A touch of traditional art and culture🔗

P aramahamsa encourages art and culture as an intrinsic part of every celebration at the ashram. He provides a platform to showcase different folk dances from interior India, thus encouraging and preserving ancient Indian culture of celebrating life. Besides offering entertainment, this brings to life the authentic flavour of the rich culture, of which we are a part.

The famous Tiruvoodal drums of Tiruvannamalai at the Brahmotsav festival. These drums are part of the Tiruvoodal festival in Tiruvannamalai where the drummers along with the temple priests enact a famous mythological story of Shiva and Parvati. For Paramahamsa, as a child, he was inexplicably drawn to the sound of these drums which were to him, like the call of Shiva Himself

The famous Pambai drummers from Pambai, the drums believed to be Shiva's own, at the inauguration function of the Salem ashram

Artists from Rangashree Art Society, Bangalore enact the famous Hindu Epic 'Ramayana' at the Jayanti celebrations

Popular South Indian fire dance during the Brahmacharyam training program at the ashram, Bangalore

Rendering bhajans at the NSP, Chennai, India

Rendering bhajans in Salem, as part of an NSP

Playing the popular South Indian Uriattam game with the people, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Salem ashram

The famous Pot dance in Periyaseeragappadi, a village in South India

Students of Pavai Engineering College, Salem, perform various folk dances during the NSP Program

Kaal Kolaattam

Dandiya dance

Welcoming Paramahamsa with the famous Pot dance

Popular folk dances by youth during the 3-day Saptayaaham homa at Salem

Poikal Kudhirai