Parmarth Niketan
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Parmath Niketan Ashram is an ashram
located in Rishikesh, India
, situated in the lap of the lush Himalayas
. along the banks of the Ganges. The ashram was founded in 1942 by the great saint Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj (1901–1965). Since 1986, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj
is the President and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan Ashram.
As the largest ashram in Rishikesh with over 1000 rooms, Parmarth Niketan provides its thousands of pilgrims - who come from all corners of the Earth - with a clean, pure and sacred atmosphere as well as abundant, beautiful gardens. The daily activities at Parmarth Niketan include morning universal prayers, daily yoga and meditation classes, daily satsang and lecture programs, kirtan, a world renowned Ganga aarti at sunset, as well as Nature Cure and Ayurvedic treatment and training.
Additionally, there are frequently special cultural and spiritual programs given by visiting revered saints, acclaimed musicians, spiritual and social leaders and others.
There are frequent camps in which pilgrims come from across the world to partake in intensive courses on yoga, meditation, pranayama, stress management, acupressure, Reiki, Ayurveda and other ancient Indian sciences.
Parmarth Niketan is also the headquarters of the Swami Shukdevanand Trust, a non-profit, religious/spiritual organization dedicated to religion, spirituality and culture, founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj and registered in 1962 under the Societies Registration Act.
Parmarth Niketan is open to all, with no discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, religion, caste or creed.
Ashram
Traditionally, an ashram is a spiritual hermitage. Additionally, today the term ashram often denotes a locus of Indian cultural activity such as yoga, music study or religious instruction, the moral equivalent of a studio or dojo....
located in Rishikesh, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, situated in the lap of the lush Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
. along the banks of the Ganges. The ashram was founded in 1942 by the great saint Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj (1901–1965). Since 1986, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj
Swami chidanand saraswati
H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, , is the President and spiritual head of the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India, one of India's largest and most renowned spiritual institutions...
is the President and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan Ashram.
As the largest ashram in Rishikesh with over 1000 rooms, Parmarth Niketan provides its thousands of pilgrims - who come from all corners of the Earth - with a clean, pure and sacred atmosphere as well as abundant, beautiful gardens. The daily activities at Parmarth Niketan include morning universal prayers, daily yoga and meditation classes, daily satsang and lecture programs, kirtan, a world renowned Ganga aarti at sunset, as well as Nature Cure and Ayurvedic treatment and training.
Additionally, there are frequently special cultural and spiritual programs given by visiting revered saints, acclaimed musicians, spiritual and social leaders and others.
There are frequent camps in which pilgrims come from across the world to partake in intensive courses on yoga, meditation, pranayama, stress management, acupressure, Reiki, Ayurveda and other ancient Indian sciences.
Parmarth Niketan is also the headquarters of the Swami Shukdevanand Trust, a non-profit, religious/spiritual organization dedicated to religion, spirituality and culture, founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj and registered in 1962 under the Societies Registration Act.
Parmarth Niketan is open to all, with no discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, religion, caste or creed.