Parmarth Niketan

Parmarth Niketan
Parmarth Niketan
Parmarth Niketan Location within Uttarakhand
Geography
Coordinates	30°7′9.21″N 78°18′43.9554″E / 30.1192250°N 78.312209833°E / 30.1192250; 78.312209833Coordinates: 30°7′9.21″N 78°18′43.9554″E / 30.1192250°N 78.312209833°E / 30.1192250; 78.312209833
Country	India
State/province	Uttarakhand
District	Dehradun district
Locale	Rishikesh
Elevation	372 m (1,220 ft)
History and governance
Date established	1942
Date built	1942
Creator	Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj
Website	www.parmarth.com

Parmarth Niketan is an ashram located in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.

Parmarth Niketan is situated in the lap of the lush Himalayas, along the banks of the Ganges. The ashram was founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj (1901–1965). Since 1986, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj is the President and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan.

As the largest ashram in Rishikesh with over 1000 rooms, Parmarth Niketan provides a clean, pure and sacred atmosphere as well as abundant, beautiful gardens to thousands of pilgrims, who come from all corners of the Earth. The daily activities at Parmarth Niketan include daily yoga specializing in Vinyasa yoga, general Hatha yoga and yoga Nidra. Daily activities also include morning universal prayers and meditation classes, daily satsang and lecture programs, kirtan, a world-renowned Ganga aarti at sunset attended by hundreds of visitors each day at the shore of Ganges, as well as Nature Cure and Ayurvedic treatment and training. Parmarth Niketan is the home to a 14 feet Shiva statue on the banks of Ganges which provides a perfect view to the ashram. The divine tree of heaven Kalpavriksha was planted at the premises of this ashram by Vijaypal Baghel of Himalaya Vahini.

Additionally, there are frequently special cultural and spiritual programs given by visiting revered saints, acclaimed musicians, spiritual and social leaders and others.

There are frequent camps in which pilgrims come from across the world to take part in intensive courses on yoga, meditation, pranayama, stress management, acupressure, Reiki, Ayurveda and other ancient Indian sciences.