Santhigiri Ashram is a world-renowned spiritual centre founded by NavajyothisreeKarunakara Guru in 1964. Exhorting its followers to lead a life at peace with God and Nature, the ashram promotes transcendental spiritual values and secular ideals like universal love, world peace and religious harmony. The guiding principles of the ashram have been influenced profoundly by the teachings of great spiritual masters of the world, and without giving undue prominence to any particular religious tradition, the ashram attempts to unify humanity under an all-encompassing spiritual ideology. Her Holiness Sishyapoojitha Amritha JnanaThapaswini, the chosen disciple of NavajyothisreeKarunakara Guru, is the present spiritual head of the ashram.