Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2kQE2L6yCM

Shanti Ashram 2015c

By: Divya W.

Read the original:
Shanti Ashram 2015c - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7SY-CuQWA

UNSG Ban Ki-moon addresses media at Sabarmati Ashram
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses media at Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.

By: DD News

Continued here:
UNSG Ban Ki-moon addresses media at Sabarmati Ashram - Video

NEWS 2014:

October 2014: On 02-Oct, we remembered our father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri, the 2nd Prime Minister. On 03-Oct, was the Dusshera Festival. We went in the afternoon with 24 big girls to a Dusshera Mela were the girls enjoyed a long ride on an big wheel and did some shopping. In the evening in the Health Center, we had a got together for small Puja were everyone could offer flowers. After we burnt, in the middle of our garden, a very huge Ravanna with many heads, painted from our girls. His body was full of crackers and one explosion followed the other and everyone enjoyed this surprise. On 04-Oct, we had after meditation a huge Birthday-party for 7 girls and one H.C. guest. On 22-Oct, we went with all bigger girls and some Health Centre guests by Bus to Jaipur to celebrate the DIWALI Festival. On the first day we have done a little sight seeing, we went to the Man Sagar Lake, the Jal Mahal and the Vrindavan garden, where we had lunch at the restaurant. On Thursday evening our girls had the chance to sing 9 Bhajans in the Puja tent and on Friday by the evening program they have given a classical dance performance to the Aarti melody. On Sunday were the beautiful Sahaj marriages and our Health Centre Manager Khushboo got also married. It was a wonderful breathtaking event. The bridegrooms came for the Bharaath procession on white horses with colorful stitched saddles escorted from camels and musicians in traditional dresses. All young people and our girls in their new beautiful dresses were dancing in the procession and attended after the marriage ceremony. To the Puja on Sunday during the Swagatam Shri Matajis Photo was brought on a chariot with white horses escorted from two big elephants and four camels and dancers. After we had a very strong Puja full of vibrations and all our famous Sahaja Yoga singers were singing. It was an unforgettable weekend. Our small girls and the staff, which could not go to Jaipur, attended the Diwali Puja in Nirmal Dham and felt also very strong vibrations there.

September 2014: On 7-Sep, all girls together had organized a joyful performance with singing, dances and poems for the Birthday for their Oma (Director of Ashram and H.C.) The whole year over we have a lots of Birthday Parties for our children, for our guests, for our staff and also for many outsiders, they like to celebrate their or their children Birthday with us. So we have the whole year over a lots of cakes and gifts. We got 3 abandoned girls from the Children Welfare Committee and one Lady which was found from rescue workers in Shrinagar during the horrible flood. The girl Prabha started working by Cox &Kings Travel Agency near the Radisson Hotel, were she has done her Hotel Management training in the second year. She will study one more year to get her degree. On 24-Sep, we started with NAVARATI to celebrate the nine nights of the Devi. We and the Health Centre guests combined the Morning Meditation with the Greater Noida Collective in the Basement every morning at 6:00 am. On 27-Sep, we had a Havan and on 28. Navarati Puja all together.

Auguest 2014: The girl Raddha had an arranged Marriage arranged by her relatives. We wish her all the best for her future. On 10-Aug, we celebrated together with the Greater Noida Collective and S.Y. Health Centre guests the Krishna Puja and the Rakshabandhan. On 15-Aug, we had a ceremony with flag hoisting in front of our Ashram. On 31-Aug, we performed all together the Ganesha Puja.

July 2014: The girl Manju completed her course for Tailoring with a diploma and took now a new course for embroidery. The girl Shalini started working by MC Donalds . The girl Prabha completed her 2. year Hotel Management. On 13-Jul, we celebrated the Guru Puja together with the Greater Noida Collective.

June 2014: On 5-Jun, we attended the S.Y. North Indian Seminar in Raiwala near Haridwar for 5 days. The girl Nisha got her diploma for Beauty Pallor and started working. The school holidays were over and the girls came back and started with the school again.

