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In the News (Sat 25 May 13)

  
  Bhaktivedanta Ashram
On the auspicious occasion of Puri Jagannatha Ratha Yatra, the sacred deities of Sri Devi (Lakshmi), Bhu Devi and Vimala Devi were installed at the Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Bhadrak, Orissa.
To commemorate the opening of a new branch in Avinashi, the Bhaktivedanta Ashram has organized ‘Hare Krishna Festival’ at the 800 year old Sri Lakshmi Narasimha temple in the famous temple town of Avinashi.
In August the Bhaktivedanta Ashram opened a new center in the South Indian city of Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu).
www.bvashram.org   (1892 words)

  
  Amritapuri Ashram @ Amritapuri.org
When people come to Amritapuri Ashram for the first time, they are almost always surprised—a remote fishing village on a small island cradled between the backwaters and the Arabian Sea has become the centre of a silent spiritual revolution.
When the deep, spiritual yearning of the disciple basks in the effulgence of the Guru's grace, an ashram is born.
Built up on the very property where Amma was born, Amritapuri is now the headquarters of Amma's worldwide mission and the spiritual home of thousands of devotees.
www.amritapuri.org /ashram/ashram.php   (240 words)

  
  Ashram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ashram or ashram is derived from cram meaning "to exert or labor".
Every Hindu man was to spend a part of his life in each of the four ashrams to fulfill his obligations: to the sages by studying, to his ancestors by raising male progeny, to the gods by performing penance and sacrifices, and for the salvation of his soul (see Moksha) by renouncing the world.
Ashram Upanayanam, a boy should live with and be devoted to his guru, and study the Vedas.
www.gurjari.net /ico/Mystica/html/ashram.htm   (933 words)

  
  Ashram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashrams were usually located far from human habitation, inside forests or mountainous regions, amidst refreshing natural surroundings conducive to spiritual instruction and meditation.
Today, the term ashram is used to refer to an intentional community formed primarily for spiritual upliftment of its members, often headed by a religious leader or mystic.
A number of Ashrams have been founded in India in the 20th century as well, most notably the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad which served as Mahatma Gandhi's headquarters during the long struggle for India's independence and Aurobindo Ashram, founded in Pondicherry by the Bengali revolutionary-turned-Hindu-mystic Aurobindo Ghosh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashram   (776 words)

  
 Sabarmati Ashram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sabarmati Ashram (Hindi: साबर्मति आश्रम)was established by Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat in India.
Sabarmati Ashram, also known as Gandhi Ashram, is located on the Western banks of Sabarmati River, in Northern Ahmedabad.
This ashram originally was established in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad in 1915.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram   (189 words)

  
 The Ashram
The focus of community life is the Ashram main building, usually called simply "the Ashram", which consists of an interconnected block of houses, including those in which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother dwelt for most of their lives.
This is done through work, for the Ashram is visibly and primarily a place of karma yoga, a self perfection through action of devotion and service to the Divine and the Divine in the greater community through bhakti yoga, based on the growing knowledge of what we are, which is the essence of jnana yoga.
The ashram school is one place test tubes and scientific instruments can be found, but that is more for the education of the young in the school.
www.miraura.org /aa/as/ashram.html   (1771 words)

  
 Ashram | Encyclopedia of Religion
The term ashram or ās'rama is derived from the Sanskrit root śram, meaning "intense exertion." It refers to both the mode of life associated with religious striving and the abode of those so engaged.
Ashram life was simple and no distinctions were made between rich and poor or between castes.
Over the centuries, ashrams became centers of pilgrimage, as people were drawn to one gurū or another, and to their legacies.
www.bookrags.com /research/ashram-eorl-01   (322 words)

  
 Ashram - Definition of Ashram - meaning of Ashram - define Ashram
Ashrams are a many thousand year old tradition in India and nowadays spread all over the world.
While most of the persons running an Ashram outside India are Gurus from India or their direct disciples - an Ashram can be conducted by any person of any gender and any race, religion and culture if that person is a true Guru serving but God.
True traditional Ashram never charge for their services but always serve on a basis of free donations for any spiritual service to make spiritual services available to even the poorest of all children of God.
www.kriyayoga.com /english/encyclopedia/ashram.htm   (373 words)

  
 they.misled.us » Blog Archive » Ashram
Instantly Ashram whirls to meet the sword, sprawling back to one knee he with all his might strikes a mighty counter blow, forcing an abrupt stalemate.
Talon and Ashram have roamed the lands devastating the evil that is witchery.
Ashram, drawing his sword from the cadaver causes the vile body of Tremme to explode into minuscule chunks of gore.
they.misled.us /archives/323   (1948 words)

