"Mere listening will not add to your beauty. These ideas are to be reflected upon deeply and digested slowly. This process is hastened only when you discuss what you have studied with others. Study Groups constitute the heart of our Mission. The ideas, when discussed with others, not only become deeply rooted in you, but as they become clearer in your own understanding, they also inspire those who listen to you. Thus, each student, while trying to strengthen his own understanding, can become an instrument for the spread of this knowledge. This process is the dynamic study scheme followed in the Vedantic tradition. This is not a Chinmaya methodology; it is the most ancient Vedantic tradition of study."
- Swami Chinmayananda
Objective of Study Group
How do we engage in Study Groups?
Developing an inquiring, reflective mind is the first objective of the Study Group.
“The ideas we gather from books, contain, along with grains, a lot of chaff. To winnow it all and separate the grains from the chaff is discussion.
The ideas gained in independent study must be brought out in the open and discussed. In the breeze of discussions, in the wind of arguments, the chaff gets blown off and the true teachings, in their clear depths, become evident. This is discriminative-knowledge”
Chinmaya Study group involves five to fifteen people who meet at a mutually agreed time and day for about ninety minutes each week. The group studies and discusses scriptural texts according to a prescribed syllabus that offers the seeker a systematic exposure to Vedanta.