Varanasi Cosmic Energy Centre

Services · Social work in Varanasi

Today more than ever we need help

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Umesh Guruji
“Walking in different paths, we go in the same direction.”
Many hands of girls painted with henna, held out together in a circle on the ground Children sit on the steps of the ghat, bent over their drawings with coloured pens Umesh Guruji sits on a low wall of the ghat at dusk between two girls in festive dresses, one yellow and one white and red, boats on the river behind them Children kneel around a hole they dug in the sand by the river, families in the water behind A smiling girl holds a blue guitar in a room of the ashram A girl plays a blue guitar sitting under the big logo of the Satyalesari Cosmic Energy Centre Two girls sit on the floor peeling bananas into a big steel bowl, yoga mats behind them Two girls smile over a steel bowl of chopped fruit, banana peels on a plate Many children sit and stand on the red and white steps of the ghat in the morning sun A boy with sandal paste on his forehead and arms sits cross-legged with a small brass pot, on the ghat steps

Children and Nature

We were all children, and what you learn as a child stays with you forever.

  • Free creativity workshops for children
  • Free yoga classes for children

Grow your creativity, together. And let Mother Nature teach you to love your environment: from the planet Earth to your own body.

In a lane, Umesh Guruji, in a light shirt, hands a steel plate of food to a sadhu in orange with a white beard Umesh Guruji holds out a plate of food to an old man in orange sitting in a doorway In a narrow lane, Umesh Guruji gives a plate of food to a man sitting by a blue door, two children watching In a lane, Umesh Guruji stands face to face with a man, holding out a steel plate of food An old sadhu with a white beard, in orange, sits with his plate of food, beside Umesh Guruji, who brought it Umesh Guruji bends to give a plate of food to a man sitting by a wooden door Umesh Guruji bends with a plate towards people lying on blankets along an old arched corridor In a hairnet and mask, Umesh Guruji checks the temperature of a masked man in a red shirt sitting on a white bench in the ashram hall Umesh Guruji gives a plate to a man sitting against the peeling wall of a long corridor On a sunny lane Umesh Guruji hands a plate of food to a young man sitting on a scooter Umesh Guruji and a woman in a red dupatta sit on the floor, she holds a folded blue cloth Kneeling on the floor, Umesh Guruji hands folded blue clothes to a woman in a sari Umesh Guruji kneels to clean the foot of a girl sitting on an office chair, other girls watching Umesh Guruji and the children of the ghat clean an overgrown field by the old walls and domed pavilion of Chet Singh fort

Care on the streets

We hand out free medicine and distribute free food on the streets of Varanasi.

Every Sunday, from 8 to 10 am, the free holistic clinic of the ashram is open to everyone. Another day? Ask for an appointment.

We help the street animals too: the clinic opens its doors to them whenever help is needed.

Umesh Guruji takes a selfie with two smiling visitors and the children of the ghat, on an open ground by the Ganga Children sit in a circle on the floor of the ashram hall, with Umesh Guruji and two visitors, under the big painted logo of the centre Umesh Guruji speaks to a crowd of children in yellow school uniforms, hands joined, under the banner of the Astha Foundation Children do yoga on green mats on the stones of Shivala Ghat, the Ganga behind them In a classroom with a portrait of Gandhi, children hold up their paintings, Umesh Guruji, a sadhu and teachers behind them

Help us help

Children, food, medicine, the animals of the street: all this work lives on your help.

Big or small, every donation becomes a meal, a medicine, a smile. You can also give your time: come as a volunteer.

How much you give, that much you gain.

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