Welcome to Gyan Ashram
Gyan Ashram is committed to promote dialogue, peace and harmony among different religious communities and cultural groups through the channels of Music.Dance,Communication,Yoga and Meditations.
It aims at presenting the cultural treasures of our land, training the younger generation in the divine arts of music and dance and promoting dialogue, peace and harmony among all people through music, dance, dramas, folk songs, and other fine arts.
Our Vision
Inspired by the Word of God to build a community of cultural harmony and spiritualoneness.
Our Founder Late Fr.George Proksch,SVD(1904-1986)
Fr.George Proksch,the Founder Director of Gyan Ashram,arrived India in 1933 from Germany. He studied Urdu and Sanskrit in the Oriental InstituteofLanguageinLondonandlearnedclassicalmusicinLucknow professionally. In 1955, he founded Gyan Ashram, on a hillock in Andheri (E), Mumbai and took an Indian name for himself—Guru Gyan Prakash.He gathered a troupe of singers and dancers to present God's message of love and service to all,particularly to the poor and the marginalized as the unique' sadhana' to attain 'moksha'. The finest moment of his dream of presenting the noble message of Jesus in the Indian style arrived when he staged 'Anuttam Prem' (No Greater Love), a ballet at the International Eucharistic Congress in Mumbai 1964, in the presence of His Holiness Pope Paul VI and 50,000 spectators, Christians and non- Christians with an impressive cast of 300 dancers, a choir of 1000 singers and an orchestra of 100 musicians. If today the idea of inculturation is accepted without much resistance,it is the fruit of the vision of a pioneer like Guru Gyan Prakash who was born in Germany a century ago but made India his home.Ever since, this Centre tries its best to keep alive the original ideology and spirit of late Fr.George Proksch through dialogue, music and dance.
