Nilachala Kutir
Nilachala Kutir is a religious residence, formerly owned by Nigamananda, Swami Nigamanananda, located in the holy city of Puri, India on the shores of the turbulent Bay of Bengal. Nilachala Kutir is a one-storey building situated near the "Swargadwara" landmark in Puri. History After retirement from Shanti Ashram, Saraswata Matha, Swami Nigamananda came to Puri in 1923. Initially he stayed in a rented house called "Giri Kutir", there after he bought and moved to a building house subletted from Govardhana matha and spent the rest of his life there. The house was named ''Nilachala Kutir'' and continues to exist in its place today. On the first day of the month of Vaisakha, 1924, "Griha Prabesha" (a spiritual ceremony performed when entering to a new house) was performed at the Nilachala Kutira in Puri. On 20 March 1930, Durga Charan Mohanty met Swami Nigamananda for the first time and on 23 March 1934, Durga Charan Mohanty received his first instruction on Asana and Mudra from Thaku ...
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Swami Nigamananda's NILACHALA KUTIR (नीलाचल कुटिर নীলাচল কুটির)
Swami ( ; sometimes abbreviated sw.) in Hinduism is an honorific title given to a male or female Asceticism#Hinduism, ascetic who has chosen the Sannyasa, path of renunciation (''sanyāsa''), or has been initiated into a religious monastic order of Vaishnavas. It is used either before or after the subject's name (usually an adopted religious name). The meaning of the Sanskrit root of the word ''swami'' is "[he who is] one with his Philosophy of self#Self in Eastern traditions, self" ( stands for "self"), and can roughly be translated as "he/she who knows and is master of himself/herself". The term is often attributed to someone who has achieved mastery of a particular Yoga, yogic system or demonstrated profound devotion (''bhakti'') to one or more Hindu gods. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' gives the etymology as: As a direct form of address, or as a stand-in for a swami's name, it is often rendered ''Swamiji'' (also ''Swami-ji'' or ''Swami Ji''). In modern Gaudiya Vaishnav ...
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