Anna Daan - Free Food Offering Paramahamsa Nithyananda says - "there is an old saying, 'instead of giving a fish to the poor, teach him how to fish' but what will do till he learns how to fish. So I give a new saying, 'Give the fish to the one who needs till he learns how to fish'"
What living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda is saying is that food is the basic need of a human being. Even though many service organizations believe in making people capable of earning their own bread and butter through education services etc., that is not the immediate solution for thousands of people for whom food is the basic need. It is of course necessary to enable them to earn their own living, because that is the permanent solution but till they learn, we have to support them. Anyone who visits our ashrams, temples or centers around the world, does not leave without having prasad (energized food). Well balanced pure vegetarian food that meets any normal child/adults normal nutritional needs is served freely to everyone who comes to the ashram. As per the glorious tradition of Vedic culture, free food is served through out the day to all visitors in the form of Prasad (energized and food that is blessed by offering to the Divine) at the 30 Anna Mandi'rs around the world. Meals are also served in schools, colleges and to the poor and needy in rural areas. Mobile Anna Mandir's serve meals in Mass meditation camps. On an average, we are serving 10,000 free mealsa day in our Anna Mandir's across the world. Next to Love and peace the third and the most important quality pre-eminently necessary for a human being is the act of charity – particularly Anna daan. While there is always a desire for more when monetary or other forms of charity are made, feeding a hungry being gives complete satisfaction to the receiver, and of course, the giver also. Some statistics: Thousands of poor, visitors, mendicants (wandering sadhus) and devotees are served free food at Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Ashram in Tiruvannamalai. On special occasions like full moon days, festivals etc., at least one lakh people (100 thousand) people are served in all our ashrams. Please join us in serving more and more people in need! Your donations are appreciated.
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Other DonationsNithyananda Dhyanapeetam has been always committed to providing services to the common man. Of the various services, Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam has been constantly providing free medical care to thousands of people every week at various places where the Mission exists.
Living enlightened master and avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda is on a mission to create intense energy fields in different places around the world. The 21-feet Ananda Linga made of 1008 Siddha Herbs and Nava Pashana stands at the center of one such energy field in Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Ashram's Vaidhya Sarovar.
Rudra Homam is a powerful homam or fire ritual for cleansing the system of all deep-rooted disorders. The homam is performed to invoke the grace of Rudra, one of the many energies of Shiva. Science of Homam is a Vedic ritual which helps us connect to the fire element, one of the five major elements in Nature.
Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam is serving those affected by the recent cyclone in India. If you would like to contribute to the relief effort please make a check or wire-transfer (please fill in the following form to get the details)
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Bilvarchana is a potent ritual for propitiating Lord Shiva (Nithyanandeshwara), the destroyer of negative energies. Bilvaarchana is performed by chanting of the many names of Lord Shiva. Each repetition is accompanied by the symbolic offering of a bilvapatra, a medicinal leaf which is considered dear to the Lord.
The Nithyanandeshwara temple in the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam blissfully announces our plan to have the Utsava Murthi of Sri Nithyanandeshwara and Sri Nithyanandeshwari, the main deities in the temple. Sri Nithyanandeshwara and Sri Nithyanandeshwari together indicate the interlinking of the cosmic active and passive energies. The Cosmic completeness happens only when the energies complement each other.
The Cow is revered as the most sacred animal to Hindus, a fact that is evidenced by the dedication of several hymns and rituals, reverentially addressing it as ‘GOMATHA’ (divine mother cow) in all the sacred scriptures including Vedas and Puranas. From the Vedic period to this day, gifting or donating cows to deserving persons, was considered a very sacred act and a way to wash away all the sins , karmas and samskaras of the past births and present births.
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