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Logic Ablaze with

Love

SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA

n exquisite thinker, a brilliant intellect, a personality
Ascintillating with the vision of the Truth, a heart throbbing
with industrious faith and ardent desire to serve the nation,
sweetly emotional and relentlessly logical, in Adi Sankaracharya,
the Upanishads discovered the fittest Spiritual General. He brought
to his work his literary dexterity, both in prose and poetry, and,
under the heat of his fervent ideals, the great Sanskrit language
became almost plastic. He could mould it into any shape and
any prose, heavily laden with irresistible arguments, to flowing
rivulets of lilting, tuneful songs of love and beauty; there is no
technique in language that Sankara did not take up, and
whatever form he took up, he proved himself to be a master in.

In Bhaja Govindam, Sankara addresses his students of all times
and, across the mounting centuries to the end of infinity, he blesses
all pursuers of this path. “May you be liberated from saàsära soon”–
is the burden of the Master’s good wishes. This liberation is not

Except from ‘To Shankara – A Garland of Chinmaya’. First published in Tapovan
Prasad. May 1966.

Transcend the mind. You have
GEETA GROUP no enemy other than yourself
and no friend greater than
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Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 14 April 2026