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Jul 14 2016

Pujya Swamiji on World Toilet Day 2015 (Part 2)

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Pujya Swamiji enumerates that the time has come that instead of having a bath in the Ganga we need to give Ma Ganga a bath. Due to our thoughtlessness we keep throwing trash into our drains and polluting the sacred Ganga . He said that with progress we will gain salvation. He gives example of how, with effort from all, He could prevent people from defecating on the banks of the Ganga in front of the Ashrams. He added if you start with keeping your home clean, your village clean,...

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Jun 30 2016

Pujya Swamiji speaks about ”Yoga for the Body and Beyond’

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Pujya Swamiji gave an incredible and inspiring speech, during the two day International Conference on 'Yoga for Body & Beyond' which was inaugurated by the Honble Vice President of India Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansariji, Hon'ble Minister of AYUSH, Shripad Yesso Naikji, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, Pujya Baba Ramdevji, Pujya Dr Pranav Pandyaji, Pujya Swami Amrita Suryanandaji, Prof Dr H R Nagendraji, Chancellor of VYASA, Shri Ajit Mohan Sharanji, Secretary AYUSH, Shri Jitendra Sharmaji, Joint Secretary AYUSH. He shared how He was so deeply pleased to see, under Hon'ble Prime Minister's visionary...

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Jun 09 2016

Biography of Pujya Swamiji

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Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati (called Pujya Swamiji or Pujya Muniji by disciples), is the President and spiritual head of the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India, one of India's largest spiritual institutions. He is also the founder and spiritual head of the Hindu Jain Temple in Pittsburgh. Swami Chidanand Saraswati is credited with conceiving the idea of and laying the foundation for the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism beginning in the year 1987. His biography is called By God's Grace: The Life and Teachings of Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati and was published by...

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Jun 04 2016

Stop Pollution: Your choices have an impact

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This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. There is a beautiful saying which is used frequently by those who spend time in the forests and woods:“Take only memories and leave only foot-prints.”The Earth is here to sustain our life,not for us to extinguish her.Yet, through the way we are polluting the air, the water and the ground that is exactly what we are doing. Everything we use which is not biodegradable — each item,each piece of packaging,each container,each garment — will someday end up taking precious space in our...

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May 24 2016

World Humanitarian Summit 2016 Wrap-Up

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The first World Humanitarian Summit on 23-24 May 2016 in Istanbul convened 9000 participants from 173 Member States, including 55 Heads of State and Government, hundreds of private sector representatives, and thousands of people from civil society and non- governmental organizations. The United Nations in its 70 years has never come together at this scale, with this many different stakeholders, to discuss the pressing challenges that are resulting in so much suffering today....

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Mar 31 2016

True Meaning of Liberation and Freedom

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Pujya Swamiji shares, "Liberation does not come in another life but can happen now. What are we truly seeking to be free from? It cannot be that somehow we are stuck here in this physical birth and now have to be free from it. These artificial borders and boundaries amongst us and God that we have created are made by us, not by God. God has given the veto power to all of us. So what gets stuck? The senses get stuck because of mind. The mind also gets stuck...

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Mar 30 2016

International Yoga Festival 2016

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More than 1200 participants from more than 85 countries participated in this year’s International Yoga Festival. Classes were held from 4:00 am until 9:30 pm with more than 70 revered saints, yogacharyas, presenters and experts from nearly 20 countries around the world. Ashtanga Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Bharat Yoga, Deep Yoga, Shintoh Yoga and Somatics Yoga are just a few of the more than 150 different offerings throughout the week....

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Mar 24 2016

Holi – The Holi-day to Let Go & Flow

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Dear Divine Souls, Today is the sacred and beautiful day of Holi, a day celebrated across India with great joy, gaiety and festivity. There are many meanings and much significance attached to this day. For some, it is the festival of Springtime, the heralding of warm weather and bidding farewell to the winter. It is also seen as a festival of love, the return of fertility. The Puranas describe Holi as a celebration of virtue over vice. It is a time when we rejoice in the victory of pure, divine Prahlaad...

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drops of nectar

  • Don't worry so much about giving your children cars. Worry about giving them Sanskaras!

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • We must not only light the oil lamp in our temples, but also light the lamp in our own hearts.

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • Do not wait for miracles. You ARE the miracle! Never forget the miracle of yourself!

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • Come to nature, be with nature, and change your nature.

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • Be happy, be peaceful. Embrace all, include all, exclude none.

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • Always cultivate an attitude of gratitude.

    - Pujya Swamiji

  • Accept whatever comes as Prasad from God. Whatever He gives us, a hut or a castle, is His divine gift.

    - Pujya Swamiji

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