Taking Responsibility as Spiritual Leader (Pontiff) of four traditional
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Monasteries
His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda, who was fully engaged in building the “Aadheenam” temple monasteries in India and worldwide, and training the disciple monks, started being given the spiritual leadership of other ancient temple monasteries, holding high cultural heritage.
On 15 April 2014, four ancient temple monasteries (called Mutt) in South India along with a college, were given to His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda by the personal request of the predecessor “Swami Atmananda”. The Mutts are:
- Sri Arunachala Gnandesikar Swami Temple & Mutt in Vedaranyam
- Sri Po.Ka. Sadhukkal Mutt, Panchanathikulam
- Sri Palsamy Mutt, Thanjavur and Sri Sankara Swami Mutt, Thanjavur
- Sri Somanatha Swamigal Mutt and Temple Thiruvarur
His Divine Holiness, with His responsibilism, dedicated all possible resources and placed His trained monk disciples to these four Mutts. He breathed life back into the temple-monasteries by reinvigorating their ancient traditions and bringing spiritual legitimacy to Hinduism. He sent His Sanyasis to the college to administer the accounts as well as to the four mutts to restore the traditional prayers, rituals and services meant to be offered by each mutt as outlined in its Mother document. He also restored the social services such as Anna dhan (free food) and deeksha (direct spiritual initiations from Him).