Chinmaya Yuva Kendra

CHYK Emblem
Swami Chinmayananda

This lamp is generally used in South Indian Temples and ancient houses as a lantern to carry with them when going in darkness. This is light in transit. Generally this is lit at the main lamp and the individual carries this light with him when he goes out.

Enroute, it has less chance of dying away if sufficiently broad and thick wick is used. Against sudden gushes of wind the flame is to be protected by a guarding palm. This lamp has as its middle a wide container to carry oil, and the spoon on the chain is to feed the wick with oil from time to time.

Nahin gnanena sadrisham pavitramiha vidyate means there is nothing more purifying than Knowledge.

Let this lamp be our emblem for the Yuva Kendra.
Let each one of you be a lamp lit at the main light at His Altar, and may each one of you have enough faith and devotion, born out of your study and knowledge, to feed from time to time the mind that lights up the path with its incandescence. You are all torchbearers for the world, spreading the light of the eternal scriptures that you yourselves have studied and practised. This is the significance of this emblem.

- Swami Chinmayananda