Initiatives

Adhyatmik Foundation’s activities focus on the dissemination of the Teachings to help people achieve a balanced and healthy approach to life, with an emphasis on appropriate lifestyle changes. The objective is to open the doors of Knowledge to enable people of all traditions, cultures and beliefs – age, origin or gender – to enhance their health, happiness and understanding and meaning in life. In line with its mission, the Foundation has embarked on the following initiatives mentioned below.

Sanctuary for Peace

The Sanctuary for Peace is a universal meeting place for people from all over the world to gather and commune in an atmosphere of harmony, refuge and inspiration, celebrating the greatness of the eternal spirit. Its inspiration, vision and guiding mission are to provide a unique sanctuary in America for personal transformation and global reconciliation among groups beyond all the possible boundaries and distinctions that divide the human family.

The Sanctuary for Peace is intended ultimately to inspire and celebrate what is most noble in the human spirit for the flowering of human potential in all and the highest contribution to world culture.
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Purna Health Management System

This ambitious and important project focuses on the development and launching of a broad-based health management system for the different stages of life, emphasizing the philosophical and spiritual pursuits throughout the life according to the Vedic tradition. There are four key stages based on age: Brahmacharya (0-25 covering 0-5 infancy, 6-15 childhood and young teenager, 16-25 late teenager and young adult), Grihstha (25-50 covering the entry into the world of work, responsibility and challenge),

Vanprastha (50-75 covering the period of mild reflection, retirement from hard work to light work and relaxation) and Sanyasa (75 onwards, covering the stage of renunciation of more worldly pursuits to focus on spiritual and philosophical pursuits). One of the key points Dr Svami Purna emphasizes is that anyone can live to be 100 years old- provided a person follows an approach to life that is consistent with the Vedic and Yogic teachings that embody the Purna Health Management System.

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Save Ganga Save Himalaya Initiative

The Ganges River is not only the most important but also the most sacred river in India. “Mother Ganga” is a beloved site and important symbol of India’s age-long culture and spiritual heritage. High Beings have sat on her banks emitting their Divine Energy and her purifying waters are used for innumerable sacred rituals each day. Millions of people come from all over the world just to bathe in her water every year, offer their prayers and seek the blessings of Mother Ganga.

Unfortunately, with the development of modern India the Ganges river has now become a destination for tourist activities and attractions such as water sports. It is now commonplace to see people engaging in quiet prayer along the banks of the Ganga while rafting boats rush by with shouting tourists. The Foundation is now in support of efforts to stop these activities in pilgrimage site areas so that Mother Ganga can remain protected and honored as the sacred site it is.

If you’d like to contribute to this important project please donate on the Save Ganga Save Himalaya website: www.SaveGangaSaveHimalaya.org (clickable link)

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ParaNadam

Paranadam is a musical initiative guided by the Highest Teachings of Truth and by the intention to express the beauty and essence of such perennial Teachings. Through open collaboration, musical talent comes together to create beautiful musical works to be shared for the ages to come. In the spirit of devotion, these offerings are made for the benefit of others. This sound or vibration is a reflection of the same love, wisdom and beauty that has been passed down through the ages and which has such immense power to inspire us from within in unimaginably positive ways.

This universal initiative is also carried by the intention to serve humanity, and as such, supports many humanitarian causes through the work of various non-profit projects, such as Adhyatmik Foundation and www.SaveGangaSaveHimalaya.org.

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Humanitarian Relief

While the work of the Foundation is focused on the overall objective of the dissemination of the Highest Teachings under Svamiji’s guidance, practical support is also given where and when appropriate in an ongoing manner globally. Adhyatmik Foundation supports, when the need arises, various relief operations established to address the humanitarian concerns caused by man made and natural disasters around the world. In some cases, Adhyatmik Foundation will partner with organizations to work jointly on projects.

In other cases, the Foundation collects and distributes funds to reputable organizations that have established links with the areas in need of relief supplies and resources.

