Parliament of New South Wales · Wednesday 23 September 2026
We meet on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation
we pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and honour a spiritual tradition of listening to land and silence carried on this Country for tens of thousands of years
the claim
Peace does not descend on nations.It rises from persons.
Treaties hold what hearts have already settled.
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Vihangam Yog
the eternal science of consciousness
the name
Vihangam: the way of the bird.
A bird does not fight the ground it rises from. It lifts above, and sees the whole. Vihangam Yog is the soul taking that flight - above thought, into its own vastness.
a century ago
Seventeen years of meditation.One scripture: the Swarved.
Anant Shri Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj revived this practice in 1924 and set down what he directly experienced. Not a belief system - a method, carried unbroken through a century of teachers to the presiding Sadguru today.
The Swarved Mahamandir, Varanasi
the world's largest meditation centre - 20,000 people can sit in one silence
recognition
Inaugurated by thePrime Minister of India.
In December 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Swarved Mahamandir and paid tribute at the statue of Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj.
a living practice
100+years in the open
20,000seats in one hall of silence
6continents with active centres
Freealways, for everyone
practice becomes service
5,000+units of blood donated in one annual worldwide drive - nearly 200 camps, 35 nations
25,000hawan kunds in one Vedic Yajna at the centenary, December 2023
2013special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council
PM of India, pmindia.gov.in Dec 2023 · UN-ECOSOC 2013 · press coverage, archived
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The evidence
what the research already shows
the need, in four figures
42.9%of Australians aged 16-85 have experienced a mental disorder in their lifetime
$220bnwhat poor mental health costs Australia every year
1 in 6people worldwide experience loneliness - in the most connected era in history
871,000deaths a year linked to loneliness and isolation
ABS 2020-22 · Productivity Commission 2020 · WHO Commission on Social Connection 2025
what research finds
What centuries of practice knew,instruments now measure.
The anchor meta-analysis of 47 trials found moderate evidence that meditation programs improve anxiety, depression and pain - and systematic reviews through 2024-2026 keep replicating the pattern across countries and populations, from students to health workers.
Goyal et al., JAMA Internal Medicine 2014 · Scientific Reports 2024 · reviews 2025-26
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Peace, practised
from one interior to one human family
where conflict begins
A thought becomes an attitude.
An attitude shapes our words.
Words shape relationships.
Relationships shape families.
Families form communities.
Communities shape the character of a nation.
the deeper dimension
Waves on the surface.Stillness in the depths.
The one who observes the mind is the conscious self - the atma.
What happens when the eyes open?
are we more patient - do we listen better - do we react less impulsively - meditation that does not change how we live is incomplete
practised at scale
Collective stillness iscollective peace.
Thousands sit together in our Yajnas and gatherings.
Many faiths, one silence, no exceptions.
Four days ago at Helensburgh, Sydney sat this way.
the inner architecture
A law can prohibit violence.It cannot remove hatred from a heart.
Public institutions and inner development are not competing approaches. They address different dimensions of the same human challenge.
peace is not the absence of difference
Harmony is not uniformity.
Peace is the capacity to meet difference without hatred. A democracy itself depends on different opinions.
the role of the Sadguru
We are not asked to believe.We are helped to know.
In this tradition the journey is undertaken under the guidance of the Sadguru - a fully realised master who has directly experienced the states of consciousness the path describes, and who guides the seeker toward that experience rather than toward intellectual assent.
सुख शांति सबको मिले, यह उपदेश हमार। सारा विश्व हमार है, हम हैं सब संसार॥ It is my instruction: may the entire world receive happiness and peace. The entire world is ours, and we are of the entire world.
Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj
Five quiet minutes
from the world outside to the consciousness within
This work now has a home in New South Wales
free, open programs across Sydney and beyond, for every community that asks
Vihangam Yog
