Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog

Last updated

Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog
AbbreviationJKYog
Formation2009(15 years ago) (2009) Plano, Texas, United States
Founder Swami Mukundananda
Type Nonprofit Organization, 501(c)(3)
Legal status Charitable Trust
Purpose Spirituality
Headquarters Plano, Texas, United States
Area served
United States
Affiliations Hinduism
Website jkyog.org

Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog (JKYog) is a spiritual and charitable non-profit organization in United States. It was founded by Swami Mukundananda (in 2009), a senior disciple of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. JKYog works for physical, mental, spiritual wellness through a holistic system of Yog that includes Bhakti yoga, meditation, and spirituality. The organization also supports health care for the underprivileged and education for rural youth. [1]

Contents

History

In 2009, Mukundananda, a senior disciple of Kripalu Maharaj, founded JKYog in the United States with the goal of disseminating Vedic knowledge in the western world. [2] In July 2017, JKYog established the Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas, which serves as the JKYog headquarters in United States. [3] [4]

Teachings

The mission of JKYog is to serve society with both material and spiritual knowledge for complete physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual well-being. [5] [6] The teachings of JKYog include a combination of five disciplines of Vedic philosophy, which are yoga, breathing techniques, relaxation, meditation and healthy diet. [7]

JKYog teaches non-violence and respect for all living beings. [8] JKYog requires their followers to consume a lacto-vegetarian diet for ethical and spiritual reasons. [9] [10] [11] In 2018, JKYog published a vegetarian cookbook. [12]

Activities

JKYog offers weeklong yoga and meditation workshops in about twenty cities of the United States every year, along with philosophical discourses on Vedic sciences and mind management. JKYog arranges typically four spiritual retreats every year in different parts of the United States. [13] Swami Mukundananda visits different cities across United States every year to conduct weeklong yoga and meditation workshops, and deliver spiritual discourses to explain the theoretical and practical aspects of Bhakti yoga.

Daily Sadhana helps people practice Bhakti Yoga on a daily basis by participating in devotional chanting and guided meditation and Vedic study. [14] Several JKYog centers facilitate weekly interactive Bhagavad Gita study sessions based on Swami Mukundananda's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. [15]

Bal-Mukund is a children's program that includes character building, yoga, pranayam, meditation, chanting, stories and discussions, language classes, games, and arts and crafts. [16] JKYog also offers a youth career development program of leadership skills, public speaking skills, college counselling and community services.

Happiness Challenge JKYog conducted a 21-day worldwide program called "Happiness Challenge" from 1 January to 21 January 2019. The program was created by Swami Mukundananda. According to him, "One of the most pleasing and beneficial arts in our life we can learn is the art of happiness. Happiness is a state of the mind. It arises from a conscious attempt to generate and hold the right stream of thoughts and corresponding emotions." [17] [18]

Life Transformation Challenge From 1 January to 21 January 2020, JKYog conducted a 21-day worldwide program called "Life Transformation Challenge". The program was created by Swami Mukundananda to offer 21 free tools to people around the world to manifest their innate potential by harnessing the powers of the mind with right knowledge and practice. [19] [20]

International Festival of Yoga JKYog has been celebrating the International Day of Yoga since 2015. On this Day JKYog organizes several sessions on yoga, pranayam, holistic health, health and wellness seminars and workshops. Due to the Covid-19 situation, in 2020 JKYog organized an online event to celebrate the International Day of Yoga (20 June 2020 – 26 June 2020), where thousands of people participated virtually around the globe. [21]

For the second year in a row, JKYog conducted an online international Yoga festival in 2021, the theme of which was the link between yoga and good mental health in a post-pandemic world. Several renowned spiritual leaders, yoga teachers, and health professionals discussed the theme in this online event. [22]

Family Camp Every summer JKYog conducts a week-long spiritual retreat and family camp in the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas, Allen, Texas. The week-long program includes guided meditation sessions, kirtan chanting, cultural events and enlightening discourses by Swami Mukundananda. The spiritual retreat also provides personality development activities, value based teachings, painting and music classes for the children (age 5 - 12) and the youth (age 13 - 18). [23]

Congregation Centers

JKYog has 75 congregation centers (as of 2018) all over the world with 50 centers in India, 22 in USA, and 3 in Nepal. The centers in USA span across different cities like Dallas, New York, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Connecticut, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, New Jersey, Houston, Los Angeles, Maryland, Phoenix, Morrisville, Tampa, and Pennsylvania. The centers in India are located mainly in the states of Odisha, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi. The Nepal centers include Kathmandu and Birgunj. People regularly meet in the congregation centers to practice bhakti yoga. Many centers also conduct regular Bal-Mukund classes for the spiritual upliftment of children. [24] [25] [26] [27]

