Swami Sivananda Holy Samadhi Mandir - Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
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Swami Sivananda Holy Samadhi Shrine is located on the grounds of Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Location: India
Date Posted: 01/13/2016
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Swami Sivananda (8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (DLS) in 1936, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, the headquarters of the DLS, on the bank of the Ganges at Sivanandanagar, Rishikesh.
Sivananda Ashram was the first ashram to open its doors to the West and to introduce the science of yoga in the 1930s. The Sivananda Ashram is the headquarters and spiritual focal point of a vast worldwide organisation called "The Divine Life Society." The Society encompasses more than 300 branches around the world, as well as individual devotees in India and abroad. Sivananda Ashram is dedicated to the service of all and is itself benefited by the generous donations of the devotees who want to see that service continue. It is in the Ashram that any person interested in the spiritual life, whether a member of the DLS or not, can come and be nurtured by the spirit that pervades this place.
Holy Samadhi Mandir commemorates the death of Swami Sivananda on 14 July 1963 on the bank of the Ganges, in Sivananda Ashram. Samadhi Mandir is the central place of spiritual activities of the ashram. The two main activities - early morning meditation, and the evening Satsanga - are held here. The innermost part of Swami Sivananda Samadhi Mandir is the sanctum sanctorum, the Samadhi of this great saint where devotees bow down very reverentially.
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