ZAMORA, SPAIN, October 19, 2024 (La Razon, Google translated from Spanish): Mireia Fresno from Barcelona is wearing a silk dress of an intense yellow color, which distinguishes her from the rest of her companions. She slowly descends the gentle slope that gives access to the Kailash Ashram, the physical space that houses the Advaita Vidya community, on the outskirts of the town of Brandilanes in Zamora, just 1.86 miles from the border with Portugal. In this beautiful place, surrounded by chestnut trees, deer, wild boars and foxes, this Hindu community has settled, following the teacher, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, who is always dressed in orange. “We could not have found a better place than this,” reflects Mireia, while explaining that in this space the participants rely on self-knowledge, on meditation, a “continuous homage to relaxation.”

For two years, Brandilanes has had a characteristic that the surrounding villages in the Aliste region do not have. This town has doubled its population thanks to the arrival of this Hindu community from La Ametllá del Vallés, in Barcelona. The mayor of Fonfría, Sergio López, tells Ical that the municipality has 822 inhabitants. Brandilanes, one of the nine towns that make up the municipality, went from 40 to 90 residents. Mireia is grateful for the way they have been welcomed into the community. The community is located in what was once an environmental education project for young people and children, which included a rural house, and which went bankrupt with the 2008 crisis. After years of some neglect, Advaita vidya formed its own Kailash Ashram, which means Sacred Mountain of Tibet, and which is the space that all the members have created to be able to meditate and reflect. It was acquired three years ago and they have been based there for two years. First, a group of three people did it, who began with the cleaning and finalized the preparations for the arrival of more people. Later, in July 2022, the spiritual practice began, with the bulk of the group, which came from La Ametllá, but which has been joined by “more followers in these years”, even from the province of Zamora itself.

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