Social Service

JKYog social services include health care for the underprivileged and education for rural youth. JKYog has helped establish Jagadguru Kripalu Chikitsalaya, a free hospital in the state of Odisha, India and supports charitable hospitals and educational institutes in Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, in Mangarh, Kunda, Vrindavan, and Barsana. JKYog also supports several charitable initiatives in United States such as Little Hands Big Hearts, and Kids Assisting Kids. Kids Assisting Kids is a JKYog initiative to provide better access to educational resources to homeless kids by distributing free laptops to needy youth. [5] [6]

World Peace

JKYog conducted a 24-hour continuous chanting of Hare Rama Mahamantra, for world peace and physical, mental, and spiritual well-being during the coronavirus pandemic. The event was coordinated from the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas premise, with singers participating from around the world, by relay system. [28]

Bhagavad Gita

JKYog conducts regular online and live Bhagavad Gita sessions. In 2021, JKYog celebrated International Gita Festival from Mar 15th to Mar 21st to spread the wisdom of Bhagavad Gita. [29]

Related Research Articles

Bhakti yoga, also called Bhakti marga, is a spiritual path or spiritual practice within Hinduism focused on loving devotion towards any personal deity. It is one of the three classical paths in Hinduism which lead to moksha, the other paths being jnana yoga and karma yoga.

Jagadguru, literally meaning "guru of the universe", is a title used in Sanātana Dharma. Traditionally, it has been bestowed upon or used for ācāryas belonging to the Vedānta school who have written Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī – the Brahma sūtras, the Bhagavad-gītā and the principal Upaniṣads. Historically, jagadgurus have established a lineage and an institution to spread dharma which has been based in Varanasi, the centre of Sanskrit study.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amrit Desai</span>

Amrit Desai is a pioneer of yoga in the West, and one of the few remaining living yoga gurus who originally brought over the authentic teachings of yoga in the early 1960s. He is the creator of two brands of yoga, Kripalu Yoga and I AM Yoga, and is the founder of five yoga and health centers in the US. His yoga training programs have reached more than 40 countries worldwide and over 8,000 teachers have been certified.

The following list consists of notable concepts that are derived from Hindu culture and associated cultures’ traditions, which are expressed as words in Sanskrit or other Indic languages and Dravidian languages. The main purpose of this list is to disambiguate multiple spellings, to make note of spellings no longer in use for these concepts, to define the concept in one or two lines, to make it easy for one to find and pin down specific concepts, and to provide a guide to unique concepts of Hinduism all in one place.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Krishnaism</span> Group of Hindu traditions that reveres Krishna as the Supreme Being

Krishnaism is a term used in scholarly circles to describe large group of independent Hindu traditions—sampradayas related to Vaishnavism—that center on the devotion to Krishna as Svayam Bhagavan, Ishvara, Para Brahman, who is the source of all reality, not an avatar of Vishnu. This is its difference from such Vaishnavite groupings as Sri Vaishnavism, Sadh Vaishnavism, Ramaism, Radhaism, Sitaism etc. There is also a personal Krishnaism, that is devotion to Krishna outside of any tradition and community, as in the case of the saint-poet Meera Bai. Leading scholars do not define Krishnaism as a suborder or offshoot of Vaishnavism, considering it at least a parallel and no less ancient current of Hinduism.

Sri Radha Shyamasundar Mandir is a Hindu temple located in Haebangchon, Seoul, South Korea. The temple opens each morning and evening at specific darshan times. Special programs are also held on Sundays, such as free children's Bal Vikas classes, yoga classes, and a special Sunday feast program with Bhagavad Gita lectures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bhagavad Gita</span> Major Hindu Scripture

The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. It forms the chapters 23–40 of book 6 of the Mahabharata called the Bhishma Parva. The work is dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE.

Swami Nikhilanand is a Canadian-born Hindu spiritual leader. He is the spiritual teacher at Radha Madhav Dham) one of the largest Hindu Temple complexes in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest in North America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kripalu Maharaj</span> Hindu spiritual leader (1922–2013)

Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was an Indian religious leader and the fifth Jagadguru. He was the founder of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat (JKP), a worldwide Hindu non-profit organization with five main ashrams, four in India and one in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mukundananda</span> Indian religious teacher

Swami Mukundananda is a spiritual leader, Vedic scholar, author, and a teacher of Spirituality, Yoga and Meditation from India. He is a senior disciple of Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj and the founder of the yogic system called Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog, widely known as JKYog. A proponent of the path of Bhakti, Swami Mukundananda is a sannyasi (monk), who has a technical and management background which complements his spiritual knowledge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prem Mandir, Vrindavan</span> Hindu temple dedicated to Radha Krishna and Sita Rama

Prem Mandir is a Hindu temple in Vrindavan, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India. The temple was established by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj. It is maintained by Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, an international non-profit, educational, spiritual, charitable trust. The complex is on a 22-hectare (55-acre) site on the outskirts of Vrindavan. It is dedicated to Radha Krishna and Sita Ram. Radha Krishna are on the first level and Sita Ram are on the second level. Different Leelas of Shri Krishna and Rasik saints are depicted all over the wall of the main temple.

