Shri Prakash Ji
“Everyone strives to be happy. One desire replaces another, but even their fulfilment does not bring the joy and peace that the soul truly seeks. This state can only be unfolded from within.”
Bearing the Light of Sanatan Dharma
Shri Prakash Ji is an enlightened Spiritual Master whose teaching draws no borders of nation, religion, or social condition. He is open to all who seek truth, whoever they are, wherever they come from.
His path is Sanatan Dharma: the universal, eternal law underlying all existence, rising from the Vedas and Upanishads. It is a whole and living knowledge that addresses human nature, the journey of the soul, and the soul's relationship to the Supreme.
At the heart of his teaching rests a single truth: the human being is Atma, the soul, not the body it inhabits. The soul's deepest purpose, beneath all the wanting and fearing and striving, is union with the Paramatma, with God. That arrival into Truth and Divine Light is what the word yoga has always meant at its source.
Born in Patna into a family of the Shandilya Gotra, one of the oldest Brahmin lineages in India, Shri Prakash Ji grew up in a household where spiritual knowledge was a living inheritance. After years of deep inner work, his enlightenment came in his late twenties. Since then, his sole mission has been to carry the light of Sanatan Dharma to every corner of the world.
↓ Founder's Biography
Lineage
Born into the Shandilya Gotra, a Vedic lineage traceable to the sage Shandilya, whose teachings appear in the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Chandogya Upanishad.
Mission
The worldwide spreading of Sanatan Dharma through the establishment of Shri Prakash Dham centres (Abodes of Light) across every country and culture.
Teaching reaches
Germany · India · Lithuania, and beyond, through Satsang, Japa, and the living word of the Teacher.
The path is for everyone
Regardless of faith, nationality, background, or prior tradition. The teaching belongs to no single people. It is addressed to the soul.
Seven Instruments of Inner Awakening
Sanatan Dharma calls for real, sustained inner work: on the mind, on the deep habits the mind has accumulated over years. At a Shri Prakash Dham centre, practice unfolds through seven elements, each one sustaining the others, forming a complete environment for transformation.
Satsang
Being in the presence of the TeacherListening to the Teacher's guidance, sitting with his word until it lands where it needs to. The most direct means of awakening what is already present in the student.
Japa
Repetition of God's nameThe central practice. It purifies the mind, awakens the inner light, and draws the Atma toward the Paramatma: a form of continuous Divine presence maintained within ordinary consciousness.
Dhyana
Meditation on the Divine LightMeditation on the Prakash that lives in every human heart. It develops concentration, brings genuine inner silence, and deepens the bond between the practitioner and the Supreme.
Bhakti
Devotion & selfless loveThis path dissolves the ego, softens what has hardened in a person, and fills the heart with trust in the Divine, a trust that gradually colours how one moves through every relationship.
Seva
Selfless serviceService rendered for others, freely, with no account kept. Care for those near us, honest work, genuine participation in the life of the community, where interior life becomes outwardly legible.
Aarti
Collective prayerCollective prayer aimed at the purification of mind and consciousness. It builds concentration and creates a shared field in which the presence of God becomes available to all present.
Bhajan
Devotional songMusic, when it carries the name and qualities of God, reaches places in a person that other practices sometimes cannot. What argument and effort cannot always loosen, a song sometimes can.
Find Your Centre
Each Shri Prakash Dham centre is conceived as a fixed point of spiritual awakening: a place where the connection to oneself, to God, and to the natural order running beneath the noise of modern life can be restored, or for some, discovered for the first time.
The international home of Shri Prakash Dham. Regular Satsangs, Japa sessions, and personal meetings with the Teacher. A living community rooted in Sanatan Dharma at the heart of Europe.
info@yoga-shri.de Attend Satsang in Berlin →Grounded in the very land where Sanatan Dharma was born, the New Delhi centre carries the living tradition into the heart of India, a gathering place for all who seek.
info@yoga-shri.de Connect in New Delhi →A vibrant community in the heart of the Baltics, where Satsang, Japa, and Seva bring the teaching to life in Northern Europe.
info@yoga-shri.de Connect in Vilnius →The Living Word of the Teacher
Satsang is a spiritual discourse through which the knowledge of eternal truth and the laws governing creation are shared by an enlightened master. This book gathers the Teacher's spoken word, edited by his disciples, into a form that can reach those who cannot be present in person.
It addresses the questions most relevant to the seeking heart: the purpose of life, spiritual growth, relationships, the upbringing of children, the significance of mantra, the law of karma, and the cultivation of inner strength.
↓ Download Free PDFDialogues with SPJ
Dialogues with SPJ is a series of conversations in which Shri Prakash Ji is questioned directly by his own disciples, on subjects ranging from daily practice to the nature of the soul. Recorded at Shri Prakash Dham and shared on the official YouTube channel, each dialogue carries the Teacher's word to those who cannot yet sit before him in person.
Glimpses of
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Attend a Satsang
Whether you are new to Sanatan Dharma or have been walking a spiritual path for years, Satsang is open to all. Choose the centre nearest to you and reach out. We will help you find your first step.