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Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji talks about the need to stop Open Defecation and how this concept is not relevant anymore in today's times....
The Simhastha Mahakumbh, Ujjain turned into Green Kumbh - A Mela with a vision of clean and green India as the Swachhta Kranti campaign there was led by HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh and Co-founder of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance. He stated, “The world is as we dream it, and it is time for a new dream. Every day, 1,200 children die needlessly in India due to lack of clean water, sanitation and hygiene. The deaths are a result of our bad habits....
परम पूज्य स्वामी चिदानंद सरस्वती जी महाराज के पावन सान्निध्य में सिंहस्थ कुम्भ में आये विभिन्न धर्मों के धर्मगुरुओं ने स्वच्छता के लिये सामूहिक संकल्प द्वारा देशवासियों का आह्वान किया। राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर ‘स्वच्छता क्रान्ति’ के लिए कमर कसें- धर्म गुरु। सांस लेने लायक हवा तथा पीने लायक शुद्ध जल की उपलब्धता का धर्म निभायें देश वासी। सभी धर्मों के धर्म गुरुओं नें अपने अनुयायियों से स्वच्छता क्रान्ति एवं पर्यावरण संरक्षण के लिए जागरूकता अभियान चलाने का किया आह्वान।...
परम पूज्य स्वामी चिदानंद सरस्वती जी महाराज के पावन सान्निध्य में सिंहस्थ कुम्भ में आये विभिन्न धर्मों के धर्मगुरुओं ने स्वच्छता के लिये सामूहिक संकल्प द्वारा देशवासियों का आह्वान किया। राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर ‘स्वच्छता क्रान्ति’ के लिए कमर कसें- धर्म गुरु। सांस लेने लायक हवा तथा पीने लायक शुद्ध जल की उपलब्धता का धर्म निभायें देश वासी। सभी धर्मों के धर्म गुरुओं नें अपने अनुयायियों से स्वच्छता क्रान्ति एवं पर्यावरण संरक्षण के लिए जागरूकता अभियान चलाने का किया आह्वान।...
Interfaith leaders join forces on the banks of the River Kshipra during the 2016 Ujjain Kumbha Mela for a heart-felt vow for a clean and healthy India. Leaders of many faiths joined hands at the Datt Akharda Ghat to lead and inspire a pledge to end pollution of our sacred fresh water sources, end open defecation, encourage sanitation practices such as washing our hands before and after meals and to work together in ensuring our communities are once again clean and green for all....
Sacred water blessing and Swacchta Sankalp taken at Simhasth Mahakumbh Parv 2016...
A beautiful and grand Chunari Mahotsav was organized on the holy banks of the River Kshipra during the Simhastha Kumbha Mahaparv with the blessings and inspiration of Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, President of Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh), Co-Founder of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance and Founder of the Ganga Action Parivar. The ceremony was blessed and joined by Pujya Acharya Pundrik Goswamiji, eminent Kathakar, who also led an important sankalp (pledge) to bring an end to the practice of open defecation as well as to keep our sacred rivers free from...
Interview of Chidananda Swami President and Spiritual head of the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh...
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...