Chinmaya International Foundation, Adi Sankara Nilayam

Chinmaya International Foundation is the academic centre of the Chinmaya Mission devoted to preserving and disseminating India's knowledge traditions. It is based at Adi Sankara Nilayam in Veliyanad, Kerala, the ancestral home of Adi Shankara's mother's family, which Swami Chinmayananda acquired and restored. It offers courses in Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads and in Sanskrit, online and by post, as well as short residential retreats devoted to texts attributed to the teacher and longer immersion camps.