AVATAR SHASTRA The Grand Descent of
Superconsciousness Volume 1
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 PREFACE 7
Chapter 7 150 Kalpataru The Power of Manifestation
Chapter 1 13 An Introduction
Chapter 8 157 Third Eye AwakeningSM Opening the Cosmic Command Center
Chapter 2 79
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Consciousness The Bioenergetics of the Cosmos Chapter 3 85 Akashic Readings Einstein’s Space-Time Continuum
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Chapter 4 103 Prana Pratishtha Breathing Life into Matter
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Chapter 5 111 Darshan Face-to-face with the Cosmos
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Chapter 6 127 Deeksha The Power of Initiation
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Chapter 9 187 Parakaya Pravesham Expansion of Consciousness into Another Chapter 10 192 The Science of Miracles Levitation, Teleportation, Materialization Chapter 11 218 Nithya Spiritual HealingSM The Science of Quantum Healing Chapter 12 243 Realigning Human Physiology The Mind of the Cell Chapter 13 291 Nirahara Sammyama Going beyond Food EPILOGUE 302 GLOSSARY 304
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Introduction Revealing the Science of Spirituality
The results continue to intrigue the world of medical science, but we now have growing proof (called ‘pramana’ in Vedic philosophy) that a range of extraordinary abilities do lie latent in us, just outside the sphere of our current experience. Not to be awakened by effort alone, these abilities (known in Sanskrit as siddhis) also demand of us a courageous life of intense integrity, authenticity, deep devotion to seeking the Truth and an unquestioning surrender to the flow of Existence - the Divine, the Tao, God, or whatever else we may choose to call that most intimate mystery of our lives.
Is it possible to live a superhuman life in this human body? Are some individuals really wired differently from the rest of us? Does such an awakened state as ‘enlightenment’ really exist? Are the expressions of an enlightened consciousness scientifically quantifiable? Can spiritual states be transmitted from Master to disciple?
Poised delicately on the border of the scientific and the mystical, these phenomena serve to remind us, as Einstein was to famously observe, that science without religion is lame, while religion without science is blind. It also leaves us with the unsettling realization that we may be much more than we can ever imagine - divine beings merely enjoying a human experience, slumbering spiritual giants only awaiting the touch of inner awakening from the Avatar.
For centuries, science and spirituality have been battling it out on these issues of perennial importance for humanity, attempting to find a unified thread of existence. Although spiritual teachers have always maintained that enlightenment is a ‘real’ phenomenon, and a perfectly realizable goal for all of us, the scientific community has naturally been unwilling to accept this without solid proof. It is only in the recent past that science has made a sustained effort to demystify the ancient mystic yogic sciences, and to gather sound scientific evidence that explains why the spiritually super-evolved are endowed with ‘powers’ that the rest of us can only dream about.
This book is meant for educational purposes only. It strives to be a bridge between spirituality and modern science. It aims to be a guiding light with which the scientific community can further explore the uncertain territory of human possibilities and cosmic mysteries.
His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been endeavoring to bridge the gap between traditional Vedic wisdom and modern science by putting Himself under the scanner, so to speak. A dedicated team of doctors and researchers have put significant time, expertise and resources into the effort to decode, document, analyze and present these events for the benefit of science and humanity.
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Many of the statements and conclusions in this book are directly supported by Hindu scriptural references and/or documented, preliminary scientific studies. However, for many conclusions and findings, science has yet to catch up with the declarations of the rishis, the ancient seers of the Vedic tradition, who orally transmitted the experiential Reality to disciples seeking the highest truth. Further, the book includes never-before revelations from authentic mystical sources like the Akashic Records, and the direct ‘experiential expressions’ of the Avataric consciousness, which we are still endeavoring to record, comprehend and quantify completely.
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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a Living Incarnation with unimaginable superhuman powers. Recognized today as a clear, legitimate, apolitical voice of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, He is revered as a living Avatar of Superconsciousness by millions worldwide. As a Mahamandaleshwar (spiritual head) of Mahanirvani Peeth, the world’s most ancient apex body of Hinduism, He is rapidly emerging as a powerful voice influencing Hindu philosophical thought currents. Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a powerful spiritual healer, an unforgettable orator, a youtube icon, a prolific author and the spiritual head of a global sociospiritual organization. He is also heir to a 5000-yearold lineage of enlightened yogic masters who live and train on the sacred mountain of Arunachala in southern India. Paramahamsa Nithyananda is an adept in the mystical yogic sciences whose fulcrum is the safe and natural awakening of the mighty Kundalini shakti, our own highest potential energy. In a landmark energy expression on our planet, He is awakening the Kundalini of hundreds of thousands of people, who are often sitting halfway across the globe, with just a glance, a touch or a wave of His hand. With a vision to raise the consciousness of humanity, He is working tirelessly to awaken individuals and communities to their highest possibility - a life of completion, power, bliss and Advaita, Oneness.
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Preface
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ince the advent of Man, there has always been an intense curiosity to learn about the nature of the universe we dwell in, and the nature of the human that dwells in this universe.
Consciousness as a study in science became a point of interest for philosophers, and spirituality and found very few scientists willing to consider Consciousness as a science by itself.
His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda, with his direct experiential understanding of the nature of Consciousness — from the microcosm to the macrocosm — has revealed a unified, universal understanding of the very fabric of our existence, connecting flawlessly Consciousness and the energy of Consciousness, with physics, chemistry and biology, as well as integrating medicine and health seamlessly.
It was always believed that there is one underlying principle or order that governs all the laws of Nature.
However, the questions related to ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ took on greater importance than the great question of ‘Why’, possibly becuase, at this stage, the answer to ‘Why’ very often entered the realms which science was insufficiently equipped to deal with.
The current book, in its first volume, introduces us to the science of the descent of Superconsciousness, and the sacredness behind the advent of an Avatar, giving us both — an objective analysis that is scientifically deduced and a profound subjective revelation that is beyond logical thresholds — helping us understand the nature of Consciousness (to the extent possible) through a language we understand as modern science and modern medicine.
This led to a disintegrated approach to science, with each aspect or question being developed as a separate end in itself, and giving itself different names like physics, chemistry, biology, etc. At the periphery of these sciences were unanswered questions and unquestioned answers that did not fit the mathematical model of science as currently understood. However, the laws of Nature are integrated in their minutest operation. In fact, even the underlying science operating in the living cell follows the cosmic laws of Nature, which science terms as physics and chemistry.
Never before have medicine, biology, physics and other sciences been seamlessly integrated as a single thread of knowledge unifying all the forces of nature, and beyond.
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It is a great opportunity for all of us to come close to Swamiji. I can only say that you can achieve everything, but you need undivided devotion to Swamiji, undivided devotion to the spirit within you - and whatever message you carry back from him, live up to that message.”
~ (Late) Sri Ashok Singhal ji Former International President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
His HolinessParamahamsa Nithyananda with Sri 108 Mahant Narendra Giri ji, President of Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad, who heads the largest apex body of Hinduism with 13 major Akhadas as its members
With other Spiritual Visionaries Several news channels had approached me to share my opinion about Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji. I told them: ‘Swamiji is the backbone of Sanatana Dharma. For the protection of our Sanatana Dharma, Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji has enhanced the honor of Sanatana Dharma by spreading it not just in India, but all over the world. When I met Swamiji for the first time, I felt that there is a shakti (divine power) in him that attracts people. I do not hesitate to say that his love, his character and his conduct are the qualities of a great saint.
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People are not yet aware of the energy of Swamiji. In reality, Swamiji is the svarupa (form) of Bhagavan (God), and we are offering prayers not just to a Guru, but to an embodiment of Bhagavan. I am sure that Swamiji must have done intense penance (tapas) in his childhood and merged into God, as a result of which he is expressing this divine power of God.
Most revered Swamiji, my Gurudeva! This land of Bharat is a spiritual land. The people (of the world) don’t understand what spirituality is. Today, where else in the entire world will you find spirituality? The rest of the world is completely materialistic.
I consider myself fortunate to be connected to a great ascetic saint like Swamiji. It is my belief that on the strength of tapas and dhyana (meditation), man becomes transformed into the Divine. On coming to his ashram and seeing the austerity, penance and strength of honorable Nithyananda Swamiji, I felt that I have truly come into the presence of a Divine Being (Divya Purusha).”
We believe in atma. We believe in karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jnana yoga, communion with the Lord Himself, and the various paths leading to the realization of the great Lord. We believe in selfrealization, and we believe that it is only through the spiritual path that we can realize the great Creator, the great Creation. It is only through spiritual practices that we can achieve this great realization, and it is this for which man is born; this is the ideal of life, the real goal of life. We are particles of God Himself, the spirit Himself, (and each of us needs to) realize the spirit within ourselves.
~ Sri 108 Mahant Narendra Giri ji, Hon. President of Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad
One day Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji is going to be called the ‘Vishva Guru’ (the Guru of the whole world) and he is going to be the spiritual guide for the world, and peace will spread in the whole world! The way he is growing, one day he will be the chief of Sanatana Dharma.
President of 13 Akhadas, leading the largest apex body of Hinduism with over 1 million sadhus or saints, and running major temples, ashrams (monasteries) and gurukuls (Vedic educational institutions) in India
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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda with (Late) Sri Ashok Singhal ji, former International President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
And India is the place with Swamis like the great Sri Nithyananda Swamiji. Of course, other Swamijis are there - but in this country it is rare to find those who not have only themselves realized, but who can make others realize also. And here is Swamiji, who is not only a realized soul, but has the capacity to make others realize the real ‘I’ within you, the Reality within you – which is very, very rare.
Letter fromSri Narendra Giri ji expressing his admiration for His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s spiritual penance, strength and contribution to Sanatana Hindu Dharma and to humanity.
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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda with Sri 1008 Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Swami Sukhdevananda ji of Atal Akhada
Just as this concern, this love, rises in the heart of the mother on seeing her child, the compassionate Guru feels an intense concern on seeing the living beings, and takes them into his heart and makes them taste the nectar of spirituality. This is the grace of the compassionate mother-like Guru .
The most auspicious events happen on our planet by the will of the Divine. It is the good fortune of this land that the manifestation of Divine energy in the form of Acharya Sri Mahamandaleshwar Sri Swami Nithyananda ji Maharaj has happened in this place (Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam), which was once a forest.
I am overjoyed to see such a great yogi, a mahapurusha (elevated soul), delivering spiritual teachings through so many centers around the world and transforming the lives of so many people, wiping their tears and suffering, reaching out to them in their homes by the power of his words. He is indeed doing a great spiritual service to the people. I offer my gratitude to Swamiji.
There is a shruti (Vedic mantra) – te tenaiva brunute – It is chosen by Itself (to) come here and reawaken the fortune of this land! Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, “The sacred knowledge gets destroyed by the influence of Time.” This knowledge had been destroyed by the effect of Time, and the time had come for it to be reestablished, so It got him.
~ Sri 1008 Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Swami Sukhdevananda ji, Atal Akhada
While associating with Nithyananda ji Maharaj, I have seen that there is so much spiritual activism in him. Why will a self-realized being, a yogi, a sannyasi, a dedicated jnani (wise soul) involve himself in the activities of the world; why will he build temples or buildings? This is out of His compassion for all the jivas (living beings). He feels the concern, ‘The sweet that I have eaten must be fed to all’.
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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda with Sri Sri Sri Dr. Shantaveera Mahaswamiji, pontiff of Kolada Matha Mahasamsthana, Karnataka, India
Bryan Williams, University of New Mexico Author of ‘A Glimpse Into the Meditating Brain’ (Pic courtesy www.theatlantic.com)
Whenever humanity falls into suffering and pain, Ishwar (the Divine) Himself does austerities (tapas) for their upliftment. Ishwar is the embodiment of the Divine Light. Nithyanandaji Maharaj is seated as the embodied Divine Light, spreading world peace and serving the whole of humanity from India. Nithyanandaji is a treasure-house of jnana (sacred knowledge).
(The Indian Swami examined in Dr. Krishna’s (scientific) study was Paramahamsa Nithyananda, as can be verified by the reference to Nithya YogaSM, which Paramahamsa Nithyananda founded and presented to the world) Here we can see a template for the mental and spiritual state we aspire to: fully organized neurological activity, expanded use of the higher brain centers, and the ability to consciously transition at will from one level of amplitude to another.”
For an idol to become a deity, it has to go through so much. But once a good deity is created, people appreciate it. Nithyanandaji Maharaj is now seated as that great deity. We are here to support him in all his efforts to serve humanity. I pray to the Lord to grant him a long and active life, and let all support him. Aum Shanti!”
~ A Glimpse Into the Meditating Brain by Bryan Williams, University of New Mexico (excerpt from an invited talk given at the Morning Star Center for Spiritual Living, Norman, Oklahoma, USA on June 7, 2009)
~ Sri Sri Sri Dr. Shantaveera Mahaswamiji, pontiff of Kolada Matha Mahasamsthana, Karnataka, India
Source: http://earthvision.info/meditatingbrain.html
Spiritual head and guide of 13 Akhadas (apex bodies of Hinduism)
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Chapter 1
Avatar An Introduction Every once in a millennium,
His is the power and the onus
a Being graces our fragile planet,
to awaken humanity
the sheer power of whose presence
from the darkness of ignorance
turns the tide of humanity’s spiritual evolution.
into the light of bliss and Enlightenment.
When such a Being
A Being of such cosmic proportions walks among us today
lives and moves among us,
revered by millions as
millions are drawn towards Him
a living Avatar of Superconsciousness.
beyond their understanding, intuitively sensing in Him
Playing in our dimension
the fragrance of their own inner awakening.
as a teacher, healer, yogi, mystic, social visionary, spiritual guru and guide,
Such a Being is recognized as an AVATAR,
HIS HOLINESS PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA
the Divine in human form.
unfolds the joyous leela of His Avataric advent, manifesting a conscious revolution
An Avatar has no purpose.
in the destiny of over seven billion humans,
Just as the rain is drawn to the parched earth
and innumerable other sentient beings
He is drawn to our plane
in other states of evolution.
compelled by nothing but boundless compassion to fulfill the longing of a million hearts.
And what does He teach?
He hears the ardent cry that asks to break free
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of the pain and misery of countless lifetimes,
“I am not here to prove that I am God.
of every human limitation.
I am here to prove that YOU are God.”
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he word ‘‘Avatar’ (from the Sanskrit word ‘avatarati’) means ‘one who has descended’. In this case, the word specifically refers to the one who has descended from the very fabric of the Cosmos, the universal Consciousness. The descent of Consciousness into the material embodied form with the apparent attributes of a human being is the actual descent that happens. This is a conscious descent, as it happens from the pure intelligence, compassion and energy of the universal Consciousness, which pervades all the dimensions of spacetime.
idaṁ śarīraṁ mama durvibhāvyaṁ | sattvaṁ hi me hṛdayaṁ yatra dharmaḥ || pṛṣṭhe kṛto me yad adharma ārād |
The Five Actions of the Divine
ato hi mām ṛṣabhaṁ prāhur āryāḥ ||
As per the Vedic texts, the Absolute Divine, Isha performs five sacred acts or panchakrtya – shrishti (creation or projection of the Cosmos), sthiti (maintenance of the Cosmos), laya or samhara (dissolution or withdrawal of the Cosmos at the end of every Cosmic cycle), tirobhava (veiling the Reality) and anugraha (liberating all beings through Grace).
~ Śrimad Bhāgavatam, 5.5.19 My transcendental cosmic body (sac-cid-ananda- vigraha) looks exactly like a human form, but it is established on existential Reality; it is not a material human body. It is indeed inconceivable and non-cognizable. I am not forced by Nature to accept a particular type of body; I assume a body by My own will. Within My heart is found dharma, the cosmic truth and righteousness.
The English word ‘incarnation’ (lit. ‘one who has entered flesh’), which means one who has accepted a material body, is sometimes used as a translation for the word Avatar. However, this word does not convey the full meaning of the sacred word ‘Avatar’.
Far beyond My heart, I have abandoned irreligion (adharma). Therefore, due to all these cosmic qualities, people pray and connect with Me as Rsabhadeva, the Supreme Personification, and Aryah, the best of all living entities.
Srimad Bhagavatam, the great Vedic scripture that precisely records and reveals the happening of various Avatars of the past, present and future, describes the Avatar in Its complete form. The description is in the words of the Avatar Sri Krishna - for who but the Avatar himself can fully grasp his own glory?
Brahma Sutras, the authority on Vedanta, reveal that the Avatar does everything ‘appearing like a wordly man, simply as a Divine play, a Cosmic sport:
lokavattu līlākaivalyaṁ (Brahma Sutras, 2.1.33)
Paramahamsa Nithyananda reveals: When the pure conscious energy, the supremely matured soul, assumes a human body, that is an Avatar. The Cosmos Itself chooses Its body and plays the divine drama (leela). When The Avatar comes down to the human plane and expresses the ultimate Truth, He is ages ahead of His time.
To perform the first four sacred acts, Isha does not require our permission or involvement. But to bless us and grace us with liberation or enlightenment, He requires our cooperation. For this compassionate purpose of showering living beings with His anugraha, Divine grace, Isha becomes the embodied Ishvara and descends to the human plane as the Avatar. The Avatar inspires humanity by His own divine acts, His life and His teachings. Acting as the Jagadguru, the world teacher, He guides and initiates humanity to take the unfathomable leap into Superconsciousness.
Truth is never like a parrot talking; it is like a lion roaring. When the lion roars, you have to wake up! When the Avatar roars with the Truth and transforms and raises humanity, you have to wake up from the unconscious sleep of delusion and ignorance!
The average human being, being limited by his sensory perceptions and mental conditioning, finds it hard to conceive of the concept of a formless Consciousness or God (called ‘Nirakara Brahman’). At the same time, when the Universal Consciousness or God descends assuming a human form (as ‘Akara Brahman’), he finds it even more difficult to comprehend that he is now in the presence of an Avatar.
In the Bhagavad Gita (9.11), it is declared: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśvarwam || 9.11 || Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord [maheshvara] of the whole creation.
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Vedic Civilization – Incubator of Avatars
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n an era lost in timelessness, in the lush plains of the Sarasvati river in India, thrived a legendary civilization that conquered the boundaries of space and time with the power of knowledge. At a time when the human race elsewhere on the planet was still dwelling in caves, this civilization had already evolved a precise cosmology whose tenets modern science is only just beginning to comprehend.
Purna Avatar - 16 dimensions e.g. Sri Krishna Lila Avatar - 14 dimensions e.g. Sri Rama Amsa Avatar - 12 dimensions e.g. Adi Shankaracharya
In the various avesha incarnations, the Divine enters a jiva, an individual body, executes His mission, and then departs. His kala incarnations teach and establish the principles of religion and then disappear.
Garga Samhita, the sacred Vedic text that extols the glory of Avatars, describes the Avatars in Canto 1, text 16-27. The great sage Narada explains that the Lord descends in six forms:
amśamśo’mśas tathāveśaḥ kalā purnaḥ prakathyate |
This Vedic civilization, the world’s oldest living civilization, still flourishes in the Indian sub-continent. It gave to the world the sciences of Vedic mathematics, astronomy, navigation, medicine, yoga and above all, the sacred science of the Self. It is also the only civilization to have produced a living lineage of Avatars and enlightened beings that continues to grace our planet till today.
Why Avatar?
vyāsadyaish ca smṛitaḥ śaṣṭhah paripūrnātmah svayam || 16 || 1. Amshamsha (a part of a part)
When positive consciousness declines, when collective negativity increases, O Bharata, at these times, I Myself happen in every age. To protect the pious and to annihilate the wicked, to re-establish righteousness, I Myself appear, age after age.
2. Amsha (a part) 3. Avesha (entrance into a jiva) 4. Kala (a full part)
His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is revered by millions worldwide as the living Avatar of superconsciousness of our time, who lives and moves among us today. He is heir to the 5000-yearold lineage of enlightened yogic masters who live on the sacred mountain of Arunachala in southern India, which is revealed in the scriptures as a spiritual incubator, where Avatars can assume a human form and descend to our frequency from the pure space of Consciousness.
5. Purna (full or complete)
~ Bhagavan Sri Krishna in Bhagavad Gita, 4.7-8
6. Paripurnatama (absolutely complete)
Sometimes, when the created world has to be sustained, I Myself assume name and form and initiate manvantaras (great eras of time) and provide the earth with appropriate divine personalities and sages, who set examples to be followed and indicate the path of progress.
The amshamsha incarnations begin with Marichi, the amsha incarnations begin with Brahma, the avesha incarnations begin with Parashurama and the kala incarnations begin with Kapila and Kurma.
pūrno nṛsimho ramaś ca śvetadvīpadhipo hariḥ |
Types of Avatar
2. Rama
I end also the unlimited increase of beings, whenever it happens. For this sake, I take the form of Rudra (the destructive and rejuvenative aspect of God). I create the bad, in order to highlight and promote the good; and in order to protect the good, I set certain limits, both to the good and the bad, for they would otherwise stray into wrong ways and inflict great harm.
3. Lord Hari, the ruler of Shvetadvipa
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
vaikunṭho’pi tathā yajno nara-narāyanaḥ smṛitaḥ || 18 || The Smrti-shastra explains that the purna incarnations are:
Karana means cause. Karya means effect. Karya Brahman, also known as hiranyagarbha, is the creative aspect of the Divine. Avatars descend from karya brahman. Devi Bhagavata Purana, the historical Vedic text which reveals the nature of Devi or Shakti, the creative energy of the Cosmos, states that there cannot be any descent of an Avatar directly from karana brahman, since it is a field of potentiality.
1. Nrsimha
4. Vaikuntha
Once one is established in infinite Consciousness, one becomes silent, and though knowing everything, goes about as if he does not know anything. Though he might be doing a lot of things in several places to all outward appearances, such a one will remain as if he does nothing.
5. Yajna 6. Nara-Narayana
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, the Trimurtis, belong to the karya brahman. Brahma is the creative aspect, Vishnu is the preservative aspect and Shiva is the rejuvenating aspect of the universe.
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master of countless universes, He is splendidly manifest in His imperishable and blissful abode. The amsha incarnations are said to oversee the execution of the Lord’s mission (in the world). The amshamsha incarnations are understood to perform the work of executing those missions.
Based on the dimensions (known as ‘rays’) which they possess, Avatars are classified as:
The paripurnatama or absolutely complete form of the Lord is Sri Krishna, who is the original Supreme Divinity Himself. As the
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Signs (or Science) of Recognizing the Avatar
and providing powerful evidence of the Knowable dimensions 3. Revelations from the Avatar Himself – which offer a glimpse of the Unknowable dimensions, as no other observer exists in our time with an experiential understanding of this state. These words, however, are powerfully supported by the sacred texts and scriptures, which are the revelations of the Avatars down the ages. Hence the many scriptural references included in this volume.
It is important to understand at the very outset that the multiple dimensions of an Avatar (including His attributes and powers) fall into three broad categories: 1. KNOWN (which can be intellectually understood, recorded or quantified in some way)
The uniqueness of His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is that He has consistently allowed His known dimensions to be measured and analyzed by modern science to the extent possible, for the purpose of taking science to the next level and for the benefit of humanity.
2. KNOWABLE (which cannot be recorded, but whose existence can be deduced by their effects) 3. UNKNOWABLE (which can be neither recorded nor deduced, but can only be grasped experientially by an observer in the same space)
He is also the only known Avatar in history to frequently reveal the ultimate Truth in the language of modern science, effortlessly bridging the chasm between science and spirituality. In a later chapter of this book, Paramahamsa Nithyananda will personally explain the ‘mystic science’ (if we may call it that) behind this process.
The existence of these three categories has necessitated the bringing together of three kinds of recordings in this volume, with some natural overlap in their purposes: 1. Modern scientific research reports – which accurately record, analyze and present the Known dimensions of the Avatar
1. Some Attributes of the Avatar
2. Some Siddhis or Mystic Powers of the Avatar
1. Kalpataru (Wish-fulfilment) 2. Perpetual Completion (Enlightenment)
2. Sharing by devotees – who describe the effects experienced in the presence of the Avatar, supporting the scientific research
3. Healing (Realigning the bio-memory) 4. Deeksha Akarshana (Transfer of bio-energy)
DIMENSIONS OF THE AVATAR 1. KNOWN (which can be intellectually understood, recorded or quantified in some way) 2. KNOWABLE (which cannot be recorded, but whose existence can be deduced by their effects) 3. UNKNOWABLE (which can be neither recorded nor deduced, but can only be grasped experientially by an observer in the same space)
Anima
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Ability to be as small as one wants
Mahima
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Ability to be as big as one may desire
Laghima
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Ability to become light to any degree
5. Akashic Readings (Accessing past and future)
Garima : Ability to become as heavy as desired
6. Vijnana Akarshana (True knowledge)
Prapti : Ability to reach any desired point in space and time
7. Shiva Akarshana (Space of Shiva)
Prakamya :
Ability to have anything as soon as one desires it
Ishatva
Ability to create things as one wants
8. Shakti Akarshana (Kundalini energy) 9. Ardhanarishwara (Beyond all duality)
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Vashitva : Ability to influence everyone and everything, even to conquering death
10. Susadha (Beyond pain) 11. Divyasharira (Divine body) 12. Surabhi (Fragrant physiology)
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A glimpse of His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda The life-story of an Avatar is a divine drama or leela-maanusha vesham – the human role assumed for the sole purpose of furthering the Cosmic play. Even though He is established as the Source of all knowledge, the Avatar joyously and innocently enters into the unfolding drama of His own life.
Manifestation of Form His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda chose to manifest His human form in the home of the devout Hindu couple Arunachalam and Lokanayaki in the ancient temple town of Tiruvannamalai in South India. He spent a joyful childhood as part of a large, affluent and philanthropic family, in whose home saints and wandering mendicants were always welcomed and honored. Arunachala, the sacred mountain that draws seekers from around the world like a magnet, was the young Avatar’s first love. Home to wizened yogis, mysterious siddhas and enlightened sages like Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, the ancient mountain provided the perfect training ground for His first experiments with the Self, God, and the universe.
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Early experiments with the Self
Maharshi), Yogi Ramsurat Kumar and Mataji Vibhutananda Puri (Mataji Kuppammal), who introduced Him to Vedanta and Sri Vidya worship.
From the beginning, Paramahamsa Nithyananda was drawn to Divine worship, temple culture, mysticism, yoga and meditation. Alongside His studies at school, Paramahamsa Nithyananda also trained in authentic yoga from an accomplished yoga master and siddha (energy adept) named Yogiraj Yogananda Puri (Raghupati Yogi), whom he fondly remembers as the one who introduced Him to the forgotten mystic sciences of ancient India – levitation, teleportation and materialization, among others. Under his tutelage, Paramahamsa Nithyananda successfully completed advanced levels of yoga and meditation training.
Enlightenment at twelve One evening, while ‘just playing’ with meditation at the tender age of twelve in the lap of the mighty Arunachala, Paramahamsa Nithyananda had a profound spiritual experience of Enlightenment, the rarest experience of Oneness or Advaita with everything. In an explosive vision encompassing 360 degrees in all directions, He was suddenly able to see in a single panoramic sweep, the hill in front of him, a temple that stood behind him, the rocks to the right and the town’s main temple to the left, the sky above and the rock on which He sat!
In parallel, Paramahamsa Nithyananda also started studying the Vedic scriptures, Puranas and Upanishads under the guidance of various spiritual teachers. He encountered many holy men and women in the town of Tiruvannamalai and received invaluable teachings and experiences from them. Prominent among them were Annamalai Swami (a direct disciple of Bhagavan Ramana
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This phenomenal vision was immediately followed by the direct experience of Himself in all that He saw - every stone, every plant, in all directions - above, below and beyond. This experience was
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to awaken Him to hitherto unknown dimensions of Consciousness, and transform His life forever.
A lifetime of intense meditation, yoga, study and austerities finally came to its fruition on 1st January 2000, in an explosion of Consciousness which revealed to the 22-year-old His phenomenal Avataric mission on our planet.
After this experience, which happened in the presence of the sacred hiill Arunachala, Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s seeking to pursue the spiritual path was greatly intensified. Carrying the pure fire of seeking in Him at all times, He successfully completed His diploma in Mechanical Engineering, and in the same year, fulfilled His lifelong yearning by plunging into sannyas (monastic life).
Sharing His attributes and powers is the greatest gift an Avatar can give to humanity. Carrying the compassion and responsibility of a Cosmic mother and father to awaken every soul, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has ensured the manifestation of His own divine attributes and siddhis in thousands of his followers through the powerful process of deeksha or initiation. This is the ultimate Cosmic inheritance that humanity can receive from the Guru who is the embodiment of pure Oneness or Shuddhadvaita.
During and after His monastic training, Paramahamsa Nithyananda wandered as a parivrajaka, a spiritual mendicant, throughout India. Regal in His austerity, His whole life turned over to the bounty of Existence, the young mendicant covered thousands of kilometers on foot, visiting holy shrines, learning from numberless evolved souls and frequenting sacred pilgrimage spots.
One of the early photos of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, after His realization of His Avataric mission
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Science behind the Avatar’s attributes and powers
Kalpataru
particles of energy in perpetual vibration (spanda), exactly like the fabric of space-time (universal consciousness), as explained by the string or M theory (see page 81).
Kalpataru is a wish-fulfilling divine tree described in the Hindu puranas (historical epics). The Avatar is known as a kalpataru due to His special attribute of fulfilling the wishes of devotees through a blessing or initiation.
In quantum terminology, a thought is also a packet of energy, and during the initiation, the devotee’s concentrated thought is now in Entanglement (see page 106) with Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s no-mind space, which is the very fabric of space-time (universal Consciousness). This creates the strongest possibility of the desired manifestation happening in the shortest possible time.
Normally, any person would be generating hundreds of thoughts from every cell of his body. During a process of meditation, the devotee is asked to make a conscious resolution (sankalpa) and hold on to that one wish he would like fulfilled immediately.
Purnatva (Perpetual Completion) The ultimate state of Enlightenment is the no-mind state, or to put it more accurately, the state in which the observer is dissociated from his emotions and thoughts, leading to a significant drop in the number of thoughts created. For the seeker, the sincere practice of Unclutching® or the conscious dissociation from thoughts, leads to a state of purnatva or completion, by virtue of freeing him from the influence of the endless stream of thoughts and mental patterns that continuously spur one to action and trap one in the insidious web of karma.
Through a structured program called Inner Awakening® lasting 21 days, Paramahamsa Nithyananda guides participants to the space of completion through yoga, practical teachings, deep cleansing processes, and a battery of 21 powerful energy initiations (energy darshans). This gives participants an unforgettable glimpse of Enlightenment, and further practice establishes them in the state of perpetual Completion or Living Enlightenment.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda is in sahaja samadhi, the natural space of no-mind or pure Consciousness. This space contains virtual
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Spiritual Healing
Deeksha Akarshana
The spiritual healing process is nothing but realigning the human physiology at the gross, molecular and genetic levels - which correspond to the physiology, muscle-memory and bio-memory. Non-alignment at any of these levels leads to ill-health or disease, which can be reprogrammed by a transfer of bio-energy from the Master to the person requiring healing, effecting changes not only at the physical, but also at the molecular and genetic levels.
The attribute of initiation or deeksha is unique to enlightened masters and Avatars. As an Avatar, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is able to initiate the disciple into achieving entrainment or coherence with His own attributes, by transferring to the disciple immense quantities of pure Cosmic energy in the form of bio-energy. Special deekshas like Third Eye AwakeningSM, which involves activating the ajna chakra (the subtle energy center between the eyebrows and encompassing most of the brain) is among the most extraordinary of the siddhis (mystic powers) that Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been bestowing on sincere seekers.
Comprehensive and structured studies over the past several years have demonstrated the complete realignment of the physiology, through changes in: 4 Mitochondria levels (battery of the cells) 4 Alteration in gene expression through up-regulation of beneficial genes and down-regulation of deleterious genes. 4 Increase in the number of stem cells in the body, leading to anti-ageing and health 4 Increase in the enzyme telomerase, which is necessary for maintaining chromosomal integrity and is a strong marker for health and longevity 4 A significant overall reversal in symptoms of fatigue, lifestyle disorders, auto-immune disorders, psychosomatic disorders and certain malignancies
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Akashic Readings
ever happened, are happening and will happen in the Cosmos. They are stored in the hiranyagarbha (Cosmic womb) or karya brahman in a coded form. Whenever an Avatar requires the secret details of past and future events, it is through the hiranyagarbha that the Akashic Records are accessed.
Einstein’s theory of special relativity has already proven that Space and Time are intractably linked, and that time exists as a dimension along with every aspect of space. Thus, past, present and future exist simultaneously.
The different names and forms of God in the Hindu scriptures are nothing but the various manifestations of the same underlying Cosmic principle.
Classical information is stored in the form of bits. At the quantum level, information is stored in the form of qubits. Qubits are nothing but elementary particles containing information woven into the Space-Time fabric.
KALABHAIRAVA is the energy or the very fabric of the cosmic Space-Time dimension. From time to time, Kalabhairava, through the agency of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, provides access to the Akashic Records to one and all, for their specific needs or benefit.
Akashic Records are the energy records of all the events that have
Akashic Readings on Birth, Death and other topics, channeled through Paramahamsa Nithyananda, can be found on this link: www.nithyananda.org/akashic-readings
Vijnana Akarshana True knowledge, intuition and right cognition are the specific attributes needed for a being to get enlightened. Paramahamsa Nithyananda effects this in His disciples through special processes involving initiation, teaching and transforming the disciple to live in a state of Completion, which decreases the number of normal thoughts, and increases clarity and energy. Opening of the third eye or ajna chakra allows for the expansion of the five koshas (our energy bodies (see page 161) which normally exist in a contracted state due to vyasti (the wrong perception of the existence of individuality). The opening up of cognition through right sakshi (observation) leads to a reversal of the koshas, due to the right cognition of the state of samasti (involving all). This allows the expanded vijnanamaya kosha to cognize the visual perceptions even with blindfolded or closed eyes. Further expansion, as in the case of an adept Yogi would allow the siddhi of parakaya pravesham to manifest, as in the very famous example of Adi Shankaracharya (see page 188).
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Shiva Akarshana
At the molecular level, the biological energy ATP is produced by the mitochondria. At the particle level, the energy of the biological systems is called Kundalini Shakti.
Shaiva Agamas, the authoritative scriptures revealed directly by Lord Shiva, declare that we are all nothing but Shiva Himself.
This energy is stored and distributed through holding centers called chakras into all aspects of the beings, via subtle channels or nadis, which are 72,000 in number.
Hence the mantra ‘Shivoham (Shiva I Am)’ or ‘Nithyanandoham (Eternal Bliss I Am)’ are used interchangeably, as the Avatar of Paramahamsa Nithyananda is nothing but Shiva Himself, as are all of us.
An Avatar’s physical body is fueled directly by the Kundalini shakti, which is the expression of the macrocosmic energy in the individual (microcosm). He has the capacity to transfer his energy to the disciple until the disciple reaches a state of being able to access his own kundalini shakti through the entangled connection with the Avatar.
Realigning our physical, mental and psychological states to be in tune with Shiva can be done in one of two ways. In the first way, which is the long route, years of practice involving the body, the mind and the psychology may lead us to the cognition of Shivoham, either in this birth or thereafter. In the second way, infusing the space of Shivoham can be done in a scientific manner, by harnessing the energy pattern of the Cosmos represented by the Sri Chakra Mandala, and the use of specific sounds like the Shodasi Mantra to raise the disciples en masse to the space of Shivoham. In the last one year, thousands of disciples have been initiated into the rare process of SHIVOHAM (experiencing the space of Shiva).
Shakti Akarshana Unlike the binary system of classical information transfer (0/1), at the level of quantum mechanics, qubits of information or energy can exist simultaneously in Advaita – the state of being non-binary or non-dual. The potential energy of the Cosmos, which is in a constant state of emergence (spanda or virtual particles) is called Shiva. The instantaneous manifestation, which is in the form of pure energy itself, or in the form of matter, is Shakti. This follows the laws of science underlying the principle of conservation of energy. The systems of biology (living beings) also run on the scientific principles of physics and chemistry. The conversion of the physical energy of the Cosmos into biological energy can happen at the molecular or particle level.
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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s medical test report dated 08-09-2014 proves beyond doubt that His male hormone (testosterone) level is far less than even that of a child. At the time of this test, Paramahamsa Nithyananda was a medically fit 38-year-old adult male.
Ardhanarishwar Union of Shiva-Shakti An Avatar is the physical manifestation of the metaphysical union of Shiva-Shakti. He exists in the state of pure Consciousness (Shiva) even as He manifests as an embodied form (Shakti). Physically, the grace exhibited, and other attributes ranging from hairline to form, all point to a state of Ardhanarishwar, revealing the simultaneous expression and perfect poise of masculine and feminine energies. However, it goes without saying that He is beyond any identity, let alone gender identity. Being in a state of pure Advaita, He carries no concept of ‘I’ or ‘you’ and male or female.
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Serial studies of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s physiology over the years have conclusively shown the endocrine status equivalent to a six or seven year old child. Thus, the observer is likely to conclude that His physiological and psychological state is that of a young child, who does not yet identify with gender in the same way that adults do. However, a significant difference exists between the two. In a child, the concept of gender/sex exists in seed form, though not yet expressed. The Avatar is at the opposite end of the spectrum, having transcended the limiting idea of all duality through the realization of Shuddhadvaita or the pure Oneness of the Self.
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residents) and disciples. It appears that He had chosen this unique way to reveal yet another siddhi – as is the usual leela (Divine play) of the Avatars!
Described in the Linga Purana, Susadha translates as ‘one who helps to calmly bear pain.’ This attribute applies not only to the Avatar, but also to his disciples, who would have a similar capacity to calmly bear pain.
Legal name: Ishwar Sairam Spiritual name: Nithya Parameshananda
Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains this experience with typical simplicity:
Scientifically, pain is described as an unpleasant sensation caused by a noxious stimulus, and mediated along certain nerve fibers into the brain where it is interpreted as such. In other words, the perception of pain requires a noxious or harmful stimulus, a neural pathway from the point of stimulus to specific parts of the brain, and the cognition and interpretation of the stimulus as pain.
Age: 6 (at the time of the incident) Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
“There was no pain because there is no conflict between the muscle-memory and the attitude to life. Always approach life with acceptance and gratitude.”
Student of Nithyananda GurukulSM, India
This is an example of the rare state of permanent Unclutching® or Sahaja Samadhi.
The perception of pain is strongly linked to previous experience, emotion and anxiety, all of which are stored in the limbic system.
The Avatar reveals another siddhi through the leela of a compound fracture A striking example of the Avatar being beyond pain was revealed on 14 June 2011, when Paramahamsa Nithyananda was on His usual rounds of horse-riding in the serene environs of the Vaidya Sarovar sacred pool on the Bengaluru Aadheenam campus.
(excerpt from video sharing – edited)
Over the years, several students of Nithyananda GurukulSM have fallen and broken bones without experiencing any pain whatsoever. At least three incidents of disciples manifesting the attribute of susadha have been documented in this volume.
Hi, I am Ishwar, I am six years old, and I am going to explain about how I broke my hand.
Bigata Vajra
I went up to the third floor to our apartment in the ashram, and told my mom that my hand was disconnected. I was not crying, I was just focusing on the pain.
Once I went to my friend’s house in the ashram during the holidays. I was sitting on the corner of a plastic chair, and lost my balance and fell off with such force that I broke my hand.
Bigata Vajra is the ability to spontaneously return to health under any conditions, referred to in the Linga Purana as a quality of Shiva Himself. This quality was demonstrated in December 2015, when Paramahamsa Nithyananda defied medical science with a spontaneous recovery from the dreaded dengue.
On suddenly seeing a large group of devotees who had just arrived to pay their respects to Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the horse took fright and lost his balance, throwing off the rider.
In December 2015, while in Phuket, Thailand for conducting the Inner Awakening® ShivohamTM program, Paramahamsa Nithyananda developed high fever and body ache. Immediately after informing his physician, He dissociated from the pain and fever, and for the next 15 days continued with the Shivoham process without any rest, and without any sign or symptom of the condition.
