in many major cities of

the world, spanning across all continents.

 

 

 

 

 

Chinmaya Yuva Kendra Links

http://www.chyk.net

http://www.chyktoronto.org/

http://www.chykwest.com/