Current Humanitarian Relief Efforts

Women's Initiative

Being born as a woman is a blessing, bringing with it a great mission. Women are “life givers” – the great supporter of life throughout the ages – as mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and companions. Qualities to acknowledge, empower and be grateful for include women’s intuitive nature, capacity for the unconditional love of the mother, patience, compassion and nurturance. Indeed, the energy – “Shakti” – has been acknowledged as essential for all.

Svamiji teaches that from the spiritual point of view, the female represents the Goddess. “In Sanskrit, the male is the outer manifesting Being. The female is an internal manifestation, because the female is the holder of energy. She is oriented to family and creating and nourishing life.”

“Women did not need to become teachers, because they were teachers by giving birth to their children. The mother is the first Guru. She fulfilled the role of Guru by being the mother, so she did not feel that she needed to expand. But if she decides to expand, nothing can prevent her from becoming the full Devi, Goddess.”

The women's initiative focuses on developing Retreats and conferences enabling women to connect and nurture the divine qualities given as "life givers" and great supporters of life.

International Women’s Day Initiative 2020

Samaj Unnayan Kendra (SUK) like early years conducted International Women’s Day on Sunday, 8th March, 2020 in its Baruipur office premises at 11 am onward where the main target groups were from rescued trafficked girls & women, acid victims, women affected by domestic violence, deserted from their families, lost their rights on their properties/ lands, widows lost their husbands due to tiger/ crocodiles attacked or of ailments, girls having disability etc. Their parents and service providers, opinion leaders also were present to make the programme enriched and meaningful. The programme consisted of seminar where social reformers shared their views from their working experiences whereas those above mentioned groups disclosed their experiences from their own life struggle. The main questions raised how these sorts of exploitation can be stopped and what are the tools or methods to strengthen to empower those victims.

The main approach should be on preventive thus it can abolish the risk factors in early stages. This can be done through creating awareness, sensitize the families {since the trafficking was mainly occurred through fake marriage, pseudo employment & in every case, this is happened through known person(s)}, involving the opinion leaders & service providers (although this step being taken by Govt. and some NGOs but they are not proactive in the field), 24x7 supporting attitude from them to the victims;
In promotive step, there is lot of Govt. schemes (including legal support) which are yet to be implemented properly and there is lot of scopes to work on that so that the vulnerable will get rid of the terrible situation.
In curative step, education (both inclusion in educational system and retention) and vocational training will be followed up to initiate main streaming among the identified victims. There is high need to create Knowledge (K), imprinted in their Attitude (A) and following up in Practices (P) – this KAP will be set up in all sorts of relevant activities.

One important issue was shared the stigmatized feeling among the trafficked girls and women along with their family members; it is a great challenge in those families when one rescued trafficked girl go back to her family, parent getting scared to take them since they have other daughters to arrange their marriage and when the groom’s family will know regarding this, they will not be agreed to build relation with this family. Due to this, in many cases, those rescued girls not getting support and cooperation from their family and society, are bound to go back to the brothels which is a main challenge to SUK like organization. Another alarming thing is that in many cases, the trafficked girls taking the role of traffickers- they become the role model to their peers through showing their lubricating life which easily helps them to be able to make them entrapped. Thus this canopy of dark world is very strong to move away.

The positive thing was that almost all participants shared their views in the seminar and some of them performed some activities with the message that only their unity can break this vicious cycle. But at the same time, it was the urge from them to get the support and cooperation in every level to make them self sustained in their life. There is associated laws and acts to prevent these but to get the service from legal corners and materialization is a real challenge. At the same time, hope is there to resist this age old evil but active network (in local, national, international level) is highly needed now.

In inaugural session, Director Samaj Unnayan Kendra Kallol Ghosh read out Dr. Linda Spedding's (SUK's International Advisor) speech addtessed to all participants and translated in local language for others' understanding.