The entire episode, including Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s rising to His feet with a smile, speaking normally and just saying, ‘It is a fracture, let’s go to the hospital....” has been video-recorded. At the hospital, an X-ray revealed that Paramahamsa Nithyananda had sustained a Type 1 Open Fracture (compound) of both bones of His right forearm (radius and ulna).
My dad and mom rushed me to Swamiji and told Him that I had broken my hand. Swamiji immediately asked an assistant to call an ambulance and take me to the hospital. In the hospital they took me to the operation theater and did something... after that I was in the hospital for four days and then came back home.
This demonstrates not only a very strong immune system, but also the ability to dissociate from fever and pain to perform the normal vigorous duties of the day, and also the spontaneous healing of the disease without any medical intervention.
Meanwhile, the blood test for dengue was performed in Phuket, and also later repeated in Bengaluru about a month later. The test report showed very high level (>4 times) the normal of IgG antibodies, which suggested a recent severe dengue infection. However, the first blood counts in Phuket were low, but became completely normal by the second blood test in Bengaluru (within a gap of about 3 weeks).
Normally, such fractures cause excruciating pain. However, Paramahamsa Nithyananda smiled and said that there was no pain! From the moment of the fracture till the conclusion of a major surgery lasting eight hours to fix the fracture, no painkillers were used, and He was talking normally with His ashramites (monastery
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I felt no pain after the bike accident
No pain even with a fracture!
Name: Parthipan S
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Yogananda Swami
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya
Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order
Jnanaprabhananda
Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
Location: Bengaluru, India
Email: sri.yoga@nithyananda.org
After I attended Life Bliss Program Level 1, one day I was driving my bike to the office, and in one place, suddenly, my bike skidded and I was thrown off it, and fell away from my bike on the side of the road.
A couple of years ago, I fractured my hand. Naturally, it was very painful. So during the daily darshan I requested Swamiji for healing. Swamiji blessed me, and the excruciating pain disappeared in an instant.
When I realized I was falling, I silently called out to Swamiji for help.
I was scheduled to go for a surgery, but Swamiji blessed me saying that there will be no need for it. As He said, the bone correction was done without the need for a surgery.
After I fell down, I realized that I had forgotten to lift the side-stand and driven this far. I got hit in the joints of the hand, but surprisingly there was no pain at all, and in fact I felt a cool sensation there!
As I had just recovered from chicken pox, the doctors did the correction on the fractured arm without administering anesthesia.
I used to be the kind of person who always made a big fuss about even a small wound, and I could not tolerate pain at all in my life. But that day I realized it is possible to live life without feeling any pain! This experience happened only because of Swamiji.
The doctors were awestruck to see how composed I was throughout the procedure! Later I shared with them that thanks to Swamiji’s blessings, I absolutely did not feel any pain!
I was fully healed in about a week’s time.
Divyasharira or Divine Physiology
have repeatedly noticed the increased sensitivity to touch, which in normal human beings also means a high level of sensitivity to pain (as both are similar neural phenomena). But in the case of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the heightened touch-sensitivity is simultaneously associated with the absence of the cognition of pain.
The Sanskrit word ‘divyasharira’ is sometimes translated as ‘divine body’, but the phrase hardly conveys the full scope of the original term. The seemingly physical form assumed by the Avatar when He descends to the human frequency is called a divyasharira. Though appearing similar to the human form, the physiology is far from that of the average human being in areas of crucial significance.
Surabhi A simple and innocent attribute of the Avatar’s divyasharira is the maintenance of the human form in a pure state, allowing for a fragrant smell to emanate from the body. Small children always smell nice, and with age and maturation, changes occur in human physiology to produce a combination of noxious odors and pheromones.
While several great masters and saints are known to have attained divyasharira while leaving the body, like Sant Jnaneshwar, Ramalinga Vallalar, Tirujnanasambandar, and more recently, Paramahamsa Yogananda, it is rare to find an Avatar who exhibits so visibly the qualities of the divyasharira while living and moving freely in the human frequency.
An Avatar like Paramahamsa Nithyananda, while having attained physical maturity, lives in the physiological and psychological childlike state of innocence, thereby producing a divine fragrance similar to the jasmine flower or pure sandalwood.
Ancient yoga texts like Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Gheranda Samhita prescribe a series of asanas, pranayama and bandhas that act as primary steps towards the attainment of a divyasharira.
Sandal fragrance from Swamiji’s body
Although in theory, it is possible to attain a divyasharira through intense yogic practices alone, sustained over several janmas (births), a mere glimpse of the attributes and powers of the divyasharira reveal that it is not actually a human body that has been perfected though yogic disciplines, but rather the pure manifestation of the supreme Consciousness itself, uncorrupted and incorruptible by its descent into the frequency of matter.
Spiritual Name: Dr. Sri Nithya Pranananda Swami Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam Email: dr.sri.prana@nithyananda.org
Two of these altered states of physiology have already been discussed with reference to the attributes of Ardhanarishwara and Susadha. There are other several significant differences which differentiate the divyasharira from the normal body.
During the early days of the ashram, I used to be Swamiji’s personal secretary and also taking care of His personal seva.
QEEG recordings of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s brain have demonstrated Entrainment and the ability to control the brain waves at will, unlike in His normal counterparts (this attribute has been discussed in detail in later chapters).
On multiple occasions, after Swamiji gave energy darshan to large crowds during some program, I have noticed sandal fragrance coming from Swamiji, and also from the clothes used by Him, while taking them out for washing the next day. At that time I don’t know that this is also a special siddhi that is manifested by Avatars!
Moreover, there is an intense sensitivity to smell, sound and touch. Physicians who examined Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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When the energy of Kalabhairava manifests in Paramahamsa Nithyananda, there is a visible expansion of His body, which can be measured in centimeters. At quantum levels, expansion of the vijnanamaya kosha allows for extra-sensory cognition like blindfolded reading and 360-degree vision, and extends up to parakaya pravesham.
Laghima
A Body of Light and Sound
Laghima is a siddhi manifesting as immense lightness.
Another interpretation of the term ‘divyasharira’ is: a body of light and sound.
At Newtonian levels, it manifests as intermittent levitation by disciples through the awakening of Kundalini energy.
The concept of the creation of the universe from Light (Shiva) and Sound (Shakti) was expressed in the Vedic sciences thousands of years prior to the evolution of modern science.
At quantum levels, thoughts are reduced to zero, giving a sense of immense lightness in the being.
Siddhis (Mystical Powers) of the Avatar
Traditional science looks at wave and particle as a duality. Today we agree that all elementary particles exist simultaneously as both particle and wave, and matter too is nothing but energy with form.
The state of mind of perpetual Samadhi is a mind filled with virtual particles (vacuum) as opposed to thoughts, which are real particles or quanta (packets) of energy. When one is not weighed down by thoughts and emotions, an immense lightness is felt. This is experiential for disciples at both the Newtonian and quantum levels.
Anima
The Vedic term ‘Light’ stands for the particle phenomenon, and ‘Sound’ for the wave phenomenon – hence the eternal dance and romance of the inseparable Shiva-Shakti described by the Vedic seers, or ‘saint-ists’, as Paramahamsa Nithyananda chooses to call them.
The word ‘anima’ is a derivative of the word ‘anu’. Anu does not stand for atom, but rather refers to the smallest indivisible elementary particle.
Garima
In quantum physics, structural particles are divided into quarks (like protons and neutrons), as well as leptons (like electrons).
The primordial Sound described in Vedic science is the ‘unstruck sound’ (anahata dhvani). The word ‘anahata’ itself means ‘that without a cause’ – which, in other words, is nothing but the Primary Cause itself, as only the Cause itself can be causeless; everything else is an effect of the Cause. The Primary Cause being Shiva, the Primary Sound too is nothing but Shiva Himself, or Shiva-Shakti, which is particle and wave at the same time.
Garima manifests as the siddhi of becoming as heavy as desired. Like a Neutron star, massive condensation of elementary particles would possibly lead to an object with a small mass but immense weight. This siddhi is yet to be scientifically evaluated on Paramahamsa Nithyananda and his disciples.
Interactive particles are photons, gluons and perhaps gravitons. A fundamental aspect of an Avatar is the ability to understand and merge with the very substance of the Cosmos, which in physics means the ability to interact with the forces of elementary particles.
Thus, in a single superb stroke, Vedic science condenses the theories of western particle physics, eastern cosmogony and universal spirituality into one poetic word. The divyasharira, being the very fabric of space-time, is nothing but the simultaneous and non-dual existence of wave and particle.
Thus the siddhi of anima allows for the process of quantum entanglement, which we will study in further sections related to deeksha, darshan and prana pratishtha.
Prapti
Mahima
In this siddhi, nothing is too far away or too near, and one has access to everything, everywhere.
Prapti siddhi manifests as the ability to reach any desired point in space and time – in any dimension, in the past, present or future.
Mahima is a siddhi manifesting as an expanded state, and can be observed at both Newtonian and quantum levels.
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read a mind, to accessing the Cosmic Archive, to the more complex phenomenon of the linga sharira (subtle body) entering another’s body for the sake of either experiencing the other’s cognition, or altering the bio-memory of a willing disciple.
Prakamya
Vashitva
Prakamya is the ability to precipitate a desired reality from the infinite possibilities available in Existence.
It also manifests as the ability to penetrate the various subtle states of consciousness of others (like dream state, deep sleep state, meditative state) and resolve inner conflicts, bestow healing or boons, or simply bless with darshan.
For devotees, it translates as Kalpataru or the power of wishfulfilment through the bestowing of boons.
Though the literal meaning of Vashitva siddhi is the ability to subjugate or control others at will, the real manifestation is the quantum entanglement of Avatar’s energy with that of the disciple, at the level of elementary particles.
Ishatva
Devotees regularly report having received darshan and healing from Paramahamsa Nithyananda in their dreams and visions during meditation, often before having ever seen or heard about Him in their waking state.
Name: Vadvatee Enal Location: Trinidad & Tobago
This process of entanglement manifests its effects in almost all processes, including spiritual healing, Kundalini AwakeningSM and deeksha.
Ishatva literally means possessing absolute lordship. Ishatva actually denotes the power to influence the natural forces, as well as convert matter into energy and vice-versa at will.
During the NithyanandohamSM program in December 2015, one day Swamiji took us to the beach. He himself went to the water, and suddenly, in the whole area where he was standing, there were huge waves and the water was just crashing onto the shore!
In Patanjali Yoga Sutras, it is said:
It will be impossible to ever completely document the tremendous changes effected during deep sleep, when the Avatar penetrates the causal layer of the devotee and erases the karmas (root patterns and incompletions) of lifetimes in a single compassionate stroke. The only accounts we have are of devotees who underwent Near Death Experiences (NDEs), who recall having been approached by Paramahamsa Nithyananda immediately after clinical death, and asked if they would like to return to the physical plane. While the majority prefer to move on, a rare few return to tell the astounding tale.
sthūla-svarūpa-sūkṣma-anvaya-arthavattva-saṁyamāt bhūtajayaḥ ॥ 3.44॥
After we moved away from the water, Swamiji went to the shore and sat with us for a little while. He sat in silence but we all felt his presence. I was gazing at him in silence – when suddenly he disappeared, vanished, just like that!
By focused meditation on the true nature of the gross and subtle manifestations, their sequence and meaning, (one) gains mastery over physical matter.
I blinked my eyes several times and squinted my eyes, because I was totally baffled by this. I decided that I have to look again to see if this is true. I looked at him intensely again, and again he disappeared! I could see the chair he was sitting on, I could see all the people around him who assist him - but he vanished. I looked again and it happened again. Three times I saw him - or I should say I didn’t see him!
It expresses as the siddhi of manifestation (Materialization) or moving objects or information from one place to another (Teleportation) as per the laws of quantum mechanics. Teleportation can involve the movement of information, an object or a being.
During the Samskara Dahana meditation process, which is part of the Inner Awakening® program, Paramahamsa Nithyananda enters the energy space of all the participants with their consent in order to cleanse their bio-memory of its patterns, incompletions and karmas.
These phenomena have been studied extensively on Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the divyashareeris (energy channels) through whom He materializes objects. In his Avataric form, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has materialized or teleported over 4000 objects ranging from powder like vibhuti (sacred ash) to hard structures in the form of material objects, to distant places.
The effect of this can be easily studied by the alteration of gene expression in the participants, which has shown up-regulation of beneficial genes and pathways and down-regulation of harmful genes and pathways after this initiation.
How it happened was, he just started to fade away and then disappear, then he would fade back in, like some sci-fi movie or something! I spoke to a few people about it later, and was relieved to know that two other people besides me had also seen him disappear!
There are also significant eyewitness accounts of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s command over the natural forces like rain and snow (a few accounts have been shared in this volume).
Akashic Readings or the accessing of information from the hiranyagarbha (Cosmic Archive) by crossing the barriers of space and time, which Paramahamsa Nithyananda occasionally performs for the benefit of devotees, is a rare and advanced expression of the mastery over the subtle frequencies of matter.
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Swamiji created an unseasonal snow-shower for us in Kailash
We witnessed Swamiji stopping the rain in the Himalayas
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Atma Pujananda Swami
Spiritual name: Ma Nithyapriyananda Swami
Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order
Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order
Email: sri.puja@nithyananda.org
Email: ma.priya@nithyananda.org
I had the good fortune to travel to Mt. Kailash with Swamiji in August 2012.
This incident happened during our yatra to the Himalayas with Swamiji in 2004. Our group had assembled in an open spot for the evening lecture and darshan, when it suddenly started raining quite heavily. There was no place to turn for shelter, and all of us and our equipment were quickly becoming wet.
During the yatra (pilgrimage), many of the devotees from India expressed a desire to experience a snow shower, since they had never seen snow in their lives.
Suddenly Swamiji announced that not only would the rain stop immediately, but the whole place would become dry in a few minutes!
One night during the darshan at Manasarovar, Swamiji said that Kailash itself was celebrating our presence, and as a sign of blessing from Kailash, there would be a snow shower the next day.
Just as He said, the rain immediately stopped, and most surprisingly, the ground dried up rapidly, and within just a few minutes, we were able to sit on the ground and enjoy our evening session with Swamiji.
Our chief travel guide, who was a local person, said there was no way we could expect snow, as the season for snow was more than three months away. Some of the devotees were disappointed about that.
It would be quite impossible to explain this scientifically, but that is life around Swamiji!
I noticed that Swamiji just smiled at him quietly and said, ‘OK’. I thought to myself, ‘The guide knows the weather, but Swamiji knows God!’
Very grateful to have been a part of this happening.
The next morning, just as we were getting ready to leave, we were graced with a beautiful snow shower! It was completely unseasonal, and a sure sign of Swamiji’s power to influence Nature, which I have noticed earlier also on many occasions! The surprised guide then said that we will not be able to have darshan of Kailash, since the weather had turned cloudy. But just as Swamiji got out of his caravan at the vantage point, the clouds suddenly parted and revealed Kailash! I heard Swamiji’s joyous cry of ‘Har Har Mahadev!’ and only then realized what had happened – Kailash had listened to Swamiji’s request and given us darshan. What a power!
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Scientific Studies on the Avatar
What sets apart an Avatar from a Jivanmukta? It is important to understand the differences between an AVATAR, who is a descent from GOD to MAN, and an ENLIGHTENED BEING or JIVANMUKTA, who is an ascent from MAN to GOD.
Measuring Autonomic Functions On 29th April 2005, Dr. Juan Acosta-Urquidi & Associates from Sound Health Designs, Wichita, KS, USA, recorded autonomic functions like heart rate variability along with simultaneous EEG.
For over a decade, from 2004 to date, Paramahamsa Nithyananda Himself has undergone a series of scientific studies on His neurophysiology.
An Avatar, being of conscious descent, is a pure vehicle for the Cosmic purpose. His attributes and powers (siddhis) are mere external manifestations that serve His Avataric mission.
The heart rate variability (HRV) is a technique to measure the activity of the sympathetic or the parasympathetic nervous system.
Imaging Brain Activity In 2004, a team of scientists led by Dr. Murali Krishna, MD, President, Integris Mental Health Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, conducted a series of state-of-the-art tests, including a PET Scan to study Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s neurological systems.
On the other hand, a human being, through sincere practice, can achieve siddhis (though in the process, he sometimes gets deluded that they are an end in themselves). He can also experience the state of jivanmukti (liberation while in the body), through the grace of the Guru or spiritual preceptor. Once enlightened, he may take up teaching the science of enlightenment to others or choose to simply ‘be’.
During healing, HRV tests were conducted simultaneously on Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the recipient. There was an obvious difference in the HRV readings before healing began. As soon as healing was initiated, both Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the recipient showed exactly the same graph, both in time and space with a robust sympathetic arousal.
Using the advanced technology of Positron Emission Tomography, or PET Scan, the activity of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s brain in the state of Samadhi was studied in detail.
The conclusion was that during healing, there is complete entrainment of the autonomic nervous system of Paramahamsa Nithyananda with that of the recipient.
There was a significant enhancement in activity of the lower portion of the mesial frontal area of the cerebral cortex.
Both an Avatar and an enlightened being would have experiential and cognitive knowledge of the sacred texts and sciences. On the other hand, a scholarly pundit would be able to superficially interpret and intellectually debate on the sacred texts and sciences without having the experiential component.
This region is the starting point of the ajna chakra or the Third Eye and connects to the limbic system and the rest of the cerebral cortex. At the same time, the rest of the cerebral cortex was in a complete state of rest.
As most of the sacred texts are deliberately written in a coded form called sandhya bhasha, they are difficult to interpret correctly without experiential understanding.
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A significant difference between the Avatar and the jivanmukta is that while both might be able to demonstrate siddhis, only the Avatar has the power to transmit them to others.
The technique of quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) was utilized to study the various brain waves, viz, alpha, beta, theta and delta.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda not only demonstrates all attributes and powers of an Avatar, but has also successfully transmitted many of them to thousands of disciples.
In a normal person, all the waves are present in different regions of the brain in different moments of time. Due to His state of perpetual samadhi (sahaja samadhi), Paramahamsa Nithyananda demonstrated complete entrainment of all the brain waves, with the entire brain shifting fluidly from one brainwave pattern to another. This degree of synchronicity that contains over 100 billion neurons and even more interconnections is impossible to reproduce by any normal person under any circumstances.
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Galvanic Skin Resistance (GSR) On 26th April 2006, Dr. Juan Acosta-Urquidi simultaneously studied Paramahamsa Nithyananda and a participant during a healing session, to measure a sensitive parameter of autonomous arousal called Galvanic Skin Resistance or Response. Another technique to read the autonomic nervous system, the GSR readings showed an increased level of sympathetic arousal during healing. This is consistent with the HRV tests done separately in other labs. It is important to realize that Paramahamsa Nithyananda is the only Avatar who has agreed to be scientifically evaluated, both in terms of His own body as well as the changes He brings about in other beings. However, it is astonishing to note that His Avataric attributes and powers are exactly as defined by the 5000-yearold Hindu yogic sciences after extensive observation and study. Now it is being tested and proven by modern science also. This valuable data will set the benchmark for establishing the attributes and the powers of a true Avatar. Paramahamsa Nithyananda states clearly that His purpose and vision is not only to reveal the sacred secrets, but also to establish the truth behind the science as one that is observable, reproducible in not only His presence, but also as a multi-centric science reproducible across the globe.
Summary Paramahamsa Nithyananda Himself has been the subject of scientific studies since 2004, and over the past decade, an enormous amount of data about not only His altered state of neurophysiology, but that of His disciples as well, has continued to be recorded. This impressive array of data will be presented systematically in this chapter, as well as in the chapters to follow.
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Consciousness The Bioenergetics of the Cosmos
The Physics of the Cosmos
suns. This in fact is just a rough estimate of the size of the universe, which incidentally is not finite, because it is constantly expanding in acceleration.
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he whole purpose of science is to get to the bottom of the truth of all that exists, and find a common thread which explains everything. In science, the fundamental concept would be called a model, and a perfect model that explains everything is called ‘the Theory of Everything’.
Now, within a galaxy, everything moves. In the universe, all galaxies are in motion. In effect, the earth moves 2500 miles every 2 minutes around the sun, and the sun moves 20,000 miles around the center of our galaxy. Thus, a person or object sitting absolutely motionless on earth is actually in motion all the time.
It is always elegant to have a single model or law that explains all the forces of nature. Of course, no model is perfect, and what signifies a good model in physics is:
Early concepts of space were limited to three dimensions (X, Y and Z axis), on the assumption that any point marked in space would be stationary, and therefore its exact location or speed could be easily mapped out.
• It is simple enough, but not any simpler
Einstein soon realized that nothing was really stationary and all readings were based on the location of the observer. At the same time it was shown that the speed of light is exactly the same, regardless of the frame of reference. Thus, it was understood that time and space are intertwined, as time too is a dimension like space.
• It contains very few elements which are arbitrary or adjustable • It explains all the existing observations The perfect model would be called the Theory of Everything, but is yet to be elucidated. It is important, both in terms of science as well as metaphysics, to understand some basic facts relating to space, time, motion and energy.
Thus, the fourth dimension of time was added (future-past) apart from the usual left-right, front-back and up-down dimensions of space. This is called Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
At the very gross level, scientists estimate that there are more than 100 billion galaxies, with each galaxy having more than 10 billion
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that space-time is not flat, but is actually curved. This curvature is due to the presence of mass and energy in space-time, and the effect is known as gravity.
The Forces of Nature The next phenomena that need to be understood are the forces of Nature. The forces of Nature are divided into four classes: 4 Electro-magnetism 4 Strong interactions Entanglement is a concept in quantum mechanics related to the particle theory. Particle theory says that all matter is made up of virtually identical particles of four different classes. 4 Quarks e.g. protons and neutrons
The above two are called elementary particles. Particles that are involved in exchange of energy are called exchange particles, like:
4 Perception: All that we can see and measure with our limited senses 4 Facts: Going beyond our limited perception using technology or inference to have a better understanding of the nature of the object being studied 4 Truth: Understanding the laws of nature within the construct of space-time, with complete logical understanding 4 Reality: An experiential understanding of the nature of all objects of the universe, intuitive and therefore not limited by logic. As modern science continued to push its boundaries, knowledge (jnana) moved from the level of perception to facts and at some points touching aspects of truths. This however, currently appears to be the limit of what science can understand and explain of the Nature of the Cosmos.
So far, we have considered the standard model of 4 dimensions of space-time. As physics went deeper into the structure of even smaller or the smallest of particles, a mathematical realization took place - Space is not made up of particles, but rather patterns of vibrations that have length, but no height or width. This was called the String Theory.
4 Photon, related to electromagnetic interaction
All understandings, regardless of the nature of the object being studied, fall into the following four categories:
The particles of energy creating the spanda are called virtual particles, and unlike real particles, can only be inferred.
4 Leptons e.g. electrons and its neutrino
4 Graviton, related to gravity - the only particle that lacks experimental evidence for its existence
One of the paradoxes of quantum physics is called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which asserts that at any given point of observation, either the position or the velocity of a particle can be established, but never both.
Space always has a minimum continuous energy called the vacuum, which is subject to quantum jitters or vacuum fluctuation. That is, particles and fields quivering in and out of existence. This is the principle of spanda, resident in the universal conscious energy, Shiva.
4 Weak interactions
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An important consequence of this is that there is no such thing as empty space.
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4 Gluon, related to strong interaction within the nucleus of an atom
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Consciousness Derived from Latin, it means, ‘Knowledge of things together’.
As theoretical physics progressed, it became apparent that the string theory is consistent only if space has ten dimensions or eleven time–space dimensions. This is now called the M theory, which contains not only vibrating strings, but also points, twodimensional membranes, three-dimensional structures, and so on, up to 9. In Vedic science, they are called the Dasha Mahavidya (Shakti or Energy) in ten directions, in addition to Kala or Time.
When any two elementary particles come into contact with each other, they get entangled in such a way that, if one were to study one particle for its location or its velocity, one can accurately predict that the second entangled particle has instantaneously developed the same velocity, regardless of its location. The only difference between the two is that if one has an entity called spin in a particular direction, the entangled particle has a spin in exactly the opposite direction (mirroring).
In the biological sciences, to be conscious means to be awake, with the capacity to interpret sensory input from the sense organs and motor reactions derived out of the interpretations of the sensory input. Naturally, this would imply the inclusion of thought, emotion and cognition. Biology follows the laws of physics and chemistry. Science is searching for a common principle governing all the laws of nature; the same principle would also govern biological systems and consciousness.
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When applied to a limited sentient being, this implies that Consciousness is that aspect of biological energy that brings awareness to the existence of all aspects of nature around it. Obviously, this has a very wide connotation, way beyond the western concept of consciousness, which is limited to wakefulness, sensory and motor inputs and outputs, and the ability to interpret the limited input.
Vedic Concept of Consciousness The Vedic concept of Consciousness has always been experiential and intuitive, using a top-down model for scientific exploration. Vedic science declares experientially and unequivocally that all aspects of the universe are Consciousness, and matter is simply projected Consciousness. In Vedic metaphysics, pure Consciousness pervades everything, being potential, with the bursting forth of subtle vibrations (spanda), a characteristic of Shiva, until such time as there is an emergent manifestation of the energy which is called Shakti. This is strongly akin to the concept of the all-pervasive vibrational string theory with vacuum fluctuation — spanda — of virtual particles (Shiva) and manifestation with real particles (Shakti). This is unlike western physics and biology, which completely differentiate the conscious energy of a being from the substance of the Cosmos (String or M theory).
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space, but can still exist without other dimensions including the obvious ones – depth, length and breadth. For instance, in parallel dimensions (parallel universes in astrophysics), beings that exist in space without time are called Devatas.
A physicist of Indian origin, Amit Goswami, recently published an article in a physics journal showing that entanglement affects people. He had two people meditate together, and then separated them in two chambers (one person in each) where they couldn’t see or hear one another. When one person had a light strobed at his eye, it caused the firing of a certain frequency in the brain. Remarkably, at the same moment, the other person’s brain also fired, even though he never saw the light. This proves that the energies of people intuitively affect each other.
In quantum terms, thought too is energy (a packet or quantum of energy). Every cell of our body produces thought in the form of signals, which may be electrical, chemical or otherwise. These can be measured in TPS (Thoughts Per Second). The normal TPS of the average human being can be hundreds or thousands of thoughts. Some thoughts are processed through the volition of part of the brain, while others are processed unconsciously. Some thoughts which the brain determines as unwarranted noise are not processed, allowing one to pay attention to what is considered priority at that time.
(Reference: Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here) by Bruce H. Lipton & Steve Bhaerman )
A TPS of zero is the state of Advaita or Enlightenment. Here the energy of thought (particles) is no longer present. However, based on quantum mechanics, a vaccum state cannot exist, and thus, virtual particles are created to occupy the space of the cell.
Vedic Science of Consciousness Vedic sciences have always maintained that Consciousness is the very substance of space-time, and has nothing to do with living or non-living aspects of matter. As humans, we are inextricably bound to the laws of space, time and other dimensions.
As discussed earlier, space is made up of strings of potential energy, which are in constant vibration (spanda) leading to the creation of virtual particles. This is the very basis of the Vedic truth of Consciousness. During the process of entanglement, our TPS comes down to zero, and the virtual particles of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s no-mind state become our reality.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda has clearly defined the existence of 11 dimensions of Consciousness (space-time). As per His elucidation, Space can exist by itself without anything else. On the other hand, time can exist only in the presence of
The Vedic concept of the actual commonality of Consciousness, be it in the fabric of space-time (Shiva), or the individual being (jiva), is obviously a more elegant and scientific model for the definition of Consciousness.
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Deeper Truths about the Eleven Dimensions of Consciousness Revelations from the Avatar (Below are a few excerpts from a unique Q&A session with His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Even a cursory reading of these excerpts will reveal how shockingly different the Reality is from the comfortable everyday world that we perceive.)
Q: Am I right in saying that length and breadth are visual, while depth is physical?
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Q. Are all three dimensions necessary for our senses to perceive an object? For you, it is necessary, since that is what you believe.
Q: Swamiji, would it be correct to visualize the three dimensions of an object (length, breadth, depth) as three axes – like X, Y and Z axes? And what is the relationship of these physical dimensions to the dimension of Time? Yes, you are correct. But you think that all these dimensions (length, breadth, depth) are interconnected, because you have never perceived any of them separately. But they are separate. Where the X, Y and Z axes touch - that is Time. If you just pull out that ‘pin’ of Time, these three lines can be independent wherever you want.
If I remove any one of these dimensions, you can still see the object, but you will not be able to touch or feel it. If I remove any two dimensions, you can touch and feel it, but you will not be able to see it. For example, the length and breadth of this mic can be left here, and the depth alone can be teleported to some other place. Then, if you put your hand here (Paramahamsa Nithyananda moves His hand across the mic), it will cross the mic, but your hand will not be obstructed; it will not hit anything. But at the other point, to which the depth alone has been teleported, if you put your hand there, you will hit something, but nothing will be seen.
Q. Why are we not able to perceive these dimensions separately, while You can do that? Your mind keeps jumping so rapidly from one dimension to the other that it creates the illusion that they are interdependent. It is the same as how your eyes perceive the three leaves of a rotating fan as continuous with one another. For example, when you see the length of this mic before me, you will not remember its depth. When you see the depth of this mic, you will not remember its breadth. It takes only a micro-millisecond to jump from one to the other– but the jumping is still there. When you jump from depth to breadth, breadth to length, length to space, space to time, time to depth – that is called Time.
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Q: Can you drive an object to another dimensions? Yes, that is what I do during teleportation. Changing the three dimensions by applying force is mechanical engineering. Changing the three dimensions by dismantling them is teleportation. When I pull the ‘time’ pin out, the object disappears from your view. When I pull the ‘space’ pin out, it goes to the space I want. Then I put back the ‘space’ pin first, and then the ‘time’ pin - and the object reappears before your eyes at the destination. (His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda smilingly ends the session, perhaps after witnessing the shocked expressions on the faces in His audience!)
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t the time of Newtonian physics, space was considered as purely three-dimensional, measured in three axes viz X, Y, Z. Time was considered as separate from space, and as a single line that was infinite in both directions. All this changed when Einstein introduced the theory of special relativity, which showed that time and space are interconnected; that time too is a dimension of specific events that take place not only along the coordinate of space, but at different points of time. This led to the concept of four-dimensional space time continuum. One cannot curve space (space is curved due to gravity) without involving time as well. Thus, time also has a shape. According to Stephen Hawking, time is pear-shaped. This is because everything including light bends due to gravity. Thus an event taking place very far away would be seen on Earth after millions of years (the time taken by light to reach Earth) and the light would have been bent while traversing billions of galaxies. To put this simply, in Newtonian terms, imagine a three-dimensional space filled with innumerable dots representing points of time. Thus time, whether past, present or future, would be represented in these innumerable dots within the framework of the three-dimensional space. Mathematically, this may not be entirely accurate, as Space itself is curved; however, for explanation purposes, it serves as a good model. Thus, if one were to cover space at the speed of light,
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time would stand still, and vice-versa. This allows the Avatar to access the happenings both in time (kala) and space (akasha or desha), as there is no such thing as past, present or future in the physics of Consciousness where He operates. As a power, it manifests as the siddhi of prapti. The ancient Hindu scripture, the primary Upanishad, Isha Vasya Upanishad, describes the space of pure Consciousness as below:
tad-ejati tan-naijati tad dūre tadvantike | tad-antarasya sarvasya tadu sarvasyāsya bāhyataḥ || 5 || That moves and That moves not. That is far off, That is also near. That is the inner space of all this, and That is also the outer space of all this. The ancient Vedic seers or Rishis were adept in the concepts of space-time. In the Vedic tradition, ‘KALABHAIRAVA’ has been denoted as the Lord of Space and Time, or the energy that controls space and time. The word ‘kala’ stands for time, and the word ‘bhairava’ is derived from: 4 Bha - denoting ‘Bharana’ or maintenance of the world 4 Ra - denoting ‘Ravana’ or withdrawing of the world 4 Va - denoting ‘Vamana’ or projection of the world
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The Universe is far too efficient to be operating without creative intelligence. If not for this field, evolution would be random, and the highly narrow combination of conditions, which support life on planet Earth, would be beyond the possibility of coincidence. Dr. Laszlo calls this force the Akashic Field, pointing out that the ancient Rishis exactly describe the qualities and abilities he has observed first-hand. In his book, Science and the Akashic Field, he states:
By the 1950s, scientists around the world were earnestly exploring the origin of life, and the kind of environment that led to its emergence. In 1953, Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey, working at the University of Chicago, conducted an experiment which has now come to be known as a classic investigation that resulted in some of the most interesting findings on the origin of life.
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Thus, Kalabhairava is one who brings about the srishti, sthiti and samhara (creation, maintenance and destruction) of the Universe.
The post-Einsteinian explosion in modern science has opened new vistas in the understanding of energy, the interchangeability of matter and energy, and the concept of Consciousness as the substratum of the universe.
Akasha – the Energy of Space ‘Akasha’ is a Sanskrit word denoting the fifth and most subtle of the natural elements known to us - ether or space.
The ancient Vedas, which give a precise description of the origin of our Universe, state that in the very beginning, the universe was just a gaseous mix. Following this, there was a period of torrential rains which resulted in the cooling and formation of Earth, followed by the evolution of various forms of plant and animal life, and finally the human being.
Most people are familiar with the first four natural elements: air, fire, earth and water. The fifth element, variously referred to as space, ether or spirit, is in reality, the parent element from which the others spring, and into which they all ultimately dissolve. Akasha is described in the Vedic scriptures as the Cosmic Ocean of energy, containing all possibilities.
ākāśādvāyuḥ vāyorāgniḥ agner āpaḥ adbyaḥ pṛithivī I pṛithivyā ouśadhayaḥ ouṣhadhīyo-annam annāt puruṣaḥ II
It is not a coincidence that one of definitions of Akasha is ‘spirit’ or Consciousness. Ancient mystics understood that space is nothing but Consciousness, and every molecule in the universe carries the possibility for Consciousness.
~ Taittriyopaniṣad, Brahmānanda Vallī From Ether emerged Air, from Air appeared Fire, from Fire came Water, from Water came Earth. From Earth came vegetation, from vegetation came food, and from food came the human being.
“In the Sanskrit and Indian cultures, Akasha is an all-encompassing medium that underlies all things and becomes all things. It is real, but so subtle that it cannot be perceived until it becomes the many things that populate the manifest world. Our bodily senses do not register Akasha, but we can reach it through spiritual practice. The ancient Rishis reached it through a disciplined, spiritual way of life, and through yoga.”
In the ‘Miller-Urey Experiment’, scientists Miller and Urey simulated the experimental conditions that scientists believed were present during the formation of our planet. This experiment showed that organic compounds such as amino acids, which are the building blocks of life, could have been created from inorganic compounds that existed during the early stages of our planet, and which are known to exist in outer space even today.
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Significantly, the conditions described here are almost identical to those described in the Rg Veda several thousand years ago.
Dr. Laszlo goes on to quote the great sage of India, Swami Vivekananda, who says:
What is the nature of Consciousness?
“According to the philosophies of India, the whole universe is composed of two materials, one of which they call Akasha.
The most exhaustive research to date in the western world has been set forth by Ervin Laszlo, Nobel Prize nominee and 2001 winner of the Japan Peace Prize. In his breakthrough work on the nature of Cosmic Consciousness, Dr. Laszlo echoes the ancient Vedic seers when he describes an energy field that records and transmits all the information generated by any event, organism or object.
It is the omnipresent, all-penetrating Existence. Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, has evolved out of this Akasha. It is the Akasha that becomes the air, the liquids, the solids; it is the Akasha that becomes the sun, the earth, the moon, the stars, the comets; it is the Akasha that becomes the human body, the animal body, the plants, every form that we see, everything that can be sensed, and everything that exists. At the beginning of creation there is only this Akasha. At the end of the cycle all melts into the Akasha again, and the next creation similarly proceeds out of this Akasha.”
Dr. Laszlo and his fellow researchers postulate that the Big Bang creation model is insufficient to explain many conundrums of quantum physics. He offers an alternate theory: that the Big Bang is only one of many phenomena that sprang from a meta-universe or ‘metaverse’, which has always existed and will continue to exist.
Swami Vivekananda adds: “In Akasha, all attributes of the manifest world merge into a state that is beyond attributes: the state of Brahman. Although it is undifferentiated, Brahman is dynamic and creative. The cycles of samsara, of being-to-becoming and becoming-to-being, are the leela (divine play) of Brahman: its play
“The most fundamental element of reality is the quantum vacuum, the energy-and information-filled plenum that underlies, generates and interacts with our universe and with whatever universes may exist in the metaverse.”
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains: The Whole, the Cosmos, comes from the Whole. Even when it emerges, It does not get separated; it continues to be established in the Whole. When It goes back, it goes back to the same Whole. Out of the Whole, came out the Whole. Even if the Whole is removed from the Whole, the Whole remains as Whole. From the Infinite, sprang this universe and many other universes. Yet no proof exists as to how the universe was created. The stories of creation in various religions and cultures point towards a Supreme Energy that created the universe, and is responsible for its smooth functioning. Science talks about the Big Bang that caused the universe, but the same theory does not explain how Big Bangs still continue. For every Big Bang that creates new stars and galaxies in some part of the universe, there is a black hole somewhere else, resulting in the disappearance of stars and galaxies. For every birth there is death; for the unborn there is eternity.
Dr. Laszlo observes that this perspective is new to Western thinking, which holds that the ultimate nature of reality is material. However, he acknowledges that modern Western science has stumbled upon this truth in its own way: “What the new physics describes as the unified vacuum - the seat of all the fields and forces of the physical world - is in fact the most fundamentally real element of the universe.” *
The Upanishads are the most ancient sacred scriptures in the history of the world, revealed by Lord Shiva, the Cosmic Consciousness, to the seers of the Vedic tradition, at a time when human civilization was still in its infancy in most other parts of the world. They are the very voice of the Cosmos, the breath of Mahadeva, grasped intuitively by the seers during altered states of consciousness.
In this quantum vacuum, which the Vedic tradition calls Brahman, you can see the analogy of the Cosmic Ocean. Every quark, every particle of energy, leaves an imprint of its being-to-becoming, as well as the reverse journey.
So, the universe is always there. There is no Creator or Created apart from that unborn Consciousness, Brahman – which is Truth or ‘Isness’ (satyam), which is knowledge Itself (jnanam), which is infinite (anantam), which is beyond time and space (nithyam), and is verily the essence and source of everything that exists.
The Upanishads are the distilled essence of the Vedas, containing the most sublime yet intimate revelations about the highest Truth and nature of the Self, the Universe and the Divine. The Isha Upanishad opens with an invocation that reveals the depth of Vedic wisdom:
*Reference: Laszlo, Ervin, Science and the Akashic Field, second edition, Inner Traditions 2007
auṁ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate I pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate II
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Yet how did the original birth happen? Vedic wisdom reveals to us that the birth of the universe never did happen. Taitirriya Upanishad, declares – satyam jnanam anantam brahma – truth, reality or pure knowledge, infinity is Brahman, the Source of everything.
The Whole that emerges from the Whole
of ceaseless creation and dissolution.”
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The living deity of Lord Kalabhairava at Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam, India
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recorded in the Akashic Records.
Decoding the Language of the Cosmos
The process of decoding these energy records is known as Akashic Reading.
As we saw earlier, Akashic Records are the mystical energy records of all the events that have ever happened, are happening and will happen in the Cosmos.
The Science behind Akashic Readings We have already explained the scientific concept of the SpaceTime continuum. As Time exists simultaneously as a dimension of Space, all energy or information (energy is nothing but subjective information) is waiting to be decoded depending on the parameters and objects used. To explain this with a simple analogy – electricity is coded energy and is decoded in an object called a light bulb, and thus manifests as the light.