May 2014: On 4-May, we had the Sahansrara Puja in our Sahaja Yoga Health & Research Centre. Our guests went to Nirmal Dham. On 11-May, the Ashram, the Health Centre and the Greater Noida Collective attended the Buddha Puja in front of our Health Centre. In middle of May the school holidays started. This year many girls got the chance to see their relatives during holidays. The bigger girls went daily to a training course for cooking and house keeping in the RADISSON HOTEL, they enjoyed it a lot. On 30-May, we went for some days with few big girls, staff and Doctors to the River Ganga, near Devprayag. It was nice to take bath in the holy Ganga in a lonely place in the woods.

April 2014: All our girls passed the last school year with good results and the new School year started. Shalini finished class XII and want to study business and commerce (BCOM) now. We recorded a new CD with our Singing Group called LOVING HANDS III. They sing many Bhajans every day at the evening meditation. The CD includes a selection of 10 of them. We shifted many girls to the Merry Angles Public School to have them more together and have also the same holidays. All girls got new school uniforms, shoes and school bags.

March 2014: On 16-Mar, evening we had a huge Holika fire, the air was full of colors. On 17-Mar, we celebrated Holi together with the Greater Noida Collective in our garden with so much colors, like we never had before. The guests and our children enjoyed it a lot. On 21-Mar, we, the Ashram residents and the Health Centre guests, went all to Nirmal Dham to be near by our Holy Mother on her Birthday. We had a huge celebration of our 11. ANNIVERSARY: On 29-Mar, we had a Havan in front of the Health Centre. On 30-Mar, we had the Gudi Padwa Puja. On 31-Mar, we had a huge beautiful dance program with our girls and their teachers. Around 1000 Yogis filled up the garden on this days. We served them also food and tea.

February 2014: Our Ashram girls participated by the Flower Show in the City Park in Greater Noida with a Sufi dance in beautiful white/silver dresses and they received huge applause for the performance. Also, some girls performed dances together with their school class.

More here:
Vishwa Nirmala Prem Ashram (NGO),A Home for Destitute ...

SINGAPORE: The Hindu Endowments Board's Ashram Halfway House has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 certification for quality service, the first halfway house to receive such a certification. The Halfway House was presented the award by Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Masagos Zulkifli on Monday (Jan 12).

The award depicts institutional stability, integrity and the home's commitment to meet the needs of returning offenders. Officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Singapore Prison Service were also at the ceremony.

The Ashram Halfway House is run by the Hindu Endowments Board, which is a statutory board under the purview of MCCY. It is the only Indian halfway house in the Republic that assists in rehabilitation and reintegration of penal offenders, probationers, ex-drug addicts, residents and clients from the Hindu or Indian community, as well as other communities, into Singapore society.

Mr Masagos said: "Any of these programmes, any of these halfway houses, should contribute towards the reintegration of the ex-offenders, as well as their rehabilitation, so that they do not risk getting back into the crimes they were caught for in the first place."

Link:
Ashram Halfway House awarded ISO certification

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD2P3zfDgo8

NEWS9: Nithyanada and his ashram in the line of fire
Nityananada and his ashram have been in the line of fire ever since the mysterious death of one of its inmates. But now a much serious charge of murder has b...

By: NEWS9

View original post here:
NEWS9: Nithyanada and his ashram in the line of fire - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYQCdoD7ec

Female Devotee death in Nityananda Ashram | i News
Death in Nitya #39;s ashram | iNews Watch I News, 24/7 Telugu News Channel, for all the latest news including breaking news, regional news, national news, intern...

By: I News

Read the original post:
Female Devotee death in Nityananda Ashram | i News - Video

Ramathilagam, Principal District and Sessions Judge, handing over certificate to one of the persons who completed service at Gandhi Ashram, Tiruchengode, on Thursday. V. Dakshinamoorthy, Namakkal Collector, is also in the picture. PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A group of 46 residents of Samichettipatti village in Dharmapuri district,who were found to be involved in a group clash over ownership of a temple, underwenta three-week-long training in service and mind concentration at Gandhi Ashram, Tiruchengode as per a Madras High Court directive.

