{"id":18349,"date":"2023-12-19T03:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18349"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:51:00","slug":"swarved-mahamandir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/swarved-mahamandir\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarved Mahamandir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Swarved Mahamandir<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0world&#8217;s largest meditation centre, where\u00a020,000 people can sit together and meditate.<\/li>\n<li>Location: It is located in\u00a0Varanasi city,\u00a0Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>It covers an expansive area of 3,00,000 square feet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It aims to illuminate humankind with its spiritual aura and engulf the world in a state of peaceful alertness.<\/li>\n<li>The temple is\u00a0named after the Swarved, a spiritual literature written by Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deoji Mahara, the\u00a0creator of Vihangam Yoga and an eternal yogi.<\/li>\n<li>The temple\u00a0propagates Swarveda teachings, with a\u00a0focus on Brahm Vidya, a body of knowledge\u00a0that enables spiritual seekers to sustain a state of perfect Zen, a state of unyielding constancy in peace and happiness.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0seven-floor superstructure.<\/li>\n<li>It has a beautiful design with 125-petal lotus domes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0ceiling and doors with\u00a0intricate carvings are\u00a0made of teakwood.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The temple has\u00a0101 fountains.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0pink sandstone decor surrounds the temple walls, and there is an exquisite\u00a0garden with medicinal herbs.<\/li>\n<li>Verses of the Swarveda have been\u00a0carved upon the walls of the Mahamandir.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Vihangam Yoga<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0Indian modality of Yoga and meditation, founded by Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj in 1924.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The name is composed of two root words: \u201cVihag\u201d, which means bird, and \u201cYog\u201d, which means union.<\/li>\n<li>The name symbolizes the idea of a bird that leaves the earth and flies high and free in the sky \u2013\u00a0the goal\u00a0of Vihangam Yoga being our soul to be free of the attachment to the physical world and realize its true, free nature.<\/li>\n<li>Only then can one\u2019s individual consciousness can unite with the universal consciousness (the Supreme Being) and reach permanent peace and bliss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Yoga?<\/h3>\n<p>Yoga is a Sanskrit word translated as \u201cyoke\u201d or \u201cunion.\u201d To yoke means to draw together, to bind together; or to unite. Its aim is to yoke or create a union of the body, mind, soul, and universal consciousness. This process of uniting the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ourselves is what allows yogis to experience deep states of freedom, peace and self-realization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/pm-modi-inaugurates-worlds-largest-meditation-centre-swarved-mahamandir-in-varanasi-4695062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi Inaugurates World&#8217;s Largest Meditation Centre In Varanasi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarved Mahamandir is the world&#8217;s largest meditation centre, where 20,000 people can sit together and meditate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}