Mystics compare the Akashic Records to an unimaginably vast library of information. Recently, with the advent of cyber technology, the Akashic Records have been compared to a mammoth supercomputer system. The code in which it is written is beyond any language used on Earth, but the reading is revealed in the language of the reader.
Just as a boat leaves a wake in the water as it passes, each action, thought and emotional impulse in us leaves a trail of energy; an imprint on the Cosmic Ocean. These energy trails are recorded in the Akasha; they are inscribed on the ether. Every event that has ever occurred anywhere to any entity, no matter how tiny, is
At a classical level, all information is stored in bits (in computer language as a binary of 0 and 1), which is then decoded by the software of the computer.
Gift from the Vedic Civilization Who were the Vedic seers who gifted us the treasures of the Akashic Readings?
As mentioned earlier, at the quantum level, information is stored as qubits. These qubits of information are present across the entire fabric of the Cosmos, and represent the entire information held within the Cosmos in time and space.
The Vedic civilization, the world’s most ancient living civilization, flourished millions of years ago on the lush plains of the Sarasvati River in what is now Northern India.
Interestingly, at the quantum level, the binary system exists as 0 and 1 separately, but happens simultaneously and concurrently, such that both 0 and 1 exist at the same time.
A civilization of spiritual giants with superhuman mystical powers, it gave to the world a host of highly sophisticated sciences and arts, including astronomy, astrology, mathematics, navigation, medical and surgical expertise, and the Vedic language Sanskrit, which is also the natural language most suitable for computer programming. (Reference: http://www.vedicsciences.net/articles/sanskrit-nasa. html)
Information regarding past, present or future of a quantum nature is available, waiting to be decoded, but at the present moment, there exists no technology (in science), which can work as a true quantum computer and has the software to understand all the information and underlying principles of the Cosmos.
The technology used by this civilization was astounding, revealing feats of engineering and architecture that challenge modern skills and technologies.
Biologically, the human brain has been likened to the equivalent of a quantum computer.
In the Vedic Age, no boundaries existed between the material and mystical realms of life. Working for inner growth hand in hand with outer abundance and success, the Vedic civilization left us an unimaginable legacy of inner and outer treasures.
An Avatar in the form of a being like Paramahamsa Nithyananda is able to access the qubits of information stored across the Cosmos as Akashic Readings, as He Himself is both the software and the hardware, the subject and the object of the quantum universe.
During this period, Akashic Records were freely accessed to find answers for everything, from the mysteries of the universe to the causes of personal karma. Unfortunately, the power to commune with the Cosmos is a lost science today, with the key to this infinite source of information in the hands of the rare Avatars.
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Each Individual’s DNA holds his personal Akashic Records
you collected is called your microcosmic bio-memory. It is only this part that scientists are able to analyze and understand as ‘known DNA’.
The Garuda Purana describes the avatars (embodied forms) assumed by the immortal formless Lord during the various cycles of time. The Avatars evolve and expand from fish (matsya) to amphibian (kurma) to animal (varaha) to half-man-half-animal (narasimha) to the pygmy man (vamana) to the tool-wielding civilized man (Parashurama) to the highly evolved and dharmic being (Sri Rama) to the purnavatar (Sri Krishna). After the advent of Sri Krishna begins the age of man as a seeker, an enlightened being and a world teacher (Buddha). The last Avatar (Kalki) is said to arrive at the end of Kali Yuga to destroy the collective negativity and establish Satya Yuga on our planet (the age of Living Enlightenment).
Understand: your body is the ultimate matter which can happen in the frequency of planet earth. The ultimate machinery which is possible to happen in this planet’s frequency, has happened to you. Celebrate its existence.
Scientists are absolutely right when they say there are two parts in the DNA, and one part, which they are able to study, is responsible for the form and diseases. The other part is what is responsible for our spiritual gifts. I tell you: the other part is what carries all the siddhis and superhuman powers.
You assume almost all kinds of bodies in so many births before you take a human body. So all the memories, experiences, possibilities, of all the bodies put together happens in the human body. ALL possibilities, all memories, all experiences, are available in your body. Many times you have lived the life of fish or bird. So if a fish can swim, you can also swim! If a bird can fly, you can also fly. You may think, then why I am not able to fly? Because you chose some other memory more strongly and dropped this flying memory too deep. You just need to awaken it; that’s all! Nothing else is needed but awakening it. If the awakening can happen, simply human beings can learn flying.
daitya-raakshasa-naashaartham matsyapurvam yathaa-bhavat kurmo varaaho nrharirvaamano rama urjitah II 10 II yathaa dasarathi-raamah krsno buddho’tha kalkyapi tathaa vyakto’vyaktarupi aaseedaadir-gadaadharah II 11 II (Garuda Purana, 1.86.10-11)
I can say, the part which is already discovered is junk DNA! The part which is not yet discovered, or maybe I can use the word ‘yet to be realized’ – it is this part that contains information about who you really are on a level of spiritual beingness. It is that part to which I give the name ‘jeevatma’ - the individual consciousness or ‘individual self DNA’. It is that part which carries our divine personality.”
These powers are not something unique to a few people; it is a birthright for everybody. I am not interested in feeding fantasies to you. I am giving you the vision. It is possible! It is possible. All possibilities are there in your body.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: The Vedic scientists discovered thousands of years ago that the fish is the first individual body that has the capacity to collect and transmit samskaras or engraved memories and behavioral patterns through the DNA. Of course, even before the fish body, you can collect samskaras, but they are not transmittable. Please understand, as a fish, any engram you collect is transmittable. Before that, it is so subtle, so negligible, that it cannot be transmitted.
Science of Gotras The science of gotras was used by the Vedic Rishis (perfected sages) to transmit coded information across generations, in order to make available specific knowledge that was put into these genes for decoding at an appropriate time in the future.
Scientists refer to our inactive genetic material as ‘junk DNA’ because it has no obvious function, but open-minded investigation has proven that biology does not furnish any ‘junk’ tissue in nature. All organs and substances have a purpose, although they may be hidden from us at the moment. Paramahamsa Nithyananda reveals that, far from being ‘junk’ tissue, it is this ‘Divine DNA’ that holds the key to the mystical powers we all possess, but have forgotten how to use.
That is why, in the Vedic tradition, we call the first incarnation as matsyavatar. From there the avataras, the incarnations, expand and grow.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: Researchers say that with the inter-dimensional 12-strand DNA activation, you can have access to ten times the information that is available from your DNA! That is what I mean when I say that you can download anything from the Hiranyagarbha. It is nothing but the cosmic archives.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
Whatever engrams you collected when you had the fish body will be passed to the next body and further bodies that you assume. From the fish body till now, whatever
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determines the form as well as the potential diseases and skills we can have. Scientists are very clear that what we think is not our original blueprint, because we are able to study only one part of the DNA till now. The other, unrevealed part, which scientists have not been able to study, or logically understand its function, they have labeled as ‘junk DNA’ or ‘shadow DNA’.
Science says that the human species has evolved with a two-stranded DNA which is found in every cell, which
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We carry our lineage from other planets and other areas of the universe in our DNA. The imprint of our earthly ancestral lineage is also held within our DNA. This is what we call the gotra in our Vedic tradition.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: As I said, all the information you collected from all of your births is in your DNA. You can access some of this information just to understand your own past actions, and not to waste time doing the same actions again and again, thinking you will have some joy or benefits at the end of this action. If you have done a certain action and you did not receive the joy which you wanted, but if you forget that, you will be trying it again and again in various ways. But if you remember that you did not have the joy you expected, you will not try it again. You will not waste your time on it again. In that way, accessing the Akashic Records by reading the DNA code will be useful for you to become enlightened.”
Each of you belongs to the gotra of one of the rishis. The gotra is the code which contains components of that rishi’s space in you. If you belong to ‘Bharadwaja’ gotra, it means that the energy and experience which the rishi Bharadwaja had is there in you also. If you take up the mantras and practices which Bharadwaja practiced, you can immediately decode your DNA and access the Akashic Records. Gotra is the password available to you to access the huge Akashic Records.
Akashic Readings - the way out of karma
I witnessed Swamiji subtly change in size
Name: Sureka Radhakrishnan
Name: Todd Otten
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Location: USA
I got the darshan of the huge form of Kalabhairava during the Kalabhairava darshan and Akashic Readings in Tiruvannamalai. Suddenly, I saw him like he grew very tall and big, and his head was nearly touching the roof of the hall.
During the Inner Awakening program in Varanasi in May 2015, I witnessed Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji subtly change in size on different occasions. There were numerous times when he looked much bigger to me - like he grew multiple sizes, from smaller to huge!
I started jumping and levitating. I tried to control myself, but I realized that the pull of the current is beyond the inner and outer boundary of myself. It gave me the feeling of disconnecting from the outer world, but at the same time I was connected and aware of the outer world even with my eyes closed, and I was able to see my inner self with absolute powerful silence.
The science of genetics has advanced to the level that you can study the structural code of your gene i.e. the DNA code material by completely sequencing the genome. However, while we know what genes are present, science has yet to decode all the genes present in the human being. Those genes which science has not assigned a specific purpose are simply labeled as non-functional or ‘junk’ DNA.
At times it seemed he would be about ten percent smaller and take on a more feminine energy about his appearance. At other times he looked approximately ten to fifteen percent larger and had a stronger masculine energy and appearance. The biggest shift I saw was in the sacred river at the Kumbh Mela location in Nasik. Seeing him in the water at the end of the ceremony, especially when he was walking out, he seemed larger than ever, maybe twenty to twenty-five percent larger. His energy and appearance at this time transcended feminine or masculine and was radiating that of a god.
The whole experience is wordless; only the feeling can justify Kalabhairava Darshan! Thrice during the Akashic Readings, he has revealed to me about my personal life, and the path that I will be heading.
But the entire gene sequence of the human body itself is not unchangeable. It is in fact dynamic, and possesses its own intelligence, which is why less than 30,000 genes (of which only 10,000 are functional at any given time) can perform all the functions and create all the structures of a complex entity like a human being, who is made up of 50 trillion cells.
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I experienced the huge Kalabhairava form of Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Amazing power of the Divine!
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I experienced the huge power of Kalabhairava
I saw Swamiji’s form extending up to the Cosmos
Name: Vadwatee Enal Location: Trinidad & Tobago
I saw Swamiji’s body expanding before my eyes
I saw Swamiji as nearly 8 feet tall
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Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Bhaktikananda Swami
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Sadhanananda
Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order
Name: Srikrishna Venigalla
Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
Location: St. Louis, USA
Location: Singapore
Email: ma.bhaktika@nithyananda.org During my first Inner Awakening in 2014, at the Kalabhairava darshan, I saw Swamiji as tall as the roof. During the same Inner Awakening, my sister Sumatee offered Maheshwara Puja to Swamiji, and during the puja I saw Swamiji get tall, and his head reached the Cosmos, and I saw lots of stick-like people’s figures jumping up and down, but only the selected ones got to go with him.
During Inner Awakening at Varanasi in May 2014, Swamiji completed a Kalabhaiarva darshan and sat down and immediately started darshan. I was the first to go for darshan - and it was the most intense energy experience I have ever had!! I literally felt His power could have just thrown me across the entire length of the hall - SO SO much energy. My clothes literally flew in one direction and me in another!
It took me some time to place the pieces together of how I got to where I am now, and I realize that he was with me all along. Thank you Swamiji, you chose me and I feel totally blessed. I am yours forever.
It was so beautiful - I stayed in that bodha for the next 24 hours.. with a smile on my face... O so precious!!
I felt I was looking up at something huge!
He was towering over me
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When Swamiji gave Kalabhairava darshan in the Bidadi ashram, we were watching it on 2-way video conferencing from St. Louis in the USA. During the darshan, I saw Kalabhairava as close to 8’ tall, and maybe more than 300 lbs!
I believe that at that altitude, the samadhi state and physical expansion become so deep that the anti-gravity forces started taking over... He appeared huge to my eyes, and it would have been scary, except for the undeniable evidence and understanding that He was in a state of obvious bliss and peace.
When He just moved his hand, the Kundalini energy was so intense that I started levitating. This my personal experience.
I experienced Swamiji in a huge form during Shivoham process
I experienced Kalabhairava’s huge form expressing through Swamiji
Name: Bhavya Venigalla
I experienced my first ever darshan during the Nithyanandoham program with Swamiji in December 2015.
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When I was kneeling in front of Swamiji to receive darshan, I looked up feeling as if something very huge is in front of me. It felt that I was looking up at something very high, even though Swamiji was sitting down before me! I never forget that moment. I had never experienced something like that, very mystical, unexplainable.
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During the Himalayas yatra led by Swamiji, many of us saw a rare and miraculous sight. As we climbed higher, Swamiji’s body began to expand, and He started walking very slowly and stepping carefully, as if He was walking inside a balloon. It was something like the videos I had seen of astronauts walking on the moon.
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When I first saw Swamiji as Kalabhairava, I was in shock! I am 6’2”, and when I went up for darshan, he was just towering over me. It felt like he was at least 8 feet tall.
I attended the Inner Awakening program conducted by Swamiji at Varanasi in India during October 2015.
While doing the Nithya Dhyan meditation, I saw Swamiji in a huge form.
I never shared any personal details, but Kalabhairava said what was going to happen in the future, and it happened exactly as he said!
During the Kalabhairava darshan given by Swamiji, I saw and experienced Kalabhairava’s huge form expressing through Swamiji! It was an amazing experience!
I had the same experience of seeing Swamiji in a huge size during the Shivoham process. Whenever I touch the sacred banyan tree at the Bangalore ashram, I see a vision of it in a huge size and golden color. Thank you very much Swamijii for giving me these experiences and this divine life!
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I won the Lotto just as Kalabhairava predicted!
Kalabhairava is revered in Hinduism as the personification of the energy of Space and Time.
Name: Abirami Paramanathan
He is known as ‘the dark one’, because he not only represents the 4% of visible matter of the Cosmos (which is seen because of light), but also the remaining 96% of dark matter and dark energy (unseen even with light) (see page 105).
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
At a time when I did not know what to do with my life, Swami Nithyananda took the time to help me in many ways. Swamiji looked at my horoscope and told me I will always have lots of money. I wondered how this would be, since I wasn’t working and did not have much money.
If you look at the Kalabhairava deity in our ashram, you will see that He is standing on the Time shaft - the Dharma chakra or wheel of Time. This is to express that he is the Lord of Time, and also the one who is beyond Time! His left leg faces forward, and His right leg steps backward. The right leg represents the future. The left leg represents the past. So He is saying, ‘Past comes before future!’
In August 2013, when my mother and I did the 10-day Inner Awakening program, I asked Swamiji if I can ask Kalabhairava about the Koteeshwara Yogam (millionaire possibility) in my horoscope. Swamiji told me to ask Kalabhairava. With so much compassion Swamiji brought Kalabhairava to us, and I asked Kalabhairava the question, and this was His reply.
When you start connecting with Kalabhairava and start worshipping the divine energy called Kalabhairava, He removes your ego and makes you enlightened.
Kalabhairava is a dimension of Shiva Each of us has multiple dimensions. For example, when you are writing, you are a writer. When you are painting, you are a painter. But in every action, you are there. In the same way, Shiva has multiple dimensions. Each action of Shiva liberates people in different ways. In the ancient Hindu scriptures called the Puranas, there is a description of how Brahma (the Creator) becomes arrogant. So an aspect or dimension of Shiva emerges from Him and cuts off Brahma’s head, removing his ego and makes him enlightened. This action of Shiva’s energy came to be known as Kalabhairava. Each action of the Divine, each action of an Incarnation, becomes an independent energy. Shiva’s action of cutting Brahma’s head and giving him enlightenment became an independent energy called Kalabhairava. Shiva’s action of destroying the negativity of Daksha and liberating him from his negative patterns becomes an independent energy called Veerabhadra. Shiva’s action of teaching in silence to the Sanakaadi Rishis and giving them enlightenment became Dakshinamurti. Each action of the Divine becomes one form, one energy.
Kalabhairava Darshan Those who have witnessed the energy of Kalabhairava land on Paramahamsa Nithyananda during the darshan have vouched for the sudden changes they observed in His physical dimensions including height and size.
As predicted by Kalabhairava, within two years my family won the Lotto lottery (where the chances of winning are 1 in 14 million)!
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A simple physical exam done by a team of doctors before and during the darshan recorded significant changes in height, weight and muscle dimensions occurring in just a few seconds (the time taken for the energy to express in the physical body). A doctor who was part of the team which measured Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s vital statstics before and during the Kalabhairava darshan stated that this was a ‘medically impossible difference’.
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Deeper Truths of Akashic Readings Revelations from the Avatar
He utters - everything is completely different! Even I don’t know what He is going to do.
(Paramahamsa Nithyananda speaks to participants just before a ‘Kalabhairava darshan’ during the Inner Awakening program in Varanasi, India in 2015)
Q. Swamiji, kindly excuse my asking, but how is it that Kalabhairava sometimes speaks to us in English?
Q. Dear Swamiji, how do You actually access the information of past and future from the Cosmic Archives? Does it appear in a written form?
When He lands, Kalabhairava uses the software, the language, that this brain already has. But even then, the word structure is completely unknown to me, as many of you may have noticed. The data normally available to me, with which I am relating to you all right now, is kept under lock and key.
Even past-present-future is only one more knowledge which is there in the hiranyagarbha (the Cosmic information archive) – it is only a perception. It can be accessed.
And same way, even the ethics! You have to be very careful when you ask a question to Him. He will tell everything! If you ask about an incident in your life, He will tell everything related to the incident. Everything! He will not be socially correct. My way of living, my way of responding, everything goes! He just brushes them aside. All this goes! And what He does, He does!
The downloading happens through something like a strong gold color umbilical cord – one end of it is in my ananda gandha chakra, and the other end in open space with no end – the hiranyagarbha. When the information first lands, it will be as a sound; then it becomes language, then it becomes Sanskrit, then English, and then it enters the body. By the time I vomit it out, it will be my customized version! This is the mystical science behind Akashic Readings.
Q. Swamiji, how does Kalabhairava’s energy express through You? When Kalabhairava lands (on this body), I don’t feel that somebody else has entered into me, but I feel as if ten thousand Nithyanandas have entered into me! The same me, but ten thousand-fold. The whole body language, verbal language, the way He laughs, looks, everything - I can see it is different! But I don’t feel there is somebody else operating through me at that time. I just feel that I myself have become manifold. Other than that, everything - the body language, the verbal language, the way He looks, the way He talks, the words
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But just as He tells the truth, He also gives the solution you need. I tell you, all His solutions are successful. I can vouch for the Truth of His words. This (Varanasi) is Kalabhairava’s home. Let us have His darshan in His home. Seeing the lion in His cave... let us see what He does!
Kalabhairava revealed my husband’s abdominal problem about which he had not shared to anyone!
Swamiji revealed my past life story Name: Megan Bishop Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Mayatitananda
Name: Arthi Desai
Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
Location: California, USA
Email: ma.mayatita@nithyananda.org
My daughter and I attended the Inner Awakening program in Kodaikanal, India, in July 2012.
I have been a single mother, raising my son by myself for ten years. My husband had gone quite insane and then vanished. My son and I were haunted by this incompletion.
During the Akashic Readings, Kalabhairava (Swamiji) told my daughter that the discomfort in my husband’s abdomen would go away on its own soon.
During an Akashic Reading a few years ago, I asked Swamiji, “What happened to my son’s father, and were we together in a past life?”
My daughter and I were not aware of any problem that my husband had.
“Yes!” was the immediate reply. Swamiji said that we were together in a past life. The same events happened, he tormented me and in desperation I committed suicide. However, when my husband realized what he had done, he also committed suicide. He was being held in that ‘hell’ that souls who commit suicide go to, waiting out the time that he should have spent in a human body.
After the session, we called my husband, who was in the USA at that time, and checked if there was a problem. He then told us that he had been experiencing a discomfort in the abdomen for the past 3-4 days, but it was not severe enough to go and see the doctor. He was certainly surprised to know that we knew about it!
He also said that I would be carrying evidence on this body of my past life suicide, which was by hanging.
The next morning, we spoke to Swamij about it and He once again told us that the problem would go away by itself.
It is true: I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped tightly around my neck.
My husband, on the other hand, was curious. So he went to the doctor, who gave him antibiotics. But the problem persisted even after two courses of antibiotics. Finally, it went away on its own, just like Swamiji told us at first!
Swamiji explained that many birthmarks are signs of past life traumas. So I stopped being mad at the doctors who delivered me, thinking they were the reason the birth took so long. In fact, they saved my life!
(after darshan) Q.Darshan was magnificent, electrifying and uplifting! Thank you Swamiji! When Kalabhairava lands, I can see the amount of joy He brings not only in me, but in the whole breathing space, the whole hall. It is… unexplainable, inexplicable. It is what it is! Of course, you have to thank only Kalabhairava for everything. I am only the instrument He is using.
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I discovered my link with my father though an Akashic Reading
Kalabhairava revealed His footprints on my head
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Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Sundareshwarananda
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Atma
Age: 12 (at the time of the incident)
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Breathing Life into Matter
Student of Nithyananda GurukulSM
As a child, I was strongly attached to my dad, and as long as he was around I would feel safe and more comfortable with life. Around the age of 50 his life took a radical spiritual turn and he became a healer.
During an Akashic Readings session in Kodaikanal, the children of Nithyananda GurukulSM got an opportunity to ask their questions to Kalabhairava. I asked Kalabhairava, ‘I heard that footprints appeared on the Dalai Lama’s skull, showing the directions to the next Dalai Lama… what is the science and the reason behind this?’
One morning when he was alone in his office, he began experiencing a heart attack. He later shared with me that he met the attack fearlessly, and survived through prayer alone. Recently, during an Akashic Reading, I asked Kalabhairava about his interest in India. Kalabhairava said that in a past life, he was a student of Totapuri, Sri Ramakrishna’s teacher. I had to research this after receiving this information, and the connections make perfect sense. This explains so much my deep connection to him!
Kalabhairava replied, ‘All enlightened beings and incarnations leave their body in this way only. Shave your head, I will show you my footprints!’ When I shaved my head, I found that indeed there was a clear mark of footprints on the crown of my head!’ There was no way anyone could have seen that other than Kalabhairava himself!
Swamiji predicted my friend’s marriage four years in advance
Kalabhairava healed me of my secret problem
Name: Devi Location: Coimbatore, India
Spiritual name: Ma Ananda Priya Nayaki Location: Austin, Texas, USA
I would like to share a friend’s experience that happened at Kalabhairava darshan. She is also Swamiji’s devotee and was in love with a guy, but was not able to marry him due to severe opposition from her family.
I attended Inner Awakening in December 2012. During the Kalabhairava Darshan and Akashic Readings, Kalabhairava told me: ‘The disease you think you have - which you don’t have - will be gone from today.’ I was amazed, as I had told almost no one of a certain problem I had. There was no way He could know that - except that He knows everything!
She had Kalabhairava darshan in 2011 and asked Swamiji about when she would get married. Swamiji replied that she will get married in December 2015, to the same person who she is in love with now. Four years later, she got married to the same guy in December 2015, just as Swamiji predicted. There were a lot of struggles with her family, but they both finally overcame all struggles and got married as per His blessings.
God is omniscient and this was demonstrated to me that day. He healed me of one aspect of that disorder, and I am forever grateful.
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nergy. The stuff that our universe is made of. We breathe, live and move in a heaving ocean of energy.
Every sign of existence in this universe, from the throbbing of life in our bodies to the mighty Cosmic forces that roll the galaxies, is nothing but the movement of energy. Seen through the eyes of the physicist, planets, plants and people are just energy vibrating at different frequencies. All we are, really, is energy - and yet, we are also the wonder of form! Form brings beauty and romance into our life. Man has always been fascinated by the delightful play of color, size and shape that creates our lovely universe. The extraordinary richness of Creation reveals to us that God is indeed an artist. Just as the rainbow reveals to us the colors hidden in pure light, the innumerable forms of the world reveal to our eyes the existence of the Formless Lord. The ancient cultures of the world were by nature pantheistic, worshipping the Creator through his creation. In the legendary Vedic civilization of India, everything in the world was considered sacred, a spark of the flame of the Divine. Trees, mountains and animals were equally revered as expressions of the Divine, as were the forces of Nature like wind and water. The Rg Veda, the most ancient of the Vedic texts invokes upon
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humanity the grace of Indra, the god of Lightning, Agni, the god of Fire, Varuna, the god of the Oceans, and Maruta, the god of the Wind, among thousands of other gods. But although they appeared similar, the philosophy of the Vedas was in fact far from the simplistic faith of the pantheist. This civilization, flourishing millennia ago along the banks of the divine river Sarasvati in India was the most advanced that our planet has ever seen. They gifted to the world the sciences of mathematics, astronomy, natural medicine, yoga, grammar, and above all, the sacred science of the Self. The Vedic civilization upheld a non-dualistic or Advaitic view of life that easily encompassed the dimensions of Einsteinian relativity, quantum physics and beyond - making it the most elevated philosophy that the human mind has ever conceived. It also evolved a precise cosmogony, whose tenets modern science is only just beginning to comprehend. Millennia before science proposed the theory of the vibratory universe, the Vedas were already describing how the universe began as a spanda, a subtle vibration, in the Divine mind. Rippling out to encompass space and time, swirling into denser vortices of energy, and finally condensing into the gross expressions of matter, this Cosmic energy went on to become the stars, the earth, the oceans - and ourselves.
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deity, becomes an independent intelligence, a direct vehicle of the Cosmic energy, capable of answering prayers, healing ailments and granting boons. Every day, thousands around the world are witnessing the powers of prana pratishtha in the living idols energized by Paramahamsa Nithyananda. With a word of blessing or a wave of his hand, Paramahamsa Nithyananda empowers these deities from thousands of miles away to heal and bless devotees, and even to materialize sacred items like rudraksha beads and holy ash.
Science behind Prana Pratishtha Modern science and astrophysics have already established that the entire universe is made up of only 4% quantifiable matter. The remaining 96%, as yet only mathematically postulated, is called dark matter and dark energy. But in reality, dark matter is neither dark, nor is it matter as we understand. It is actually a form of as yet unmanifested energy. And even the 4% matter is nothing but energy which has been perceived or scientifically labeled as matter!
As mentioned earlier, the renowned Vedic text, the Taittiriya Upanishad, symbolically describes the descent of the Divine into the world of form. The concept of ‘many gods’ unique to the Vedic tradition stems from this view that everything in the world, including oneself, can be a worthy vessel for the Divine energy. To commune directly with this energy is not easy for the average human mind, but to connect with it through a beloved form is a joy for the devotee. When the Hindu worships his ishtadevata (chosen deity), he is hardly worshipping the idol itself. Instead, he is in direct communion with the Divine energy expressing through that idol - a subtle truth that many miss who condemn the worship of idols in the Vedic tradition. The 330 million deities that make up the Hindu pantheon of gods
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symbolize this very idea: that the Divine lies hidden in everything, everywhere - awaiting only the touch of awakening. This process of awakening is known in Sanskrit as ‘prana pratishtha’, literally meaning, the establishing of life-breath. A qualified Hindu priest may perform ‘agama pratishtha’ or ‘mantra pratishtha’, invoking the deity’s energy through sacred chants and proper ceremonies, and inviting it to enter into the idol. But significantly, only an Avatar or an enlightened being is authorized to perform prana pratishtha, which is the direct infusion and permanent establishing of life-force in matter. When an Avatar performs prana pratishtha on an idol, He not only brings it to life, but transmits to it His own enlightened state of being. Such an idol, now rightly called an archavatar or living
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At the very gross level, matter can be considered either insentient (non-living) or sentient (living). For example, a piece of rock is considered non-living, whereas plants, animals and humans are considered as living.
The suffusion of Cosmic energy into the deity excites the atomic structure and moves the electrons into higher orbitals. This is nothing but the spanda or subtle vibration of Cosmic energy which is now on the verge of manifestation (Shakti). A devotee who enters this space is instantly able to connect to this energy of the deity, and is thus able to realign his bio-memory with this infusion of Cosmic energy.
But at an atomic level or even sub-atomic level, all that exists in matter are subatomic particles, which look and behave exactly the same in non-living and living matter. In fact, they are indistinguishable from each other. It is only the level of life-energy that is different in a rock and plants and humans. Amongst all living beings, only humans carry the possibility of accessing the Cosmic energy and storing it in their bodies as Kundalini energy. An Avatar, as a storehouse and channel of this universal energy, can transfer it to another being (through initiation), or into a socalled insentient structure, such as a deity made of stone, metal or other materials.
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda performs the sacred ritual of prana pratishtha to the larger-than-life granite deity of Sri Nithyananda Venkateshwara at Sri Nithyanandeshwara Devasthanam, Bengaluru Aadheenam, India
What exactly happens during Prana Pratishtha?
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
This deeply mystical process can be explained to some extent by the principle of quantum entanglement. Entanglement is a term used in quantum theory to describe the way that particles of energy or matter can become correlated to predictably interact with each other, regardless of how far apart they are. This means, the state and actions of one of these particles can instantaneously influence the state and actions of other particles with which it is entangled, through the process of interference. Entanglement is one of the many mysterious truths that Newtonian science could not even have imagined, for it questions the concepts of time, space and reality itself.
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Each deity which goes through the prana pratishtha process is in entanglement with the higher Truth. Just as somebody whose kundalini is awakened is in entanglement with me, in the same way, the deity is also in entanglement with me. It is in entanglement with that aspect of the Cosmic energy that it represents. A colossus of extraordinary yogic powers, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has the rare ability to subtly force matter to enter into entanglement with His own superconscious energy, and thus become an alive, conscious power. Once the cycle of entanglement is established, the idols energized by Paramahamsa Nithyananda practically become extensions of Himself, no matter where they are located physically. By virtue of being in entanglement with the Avatar, they become pure channels of Cosmic energy, functioning with independent intelligence, yet in instantaneous contact with His own superconscious space. Thus, even in the physical absence of the Avatar, a devotee is able to connect to the Cosmic energy via the deity.
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Process of Prana Pratishtha Installation of the Cosmic energy or prana pratishtha is done by bringing this energy down through the five elementary energies of Nature or PaĂąca Mahabhuta. The energy is first brought into the Space element (akasha) through meditation (visualization), into the Air element (vayu) through mantras (chanting), down to the Fire element (agni) through homas (fire offerings), down to the Water element (apas) in the kalasha (water pot), and finally to the Murti, the Earth element (prithivi). The Avatar can choose the manifestation of the energy that He wishes to install in a particular deity. He can choose to empower the deity with wealth energy, health energy, completion energy, karma-exhausting energy, or any other type of energy. Since time immemorial, Avatars and enlightened masters have installed various aspects of the divine energy in various deities to fulfil the needs and desires of humanity.
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There are various reasons for choosing the material of the deity as well. Materials like granite can hold and radiate the energy for thousands of years. On the other hand, deities made of a combination of five sacred metals or panchaloha can hold and radiate much more energy than granite, but they can hold the energy only for a few hundred years. The precise structure of the temple and the geometrically harmonious form of the deity also help in the process of entanglement, along with the subsequent pujas (offering of gratitude) and the kriya pada, sacred rituals, which are techniques given by Avatars as per the agamas to tune our internal energies to those of Existence.
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concentrated energy. Whenever a person creates a thought or sankalpa (conscious resolution) in the presence of a concentrated energy, that thought is projected onto the world as Reality. This process can be compared placing a film strip in front of a projector light. When projected onto the screen, it appears as reality before our eyes. This is why we say that whatever we wish for in front of a deity comes true. Only a being who can function without the help of His body is capable of creating a true sanctum, one that will bless, heal and manifest miracles in exactly the way He does. Because Avatars do not need a body to execute their work, they can continue to do the things they do, even after they leave their physical body. The sanctum and deities created and energized by them radiate inexhaustible energy, and nurture everybody who seeks it.
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Wish-fulfillment through deities The energies of an ordinary human being get exhausted whenever they are repeatedly expressed. For example, grief or joy exhausts when expressed through tears; the pitta (fire element) of the body exhausts itself through anger; the lust energy exhausts itself through sexual act, the power of speech exhausts itself in his very saliva the moment words are uttered. All these energies of expression become exhausted as soon as one uses them.
In a world diseased with doubt and challenged by the epidemic of spiritual impoverishment, in a world struggling to escape the confines of ordinary human existence through addiction, illusion and death, mystic phenomena like these serve to remind us that whether we accept it or not, believe it or not, know it or not, we inhabit a planet showered with Grace, where humanity can aspire to touch divinity ,and where everything that exists - as the Isha Vasya Upanishad tells us - are indeed the thousand forms of the one all-embracing Consciousness.
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I live in Canada. In my home, we have two deities of Shiva and Devi (Nithyanandeshwara and Nithyanandeshwari) which have been energized by Swami Nithyananda.
I have been with Swamiji since March 2008. I perform the daily puja at the Nithyananda Vedic Temple in San Jose, CA.
In 2011, when Swamiji first started teleporting prasad (sacred offerings) from the Bidadi ashram in India to all his energized deities around the world, my deities also instantaneously received kumkum (holy vermilion), and the Shiva deity received vibhooti (holy ash) also. It was really a stunning and unforgettable experience to receive Swamiji’s prasad, which had travelled thousands of kilometers in a few seconds and materialized on our deities!
I am so grateful that Swamiji has healed my body-mind system to be receptive, so that I can experience the cosmic energy flow from the living deities. Recently I noticed how when I touch the deities of Ganesha, Devi Meenakshi and Swamiji’s padukas, such an intense flow of energy happens, which is so healing. I noticed that the energy from each deity is different, and sucks away all the incompletions, leaving me so light!
On 7th May 2011, during the morning satsang, Swamiji blessed all His temples and satsang centers to receive Meenakshi’s and Sundareshwara’s prasad of chandan (sandal paste).
I am so happy to receive this gift from Swamiji.
During the meditation, I felt intense energy on my eyes. After the meditation, my mother noticed something yellow on my eyelids. When I went to the mirror, I saw that chandan had appeared on my eyelids! We do not use chandan in our home, so I was really shocked, and when we tested it, we found that the chandan was real and fragrant. I thank Swamiji for giving us these experiences, which are beyond my comprehension and capabilities.
An Avatar’s energy of expression cannot be exhausted through any of these means (or any means), because He is the inexhaustible Source of energy in human form. That is why He is the ultimate human form fit to perform prana pratishtha.
Thank you Swamiji.
Once a deity has been ‘awakened’ through the process of prana pratishtha, it becomes a concentrated energy. Whatever action we perform in this space is very intense, due to the presence of this
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Chapter 5
Darshan Face-to-Face with the Cosmos
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he word ‘darshan’ means ‘to have a glimpse of.’
Darshan can manifest in many forms
Darshan is traditionally used to describe the moment when we behold a deity, an Avatar, a saint or an enlightened
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2. Physical - in the presence of an energized deity
The experience of darshan is highly revered in the Vedic tradition, as just seeing such a being can cleanse the karmas of lifetimes, and create a deep and lasting transformation in the receiver.
3. Perceptual - An intermediate level (between 2 & 3) would be the darshan of the ishtadevata or deity in the form of the Master (e.g. people seeing Sai Baba or Meenakshi in Swamiji’s form). This is not directly perceiving, but using the existing form to project / perceive the desired form. It could be a mental projection which is the result of a deep yearning on the part of the devotee, or an actual vision granted by the deity or saint, who makes himself available on the astral level.
Darshan is something far beyond mere physical ‘seeing’. Like many mystical Sanskrit words, it is a word that cannot be translated; rather, it has to be experienced.
Darshan is ever-present
4. Perceptual - in the form of a previous incarnation now no longer in the physical body e.g. Mahavatar Babaji.
Darshan is actually the powerful superconscious vibration that is present around an Avatar at all times.
5. Perceptual - in the form of the image of a deity (ishtadevata). Perception can happen in the waking, dream or meditative state.
Although we usually speak of ‘getting’ the darshan of an evolved soul, an Avatar does not actually ‘give’ darshan - He simply radiates darshan. Just as the sun continuously radiates light, whether anybody is present to receive it or not, the Avataric consciousness is forever radiating its presence. The auspicious moment when each receiver is able to ‘catch’ it becomes the moment of darshan for that individual.
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6. An instantaneous and direct intuitive grasp of the formless consciousness. This is rare; it usually happens through the intervention of the Guru, or very rarely, spontaneously. This is called Anupaya.
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The breathing space of an Avatar is like an extension of His physical body. It is a living healing energy field. A receptive devotee can momentarily experience the expanded space of the Avatar, or a deity energized by Him. This allows the transmission of Cosmic energy into the devotee’s space. Infusion of this energy results in quantum entanglement, and causes the neurons of the devotee to mirror the space of perpetual completion radiating from the Avatar or energized deity, at a biological level.
I had many problems in life. My father was an alcoholic, my sister was divorced with a child who was getting into a street gang, my mother was sick, and my father’s business was bad. I struggled to run both my father’s business and my own tailor shop. I had very severe pain during periods, to the extent that I would vomit and faint and would have to go to the hospital.
Mirror neurons are special neurons that can observe and mimic the actions of other neurons through imitation. But unlike classical imitation, mirror neurons can activate and process all the observed movements or information without the physical act of imitation. That is, the entire body can silently and without movement, recreate what is happening elsewhere, through a process of direct observation. This is what happens during darshan as well as deeksha, which we will discuss later.
I came to a weekend program of Swami Nithyananda and wrote about all my problems to Swamiji. When He read my letter at darshan, he blessed me and promised me that he would take care of everything. Within just three months, my menstrual pain completely stopped, and I have had normal periods ever since then. My father suddenly stopped drinking and began to take care of his business. Money began to flow into his business.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: “When you come in my breathing space, suddenly, your mind gets entangled with my no-mind. Entanglement is only in the thought level. If your muscle-memory gets entangled with my muscle-memory, it is called entrainment. And if your bio-memory gets entangled with my bio-memory, it becomes enlightenment. Entanglement becomes entrainment and entrainment becomes enlightenment.”
My own business also suddenly took a jump start, and within six months I was able to completely pay off the loan I had taken to start it. My sister’s son stopped fighting and suddenly began to study well in school. Today he is a healthy, respectful young man. My sister got a job training and also started a successful business. Today I am happy, healthy and financially comfortable. My life is like a dream come true!
Entanglement, Entrainment, Enlightenment The science of quantum entanglement, entrainment and enlightenment can be elucidated further.
Entanglement In physics, quantum entanglement usually occurs between energetic subatomic particles. A thought too is nothing but a small packet of energy released by the cells in the form of subatomic particles. Scientifically, the thoughtfree space of an Avatar would be filled with virtual particles, unlike that of a thought-ful human mind. The absence of thoughts in the Avatar would not allow entanglement to be transferred from the thought energy of the devotee into the Avatar’s mind. On the other hand, due to the high energy of the Avatar, the virtual particles having no thought patterns would rush to fill the space of the devotee, entangling with the devotee’s thought particles and creating entangled virtual particles in the devotee, leading to a temporary no-mind state.
Darshan also has lasting effects, because the quantum correlation between the two systems (ie. the Avatar and the disciple) survives their separation in time as well as space. So the Avatar’s space continues to influence the disciple’s space for an extended period after darshan. This would explain the delayed effects of darshan recorded in certain devotees, who continue to experience an accelerated speed of healing of diseases for weeks or sometimes months following a single darshan.
During quantum entanglement, the entangled particles acquire oneness in action, irrespective of their separation in space. This is what Albert Einstein termed ‘spooky action at a distance’, and offers an explanation for the phenomenon of long-distance healing by the Avatar.
I offer my gratitude every day to Swamiji.
Entrainment The simultaneous and synchronous movement of energy in two or more biological systems is called Entrainment. This phenomenon can easily be studied on the brain waves using the EEG technique. A similar process can happen at all cellular levels (not just neurons), and would still be considered Entrainment.
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life force called the biological energy. An Avatar being a pure expression of Cosmic energy, His very core physiology is different at the genetic level from that of a normal person. Transmission of the Avatar’s bio-energy into the disciple effects the fundamental physiological changes necessary for the disciple to experience the state of Enlightenment.
