Sambodh Foundation, Chennai organises programmes every year during the visit of Pujya Swami Bodhananda — lecture series on Vedanta, management lectures and seminars — along with charity programmes and regular Vedanta classes. Sri S Gopalakrishnan, former CGM, Karnataka Telecom, is the Programme Coordinator.
Seva — a school at Varagur
Sambodh Chennai has provided a solar power reserve and a borewell for the staff and students of the Government High School at Varagur, a village in Thanjavur district. The solar lighting keeps classrooms lit during power cuts, and the borewell gives good water even in summer, when others in the village have run dry. Sambodh has also supported a local group that cares for old and dry cows.
Through the years
- 2011Sambodh Chennai began in April with the release of Mahabharata and Management by Swami Bodhananda and R Narayanan, released by former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami; Dr S S Badrinath of Sankara Nethralaya received the first copy. Flyer. A lecture on “Indian Wisdom and Modern Management” followed with the Madras Management Association. Flyer
- 2012Lecture series on the Seven Hindu Spiritual Laws at Chettinad Harishree Vidyalaya, R A Puram, and a public talk, “Why bad things happen to good people”, at Abhinav Eye Clinic, Adyar.
- 2013Talks on the Isavasya Upanishad at Ramana Kendra, and an address to the Madras Management Association convention: “Reinventing India — Responding to India's social challenges”.
- 2015“Hindu Dharma for Modern Living”, with morning meditation, at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore.
- 2016“Moksha Sastra”, inaugurated by Dr M S Swaminathan. Flyer
- 2017Three-day seminar, “Celebrating Diversity: Actionable Values for Management and Leadership in India”, 23–25 February, Hotel Regenta Central Plaza, inaugurated by Lt Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi — on inter-faith, management, and Indian darshana in tradition and modernity.
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