Aerial view of the Kanha Shanti Vanam meditation hall complex with the Indian flag flying at its entrance

HARI is a greenfield deemed-to-be university approved by the Government of India under UGC's Distinct Category — a designation reserved for institutions that offer a genuinely unprecedented academic model.

HARI students in blazers walking together along a campus path
Several-hundred-acre

A sprawling, living campus

160

Countries with a Heartfulness presence

75 years

Of practice behind our curriculum

Aerial view of the Kanha Shanti Vanam campus amid palms and gardens
IGBC Platinum

India's highest green-campus rating

Oct 2025

UGC Gazette-notified Deemed University

Founded at Kanha Shanti Vanam — once barren, rocky scrubland, today a thriving forest with IGBC Platinum certification — HARI is proof before it is promise. The campus itself is the most compelling argument for an education rooted in ecological consciousness and inner awareness.

A cathedral-like canopy of trees over a terracotta path at Kanha Shanti Vanam
Millions
practise Heartfulness

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