Integral Yoga is a system of yoga that claims to synthesize six branches of classical Yoga philosophy and practice: Hatha, Raja, Bhakti, Karma, Jnana, and Japa yoga. It was brought to the West by Swami Satchidananda, the first centre being founded in 1966. Its aim is to integrate body, mind, and spirit, using physical practices and philosophical approaches to life to develop the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of individuals. The system includes the practices of asana, pranayama, and meditation to develop physical and mental stillness so as to access inner peace and joy, which Satchidananda believed was a person's true nature. It also encourages practitioners to live service-oriented lives.

Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat (JKP), previously known as Sadhna Bhawan Trust, is a charitable religious organisation in India. It was established in 1970 by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj and continues to run today under the three Presidents he appointed. The philanthropic activities are designed to fulfil the vision of Jagadguru Kripalu, who was entitled with Jagadguru on 14 January 1957. To fulfil his vision, Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji established three major temples, Bhakti Mandir, Prem Mandir (Vrindavan) and Kirti Mandir (Barsana).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bhakti Mandir Mangarh</span> Temple dedicated to Radha Krishna

Bhakti Mandir is a Hindu Temple located in Kripalu Dham Mangarh, Kunda, India. This divine temple was established by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj in November 2005. It is maintained by Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a non-profit, charitable, educational and spiritual organisation. This temple is situated on the northern side of Ganga River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas</span> Radha Krishna temple in Texas, USA

Radha Krishna Temple (RKT) of Dallas is a Hindu temple located in Allen, Texas. It was established by JKYog, under the leadership of Swami Mukundananda.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dantu Muralikrishna</span> Indian scientist, writer and singer

Dantu Muralikrishna is an Indian scientist, writer and singer based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

A samadhistha purusha refers to a Sanskrit term for a person who stays in a state of calm equipoise. Such a person is regarded to remain unaffected in all situations and receives all emotions with a sense of detachment. A samadhistha purusha is also considered a self-realised person, remaining in a meditative state voluntarily, and at all times.

Vrishabhanu, also spelled as Brushabhanu, is a Yadava chieftain featured in Hindu scriptures. He is described as the father of the goddess Radha, who is the chief consort of god Krishna and also regarded as the incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi in Dvapara Yuga.

<i>Akshara Brahma Yoga</i> Eighth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita

The Akshara Brahma Yoga is the eighth of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter has a total of twenty-eight shlokas. It is the 30th chapter of Bhishma Parva, the sixth book of the Mahabharata.

References

  1. ↑ "JKYog 501 c3". India Current. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "JKYog Organization Details". JKYog. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Radha Krishna Temple Inaugural Ceremony". Indo American News. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Radha Krishna Temple opens in Dallas". India-herald.com. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 "JKYog Non-Profit Organization". Indo American News. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 "JKYog Charitable Organization". India Currents. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Yogic Practices Give Direct And Tangible Benefits". india-herald.com/. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "20 steps to knowledge". jkyog.org.
  9. ↑ "Importance of Milk in Diet". jkyog.org. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "Vegetarian Balanced Diet for Holistic Health". jkyog.org. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  11. ↑ "Vegetarianism: The Primary Step towards Spirituality". jkyog.org. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  12. ↑ JKYog Cookbook: Delicious Vegetarian Recipes. Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog. (2018). ISBN   978-0996869355
  13. ↑ "JKYog Organization". PR.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  14. ↑ "Daily Sadhana for spiritual seekers".
  15. ↑ "Bhagavad Gita Study Circles".
  16. ↑ "Bal-Mukund Character Building Program for Children personality development". india-herald.com/. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "Happiness Challenge". business-standard.com/. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  18. ↑ "Happiness Challenge". in.news.yahoo.com/. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  19. ↑ "Life Transformation Challenge". malaysiasun.com/. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  20. ↑ "Life Transformation Challenge". aninews.in/. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  21. ↑ "JKYog to observe International Yoga Day from June 20 to 26". www.aninews.in/. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  22. ↑ "Yoga as a means to improve post-pandemic mental health". www.financialexpress.com/. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  23. ↑ "JKYog Spiritual Retreat & Hindu Family Camp". patch.com/. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  24. ↑ "Weekly program by JKyog Houston Center". india-herald.com/. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  25. ↑ "Weekly program by JKYog Scottsdale Center". azindiatimes.com/. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  26. ↑ "Weekly program by JKyog Bay Area Center". indiacurrents.com/. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  27. ↑ "Satsang Centers". Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog. JKYog. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  28. ↑ "Devotees join JKYog's 24-hour long online Mahayajna from across the world". ANI. 2 May 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  29. ↑ "Gita enthusiasts across the globe participating in the Grand JKYog International Gita Festival". ANI. 13 May 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.