Schools
ERAWS: Education Section
Neohumanist schools that teach the whole child: body, mind and spirit, and love for all that lives.
- Teaching
- Children
- Organizing
Departments
Ananda Marga does its work through more than thirty departments: schools and children’s homes, relief teams and clinics, farms and cooperatives, art, research and publishing. Each one runs from the global level down to the village, so there is a place for almost any skill, near where you live.
- 30+departments
- 28service corps (Seva Dals)
- 9sectors of the world
Find your place
Choose what you are good at, and the departments that need it light up.
28 departments
Education
Schools from kindergarten to college, and training for the teachers who run them.
Gurukul
Ananda Marga Gurukula
The education network founded in 1990: syllabus, exams and teacher training for every school, and a university in the making.
- Teaching
- Research
- Languages
Relief and care
Help in a disaster, a home for those who have none, treatment for the sick and food for the hungry.
AMURT
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team
Disaster relief, and the long work of recovery and development that follows it.
- Relief work
- Health & care
- Organizing
- Building & engineering
Children’s homes and permanent relief
ERAWS: Relief Section and AMUPRESO
Homes for children who have no one, for students who cannot pay, for the old, the disabled and the chronically ill.
- Children
- Health & care
- Cooking & food
- Relief work
Medical
Medical Department
Dispensaries, health centers and hospitals where people have no other care within reach.
- Health & care
- Relief work
- Teaching
Food and Care
Food and Care Department
That no one should go hungry: food for those in need, canteens and homes for the helpless.
- Cooking & food
- Relief work
- Organizing
Seva Dal
The service corps
Twenty-eight volunteer corps, one for each field of work, that reach the poorest households directly.
- Relief work
- Organizing
- Cooking & food
Women
A department run by women since 1965, with its own schools, homes, relief and networks.
Women’s Welfare
Women’s Welfare Department (WWD)
The all-round progress of women: education, health, homes and their own voice in society.
- Women’s initiatives
- Teaching
- Health & care
- Children
AMURTEL
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (Ladies)
Relief and development run by women, with care for what women and children need in particular.
- Women’s initiatives
- Relief work
- Children
PWSA
Progressive Women’s Spiritualist Association
A network of women working for women’s dignity, study and leadership.
- Women’s initiatives
- Teaching
- Writing & media
Narii Abhyudaya
The rise of women
Literacy and skills that let women earn their own living.
- Women’s initiatives
- Teaching
- Business & trade
Girls’ Volunteers and HPMGL
GV and Hari Parimandala Gosthi (Ladies)
Girls trained in service, sport and courage; women who carry kiirtan and its festivals.
- Women’s initiatives
- Art & music
- Relief work
Land and economy
Model villages, farms, small industry and cooperatives: an economy that serves people first.
Master Units
Master Unit Department
Model rural centers, each a small Ananda Marga: school, clinic, farm, homes and industry together, serving the villages around.
- Farming & land
- Building & engineering
- Research
- Animals & nature
- Teaching
Farm and FARPRO
Farm Department and Farm Products
Every piece of land under cultivation, so that the schools and homes can feed themselves.
- Farming & land
- Animals & nature
- Business & trade
Industry and INPRO
Industry Department and Industrial Products
Small industries and producers’ cooperatives that give fair prices and work for all.
- Building & engineering
- Business & trade
- Organizing
Commerce and AMUS
Commerce Department and Ananda Marga Universal Stores
Stores that buy from producers and sell to people at fair prices, without the middleman.
- Business & trade
- Organizing
Construction
Construction Department
Roads, bridges, water supply and buildings, for the organization’s projects and for people in need.
- Building & engineering
- Relief work
Society and culture
Ideas, art and a universal outlook, for intellectuals, artists and anyone who wants a fairer world.
Renaissance Universal
RU
A forum for professionals, scientists, academics, students and other thinkers to work on the problems of their time.
- Research
- Writing & media
- Teaching
RAWA
Renaissance Artists’ and Writers’ Association
Art for service and blessedness: artists and writers who use their gifts to lift people up.
- Art & music
- Writing & media
Ek Manava Samaj
One Human Society (EMS)
Universalism in daily life: one humanity across faiths, languages and borders.
- Languages
- Teaching
- Organizing
Neohumanism and PCAP
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Plants, and Cheap Literature
Love extended to animals and plants, and good books at a price everyone can pay.
- Animals & nature
- Writing & media
- Organizing
PROUT
Proutist Universal
The movement for Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti’s social and economic theory: economic democracy and a fair share for all.
- Research
- Writing & media
- Organizing
Society Building
Society Building Department
Healthy family life on spiritual ideals.
- Organizing
Books, media and spreading the ideas
Getting the teaching and the work in front of people: books, presses, press and the meditation teachers.
Publications
Publication Department
Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti’s books in every important language of the world, never out of print.
- Writing & media
- Languages
- Business & trade
Press and Printing
Press and Printing Department
The organization’s own printing presses, for its books, textbooks and periodicals.
- Writing & media
- Business & trade
- Building & engineering
Public Relations
Public Relations Department
News of the work, and good relations with press, radio, television and public bodies.
- Writing & media
- Organizing
- Languages
Dharma Pracár
Spreading the teaching
Bringing meditation and the ideology to everyone, and training those who teach it.
- Teaching
- Organizing
- Writing & media
“You have no right to hate even a single living creature. The best you can do is only to serve. Remember, you are to serve bearing in mind that every creature is verily the living manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness.”