Establishment of Gayatri Tirtha in Shantikunj, Hardwar 1

Two hundred and fifty quarters were built in Gayatri Nagar. A big hall to accommodate about a thousand persons to listen to spiritual discourses and a yagyasala with nine kunds were also built. Yagya is performed at shantikunj in the morning for two hours to promote piety. It was so planned that the permanent residents of the Ashram a purascarana of twenty-four lakh jap daily. A small press was also installed for urgent work. In the meantime the construction of the grand building of Brahmavarchas Research Instituted was taken in hand. His completion of all these words which were necessary for the revival of Risis traditions were also taken in hand according to feasibility.

 Bhagvan Buddha had organized Vihars at Nalanda and Taxila as great and world-renowned centers of higher learning and teaching, where inmates were trained and deputed for delivering spiritual discourses throughout the country and also in foreigh countries. Bhagvan Adya Shankarcharya had established four dhams in the four corners of the country and he had tried to unite and coordinate different schools of philosophy and paths of the spiritual Sadhana which were then prevalent in the country. Both of them had initiated organization of huge conferences and seminars of Kumbha dimensions so that important messages of the Risis could be conveyed far and wide through the participants. Both these activities were taken in hand. It was decided to build and set up temples and working centers in the form of Gayatri Saktipithas and Pragya Sansthans throughout the country to spread the activities and message of t Pragya mission in the surrounding area.

Although it appeared to be a difficult task, inspired and devoted persons took a pledge and within a short period of two years 2400 Saktipitha buildings were erected which are being used a scoters for spreading the light and message of yug-cetna from house to house. This work is so vast and marvelous that evens the work done by Christian missionaries' stands no comparison with it. Churches, temples and other institutions are built by huge donations but our temples have been built by small contributions made by devotees.

A campaign for running mobile Pragyapithas was also launched. These are run by one worker in a mobile push vehicle in his own city or town and also in the surrounding areas. Besides books, other articles are also kept in it. Within a period of two years, about twelve thousand such mobile Pragyapithas were brought in operation. About one lakh persons are being contacted and inspired every day by these permanent and mobile Pragyapithas.