Jeeyar Educational Trust · Est. 1981
Serve All Beings as Service to God
JET is a global non-profit improving human lives through education, service, and ancient wisdom — active in seven countries under the guidance of HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji.
JET USA, Inc. · 501(c)(3) since 1994 · EIN 36-3977444 · New Jersey chapter
An Unbroken Thread
A Thousand Years of Equality
1017 – 1137
Sri Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya
The a:cha:rya of equality — who opened the sacred manthra to every human being and gave all communities a place in the temple, a millennium ago.
1909 – 1979
HH Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji
Freedom fighter turned Tridandi sanyasi — builder of India's first Harijan colony, reviver of the Vedas, inspirer of the Trust.
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b. 1956
HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji
Founder of JET and visionary of the Statue of Equality — Padma Bhushan awardee carrying Ramanuja's message to 50+ countries.
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US chapters
7
Countries worldwide
1000+
Years of wisdom
216 ft
Statue of Equality
The Illuminated Timeline
From 1017 to New Jersey
1017
Sri Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya is born at Sriperumbudur. He spends his life teaching that the manthra of liberation belongs to every human being, regardless of caste.
1909
HH Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji is born in Kakinada — freedom fighter, Ve:dic scholar, and reviver of Ramanuja's vision.
1938
Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji donates his own land to build India's first Harijan colony — 124 houses at Arthamur village.
1956
HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji is born on Deepavali day in that same village, Arthamuru.
1981
Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji forms the Jeeyar Educational Trust, with Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji as its inspirer.
1984
The JET Ve:dic school rises at Sitanagaram on the banks of the Krishna — beginning with 70 students in two sheds.
1992
Vikasa Tarangini, the volunteer service wing, is established in India; VT Seva follows in the USA in 2008.
1994
JET USA, Inc. is incorporated in Illinois as a 501(c)(3) non-profit — today 37 chapters across four US regions.
2001
Nethra Vidyalaya opens — free residential education for the visually challenged, through college.
2008
31 acres in Cranbury, New Jersey become the JET USA national headquarters — Sri Saketham.
2022
The 216-foot Statue of Equality is inaugurated near Hyderabad for Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya's millennium.
2023
The Government of India confers the Padma Bhushan on HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji.
Monuments of the Mission
Equality in Stone, Union in Bronze
HYDERABAD, INDIA · INAUGURATED 2022
Statue of Equality
The 216-foot statue of Sri Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya — the second-tallest sitting statue in the world — rises on a lotus of 54 petals and 36 elephants, surrounded by replica shrines of all 108 Divya Desams where daily sevas are performed. Within sits the Swarna Ramanuja — a 120 kg gold murthy. Its consecration spanned twelve days of Ve:dic yajna in 1,035 fire altars, with some five thousand priests.
“Let the Statue reverberate within you, echoes of Equality. Let these echoes become a yearning for Equality. Let this yearning get translated into actions leading to Equality.”statueofequality.org
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS · INAUGURATED 2024
Statue of Union
North America's tallest statue of Lord Hanuman — a 90-foot Panchaloha Abhaya Anjaneya at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas. Hanuman united Sri: Ra:ma with Sita — hence the name, Statue of Union. Unveiled by HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji in August 2024, it stands radiating benevolence, strength, and hope over the American Southwest.
“Creating a spiritual epicenter where hearts find solace, minds find peace, and souls find a path to transcendence.”statueofunion.org
Sister Institution
Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple, Sugar Land
A Pancharatra-agama temple to Lord Lakshmi Narayana surrounded by the eight forms of Maha Lakshmi — built to promote Swamiji's mission of revitalizing Vedic heritage through learning and worship. Home of the Statue of Union and the annual Union Fest. ashtalakshmi.org
The Word, Carried Forward
Publications & Media
IN PRINT SINCE APRIL 1947
Bhakthi Nivedana
Founded by HH Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swamiji “to cater to the spiritual needs of all the people in the society,” the magazine has run continuously for nearly eight decades — its free archives reach back to 1949. Under HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji it went global in English, carrying his FAQ column, character-building Prajna articles, and JET & Vikasa Tarangini news to every issue.
400K+
YouTube subscribers
5,200+ videos · 150M+ views — daily pravachanams, Bhagavad Gita series, and festival broadcasts on the official channel.
339K+
Facebook followers
JETWORLD — the official page of the Jeeyar Educational Trust, with the latest humanitarian and spiritual updates.
వాణి
Sri Ramanuja Vani
The Vijayawada publications arm — spiritual books, media, and Bhakthi Nivedana subscriptions in Telugu and English.
How We Serve
Education · Health · Compassion
Ve:dic Education
Gurukulams at Sitanagaram, JIVA and beyond — over 1,000 students certified in the Ve:da:s, with free food, boarding and books. Out of 1,131 Ve:dic branches, only 12 survive today; JET exists to save them.
Prajna
Holistic personality development for children — moral values, culture and heritage through a structured series of classes, active across JET USA chapters including New Jersey.
Nethra Vidyalaya
Education for the visually challenged since 2001 — 2,600+ children empowered, India's first blind junior and degree colleges, board exams written on laptops without a scribe.
VT Seva · Vikasa Tarangini
The volunteer service network — 5,000+ volunteers across 25+ US chapters. Its Mahila Arogya Vikas camps have screened over 4 million women for cervical and breast cancer.
Annadanam
Daily meal programs across India and at JET centers — feeding thousands in temples, ashramams and disaster zones.
Disaster Relief
First to respond in earthquake, flood, cyclone and tsunami zones — including a 78-house colony, school and temple built for Gujarat earthquake survivors.
Here in New Jersey
The Same Thread, Woven Locally
JET New Jersey is the official NJ chapter of JET USA — home of the Sanjeevani Jeeyar Ashramam in Willingboro and neighbor to the national headquarters at Sri Saketham, Cranbury. Weekly Ve:dic classes, Prajna for children, festivals, and seva — the thousand-year teaching, alive in your neighborhood.
Sources: chinnajeeyar.org · jetusa.org · vtsworld.org · statueofequality.org · statueofunion.org · ashtalakshmi.org · bhakthinivedana.com