The newest educational complex of Brahma Kumaris Academy for a Better World in Northern India is the Om Shanti Retreat Centre (ORC). It is a sprawling 28-acre complex built in peaceful, sylvan surroundings, located 70 km away from the hustle and bustle of the national capital New Delhi at Bhora Kalan, on Pataudi Road, 1 km off the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway No.8, in district Gurgaon. The ORC is a unique learning centre of excellence, with a serene and soothing atmosphere highly conducive for learning and retreat. It provides higher education in the art of living as well as training and experience in the long-lost science of Rajyoga the highest form of yoga. The courses, seminars and lectures offered by the ORC aim at human excellence through holistic personality development. It conducts value orientation courses for educators, administrators, businessmen and industrialists, scientists and engineers, jurists, women, youth and others. Om Shanti Retreat Centre is a recognized Regional Resource Centre for Education in Human Values of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, for primary and secondary education. It is also recognised by the University Grants Commission as a Centre for Value Education for university/college teachers.
The ORC provides state-of-the-art facilities for learning, including seven 200-seat seminar/training halls, an 800-seat mini auditorium, a 2,300-seat auditorium, and a meditation room and pyramid for the practice of Rajyoga meditation.
