Niketan
- Introduction
- Constitution
- Activities and Objectives
- Calendar of Programs
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Activities
- Vedanta classes are being conducted for Sannyasins and Brahmacharis and seekers.
- Special instruction in Vedanta and meditation is given to spiritual aspirants coming from abroad.
- Annakshetra (dining hall) commenced functioning in the last quarter of 1992. A sum of Rs. 12Lakhs has been collected under Annakshetra Corpus. The interest on the Corpus is utilized for food and maintenance expenses.
- A library has been organized with about 2000 books in various languages on Vedanta, Yoga, religion in general and mysticism.
- Every year, Swami Nityananda Giri visits Germany, Italy, Canada, USA and UK to conduct/participate in seminars and conferences and to give discourses on Yoga and Vedanta.
Objectives
A Charitable Trust
- To provide residential accommodation for Sannyasins, Brahmacharis and spiritual seekers.
- To organize an Annakshetra with adequate corpus fund and to make arrangements for feeding Sannyasins, Sadhus, Brahmacharis and spiritual seekers.
- To promote intensive study of Vedanta and research in comparative religion.
- To give training in Yoga and meditation and provide facilities such as prayer and meditation halls.
- To setup a library.
- To bring out publications in Sanskrit, English and Tamil on the teachings of Gnanananda and on Vedanta.
- To bring out audiocassettes of devotional music and of the speeches of Sadguru Gnanananda, Videocassettes etc.
- To organize study circles, discourses, seminars, conferences, congregation of scholars, retreats etc.
The trust was constituted with a property of 1.3 acres of land on the southern side of Tirukoyilur-Tiruvannamalai Highway, close to the Ashram temple and Shrine of Grace at the Samadhi of Sadguru Gnanananda. 0.70 acres of adjoining land has also been purchased.