Nishkam Karma Sadhana

A selfless stream of service for human welfare

A sacred stream of education, sanskar, self-reliance, human service and divine wisdom, flowing from one far-sighted resolve. Manidweep's service projects are not separate efforts, but the coordinated journey of a single selfless practice.

A far-sighted resolve

Behind the service, a vision of whole human development

All the service work of Shri Nandkishore Sharda, the loving Maa Basanti Manihar and Kumari Madhubala Advani is inspired by Jagatjanani Maa's command and by the wide vision of life in her karma-sadhana. For them, karma is not duty or social service alone, but a practice of self-development, self-purification and the good of the world. At its root, therefore, lay not some chance plan but a considered, long-term and far-sighted vision of the whole development of a human being.

They believed that the real development of society is not possible through financial aid or formal education alone. A life needs sanskar along with education, discernment along with knowledge, sensitivity along with prosperity, self-respect along with self-reliance, and social responsibility along with personal progress.

The highest form of the spiritual reveals itself in service.

In Bhaiyaji's view, serving humanity with a selfless spirit is a living extension of sadhana itself. In that spirit, education, sanskar, spiritual awakening, women's empowerment, self-reliance and the spread of knowledge were joined to one another.

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The coordinated journey of the bodies

Four bodies, one whole vision

Different bodies were formed as time and circumstance required, but all stayed joined to the same founding vision — each added a link, and together they form one stream that runs from education to self-reliant human service.

  • Education & scholarships
  • Sanskar & personality development
  • Yoga, health & inner balance
  • Self-reliant human service
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Maa Shardamani Trust

From school to higher education and the making of a future

Founded in 2001, this trust is the next link after the first. Where school education laid a firm foundation, this carried girls on to higher education and further opportunity.

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Gyanyogi Shri Nandkishore Sharda Adhyatm Kendra

A wide dimension of boys' education, whole-person growth and human service

Founded in 2010, the Kendra's role grew beyond education, to health, family support and women's self-reliance — each service beginning from a real need of one of its own students.

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Shri Nandkishore Sharda Gyan Ganga Mission

The spread of divine wisdom and the building of a place to learn

This mission's charge is to publish and freely spread Bhaiyaji's spiritual knowledge and inspiring literature — and, alongside, to build in schools the kind of facilities that let students learn with dignity and ease.

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One direction

From service, the whole development of society

What Bhaiyaji and Maa Basanti gave as a seed now flows through this whole stream of service.

From education, sanskar; from sanskar, character; from character, self-reliance; from self-reliance, service; and from service — the whole development of society.