From newspaper reporter to a global lecture circuit

Swami Chinmayananda worked as a journalist (for the National Herald) before renouncing worldly life, and after founding the Chinmaya Mission in 1953 he spent four decades delivering the lecture series he called jñāna yajñas across India and around the world. He died in San Diego, California, in 1993 at age 77, having fallen ill while traveling for an overseas teaching camp.

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