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Pujya Swamiji’s 60th Janam Utsav Celebration

Parmarth Niketan Ashram hosted a huge interfaith gathering in honor of Pujya Swamiji’s 60th Janam Utsav, with the top leaders of the world’s religions coming together in the name of Environmental Protection for World Peace. There were leaders of Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Bahai from India and from across the world,…

“Here Comes the Sun”, National Geographic Traveler

“Here Comes the Sun”, a beautiful article in National Geographic Traveler by Peter McBride about Rishikesh, Parmarth, and yoga. Click here to read the full article.

“A celebration, not a boot camp”, India Abroad

Covering the International Yoga Festival 2012 at Parmarth Niketan. Click the image to read the article larger.

“Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh”, Rail Bandhu

  Covering Parmarth and the spiritual environment it provides for pilgrims from across the world. Click the image above to read the article larger.

International Yoga Festival 2012

From March 1-7, Parmarth Niketan and Uttarakhand Tourism hosted the annual International Yoga Festival. This year we had nearly 500 participants from 31 countries and nearly 30 yogacharyas! Swami Dayananda Saraswatiji, Shankaracharya Swami Divyanand Teerthji, Swami Chidanandji (Pujya Swamiji), Radhanath Swamiji, Swami Yoganandaji, Padmashri Bharat Bhushan, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Manouso Manos, Deepika Mehta, V. Vasudevan…

“Foreigners flock to India’s world yoga capital”, Kuwait Times, 4 March 2011

Ganga Sparsh Clean Up Program Launch with Dalai Lama

When the Dalai Lama was with us for the preview of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism on 3 & 4 April (click here for more information) we had a huge function at Parmarth launching the Clean Up Ganga program, initiated by Pujya Swamiji with the cooperation of the Government of Uttarakhand. H.H. the Dalai Lama was…

Preview of Encyclopedia of Hinduism with H.H. the Dalai Lama

H.H. the Dalai Lama came here to Parmarth, on Pujya Swamiji’s invitation, for the preview of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism, a historic project of India Heritage Research Foundation (www.ihrf.com) of which Pujya Swamiji is the founder/chairman. The ceremony was a huge, divine, unprecedented event in the Kumbha Mela with H.H. the Dalai Lama, India’s most…