About the Ashram
About Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand Ashram
About Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand Ashram
Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand Ashram is a Himalayan sanctuary built on the specific ground where Baba Sri Chand, the eternal yogi and son of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, sat in meditation for approximately one year.
Today it is guided by Yogi Amandeep Singh Ji and dedicated to the living transmission of the Udasin tradition: a place where meditation, seva, pilgrimage, and direct experience of Dharma are not curated for visitors but lived day by day.
Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand
Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand (1494 to 1643) was the elder son of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and one of the most revered Mahasiddhas in Indian spiritual history. He lived for approximately 149 years. Within the tradition this is read not as legend but as testimony: the body of a fully realized yogi obeys different laws.
He founded the Udasin tradition: a path of deep renunciation, inner discipline, and unconditional service. Udasin means "beyond," or "detached." It points to the kind of inner freedom that lifts a practitioner out of attachment, identity, and division. The tradition welcomed seekers without regard to caste, creed, or religion, and spread across India through itinerant teachers and centers of practice.
A Mahasiddha is a master who has reached the highest states of yogic consciousness. According to the living tradition, Baba Sri Chand is not simply a historical figure. He still prevails in his radiant body on this land, present to anyone who arrives in sincerity.
This Ashram stands on the specific ground where he sat. It is consecrated to the continuation of what he taught: through practice, through community, and through service.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Underground Meditation Cell
Video of the underground meditation cell
The most sacred specific location on the Ashram grounds is underground. It is the small chamber where Baba Sri Chand sat in deep meditation and solitude. It has been preserved exactly as it was: stone, silence, and the atmosphere of his practice still in the walls.
This is not a museum and not a memorial. It is a living space. Entering it is the most direct encounter the Ashram offers with the Mahasiddha's presence, and for many visitors it becomes the moment they remember for the rest of their lives.
The lineage this Ashram carries
The Ashram is rooted in the Nirmallay Sikh Sadhu tradition and the Udasin lineage of Baba Sri Chand. It is directly connected to Nirmal Panchati Akhara in Kankhal, Haridwar: one of the oldest and most respected institutional homes of the Nirmallay tradition.
The Nirmallay tradition is known for scriptural rigor, inner discipline, and service. Within it, the Udasin lineage carries the specific transmission of Baba Sri Chand's yogic and meditative teachings, a current that has flowed without break for more than five centuries.
Yogi Amandeep Singh carries that transmission today and has dedicated his life to making it accessible to sincere seekers across the world, while keeping its depth and authenticity intact.
Our purpose
To protect and nurture a sacred environment where the teachings of Baba Sri Chand can be lived, transmitted, and shared. To honor the ground he sanctified through his presence. To leave both, intact and flourishing, for the generations that come after us.
In practice this means:
holding the conditions for serious meditation, retreat, and practice
preserving and growing a lineage-based sacred site
creating space for pilgrimage, learning, and inner transformation
offering seva through food, care, and service
developing the land in a way that honors both its spiritual and ecological dimensions
A place of practice, and of work
An Ashram is not only a place of retreat. It is also a place of responsibility. The vision here is both contemplative and practical: meditation spaces, sacred structures, a community kitchen, land stewardship, and the unglamorous infrastructure that lets life happen in the mountains.
Silent meditation and the work of cooking and building are not separate orders of activity. Both are Dharma. Both are how this place stays alive.
Become a sustaining supporter
Monthly giving builds a steady floor under everything that happens here. Recurring gifts support daily life and long-term vision in the same breath, and let the Ashram plan with confidence rather than urgency.
Why support is needed
The Ashram is growing, and growth carries both spiritual opportunity and practical need. Continued support is essential for construction, maintenance, land care, the access road, monsoon resilience, food seva, and the long, patient development of the spaces where practice and community life will unfold.
Every gift converts devotion into something that lasts: a sacred place that can serve seekers and pilgrims for generations.
Trust and Transparency
Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand Ashram operates under Baba Sri Chand Foundation, a registered U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 93-3789623). Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Every contribution directly supports the development and care of the Ashram and its service activities.