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Sri Swami Omkarananda founded "Sri Swami Chidbhavananda Ashramam”, situated in the banks of river Surabhi Saraswathi or Mullaiyarun at Theni and established the Vedanta Sasthra Prachara Trust to manage the Ashram.

Sri Swami Omkarananda was born in a traditional vedic family. He learnt vedas at a very early age. In his early twenties, greatly inspired by the teachings of Sri Swami Vivekananda, he joined Ramakrishna Tapovanam at Tirupparaithurai and was given Sanyasa Deeksha by Sri Swami Chidbhavananda Maharaj on 4th May 1985 and was named as Sri Swami Omkarananda.

Between 1985 and 1987 Sri Swamiji toured all over Tamilnadu and conducted Antar Yogams and classes on spoken Sanskrit.

In the precincts of the Ashram Sri Swamiji has established a grand temple dedicated to Adiguru Sri Prajna Dakshinamurti. The Maha Kumbhabhishekam of the Temple was performed during June 2004. The temple attracts large number of devotees from all over the world.

Sri Swami Chidbhavananda Ashram is primarily an institution for teaching scriptures, on a non-commercial basis to youngsters, through a comprehensive 3 year residential Vedaneri Course. The uniqueness of this course is that the medium of education is in Tamil. Selection of students is based only on aptitude, without any bar on caste, creed or religion. Accommodation, food and course materials are provided free. Students of these courses are trained to be the future teachers of Hinduism.

The Ashram is also engaged in catering to the spiritual upliftment of people at different levels by way of conducting several short-term camps and spiritual retreats.

‘Dharma Deepika’ - Camps for children aged between 7 and 14 The curriculum of the Dharma Deepika camps has been so designed, to inculcate among children bhakthi, character, responsibility and good manners based on hindu culture.

Likewise, ‘Gnana Deepika’ – Camps for youth aged between 15 and 30 years are conducted at regular intervals. Gnana Deepika camps provide the youth, the right kind of orientation to lead a matured and purposeful way of life. It also equips them to cope up with various pressure situations in life and improve their overall personality.