Swami Avdheshanand Giri

Swami Avdheshanand Giri is the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of the Shree Panch Dashnaam Juna Akhada, the largest of the 13 Akhadas. He is a guru to thousands and has initiated more than a hundred thousand sannyasis and transformed innumerable lives with his social activities. He heads the Prabhu Premi Sangh in Haryana and is the President of the Samanvaya Seva Trust. He is also the President of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. An orator and author of several books on Indian spiritual philosophy, he was bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Literature (D. Lit) degree by Vikram University in India in 2008. He delivered the keynote address at the UNO for 'Responsible Leadership Summit' held in May 2019, the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne in 2009 and has chaired many international conferences for climate change, interfaith brotherhood, and on interfaith relations, among other things.