How to receive Darshan The important thing in darshan is not ‘what to do’, but ‘how to be’. As mentioned earlier, darshan cannot be given, but it may be ‘drawn’ from the Source by the receiver, by tuning into this superconsicous vibration. Darshan is a powerful cleansing process that brings up the unconscious mind to the receiver’s conscious scrutiny. The intense vibration of darshan causes the hidden layers of the unconscious to erupt, releasing both physical and psychic blocks in the receiver’s system and cutting through the layers of unconscious negative patterns built up over lifetimes. His physiology can actually change in the presence of the Cosmic Consciousness, and his bio-memory effortlessly ‘learns’ the expression of enlightenment. For the receiver who is ready, darshan can be the moment of permanent and irreversible transformation. Darshan in Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s words: “I always say, ‘Darshan is the enlightenment technique for lazy people!’ Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says beautifully, ‘If you want to scare away some birds sitting on a tree, you don’t have to do it one by one. Just clap loudly once, and all the birds on the tree will fly away.’
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I used to have an abnormal tissue on the skin, near the throat, for three or four years. After receiving darshan and blessings from Swamiji, the growth fell off by itself!
I had a mysterious skin-nervous disorder, which was only recently labeled a disease by the CDC, due to its unknown and controversial nature. It is so controversial that only a few physicians even try to treat patients within the USA, while others look the other way.
My diabetes has also improved much and I know it will completely disappear soon.
Symptoms ranged from unfamiliar particles arising from the skin and unexplainable skin cuts, to major nervous system problems, which caused me to experience what felt like bugs crawling, electric jolts, high sensitivity to electromagnetic frequencies (from any electronic item), muscle aches and fatigue.
To tell the truth, I have not felt this good in 30 years!
I was very confused, frustrated, scared and shocked by what was happening; I had no clue what was going on, and when, if at all, I would be rid of this. The entire situation caused a lot of tension within my family, as I chose unorthodox natural treatments. Finally, this condition prevented me from going to work for a long period of time.
My deep depression disappeared in a moment
After Swamiji compassionately blessed me during Pada Puja darshan and gave me the assurance that He would take care, I was healed completely in less than three months! Yes, what CDC labels as ‘incurable’ was now completely healed by the grace of the Master!
When my aunt died, I went into total depression and was crying all the time. I thought that there was no more life for me without her.
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Within four days after her death, Swamiji came to Seattle and I attended the Nithyananda Spurana Program. The energy darshan at the end of the program was simply amazing. I told Swamiji that I am very sad. He just gave me a compassionate hug. At that very moment, I could feel that all my sadness suddenly disappeared! It was surely not a normal hug from a human being; it was like a hug from God!
I don’t even want to think about what would have happened to me if Swamiji was not with me! His compassion and blessings have no limits. I am so grateful, and even now, simply beyond words! Thank you Swamiji, Thank you! Pranam to Your lotus feet!
I was just in bliss after that, and I could see the huge difference between before the commencement of the program and after completing the program. Amazing! Thank you Swamiji… I have no words for your compassion.
In the same way, in the Master’s presence, you don’t have to work on your samskaras (engraved memories) one by one. You don’t have to work so hard! The Master’s powerful darshan is the one ‘clap’ that can destroy all your samskaras once and for all!
Enlightenment At the tiniest of biological levels, which are molecular or submolecular, energy is stored and transmitted in the form of the
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In fact, this space of approaching darshan is akin to an internal tirtha (pilgrimage), which is far superior to the external tirtha.
The Darshanopanishad, which is part of the Sama Veda, clearly spells out the preparation a devotee can make to get the maximum out of darshan: ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦
Darshan serves as a conduit for the constant inflow of Cosmic energy, allowing one to maintain continuous awareness in all the states of being - wakefulness, dream, deep sleep and beyond.
Tapas (Spiritual discipline) Santosha (Completion) Astikya (Conviction in the existence of the Divine) Dana (Benevolence towards all) Ishvara Pujana (Gratitude to the Divine) Siddhanta Shravana (Listening to the Truth) Hri (Humility) Mati (Faith built on conviction) Japa (Constant remembrance of the Divine)
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Once darshan has become a complete initiation within the receiver, it is possible to receive darshan in any of these states.
Darshan in Large Congregations
If you keep five such mirrors in front of a single light, the illumination is going to be five-fold, because five mirrors are reflecting the light, and the whole area is lit intensely.
Large congregations influenced by the presence of Avatars or saints, or massive events like the Kumbh Mela (the largest spiritual congregation on the planet) open up the space of the seeker or devotee due to the highly charged atmosphere and the mirrorneuron effect happening on millions of people at the same time.
Now, if 10,000 mirrors are kept in front of the same light, can you even imagine what will happen? In the same way, when 10,000 people sit in the Master’s presence in an unclutched® space, the same Superconsciousness is reflected 10,000-fold, and an intense Superconscious energy field is created. If 10,000 bodies and minds focus themselves on the Master’s Consciousness, it becomes equivalent to 10,000 enlightened beings sitting in samadhi. This is what I call creating Shambhala on planet Earth!
Paramahamsa Nithyananda describes this phenomenon: The Master is like a radiating light. Your body and mind is like a mirror. When you sit in an unclutched® way in the Master’s presence, all your bodies and minds become mirrors reflecting the Master’s Consciousness. They get focused like laser beams, aligned and polarized towards the Master’s Consciousness. So his bio-energy is simply transmitted into you. Your body becomes light and just flows in the ether.
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I got a job again with Swamiji’s blessings
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Swamiji healed my alcoholism through a dream darshan!
My stomach pain was healed in a dream!
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It all happened a few years back, somewhere around 2011-2012.
Receiving Swamiji’s darshan is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Pretty much any word I utter to try to explain it will not do it any justice.
My dad passed away in 2008, I was halfway into my University studies, and my sister was in school. We had very difficult times. My mom and my sister lived together. I was in Malaysia. I visited them every year during my break.
I am filled with intense joy and love which is impossible to express in words. I believe that this is just a taste of my true nature, unobscured by the mind and ego.
Once when I went back home for holidays, I saw that my mom was listening to Swamiji’s commentary on The Bhagavad Gita, and some of his discourses. Some of them I helped download for her, but I didn’t ask her why she was listening to his speech.
Thank you Swamiji, for making it so easy and possible for us to experience our divinity beyond our human conditions, and for permanently unlocking the doors to our highest potential!”
The nature of my work was such that I had free access to alcohol, and I never refused to drink when invited. Alcohol made me feel bad, but even then I continued to drink, especially to release my anxiety.
Doctors did all kinds of tests but were not able to diagnose the cause for the condition. I decided to request Swamiji for healing when he visited the USA.
One night, Swamiji came to me in my dream and spoke to me, and showed me how bad that habit was for me. The most incredible thing is that I had never been in Swamiji’s physical presence until then! After that dream, I started naturally losing the attraction to alcohol, and soon dropped it.
Towards the end of 2009, Swamiji visited North Carolina. I went there and attended a one-day program called ‘Kalpataru.’ I had decided to ask him to heal me during darshan. But finally, when it was my turn and I went near Swamiji, I just felt it to be too silly to ask such a great incarnation to heal my stomach pain! So I did not ask him anything. I just received his blessings and came back to Atlanta.
She used to tell me how his discourses are good for life and everything. I just nodded my head and didn’t take it seriously. Both my mom and my sister started following Swamiji’s teachings and they said they could really feel his Presence. He is there with them and guiding them. I said, “It’s up to you guys. I won’t say anything. It’s your wish to follow your own way.”
Later on, I had a privilege to spend one year in Swamiji’s ashram, and I can confirm that my life has changed a lot in a positive way and is still changing every day.
A couple of days later, Swamiji appeared in my dream! In my dream, I told him about my stomach pain, and he touched my stomach lightly and said, “You will be alright.”
Last year I attended an online program with Swamiji in Sri Lanka via two-way conferencing. At that time, our family was financially very weak, as I had been out of a job for a very long time.
An explosion of bliss
The first time I got to speak to Swamiji online during darshan, I asked him, ‘When will I get a job?’
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Swamiji blessed me and said, ‘You will get a job within one month.’ As he said, I did get a job within one month!
When I an in the Master’s presence, it is so easy to enter into meditation. Or it is an explosion of energy and bliss..!
My gratitude to Swamiji for blessing me with a job when my family and I really needed it.
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I had big issue with alcohol addiction for a few years.
For nearly a year, I was suffering with severe stomach pain, followed by diarrhea at least 4 to 5 times in a day.
In deepest gratitude to Swamiji!
The next morning I woke up and found that I do not have that pain anymore!
I feel worthy and happy
What a miracle!! He healed me in my dream! Till today, I have never experienced that pain again.
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Words are not enough to convey my gratitude to my Swamiji. His compassion is beyond words.
In Swamiji’s presence, the smiles begin… I feel this life of mine is worth living… such a great relief that He is walking the planet with me. I feel worthy and happy!!
Swamiji always makes me feel complete.
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Swamiji blessed me in a dream though I had not seen him
I received many visions from Swamiji before his real-life darshan!
He called me to him in a dream vision
Swamiji gave me darshan before I ever met Him!
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I first came to know about Swamiji in 2014 from a friend, and was aspiring to meet Him in person. The first time in my life, I prayed to Him before sleep and went to bed. It was a very simple prayer of just 1 minute, asking for His blessings.
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That night in my dream, I saw Him walking towards me, with his one hand up as if He is blessing me. Till then, I never met Him in person. I hadn’t watched His discourses in Youtube , and I didn’t even have His photo. I only know His name and nothing else. But He graciously responded to my simple prayer and visited me in my dream.
Even before meeting Swamiji, I used to be a meditator and received many visions from Swamiji, in my meditation and during dreams. One day in dhyan (meditation), I saw the form of Swamiji sitting in his dark brown kavi robes, and behind him was Durga Devi standing with her many hands, and a beautiful white swan with a golden anklet walking in front of him.
Later I came to know that He visits His devotees in ethereal form during sleep. A week later, I attended NKY session at Bidadi and got His blessings in person.
At that time I wondered who he was! Years later, after meeting Swamiji physically, I came to know that I was blessed with that vision on Ardhanarishwara Day (signifying the fusion of the cosmic masculine and feminine energies, Shiva and Devi).
He gave me energy darshan and cured a long-standing illness which I had for almost 10 years.
Another day, while traveling with my husband in a car, I happened to close my eyes for a few minutes. I had a vision of Swamiji dancing very swiftly and putting a red flower garland on me.
A blessing in itself
In another vision, Devi appeared from the right side of Swamiji and got fused back with him. Swamiji was wearing a tiger skin in that vision.
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One day, I woke up from sleep hearing Swamiji’s super-loud laughter – HAHAHAHAHA! Only much later, only when I experienced my first Kalabhairava darshan with Swamiji, I came to know that as Kalabhairava, he laughs like this.
During darshan, I realized that receiving the fully focused attention of a realized Master is a blessing in itself. And knowing that just through a request, I can ask this monumental power to focus on my specific need, is just amazing to me.
I am grateful to Swamiji for granting me these beautiful visions and experiences even before I met Him physically.
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Even before ever having Swamiji’s darshan, I would frequently see flashes of Swamiji smiling during my meditation.
On the night of Ganesh Chaturthi in 2010, before I met Swamiji, I had a vision. I remember wearing white and running down a path with many others. I remember feeling like a child running to her parents’ house to play. That was the exact feeling of joy and freedom, with no agenda!
Another vision I had was of Swamiji sitting on his seat, smiling and in bliss! He then turned to his right, picked up a clear white waterbottle that was on a stand and drank some water, during what seemed like a meditation session.
I remember also sitting in a car with a sannyasi in the front seat. As we passed in the car, I saw a black statue to my left. I couldn’t make out exactly what it was! It seemed like a man and woman together.
Later I saw some videos of Swamiji on youtube, but had not had a chance to meet Him physically.
The next feeling I had was I was like in a magnetic field! I felt a perfect state inside my skin, which did not waver for a second. It was like a permanent state of joy - something beyond joy!
One day I was very sad. I felt that I was so alone that there was nobody there to support me. I immediately picked up a photo of Swamiji which I kept with me, knowing He is the only one there for me. I grabbed it and hugged it, placing it in my heart area.
Next, I run into a hall and I see Swamiji with a turban welcoming all of us. He says something which I cannot hear, but I remember three words, “Come to me!”
Immediately, I felt an intense amount of heat and energy in my heart area. It was so much energy!
There are lots of people in the hall, singing English and Hindi devotional songs, and suddenly, people start to dance. Swamiji was sometimes there and sometimes He disappeared! I began to dance with some lady, and then I break away and dance in the most beautiful, ecstatic and uninhibited way, without boundaries, joyfully! The dream ended and I woke up feeling the perfect pitch of happiness still resonating in my skin.
I was a little shocked, because I was not expecting it, and didn’t even know it could happen! I’ve never had an experience like that from a ‘mere’ picture. I felt as if He was physically there, giving me darshan and healing. Thank you Swamiji for the experience!
Later, when I visited the Bengaluru Aadheenam for the very first time, I walked to the temple and saw the Dakshinamurthy deity and I felt as though He smiled at me. This was the beginning of my journey with Swamiji - or the ‘official’ beginning as I knew it then, of God knows how many lifetimes!
I have experienced complete protection and support, and I know that it was purely Swamiji’s grace and I had no part in it.
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Swamiji revealed himself in a dream!
Swamiji came to me two years before I heard of him
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Swaroopapriyananda
Name: Vadwatee Enal
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Location: Trinidad & Tobago
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In my early twenties, about two years before I ever saw Swamiji’s picture or heard His name, I had a dream that I was standing on the edge of a small pond, surrounded by people.
During December 2009 Inner Awakening, we had one process of Zen Sitting at the same location at the ashram (Manasarovar) that truly stunned me. Ashramites who were dressed as I saw in my dream joined us for the process.
Some wore orange robes and others were dressed in white with yellow and orange scarves. They were all staring at a small round island in the middle of the water.
When the process began, Swamiji was taken to the small round island in the middle of the Sarovar on a paddle boat.
HE was sitting on that island.
I kept thinking about my dream.
As soon as I saw Him, I felt an intense burning urge to reach Him. It was so overwhelming that I literally jumped into the water and started to swim towards that island.
I was silently crying, thinking I would never “reach Him,” because even after finding Him alive and in form, I was still on the sidelines, He was still unreachable.
I could hear the people on the shore yelling at me to come back, and then He announced in a booming voice, “Come! Come! Come!”
Suddenly, He took the microphone, and said something like, “This is a sweet suffering for you. I’m right here, so close, but still so far away. Come! Come! Reach Me!”
I swam harder, then heard Him laughing, “Why haven’t you reached Me yet?” Somehow, though, no matter how fast I swam, He only got further away.
In that moment, I realized this was a technique, and that reaching Him would be not only realizing a goal; it would be realizing total fulfillment.
He also laughed, saying, “I’m right here, but so far away.”
I have had too many experiences with Swamiji even before knowing about him, but don’t know how to put them in words. But I will try to share a few!
Around April 2014, I had the vision of a Swami walking with me wherever I was going, I thought I was hallucinating. Around July 2014, I had visions of this place with a long walkway leading to a wall and a big tree behind it. There were men in orange clothes running around busily. I did not know what this was about.
In September or October 2012, my sister Sumatee Enal was conducting shraadh homa for the first time. I did not know Swamiji then. I was sitting with the rest of my family while the homa was happening and suddenly I went into a trance.
Then in August 2014 my sister Savitri who lives in Austin, Texas, told us about this Swamiji she was listening to, and that she and a friend were going to meet him in India.
I felt someone behind me; I could only see his frame and he was hugeee!!!!!, talllll!!!!, and a tiger skin was around his waist. I perceived him to be Lord Shiva, but he seemed different. He asked permission to do something with my spine, and for some reason I just said Yes!
Before I really understood what was happening, everything was lined up for me to do Inner Awakening in October 2014! My sister Sumatee paid for me, arrangements were made to take care of our mother and home, and everything just happened.
I felt something move in my spine, and from that day my visions were very pronounced. Many, many incidents happened, too much to share.
When I met Swamiji physically for the first time in October 2014 IA, we did pada puja on the very first day of IA, first thing in the morning. During the pada puja I saw that this was the tall person who came to me in 2012!
In February-March 2014, I started to make preparations to travel, ie. getting my passport in order, etc., but I had no clue why.
I started to swim even more furiously, trying as hard as I could, in vain, to get to Him. Finally, I woke up.
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Swamiji materialized in my home one morning!
Swamiji healed my nightmare by entering it!
Name: Abirami Paramanathan Name: Ma Nithya Swaroopananda Location: LA, USA
Location: Toronto, Canada Email: rami23_p@yahoo.ca
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Swami Nithyananda has helped and is helping me in many ways. The very first time Swamiji made Himself known to me in this lifetime was in a dream darshan.
I tried to speak but no words came out of my mouth – I had no voice!
I heard about Swami Nithyananda in 2009 from a family friend who asked me to watch his YouTube videos.
It was pre-dawn time, around 4:30 am in the month of February in 2004. I awoke to find a strangely dressed person wearing saffron robes, with long shoulder-length hair, standing at the foot of my bed and smiling at me.
I vividly remember pinching myself with my left hand on the upper forearm of my right hand to check whether what I was seeing was real or my imagination. After a few moments of our exchange, I closed my eyes and re-opened them, and He was no longer there.
You can imagine the medley of emotions churning within me - fear, curiosity, shock, apprehension. My husband, totally oblivious, was fast asleep on the other side of the bed.
Later that month, a friend of ours who had just returned from India shared with me about a particular Swamiji’s program to visit Columbus, Ohio, and asked whether I would like to invite Him to my home for a meal. I immediately gave my consent there and then, without even bothering to consult with my husband.
At that time, for 3 years, I was suffering from powerful nightmares that sometimes shook me physically. After the very first day of watching one of his YouTube videos, I was again suffering with a nightmare that was shaking me physically in my bed. I felt I was inside a horror movie. I was able to see so much chaos happening in the nightmare.
I vividly remember staring back into those mesmerizing eyes and eager to unfold and understand this mysterious visitor. Even though I had all along been connected with religious missions, and had seen sadhus and saints before, the person in front of me was very different from them.
She went and brought two books for me that she had just received. I took the books and turned one of them around, and saw a small picture of Swamiji. Something in my heart just jumped right out and connected with that photograph – it was the same person who had appeared before me a few days ago!
My elder brother and father were both very dear to me and not alive any more. For a moment, He resembled my brother and then next moment, my father.
I don’t know how to express it, but it was an instantaneous connection. I felt such overwhelming joy. Again, I did not share this with anyone, not even with the friend who gave me the books. I left, went home and read both the books, back to back – I can’t remember how many times.
I had been in deep depression trying to figure out what I was doing in this lifetime and not making much sense of it all. I do not remember for how long I stared back into those deep, compassionate eyes, but it was long enough to fill me with ease and comfort.
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Then I saw a small light in the middle of the nightmare. This small light kept getting bigger and bigger, until it covered the whole area in front of my vision. Inside this light I saw Swami Nithyananda sitting like Lord Shiva, with a tiger skin on his shoulders. Then He said very powerfully in Tamil, “Athai ippa niruthu” which means “Stop that NOW”. As soon as He said this, the nightmare vanished, and the screen became very calm, and I went into deep sleep after a very long time. The next day I shared this with my mother and said, “This Swamiji is very powerful”. I met Swamiji physically for the first time about three months after this incident.
Later, I had the good fortune to see Swamiji physically when He traveled to the USA and attend many of His programs, and have now become a lifelong devotee of Swamiji!
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Chapter 6
Deeksha The Power of Initiation
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Deeksha is the direct transfer of spiritual energy by an Avatar through a look, a word or a touch, which destroys the ignorance of the initiate or disciple.
n the field of science, all that exists, whether manifest or unmanifest, is called a probability. Everything in life remains a probability (wave function), until that moment when an observer observes it, thereby collapsing the probability wave into a particle. This concept of quantum mechanics applies as much to sub-atomic particles as to obviously visible structures like trees, rocks, humans, etc.
As thousands of people are discovering at Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s life-changing programs, an Avatar can, with a single gesture, cause a spontaneous, incredible transformation on every level: the miraculous healing of diseases, the cognition of subtle truths, mystical experiences, the completion of karmas, conscious ecstasy and restful awareness can happen in a matter of minutes!
Deeksha or initiation is a scientific technique wherein the Avatar collapses the infinite possibilities and probabilities of our mundane existence into the single reality of peak existence or enlightenment.
Deeksha is the most effortless and blissful way to raise one’s spiritual frequency. A moment’s initiation received in a mood of intense surrender can bring about more irreversible transformation in one’s life than years of meditation and spiritual practice.
The human being is a composite structure of body (matter), mind (subtler matter) and pure Consciousness - which is nothing but an exact replica of the universe itself.
Types of Deeksha
Naturally, the peak possibility of our existence is to merge our individual ‘self’ with the universal energy of the Cosmos, where differentiation no longer exists, and the state of Advaita is experienced.
The Guru can initiate one in three ways: ♦♦ Through a look (nayana deeksha or chakshu deeksha) ♦♦ Through a word (mantra deeksha) ♦♦ Through a touch (sparsha deeksha)
Deeksha is the Seed of Possibility The Sanksrit word deeksha is derived from the root ‘da’ (to give) and‘kshi’ (to destroy ignorance) – which loosely translates as ‘initiation’.
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Levels of Deeeksha Deeksha works on three levels: 4 The conscious mind 4 The unconscious mind 4 The physical body and brain Even in the absence of a Guru, the conscious mind can be cleared by the right teachings, by removing the wrong ideas and taking in clear, correct ideas. The unconscious mind can be cleansed by cathartic processes and meditation techniques. But ultimately, for the software change to be permanent, the hardware also has to change. The very brain grooves have to change to hold and radiate the experience of living enlightenment. It is now known that the brain can actually rewire itself to accommodate newly-learnt programs on a permanent basis. This is called neuroplasticity. This is the process that happens in the brain through deeksha.
complete phrase or shloka. The repetition of the mantra given by the Guru is called japa.
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Every nayana deeksha results in spontaneous healing, cognitive shifts and spiritual clarity, proving again and again that time and space are no barriers to the power of an Avatar’s initiation.
For the receptive disciple, who has already expanded his inner space, a mere look from the eyes of the Guru into the eyes of the disciple transmits the Cosmic energy from the Guru into the disciple, often allowing the disciple a transient experience of the entire Cosmos (brahmanda).
Mantra Deeksha Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
For highly receptive seekers, even a side-glance from the Guru’s eyes is an initiation. Such a glance is revered in Vedic tradition as ‘guru kataaksham.’
Manah trayate sa mantrah The words or truths which show the way to man’s mind are mantras. Mantra is the way to liberation, the way to the higher Consciousness, the way to higher experiences.
Today, thanks to modern video-conferencing technologies, devotees around the world gather daily in Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temples (Aadheenams) and global satsang centers to receive nayana deeksha from Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
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There exist various levels of japa, from the gross external recitation (vaikhari) to mental recitation (madhyama), to the subtle effortless repetition (paraavak). This is the ultimate form, also known as ajapa-japa or spontaneous japa, which allows the bio-energy of the Cosmos to flow into the system, realigning the bio-memory and muscle-memory to reach the desired goal, which can be anything from health to enlightenment.
The word ‘mantra’ is a derivative of the word ‘maatrika’, sounds which carry a specific conscious vibrational energy. They may be as small as a single syllable or bija mantra (seed syllable), or a
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Sparsha Deeksha This is a technique of initiation wherein the Master initiates the disciple through touch, using his thumb or palm to directly transmit his bio-energy into the disciple’s system. The bio-energy so transferred awakens the kundalini energy or resident potential energy of the disciple.
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When the Guru touches and initiates a person, not only is the software of enlightened physiology downloaded into him, but the hardware, the brain itself, is tuned to hold this new software. If he is completely open during the touch, the software of enlightened physiology can be downloaded into him, changing the very physiology. His body learns that it can be better than what it is now. With the energy of the Master, both the hardware and software can be totally changed. The inflow of pure Cosmic energy that happens through the body of a living Avatar is bio-energy. Such an uninterrupted flow of bioenergy can happen in us only after all the blockages in our channels and energy centers are purified. The deepest of these blockages, some of which are inherited (genetic), and some of which are strong enough to influence the function of our genes (gene expression), are referred to as biomemory, and are usually difficult to cleanse without the help of a guru or a living Avatar. The more superficial blockages created by our fears, emotions and mental patterns are called musclememory, and can be worked upon through meditation or cathartic techniques under the guidance of the Guru.
Science of Deeksha
Thus, initiation or Deeksha involves the laws of physics, chemistry and biology, all at the same time.
Science behind the three types of Deekshas Let us now take a deeper look at the science behind the three types of deekshas or initiations:
Nayana Deeksha Nayana Deeksha, which does not involve touch and can be conducted across large distances, would use the principle of the presence of mirror neurons in the disciple being able to reflect the energy projected by the living Avatar. This form of initiation begins at the level of the brain, leading to entrainment and coherence of the projected energy from the Avatar. During deeksha, the projected bio-energy from the Avatar could be in the form of a sankalpa (a conscious concentrated energy), a nissankalpa (a pure intentionless energy), or the release of biophotons.
Deeksha is a deeply mystical process, but it can be explained to some extent using quantum mechanics and molecular biology (Quantum Biology). Physical energy follows the laws of physics, be it Newtonian or Quantum. Thus, the fundamental principles like the conservation of energy remain the same. The sum total of the energy in the universe is always the same; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can never be destroyed permanently. Once energy reaches a biological system, like a human being, it is transformed into various forms and expressions of the biological energy, which may be electrical or chemical in nature. This in turn changes the expression of the very physiology of the cell at a molecular level, which can express as changes in gene, signaling proteins, the formation of usable energy in the form of ATP and so on.
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It is now known that every cell of the body produces a small quantity of energy in the form of photons, which travel at the speed of light. In a normal cell, the quantum of photons is very small or negligible; however, in an Avatar, the quantum of photons could be so high as to make a visual and physical impact on the disciple. In fact, the explanation of Shiva’s Third Eye burning the negative elements of Nature by its mere opening is suggestive of the power of a coherent laser beam.
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In Mantra Deeksha, the chanting of the special mantra creates subtle vibrations which are in tune with the ambient Cosmic energy of Shiva, with spanda as a fundamental potential energy on the verge of manifesting as Shakti. During Mantra Deeksha, the Avatar intuitively selects the seed syllable or mantra that resonates with the natural vibrational frequency of the disciple, and impregnates it with His own pure bioenergy, which will automatically raise the disciple to the next level
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of Consciousness. The mantra may be the name of the disciple’s ishta or favored deity (for the devotionally oriented disciple) or an Upanishadic truth (for the intellectually oriented disciple), or even just a seed syllable which works at the pure level of being.
If I do the process using this hoom sound, all your lust memories will fall into proper cognizance. It means, you will take cognizance of it as much as your natural prarabdha can allow.
It must be mentioned here that the entire transmission of sacred knowledge and sciences in the Vedic tradition was through an awe-inspiring oral system of memorization and reproduction. The shastrapalakas (protectors of the sacred scriptures) passed on this legacy of information down the ages through their commentaries on the shruti (divine revelations), which were known as smriti.
All your muscle-memories can be opened only if the password is aligned. Otherwise it will be chaos. You won’t know which memory will open up in which context, because it is not under your control. Sometimes, a person who creates love in you will create anger instead, and people who have abused you will create romance in you.
The reason for the oral transmission of the Truth was evidently not a lack of efficiency or sophistication, as a succinct and highly evolved written tradition also flourished in parallel with it, in the form of the Vedas and Upanishads. Rather, it worked on the principle that Sound is the most fundamental unit of energy which allows for the transition into matter. During oral communication, not only is the meaning of the words communicated, but the very vibrations of the word are imprinted in the bio-memory of the receiver or student.
When I tune your muscle-memory, thousands of unnecessary muscle-memories will be practically flushed out of your system, and only those memories which you want to cherish will remain alive.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says (as part of a process):
Sanskrit being a highly sophisticated and phonetic language, the very sounds are embedded with the subtle aspect of their meaning. Thus, a truth transmitted orally from a Guru to a receptive disciple would directly penetrate and alter the bio-memory of the disciple, without even the need for active participation from the disciple’s logical faculties.
In Sparsha Deeksha, the Cosmic energy already present as bioenergy (Kundalini Shakti) in the Avatar or Guru is directly transferred to the disciple, leading to the opening up of the dormant energy of the disciple and awakening him achieve his true potential.
Understand: your entire muscle memory is made out of sound. Each muscle-memory, emotion, experience, has certain passwords.
With the energy transfer, changes take place at the chemical level in the disciple, initiating the production of signaling molecules, neurotransmitters (like hormones) etc.. This in turn works at the very basis of molecular biology by transforming and realigning the genetic material of the cell, allowing it to express healthy desirable products and suppress those that are deleterious to the body. We will be looking extensively at the effects of sparsha deeksha in later chaters of this book.
For example, your whole lust muscle-memory is experienced through only one sound – ‘hoom’. Unless that sound is awakened, your lust memories cannot be removed. Same way, all your love memory is recorded with the password ‘lumm’.
Mantras (syllables carrying a conscious vibration), shastras (expositions of the Truth), stotras (expressions of devotional ecstasy) and sutras (compact spiritual techniques) were all transmitted orally from Guru to disciple as part of a committed learning process. Apart from embedding the meaning of the words in the bio-memory of the disciple, this form of transmission carried the power to raise the vibrational frequency of the learner, simply through his listening and repetition. Learners were frequently ‘ekasanta-grahis’, able to imbibe and reproduce an entire lesson after a single listening. Several students of Nithyananda GurukulSM have also demonstrated this rare capability.
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Now I am going to guide you using some unique powerful sounds, and inject those sounds into your musclememory to clean it out. You will see how even the small knots in every muscle-memory are removed.
Even if you have a thousand memories, a thousand documents related to a particular emotion, you cannot retrieve even one memory out of your computer if you don’t have the password. Mantras are the passwords of your body.
Techniques of Deeksha Deekshas at the initial level include:
Your body is not just a computer; it is a live internet connection. If you have the passwords, you can download information not only from your own bio-memory, but from the Cosmic bio-memory itself!
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4 Shiva Deeksha - being initiated into the lifestyle of Shiva 4 Shravana - pure Listening 4 Purnatva - Completion
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4 Vak siddhi – manifestation through the power of words 4 Healing - opening of the ananda gandha chakra 4 Third Eye Awakening
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- opening of the ajna chakra or brow
energy center There are deeper levels of initiation which confer various siddhis on advanced disciples, which are given on an individual basis. This is called shaktipat, and is effective only when bestowed by a living Avatar.
Kundalini AwakeningSM – Power and Purpose of all Deekshas
The Yajur Veda, a primary sacred text of the Vedic civilization, declares:
Our understanding of deeksha would be quite incomplete without a comprehensive grasp of Kundalini AwakeningSM, which is the power and the purpose behind all deeekshas.
As in the individual, so in the Cosmos, as in the Cosmos, so in the individual.
Kundalini – the Macrocosm within the Microcosm The Vedic world-view is shaped by the principle of the universal hologram, where the tiniest sub-atomic particle holds the key to the secrets of the entire Cosmos. A hologram is a complex structure wherein every part is a complete and faithful reflection of the Whole. As a fragment of this universal hologram, every individual is a perfect microcosm, a flawless and adequate representation of the Cosmos.
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spiritual fulfillment. Kundalini has found an honored place in every philosophic tradition of India – whether Yoga, Vedanta or Tantra. For millennia, yogis, rishis and siddhas – the enlightened spiritual scientists of India have given their lives to enrich the science of awakening Kundalini.
Yatha pinde tatha brahmande, yatha brahmande tatha pinde
To understand kundalini, we must first understand ourselves. Through the human body flow 72,000 subtle energy channels called ‘naadis’. Of these channels, the most prominent is sushumna, which runs from the tip of the spine to the crown of the head. Running alongside the sushumna on either side and criss-crossing it at intervals are the ida and pingala naadis. Kundalini energy or Shakti is said to ‘sleep’ in each of us in the muladhara chakra, the energy center at the base of the spine. The goal of all kundalini yoga is to awaken and guide this energy safely up the sushumna naadi to the sahasrara, the energy center on the crown of the head, where Shiva or pure Consciousness resides. The blissful union of
And what, indeed, is that mighty force which governs the Cosmos? Vedic philosophy gave to this force the name KUNDALINI. Kundalini literally means ‘the coiled one’, meaning, the infinite untapped potential of the universe. When Kundalini manifests at the universal level, she is known as Para Kundalini, the supreme power of the Cosmos. When she plays in the individual, she is Kula Kundalini, the gracious mother, the life-force that nourishes his body, the energy that empowers his mind, and the conscious power that guides him to his ultimate
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Energy and Consciousness, Shakti and Shiva is Enlightenment, the culmination of all spiritual effort.
to harness the cosmic powers to live more complete, fulfilled and blissful lives. It marks the rite of passage for the human to evolve into the Divine.
Kundalini - our own ultimate potential
In the Yogini Tantra it is said :
Kundalini is known by many names – the universal energy, the great cosmic mother, the creative force of the universe. But the simple truth is that Kundalini is the highest potential of every individual, the ultimate expression of creative genius, the great possibility of each individual’s inner awakening.
As soon as the Kundalini awakens, the person’s inner grandeur and glory can be clearly perceived.
(drugs/ herbs), mantras, spiritual discipline or through samadhi. For the seeker, Kundalini can be awakened in different ways: through intense yogic practices lasting a lifetime or longer; through rare and sometimes dangerous medicinal preparations, through the tireless repetition of certain mantras, or through deeksha – the direct transmission of spiritual energy by an awakened being. Of these, deeksha is the most effortless (and certainly the most beautiful) way to awakening.
In the yoga-vedanta tradition, a vast and precise science encompassing thousands of techniques exists to awaken and utilize this enormous latent potential. In Vedic India, this knowledge was accessible to all. As a consequence, today’s ‘mystical’ sciences like levitation, teleportation and telepathy were common knowledge among the people, and enlightenment was the natural state of being.
The sleeping kundalini is a metaphor for the unawakened potential inside us. Without first awakening kundalini, it is impossible to awaken the pratyekatma chaitanya, the individual consciousness. The awakening of Kundalini opens us up to the greater Reality that exists beyond our limited individual selves. It empowers us
One can better appreciate the incomparable gift of deeksha from the Avatar, when one learns about the spiritual effort otherwise necessary to purify the nadis and experience siddhis. The authoritative yoga scripture Hatha-Yoga Pradipika by Svatmarama declares:
caturaśīti-pītheshu siddhameva sadābhyaset ।
Living in complete harmony with the flow of Life itself, these people
dvāsaptati-sahasrānām nādīnām mala-śodhanam ॥1.41॥ ātma-dhyāyī mitāhārī yāvaddvādaśa-vatsaram । sadā siddhāsanābhyāsādyogī nispattimāpnuyāt ॥ 1.42॥ Of the 84 asanas, siddhasana should be practiced, which purifies the 72,000 nadis. The yogi who constantly contemplates on the Self, eats moderately and practices siddhasana for 12 years achieves the yoga siddhis.
found joyous expression as creators and leaders in the outer world and enlightened mystics in the inner world.
Today, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is gifting these siddhis to hundreds of thousands of sincere seekers, who need to do nothing more rigorous than spend a few hours in His presence in the space of restful awareness!
In course of time, our increasing reliance on the faculties of logic and reasoning led to the suppression of these mystical faculties, and this sacred science retreated from homes and monasteries into the few secret recesses of the yoga-vedanta tradition in the Indian sub-continent, where it is preserved in its authentic form to this day.
The right time is Now The Vedic calendar reveals that our planet is poised for the next big leap in Consciousness. With humanity becoming ripe for transformation, what the world needs today is the compassionate presence of Avatars and enlightened kundalini adepts who can guide humanity into a safe and natural global Kundalini AwakeningSM.
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In the Kaivalya Pada of his Yoga Sutras, Patanjali lists the different ways to attain the siddhis resulting from the awakening of Kundalini.
Janma aushadhi mantra tapah samādhijāh siddhayah (4.1)
The human body and brain are already wired to experience a complete Kundalini AwakeningSM - and yet, in our generation, how
The mystical powers can happen by birth, or through medicines
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many have the superbly trained body and mind that can withstand the rigors of such a powerful explosion of Consciousness?
empower and transform the person’s life. Enhanced awareness levels, greater creativity and extraordinary abilities start to express, like levitation, teleportation and materialization. This influx of superconscious energy also visibly reverses aging, and improves immunity to disease.
That is why the first instance of Kundalini AwakeningSM is always, ALWAYS a pure gift from the spiritual Guru. He takes a triple responsibility: first, to stir awake the enormous spiritual power of Kundalini by the resonance-pressure of His own powerful superconscious vibrations; second, to guide this energy safely through the subtle neural pathways of the spine towards our crown center, and above all, to shield and protect our fragile body and mind, that might otherwise almost certainly be devastated by this sudden influx of Cosmic force.
Kundalini is not just a blind force like electricity. It is a conscious spiritual power of cosmic proportions that knows where to go and what to do. Once awakened, Kundalini rips through millions of years of our human conditioning, firing brand new neurons in our brain, opening up unknown strands of our DNA, flooding us with superhuman energy, retracing our mental blueprint, wiping out our most obstinate karmic patterns, and catapulting us to a whole new level of existence. By awakening the Consciousness of each individual, Kundalini opens the doors to a global revolution of Consciousness.
The Shiva Samhita declares:
Supta guruprasadena yatha jagarti kundali Tatha sarvani padmanibhidyante granthayo’pi cha (4.12)
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
When the sleeping Kundalini is awakened by the Guru’s grace Then are all bondages pierced (broken)
Time and space does not bind Kundalini energy. Time and space serve Kundalini energy.
Ascent of Kundalini For those of us who are merely watching, the extraordinary effects of Kundalini AwakeningSM can seem like nothing short of a miracle – or a hoax.
When Kundalini ascends the spine through the sushumna nadi (the main channel of subtle energy), it results in a huge energy influx into the brain. As it flows from the thalamus to the cortex, Kundalini sets up a powerful energy loop, awakening the latent, unused, non-mechanical parts in the brain, mainly the limbic system and neo-cortex.
But Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: There are no miracles. All miracles are perfectly scientific happenings, based on natural laws that we do not yet understand.
The limbic system is that part of the brain which is associated with memories linked to emotions. It is also that part of the brain which corresponds largely to the Third Eye or ajna chakra, which is the 6th or the final chakra in the body (the 7th chakra known as the sahasrara chakra or brahmarandra is not exactly a chakra, but a subtle opening allowing the union of the kundalini energy with the Cosmic energy). The opening of the ajna chakra allows for the unclutching of memories from its associated emotions, allowing for ‘Completion’ or making peace with life.
To awaken your Kundalini energy, you don’t need to have faith in me. It is not a prerequisite for me to awaken your Kundalini energy. Maybe, for you to retain the extraordinary experiences and expression of Kundalini energy, you may need to trust some of my words and practice some techniques and teachings, that’s all. Otherwise, faith is not a prerequisite at any level. Actually, nothing is a pre-requisite! It is all just a casual play – a leela, that’s it!
With increasing levels of coherence, the whole brain comes alive, turning into a super-conductor of conscious energies that heal,
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Kundalini AwakeningSM by the Avatar: Scientific Studies
Nithyananda, Kundalini AwakeningSM might be well on its way to becoming the ultimate natural steroid for the human race, triggering and sustaining powerful positive changes in virtually every area of our lives.
