Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham

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Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham, an organization of saint-disciples of Sree Narayana guru and is established by the Guru to propagate his concept of ‘One Caste, One Religion, One God'. Its headquartered in Sivagiri Mutt. It has Mutts and Ashramas across the country. It also established schools, Colleges, Hospitals throughout the country and holds assets worth of 2500 crores.

The Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam had been set up with the Guru as president-for-life. But, disillusioned by its functioning, he formally dissociated himself from it in the evening of his life and founded the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham as a religious order.

Sri Narayana Guru : Spiritual Teacher, One of the greatest Social reformers in India

1 Birth of Dharma Sangham
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Birth of Dharma Sangham

Narayana Guru was not very happy with the way in which his disciples were conducting their life-mission with SNDP. He would not accept anything less than a world community of the human family. He hated the very idea of caste and man's adherence to such a totally irrational social prejudice and psychic coloration. So he decided to trust the materialization of his teaching in the hands of his sannyasin disciples who had come from all classes and communities, which included even westerners. This newly organized institution of sannyasins was called Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham. The sangham was registered in Koorkencherry near Trichur in the year 1926. After the registration of the Dharma Sangham, the Guru instituted a will and testament by which all the ashrams and mutts and temples founded by him were transferred to the care, custody and administration of the Dharma Sangham. The Guru nominated Swami Bodhananda to be his successor and Nataraja Guru to be the adviser of the Dharma Sangham. Link[1]