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UN 2023 Water Conference - Virtual Side Event

Save the date: Thursday, March 23, 2023, 11am-12:45 pm EDT (3-4:45 pm UTC)

The Sri Swami Madhavananda World Peace Council in collaboration with Yoga in Daily Life USA and the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations is hosting an on-line summit as part of the UN Water Conference 2023 and in honor of the United Nations decade dedicated to water. All are welcome to join!

January 2025 | News

A Peaceful Fighter for Human Dignity

Nowadays, when world peace seems extremely fragile and short-lived, we remember Mahatma Gandhi – the 'Great Soul of India' – with gratitude. Often referred to as the 'Father of the Indian Nation', he was a peaceful fighter for freedom and human dignity, yet he left this world by an act of violence on 30 January 1948.

September 2024 | News

International Day of Peace 2024: Jaipur, India

JAIPUR, INDIA – 21 September 2024

Celebrating the International Day of Peace.

October 2023 | News

UN special event: conference on 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', New York

UN HEADQUARTERS, 10 October 2023
International conference on 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'

SSMWPC representative attended this significant conference in New York, hosted by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN (IPM) and the Indian Council For Cultural Relations.

September 2023 | News

UN special event: 'Discourse on Peace', New York

UN HEADQUARTERS, 14 September 2023
Special event: Discourse on Peace

In celebration of the International Day of Peace, the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted a special event at the UN Trusteeship Council in New York.

August 2023 | News

World Humanitarian Day – 50 years of serving humanity

VIENNA, 19 August 2023 – Sri Swami Madhavananda World Peace Council founder and President, Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwaranandaji, known as Vishwaguruji, is marking over 50 years of serving humanity on today’s World Humanitarian Day.

Council's objectives

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The Council’s main objective is to promote and support the realisation of the UN Millennium Development Goals and values of the Earth Charter Initiative.

Yoga in Daily Life

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The central idea of yoga is to live happily. That happiness is inherent in everybody and everything. Many people however are looking for happiness outside in the external world. In the end they are disappointed.

The System “Yoga in Daily Life” is one of the most famous and acknowledged systems of yoga throughout the world created by His Holiness Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, whose main goal is to help humanity attain physical, mental, social and spiritual health.