Ananda Marga

Ananda Marga (Way of Happiness) is a holistic and spiritual philosophy and way of life and a society and organization based on it. It was founded in Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990). His spiritual name is Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. The movement defines its mission as a service to individual emancipation through self-realization and to collective emancipation through the realization of all spiritual, physical and mental potentialities and they deny that they are a religion but are usually classified within the new religious movements originating in the Hinduism. Tantra and Yoga is a important part.