Remembrance स्मरण
Singing and sitting together, week after week. The practice is simple and it is meant to be repeated.
जानकीशरणम् मंगलाचरण
नमः परमहंसास्वादितचरणकमलचिन्मकरन्दाय।
भक्तजनमानसनिवासाय श्रीरामचन्द्राय॥
A living community
A place to return to.
जहाँ मन ठहर जाता है।
A community that gathers to sing, to study, to sit in silence and to serve. You do not need to know anything to begin — only to arrive.
A gathering in natural light. Portrait orientation, people rather than empty architecture.
Who we are
Not an institution — a gathering. जानकीशरणम्
Jankisharnam is a community of people who keep showing up: to sing on a Saturday afternoon, to read together on a weekday, to cook for a few hundred once a month. There is no membership and no requirement.
What holds it together is rhythm rather than organisation — the same hours, the same courtyard, the same faces, and always room for one more. If you are looking for somewhere to begin, begin by coming.
Study स्वाध्याय
Reading the texts slowly and in company, with room for the questions people actually have.
Service सेवा
Cooking, teaching, carrying, cleaning. Whatever the day in front of us asks for.
What's coming
Upcoming gatherings
Most of what happens here repeats. Come once, and you will know when the next one is.
Weekly Satsang photograph
Weekly Satsang
साप्ताहिक सत्संग
An afternoon of collective singing, silence and reading. Open to everyone; no registration, no prior study required.
- When
- 15 August 2026 · From 4:00 pm
- Where
- Venue to be announced
Monthly Annadaan
मासिक अन्नदान
Cooking and serving a shared meal. Volunteers are welcome from the morning preparation onwards.
- When
- 29 August 2026 · 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Where
- Hanuman Mandir, Jabalpur
Autumn Katha
शरद कथा
A seven-evening recitation with commentary, followed by prasad. Seating is limited on weekends.
- When
- 18 – 24 September 2026 · 5:00 – 8:00 pm daily
- Where
- Venue to be announced
Weekend of Silence
मौन साधना
Two days held mostly in silence, with guided sitting, simple meals and rest. Limited to a small group.
- When
- 10 – 11 October 2026 · Residential
- Where
- Venue to be announced
Hands preparing the shared meal. Documentary, close, unposed.
A small detail from the same morning: a pot, a stack of plates, a pair of hands.
Seva
Practice that leaves the room. सेवा ही साधना है
Sitting is half of it. The other half is what happens on the days between — the meals, the classes, the small unnoticed help.
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The shared meal
Cooking and serving together, so that no one who comes to the courtyard leaves hungry.
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Teaching and tuition
Evening classes for children from the neighbourhood, run by volunteers from the community.
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Care in difficulty
Quiet, practical help for families going through illness, loss or hardship.
Adhikaram
What we know, given away अधिकारम्
Members who work in a profession go into colleges and speak to students entering that same field — and carry the practice with them while they do.
An engineer talks to engineering students about the work they are about to walk into — honestly, including the parts nobody warns them about. Then about how to hold a career without disappearing into it.
An Adhikaram session with students. Portrait orientation.
Gallery
Photographs from our gatherings
Albums from the courtyard, the kitchen and the festival evenings. Freely available, and nothing behind a login.
Deepotsav, the courtyard lit
Deepotsav, the courtyard lit
दीपोत्सव
Lamps along every ledge, and the singing that went on well past midnight.
A morning of annadaan
A morning of annadaan
अन्नदान की एक सुबह
From the first chopping before dawn to the last plate washed.
Before sunrise
In their words
Why people keep coming back
I came for one evening because a neighbour asked me to. I have not really stopped coming since.
What surprised me was how ordinary it felt. Nobody asked me anything. There was simply a place to sit.
My children learned the shlokas here before they learned them at home. That is not a small thing.
मेरे बच्चों ने यहाँ आकर वह सीखा जो मैं उन्हें घर पर नहीं सिखा पाया।
मैं यहाँ सिर्फ़ जानकारी लेने नहीं आया — मैं इस समुदाय का हिस्सा बनना चाहता हूँ।
If that sentence is true for you, there is nothing to sign up for. Come to a Saturday afternoon, or write to us first.
Support
The work is funded entirely by the people who take part in it.
There is no fee to attend anything, and there never will be. What is given is given freely, and it goes back into the same rooms it came from.
Where it goes
- The kitchen, and the monthly meal it cooks
- Keeping the hall, courtyard and instruments in repair
- Recording and freely publishing every talk
- Books and materials for the children’s circle
Transparency
- Registered as
- To be confirmed — registered trust name not yet provided
- Registration no.
- To be confirmed — registration number not yet provided
- Tax exemption
- To be confirmed — 80G certificate details not yet provided
Accounts are shared with the community each year. Nothing above is published until it has been verified against the trust's own records.
Visit
Come and sit with us आइए, कभी आ जाइए
Nothing is required in advance. If it helps to know what to expect, write to us and someone will answer.
- Address
- Address to be confirmed — postal address not yet provided
- Open
- Visiting hours to be confirmed — visiting hours not yet provided
- Contact
- Telephone to be confirmed — phone number not yet provided Email to be confirmed — email address not yet provided
The entrance, so a first-time visitor recognises it when they arrive.