The Gita Dham: Other Structures in the First Phase

E)   Other parts of the Gita Dham in  the First Phase

1.       An auditorium with a seating capacity of 200 to 500 people with a 48” LED TV, a DVD player, a sound amplification system, an  inverter to provide power backup, or where no electricity is available to recharge the inverter, a generator. This auditorium will be used for training and education of all sorts including training for self-employment, career stream selection, farming, Physics, Chemistry, Sanskrit, English and all with the help of video CDs. Villagers will themselves construct the auditorium with local material and resources, maybe even bamboo;

2.       A similar separate construction to serve as production centre for cottage industry goods, and for livelihood counseling;

3.       There will be store rooms;

4.       There will be cottages for the management staff at the Centre including the priests, monks (धर्मसंघी) and nuns (धर्मसंघिनी);

5.       For community lunch and dinner, there will be an appropriate place;

6.       A large kitchen for cooking mass lunch;

7.       Lavatories and washrooms for the priests monks and nuns;

8.       Washrooms for visitors.

9.       Orchards, Tulsi garden and garden of other herbs for producing herbal medicines. 

(later, a wellness centre and cottages for those above 75 and willing to become full time sannyasis (joining the sannyas ashram) for devoting full time to the quest of God and Self, will be added.