  
 Ashram
The Ashram is the ideal place to get in touch again with nature and to revitalise our energies, it is a spiritual place born with the aim to facilitate and help the human being during his journey of inner research.
An Ashram is always a place where a yogi lives, a siddha or a sage; there is no difference between the master who lives in the Ashram and the Ashram itself.
At the Gitananda Ashram it is practised the Datta Avadhuta and the Dakshinamurti Sampradaya of the Kadi tradition.
www.ashramgita.com /e-ashram.htm   (833 words)

  
 Gurumaa Ashram, a Spiritual place of divine retreat
Gurumaa Ashram is open for visit, for fixed hours during the day: In the morning from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, and in the evening from 4:00 p.m to 5:00 pm.
Ashram also offers accommodation facilities for the seekers who wish to stay longer, but they are requested to inform the Ashram by phone or e-mail before coming for the stay.
To be in Ashram is to be in communion with the divine.
www.gurumaa.com /ashram_anoverview.asp   (1216 words)

  
 Sonoma Ashram, an ashram in California for personal retreats, yoga and meditation.
Bal Ashram (Children’s Ashram) is the main aspect of this Ashram and is dedicated solely to benefit the children.
The objectives of the Ashram as a whole remain the same as Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ramji had envisioned for all his Ashrams in India and abroad.
Bal Ashram provides a safe home for children who have no means to further in their lives or who are caught in an extremely dysfunctional situation with or without parents.
www.aghor.org /bal_ashram.php   (688 words)

  
 Esoteric Publishing / In Defense of the Ashram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The ashram implements the Purpose of Shambhalla and all that is in opposition to that purpose constitutes the "enemy" of the ashram.
This constitutes an attack on the ashram, for the ideal that the ashram holds and seeks to express is being veiled by the personality limitations of the well-meaning aspirant.
While all members of the ashram must of necessity deal with their own personal reactions and difficulties, only a subset of the ashramic group is involved with defending the ashram from other disciples, groups, and entities.
www.esotericpublishing.com /discipleship/ashram.html   (3288 words)

  
 ASHRAM - Official Website
Ashram appearing as guests for Eva O. Ashram will be the opening act for Eva O's exclusive acoustic performance taking place on the 15th September in Salerno, at the La Volpe e l'Uva (Borgo Picarielli, 34).
Ashram have recently joined myspace's community and their profile can be found here: www.myspace.com/ashramita.
Ashram will be returning to Portugal for the third time to perform live in Famalicão (at Casa das Artes) on the 2nd of June 2006 and Lisboa (at Santiago Alquimista) on the 3rd of June 2006.
www.ashramusic.com   (359 words)

  
 Burngreave - an inner city Ashram
The Burngreave Ashram is a centre for building new projects and exploring new ideas of Community.
There is an opportunity for those called to personal mission in the inner city to live in one of the two community houses related to the project, enabling you to have an involvement in local community projects.
There is the scheme for short-term residential volunteers, staying with local community members and giving 2 weeks to 2 months as a volunteer at Burngreave Ashram helping with all aspects of the work and visiting other local faith communities of which there are many: Christian, Muslim, Sikh and others.
www.ashram.org.uk /burngreave.htm   (309 words)

  
 Yoga Ashram in the Indian Himalayas
As you stay in the ashram, you will feel your soul bathing in the peace of sacred energies, including those that emanate from nature and those that linger from the timeless healing powers of saints, sages and holy ones.
This ashram is open for the stay to only those pilgrims who are here to devote themselves to sadhana, meditation, seva and satsang.
The pilgrims staying in this ashram are required to observe and adhere to truth, non-violence, self-discipline, and polite etiquette.
www.healthandyoga.com /html/yogatours/ashram.html   (974 words)

  
 The Organisation - Shree Ramakrishna Shanti Ashram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was the vision of the founder Srimat Himanshu Maharaj, under influence of the inspiration received from the Holy Mother, that the Ashram shall emerge to be a large institution in future.
Devotees stood by the Ashram and with their support, the temple was opened in April 1968 with the statues of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda installed.
On the ocassion of the Ashram's Golden Jubilee, a statue of Himanshu Maharaj was installed in the temple.
www.shreeramkrishnashantiashram.org /organisation.htm   (429 words)

  
 Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashram in Oakland - Residency Program
The Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashram in Oakland was founded in 1975 by Gurumayi 's predecessor, Swami Muktananda, known as Baba.
It is a way to reap the rewards of ashram life while continuing to earn one's a livelihood outside of the ashram.
Ashram residents offer 12.5 hours of scheduled seva per week, generally, an average of 2 hours of seva a day, in addition to their personal and professional schedule.
www.oaklandsyda.org /ashram/residency.html   (580 words)

