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Celebrate 15 years of Sadafal Foundation with Sant Naam Deo Ji Maharaj

Staff Reporter|Published

An engaging session on the Power of the Mind, featuring an ancient meditation led by Sant Naam Deo Ji Maharaj from India.

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The Sadafal Foundation, one of India's largest and oldest organisations dedicated to disseminating spiritual knowledge, is celebrating its 15th anniversary with an engaging session on the Power of the Mind, featuring an ancient meditation led by Sant Naam Deo Ji Maharaj from India.

The foundation known as 'Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deo Vihangam Yoga Sansthan,' has been active in South Africa for over a decade.

The ancient meditation will also include devotional songs and conclude with a Gala Dinner at Kendra Hall on 17 May 2025 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM.

For the past three decades, Sant Naam Deo Ji Maharaj (Naam Deo) has been at the core of founding a society built on the highest principles of human consciousness.

Through leading the social wing of Sadguru Sadafal Deo Vihangam Yoga Sansthan (SSDVYS), Naam Deo has been working in the villages of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh, where millions of people have benefited from the real essence of ‘Yog’.

Naam Deo ji is also the founder of Abhyas School of Yoga. Through this school, he imparts the universal knowledge of yoga's real essence. He says that Yoga cannot be restricted to just physical postures, kriyas, and mudras.

The stream of ‘Yog’ extends much beyond the boundaries of present-day yoga. He says the message that the ‘real essence’ of Yog wants to provide and help you with is ‘how you could find yourself and do what is needed’.

Since 2013, SSDVYS has had special consultative status with UN-ECOSOC, and Naam Deo is its chief Program Coordinator. SSDVYS is also recognised by UN-Habitat for its initiatives towards establishing world peace.

Naam Deo travels extensively around the world, meeting people directly. He helps every individual who comes up to him, unwinding their constructs and uplifting them.

Only recently in 2022, Naam Deo travelled 42 days in the USA, meeting people in old-age homes and other relief and welfare organisations engaged in the service of humanity.

Naam Deo is travelling to Africa, the UK, the USA, and Canada from May 2025 to September 2025 to preach and impart ‘Acceptance through diversity’ through a series of free interactive sessions and workshops open to people of all classes, creeds, genders, colours, nationalities, etc.

Vihangam Yoga is also known as Devyan Marg / Meen Maarg / Madhu Vidya /Para Vidya or Brahmavidya. It was the only form of Bhakti known to the sages.

With the passage of time, this became fragmented, and the various fragments appeared in different forms as complete yoga practices. Some of these yoga practices are Raj Yoga, Hath Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Laya Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga, etc. Vihangam Yoga thus happens to be the mother of all yoga practices.

This is an esoteric Metaphysical Science of Consciousness that is to be learnt from and practised under the guidance of Sadguru.

Lord Shri Krishna also taught Arjuna these five-step meditations during the Mahabharata war.

The public is invited to attend the event on 17 May 2025 at 5pm at Kendra Hall in Durban to learn about this ancient meditation free of cost under the guidance of Sant Naam Deo Ji Maharaj.

A glimpse of social initiatives of Naam Deo is mentioned below:

  • https://naamdeo.org/
  • https://www.abhyasschoolofyoga.org/
  • https://sadafal-education.com/
  • https://bahudha-foundation.org/
  • https://nametree.org/ https://un.ssdvys.org/
  • https://us.vihangamyoga.org/the-naam-deo/