Pujya Swamiji adds so beautifully to Sadhviji’s answer to the question of ‘How to Begin Our Inner Journey?’ by saying another important thing to remember on our journey is to travel light. Because, just as heavy baggage weighs us down and prevents us from being fully present in the pilgrimage experience, in the same way our expectations and desires weigh us down, preventing us from going inward....
Pujya Swamiji begins by sharing that which is priority for us is where the mind goes. He shares that most of the time we want from God, we don’t usually want only God. He shares when we want only God then God is there. It’s our desires, our expectations, our ego etc that become priority and occupy our mind. He says that wanting from God is not wrong or bad but wanting anything else but God is futile and transient in nature. He encourages us to introspect every night and explore...
Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati were recently together with the many interfaith leaders at a special Iftar dinner, hosted by the Hon’ble US Ambassador, Shri Richard Verma at his beautiful residence in Roosevelt House, Delhi. The dinner was a union of Interfaith leaders from all across India coming together in honour of the special occasion to show their deep commitment to interfaith harmony by celebrating together and pledging to work together for a peaceful and prosperous future for all. During the event, Pujya Swamiji and Sadhviji also gave...
Recently a World Toilet College Training of Trainers Class on “Washroom Cleaning and Basic Maintenance” was completed from the 21-25th June, 2016 at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh. It was inaugurated and blessed by the organization’s President, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance’s Co-Founder Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji (Pujya Swamiji). The World Toilet College is a project of Reckitt Benckiser, World Toilet Organization and the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance. More than 25 specially selected participants from various fields of social work, environmental conservation and science participated in the five day training. Trainers and instructors...
Pujya Swamiji's message on International Yoga Day...
Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji's sacred pledge for environment conversation with Major General Shri Ajay Anandji as thousands pledge to plant trees and avoid Open Defecation by building and using Toilets....
In remembrance of the tragic #floods that ravaged #Uttarakhand in 2013, three years ago, a special prayer took place in Parmarth Niketan. The prayer ceremony also marked the completion of the three day, on-going #GangaDussehra celebrations, in which HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, President of Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh), consistently emphasized the critical importance of protecting and preserving our #environment and our sacred #rivers. During the ceremony, a beautiful lamp was lit and #tree saplings were bestowed to all participants, who held them in loving memory of the lives taken by the...
Pujya Swamiji shares so beautifully that which we do, we see, we have, we experience, etc is not who you are. He shares even in sleep when we wake up there is a something that tells us that was a great sleep or that was a disrupted sleep, He encourages us to inquire who that person is who experiences the sleep. He explains to merge and identify with that knowing, that witness is samadhi. He explains then what keeps us from being in samadhi if that light is in all of...