  
 Santosh Puri Ashram
The ashram restored the first charitable pilgrim heritage - now forsaken - on the footpath from Haridwar to Badrinath, the abode of the Gods at a height of 4000 meters.
The Santosh Puri Ashram is situated in the forested borders of the holy Ganga river at the feet of the Himalayas, 7km from Haridwar, 18 Km from Rishikesh, 225 Km north of New Delhi.
The ashram is developing into an attractive place - not too luxurious, not too simple, with several rooms, a temple, a Homa fire stall, a meditation hall, a cow shed with 10 cows, a net land enough to grow flowers, vegetables, cow grass and fruit trees and build retreat huts.
www.sanatansociety.org /seminars_schools_and_teachers/ashram_santosh_puri_ashram.htm   (1517 words)

  
 The Forces Behind - Shree Ramakrishna Shanti Ashram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Ashram with its serene atmosphere is an ideal spiritual retreat.
The Shanti Ashram has two sub-centres, in the state of West Bengal, opened with the aim of spreading its welfare activities.
The present plot of land was purchased for the Ashram in 1950 and Maharaj set foot in the newly built Ashram five years later.
www.shreeramkrishnashantiashram.org /forces.htm   (800 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi : Pictorial Biography
A mere enumeration of the vows is enough to indicate that life in the ashram was austere.
Gandhi ruled the ashram but his authority in the ashram, as well as in the rest of the country, was moral.
When things went wrong or a member of the ashram was guilty of a serious lapse, Gandhi would take the blame upon himself and atone for it by undertaking a fast.
www.mkgandhi.org /biography/gndashrm.htm   (395 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo, yoga, the Mother, philosophy and religion
The Ashram main building was the abode of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother during most of their stay in Pondicherry.
These prohibitions, the only regulations the Ashram imposes on its members, are meant to exclude activities contrary to the right practice of yoga by persons who have consecrated their lives to it.
The way of yoga practised at the Ashram is "a living thing, not a mental principle or a set method to be stuck to against all necessary variations".
www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in /subnav/ashram.htm   (1344 words)

  
 Shanti Ashram - Profile
Shanti Ashram is a creative laboratory where the problems faced by our communities at the micro level can be both identified and provided with constructive solutions.
The principal feature of the Ashram's activities has been the direct and proactive involvement of the village communities themselves in its programs.
The Ashram sees her role as that of a catalyst to empower the different sections of the village community.
www.shantiashram.org /shanti_ashram.html   (572 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Visitor Information
The Ashram is located right next to the bay of bengal in the eastern part of Pondicherry, a small city and a union territory of modern India.
Although there is a concentrated cluster of buildings of the Ashram in a small area surrounding the Ashram main building, many of the Ashram's buildings, departments and guest houses are spread over in the eastern part of the city and some of its properties, farms and gardens are located in the outskirts.
The Ashram main building consists of an interconnected block of houses, including those in which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother dwelt for most of their lives.
www.miraura.org /aa/as/visitor.html   (2117 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Ashram ,pondicherry,india,yoga,Sri Aurobindo, Mother
What the Mother and Sri Aurobindo had in mind was not an Ashram in the traditional Indian meaning, but a kind of spiritual laboratory in which a new integral, Divine Life was to be tried on a much larger scale than had ever been attempted before.
Surendranath Jauhar joined the Ashram with his whole family and later founded, on the Mother's suggestion, the Delhi Branch of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, with 'The Mother's International School' attached to it.
It would be wrong to assume that the new life style in the Ashram and the turning away from Indian tradition implied the complete rejection of the latter.
www.searchforlight.org /Sriaurobindo_Ashram1.htm   (1785 words)

  
 Neem Karoli Baba Ashram Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Because of this, the lawsuit that the previous owners brought against the ashram (maintaining that the activities at the Ashram lowered their property value and constituted a nuisance) will be dropped.
This is exciting news for the Ashram, not only because it puts an end to the lawsuit, but also because the house and land will be occupied by one of Baba's own, and we will be able to work together to improve the whole area.
The Ashram finally had its hearing in District Court about the case involving parking on the rear six acres of the ashram's property.
www.nkbashram.org /publications/0006/lega0006.html   (277 words)

  
 Ashram
The ashram was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati (1904-1997) who lived there continuously for over 65 years, practicing his austerities and sharing his realizations with his disciples.
The ashram’s emphasis is on the spiritual philosophy of Vedanta and the daily practice of yogic asanas (postures), kriyas (purification), pranayama (breath control), japa (mantra), meditation and worship.
The ashram is located near the Sangam, the confluence of the holy Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers.
web.mac.com /shultzdaniel/iWeb/bhajanananda/Ashram.html   (242 words)

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