List of largest Hindu ashrams

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This is a list of largest Hindu ashrams in terms of area.

RankName of the ashramPhotoArea (m2)PlaceCountryNotes
1 The Art of Living International Center
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1,011,714 Bangalore Flag of India.svg India The Art of Living International Center is the headquarter of the Art of Living Foundation. [1] The center is located 21 km southwest of Bangalore on Kanakapura road, at the top of the Panchagiri Hills. [2] It is connected by Road via Nice Ring Road or Banshankari - Kanakpura Road. [3]
2 Adiyogi Shiva
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607,020 [4] Velliangiri Mountains Flag of India.svg India Isha Foundation's headquarters are located in an ashram built on the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, adjacent to the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, [5] some forty kilometres from the city of Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu, South India. [6]
3 Mata Amritanandamayi Math
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404,686 Kollam Flag of India.svg India The Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) is an international charitable organization aimed at the spiritual and material upliftment of humankind. It was founded by spiritual leader and humanitarian Mata Amritanandamayi in 1981, [7] with its headquarters in Paryakadavu, Alappad Panchayat, Kollam district, Kerala.
4 Osho International Meditation Resort
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161,874 [8] Pune Flag of India.svg India In 1990, Rajneesh died and was buried at the ashram in Poona; which became the Osho International Meditation Resort. [9] [10]
5 Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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38,080 Pondicherry Flag of India.svg India The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from politics and settled in Pondicherry in 1910. On 24 November 1926, after a major spiritual realization, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from public view in order to continue his spiritual work. At this time he handed over the full responsibility for the inner and outer lives of the sadhaks (spiritual aspirants) and the ashram to his spiritual collaborator, "the Mother", earlier known as Mirra Alfassa. This date is therefore generally known as the founding-day of the ashram, though, as Sri Aurobindo himself wrote, it had “less been created than grown around him as its centre.” [11]

See also

References

  1. "Art of Living Foundation" . Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  2. "How Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Took Forward The Dream Of Martin Luther King". Huffington Post India. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. "Art of Living International Center, Bangalore: A Place to Rejuvenate Your Body, Mind, and Soul". Fabhotels. 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. "Isha yoga center by Isha foundation". Urbanpro. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. Hudson, Simon; Hudson, Louise (2017), Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality & Events: A Global & Digital Approach, London, etc.: SAGE, ISBN   978-1-5264-1437-3
  6. Berghella, Vincenzo (2018). Chennai and Coimbatore, India. Berghella. p. 69. ISBN   978-0-578-20085-9. OCLC   1032025559.
  7. Amma: Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, a Biography, Amrita Books, 2011
  8. "Osho Ashram: Bhagwan Rajneesh Ashram in Pune acquires new face after Rs 50 crore revamp".
  9. "Mystic's burial site at commune is reincarnated as posh resort". Mike McPhate. 29 August 2004. Archived from the original on 14 December 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  10. Fox, Judith M. (2002), Osho Rajneesh – Studies in Contemporary Religion Series, No. 4, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, ISBN   1-56085-156-2
  11. Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2006), p. 9.