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The Divine Life Society (DLS) is a Hindu spiritual organization and an ashram, founded by Swami Sivananda Saraswati in 1936, at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh, India.Today Divine Life Society has branches around the world, with the headquarters situated in Rishikesh.
He founded the Sivananda Ashram on 3 acres (12,000 m 2) of land at the foot of the Holy Batu Caves (a miniature Rishikesh), and became its president. He practised brahmacharya (celibacy) and tapas. The ashram became a centre of pilgrimage in Malaysia. Today, Divine Life Society has 20 branches in Malaysia, twelve set up by mainly by PranavÄnanda.
He established Sivananda Ashram, the headquarters of the DLS, on the bank of the Ganges at Muni Ki Reti, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Rishikesh, and lived most of his life there. [3] [4] [5] Sivananda Yoga, the yoga form propagated by his disciple Vishnudevananda, is now spread in many parts of the world through Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.
It was one of the first large ashrams to be established in Rishikesh. Before that it was mostly as a place for individual seekers or pilgrims to stop over on way to Char Dham temples pilgrimage. [5] [4] Subsequently, Swami Atmananda founded Swargashram in 1908; Sivananda Ashram was established by Swami Sivananda in 1936.
He worked as an editor in the Ashram and in 1948, on Sivananda’s request, he wrote his first book Realisation of the Absolute. [1] (note: the year 1948 in the preceding sentence is incorrect. Swami Krishnananda's Preface to The Realization of the Absolute is dated 1 August 1947. Swami Sivananda's Foreword is dated 8 September 1947). [2]
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He pursued a life of renunciation in 1936 and joined the Sivananda Ashram run by Sivananda Saraswati in Rishikesh in 1943. [2] He was appointed as General Secretary of the Divine Life Society in 1948. He was initiated into the Sannyas order by his guru, Sivananda, on the day of Guru Purnima, 10 July 1949. It was then that he received his ...
The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation has administered the city's 40 wards since the 2018 incorporation of the urban local body. [27] Each ward had between 2,300-3,000 residents during the 2018 assessment. [28] Rishikesh belongs to the Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency. [29] The first and the current mayor of the corporation is Anita Mamgain. [30]