To put to rest all speculation that what we are seeing might be hypnosis or mesmerism, a series of scientific tests were performed on Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s disciples as well as willing participants during a meditation retreat, under strict medical surveillance and controlled conditions (which will be discussed at length in a later section of this volume). The results were astonishing. In the first such experiment, within seconds of Paramahamsa Nithyananda awakening their kundalini energy, brain functions in the subjects leapt up the scale, instantly recording sharper focusing abilities, faster parallel processing and higher alertness levels. Most significantly, while their brain was going into overdrive,the subjects themselves remained in a state of complete relaxation comparable with the states of deep meditation or sleep. But the strongest proof of the effects of Kundalini AwakeningSM comes from the post-activation studies conducted on these individuals. These studies revealed that elevated levels of cognitive and mental function endured in all the subjects for weeks after the initial activation. Long term post-activation benefits were found to include better learning abilities, more effective problem-solving and decision-making, and even apparently unrelated benefits like enhanced interpersonal relationships.
Implications The implications of these findings in a vast range of areas like depression therapy, functional enhancement, mind-coaching, memory-training, personal development, stress-management and drug-rehabilitation are inestimable. If a brief spell of Kundalini AwakeningSM is actually impacting normal people in such powerful and permanent ways, can we imagine the impact of sustained awakening on the spiritual course of our planet? In the hands of advanced spiritual adepts like Paramahamsa
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: “Kundalini AwakeningSM has to be first experienced in the presence of the Master who has mastered this science. Techniques like Completion or meditation are like medicine - you can get them over-the-counter. But Kundalini AwakeningSM is more like a surgery - it has to be done as an in-house process. Understand, Kundalini AwakeningSM amplifies whatever is inside you. So, if your Kundalini is awakened when you are still carrying a lot of incompletions and suffering in your system, those incompletions will become a reality in your life, which will be dangerous and difficult to manage. It is like this: if you start running or jogging after being bitten by a poisonous snake, that poison will spread all over your body. Likewise, after drinking an energy drink, jogging will cause that energy to spread all over your body. In the same way, if there is an incompletion inside you and your Kundalini is awakened, that would not be good for you. Only when you are under the guidance of the Master (Guru), either directly seen by him physically, or through two-way video-conferencing (nayana deeksha), can he take responsibility for your safe Kundalini AwakeningSM, without any after-effects or side-effects, misuse or abuse of the Kundalini energy in you. During the 21-day Inner Awakening® program, you can safely awaken your Kundalini and reap all the benefits, without any dangerous side-effects.” However, Paramahamsa Nithyananda also observes that the physiological and psychological changes triggered by Kundalini AwakeningSM, however radical they may be, cannot match the
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Kundalini AwakeningSM and the Physiology of Thoughts Contrary to what was once believed, the brain is not the only center where our neural responses are stored. There is now growing evidence that our thoughts - which are no more than electrical signals whizzing along our neural pathways - are stored in our cellular and somatic memory, resulting in permanent changes in the way our body and mind influence each other. Somatic memory includes three types of memories: engraved memories (engrams), muscle-memories and bio-memories. Engrams are bio-chemical changes that occur in our neural tissues as the result of a powerful or persistent reaction to any situation. An engram is not an ordinary memory, but more like a photograph of a situation or event, complete with the emotional response that accompanied it. Engrams exist just below the level of our consciousness, influencing our emotional responses without our knowledge.
silent transformation of Consciousness, which is what Kundalini AwakeningSM is actually about. When the kundalini is awakened, all the old mental and physical patterns are broken, destroyed. A new higher pattern, a conscious pattern, is evolved, which is completely based on freedom and liberation. He declares time and again: This cognitive shift, this understanding, this realization that you are beyond body and mind, this realization that you are a conscious existence which is eternal - this is the most remarkable effect of Kundalini AwakeningSM. Even as these extraordinary happenings are taking the scientific community by storm, Paramahamsa Nithyananda Himself lives and moves as one among us, teaching, healing, initiating and working tirelessly to preserve the mystical science of Kundalini, one of the innumerable spiritual treasures of the millennia-old Yoga-Vedanta traditions of India that might be humanity’s only hope for liberation in the centuries to come.
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While engrams affect our emotional responses alone, musclememories are memories that have become so deeply embedded in our system that they can recreate the physical symptoms accompanying these emotions, like those experienced during strong fear or anger. Muscle memories are also responsible for our performing repetitive mechanical actions that do not require our conscious intervention, like typing or cycling.
How does a thought become an engram or a biomemory?
Can Kundalini AwakeningSM alter our thoughtpatterns?
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
A thought is simple. It rises and falls. It does not leave a mark inside you. For example, if a thought comes to you - I would like to have a coffee - that is just a thought, not a pattern or engram.
Yes and no. Our thoughts carry a miniscule physical weight that can be a drag on our bodies. Everybody has experienced how we feel heavy on certain days, and light as a feather on certain days - even though our physical weight remains the same! This shows that our thoughts and engrams can actually pull us down. Kundalini AwakeningSM or initiation have the power to temporarily free us of our binding engrams.
But if you fulfil this thought every time by the action of drinking coffee, after a few days it becomes an engram. That is, you start craving for that particular action - you start feeling, how I wish that I could have a coffee!... Engram is like flowing water… it creates a certain movement in your mind.
But if the negative patterns continue to be encouraged, they can return and persist even after Kundalini AwakeningSM. The first initiation is an inspiration, a glimpse of a different space, an encouragement to return again and again to that high-energy space. With repeated initiation, we are constantly exposed to that elevated space. Gradually, our muscle-memory starts enjoying this space, and it becomes part of our biomemory.
After some weeks, you actually start feeling afraid that if you don’t get your coffee in the morning every day, you will have a headache! This means that this thought is solidifying like water becoming ice - it has become part of your muscle-memory. After one year, if you keep pursuing this habit, one day if you don’t get your coffee in the morning, you will ACTUALLY get a headache! When a pattern becomes so solid that it starts affecting you physically, it is called bio-memory. Bio-memories are tough like crystal and are very difficult to break!
Bio-memories are memories that are locked into our cells. They carry hereditary memories, past-life memories and memories that have become part of the very fiber of our current personality through constant repetition for years. Both physical and mental patterns can become part of our bio-memory. Bio-memories have the power to trigger physical actions like fight or flight. Mental states like depression and anxiety can quickly become part of our bio-memory if we are not careful. Bio-memories are not only unconscious, but are usually untraceable to any particular source incident.
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My experience of Kundalini AwakeningSM
My eyesight has improved greatly after Kundalini AwakeningSM
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Gopikananda Swami
Name: Ana BelĂŠn Hernandez
Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order
Location: Mexico DF, Mexico
Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
Email: anabelen2277@gmail.com
Email: ma.gopika@nithyananda.org
I have experienced so many healing miracles thanks to Swami Nithyananda, and so many more are happening in my life right now, that I don’t know what to share!
When Swamiji first started initiating devotees into kundalini awakening and levitation, I thought my kundalini was not awakened, as I was not experiencing physical levitation. Swamiji assured me that it is already awakened, but I was not sure if he was just consoling me!
After the Kundalini Awakening initiation from Swamiji during Inner Awakening, my short-sight (myopia) has improved greatly.
Then one day during an IA darshan session, Swamiji was sitting on the stage. He called me to the stage and asked me to stand facing him, with one palm facing him and the other palm turned towards the hall, which was packed with people.
Before Inner Awakening, I used to sleep for 9-12 hours, but now I need only 4-5 hours of sleep. I can see that my whole body is changing after IA. I have lost weight and become more flexible too!
He gently pressed with one finger on the center of my palm which was facing him, and asked me to turn and look at the hall. I turned around and was shocked to see that the entire hall of people was levitating and jumping crazily, from the energy that I was channeling towards them with the other palm! Then I understood that whether I show the external signs or not, when the Avatar gives deeksha, there is no way anybody can miss the experience! Thank you Swamiji for this realization!
Deeksha and the Brain Neuroplastic science says that your brain has the ability to create new grooves and pathways, which means that the possibility for becoming a new Consciousness exists. Initiation can change not just your mind, but your very brain. With initiation, your brain develops subtle grooves to hold and radiate the energy of Enlightenment. If it is only a psychological transformation, it could leave you after a few weeks or months. But initiation does not lead to just psychological transformation; it leads to physiological transformation. The experience becomes your very bio-memory, so there is no more scope for conflict.
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As mentioned earlier, apart from the brain and neural pathways, we have a network of 72,000 nadis or subtle energy channels through which Kundalini energy and the subtle information essential to our conscious evolution can be transmitted. Of these, the kurma nadi, a channel running from the tip of the middle finger right up to the heart, is the channel through which the glimpse of Enlightenment is revealed by the Master and received by the disciple during initiation.
Deeksha changes Gene Expression The human genome has now been sequenced, and it is now established that all humans have approximately 25,000 - 30,000 genes.
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A gene is the fundamental blueprint of a living organism, which can encode several proteins and signaling pathways for life to exist and continue. At any given time, only 10,000 genes are expressed (operational) in normal life.
Every deeksha (initiation) at the Inner Awakening® program is an extraordinary spectacle of energy play that could last for hours. During deeksha, Paramahamsa Nithyananda creates an explosion of superconscious energy, using divyashareeris (mediums or energy channels) to intensify the spiritual process. Releasing more than 15 times the usual power through His body, He channels it through the divyashareeri to reach the participants from every angle.
It has been shown that during the Inner Awakening® initiations, the gene expression changes to such an extent that the genes which cause an increase in energy, stem cell count and health are up-regulated, while those that are harmful, such as genes causing cancer and autoimmune disorders, are down-regulated in all participants. This is the visible effect of the bio-energy of the Avatar’s deeksha transforming the bio-memory of the disciple.
The group energy during deeksha is so intense that most participants receive the initiation spontaneously, even before they are touched and initiated. For the participants, deeksha is a neverbefore experience of intense Kundalini AwakeningSM in a perfectly safe environment.
Deeksha awakens your DNA
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: Medical science has established that we have 12 strands of DNA, but only two of these strands are active. An Avatar is a being who has awakened all 12 strands of His DNA. Through deeksha, an Avatar can simply alter your existing DNA and activate your unused DNA strands.
When the energy channels sit in a circle around me, in a mood of deep devotion and surrender, I am able to penetrate right through their physical bodies. They become divyashareeris, extensions of my own physical body. So when a participant enters this elevated space, he is enveloped by my physical body itself, not just my energy body. If he is totally open and receptive, I can use that high-possibility moment to simply wipe out his negative bio-memories and create a blissful, strong biomemory through karmic cleansing and reprogramming. To the extent that the participant is receptive, he can experience physical and mental transformation.”
The true purpose of this so-called ‘junk DNA’ is to support a multidimensional consciousness, and deeksha awakens this possibility. Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: Deeksha is like an intense downloading into you. When your DNA is activated, the knowledge, consciousness and information contained in the macrcosmic bio-energy can be effortlessly transmitted to you without any conventional methods. With every new strand awakened, you start experiencing many things: freedom from negative engrams, intellectual and spiritual clarity, physical health, anti-ageing and extraordinary powers.
Deeksha from an Avatar is an infallible process effecting the same changes in everyone, irrespective of the external manifestations. As part of a survey, a qEEG measurement was done on a devotee who showed no external signs of levitation (see page 142). It was found that even though she experienced no physical movements, her brainwaves changed in exactly the same way as the brainwaves of levitators. This proved that even though she was physically static, her brainwaves too were responding equally to the influx of Cosmic energy.
Karmic Cleansing and Realigning During Inner Awakening®, participants receive a series of powerful initiations on 21 consecutive days. This ensures that the physical and mental transformation experienced during the program are rendered long-lasting or even permanent.
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Significance of Deeksha from a Living Master
When a sincere seeker or disciple sits in a deep, relaxed mood, not only does the Guru come alive with the disciple, but the disciple also comes alive with the Guru. Both experience fulfillment, and the transmission of the lamp happens automatically. This is Deeksha.
Deeksha is revered in the Vedic tradition as the ultimate gift that a Master can confer upon his disciple.
Deeksha manifests your deepest desires
In the ancient Hindu text, Rudrayamala Tantra, Lord Shiva says: Paramahamsa Nithyananda says:
The one who is not initiated does not attain liberation nor a better future. So by all efforts, one should get initiated by Guru.
I just infuse energy into you and blast your self-doubt like a balloon. That is what I call initiation.
Only from a fire can another fire be lit. Only from a living Master can the transmission of the lamp happen. A Master who exists on the subtle plane may be able to offer the disciple spiritual guidance, but for the experience to settle in him as a physical reality, it has to be transmitted from a body which is vibrating at the same frequency as his own. Only the already reprogrammed DNA of the living Master can transmit that frequency and reprogram his DNA. Only a living bio-memory can share its experience directly with the disciple’s, through a look, a word or a touch of initiation.
Deeksha has the power to open up your real desires and empower them to become reality, destroying your doubts and fears which are coming in the way. If your blueprint is carrying a desire for money, it will open up and fill you with money; if your blueprint is to seek God or Guru, you will have that; if your blueprint is to search for extraordinary powers, you will have that. Please understand: the brahmi bee makes the worm into a bee just by the buzzing sound it makes. The hen makes its egg into a chicken by its physical presence.
When the disciple melts down and sits with a deep trust, the connection between him and the Master happens – this is deeksha.
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The crocodile, tortoise and fish hatch their eggs just by remembrance! The Master ‘hatches’ you through all these three.
is like a spoke of the wheel, all attached to the central hub which is the source of Cosmic energy. So every time I initiate one person in the group, the same energy is instantaneously transmitted to the entire group.
The first level is through his teachings and words. The second level is through his initiation and touch. Then, wherever you are, you are constantly connected to him. You remember him and he goes on remembering you. Through the constant remembrance of you wherever you are, he hatches you into a new being. He makes you into his very Self.
So when you sit in 21 sessions of Inner Awakening®, say as part of a group of 100 participants, you are actually receiving 21 x 100 = 2,100 initiations! Group initiation has one more benefit. When I initiate you, I loosen and activate your bio-memory, preparing it for learning new things. So when you see somebody else expressing an extraordinary power like levitation, your bio-memory learns that such a possibility exists. Within a few days, your bio-memory picks up that particular power - even if you have not received that particular initiation from me. This happens due to the presence of mirroring neurons in your brain.
Benefits of Group Deeksha Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: Group deeksha is a tremendous experience! When a cohesive group of people sit together in a mood of meditation and receptivity, their systems fall into a deep harmonious resonance with one other. The whole group is like one organic entity. Moreover, each of you is individually in entanglement with the Source. Each of you
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When you live in a sangha or spiritual community where many such powers are continuously expressed, your bio- memory simply opens up and starts living its highest possibilities.”
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age that you can’t read through your Third Eye; you will simply open your Third Eye and start reading! You will simply start doing it.
Awakening your God particle
Name: Anu Deshpande
Even awakening your bio-memory awakens only your powers. Awakening your bio-energy awakens the very God particle in you.
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Anupamananda
During Inner Awakening®, to awaken your bio-memory, I use sound and light, that means verbalization and visualization. To awaken your bio-energy, I use Silence and UnclutchingSM. Silence is the absence of verbalization; UnclutchingSM is the absence of visualization.
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do on the level of Possibility, many circus people will be doing it; Guinness Record holders will be doing it. That does not mean they are enlightened or spiritually aware of themselves.
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In fact, there are many people living on railway platforms because of poverty; their body automatically masters the art of eating only once a day, but they survive, and they manage to eat and digest whatever they get on the roadside. But that does not mean they are spiritually awakened. It is only that the possibility existing in the muscle-memory has been awakened. But in the Nirahara SammyamaSM, I awaken your Consciousness to make your Nirahara successful. It does not happen at the level of muscle-memory.
All the knowledge required for you to run your day-to-day life is recorded in your muscle-memory. All the cognitions based on which you make basic life decisions are recorded in your biomemory. Awakening your muscle-memory by completing with your unnecessary patterns, and reprogramming it the way you want. awakens your multiple POSSIBILITIES. Awakening your biomemory by completing with your wrong cognitions about life, and reprogramming it the way you want, awakens your multiple POWERS.
When you transform your root cognitions about yourself, about the people around you, about life, about God, about the world, about money - all the basic cognitions you carry - suddenly you will see that not possibilities alone, but powers will also start expressing in you.
Possibilities are not Powers Please understand: POSSIBILITIES are different; POWERS are different. Anything which you can directly express through your own practice, without conscious intervention, without the need for conscious energy to enter into you, without the need for enlightenment energy enter into you, is a Possibility. Whatever you
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Enjoying yoga with zero effort!
Please understand: to use Silence as a technique, you should have a mind which does not even touch or pollute the Silence when it picks it up and uses it. That means, your mind should be in utter silence, and it should be able to move and make whatever it wants happen, while remaining in that same silence. In the same way, to use UnclutchingSM as a technique, your mind should be such that it doesn’t pollute the Unclutching even when it is picking up the Unclutching to use it. Even if you visualize Unclutching, it will be polluted.
Location: Singapore Email: ma.anupama@innerawakening.org
After attending NithyanandohamTM, I am every day exploring and enjoying the gifts showered by Swamiji, with zero effort on my part. My personal experience is that having a body that can hold the high experience is critical. When you have a guru like Swamiji who can take you into the space of enlightenment in an instant, it is just smart to use all possible ways to hold that energy! You need both knowledge and personal experience. Just knowledge also cannot keep your inspired continuously. It is truly a joy to be in a body that is your friend, as you complete and grow more and more authentic. Koti pranams Swamiji!
Only a person who is able to be silent without using the word ‘silence’ can use Silence as a technique. Only a person who is unclutched without visualizing Unclutching can use Unclutching as a technique! If you want to see this drama of Mahadeva, this leela of Mahadeva, if you want to experience what He does with the power of Silence and Unclutching, come to NithyanandohamTM!
When any completion is done at the level of bio-memory, Consciousness is directly opened up. When your bio-memory is completed, naturally, it works directly on Consciousness, and multiple powers are expressed. For example, you just need to complete with the cognition given to you accidently in the young
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Chapter 7
Kalpataru The Power of Manifestation
While a belief or expectation is usually unconscious, when we become conscious of it, it can be called an intention or a conscious resolution (sankalpa) about how we want to experience our world. With the power of intention, we can make the transition from a limited victim mode to an empowered space, where we consciously take control of our reality. As Paramahamsa Nithyananda wisely says, the universe is a perpetual ‘Tathaastu’ (‘So be it’). It is always blessing your intentions, so be careful what you ask for!
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Shiva, the Quantum Field Quantum physics declares that it is the act of observation that precipitates any event into existence. The quantum field (Shiva) is a field of infinite potential or ’infinite wave forms of probability’ in a state of rest, from which the observer manifests his own reality at every moment through the very act of observation. This is known as the ‘Observer Effect’. This truth of the ‘participatory universe’ was well-known to the Vedic rishis, who called the phenomenon ‘drishti-shrishti’ (creation as per one’s belief). Vedic scientists went a step further, and declared that the observer and the observed arise simultaneously during the act of observation. The very mind that is observing it causes the event or object to manifest from the quantum field of infinite possibility. In other words, there is no objective reality ‘out there’, independent of our observation. This revelation has been supported by recent research studies on String Theory in quantum physics. According to quantum physicists, a particular event or object simply ‘pops’ into reality from this field of possibility, based on the observer and his observation. So then, one might ask, does no such thing as a physical world exist, outside of the observer and his observation? The unsettling answer is that even the physical world persists solidly only as
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the result of the collective (albeit unconscious) expectation of its observers. This perennial and persistent collective delusion (if we may call it that) is what the Vedic scientists term ‘Maya’. A significant point to understand here is that ‘observation’ is not a mere mechanical act, but carries an inherent belief or expectation about what is being observed. Even an insentient machine carries an ‘expectation’, because it has been designed for a certain purpose. For example, a machine designed to record waves will record waves and not particles - because that is what it ‘expects’ to record.
Science of Manifestation This concept of belief or expectation is important for us to understand the science of Manifestation. Usually, we all carry an unconscious belief or expectation of what the world or life or the future can be. But because we are not aware of the power of the beliefs and expectations we carry, we think that all the information coming at us from the external world is objective. In every moment that we engage with life, we keep projecting the same ideas back on life, which in turn influences the feedback we receive from life, and further reinforces our life-view, in an endless loop of self-deception and self-destruction.
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The Universe is a perpetual ‘Tathaastu’ Listen: your reality of God, your reality of yourself, your reality of society, your reality of the universe - everything is experienced by you as per the inner space you carry. The universe is a huge wave of ‘Tathaastu!’ (‘So be it!’) So put a little intelligence, time and energy into consciously creating the right space in you. Your inner space is the mirror of your reality. The inner space you entertain becomes your reality. I don’t even want to say it becomes your reality; it IS your reality. This truth is the greatest liberation you can receive! The moment I utter this truth, don’t feel powerless. Instead, understand that it is your own inner space; so you have the power to change it. Complete all the unconscious negative beliefs you are carrying. Don’t bring your past record to deny your highest future possibility. If you failed in some effort in the past, understand that it was because you did not have the right space at that time. So the problem is with not having had the right space; not with the truth itself. So now, try with the right space. You will see that world responds responsibly.
It is so unfortunate that we continue to cherish self-destructive thoughts, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes consciously. You are already continuously manifesting your reality, but unfortunately, most of the time it is unconscious manifestation.
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All your diseases, your dissatisfaction, the untoward incidents in your life – all are your manifestation. Any untoward incident caused to you can be changed completely. The power of Manifestation can play any way you want. Your inner space is so powerful that you can just make anything happen. Whether it is the great realities of the Cosmos, or the realities of life, or the realities of mind, the space you create, creates the reality.
Your muladhara chakra has a certain innate energy. If you add integrity to this energy, it will become visualization. Without integrity, that energy will remain as fantasy. Whether whatever you visualize is going to become reality or not depends on your integrity. Your verbalization only becomes visualization when you have integrity. Only then it becomes reality. When the nada (verbalization power) joins with bindu (visualization power), the kala (creativity) happens. Verbalization is the Cosmic feminine energy. Visualization is the Cosmic masculine energy. When they both meet, the creation of the Cosmos happens.
Harnessing the Energy of Manifestation Manifestation is the science of consciously altering the reality as you want, and experiencing the reality as you want.
Dhaarana – power to express your chosen reality
Manifestation is one of the oldest and most fascinating of sciences: how an idea can be chosen, put into the Source from where your very body has manifested, and manifested as reality.
The peak of yoga is samadhi, enlightenment. The last level before samadhi is the expression of mystical powers.
Please understand: your body has manifested from a certain energy which was in your mother’s womb. If you are carrying a female body, you have the same energy in your own womb. If you have a male body, you carry the same energy in you at least to reproduce a body in a female womb. Either way, there is a seed energy which manifested your body. If you put any idea into that seed energy, it can manifest that idea also into reality.
The Vedic scientists were well aware of the significance of possessing mystical powers only after the seeker is already tuned to living his life with the highest possible conscious coherence. Otherwise, the human mind can go astray and cause chaos with these powers. That is why, even in his Yoga Sutras, Patanjali takes you in a stepby-step way.
In Sanskrit we have a very beautiful word, hiranyagarbha - the Cosmic womb. Any ideas which are planted in this womb become reality immediately. Any idea which directly adds to your life is from hiranyagarbha. All of you have the ability, the capacity, to put an idea into the hiranyagarbha and make it into reality.
First, you need to understand the laws of the life (yama) and raise yourself to the highest possible conscious coherence (niyama). Then, you learn to balance your body (through asana), prepare your muscle -memory to radiate Consciousness (through pranayama), and then awaken the ability to absorb prana without breathing (through pratyahara).
The energy of Manifestation is such that can cause so many of your desires to become reality, even without your taking any action. The kundalini which is in you, is responsible for the manifestation of your body and your mind. If your Kundalini energy is simply added to your desire, it will become reality.
Only after this, he talks about how to express extraordinary capabilities through your body and mind through dhaarana. He is taking us to a non-return mystical zone, where mysticism is a living science, a lifestyle.
Your kundalini is like a Kalpataru. Once your Kundalini is awakened, anything you ask is immediately granted. So any idea you want to make into reality, take it to the level of your kundalini shakti. When you are having a levitation experience or a kundalini experience, any idea you sow deeply inside becomes reality as soon as possible.
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dhāraṇāsu ca yogyatā manasaḥ (2.53) After the veil which covers the inner light is removed, the mind becomes fit to express all that it carries inside.
Dhaarana is not just concentration. It means the readiness of your mind to express whatever it carries in its womb.
Kalpataru Darshan – making you into a Kalpataru The ability to speak into the listening of the Cosmos is Kalpataru. Please understand, the causal body is where all your engrams, all the possibilities of the mind, are stored. The causal body is available to you when you fall asleep, or when you raise yourself to the higher state of consciousness. When you fall asleep, because you are in a state of unconsciousness, whatever you project in your dream does not have much impact on your real life (or whatever you think of as your real life). But when you enter into altered or higher states of consciousness, even though you access the same causal body, any idea you create has a tremendous impact on your real life. It can become reality. This is the difference between sleeping and dhaarana. Dhaarana is the capacity to use the extraordinary capabilities of your mind, which are there in seed form, to create, express and manifest whatever you want as reality in your life. When you know the science of dhaarana, you become a Kalpataru. Whatever anyone wants, you will be able to give them. During the Kalpataru Darshan, I am not just fulfilling the one boon for which you ask. I am teaching you this science. I push you to the superconscious state, which creates an explosion of energy in your system. When you enter into that state, you will have both - the intelligence to create the right idea, as well as the power to make it into reality.
Sacred Secrets of Kalpataru Darshan Understand this very subtle truth: you are a complete miniature of the macrocosm. All the stars reflect in your inner space. The reflections of those stars in you are responsible for the flow of your life. They are are responsible for the deflection and the restlessness which is created in you.
world by the constant deflection of your thoughts. In the outer world, Raman Effect creates the blue color. The inner world effect of that same phenomenon creates a black color. That is why, when you look in. you see the black color; darkness. Maybe we can call this the Maya Effect! The Maya Effect is nothing but the deflection caused by your restless mind. If you can look through the Maya Effect, you can see the reflection of the macrocosmic stars in the microcosm (individual) and alter things as you want, and change your life as you want. Anybody who has the ability to penetrate the Raman Effect and see the stars in the sky during the daytime, will have the capacity to penetrate your Maya Effect and alter the reflections of those stars in you. If somebody can look through the deflections and restlessness of your mind, and alter the reflections of the grahas (planets), naturally the whole flow of your life can be altered. The science of seeing the reflection of the cosmic stars in the macrocosmic body and predicting your future is astrology. The science of altering the reflection of the microcosmic stars in the macrocosm, and making that in tune with what you want in your life, is the science of giving boons. That is exactly what I do in the Kalpataru Darshan. I look into your eyes and stop the deflection and restlessness created by the Maya Effect in your inner space. Then I ask you, ‘What do you want?’ The moment you say what you want, I say, ‘Alright, tathaastu.’ All the grahas (planets) suddenly alter themselves and align to this. I don’t need to alter the grahas themselves; I only need to alter their reflection in you, and the flow of your life changes automatically. This is the sacred secret of all the miraculous happenings that you experience during the Kalpataru Darshan!
The Raman Effect in the outer world also happens in the inner
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I have been healed of PCOD (Polycystic Ovarian Disorder)
My mother’s eye problem was healed in just one Kalpataru darshan Legal name: Hema Malla
Legal name: Sudharsini
C/o Sharmila Malla
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Location: Hong Kong
Email: sudharsini.p@gmail.com
Email: sharmilamalla@hotmail.com
My mother Hema Malla is 54 years old, and has had a long-term eye problem. For over 15 years, her eyes would get very tired every day. She had to keep resting her eyes many times a day. Otherwise she would feel heaviness and a pricking sensation in her eyes, and this was going on for years.
I had been suffering from PCOD (Polycystic Ovarian Disorder), which is a severe health disorder.
No doctors were able to diagnose or heal her.
During a Kalpataru darshan, I got blessings from Swamiji to attend the Inner Awakening program. After that things started to move smoothly and I could overcome all the issues and attend the program.
We attended a Kalpataru darshan with Swamiji via two-way video conferencing from Hong Kong. Swamiji gave my mother distance healing and blessings from the Bidadi ashram in India via videoconferencing. After just one darshan, my mother had no longer had that eye problem.
Just after 21 days of healing from Swamiji during Inner Awakening, all my health issues disappeared and my health has been restored. So many positive changes have happened in me, and even people around me can feel it! Life has become so smooth and more blissful in all circumstances.
I am so grateful to Swamiji for healing my mother!
There are no words to express my gratitude to Swamiji, as each and every moment I feel the joy of being blessed by the Divine.
My baby daughter was healed of inflamed adenoids
No more miscarriages!
Name: Dr. Srilekha Karthik
Name: Suvedha
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Devaroopananda
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Yoga Samudra
Location: Bengaluru, India
Location: Bengaluru, India
My baby daughter Joshitha was having very disturbed sleep with severe cough at nights for almost 4 months continuously, due to inflamed adenoids. No medical therapy, be it allopathy or Ayurveda, was offering any relief.
I was married for five years with no children.
One day, during Kalpataru darshan, I requested Swamiji for healing. He kept his hands on her neck region and declared, ‘She will be healed this moment!’
I requested his healing for a comfortable pregnancy and a healthy baby, and Swamiji healed me and assured me that he would make it happen.
That night, she slept “like a baby”, as the saying goes. She continues to have peaceful, undisturbed sleep at nights, much to the relief of the family too!
After this I conceived, and had a beautiful and healthy pregnancy period. I had an absolutely painless normal delivery. The doctors themselves were surprised to see this.
We offer our sincere gratitude to Swamiji for this healing blessing.
By Swamiji’s grace, we were blessed with a divine girl child on the auspicious day of Makara Sankranti in 2010. My husband Pradeep, my little daughter Nithyeshwari and I feel so blessed, and we offer our gratitude at the feet of our Master.
I had had two miscarriages, and a lot of complications in conception. I met Swamiji in 2009 during a Kalpataru darshan.
My deep gratitude to the lotus feet of the master Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
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Name: Jyothi Atluri
Name: Vimal Patel
Location: Chennai, India
Location: Austin, USA
Email: jyothia@yahoo.com
Email: highbury21@gmail.com
I was suffering from chronic sinus headaches for about 10 years. During one Kalpataru darshan, I requested Swamiji for healing.
After being stuck at a dead-end job for many years, I knew I had to have a change in my career. I wrote to the ‘Kalpataru Corner’ on the ashram website and requested Swamiji’s blessings for the following:
He gave me an apple and blessed me. It has been over five years now, and I have never had a sinus headache since then! I have practically forgotten that I used to suffer from these headaches earlier!
1) A job that I will be content with 2) A job with a specific salary (which I mentioned in my request) 3) A job located out of state in Texas
I have not experienced that chest pain again
Just three weeks later, an opportunity fell in my lap to move to Austin, Texas, to take up a Channel Sales role with a very wellknown Fortune 100 IT Software-solutions provider! You just cannot make this up! I was ecstatic!
Name: Pushpa Vohra Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Prema Manjari
I was around a supportive management team, had the flexibility to be creative and take up new projects, and an environment that was very energetic!
Location: Billimora, Gujarat, India
Picture coming to work in the morning with loud music playing and people throwing footballs and basketballs around. Who needs coffee when there is all this energy?
In the year 2011, I came with my daughter Kavyaroopini to Bidadi ashram to attend Inner Awakening program. The next day, when we went for the morning satsang, when the curtain opened and I saw Swamiji, I fell completely silent; I just couldn’t speak. The only thought that came to mind was, ‘That is my Guru.’
I liked this job so much that I would regularly wake up at 5 am to come to work, and gladly stayed late when I needed to. I worked with skilled professionals and was able to learn a lot from them. This job really enabled me to take control of the direction of my career.
During the IA, when we were celebrating Meenakshi Tirukalyanam, suddenly I felt a striking pain in my left hand and chest, and I started sweating profusely. When I went for Kalpataru darshan, I told Swamiji about the pain, and asked Him whether I should go for the yoga classes. He just tapped my left shoulder to heal me and said, ‘You are alright. You can go for the yoga class.’ From that day till today, I have never experienced that chest pain again. This is because of Swamiji’s blessings. My heartfelt gratitude Swamiji! I know YOU are always with me.
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I have forgotten about my sinus headaches
My deepest gratitude to Swamiji for making this happen for me.
Third Eye AwakeningSM Opening the Cosmic Command Center
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he ancient Vedic tradition gave the name Ajna Chakra (the sixth chakra) to the Third Eye. In yogic literature, it is described as a subtle centre of consciousness in the region between the eyebrows. The word ‘ajna’ means ‘command’. The practice of meditation allows it to become the command centre for the being, who receives instructions from Shiva Himself. It is also known as the command center because, once this chakra is activated, it gives the individual the power of clairvoyance, and the ability to control and influence the forces of Nature, as well as his own lower disposition.
Ancient references to the Third Eye Patanjali speaks on this power in his Yoga Sutras:
It is described to be the size of a thumb (angushtha maatra) and appears like a steadily burning light (deepa shikhaakaara). It represents the eye of Enlightenment (jnana netra).
Modern Neuroscience and the Third Eye Based on the visible evidence of the effects of meditating on the Ajna Chakra, it is possible to postulate the neurophysiological pathways and structures involved in it. Several studies have been done on Paramahamsa Nithyananda, ranging from FMRI to PET Scan to qEEG. The studies clearly show continuous heightened activity in the infero-medial prefrontal cortex, and a simultaneous state of total restfulness with awareness across the entire brain, suggesting complete entrainment of neural activity.
pravr̥tty-āloka-nyāsāt sūkṣmā-vyāvahita-viprakr̥ṣṭa-jñānam ॥ 3.25॥ By redirecting the inner vision (one achieves) the knowledge of subtle, veiled and remote (objects and events). The ancient Yogi Sri Goraksanath of the Nath Sampradaya of Shaivism refers to the Third Eye as ‘bhruchakra’ in his work, Goraksha Vachana Sangraha (‘bhru’ meaning the eyebrows).
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Studies done at Harvard on long-time meditators also showed a degree of restfulness awareness.
Meditating on the Third Eye produces all the effects of calmness, well-being and thoughtlessness, while at the same time increasing awareness and cognition through unhampered processing by the cerebral cortex, which is no longer weighed down by emotions and random thoughts.
The key difference between the two studies was: 1. The amplitude of the brain waves was extremely high when tested on Paramahamsa Nithyananda, and even his disciples, during Kundalini energy activation. 2. All qEEG studies done at Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam during Kundalini awakening showed high-amplitude waves across the spectrum. In comparison, meditators across the world showed normal amplitude of the waves.
This would allow us to conclude that the ajna chakra or the Third Eye consists of the entire complex of the limbic system, starting from the infero-medial pre-frontal cortex, and involving not only all the known structures of the limbic system like the hippocampus and amygdala, but also the pineal gland and the rest of the volitional brain involved in intuition, cognition, etc.
3. The sense of calmness, well-being and thought-less-ness happens when the emotional component of a thought or memory is separated from the memory itself, thereby allowing for a reduction in the number of thoughts.
Depending on the effects manifested, different parts of the cerebral cortex would presumably be involved at different times (for instance, in blindfolded reading, the primary visual cortex would be involved).
Meditation using a blindfold
The process of activating the Third Eye as described by Paramahamsa Nithyananda includes:
The application of the blindfold completely cuts off any sensory inputs in the form of photons falling into the retina of the eye. In the outer world, the maximum sensory input is through the visual system. Meditating in the darkness of the blindfold on the third eye allows one to focus with minimal distraction, while simultaneously activating the pineal gland (which produces melatonin in darkness).
Initiation or Deeksha This is the process of directly transmitting the bio-energy (Kundalini energy of the Avatar) into the area of the Third Eye, located between the two eyebrows of the recepient.
Melatonin is responsible for re-adjusting the circadian rhythm of the body, and has significant anti-ageing benefits.
Meditation The meditation consists of visualizing a light or golden light within the third eye, which directly connects with Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s third eye. Timed meditation is performed alternatively, with eyes closed and eyes opened for three rounds.
The limbic system is that part of the brain which is at the junction of the mechanical or involuntary system, and the highly evolved system which is the seat of the intellect, logic and cognitive processing (neo-cortex).
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Blindfolded reading Enhanced intuition Increased IQ Ability to use all aspects of the brain’s potential Parakaya Pravesham - the ability to enter and understand the other being. ♦♦ Many other siddhis (mystical powers) as well as health benefits
Yogic Science of Chakras and Koshas Stands for GURU
The traditional chakras are six in number, starting from the muladhara at the base of the sacrum to svadhisthana, manipuraka, anahata, visuddhi and ajna chakra along the length of the spine. The sahasrara or brahmarandra is not a chakra, but a channel connecting the pindanda (microcosm) with the brahmanda (macrocosm).
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Vajra Danda
Anandamaya Kosha
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Vijnanamaya Kosha
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Upper Chakras and Koshas
Manomaya Kosha
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Goraksanath has described additional chakras above the brahmarandra, and they are named as below.
Pranamaya Kosha
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7. Urdhava Randra (corresponding to the Pranamaya kosha)
Nithyananda GurukulSM children initiated and trained directly by Paramahamsa Nithyananda explore the powers of the Third Eye
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Sahasrara (opening)
8. Bhramaraguha (where prana and manas cease - corresponding to the Manomaya kosha)
Ajna Chakra
9. Anukuntba Pita Punyagara (Causeless “I” Consciousness corresponding to the Vijnanamaya kosha)
Vishuddha Chakra
10. Sikhara (Kailasa - corresponding to the Anandamaya kosha)
Anahata Chakra
11. Vajra Danda (Maya Shankini Nadi) Manipuraka Chakra
12. Nirahara Paramahamsa Jyothista (Guru or Devi Meenakshi according to Sri Ramana Maharshi (dvadasanta)
Swadisthana Chakra
(Reference: Goraksha Sathaka by Gorakshanath)
Meditation process to awaken the Third Eye in adults
Muladhara Chakra
In the image alongside, the koshas are represented from inside out. Adi Shankaracharya in Vivekachudamani describes the koshas or energy bodies as below:
Third Eye AwakeningSM demonstration with blindfolded reading by an initiated 9-year-old Nithyananda GurukulSM child at Business Advocacy Summit, Washington D.C., USA
Third Eye power demonstration to a live audience by Nithyananda GurukulSM Balasants (students)
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These sheaths are something like peels of onion growing one over the other. Accordingly, the annamaya kosha is permeated by four koshas: the pranamaya and the rest. The pranamaya kosha is permeated by three koshas, the manomaya by two koshas and the vijnanamaya by one kosha. In this manner, each outer kosha is full of that which is within, i.e., the succeeding one being internal to the
preceding. By resolving each kosha into that which immediately succeeds it, we are led to the knowledge of the Brahman, which is beyond cause, and effect and realize our oneness with it.
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Size of the Koshas ♦♦ Annamaya Kosha is the size of the body. ♦♦ Pranamaya Kosha is the size of Dvadasanta, that is 12 fingers’ breadth – antar (internally and bahir (externally) – as described in Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. ♦♦ Manomaya Kosha is as much as the mind can expand ♦♦ Vijnanamaya Kosha is the expansion of cognition by awakening of the Third Eye. Distance varies from blindfolded reading to Parakaya Pravesham. ♦♦ Anandamaya Kosha is what connects Pindanda to Brahmanda (microcosm to macrocosm).
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Goraksanath clearly describes the bifurcation of the sushumna nadi in the medulla oblongata (reticular activating system).
Revelations from the Avatar (From Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s talks on the subtle truths of Third Eye AwakeningSM over the years)
So, one line of sushumna nadi goes directly from the medulla through the brain into the brahmarandra. The second line of the bifurcation of the susumna, along with the ida and pingala, goes directly to the middle of the forehead (bhrumadhya) with the ida and pingala opening into the right and left nostrils via the olfactory bulbs, which are part of the limbic system.
Celebrate the Unknown One of the biggest misunderstandings which happenS in your life is, you trying to grasp you!
This hollow is usually open unlike the first line, which is usually closed. During liberation, the two hollows are united opening into the tenth gate.