The Madras High Court, while granting conditional bail last month, directed them to spendthree weeks at the ashram, according to ashram sources. As per the High Court direction, all 46 arrived at the ashram on December 19. S. Aravamudhan, vice-president of Gandhi Ashram, received them and explained theuniqueness of the ashram and its functioning. K. Piramuthu and L. Chinnasamy, bothemployed with the ashram, taught them inter-religious prayer and songs hailing motherTamil.

The villagers underwent training in weaving, making ofsoap and paper files, and packing agarbathis, apart from attending special sessions for mind concentration.

K. Lakshmikanthan Bharathi, former IAS officer and president of the Gandhi Ashram,and K. Sinnusamy, its secretary, at one of the sessions explained thesufferings underwent by the freedom fighters for freeing the country from the clutches ofBritish rule.The valediction of the training programme was held at the ashram on Thursday, whenRamathilagam, Principal District and Sessions Judge, gave away the completion certificates.

Mrs. Ramathilagam said that she too will send people seeking bail to serve at the ashram. V. Dakshinamoorthy, Namakkal District Collector, was present.

All the villagers expressed their happiness at getting an opportunity to spend three weeksat Gandhi Ashram. The ashram was established in Tiruchengode by the late Rajaji in 1925 to serve the country on the lines indicated by Gandhiji.

COMMENTS

Please Wait while comments are loading...

1. Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team. 2. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published. 3. Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and'). 4. We may remove hyperlinks within comments. 5. Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection.

Read more here:
46 involved in clash undergo training at ashram

The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on 21 February 1878. A pupil at the Academie Julian, she became an accomplished artist, and also excelled as a pianist and writer. Interested in occultism, she visited Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1905 and l906 to study with the adept Max Theon and his wife. Her primary interest, however, was spiritual development. In Paris she founded a group of spiritual seekers and gave talks to various groups.

In 1914 the Mother voyaged to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo, whom she at once recognised as the one who for many years had inwardly guided her spiritual development. After a stay of eleven months she was obliged to return to France due to the outbreak of the First World War. A year later she went to Japan for a period of four years.

In April 1920 the Mother rejoined Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. When the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was formed in November 1926, Sri Aurobindo entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the Mother. Under her guidance, which continued for nearly fifty years, the Ashram grew into a large, many-faceted spiritual community. In 1952 she established Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and in 1968 an international township, Auroville. The Mother left her body on l7 November 1973.

Originally posted here:
The Mother - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

As many as 40 volunteers belonging to various Tamil outfits and civil society organisations were arrested when they attempted to picket Sri Aurobindo Ashram here on Friday.

The volunteers, led by G. Sugumaran, secretary, Federation of Peoples Rights, took out a procession from the Head Post Office to Sri Aurobindo Ashram to press their demands.

However, the roads leading to the ashram remained closed and heavily barricaded with police personnel standing guard. Some of the activists climbed over the barricades and ran towards the ashram with the police on their heels. They were rounded up and arrested.

Speaking to reporters, G. Sugumaran demanded that the Puducherry government appoint an IAS officer to administer the ashram. The government should also order a probe by a retired judge of the Madras High Court into the alleged irregularities and complaints levelled by the inmates of the ashram, he said.

COMMENTS

Please Wait while comments are loading...

1. Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team. 2. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published. 3. Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and'). 4. We may remove hyperlinks within comments. 5. Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection.

Link:
40 Tamil activists held for bid to picket ashram

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUfi-_COaeI

Sangeetha #39;s Death in Nithyananda Ashram : Mother Suspects Mystery in her Death - Thanthi TV
Sangeetha #39;s Death in Nithyananda Ashram : Mother Suspects Mystery in her Death and Said Its Unnatural death...-Thanthi TV Catch us LIVE @ http://www.thanthit...

By: Thanthi TV

Read more from the original source:
Sangeetha's Death in Nithyananda Ashram : Mother Suspects Mystery in her Death - Thanthi TV - Video