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Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand.

It is situated on the right bank of the Ganges River and is a pilgrimage town for Hindus, with ancient sages and saints meditating here in search of higher knowledge.

There are numerous temples and ashrams built along the banks of the river.

An ashram is a spiritual hermitage or a monastery in Indian religions.

Etymology.

The Sanskrit noun is a thematic nominal derivative from the root 'toil' (< PIE *ḱremh2, śramaṇa) with the prefix 'towards.' An ashram is a place where one strives towards a goal in a disciplined manner.

Such a goal could be ascetic, spiritual, yogic or any other.

Yoga teacher training is the training of teachers of yoga as exercise, consisting mainly of the practice of yoga asanas, leading to certification.

Such training is accredited by the Yoga Alliance in America, by the British Wheel of Yoga in the United Kingdom, and by the across Europe.

The Yoga Alliance sets standards for 200-hour and 500-hour Recognized Yoga Teacher levels, which are accepted in America and other countries.

Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age.

A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe and Australia.

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest; more than 100 peaks exceeding elevations of above sea level lie in the Himalayas.