Listen: you cannot understand you - you can only experience you. So, if you try to grasp you through any conceptualization, intellectual understanding or in any way, it will always be a misunderstanding. If you are not comfortable with the vast, beautiful, amazing you, then you are not celebrating the extraordinary you. Even though you are not able to hold or grasp the vast you, don’t try to create an image about you. If you see the vast you, you will be fearful.
Thus, the expansion of the vijnanamaya kosha in Third Eye AwakeningSM leads to cognition via the entire limbic system, and involves the visual cortex in associated visual areas of the brain in blindfolded reading.
The Upanishads beautifully teaches how to be loving and respectful towards the Avyakta - the Unknown. Much of you is Avyakta - unknown to you. When you are afraid of the Avyakta outside, surely you will be afraid of the Avyakta inside.
The sushumna takes a turn in the front corresponding to the medial prefrontal cortex and goes right up through the limbic system (ajna) to enter the brahmarandra.
Pre-frontal Cortex
When you understand that your unknown is your own unknown, you will not have fear about your unknown. You will not be afraid of anything which is your own. You will get comfortable with you. You will explore, embrace and love those unknown parts of you.
If the next dimension would be hearing without the ears, then the same system, along with the auditory cortex would be activated. Thus, different dimensions of Third Eye AwakeningSM would activate different parts of the brain, essentially leading to the potential ability to utilize 100% of the brain’s functional capacity.
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Bridging Physical and Mystical Worlds Third Eye is the bridge between the physical world and psychic and cosmic space. All the extraordinary powers, psychic powers, are achieved through Third Eye AwakeningSM. All the extraordinary powers are lived when your Third Eye is completely awakened. Understand: whatever you are seeing with these two eyes is not reality and not enough. Third Eye makes you see the higher reality externally in your day-to-day life, and internally in your life and death journey. Third Eye AwakeningSM makes you immediately experience God. The Third Eye is a direct bridge to God. Third Eye is not just an eye; it is the very source of your Consciousness. If you align your thinking based on the principle of Advaita, Oneness, all your energy will become centered on Third Eye, all your energy will become stable in your Third Eye. The functioning of your Third Eye will enter into the next frequency.
Destroy Karmic Patterns and Incompletions The more you use the Third Eye, the more the patterns and engrams engraved in your brain will start getting completed, because you are continuously working with Consciousness. The more you use
Third Eye vision is ‘Conscious Seeing’
Your Personal Door to the Cosmos
If you can see something through the eyes, you can experience it with your physical body. If you can see something through your mind, you can experience it, understand it, with your mental body. If you can see something with your inner space, your consciousness, you can control it as the Lord of it. Even blind people continue to see in their inner space. Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes. Third Eye vision is nothing but ‘Conscious Seeing’! It activates the nonmechanical parts of your brain. That is why you start experiencing extraordinary powers like telepathy, materialization, teleportation and clairvoyance.
Third Eye is like a door to Cosmos. You can receive anything from the Cosmos though the Third Eye. Same way, you can send any command to the Cosmos through the Third Eye. Anything sent through the Third Eye to the Cosmos is immediately, immediately experienced! Third Eye is not just the brow center; it is the Browsing Center also! Just like how you can upload or download anything through the Internet world through an internet browsing center, through the Third Eye you can download and upload anything in the Cosmos. It is the Cosmic browsing center. Any Akashic Records can be downloaded by you when you open your Third Eye.
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Consciousness, the more you become Consciousness. What we call karma is nothing but the deep-rooted unconscious patterns and incompletions which force you into a vicious cycle of fear, greed and pain for lifetimes. When you start using the powers of your Consciousness freely, the unconscious parts of your mind are brought under the light of your Consciousness, and they automatically dissolve, clearing the karmas.
Secret of Omnipresence The word ‘omnipresent’ needs to be understood. When your presence is loosened in your body, you become omnipresent. If you are caught inside one nervous system, your presence is limited to just what you feel as you - that one small body. If you start loosening yourself, if you practice getting in or out of that one system, two things happen to you: one, you start becoming omnipresent; two, you experience tremendous love and compassion, because you start feeling your presence everywhere. You start feeling yourself happening everywhere, so the tremendous love and compassion to the Whole happens.
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Patanjali explains in Yoga Sutras:
1. Magic tricks – These are plain entertainment - they are not siddhis and nothing is wrong in them.
kāyendriyasiddhiraśuddhikśayātḥ tapasaḥ (2.43) When the body and sense organs are ripened by tapas (the purification process), all the impurities are eliminated from them, and extraordinary powers express because of the ripening of the bio-memory. ‘Kaayendriya siddhi’ is the process of the body and sense organs getting ripe. I don’t want to translate the word siddhi as extraordinary powers; I want to translate it as ‘getting ripe.’ For example, if your eyes are ripe, you can see extraordinary things. When your senses are ripe, automatically the extraordinary powers happen in you. Literally, the master’s presence is cooking all of you intensely every day. Intense boiling is happening! Even this levitation is nothing but the method of ripening your senses.
4. White magic – these are the siddhis. They may delay enlightenment, but will give you intelligence about when to perform them and when not to perform them. 5. Miracles which happen in the Presence - these are the leela of the Divine; they do only good all the time.
Narayana Swami, a siddha in my native town of Arunachala, used to say very beautifully, ‘Extraordinary powers are given to you to show you that the ordinary life is not worth living.
Make Miracles your Lifestyle Being a good human being is good, but it is not great! That is not the end of human possibilities. You are designed for extraordinary powers and capabilities. You cannot talk about the power of seeing to a born-blind man. How much ever you talk, he won’t be able to understand what is going to happen when he gains his vision. In the same way, I can’t talk about the Third Eye to you till your Third Eye is opened! When you awaken the Third Eye, your whole life will be different. What ordinary people call intuition will become your lifestyle. What people normally call spiritual powers will become your very lifestyle!
How to recognize real miracles The miracles you see fall into five categories: magic tricks, black magic, white magic, ucchaadana and Happenings of the Presence. If you know these five categories clearly, whenever you see any extraordinary happening, you will know to which category it belongs, and whether you want to have it in your life.
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3. Ucchaadana – if you use it rightly for the right purpose you will not have a problem, but if you use it wrongly for the right purpose (or rightly for wrong purpose) you will have a problem.
Miracles and beyond
When you make your senses ripe, you live with them joyfully!
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For example, imagine how it would be if you could suddenly break this huge hall like a small bamboo stick and fold it and put it in your Consciousness? It is possible! This is an extraordinary power. This whole hall can be melted like a wax model and put into your Consciousness just through a sound vibration. When you can do this, it proves that the ordinary reality is a not a worthwhile reality; it is not the solid reality. Whenever you break the ordinary rules, it is extraordinary. But the ability to break the ordinary rules and make yourself extraordinary is not supposed to bring extra ego; it is supposed to show you that the ordinariness itself is worthless, and that is why you are able to break it! It breaks your attachment to your current reality. And that is the exact lesson you need to learn.
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Students of Nithyananda GurukulSM and sangha members demonstrate the power of Third Eye AwakeningSM to spiritual visionaries, doctors and celebrities, among others.
One of the greatest gifts to mankind would be the ability to have Third Eye AwakeningSM, which, apart from leading to several manifest powers, using a very standardized protocol-based technique of initiation and training, all of which happens while being in the right space of Advaita. In Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s own words: The software for the Third Eye AwakeningSM has been programmed to only work from the space of Advaita (the right context) and cannot be misused with the wrong space or intention, as the password to this power has been coded into the Advaitic space of consciousness.
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Conclusion When we do not understand the science behind a power or siddhi, we usually interpret it as something either magical or mystical, but in any case, definitely difficult. Paramahamsa Nithyananda has not only clearly demonstrated these powers Himself, but has actually made them accessible to all His devotees. A simple concept like ‘listening’, which means paying attention and cognizing, not only with all the physical senses, but using the very energy of our being, is in itself, a simple yet powerful siddhi. In this way, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is making available at least 400 demonstrable, reproducible abilities to all His disciples. During the Simhasta Kumbha Mela in 2016, He intends to reveal at least 70 powers described in the Shivajnana Upanishad. At the time of compiling this volume, 32,000 adults and children worldwide have been initiated into the science of Third Eye AwakeningSM
Student performing a demonstration for doctors at Pragya Hospital
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon introduces the demo in the USA
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Demo by adult sangha member during Inner Awakening®
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For me, there is no difference between a wish and a will I am enjoying drawing while blindfolded!
I am learning from Yogamata every day!
Spiritual name: Ma Yogamata
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After Swamiji’s initiation, I am able to recognize shapes and letters. I am a sketch artist, and I am enjoying drawing while blindfolded and seeing if all the elements are in the right place!
Only our self-doubt is stopping us
Spiritual name: Ma Shivajnana (mother of Yogamata)
Age: 9
Location: USA
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Email: ma.shivajnana@innerawakening.org
When I do blindfold reading, it looks like everything is just coming like an image. It just pops up and goes. How I look at it is, just like an image - sometimes an image, or sometimes like how I look around, like with my normal two eyes. You should be first selfconfident when it comes, then with that confidence it will benefit you with everything.
Yogamata is showing me every day what it means to believe in yourself and know that you can do anything. Anything is really possible! The way she approaches life or tackles problems is so beautiful and inspiring. She expresses so much intelligence and maturity; she is able to learn new subjects so quickly after the initiation.
For me, there is no difference between a wish and a will. For example, when I want a toy and I wish for it, then it just happens. I just wish, I want a Lego and it just happens.
We knew that when we enrolled her in the Gurukul, Swamiji was going to teach her to be successful and a better human being - but we never expected this!
Spiritual name: Ananda Komala Location: Canada Shivoham Inner Awakening participant, May 2015
I had an OBE during my initiation!
Name: Sharanya Sridhar
Spiritual name: Ma Prajnana
Shaktivel, Mumbai, India When Swamiji initiated us, I immediately noticed that with the children in the hall, it seemed like it just started happening on its own! Some of them were even reading complete sentences.
Shivoham Inner Awakening participant, May 2015 It all started with a clear, intense sensation between the eyebrows that made the entire body feel light. A cool intense energy was experienced the moment Swamiji started the initiation, which got profound as the time passed.
Children do not have the self-doubt that adults have, so it simply happens for them. Swamiji has opened up this science for everybody; now it is up to each of us to open ourselves and receive it fully.
It became a powerful experience, and what felt like a few minutes of an out-of-body experience (OBE) turned out to be a good 40 minutes. I never expected that this will happen!
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Unimaginable intelligence has opened up in the Gurukul students
I can read languages which I don’t know!
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Location: Bengaluru, India
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After initiation from Swamiji, not only are the Balasants (Gurukul students) reading blindfolded in English, they have started reading in languages which they cannot read even with their eyes open – like German, Hindi, etc! Also, some of them are able to comfortably read off a sheet of paper which is kept elsewhere!
After Swamiji awakened my Third Eye, I am able to read comfortably even when blindfolded. The most surprising thing is that I am able to read languages like Tamil and Gujarati, which I normally don’t know how to read! After these experiences, I feel that I have transformed a lot.
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Also, a lot of fifth graders got promoted to tenth grade, and are now preparing for their Board exams! Due to Third Eye AwakeningSM, unimaginable intelligence has opened up in all Balasants.
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I detected a patient’s kidney stones using my awakened Third Eye
My intuition has increased a lot
Behavioral Analysis of Nithyananda GurukulSM Children
‘Can you take care of it?’ The student said yes and went away. Sridevi was observed allowing students to be self-directed in the classroom, assigning work with time limits that were flexible, and students could pace themselves - play or sleep, play with beads, and do whatever, so long as they finished the assignment according to the parameters.
Name: Poornima
Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Swaroopapriyananda
Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Mahayogananda
Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
Location: Singapore
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As soon as I started gazing into Swamiji’s Third Eye, I felt a pulsation, like a heartbeat, in the area of my own Third Eye.
A few days ago, I went to the Muruga temple near my house during my morning walk. One young lady around 27 or so sat near me and was talking to her husband about pain near her back/abdomen area for many days.
When He instructed us to close our eyes, the pulse intensified, and I saw some swirling golden light in the center of my inner vision.
I just remembered Swamiji’s initiation and scanned her with my third eye and was 1000% sure she had kidney stones. I could see the right kidney inflamed. I interrupted them and told her to go to a renal specialist at once as her right kidney was inflamed.
After the meditation, I was surprised to be able to immediately, accurately trace shapes on a page while blindfolded, and also my intuition increased a lot. Also, since Swamiji awakened my Third Eye, I no longer need to turn on the lights to do things like get ready for bed or see where I’m going at night.
I gave my number and told them to get moving right away. Just a few minutes back the husband called me up and said they decided to head to A&E unit at Singapore General Hospital just in case what I said was true. After tests the doctors confirmed she had stones in the right kidney and a condition called Pyelonephritis due to which the kidney shows inflammation. The doctor told them had they delayed by some more days --she’d have to lose her right kidney!!!
So if you’re thinking of going to Inner Awakening®, just jump into it - these 21 days will be the best, most transformational, aweinspiring days of your life. Swamiji’s presence is priceless - it has to be experienced!
The way Bhagwan Paramahamsa Nithyananda works is simply beyond words. The husband was like, “But how did you know???” I said, “I did not - but HE does & HE shows”. That whole family wants to see Swamiji and take his blessings once the treatment is done. Just an ordinary walk out can turn out to be life-saving for someone!
Debbie Chance PhD in Education School Administrator, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools North Carolina, USA
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General observations
Students clearly respected Sridevi and frequently asked questions and formed small groups to accomplish tasks. One student who “had a stick” in the back of the class for three different periods (and was clearly off task) was immediately re-directed by Sridevi to produce his work. He happily complied.
Gurukul students were mature and very respectful of the adults, of me and of each other.
Restful awareness
They were highly attentive and conscious of the needs of other students, and were frequently observed dressing, helping, nurturing and problem-solving with each other. This was regardless of age; even young students assisted older ones and helped teachers as well.
Basically the group functions as a WHOLE and they appear to be able to sit quietly for long periods of time in restful awareness. There is no picking-on, harassing, fighting, put-downs, as one would expect in a ‘normal’ school. On one occasion dinner was late, and they waited quietly for over an hour with no complaints.
De-escalation of conflict There was no competition or comparison, and no aggression except for a few times, which was immediately solved by a selfappointed group of ‘de-escalators’ who intervened quickly, asking questions like, ‘Are you in the space of Shivoham?’ Or, ‘How can you get in the space of Shivoham now?’ One young student was observed crying and hitting another older student multiple times. This older student just ‘took the hits’ and moved away. Within five minutes, he had ‘completed’ with the de-escalators, and moved on.
Response to pain School Administrator Sridevi was presented with a student with a pain in the body. She asked the students, ‘What is pain?’ and
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Incident of rose plants in the Nithyananda GurukulSM garden dropping thorns
Adult-type behaviors Students assume responsibility for adult-type behaviors like redirecting, advising, questioning and actively listening to each other. One 7-year-old after finishing his report, spelling and printing correctly, got up walked over to another student and helped him to write and spell for his report. Another 11-year-old frequently directed the whole class, “Everyone be in the space of listening”. Of course, everyone listened, and the re-direction happened easily.
A surprising incident that was brought to our notice was that the children’s garden of the Gurukul had dropped their thorns after being counseled by the students, and assured them that there was no danger to them, and no need to keep their thorns to defend themselves. I personally investigated this with my team, spending some time in the garden during the students’ counseling session.
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It is interesting note that the student initially expressed hesitation about reading in the dark, since on an earlier occasion, he was able to read at dusk, with very minimal natural light, with a triple blindfold. He had just grabbed the book, put it on the top of his head, and started reading correctly as well as identifying the pictures.
Students enjoy mangoes from the mango tree in the Gurukul garden which gave a multifold yield upon their request
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Students also take responsibility for helping one another ‘complete’ themselves by asking relevant questions to facilitate each other’s understanding of the completion process. Students would not allow themselves or others to be in the space of powerlessness. Completion happened constantly. They appeared to be a self-correcting, inter-woven network of completion.
Students sat with their rose for approximately 20-30 minutes per day. Some caressed the leaves, some sat quietly, some talked to each other, yet they were sitting casually... not praying, speaking to the plant or exhibiting any obvious behavior... yet the majority of the plants had dropped their thorns.
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The Third Eye Can Read in Utter Darkness
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I took Kalpalatha, aged 10, to be tested with triple blindfold in the dark.
Ma Yogamata, aged 9, was the first Gurukul student to read in the complete dark with a triple blindfold. She was not only able to read the letters, but was also able to identify the color of the letters.
Kalpalatha asked to be blindfolded 7 times, and appeared to be confident that she could read in the total darkness. When we turned off the lights, she immediately started reading without hesitation, and identified all words and pictures correctly. She in fact read the whole book fast and fluently, as if she was reading normally, with eyes open and lights on.
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Students challenge each other to grow into higher states of social and emotional functioning by actively facilitating the thinking/understanding of the common goal: Living in the state of Enlightenment. Students used a common language that was based on the common goal of living in a state of balanced emotional maturity.
It is interesting to note that on an earlier occasion, she also had a cognition that she would be unable to read in the dark. But this time around, she was very confident that she would be able to read perfectly in the dark, due two main reasons:
My assistants and I guided a student by name Brahmasukha Maharaj into a completely dark room for blindfolded reading.
1. Ma Yogamata and Brahmasukha Maharaj had already done it
At first, he appeared concerned that he may not be able to read in the complete dark. He was encouraged and reminded of his possibility by another student.
Where else would you find over 100 students of all ages in one big room, sitting together, eating together, just being together, in such silence?
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Soon he started reading so fast, it was as if the picture popped into his head as soon as the light was off, even while I was still handing him the book to read! He then continued to read three more pages in total dark, describing the pictures in the book and reading the captions under the pictures as well. I think that he was as shocked as I was, that he could read in total darkness! He was not only reading in the dark, he was triple blind-folded.
2. She had already read Swamiji’s mind in the interim (she said that if she can read His mind, then this should come very easily) As we continued to test more children, the amazing thing we found is that each one’s success was based in the success of the others... a kind of ripple effect!
Then immediately, after we turned out the lights, he started telling what was happening in the picture book, saying, ‘There is a cat or tiger, gold color with white, coming down the stairs with his head up.’ I turned on the lights, and to my amazement, this is exactly what was in the book!
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Whole-Brain Activation Studies on Nithyananda GurukulSM Students
Overview of test-taking behavior It Is very important to document the way in which the student approaches this test, because (according to the testing protocol) it reflects the way the student approaches life itself.
Bender-Gestalt II Test
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The Bender-Gestalt Test is a determinant of neurological functioning. It assesses the level of whole brain activation; the students’ ability to see the “big picture” and recall the details of it. It is not just an IQ Test.
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Extraordinary possibilities expressed by Nithyananda GurukulSM students As a result of Whole-Brain Activation, Nithyananda GurukulSM students regularly demonstrate an astonishing range of abilities spontaneously, with hardly any formal training, including advanced yoga postures, traditional music and dance, sculpture, clay modeling, jewelry making and crochet, among others.
In the first phase or ‘copy phase’, students are first asked to copy 12 images of various complexities. This ‘copy phase’ reflects the students’ visual motor intelligence and maturity. In the second phase or ‘recall phase’, students need to remember all of the images previously drawn without seeing them. The recall phase reflects the students’ visual recall intelligence. The recall image is scored based on the level of recall ability. Of the 75 students who have taken the Bender Gestalt II test so far, the average percentile rank of Copy Phase is 95.07 and Recall Phase is 86.91.
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each event with composure and alertness. They exhibited extremely meticulous precision in transposing the Gestalt forms. They consistently took much more than the average amount of time to transpose the Gestalt. On the average it took a total of two hours per student: one hour to copy all twelve Gestalt forms, and one hour to recall them. If an examinee takes a large amount of time to complete the geometric figures, it demonstrates a methodical approach to tasks, low compulsive tendencies, and low symptoms of depression. In the modern world, delayed gratification is considered one of the highest assets of an employee. The observed ability of delayed gratification was the most impressive result of the Bender Gestalt II test. The other outstanding attribute in Bender Gestalt II results was the superior memory ability of students. It is very unusual for students to remember such a high number of Gestalt forms. Each gurukul student attended to the test card carefully, and persistently transposed the Gestalt form; remaining calm, cool and collected. They initially approached each Gestalt form with a keen observation and analysis of the form, and then exhibited a steady perseverance, attending to minute details. The students appeared to be in the deep state of restful awareness as they performed the memory recall aspect. They showed no signs of confusion, neither were they conflicted nor agitated. They consistently exhibited presence of mind. Because of their deep ease, the clarity of their memory was obvious. These impressions indicate strong mental stability, persistence, attention to detail, high motivation and emotional maturity.
The superior level of precision is evident in the high percentile ranking scores listed in the tables.
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Slosson IQ Test
50% of the students with total English immersion fell into the category of Genius and Very Superior Intelligence (IQ Score of 120 and above).
The Slosson Intelligence (IQ) Test is a well-respected and highly validated intelligence test worldwide. It measures the following categories: general information, similarities and differences, vocabulary, comprehension, digit span, arithmetic, visual motor capacity, and auditory memory. After all testing is completed, the examiner will do an item analysis on consistently missed items and categories in order to provide feedback for future instructional strategies.
The average difference between the chronological age and the intellectual age is 2.7 years ahead. Note: The MAE (Mean Age Equivalent) of Nithyananda GurukulSM students is much higher than their peers who were used to norm this test.
Since the Slosson is a highly verbal test, the test administrator observed that many of the IQ scores were not accurate because of lack of English language immersion. The results pertaining to students with total English immersion have been reproduced here. (Note: The number of years each student has practiced English has been recorded.)
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Intellectual Maturity compared to Exact Age 83% of the students are intellectually 1 to 6 year(s) ahead of their actual age (as of students tested so far)
4. Sharanya and Lopamudra were asked the question number 153: ‘What is a panorama?’ Neither student knew the definition, so the item was marked incorrect. The examiner then visualized a panoramic scene on top of Mount Everest. Both of these students described the scene in detail, including snow, mountains and sky.
53% of the students are intellectually 2 to 6 year(s) ahead of their actual age (as of students tested so far)
Unique Observations 1. One student, Brahmasukha, IQ 144, who was very proficient in blindfolded reading, correctly answered the question, ‘Who was Longfellow and what did he do to become famous?’ When the examiner asked him, ‘How did you get this answer?’, he said it came spontaneously to him. This ‘spontaneous knowledge’ acquisition needs to be studied further. There could be a correlation between blindfolded reading and spontaneous knowledge acquisition. 2. Another proficient blindfold reader, Lopamudra, IQ 123, after getting question number 181 incorrect, asked me if she could read the answer through the examiner’s mind. The question was, ‘Who wrote the following: Much Ado About Nothing?’ She blurted out the letters S H A K E S and S P E A R, then she said M A I L L I W (William), which is of course the correct answer. This student has been studied doing blindfolded reading on many occasions, and it has been observed that many times she reads the letters backwards. 3. Sharanya IQ 119, who was also a proficient blindfold reader, after getting question number 181 incorrect, asked me if she could read the answer through the examiner’s mind. For the question, ‘Who wrote the following book: A Tale of Two Cities?’, she read the letters C H A R L E S D I C K E N S, and she was able to get the answer for two other authors as well.
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Parakaya Pravesham Expansion of Consciousness into Another
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he exact translation of ‘Parakaya Pravesham’ is ‘to be manifest in another body’.
This is a siddhi or yogic power which has several practical applications, depending on the extent of presence possible into the other being. In the Vibhuti Pada of his Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes this siddhi in the following way:
bandha-kāraṇa-śaithilyātpracāra-saṁvedanāccacittasya paraśarīrāveśaḥ ॥3.38॥ By the loosening of the causes of bondage (to one’s own body) and the intuitive grasp of the passages of expansion, (happens) the entering into another body.
pranamaya and the rest. The pranamaya kosha is permeated by three koshas, the manomaya by two koshas and the vijnanamaya by one kosha. In this manner, each outer kosha is full of that which is within, i.e. the succeeding one being internal to the preceding. By resolving each kosha into that which immediately succeeds it, we are led to the knowledge of the Brahman, which is beyond cause and effect, and realize our oneness with it. Vedanta Prabodha explains how this happens, through the concept of sakshi. When one wishes to read the mind of another, or cognize the physical experience of another, the technique applied would be to expand the koshas, such that the vijnanamaya kosha and the manomaya kosha are at the level of the recipient’s own koshas. Traditionally, the five koshas are:
To understand Parakaya Pravesham, we must first understand the concept of the koshas. Adi Shankaracharya, the great incarnation, describes Vivekachudamani the koshas or energy bodies as below:
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These sheaths are something like peels of onion growing one over the other. Accordingly, the annamayakosha is permeated by four koshas: the
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These are all subtle layers of energies overlapping each other, with the anandamaya kosha on the inside in a normal incomplete human being, and expanding outwards as completion happens, allowing
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the anandamaya kosha to merge with the universal consciousness the brahmanda (macrocosm).
Ida and Pingala, pass along the right and left sides of the forehead and meet together and are joined with the Sushumna between the two eyebrows.
An Avatar, being in oneness with Nature, the Manifested Consciousness, therefore, both with form and formless can easily convert matter into energy and back into matter again.
This can be easily experienced after the inititation into a fully awakened ajna chakra (Third Eye), wherein one can cognize and read not only written material blindfolded, but eventually, also ‘read mind’, or cognize and understand the perception and space of other consenting beings around us.
From there the Ida goes to the left nostril and the Pingala to the right. From the medulla, the Sushumna is bifurcated:
This allows the subtle aspect of the body to completely merge with another and experience the physical life through the merged body.
(1) One line passes below the brain and in a rather oblique course comes to the eyebrow whence with a slightly upward bend pierces the pericarp of the ajna chakra (third eye center) and unites with Ida and Pingala. Then it comes out, and running straight up crosses a very subtle hole within the interior of the central region of the forehead and hanging down to some distance takes a curve and goes right up, penetrating the Sahasrara and entering the Brahmarandhra.
There are three known levels or techniques of Parakaya Pravesham, depending on the objective to be achieved:
(2) Another line goes up direct from the medulla, and through the interior of the skull extends to the Shikhara. With a slight curve it enters the Brahmarandhra. The mouth of this line of the Susumna which is in the Brahmarandhra remains usually closed, while that of the first line is open. Consequently the hollows of the two lines are not in union.
Level 1 Meditation on vajradanda (a shaft of light along the spinal column and/or extending above the head) expands the cognition (vijnanamaya kosha). Expansion of cognition opens up the power of blindfolded reading and many other powers.
A very good example of Parakaya Pravesham was demonstrated by Adi Shankaracharya, the great Avatar, when, as part of a debate, he was challenged to demonstrate his knowledge of Kamashastra (the science of sex), in spite of being a total celibate.
Prana or life-energy enters the body through the two channels called ida and pingala, to merge into the third channel called sushumna and travel up the spinal column.
While a close disciple guarded his body in a cave, Shankaracharya entered the state of Samadhi and expanded his Consciousness to enter that of a king named Amaruka, who had just then died. After experiencing the life of a householder for a month through the body of the king, he re-entered his body and went on to win the debate.
The medulla oblongata (bhastaka granthi) above the vishuddhi chakra, is one of the sites where the three nadis are united. From here the sushumna enters into the skull, and the other two nadis, viz.
Level 3 At the instance of the death of a person and subsequent loss of his conscious energy, it is possible for an Avatar to suffuse His own consciousness into the body, if it has been devoid of life energy for less than one hour. In this technique, the Avatar or enlightened sage uses the siddhi to bring back to life the other being, without physically entering his cognition for any specific purpose. The enlightened sage Tirumoolar is known to have entered into the body of a dead shepherd out of compassion for his flock. In another famous incident concerns Adi Shankaracharya’s disciple Hastamalakacharya. It is said that when the disciple was a baby, he drowned in a river, but out of compassion for his mother, an enlightened sage entered into the child’s body using his siddhi of parakaya pravesham.
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The siddhi of Parakaya Pravesham has been demonstrated on several occasions by His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda, and witnessed by His disciples. A sharing related to one such incident has been documented at the end of this chapter.
Level 2 Science has conclusively shown that matter and energy are interchangeable, depending on the conditions and the perception of the observer. At the subatomic level, all subatomic particles or elements are exactly the same and constantly appear and disappear in fractions of seconds.
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Revelations from the Avatar
Parakaya Pravesham can be as simple a power as to get a glimpse into the mind of another by expanding one’s space (koshas), to the very intricate technique of entering another’s body, which Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda reserves for critical situations, or during the process of Samskara Dahana Kriya. During this kriya, with the permission of the participants, He enters the bodies in order to cleanse their patterns, incompletion and karmas at the level of biomemory (genetic and gene expression changes) in order to align the physiology of the disciple.
Listen: a cyclone of different moods is constantly hitting your inner space. Each time you are hit by an emotion, be aware of how the evolution is happening in you, how each hitting is teaching you something, how it is raising you to a higher and higher space. For example, when pain hits you, if you remain with awareness, you become a leader. When greed hits you, if you are aware, you will have the siddhi of expanding the body. When guilt hits you and you are aware, you will have the siddhi of shrinking your body. Same way, fear can give you the siddhi of making your body heavy, and courage can give you the siddhi of making your body light.
Even Death must obey an Avatar Aha! I felt, and said to myself, “Is that all Swamiji? I know how You can bring back people, and when you do it, they won’t feel any pain!” The memory of my own experience of Swamiji’s energy landing all around my body when I fell and fractured my hand filled me. I did not even care to listen to anything further, as I simply knew it was just another being that is going to have a strong, personal and physical experience of Swamiji’s incomparable compassion.
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Yogananda Swami Sannyasi of Nithyananda Order Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam Email: sri.yoga@nithyananda.org
In the year 2012, Swamiji was conducting Inner Awakening in Kodaikanal in south India. As part of the IA, one evening we were having Kalabhairava darshan and Akashic Readings from Swamiji.
When you are being hit by the fears created by the past being projected on the future, if you remain aware, you will have the siddhi of ishatva, lordship. When you have the ability not to let the past into the future, but perform the same act differently each time, you will have the power of vashitva. The same act done again and again without the trace of the past expresses as extraordinary creativity and vashitva – a mesmerizing presence.
I was sitting the closest to Swamiji; unlike other times, strangely I started feeling my body becoming numb, and I was smelling my body as some dead body, akin to my pre-monastic childhood memory. Suddenly I noticed a buzz of activity from the brahmacharis who were down the stage. From the looks of it, I knew there was something important / urgent that they wanted to convey to Swamiji. Swamiji was unmoved, but paused briefly and had a really deep look on His face. From where I was sitting, it looked like He was looking deep into a distant sky; then He made a hand gesture that looked to me like, “It has left”! Since I did not know what it was, I only prayed, “Swamiji, there are too many false media attacks already; let there not be one more thing to defend!”
So do sammyama on how the evolution happens in you with each emotion, each moment of your life.
Swamiji abruptly stopped the Akashic Readings and went and sat down on His seat on the stage. Soon after, there was a brief moment when one of the brahmacharis updated Swamiji; something to which Swamiji very patiently replied, “He has left the body already.” I thought to myself, “One of the ashramites died? Who? Why?” But all thoughts died down instantly. There was silence everywhere.
It turned out that one of the brahmacharis had met with a road accident while driving a two wheeler without wearing a helmet, despite Swamiji making that a pre-condition for anyone riding any two wheeler. He was taken to the hospital and was just declared dead. It was 15 minutes and he could not be revived medically. Then Swamiji said in His authority that He has brought the person back into his body. God, all of us were looking with eyes wide open! I said to myself, ‘Yes, yes that is a big relief!’ Precisely at that moment, I saw I am grounding back onto my own body; there was no more numbness or the smell of any dead body. Then Swamiji reminded those who brought the news to tell the doctors to attempt a revival now. If I remember correctly, it turned out that the brahmachari had already opened his eyes when they wanted to convey this to the doctors. The most shocking thing was, when I returned to the ashram just a few days later, I found the same brahmachari moving about and doing his work normally, with no sign that he had just gone through a death experience a few days earlier! Later I heard from a senior ashramite that this brahmachari had requested and received a boon from Swamiji that he will not die before Swamiji leaves his physical body. Wow! I thought - that is the power of a boon given by the siddha Avatar – it can bring you back even from the other side of death!
After what felt like quite a long time, Swamiji said, “He left the body, not able to bear the pain. I can bring him back, but he has to go through the same pain.”
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The Science of Miracles Levitation, Teleportation, Materialization
Or levitation – it is the most visible indication that the grip of your karmas (bio-memories) on you is reducing; you have become willing to let go of pain, fear and guilt. This transformation is happening inside you whether you are aware of it or not, but the outward indicators can be a powerful support on the spiritual path.
What are miracles? As Paramahamsa Nithyananda reiterates, there is no such thing as a miracle. What we call miracles are perfectly scientific events that follow cosmic laws that we that we do not as yet understand. To denounce a seemingly miraculous happening as a hoax is as ridiculous as denouncing or denying the existence of cellular phones or computers, simply because we cannot grasp the technology on which they work. When we recall that not long ago cloning was considered impossible, test-tube babies (in vitro fertilization) were thought of as outlandish and the World Wide Web was inconceivable, we can see that expanding our boundary of understanding and acceptance is simply a sensible choice.
(excerpts from a discussion and Q&A session between a team of doctors and researchers, and a group of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s monastic and other disciples)
What is eN-Effect? eN-Effect refers to the collective extraordinary happenings in and of the presence of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. These include obvious ‘miracles’ like levitation, teleportation, healing and instantaneous kundalini awakening, as well as the deeper and subtler miracles of spiritual transformation.
Are miracles necessary on the spiritual path?
Why is it known as eN-Effect? Much of what happens in the presence in an enlightened consciousness is too subtle for the senses or mind to grasp. These happenings can be known only by their effects. Levitation, teleportation, healing and other happenings are all the effects of subtle changes on the energetic plane that we cannot see. Because we do not know the cause, the effects appear miraculous to us.
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eN-Effect is a landmark energy expression on our planet by a living siddha (energy adept). For the first time, the highest superconscious energy has been brought down to the frequencies that the human body can absorb, without losing its purity. Each day, hundreds of thousands of people across the world sitting in Nithyananda’s real or virtual presence are experiencing intense Kundalini awakening and its many miraculous expressions. Normally, it is impossible for a living body, even the superbly tuned body of an Avatar, to continuously hold and transmit such high volumes of energy without being destroyed itself. It is like trying to pour the ocean into a funnel! The body will not be able to withstand the pressure. Either the body will be destroyed in the process, or the Avatar will simply drop the body and relax into Superconsicousness – again resulting in physical death.
The ultimate miracle on the spiritual path is the miracle of your own transformation. All the other miracles happening in and around you are only indications of the tremendous inner work that is already happening in the presence of the master.
The physical condition of the body, as well as the bio-memories it carries, are of inestimable importance in this process. It is like this if you pour molten gold down a copper tube, when it comes out at the other end, it is sure to be corrupted with large traces of copper. If you want to transfer the gold without corruption, you will need a diamond tube.
For instance, spontaneous healing is a sign of genuine kundalini awakening, where the body is flooded with enormous energy that can awaken your body intelligence and simply wipe out disease.
This is exactly what Paramahamsa Nithyananda is doing, using His extraordinary vajra (diamond) body, molded by intense spiritual disciplines, and carrying the yogic bio-memory of many lifetimes,
Yes and no.
Why eN-Effect? In the history of human civilization, no attempt has ever been made on such a large scale to elevate the human consciousness through scientific means. But with the 2012-2020 conscious shift nearing its peak, humanity has become ripe for rapid spiritual transformation. This is a time of enormous upheaval, both inside us and in the world outside. It is a significant juncture in our evolution, when the entire planet is poised for a powerful transformation. We have two distinct choices at the moment: either to integrate ourselves harmoniously with these higher energies and take the quantum leap into higher states of consciousness, or to continue to live in denial till we are swept away by the tide of inevitable change.
Miraculous happening are natural in the presence of an incarnation. As close devotees are aware, they have always been happening around Nithyananda. However, it is only now that a concerted attempt is being made to scientifically analyze, quantify and replicate these happenings, so that the science behind them can be better understood, and used to the benefit of humanity at large.
What is the secret of eN-Effect?
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Even the natural calamities we are experiencing today are a sign of the powerful push-pull of conscious and unconscious energies battling it out for supremacy. If we can successfully elevate a critical mass of people into enlightenment, we can tilt the scales in favor of conscious evolution. Our whole planet can take the quantum leap into Superconsciousness. eN-Effect is just the visible end of the powerful process of inner and outer transformation being wrought by Paramahamsa Nithyananda towards this end.
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Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras describe the mystical process of Levitation in Vibhuti Pada, Verse 39:
The word ‘levitation’ is derived from Latin word ‘levitas’ meaning lightness. Levitation is the process by which an object is held aloft without mechanical support in a stable position.
udāna-jayāat jala-pankha-kantakādisv-asango-’tkrāntiśca ॥39॥ Upon mastering the upward-flowing energy (udana-vayu), the yogi severs attachment to the lower aspects of life (mud, water, thorns and the like), and therefore levitates. || 39 ||
Physics Fundamentally, levitation on Earth requires an outward force that counters the massive gravitational force of the Earth.
As anyone who has tried it will attest, levitation is not a joke. It is the science of defying the massive gravitational force of the earth.
In physics, levitation of objects has been performed using magnetic forces, electrostatic forces, gas, etc.
As a first step to preparing the body and mind for initiation into higher levels of consciousness, the five major life-energies (panchaprana) are balanced through intense processes.
One of the known techniques uses materials called diamagnetic materials, which induces a magnetic field in a direction opposite to an externally applied magnetic field. This is an aspect of quantum mechanics, whose effect occurs in all materials.
As Paramahamsa Nithyananda observes, Breathing with thought is prana; breathing without thought is samana. Samana is the prana or life-energy stored in tiny air sacs beneath each pore of the skin. If these air sacs are filled, the body can experience levitation. Only when samana happens in you, the body levitates.
The first process that the participants undergo is balancing the samana energy in the body. A by-product of this process is physical levitation.
The concept of diamagnetics has also been applied to small, watercontaining biological systems like mice, which have been levitated at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory.
If you are breathing but there is no thought, the air sacs under the air pores will get filled. Unfortunately, these air sacs cannot be filled by the gross prana that is taken in through the nose. You literally have to learn to breathe through your skin! This can be done through intensive yogic techniques, or it can happen through initiation.”
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way – that is the insecurity. When you try to land, you think, maybe this bliss will go away.
(Excerpts from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s talks on Levitation to various audiences)
As I explained, breathing with thoughts is prana; breathing without thoughts is samana. Only when samana happens in you, the body levitates. If you are breathing, but there is no thought, the air bag under the pores of your skin get filled and the body starts levitating.
The Yoga Sutras declare:
anityāśuciduḥkhānātmasu nityaśucisukhātmakhyātiravidyā
Consciousness is lighter than anything in nature. It is lighter than the ether. So it always levitates, pulls you up. Matter, earth, pulls you down. Gravitation and levitation both are constantly happening in your body, in your nervous system. The friction between your gravitation and levitation is your thoughts. Thoughts are nothing but the friction between them. If the friction is felt in the muladhara chakra, it means there are a little more thoughts, and more gross thoughts; if it is felt in the swadishthana chakra, it means a little less thoughts, if it is felt in the manipuraka chakra, it means still lesser thoughts; if it is felt in the anahata chakra , you are more pure, with even lesser thoughts.
Please understand: the process that makes you levitate also leads you to the deeper and deeper reality, and it cannot leave you. By nature, you are always travelling towards the deepest reality of your existence. If you mistake the source of happiness as connected to outer world happenings, then there is a possibility of pain being mistaken as pleasure. But if you catch the root of happiness, which is the higher possibility of existence, the higher form of reality, it will never leave you. I am not even bothered about levitation as such. It is just a byproduct. We are working towards raising your Consciousness, and in the process, sometimes your body and mind also will also rise - that’s all.
