Shanti Ashram was founded by Swami Nigamananda on the auspicious occasion of Akshay Tritiya at Kokilamukh on the 5th of Baisakh 1919 Bikram Sambath. This ashram is also known as Saraswata Matha or Assam Bongiya Saraswata Matha. This ashram was founded by the main objective of fulfilling the three missions, i.e. to propagate Sanatana Dharma or spreading eternal religion, spreading true education and serve everybody as god incarnate. Today it is located on the outskirts of Guwahati city in the state of Assam. It runs about 8 schools for the poor kids living in and around the city of Guwahati. These schools mostly caters to the needs of students living in the close by villages. Today this ashram is known as Assam Bangiya Saraswat Math and it has about 50 branches in all over India and abroad.

India being a land of religions and culture, people out here is very religious and spiritual. People out here have supreme concern for religion and without wasting much time and resources they have the always remained absorbed in search of God and self-realization. The pleasures derived from material resources are finite but the pleasure derived from spirituality, service and religion is infinite. Throughout the course of history Indians have paid less attention to everything else but most attention to religion. It is home to Hinduism, the most ancient religion in the world, and hence it is also believed to be a favoured place of gods themselves. It has also been home to many sages, rishis and munis who were highly intelligent. In the process of keeping the spiritual spirit of India alive Swami Nigamananda has been very instrumental. He was born in the year 1879 to a virtuous Brahmin couple and right from an early age was known for his extraordinary fearlessness, intelligence and forthrightness. He was a born leader and the power to lead came naturally to him.

Shanti Sadhana Ashram History

For the first time this ashram was founded by Swami Nigamananda on Akshay Tritiya at Kumilla Durgapur in 1314 B.S. It was then shifted to Gendaria in Dhaka in 1318 B.S. Then later on 26th of Agrahayana Sri Gouranga Anath Niketan was founded here. The main cause behind the formation of this ashram was for the purpose of serving the distressed, the grieved, the sick and the poor. After some days a disciple of Nityananda named Saruram Kalita purchased a plot of 80 bighas at Kumarveti Chapri Village of Kokilamukh, Jorhat, Assam and this place became the centre of the main math. Finally on the auspicious occasion of Akshya Tritiya on the 7th of Baisakh 1319 B.S., Nigamananda founded the asan or seat of Guru Brahama out here and named it the Shanti ashram. After forming this ashram Nigamananda intiated asceticism to his seven self-denying disciples Swami Chidananda, Swami Premananda, Swami Swarupananda, Swami Yogananda, Swami Suddhananda, Swami Bodhananda and Swami Saradananda and named this ashram as Saraswat Math.

Current Location of Shanti Sadhana Ashram

This ashram is located about 6 miles of Jorhat in the lap of a beautiful meadow. On one side of the math lies the beautiful tribal village and on the other three sides lies thick jungle. This place also has a small light rail-way in Mariyani Jorhat and passes through the tribal village up to Kokilamukh. The north side of this place is adorned by the Himalaya Mountains and the Udayagiri Mountains are on the east and the Naga hills are on the south.

Shanti Sadhana Ashram Mission

The main aim of this institute is to make prefect me. The founder of this institute Swami Nigamananda aims to develop an idealistic view so that people instil in them a sense of service and work to preach the Sanatan Dharma and true education and knowledge. It also aims to alleviate the suffering of the sick, aggrieved, sick and the poor. He also aspires to morally uplift the degenerated class through religious practices and also to flourish the exemplariness of the sages among them.

Sammilani

Sant Vedavyas composed many religious treatises in his lifetime but still could not derive spiritual satisfaction from it. Thus he decided to derive profound spiritual calm by composing the Paramahansa Sanghita Srimat Bhagavad on the advice of sage Narada. In the same way Swami Nigamananda also undertook the responsibility of revealing to the masses a part of the spiritual wealth that he had acquired he has acquired through prayer and religious exercises. He composed many books like Yogiguru, Jnaniguru and so on and published them in the monthly magazine 'Aryadarpan' the literary medium of the everlasting religion. He also set up monasteries, religious homes and associations. However inspite of all this he was still not fully satisfied and eventually on the occasion of his stay at Gambhira of Kashidham he had a strong urge to hold the Sarbahouma Bhakta Sammilani which means the conference of his votaries. From this exercise of holding a conference for his devotees he derived the utmost satisfaction as it allowed his devotees to have easy access to him. The three main objectives of the conferences of devotees are - formation of ideal household life, to consolidate the power of corporations and interchange of spiritual experiences.

Aryadarpan

To further the essence and teachings of Hinduism Swami Nigamananda started to print a monthly magazine called Aryadarpan. After attaining the ultimate goal of four kinds of religious exercise Swami Ji took up the task of propagation of the everlasting Hindu religion as his mission. This magazine holds a position of distinction in its own right and the articles written here are very meaningful, spiritual and aim to awaken the supreme human being in all of us.

Today this ashram is an important centre of spiritual activities and believed to have been blessed by the divine forces of Guru. It is counted among the most important centres of pilgrimage in India. This math was very close to Swami Nigamananda and he was willing to give any kind of sacrifice for it. This math also has a press which publishes the works of Saraswata Granthavali.