Parmarth Niketan

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Click here to read 7 years of Monthly Newsletters & divine, inspiring messages by Pujya Swamiji Most Recent Newsletters: March - June 2008 International Yoga Festival Special January - February 2008 New Year 2008 Newsletter October - Nov. 2007 Newsletter July - September 2007 Newsletter International Yoga Festival Kailash Mansarovar Yatra Special	Watch Divine Ganga Aarti at Parmarth Niketan (courtesy Garavi Gujarat) Download your 2008 Weekly Calendar 56 pages of inspiring quotations and beautiful photographs Publications Download Pujya Swamiji's inspiring books and articles on various subjects Read His enlightening questions & answers Click here to listen to the Divine Sounds of Pujya Swamiji chanting kirtan & Vedic Mantras Click here to listen to Pujya Swamiji's beautiful message on keeping Gangaji and our Holy Pilgrimage areas clean (in Hindi) Click here to listen to Pujya Swamiji's live video Diwali message (in Hindi) India Heritage Research Foundation A charitable, humanitarian organization, founded and chaired by Pujya Swamiji. Encyclopedia of Hindusim Update	Tsunamii Relief by India Heritage Research Foundation View Pujya Swamiji's USA Travel Itinerary -- July & August 2008 Recent News & Events * Pujya Swamiji on yatra in UK, USA and Japan * Pujya Swamiji leads yatra to Gangotri and Gaumukh * Opening of orphanage for tsunami victims * International Yoga Festival 2008 * Hindu- Jewish Summit * Pujya Swamiji at the Ardha Kumbha Mela * Rabbi David Rosen comes to Parmarth * Vivek Oberoi and family come home to Parmarth * Pujya Swamiji interviewed by "The Hindu Voice", UK *Upcoming - February 2008: International Conference on Yoga and Ayurveda

Location	Parmarth Gurukul	Yoga	Life as Prayer

Parmarth Niketan is an ashram located in Rishikesh, India. Rishikesh - known as the "City of the Divine" - is a spiritual center to which sages, rishis, saints and pilgrims have flocked for millennia.	In India today there are thousands and thousands of impoverished children. See how we are bringing them into the divine Gurukul.	Parmarth Niketan hosts daily yoga and meditation classes. INTERNATIONAL YOGA FESTIVAL - March 1-7, 2008	Each evening ashram residents and visitors join together for the divine Ganga Aarti ceremony - an hour of prayer, song, meditation and divine connection. It is our "happy hour".
Humanitarian Projects	Ecology	Sanskaras	How You Can Help
			All donations to any service of this ashram are greatly appreciated. It is only through the generosity of our guests/pilgrims/visitors that we can continue to feed the hungry, heal the sick, house the homeless and uplift the downtrodden.
Parmarth Niketan is dedicated to bringing health to the sick, education to the illiterate, food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless and hope to the downtrodden.	Parmarth Niketan is dedicated to cultivating and awareness of environmental sanctity as well as with the mission of restoring Mother Earth's natural balance.	The sanskaras are the "rites of passage" that a person passes through in life - from conception to death. Various sanskara ceremonies are performed at Parmarth Niketan

A Day In The Light
A beautiful, inspiring and uplifting documentary film has been made about Pujya Swamiji and His teachings by Christopher Miglino and Miglino Productions, Los Angeles, USA. Click on www.adayinthelight.com for more information and to order your own copy of this beautiful depiction of Pujya Swamiji's life and message. The film is also available through Amazon.com.

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Did You Know?
The meaning of the mantra on the introduction to this site"

Ishwara paridhana - devotion or surrender to God
This is the final, ultimate commandment of leading a dharmic life. It doesn’t matter what name or what form of the Divine you worship. What matters is that you are surrendered fully to God. Only through living for Him and dedicating all of our actions to Him can we find peace, joy and meaning in life. There is a beautiful mantra in our scriptures which says,

Kaayena vaachaa manasendriyairvaa
Buddhyaatmanaa vaa prakriteh svabhaavaat
Karomi yadyat sakalam parasmai
Naaraayanaayeti samarpayaami

It means, "Oh Lord, whatever I have done, whatever actions I have performed - whether through speech, through thought, through my senses, through my mind, through my hands or through just the nature of my existence - I lay it all at Your Holy Feet. Every aspect of my life and existence are completely surrendered to you."

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