Levitation is not just a siddhi. What is there in flying? You have so many flights! It is sacred because it is a side-effect that happens when your consciousness rises. When your consciousness rises, with whatever it is connected, that object also rises.
Patanjali says clearly in his Yoga Sutras:
te samādhav-upasargā[ḥ]-vyutthāne siddhayaḥ ॥3.37॥
Anima, mahima, laghima, garima are the ripple-effects created in your body when the conscious breakthrough happens. They are just by-product, not the main product.
These powers are of secondary importance to those who have attained knowledge (samadhi), but are nonetheless feats for materially oriented individuals. || 3.37 ||
Breakthrough in consciousness means, a new conscious opening, a new conscious happening. Levitation is just a candy to excite you and the world. But the conscious happening, the conscious opening, is the main goal. Enlightenment is the main goal.
When I was a child, my yoga guru Raghupati Yogi used to train me in levitation. He used to pile mattresses on the floor and make me sit on top of them. Then he would ask me to inhale and hold the breath. This is called kumbhaka.
Vedic Science of Levitation Levitation, kundalini awakening, everything happens just through this great truth of entanglement; nothing else. When this entanglement happens, I just give my inner space to you, which is lighter than the outer space. I will explain the science of levitation. See, there are three kinds of spaces: ghatakasha – your inner space, chidakasha – the space in which your body is sitting, and paraakasha – the cosmic space. If your inner space is heavier than your outer space, you will be grounded, very strong, fixed, glued to the ground. All I do is, for a few minutes, I make your inner space lighter than the outer space by removing the mass, the dirt. For those few seconds, you are in entanglement with my inner space, which is purest consciousness. Because your inner space loses its mass, its dirt, the body just starts hopping, levitating. After a few times, your inner space starts believing, ‘Oh, God! Thoughtless space is possible for me, but because of my habit, I am habituated to live in a heavy, crowded, loaded space. I can be in thoughtless space. That is my nature. That is my original nature.’ If you are constantly initiated and exposed to the pure inner space, that will become experience in you. Once you are exposed to that, by and by your bio-memory and your muscle memory begin to enjoy that space, live in that space and it becomes Living Enlightenment. This is the way entanglement becomes your muscle-memory and bio-memory. Entanglement is initiation. Now you need to live it to make it into ‘Living Enlightenment!’
Then, one by one, he would start removing the mattresses! I had to remain in the air even without the mattresses! I had to remain in that space for 60 seconds. And even when I land, I know I needed to land slowly, because the floor beneath was a hard cement floor! So I don’t want to risk making a hard landing and breaking my back. A balanced samana will help you land on the ground slowly. Even in the people who are levitating here, there is so much joy. Joy is being pumped into the body! But try not to land in a hurried
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Moden scientific understanding of Levitation It is now important to understand the above terms in connection with modern scientific understanding. The Ghatakasha comprises the entire human body, which in turn is made up of 50 trillion cells containing mostly water (70% of the body is water). At a molecular level, all structures of the human body are composed of atoms and subatomic particles. Up to this, the structures can be classified under Ghatakasha.
In level 3, the energy of Kundalini now works on the Ghatakasha to counteract the forces of strong interaction and electroweak force, allowing the body to remain levitated in a steady state.
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Water is a diamagnetic element, and is influenced by the same forces of nature like the electromagnetic force (electroweak interaction) as well as dark energy, which though relatively weak, also counteracts gravity.
Please understand: your individual consciousness (jiva) is nothing but a reflection of the Cosmic Superconsciousness (Shiva). It has no separate or individual existence from the original. The mirror on which the Superconsciousness reflects is your body.
At atomic and subatomic levels, all atoms are 99% space and 1% mass. However, the space is not empty, but contains energy in the form of strong interactions and electroweak forces.
In your body, brain and muscles, there are different levels of reflectors or mirrors of Consciousness. The original Superconsciousness which is in you does not feel the individual identity. Your individual identity is experienced only by reflection on these mirrors. So the quality of the reflecting mirror is going to directly affect the quality of the identity you feel as you.
These vast, apparently empty but energy-containing spaces, constitute the chidakasha. Infusion of Kundalini energy into the apparently empty space within the atom (chidakasha) changes the electron orbital into a higher orbital, increasing the apparent empty space of each atom. This creates a larger volume for the same mass, allowing the body to become relatively lighter than before - like the expansion of a helium-filled balloon. The more helium is filled, the lighter it gets, and it flies away.
The lower-level mirrors you have may be dusty or scratched or misshapen, they may be concave or convex, so the reflection of Consciousness in those mirrors will not be the highest and true to the original.
The Chidakasha is ultimately the same as the Parakasha, and hence the only dividing line between form and formlessness is the Ghatakasha, the body boundary.
You also have more pure, stable deeper, stable layers of reflectors. If the mirror is pure and clean, naturally the quality of you that you experience will not only be deeper and higher, but it will be more true to the original.
Levels of Levitation Infusion of Kundalini energy, by the Avatar, allows the following effects to occur in the disciple.
During levitation, the deepest reflectors of your Consciousness are awakened.
In the first level, due to the phenomena of quantum entanglement, a state of thoughtlessness is created, which produces an intense sense of lightness.
In your brain, there are trillions of cells. The reflection happens in trillions of places. For example, both logic and intuition are possibilities carried by your brain. When your logic mirror reflects the Superconsciousness, you feel that your logic is your identity. Unfortunately, it is not a complete or total identity. But when your intuition mirror is mirroring the Superconsciousness, you naturally feel that your intuition is your identity, and you have tremendous joy and respect for yourself. When your intuition reflects Consciousness, that is what I call the highest coherence.
This is because thoughts especially emotions are packets of energy which tend to weigh down a person. In the second level, as the disciple is able to hold more and more energy, an expansion of the Chidakasha takes place which lightens the body allowing intermittent levitation to happen.
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So the quality of the mirror decides the quality of the identity which you are carrying, which you are feeling. That is why, after the Energy darshan, you feel so good - because your very identity feels good. A simple exercise like unclutching makes you feel so good, because the mirror in which you are reflected is now higher. Essentially, one part of your being is centered on the Source from which you are reflecting, while the other parts are turned outwards towards the world. The 72,000 nadis or channels of subtle energy can be considered as rays flowing from the reflection which is you. Of the 72,000, if fewer nadis are flowing outward, you can change your body at any time, easily. The reflection can change the mirror! It can simply say, ‘Enough! This mirror is too tired, too old; let us go to the next mirror.’ Because the reflection does not identify much with that particular mirror, it can just go to the next mirror; that’s all. A powerful way to measure how many of your nadis are centered on the Source, is through weight-lifting. When levitation happens, if you are able to lift twice your weight, that is called two bala; it means that both the ida and the pingala nadis are active, alive. If you are able to lift thrice your weight, then it means that all three nadis (including sushumna) are alive. That means at least 10,000 of your nadis among the 72,000 are turned towards the Source from where you are reflecting; they are centered on Superconsciousness. Levitation does not mean you have reached the end. It means that your highest-level mirrors are now reflecting the Superconsciousness. But your muscle-memory needs to alter itself and prepare itself for that radiation. Your body and mind also need to go through the necessary changes to retain the same highest coherence. For the highest consciousness to become musclememory, you need to constantly think and align and move your body in a particular way. That is why I tell you, along with the intense dosage of levitation every morning, make sure you are working intensely the whole day, using your mind to iron out your stress with understanding. Then you will see that the energy that gets awakened during levitation will simply be digested and will become part of you!
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Levitation has filled me with positive energy Name: Alicia Morrissey
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Location: Charlotte, USA Email:vidnav@gmail.com
In February 2011, I attended my first program with Swamiji, Life Bliss 1, over 2-way video conferencing, which He was conducting Himself! This was my breakthrough experience, instantly giving me strong feeling connection to Swamiji and was the beginning of my new life!
In Dec 2010, I had successfully finished the “Jeevan Mukthi” vratha as per Swamiji’s initiation. In a few days, I had the best levitation experience in my house. I just connected to Swamiji, and while meditating, I completely lifted off the ground, and I was surprised that I had this experience without being in Swamiji’s physical presence. I experientially realized that Swamiji was beyond TIME and SPACE. All we needed to do is connect to HIM sincerely. I knew I was blessed.
Then my feeling connection became stronger when Swamiji released en-Kriya, which has forever changed my life! I practiced it daily and still do it to this day, because the technique works wonders for me! It filled me with so much positive energy and auspiciousness and also made me have my first levitation experience! I felt more energetic, vibrant, happier, focused, peaceful, and healthier, everything changed for me and became a brand new person. Depression has left me and I am finally letting go of all my anxiety built up over so many years! All thanks to this amazing gift from Swamiji!!!
I can’t believe this is happening to me Ann-Marie, Canada In April 2011, I attended Inner Awakening. It was an experience like I never expected 2 powerful satoris, energy beyond belief, levitation. Unbelievable. Deep breath. Unclutch. Lift off the ground. The rush of bliss and compassion. Unbelievable.
My body was just flying! Name: Akshay Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Kailashamayananda
Today, I still tell myself almost daily, “I can’t believe this is happening to me.” I try to remind myself how awesome and unique this really is. And at the same time I sense that this is only just the beginning. Talk about human potential all of a sudden! It is no longer a faint ideological idea, but it is EXPERIENCE in the happening! I have gone from trying hard, intensely seeking, to almost holding back. It is sooo beautiful. I feel myself moving energetically with Swamiji, even if I sometimes miss out of weeks of satsangs due to my touring. The connection is there forever.
Location: Bengaluru, India
During the kundalini awakening webinar conducted by Swamiji, I had a strong levitation experience - my body was just flying in the air! Thank you Swamiji for giving me such a wonderful experience.
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atoms. Explained using quantum mechanics, teleportation is a mechanism by which information of the exact state of an atom can be transmitted from one location to another. In this process, information is transported from one location to another using an entangled quantum state. Known as ‘quantum teleportation’, this process involves a phenomenon called ‘entanglement’ which is possible only on a micro-scale. As mentioned earlier, in classical terms, information is called a “Bit” and in quantum mechanics it is called a “Qubit”. Whereas quantum entanglement allows teleportation to happen instantaneously, recreation of masses larger than an atom would also need a classical information link between the 2 locations. This link cannot process information faster than the speed of light, and thus, there will be a time delay from Point A to Point B for teleportation to occur.
Science of Teleportation For most people, teleportation is the stuff that science fiction films are made of. In the last century, the wildly popular sci-fi television series Star Trek created the fantasy of human teleportation for a whole generation. Though the mystic disciplines of the world have always understood and played with the phenomenon of teleportation, modern science is only just beginning to understand that teleportation can be a real possibility in our dimension. However, there is a distinct and essential difference between the way science and mystery schools define teleportation.
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There is physical evidence of teleportation of structures ranging from Sacred Ash, to larger objects across continents, e.g. from Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, Bengaluru Aadheenam, to several international locations (outside of India). In physics laboratories, the largest distance of experimental teleportation is 143 kms. Larger masses made up of multiple atoms would require more time for reassembly, as they still need to use the classical channel in spite of information having preceded it instantaneously through quantum entanglement. Quantum teleportation is actually a process of replication similar to cloning or ‘biological faxing’, where the same information is used to create a duplicate exactly like the original object. The object itself is not teleported but only information about it is captured and used. The main difference between teleportation as science knows it, and more conventional forms of sending information from one place to another, is that this is a process of instantaneous transportation.
Science defines teleportation as the process by which an object is dematerialized and essential information about its atomic structure is sent to another point in space, where the object is instantaneously ‘rematerialized’ or reassembled into its component
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by a lifetime (or lifetimes) of arduous spiritual discipline and the grace of the Divine.
In 1998, for the first time, a team of researchers at California Institute of Technology successfully teleported a photon across a distance of approximately one meter. However, in the process, the original object was destroyed. Since then, a number of teleportation experiments have been performed.
All materials cannot be teleported with equal success, as only certain materials can withstand the extreme rigors of being pulled apart at the atomic level, converted into energy vibrations, transmitted through space and then distilled into matter again. An object with a weak molecular structure will be pulverized during the process of teleportation, and could never be reassembled again.
In 2006, physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute (Denmark), led by Eugene Polzik teleported photons across half a meter and used them to illuminate a cloud of atoms. This was considered a milestone, because it involved teleportation between light and matter. In 2013, the research group succeeded in teleporting information between two clouds of gas atoms and to carry out the teleportation – not just one or a few times, but successfully every single time. The results were published in the scientific journal, Nature Physics. (Reference:http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/ quantum-teleportation-between-atomic-systems-over-longdistances/) In stark contrast to these efforts, the teleportation of whole objects and even people is a well-defined practice in the mystical tradition. Unlike in the scientific context, it is not just the vital information about the object, but the object itself which is teleported.
Vedic Science of Teleportation The Vedic science of teleportation works on the premise that matter and energy are inter-convertible. Just as the pattern of sound waves in a telephone is carried by an electric current from the source to the destination, where it is ‘reconverted’ to sound, an object to be teleported is simply dissolved into energy at the source, and transported through space to be reassembled at its destination. Although we say ‘simply dissolved’, the complexity of the process and the mastery of mind over matter required here is unimaginable. Teleportation and other siddhis (spiritual powers) are gained only
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Science of Materialization In spiritualism, paranormal literature, and some religions, materialization (or manifestation) is the creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources. The existence of materialization is in the process of investigation by laboratory experiments in physics laboratories.
1803 – Year of the Impossible 1803 was an unsettling year for conventional science. In that year, a bright young English scientist called Thomas Young performed a simple experiment that would, for the first time, destroy the comfortable solidity of the Newtonian universe. In this classic experiment, which came to be known as Young’s Double-Slit Experiment, the scientist used basic tabletop equipment to prove something astonishing: light could exist simultaneously in the form of matter as well as energy, ultimately manifesting as either matter or energy depending on the observer.
2011 – The Impossible in Action Can something be created out of nothing?
Materialization - The Impossible becoming Possible In the physical or virtual presence of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, devotees across the world regularly experience the miracles of materialization. A few instances of the materializations of different sacred objects, idols, sacred ash and honey have been presened below.
‘Yes!’ – say the followers of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, who are witnessing the impossible becoming possible every day. Since early 2011, ardent devotees have been witnessing the miraculous appearance of innumerable sacred items, from vibhuti (holy ash) to honey to gems to small idols in the Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temples or in their homes, all by a word of blessing from the Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Well-documented and very often videographed, it seems that these extraordinary mystical happenings can neither be brushed aside nor explained! Hundreds of miracles are being experienced by devotees, all of them occurring within minutes or hours of Paramahamsa Nithyananda announcing that they would happen.
This extraordinary finding was to have a ripple effect on the most basic postulates of the Newtonian world, including the reality of matter itself. The dual existence of light implied the shocking possibility of a dual universe itself, existing simultaneously as matter and energy. Interestingly, Ishavasya Upanishad, one of the primary spiritual texts of the Hindu Vedic tradition, had declared more than 10,000 years ago that - all that exists in the universe is energy, including whatever appears as matter.
7 April 2011, San Jose, USA During a Vedic festival dedicated to the Goddess Meenakshi (Cosmic Mother), Paramahamsa Nithyananda blessed the devotees at Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temple, San Jose Aadheenam, USA that they would witness the appearance of holy vermilion (kumkum) at the feet of the Meenakshi deity. The same day, vermilion appeared at the feet of the deity of Goddess Meenakshi.
11 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur Devotees at the Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Malaysia temple witnessed the continuous dripping of sacred honey from the deity of Paramahamsa Nithyananda
21 May 2011, Kuala Lumpur Miraculous teleportation of rudraksha from Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam, India, followed by its appearance on the sacred Maha Meru at Nithyananda Peetham, Kuala Lumpur Aadheenam, Malaysia
īśā vāsyam idagṁ sarvam yad kiñca jagatyām jagat | ~ Īśā Vāsya Upaniṣad, v.1 It would be still another century before quantum physics could prove this truth conclusively. But Young’s experiment opened the eyes of humanity to the world of quantum physics – a hitherto inconceivable plane of reality in which everything was possible – including the impossible.
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27 January 2011, Chennai, India Vibhuti (sacred ash) materialized on Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s padukas (holy sandals) during the sacred ritual of Sri Vidya homa in a devotee’s house in Thiruvottriyur, Chennai.
24 June 2011, Oman At her Oman home temple, Poornima received sacred stones in her throat instantly on instruction from Paramahamsa Nithyananda who was at Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam, India
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6 Sept 2011, Bidadi In one afternoon session of less than four hours, Paramahamsa Nithyananda manifested a series of more than 108 exquisite hand-held artifacts through his divyasareeri (energy channel), Poornima (Ma Nithya Mahayogananda). They included a wide range of sacred objects with varying molecular structures, from onyx and crystal to rose quartz, ruby and jade, indicating a consummate command of the science of Teleportation. Some items are raw stones, while others have been polished, and the most beautiful and wondrous of all are perfectly carved miniature murtis or religious statuary. All these sprang effortlessly from the divine visiualization space of Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
12 March 2012, Malaysia Vel, the instrument of Lord Kartikeya, materialized through the body of a divyashareeri (energy channel)
10 June 2011, Seattle Ananda Senapati of Seattle, USA, found an auspicious panchamukhi rudraksha (5-faced sacred bead of Lord Shiva) in his prayer-room as per Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s blessings
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3 November 2011, Malaysia 7 sacred objects materialized through the body of a divyashareeri (energy channel)
18 July 2011, Oman Panchamukhi Rudraksha (5-faced sacred bead) materialized at Oman Aadheenam, home temple, through an energy channel
10 August 2011, en route to Mt. Kailash ‘Atmalinga’ from the inner space of Lord Shiva materialized during the Kailasa yatra through an energy channel
11 August 2011, en route to Mt. Kailash Materialization of Ganesha Rudraksha (a sacred bead in the shape of Lord Ganesha)
17 August 2011, Bidadi, Bengaluru, India Materialization of rare mineral
20 August 2011, Bidadi, India Materialization of sacred stone
20 August 2011, Bidadi, India Materialization of bluish stone considered sacred to Lord Vishnu
21 August 2011, Bidadi, India Materialization of bluish stone considered sacred to Lord Vishnu
4 October 2011, Singapore Idol of Mahalakshmi materializetd through an energy channel by Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s command during the morning satsang
10 July 2011, Oman Materialization of a greenish stone at Oman Home Temple through an energy channel during the morning satsang meditation conducted by Paramahamsa Nithyananda, from Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam, India
18 October 2011, Singapore Coin with Lakshmi on one side and Ganesha on the other side, materalized through the energy channel’s body
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such thing called a miracle! All so-called miracles are perfectly scientific happenings, based on natural laws that we are yet to fully comprehend.
Materialization and Quantum Physics Scientifically speaking, the process of materialization belongs to the realm of quantum physics. The theory of Quantum Entanglement attempts an explanation of how materialization might be taking place.
Tasmai sri gurumoortaye namah idam sri dakshinaamoortaye
Materialization and Vedic Science Even today, the finest minds in the global scientific community are unable to explain these happenings, which are commonplace in the ancient Indian Vedic tradition that Paramahamsa Nithyananda hails from. According to Vedic cosmogony, our universe itself was created out of the thought-power of the god Brahma. The holy scripture Yoga Vashishta describes how highly advanced Yogis can create objects out of their mind, through a rare combination of perfect visualization and the yogic power of creation, prakamya. This extraordinary mastery of yogic sciences was commonplace in Vedic India, as is evident from Adi Sankara’s ‘Dakshinamurti stotram’, which describes how the world (or many worlds) exists only as a possibility - like a tree within a seed. The perfect yogi can call forth this possibility into Reality by his one-pointed will and powers of manifestation or materialization.
Bijasyaantarivaankuro jagadidam praang-nirvikalpam punah Maya-kalpita desha-kaala-kalanaa vaichitryachitreekrtam Maayaaveeva svechchayaa
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Entanglement is a term used in quantum theory to describe the way that particles of energy/matter can become correlated to predictably interact with each other regardless of how far apart they are. This means that the state and actions of one of these particles can influence the state and actions of others through the process of interference.
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(Dakshinamurti Stotram, v.2) Prakamaya is one of the ashta maha siddhis or Eight Mighty Yogic Powers, accomplished only through many lifetimes of yogic disciplines and Divine grace. Unfortunately, these extraordinary sciences are all but lost to humanity today.
During the process of materialization, the energy channel becomes so attuned to Paramahamsa Nithyananda that his/her body and mind temporarily assume the characteristics of enlightenment. In other words, the divyashareeri becomes like an extension of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s own inner space.
To date, a few rare individuals are able to materialize items like sacred ash from their own bodies or from objects that carry their energy imprint. But Paramahamsa Nithyananda is arguably the only known being on our planet with the ability to manifest matter from energy in a matter of a few minutes, in the bodies of people sitting thousands of miles away, using nothing but his own unimaginable yogic powers!
In physics this is called a classical channel, which transmits information slower than the speed of light. As in the science of teleportation, both quantum entanglement and classic channels are needed to deliver and then reconstruct the qubits of information into a material form. Paramahamsa Nithyananda calls this the ‘physiology of feeling connection’. This means that Paramahamsa Nithyananda, purely with the power of his thought-force, can visualize any object and transfer the energy of his visualization into the body of the divyashareeri – where it is instantaneously converted into matter. Mind-bogglingly mystical – but true, nevertheless!
Moving easily between the dimensions of energy and matter, Paramahamsa Nithyananda assembles and reassembles molecules in the air, creating, dissolving and re-creating objects, in materials as diverse as stone, crystal and organic compounds. On 1st September 2011, through a single divyashareeri (energy channel), Paramahamsa Nithyananda materialized as many as 103 sacred stones in a space of a few hours. It would have taken Mother Nature thousands of years to create every single one of them. But as Paramahamsa Nithyananda Himself clarifies, there is no
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Materialization and Superconsciousness It must be mentioned here that unlike subjects of hypnosis or séance mediums, Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s divyashareeris (energy channels) are in a rare elevated state, characterized by high energy, peace and bliss, both during and after the process of energy transfer. Although the two processes may appear similar to an untrained eye, they actually stand at the two extremes of the consciousness spectrum. While subjects of hypnosis or mediums are operating out of the unconscious state, divyashareeris are touching the state of superconsciousness. The tremendous influx of positive energy during these sessions sets up a process of silent transformation in the entire mind-body system of the individual. Divyashareeris regularly report the spontaneous healing of chronic diseases, visible age-reversal and the effortless clearing away of lifelong negative mental patterns. Post-activation assessment of these individuals has proven that the longterm effects of this energy influx extend so far as to influence their problem-solving and decision-making abilities, even harmonizing their interpersonal relationships.
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sense objects to experience pleasure.
Patanjali explains in Samadhi Pada of Yoga Sutras:
My childhood yoga guru, Yogiraj Yogananda Puri, had the ability to use any sense for any purpose. He could pick up a thread and throw it using his eyes! He could light a lamp and blow it out through his eyes. Actually, any one of your senses can be used to experience or replace any other sense. Having this expanded understanding about the senses liberates you from the senses, and makes you master of your senses – Ishvaratva. Living this liberated leadership experience is what we call urdhva retas - the virtuous circle of energy.
Etena bhūtendriyeṣu vyākhyātāḥ (1.13)
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: When you expand your understanding, the strategy planning and the decisions you make about life change drastically. That cognitive shift brings the highest possible liberation in you, which expresses as the extraordinary Ishvaratva or Ishatva – leadership quality. Ishvaratva is usually interpreted as becoming powerful or controlling, but I would like to translate this word as ‘becoming a leader’. It is no way related to being forceful. It is just realizing that by innate nature, you are a leader, and expressing the extraordinary qualities of a leader. When you expand your understanding in any area, suddenly you become Ishvara – you become a leader in that space - a lord, a leader, a master; liberated. Listen to this subtle truth: whatever is under your control, you are liberated from it. For example, if your body is under your control, you are liberated from it. Actually, only if you are liberated from your body, your body will be under your control! It is the same with your mind, or with your emotions. In every field, when you have the broad understanding, it liberates you, and you become a leader in that field. For instance, you think that when a certain object come in contact with a particular sense, you experience excitement. The broad or right understanding is this: when that object comes in contact with that sense, your awareness is being sucked intensely into that particular sense. It is because of your awareness rushing towards that sense intensely that you experience the excitement, not because of the object. When you know this truth, suddenly you will understand that you don’t need any
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Deeper Truths about Teleportation and Materialization
coming in my Guru padukas’, etc. This means, the possibility of raising yourself to the highest frequency is not being allowed in you by you. That is what I call changing the tanmatra – allowing your frequencies to be floating high and low as required; the ability to flow into any frequency. It is a very important truth. Anybody who wants to be a yogi should understand this concept of tanmatra.
Revelations from the Avatar Teleportation involves dismantling an object using an energy which is deeper than the mind, transporting it through the air and assembling it again.
When you are levitating, you are actually going back to your tanmatra level (subtle level), and your tanmatra is getting purified. Each organ goes to the subtlest level tanmatra level, and all the samsakras there get dissolved. That is why many of your diseases disappear after levitation, or after you start receiving teleported objects.
The most significant phenomenon that happens during teleportation is not the size or material of the object, or the distance to which it is teleported. It is this: the whole space vibrates in the same frequency in which the teleportation happens. If A is the teleporter, B is the teleported object and C is the space where it happens, B & C need to vibrate in same frequency in the same frequency as A. For example, when teleportation happens in your hand or in your presence, your very mind and body raise their frequency to receive it. The object being teleported itself does not matter much. It may be just a little vibhuti (sacred ash) or kumkum (vermilion), or it may be a diamond, or it may be a sacred rudraksha bead, or it may be a pebble. But the vibration of the teleportation is something extraordinary. That is the benefit for humanity.
You are sitting in the Cosmic womb Dismantling and assembling can happen only in the hiranyagarbha – the Cosmic Mother’s womb where all Creation happens. So when I do the dismantling, assembling, teleporting or materialization, this whole area becomes the hiranyagarbha – the intense presence of Jagatjanani, Mother of the Universe, the Divine feminine consciousness. So when you sit inside the Mother’s womb, your body and mind also directly go through a great transformation, an amazing transformation; it is like you are reborn!
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The siddhi of teleportation is described in depth in Vibhuti Pada of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
tato manojavitvaṃ vikaraṇabhāvaḥ pradhānajayaśca (3.49) This results in the instantaneous grasp without the use of the body, and complete mastery over the material world.
Tanmatra - Raising your Frequency The key concept you need to understand here is that of tanmatra – the ability to raise or lower your frequency. Please understand, if I am now teleporting akshata (consecrated rice grains), the material’s very frequency gets raised in the subtle level. In that space, in the subtle level, it can just fly – it can just disappear and appear somewhere else without any time gap. It just gets assembled there. But your body, at the point where it is receiving the rice, should also rise to that subtle level for a moment, receive the rice, and come back to the normal plane. For that, you need to continue to remain as a pure channel. Sometimes the akshata which disappears in order to reach somebody’s hand ends up going to somebody else’s hand! Because the person who was supposed to receive is not ready, but somebody else is ready, so it happens in that person’s hand instead..
Your muscle-memory is being altered But you need to know one thing: when you sit in such an energy field, whether you receive any teleported object or not, the information teleportation anyway happens to you! Information teleportation is also a great process. So when you are in my presence and I am teleporting or materializing objects, you may not receive kumkum or vibhuti, but you will receive the information that I am teleporting simultaneously, relating to enlightenment, health, etc. Listen: your body is nothing but a computer. It can just be programmed with any software. The same with my body. Even to do this teleportation, I just heat up the body and program it, that’s all! When the heat is felt, the programming is done. I just say, ‘Let the kumkum happen now!’ So if you sat in the presence for half an hour, even if you have not received a rudraksha in your hand, understand that you have received all this information I am sharing in your muscle-memory, like being painless, joyful, blissful, healthy, being creative, enjoying your life and alive. There are hundreds of great truths which I don’t express verbally, which get teleported into your system. That is the benefit of teleportation and materialization for humanity!
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Scientific Validation of Materialization The most significant in a series of studies conducted by the research team were the tests done on Poornima (Ma Nithya Mahayogananda), a young entrepreneur and Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s energy channel from Singapore. On 6th September 2011, three different studies were conducted during a 4-hour session, in which Paramahamsa Nithyananda materialized a variety of objects through this individual, including sacred ash and precious stones. The studies were:
1) Whole body baseline CT scan of the subject Baseline whole-body CT scans proved the absence of any hidden objects in the body and vicinity of the subject. After the energy transfer from Paramahamsa Nithyananda to the subject, a repeat scan clearly shows the sudden appearance of a radio-opaque foreign body in the oral cavity without any delay or repositioning. The recording of the spiral CT after materialization revealed the presence of materialized objects both in sections and 3D format.
2) Simultaneous qEEG of Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the subject The qEEG recording of both Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the subject done during the process of energy transfer clearly showed ‘Entrainment’ (Synchronicity) in the brain waves of both individuals during the process of materialization, proving that a process of attunement was indeed taking place at the time.
Medical Report of whole body CT scan proving foreign body in oral cavity of Ms. Poornima Ganesh (Ma Nithya Mahayogananda)
Scan (bottom left) showing the sudden appearance of the foreign body (green colored stone) in the oral cavity of the individual. Scan (top left) taken a few minutes earlier clearly shows the absence of any such object in the oral cavity.
Scans from the Lab Diagnostics Report on Materialization
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Laboratory investigation in progress with CT scan of Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s energy channel and simultaneous qEEG (brain-wave) studies of Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the channel to demonstrate entrainment.
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I can sleep well now
I was showered with materialized sacred ash
Legal name: Sarojinidevi Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Krishnananda Location: Toronto, Canada
I used to suffer from sleeplessness (insomnia). When I shared this with my friend who was a devotee of Swamiji, she asked me to attend the Kalpataru program which Swamiji was conducting via video-conferencing from India. She said, ‘You can come and ask Swamiji for anything that is important to you and he will make it happen for you.’ I agreed and attended the program from the Toronto Nithyananda Hindu Temple. During the online darshan, Swamiji asked me what I wanted. I told Swamiji that I wanted to be relieved of my sleeplessness which had been torturing me. He said, ‘You will find that vibhuti (sacred ash) has materialized in front of my picture which is there in the temple. Take it and apply it on your forehead before you go to sleep today.’
Swamiji’s footprints miraculously appeared in front of our eyes
Sacred ash materialized after Swamiji’s online blessing
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I will never forget an incident which happened on Tamil New Year day last year (April 14th, 2014).
The Mill Valley center in California had organized an online Kalpataru program with Swamiji.
The day before New Year, I arrived at the ashram to receive Swamiji’s darshan and blessings. Just before leaving, I asked Him for some vibuthi (sacred ash). He placed three sachets of vibhuti in my hand. I put them in my bag and left for my room.
During the darshan, Swamiji blessed us from India via videoconferencing, saying that vibhuti (sacred ash) would materialize in the center as a sign of His presence and blessings. We were all so excited to hear this.
The next day [Tamil New Year], I opened my bag to take out my pada puja kit to do my puja for the day - and guess what, there were SEVEN vibuthi sachets in the bag! Also, my bag and my purse were full of vibuthi! I was literally showered with materialized vibhuti!!!
The next day, when I moved my kavi Inner Awakening scarf (given by Swamiji) which was lying near a chair, I noticed that vibhuti that had materialized on it!! I did not put it there, so I knew it was a sign of Swamiji’s presence!
Not just my bag, but the table on which I do my puja was also smeared with vibuthi!
Thank you for being with us always Swamiji.
Legal name: Sriharini Chellappan Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Nirbhedananda Location: Melbourne, Australia Email: ma.nirbheda@gmail.com
Being a researcher by profession, I am extremely logical and factbased. But whatever I experienced with Swamiji was just beyond the human mind’s comprehension and logic. Blessed are the souls who have an opportunity to experience an avatar like Swamiji. There are so many auspicious occasions when my husband and I have spotted light radiating from Swamiji’s third eye in the Gurumurti photograph in the Melbourne center. We were also blessed to witness vibhoothi (sacred ash) constantly materializing from his paadukas for many days.
One day, I visited a friend’s place. We carried Swamiji’s paadukas with us and did pada puja there. My husband and I shared with them about the various miracles that people have experienced with Swamiji, including the healing of cancer and materialization. But our friend just said, ‘I will believe only when I see it with my own eyes’.
WHAT A NEW YEAR GIFT FROM THE DIVINE!!! For the next few days, I was too excited to concentrate on my puja. About a week or so later, during the puja, my heart was beating very fast (or so I thought at the time). Later, I happened to look at myself bare-chested in the mirror - and found that my chest was smeared with vibuthi! What I had thought to be an excited heartbeat was actually the intense energy of vibuthi getting materialized on my chest!!
I went to his picture and found that vibhuti has indeed materialized in front of his picture! As told, I applied the vibhuti and went to sleep that night. Since then, with Swamiji’s grace, I am able to sleep soundly from more than seven hours every night. I marvel at Swamiji’s grace.
Suddenly, to our astonishment, he himself spotted Swamiji’s clear footprint on the paadukas! He couldn’t believe his eyes and was just left speechless. Thank you Swamiji for this sweet miracle!
All I can say is, if Swamiji is willing to shower so much on someone who has just started imbibing a drop in the ocean of His teachings, I can’t even imagine the state of one who imbibes ALL His teachings!!
I offer my deep gratitude to him.
NITHYANANDAM!!
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The same thought was declared more than 5000 years ago in the Sanskrit text, Isha Vasya Upanishad -
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practicing energy healing! Energy healing is nothing but channeling the universal life-force to correct energy imbalances in our system which are the hidden cause of most of our diseases.
Mind-body approaches to medicine and alternative healing methods have gained increasing acceptance in recent years. Extensive research on phenomena such as spontaneous healing, the placebo effect and the power of prayer have proved that healing is not a purely physiological occurrence as was once believed. It is closely linked with our emotional and mental patterns, our life experiences, our unique responses to stress and a host of other unquantifiable variables.
The Myth of Matter Modern astrophysicists working on the science of the universe using available scientific concepts based on quantum mechanics, general and special relativity, have mathematically established that all the quantifiable matter in the entire universe works out to barely 4 % of all that exists. The remaining 96%, which science is yet to understand correctly has been termed as dark matter (it is neither dark nor matter) and dark energy, due to lack of availability of more specific and accurate terminology.
Eastern medicine and healing processes have traditionally taken a holistic approach to health and healing. Energy healing, in particular, is a system of healing that treats our body, mind, emotions, thoughts and even our physical environment as unique energy vibrations from a common source.
Matter itself is causally made up of atoms, which are largely empty spaces, and barely 1% of the space occupied by an atom is actually occupied by what can be defined by science as matter. The rest (99%) is apparently empty. However, it is not so in reality.
The basic understanding on which all systems of energy healing work is the universal nature of energy, and the possibility for local and non-local transmission of this energy to facilitate healing. Energy healing is not new to us. Almost everybody these days has either heard of or encountered energy healing in some form or other. In fact, most of us practice energy healing on ourselves or others without being aware of it. When you gently rub a bruised elbow, or place your palms on your tired eyes, you are actually
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Various manifestations of Energy The findings of modern science stand testimony to the famous words of scientist and mystic Albert Einstein - ‘Everything is Energy’.
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(whatever exists in and as this world is Divine energy).
Whatever we see, touch or otherwise contact in our universe is just energy vibrating at different frequencies. Trees, rocks, plants, animals and ourselves – all are nothing but diverse expressions of this energy. Based on how the Energy presents or manifests, different names have been given to it, to make it a little easier to understand. Thus matter too, at a sub-atomic level, is nothing but Energy aligned in a specific way for us to perceive it as such, with either our restricted five senses, or a little better with sophisticated instrumentation. However, at this moment of time, no technique or device exists which can actually detect and measure all that exists in the universe.
Shiva-Shakti The vast, all-pervading potential energy, already on the verge of manifestation by being in a perpetual state of subtle vibration (spanda) without manifestation is what we call Shiva. Once manifested, it is Shakti.
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The Indian rishis evidently knew about the existence of dark energy, and frequently referred to it as ‘Kali’ (the Dark One). In the ancient scripture Mahaniravani Tantra, revealed by Lord Shiva Himself, there are several references to this energy. However, unlike dark energy, Kali is not described as responsible for the ever-expanding universe; rather, she ‘neither moves, nor is motionless’. This is in accordance with the current ‘Raisin Bread Model’ of the universe, which suggests that the universe is actually ‘stretching’ in all dimensions rather than accelerating. Thus it is that Kali ‘neither moves, nor is motionless’. Before the Beginning of things Thou didst exist in the form of a Darkness which is beyond both speech and mind… (Mahanirvani Tantra, 4.25). It moves not, neither is It motionless. It is without beginning or end, Ineffable and Incomprehensible (4.28). Resuming after Dissolution Thine own form, dark and formless, Thou alone remainest as One ineffable and inconceivable (4.33).
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1. Physical Energy Systems As mentioned, the energy systems as described by physicists who deal with matter while ignoring biology (Life or Consciousness), have classified energy as: ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦
of an Energy System that can counteract gravity, and this has been labeled as the possible dark energy.
Electromagnetic Weak interaction Strong interaction Gravitation
A human being is not just an accumulation of a few cells to create a visible matter, but is in fact a direct representation of the universal energy of the Cosmos itself. This, in simplistic terms, is called Consciousness, but in reality nothing but the energy of the universe itself. This subtle, but all pervading energy, within a biological system, like a human being is called Kundalini, and within the all pervading universe, Shiva-Shakti.
According to physics, these are the four forms of physical energy. The discovery of the current ever-expanding universe, which is both expanding and accelerating, led to the possibility of the existence
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mechanistically. It is like viewing a car made up of different parts, like engine, wheels, steering etc.
Biological systems like humans, animals, plants and individual cells also run on energy. It must be harnessed from outside and converted to a usable form within the biological system.
Diagnosis and treatment of disease or unwellness is targeted at certain body parts, often assuming that they are not connected to the rest of the body, let alone being connected to the rest of the Cosmos (pindanda and brahmanda).
This is in agreement with the fundamental Newtonian physics, that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only be converted from one form to another. The Cosmos by nature is conservative and therefore exceedingly efficient.
Disease and Healing
Let us now discuss how biological energy works in a human being.
A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function, that affects part or all of an organism.
The human being is made up of a synergistic conglomeration of over 50 trillion individual intelligent cells, all working together to create one single organism presented to us as a human being. Each cell produces its own energy to conduct its daily activities, using a system of biological batteries called mitochondria. Assimilated food in the form of carbohydrate, fat and protein, which is nothing but energy stored in a certain physical structural component, is broken down and the usable energy is extracted in the form of ATP by the mitochondria. These 50 trillion cells have to communicate with each other constantly to keep the system functioning as a whole. Based on the requirements and urgency, the energy created by the individual cell can either be converted to an electrical impulse to transmit information at rapid speed or to a chemical messenger (stored energy) to disseminate information slowly but widely. While food is the source material for energy production, it also requires oxygen for converting it into energy. This is very often mistakenly referred to as prana, but is not so. Energy provided by breathing is as gross as energy provided by assimilated food Paramahamsa Nithyananda says, Breath is not prana; breath is only the vehicle carrying the prana into you
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Healing (literally meaning to make whole) is the process of the restoration of health to an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism.
Energy-based Healing Systems Modern Medicine is Matter-Based All that we know of ourselves is our physical body. But our physical body is only the grossest expression of ourselves! We have several subtler energy bodies that interpenetrate our physical body and create an aura or energy shield around us. These ‘bodies’ are actually electromagnetic fields, which are continuously influencing and being influenced by other such fields in the environment. Unlike the physical body, these fields are highly sensitive and vulnerable to external influences. In fact, there is a much higher chance of picking up your neighbor’s negative vibrations than his ‘flu virus! The aura is responsible for keeping us in good energetic health, boosting our immune system and protecting us from toxic radiations. On the other hand, any energy blockages or ‘knots’ in the aura can be the precursor of future disease. That is why any disease can be detected at the energy level at least six months before it becomes manifest in the physical body. Modern medicine, which is matter-based, considers the body and its parts largely
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Several healing systems, like Pranic Healing, Reiki, Crystal Healing, Magnetic Healing, etc. use the limited energy of the individual to heal physical and mental illness. For example, pranic healing is a system of healing which uses energy emanating from the pranamaya kosha or the pranic body. This is a limited source of energy, as it is not linked to the infinite Cosmic energy system. Hence this healing is dependent on the healer’s level of pranic energy and also, being close to the annamaya kosha, can transmit muscle-memory to the recipient. This can either lead to incomplete healing, or healing the disease but creating new ones in the recipient. On the other hand, the pranic healer himself is vulnerable to the transfer of the muscle-memory and patterns ofthe recipient, as when the healer gets depleted of energy, the flow of the energy current gets reversed.
