Ring ahead
Send a message one or two days before you travel. Say your dates, how many people, and whether you need the hall.
Overview
Three parts to the building
Rooms to sleep in, a hall to sit together in, and open air above. Each is offered on request — please confirm before you travel.
Staying here
Rooms for pilgrims and families
Several guest rooms open off the corridors on the inner floors. They are simple rooms — beds, fans, light, and space to put down luggage. Some have wood-panelled walls; all are kept clean between guests.
Rooms suit families breaking a journey at Abu Road, small pilgrim groups, and anyone needing a night's rest before going on to Mount Abu or the temple towns nearby.
- Beds, fans and lighting in every room
- Rooms of different sizes — mention how many are travelling
- Suitable for elders; ask for a ground-floor room if stairs are difficult
- Vegetarian food only on the premises
Rooms are allotted on request, not booked online. Send a WhatsApp message
with your dates and the number of people, and you will be told what is free.
Gathering
The hall and corridors
The common floor holds an indoor hall with corridors running off it. It is the part of the building that fills up — used for pravachan and discourse, for community meals, and for the small functions families hold when they are travelling together.
There is no stage and no fixed seating, which is what makes it useful. Mats go down, the space is arranged to fit the occasion, and it is cleared again afterwards.
- Open floor — seating arranged to suit the gathering
- Used for pravachan, bhakti, meals and family functions
- Connected corridors for overflow and queueing
- Dates must be confirmed in advance
Open areas
Terrace and balcony
Stairs lead up to an open terrace above the building, looking out over Sani Gaon and the land beyond it. In the hot months it is unusable by afternoon and the best place in the building by evening.
On the floor below, a shaded balcony with potted plants gives somewhere to sit through the day — the quietest corner of the Kendra, and the one most guests end up using.
- Full open terrace, reached by internal stairs
- Shaded balcony on the upper floor
- Used for morning prayers and evening sitting
- Please keep quiet after evening prayers
Before you arrive
Good to know
House rules
Vegetarian food only. No intoxicants on the premises. Quiet hours after evening prayers, and footwear left outside the hall.
Getting here
Search the Plus Code HPR6+P7C in Google Maps. It brings you to the gate, not to the edge of the village.
Availability
Tell us your dates and we will tell you what is free
Rooms and the hall are given on request. One message is enough to find out where things stand for the days you are travelling.