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Chakras: the key to our energetic health Our main focus in energy healing is the chakras. The word chakra literally translates as ‘wheel’ or ‘that which rotates’.
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body. We also go further to say that we have a mind, but we have no structural entity with which to localize the mind.
Quantum Healing is harnessing the energy of the universe to heal or allow all systems biological or otherwise to live in harmony within themselves and with others.
Our brain, the seat of our intellect is not the seat of our intelligence.
Concept of Spiritual Healing The fundamental premise is that the universe is pervaded by a conscious energy which is intelligent enough to manifest as matter or energy as required. Human beings are suffused with conscious energy which flows through us and is intimately and always a part of the entire universal consciousness. Any localized disharmony, (e.g. a disease in the body) is nothing but a symptom of the disharmony of the individual’s energy with the flow of the all-pervading universal energy.
Myth Versus Reality We as human beings, believe that we are the visible physical structure that we perceive with our organs which we call our
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It merely functions as a coordinating centre or a CPU, processing and filing information from the internal environment of the 50 trillion cells and the external environment of the world. It is essential for the universal energy to pervade these insentient structures in order to make them as conscious beings, thus converting matter into life. Though all pervasive, Nature has devised a system of subtle channels and holding centers (nadis and chakras) in order to best utilize this life energy (kundalini shakti). Since everything is energy, healing also involves the channeling of energy. But what we specifically call Nithya Spiritual HealingSM is a holistic, non-invasive therapy that treats the body-mind as an energetic continuum. We are basically energy beings, so all our ailments are rooted in energy imbalances. All physical or mental tension is an indication that there is a blockage in the energy flow in our bio- energetic system. Sometimes, merely clearing these blockages is enough; the body’s natural healing abilities take care of restoring the affected part to health.
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At the quantum level of particle energy physics, all fundamental particles express the four types of energy but are technically without mass. They have a specific property called spin, which can be right-left, left-right, up-down, etc. Concentration of these fundamental interactive forces happens at specific locations called chakras. The distribution of this energy into the biological system is through subtle channels called nadis. The two energy forces that can be said to work within the body at a sub-atomic level are the forces of strong interaction, which hold the nucleus together, and the weak interaction, which keeps the electrons in its energy orbital. Stepping up the energy system of the atom can cause the displacement of the electrons into its next orbit. These fundamental energy systems supply and affect various neuro-endocrine structures to which they are linked, thus leading to cleansing and activation of the nervous system and the endocrine or hormonal system.
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Chakras: a subtle understanding
Six major chakras Although they have no definite physical location, these energy centers are represented in the physical body as aligned in an ascending column from the base of the spine to the top of the head.
that they intersect at seven different points.
We have three bodies Strictly speaking, the chakras are not present in the physical body at all. They exist on the metaphysical plane, and link together our three bodies or shariras.
The six major chakras are Muladhara, Swadhishthana, Manipuraka, Anahata, Vishuddhi and Ajna. The Sahasrara or Brahmarandhra is a subtle opening connecting the biological system to the universal Cosmic energy.
The individual is made up of three bodies - the physical or gross body (sthula sharira), the subtle body (sukshma shareera) and the causal body (kaarana shareera). These three bodies are categorized according to the states of consciousness where they come into play.
The muladhara chakra (root center) is located in the sacral area, at the base of the spine. The swadishthana chakra (spleen center) is located two inches above the muladhara chakra and two inches below the navel.
If one of the lines represent the physical body, the other line represents the subtle body and the paper represents the causal body, the six points at which the physical and the subtle body meet the causal body are the locations of the six chakras or energy centers. So the six chakras are present at the intersection of the physical, subtle and the causal body. Some recent research in aura photography has been able to even photograph these energy centers.
Each of the shariras or bodies is associated with a particular state of consciousness.
The manipuraka chakra (navel center) is located at the navel, two inches above the swadishthana chakra.
The physical body is the body we know in the waking state, which eats, speaks, moves about and so on. This is the only body we are really familiar with.
The anahata chakra (heart center) is located in the heart region, in the center of the chest.
The subtle body is the body that we use to think, verbalize, visualize and so on. The mental body is also the body that we use when we dream. While our body is lying fast asleep in our bed at home, in our dream we may be traveling in another country. How does this happen? At this time, we are using the mental body to travel around! In the dream state, the mental body is as real and functional as the physical body in the waking state.
The vishuddhi chakra (throat center) is located in the hollow of the throat. The ajna chakra (brow center) is located on the forehead, between the eyebrows. The sahasrara, the thousand petaled one, is located on the crown of the head.
The causal body is the one we use when we are in deep restful dreamless sleep. It is made up of pure tamas (inertness). During our sleep cycle there are phases when the mind becomes dormant and there are no thoughts. This is the time when we experience the causal body.
Our Shariras and Chakras are linked These three bodies are not separate as we may think. They are tightly coupled. Consider two curved lines drawn on a piece of paper in such a way
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My cervical cancer is gone!
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Name: Shalini Location: Kulim, Malaysia Email: shalini2913@gmail.com
I will never forget the year 2011, when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. My doctor did the test three times to be sure, and all the three times the results showed the same. My doctor told me, ‘This cancer cannot be cured at all medically. Only God can save you.’
I stayed at the ashram for about 15 days. Every day I went for morning satsang and took healing from Swamiji during sarva darshan. After 15 days, I came back to Malaysia. After returning, I went to the same doctor who diagnosed me with cancer earlier and re-did the medical test for the cervical cancer.
I am a devotee of Swamiji, and I immediately knew that only Swamiji could save me.
To my shock, my doctor herself called me and said she had received my medical report, and the results show negative for cancer!!
From Malaysia, I attended the Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP) conducted by Swamiji in India, via two-way video conferencing from the Kulim center.
I was so happy to hear that. I also went to a government hospital and got a repeat test done, and that report also showed negative.
This program is especially helpful for people who are going through a life-and-death crisis, like I was at the time. On the last day of the program, during online darshan, I broke down and cried to Swamiji about my cancer.
I am so grateful to Swamiji, who has given me a new life.
Swamiji said, ‘Don’t worry ma. Don’t cry. I will heal you completely. Apply the vibuthi (sacred ash) which has materialized from my paduka (sandals) around your stomach area.’ I ran to his paduka and found that vibhuti had actually materialized on it. I was overjoyed. I applied it on my stomach area. A few days later, Swamiji came into my dream and said, ‘Come to India ma, you will be healed completely, don’t worry.’ I knew for sure that it was not just a dream, it was a direct message from Swamiji. So, in just a few days, I flew to India.
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Swamiji healed my polycystic ovaries with a wave of his hand!
My thyroiditis hasn’t come back Name: Anand Singh
Name: Geetha
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Vishweshwarananda
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Deva Priyananda
Location: New York, USA
Location: Seremban, Malaysia
Email: alansingh411@gmail.com
I had a thyroid issue (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis) for about 15 years.
In 2012, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries.
I attended Inner Awakening® program in July 2012.
When I attended the Inner Awakening program in December 2012, I told Swamiji about this problem. He looked at me, waved his hand in a sword-like action, as if cutting off something near my stomach, and said, “I’ll take care!”
Swamiji Paramahamsa Nithyananda had told us that many of our diseases would be healed just by the high-energy space that he creates during the program and energy darshan.
After that, I had a weird kind of severe pain in my stomach region; that is when I realized that Swamiji is healing me from this problem.
So, I did not ask Swamiji for healing for my thyroiditis. But when I came back to New York after Inner Awakening®, I went for a health check and my thyroid reading was normal!
When I came back to Malaysia, I had another scan done, to see the status of my polycystic ovaries. This scan was done about 20 days after Inner Awakening and Swamiji’s healing me. To the surprise of the doctor, there was not even a single of those little grape-like cysts around my ovaries. It was a miracle!
I had stopped taking the prescribed medication for about 3 months, and then did the tests again - and all the readings were normal! Till today, my thyroid readings are normal.
The doctor was really surprised but she also guessed that Swamiji had healed me, as she knew I was going to meet Swamiji at that time.
Swamiji cured my Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis just by me being at Inner Awakening®! Thank You Swamiji!
Swamiji, you have healed me of a chronic problem, just like that, with a wave of your hand, and has freed me from it totally! I’m so grateful to you forever and ever! You are my God!
My normal vision was miraculously restored
I was healed of my back pain in seconds
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Sarvasmarana
Legal name: Vanchinathan
Location: LA, USA
Location: Singapore
email: jivanmuktih@gmail.com
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I was a patient having back pain (disc prolapse) at L3, L4 and L5.
In 2010, I attended the Living Enlightenment Program at the ashram with Swamiji. During this program, we spent days just soaking in Swamiji’s presence, and practicing various techniques.
In 2013, while I was attending the Inner Awakening retreat at Bali, the back pain continued, and I was unable to walk. During the darshan, other participants doing Inner Awakening had to support me by carrying me on both sides. I was literally carried to the stage for darshan.
It was at this time that I had a miraculous healing happen to my eyes. I must say I never even asked Swamiji about this. I think it just happened by being in his space of positive vibrations.
I asked Swamiji for healing me from this back problem. Swamiji just touched my back for a few seconds. During that time I could feel that pain reducing.
I used to wear contact lenses, which I would put on just before the program started every day. I usually would not wear them to the early morning yoga session.
After that I was able to walk down the stage without any support.
One morning at 5 am, I was walking down the hall for my yoga class sleepily, when I noticed that I could see perfectly!
Though my body shape was distorted due to the many years of back problems, in three to four days it got straightened out on its own!
I thought maybe I should check my eyes to see if I slept with my contacts on, or I had already put them on without remembering. So I looked in my contact case, and saw that my contacts were still in the case!
The pain has also disappeared from my life.
Then I realized what had just happened. My eyes had been restored to their original 20/20 vision without even my asking Swamiji! It was such an amazing experience, and I am so grateful to Swamiji for this happening.
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I forgot about my endometriosis after just one healing
Swamiji healed my food intolerance
Ondrej Adamek, Berlin, Germany
Mary Mabry, Los Angeles, USA
Diseases - malfunctioning of the Shariras Malfunction of the physical body can lead to physical illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Malfunction of the mental body can lead to disrupted psychology and psychiatric diseases like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD and also other diseases which are psychosomatic, auto-immune, and malignancies.
My burn injury was flawlessly healed Name: Ranjani Ganesan Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Sunirmalananda Location: Mumbai, India
Malfunction of the causal body is usually inherent in the biological system, and is transmitted to the individual either though inherited genetic disorders, or disorders relating to karma from previous births. I was diagnosed with intolerance to wheat and dairy products. After eating them, I would immediately have diarrhea and stomach pains.
For fifteen years, I suffered from endometriosis. For those who don’t know, it is an illness that causes severe pain in the pelvic area. I could barely work from the pain. The pain was controlling my life.
When I attended Inner Awakening® program, we ate a lot of delicious food, but since many of the dishes were made with wheat and milk products, I had often a stomach pain afterwards.
When I came to the Inner Awakening® meditation program, I asked Swamiji for healing, but was not sure it was really possible for the intense pain to actually be cured.
During one darshan I asked Swamiji Paramahamsa Nithyananda to liberate me from this intolerance of wheat and dairy products and other digestive problems.
Swamiji healed me and said that - I would be alright.
He answered, ‘Don’t worry, I will take care.’
About one week after I had asked for the healing, I realized that for the first time in my life I was not hunched over holding my side experiencing the pain!
A couple of days later, all the participants who had food allergies were asked to fill a form listing all the food products which we are allergic to.
I thought it could not be true, so I thought maybe the medication the doctors had given me actually started working. I stopped taking the medication to see if it had really healed.
The ashram kitchen prepared those items for us. Each of us was given a jar of our favorite allergy-causing food! We were asked to take our jars up to Swamiji during darshan and eat the food right in front of Swamiji. While each of us was eating, Swamiji was watching us and healing the allergy from our bodies.
The pain did not return even after stopping the medication, and I have not had the pain since! I am so grateful to Swamiji for this miracle.
Ever since then, I have not had any more diarrhea and stomach pain due to the intolerance. When I went back to Berlin, I visited my doctor. He did the necessary tests, and no more intolerance was found!
We are all familiar with the methods used in modern medicine to manage or suppress disorders of the physical body. Modern medicine has very limited answers to disorders related to the mental body. These disorders are never cured, but only suppressed, if at all, with currently available technology. Modern medicine has not even probed the possibility of treating disorders of the causal body.
Healing, Kundalini Awakening and Initiation
Skin to soul healing is I would call my story! In 2013, I suffered a serious burn injury. My face and both hands were severely burnt, and my face got disfigured. I am a professional dancer, and this meant that I would suffer a huge setback in my career. I was distraught, as there is no fast and complete cure for this in allopathy. I approached Bhagawan Paramahamsa Nithyananda and requested him for healing.
(Entanglement, Entrainment, Enlightenment)
Bhagawan healed me so compassionately.
Entanglement is the basic principle behind all processes involving energy transfer, whether spiritual healing, kundalini awakening or initiation into siddhis like levitation or materialization.
Not only did my injury heal rapidly, but it left no marks on my face and hands! Today, just a year later, I can say that I look more radiant than before!
An Avatar has the power to raise others into his own elevated state by the subtle pressure of his presence.
Many of the sangha members know me and have seen me, so they can testify for this!
When the mind of the receiver is in entanglement with the no-mind (thought-free mind) of an Avatar, what results is physical and mental healing.
Thank you Bhagawan, for one more miracle in my life.
When entanglement happens at the deeper level of muscle-memory, Paramahamsa Nithyananda gives it the name ‘Entrainment’. During Kundalini awakening, entrainment can happen irrespective of the mental state of the receiver.
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During initiation, entanglement penetrates the bio-memory of the receiver. That is why initiation has permanent physiological and psychological effects. Paramahamsa Nithyananda calls this enlightenment, in the sense that during the moment of initiation, the receiver actually experiences a space identical to that of the enlightened being.
Name: Palaniappan
Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Dhyanatmananda Swami
Spiritual Name: Sri Nithya Sevananda
But lacking the yogic body and nervous system to retain this space, the receiver gradually loses the experience through energy ‘leaks’. With repeated initiations, the experience becomes bolted into the system, and the receiver moves closer to being established in the state of living enlightenment.
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Location: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam
During healing, the infusion of Kundalini energy into the chakras is immediately channeled into the physical, the mental and the causal bodies. This healing happens at the level of muscle-memory.
In May 2004, I was diagnosed as living with a tumor in the pelvic cavity. It had been growing rapidly and occupied the pelvic cavity completely: measuring 12 cms x 11 cms x 14.5 cms and showing complete destruction of sacral segments S2, S3,3 & S4.
All our systems function not only with the sensory input of the moment, but also with the previously filled experiences through out life as well as the information and energy transmitted as biomemory through our genes and epigenetic mechanisms.
The panel of doctors at the Apollo Hospital felt that surgery was the only remedy. The panel consisted of ortho, neuro & general surgeons. They were of the opinion that it was a very major surgery and the chances of surviving the surgery was less than one percent. They said I was a DOT (death on table) case.
The accumulation of negative thoughts, concepts, emotions over a period of time causes us to contract into ‘incompletions’ leading to manifestations ranging from depression, inadequacies to physical manifestations of psychosomatic origin to other physiological disturbances or diseases. All this happens due to the inability of our body to allow the free flow of Cosmic energy and the inability of our body to retain the Cosmic energy in our system, so it can be channeled into repair and maintainence as necessary.
Location: Los Angeles Aadheenam, USA
I have had asthma since I was very young. I always used to use an inhaler, carrying it with me wherever I went. I would wheeze after strenuous activities, cold weather and even from just laughing! I would be admitted to the hospital and needed to use a nebulizer and steroids to get better. Asthma was a big part of my life. In the summer of 2009, I attend the Inner Awakening program in India.
Even if I survived, they said I would be like a vegetable in a wheelchair; not able to perform any of the routine functions. So I decided not to undergo the surgery. The doctors were also of the opinion that even if I did not undergo the surgery I would live for only a year or two, as the tumor was already large, and still growing, and was herniated and compressing the other vital organs in the entire area. They also suggested that I may stop walking at any time, as the nerves were compressed.
During one of the sessions, Swamiji said that most diseases are psychosomatic. I was curious. Asthma was a disease. Was it psychosomatic? I normally didn’t ask questions, but that day I wrote a question asking Swamiji if my asthma was psychosomatic. Inside I knew that the answer was yes, but for some reason I wanted Swamiji to confirm it.
At that time, I was already an ashramite and living with Swamiji in the ashram. I brought all this to the Swamiji’s notice, and started taking healing from him regularly.
Cleansing of the mental body by channeling the energy through the ida, pingala and sushumna (the major energy channels related to the central nervous system) heal mental, psychosomatic, autoimmune and malignant diseases. This healing also happens at the level of muscle-memory.
When he was reading the question out loud, Swamiji called my name and then scanned for me in the class.
It has been nine years since then, and I am still living and walking by the healing and grace of Swamiji! The tumor has stopped growing. Doctors at the Apollo Hospital, especially Dr. P C Reddy, feel that it is a medical miracle. I strongly endorse his view! Due to the healing powers of Swamiji, I am still active. I am thankful to Swamiji for all that he has done for me.
The same bio-energy, working inside the cell on the genetic and epigenetic factors, realigns the human genome, clearing diseases related to the genes and karma. This healing happens at the level of bio-memory, and is the result of a deeper-level process like initiation
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Just one look and I was healed of Asthma
My doctor calls me a ‘medical miracle’!
When his eyes met mine, He said, ‘Yes, it is. But I will take care.’ From that day, five years ago, I have never once used either my inhaler or any sort of medication for my asthma! All it took just one look - and I was healed. Thank you so much Swamiji, for breathing life into my breath.
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I am alive because of Swamiji’s grace After receiving healing from him, my chronic headaches are now gone. Now I can put myself to sleep any time either day or night, and I am no longer restless. I am no longer tied to a schedule or to sleep patterns.
Name: Victoria Cerna Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Lokanayaki Location: Diamond Bar, California, United States
Due to Swamiji’s deep compassion, he also guided me through several treatments, which at the end completed with his blessing of completely removing the karma of skin cancer. I am alive because of Swamiji’s grace.
Email: Cernavictoria@yahoo.com
Last month I was able to fully submerge in the Divine River Ganga in the magical city of Varanasi. I had a deep dip into the river and my skin was glowing, no rush or desperation or irritation; it was allblissful.
I was born under very dramatic circumstances, and since birth, I have always struggled to be healthy. All my life I suffered from chronic headaches. I suffered from restlessness and sleepless nights for more than 10 years.
Swamiji has transformed my life from illness, pain, suffering, shortages, blockages, inabilities, and moved it into infinite possibilities.
I constantly suffered with allergies to many food items, to environmental allergens, to certain medicines, to people, to products, to certain locations.
I am no longer seeking happiness. I am happy. I am no longer seeking satisfaction through having, been or through titles. I am satisfied and fulfilled and it is all due to Swamiji’s patience, love and compassion towards me.
I was not able to enjoy Mother Nature due to the effects it had on my weak body and extremely sensitive skin. My body had suffered so much that it was headed towards skin cancer.
I am really grateful to Swamiji for so much healing, which has taken place in my mind, body and soul.
Swamiji healed my body from all the allergic issues.
My husband was saved from certain death Leticia Bravo-Newhouse, San Diego, United States, Email: leticia.bravo-newhouse@sdcourt.ca.gov My husband Lee Newhouse suffered a severe brain injury in 1993, and since then, his brain produces a hormone which makes it difficult for his body to regulate his sodium level. Recently, Lee was admitted to the hospital with life threatening critically high sodium levels, due to an error by his physician (Lee’s level went from extremely low to the other end of the spectrum within a matter of a few days). I requested Swamiji’s healing and blessing, and within 24 hours, Lee’s body started to respond and was again alert and back in the present. Each day he has gotten stronger and is on the mend. If it had not been for Swamiji, Lee would have certainly been on the other side. In fact, he appeared to be seeing and listening to another sphere of reality all during that time. Much love and gratitude to Swamiji!
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Initiation into Nithya Spiritual HealingSM The technique of creating an authentic Healer is called Initiation, which is nothing but the transference of the Cosmic energy, channeled by Paramahamsa Nithyananda, as a divine medium into the healer’s body. In reality, an Avatar, though having a physical form, is essentially the all-pervasive, all-powerful, all-compassionate, Cosmic energy Itself. But since the logical mind typically perceives and accepts only the visible physical form, we could consider Paramahamsa Nithyananda as the doorway or access point to the universal Cosmic energy instead. This process of healing, which reaches a multitude of people or across the globe involves the existence of a multitude of healers who act as channels of energy. Though it is evident that the Avatar is not bound by space or time, and can effectively heal thousands without the aid of human channels, this form of healing accelerates spiritual growth in both the healers and the recipients, thus serving its ultimate purpose - the rapid elevation of human consciousness on our planet. While traditional methods of initiation work on the principles of activating the ‘mirror neurons’ within the healer, so he can mirror the same neuronal pathways that exist in the Avatar, thus rewiring the brain through the process of neuroplasticity, this initiation is a little different.
Learning to heal: Opening the Ananda Gandha chakra We all have a highly subtle energy center which governs the flow of Cosmic energy into our system. It is nothing but the pure reflected Cosmic Energy center in our own body, perhaps hidden from us by our doubts and incompletions, but always accessible to the Avatar. Although it is commonly known as a chakra, it might be better described as the mystical space into which all chakras collapse, at the moment of dissolution of the personal identity. The Ananda Gandha (‘the fragrance of bliss’) is our deepest connection to our own Being. Though it is theoretically possible to open it through self-effort, the process would be about as easy as trying to dig an oil well using a spoon! During initiation, the Avatar opens this energy center of an aspiring spiritual healer by entering his (aspirant’s) inner space with his consent, and using a subtle but enormously powerful energy ‘drill’ that works from the inside outwards. Once initiated, the healer becomes an open channel for the Cosmic energy of the Avatar. The Ananda Gandha behaves like a mini reservoir allowing the uninterrupted flow of Cosmic energy, regardless of the personal physical or mental obstacles that the healer might carry.
The fact that initiation and healing can both be done across long distances, either via two-way video conferencing or directly by the Avatar, suggests that quantum entanglement would be one of the processes involved in them. However, as explained earlier, even though initiation actually opens the individual to the direct inflow of Cosmic energy, he may be struggling with inhibitions, apprehensions or incompletions of his own, and therefore the normal holding areas of energies (the chakras) may not be sufficient, and so it is advisable for the novice healer to remain in continuous entanglement with the energy of the Avatar throughout the process of healing and later as well.
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She was saved from a brain surgery over the phone!
I received the precious gift of healing others
Name: Kelsey Roenau Name: Lakshmi Barman Location: Mumbai, India,
Location: California, USA
Phone no: +91-9224455031
Email: kelseyroenau@gmail.com
This is the story of my sister-in-law. In 2010, she was suffering from a nervous disorder. The nerves were not responding to the medicines, and blood was not reaching the brain, and she was even unable to move around the house. She was 75 years old then.
Ever since I met Swamiji in 2012, he has healed me, my loved ones and friends and my pets on many levels on so many occasions. Another precious gift he has given me is the initiation as a Nithya Spiritual Healer. While healing others, I have experienced the transmission Swamiji’s energy and had many positive healing sessions with people I know and strangers. They feel warm energy filling their bodies, go into deep relaxation and restfulness, and also have visions and feel Swamiji’s presence.
I called up one of the healers from the Nithyananda sangha in Mumbai for healing. She explained how we can receive healing on the phone, as Swamiji has blessed some numbers as healing lines. For 21 days my sister-in-law received Swamiji’s energy through the sankalpa mantra chanting by the healer. By the15th day of receiving the energy, she started moving around in the house. Her eyesight improved by at least 50%. Two to three days after the 21day healing, she had an appointment with her doctor to decide the date for brain surgery.
When I am doing the Nithya Healing Prayer for them, I too feel bliss and peace in my own body, and it is a wonderful feeling to be healing and getting healed at the same time! Swamiji’s presence has shifted my space into inner healing through His teachings and has moved me into authentic living through his words and energy. I have found new doors unlocked in the way I look at life and the way I respond to situations.
The result from the various tests revealed that no more brain surgery is required, as her nerves started responding! Her mobility improved, and also her eyesight! Till she expired due to old age in 2014, the problem never recurred.
I now have the awareness for unclutching and completion whenever needed! These have been deep transformational principles in all layers of my life, and because of Swamiji I am happy and joyful all the time.
I will be ever grateful to Swamiji for his miracle blessing. Thanks a lot Swamiji.
A closely guarded secret The only available scriptural reference to this secret chakra is by Adi Shankaracharya in his famous stotra, Vishwanatha Ashtakam.
My mother had no negative side-effects after chemotherapy
Nowhere else is this chakra mentioned in the whole of spiritual literature, as it was ‘raja vidya raja guhyam’ - the king of knowledge; the most guarded secret.
Name: Magesvary Sivasamy
Now, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is revealing this science to the world as an act of compassion, protected with a foolproof ‘energy password’ that cuts out any possibility of misuse.
Email: sumeruenter1@yahoo.com
Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Omkarini Location: Kulim, Malaysia
My mother Jalachemi is a breast cancer patient.
Uniqueness of Nithya Spiritual HealingSM During Nithya Spiritual HealingSM, neither healer nor receiver is required to do anything except enter into restful awareness and allow the cosmic energy to heal. Cosmic energy is conscious and intelligent; it knows where to go and what to do. Since it is intelligent, it cannot be manipulated by the healer to the extent that he manipulates pranic energy or other similar energies used in other kinds of energy healing. But since it is a conscious energy, the results it gives are always for the best. While it is possible to sensitize oneself to grosser vibrations like pranic energy through practice, Cosmic energy can be channeled only by a highly advanced being who resonates at the same frequency as the Cosmic energy. That is why initiation by an Avatar becomes essential on this path of healing.
Every day she used to receive healing from an initiated Nithya Spiritual Healer at the Kulim center in Malaysia. Even though she was going through chemotherapy she used to feel so fresh and alive. She had no problem of vomiting, which is common among chemo patients, nor did her body feel weak like other patients. She used to come back from her treatment and do her daily routine work, and at the same time she would take part in our center activities also. Even the doctor was so surprised with her recovery and asked us to share her story with everyone!
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says: Let me explain to you where the Ananda Gandha lies, with the help of the 6-chakra system. (Paramahamsa Nithyananda holds a balloon and marks the chakras on it one below the other. He then pricks it at a spot and the balloon bursts and collapses at a single point.)
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The point where all the chakras collapse is the Ananda Gandha. The doorway to the Ananda Gandha is between the Anahata (heart) and Manipuraka (navel) chakras. It is said to be the size of a thumb (angustha matra). During Nithya Spiritual Healing , you enter consciously into Ananda Gandha. Once it is activated, the universal energy starts flowing through you continuously. You become a conscious participant in the cosmic energy play.” SM
Initiated Nithya Spiritual Healers take three lifelong vows: 1) To abstain from consuming meat and intoxicants, in order to maintain their space as a suitable receptacle for holding and channeling the Cosmic energy 2) To never ever refuse healing to anyone under any genuine circumstances 3) To never demand or expect any remuneration in cash or kind in return for healing
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Deeper Truths about Healing
The science behind Nithya Spiritual HealingSM is very simple. The initiated healer simply acts as a channel or a conduit for the transfer of Cosmic energy into the recipient. Since we are unable to comprehend the concept of a formless conscious energy, meditating on the physical form of the Master would allow us to immediately connect our Ananda Gandha to the universal energy source.
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras say:
The influx of this energy suffuses the body of the recipient with sufficient energy allowing the realignment and reestablishment of the normal channels and store houses of the energy (nadis and chakras). As technology has not advanced to provide us with a physical apparatus to directly measure or observe the universal energy, indirect methods are used to both qualify and quantify the physiological effects of this energy on the body at a genetic, molecular and cellular level. This in turn results in health changes in the recipient, which too can be easily measured using physiological and psychological parameters.
Unfreezing the bio-memory
Revelations from the Avatar
te pratiprasavaheyāḥ sūkśmāḥ (2.10) I will try to give the exact truth I experienced from this sutra. All the engraved memories or samskaras should be reduced to the causal state and destroyed.
Ron Hubbard, who developed the science of Scientology, says that engrams or painful memories are the root of all human ills. Erasing the engrams can relieve us from diseases like neurosis, asthma, high blood pressure, arthritis and so on. These are the research and discoveries related to past living. Please understand: when I say past living, I mean, from the moment you took this body till this moment; the first phase of the past. Even if that is cleaned, many of the diseases like neurosis, asthma, high blood pressure and even diabetes can be healed. All genetic disorders can be healed.
Structured studies have been performed to study the process of activation of the Cosmic energy at the individual level (Kundalini energy) over the last decade.
The Shiva Sutras declare that a being who is in perfect health can transmit that health to any other being just by his nissankalpa, his intentionless Consciousness. That is the science whIch is at work behind healing.
Recent studies have shown the remarkable anti-aging influence of this process, as measured by an increase in telomerase activity (responsible for increasing the life span) and an increase in the number and viability of stem cells (responsible for repair and maintenance and longevity of the cells of the body).
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I can tell you from my experience as a healer: I have seen thousands of patients walk out of their diseases. And I know very clearly who will walk out and who will not walk out; who can walk out and who cannot walk out. It is like this: the bio memory is the place where all these samskaras are caught - like an ice-cream where so many nuts are caught! If the ice-cream is frozen, it is very difficult to take those nuts out. If the ice-cream melts, you can simply take those nuts out very easily. Or when metal statues are being made, if some dust or small piece of wood or stone falls on it, once it is cool the statue is made, you can’t take the piece out; it is caught. But if you can melt the statue again, those dust or small stones can be taken out. Same way, all the engrams are caught in the frozen bio-memory. But if that just melts with deep devotion, those engrams can be taken out and thrown away just like that. That is the reason, when somebody melts with a deep devotion, I know the person will just walk out of that disease. All I need to do is just lend a hand to help the person walk out of the disease.
There has been significant evidence of increased mitochondrial activity (increased cell energy). Changes occur in the gene expression which lead to suppression of the disease-causing signaling pathways for cancer, mental illness, etc., and which lead to a significant increase in the signaling pathways, thus allowing for greater health and better performance of the cells of the body.
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As I said, thought + attachment = engram. When you take away the emotional attachment from the engram, it becomes reduced to a thought. When it is reduced to a thought and never becomes an engram again for a particular period of time, the thought just gets burnt away; it disappears. Any thought that does not become engram again through some attachment or entertainment from your side, surely gets burnt away. I tell you, you constantly go thru satori. One satori is enough to burn away your unnecessary thoughts. It is you who continuously bring them back due to your attachment; it is you who indulge them and make them into engrams again.
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Miracle of Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation
Paramahamsa Nithyananda left home at the age of 17 and dedicated nine years to spiritual wandering as a ‘Parivrajika’ in a rare, intense search of the ultimate truth. As a wandering monk, during his travels, He lived many years in the Himalayan regions, and more than nine months in the mountain retreat of Tapovan.
Conclusion Today, there are over 20,000 initiated Nithya Spiritual Healers worldwide, acting as the ‘healing hands’ of His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
After realizing His Avataric mission, Paramahamsa Nithyananda visited a place called Nerur (in Andhra Pradesh in South India), which houses the jeeva samadhi (living energy field ) of an enlightened master and avadhuta, Sadashiva Brahmendra.
Tapovan is one of the ‘airstrips’ to the mystical energy field of Shambala. It is hidden away in the mountains, and has no proper access paths. Traveling to and from Tapovan requires extensive acclimatization and spiritual strength.
Working from their homes, in their local communities or in Nithyananda Peetham’s innumerable healing centers worldwide, these healers continue to baffle the world of modern medicine by curing often fatal and incurable diseases with nothing more than a healing touch and a few moments of prayerful meditation.
One of His teachers from college, who was also His devotee, visited Him there to have darshan. She had heard about His healing powers, and requested to be initiated into His healing system. Paramahamsa Nithyananda replied that the Cosmos had not yet revealed that science to Him, and it would happen at the right time, as per the will of the Cosmos. While saying this, He was sitting close to the jeeva samadhi of Sadashiva Brahmendra, and could feel the avadhuta’s presence.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s first encounter with His own latent healing powers happened while returning from Tapovan. He describes this great incident, revealing to us, his inconcievable inner-powers, that were to become blessings to the whole world: “I was returning from Tapovan by foot. As you come to the lower ranges, army trucks can be found moving along the mountain paths. I was given a ride in one such truck. In these army trucks, there are usually no seats – only wooden planks tightened with nuts and bolts.
At that very moment, He saw Sadashiva Brahmendra standing before Him. The avadhuta gave Him a blade of darbha grass, and asked Him to give it to the teacher and tell her to start healing others using the blade of grass. The divine formula for the transferring the healing technology was revealed!
Suddenly the truck went over a big hump and I was lifted and thrown down on the wooden plank. My spine hit one of the bolts and was fractured.
On the spot, Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated His teacher with the darbha grass, and the first Nithya Spiritual Healer was given to the world.
When we reached the next army camp, the army doctor took an X-ray and said that I needed to rest for a month. 30 days was too long a time for me to stay in one place just resting! I did not bother about the doctor’s instructions, did not take any treatment and just put my hand on the injured area. That’s all. The injury was healed! That was how I discovered the power of healing that our body carries in itself.” (During the Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation, Paramahamsa Nithyananda shares with the world this gift that He received with His enlightenment, through an initiation that transmits these healing powers to anyone who is committed to heal and serve the humanity and the planet.)
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he human being is not a single entity. He is a conglomerate of at least 50 trillion individual cells, all attached to each other, working in coherence as a symphony.
Imagine being in a large auditorium enjoying the New York philharmonic, where even a single musician out of tune will disrupt the harmony of the entire composition! Exactly the same thing happens in a human being, where small disruptions of an individual cell or a group of cells can lead to an obvious disharmony, which we label as disease. Though there is a tendency to think that intelligence is a specified attribute of the brain, it is far from the truth. The brain merely is a processor of signals and storehouse of memory and functions like a biological CPU with billions of neurons connected to each other in billions of ways. In effect, it is nothing but a quantum computer for processing data. On the other hand, every cell by itself is a living individual organism with a life force and intelligence to process information internally as well as that from the outer environment. The intelligent cell makes decisions in nanoseconds to manufacture new proteins, enzymes and whatever is needed in order to nurture and protect itself and also to constantly repair any ongoing mechanical damage in its complex yet versatile system.
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The energy for ‘doing’ is produced constantly by an organelle called mitochondria, which creates pure energy in the form of ATP. Thus, the mitochondria is also known as the powerhouse or the battery of the cell. Inside the cell is a structure called the nucleus, which houses the entire blueprint of the human race including inherited memories and traits passed through generations. This structure is called the Gene, and structurally called DNA. Significantly, the DNA contains, in a seed form, the blueprints of all the species that we have existed as, before we took this human body. This is amply demonstrated by the human fetus, which mimics its entire life-story while in the womb - from breathing through gills like a fish in the early stages, to sporting a hairy body resembling a monkey in the seventh month of pregnancy. There are a very large number of genes, called the genome, present in the individual cell which is made up of approximately 30,000 genes. They are neatly folded into structured entities called chromosomes so as to conserve space. There are 46 chromosomes in every somatic cell of the human being and each chromosome is protected by a cap-like structure called the telomere. As the DNA replicates to produce proteins,
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the telomere gets worn off, leading to eventual death of the cell. The telomere can be preserved by increasing the manufacture of a special enzyme called telomerase.
Advanced Kundalini Activation Research Pursuing his conviction that kundalini activation can be physically measured, Paramahamsa Nithyananda undertook the medical surveillance of participants in his breakthrough residential threeweek yoga spiritual program, Inner Awakening®. Attendees were tested in relation to a variety of parameters upon arrival at the retreat. The same tests were repeated just before their departure. The results of the study were astonishing, demonstrating that Kundalini activation erases a host of chronic illnesses, mental and emotional blocks and behavioral problems. It has a measurable effect on cell structure, creating a positive shift in genetic function and raising personal energy levels by an amazing 967%.
Inner Awakening® : The Program Inner Awakening® is a unique life-transforming 21-day spiritual program centered on awakening the highest inner potential energy within the participants: the Kundalini energy. While the authentic morning yoga sessions prepare the body to hold and express the powerful Kundalini energy, Paramahamsa Nithyananda personally guides the participants through deepcleansing meditation processes, aided by the natural high energy available at some of the world’s most powerful Cosmic energy fields like Varanasi, Cambodia, etc. Each day culminates with an initiation from Paramahamsa Nithyananda, during which he awakens the Kundalini energy. With this transmission, He also awakens the various previously dormant dimensions within each individual that express themselves as completion, creativity and mystic powers. Kundalini Awakening works on all the essential dimensions of life, effecting deep and lasting healing at the physical, mental and emotional levels. This is experienced variously as peace, productivity and awareness. With the initiation into the Science of CompletionSM, participants learn to rewrite their future with peak possibility.
The Need for Medical Research in Inner Awakening®
Health Recoveries* as a result of Inner Awakening®
Since the first Inner Awakening® program happened in 2008, many of the seekers who came from around the world seeking spiritual solace reported amazing health recoveries as one of the main benefits of attending the program.
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This discovery, in addition to increased energy levels, set the stage for scientific research to validate these observations. The study was structured to quantify the changes and statistically evaluate their benefits. The intent is to determine the physiology behind these changes through appropriate scientific studies, so that more in-depth examination can be done in future programs by external researchers.
1. Physical and physiological parameters 2. MTT assay 3. Genetic studies 4. qEEG studies 5. Materialization studies
We would like to share the health benefits experienced by the participants in recent days. These results are based on pre- and post- program questionnaires answered by the participants.
*Note: Some research findings are based on information polled from program participants and are subjective in nature.
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Physical and Physiological parameters The following physical and physiological parameters were evaluated on Day 0 and Day 18 of the Inner AwakeningÂŽ program: 1. Height and weight and by inference BMI 2. Chest and waist circumference and by inference C/W ratio 3. Diastolic blood pressure with a mid-program review on hypertensives 4. Fasting blood sugar
1. Student t test for paired comparisons
5. Mid-program review on diabetics
Objective: To investigate the significance of the difference between single population means.
Study Design: An evaluation to study the effectiveness of intervention on Anthropometry Parameters and Clinical Variables.
No assumption is made about the population variances and di is the difference formed for each pair of observations.
Statistical Methods: Descriptive statistical analysis has been carried out in the present study. Results on continuous measurements are presented on Mean SD (Min-Max) and results on categorical measurements are presented in Number (%). Significance is assessed at 5% level of significance. Student t test (two-tailed, dependent) has been used to find the significance of study parameters on continuous scale within each group. 95%
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Statistical software: The Statistical software namely SAS 9.2, SPSS 15.0, Stata 10.1, MedCalc 9.0.1, Systat 12.0 and R environment version 2.11.1 were used for the analysis of the data and Microsoft Word and Excel have been used to generate graphs, tables, etc. The results are further validated by ongoing research done on subsequent batches of Inner AwakeningÂŽ participants. A summary of the findings has been included here.
Confidence Interval has been computed to find the significant features. Confidence Interval with lower limit greater than 50% is associated with statistical significance.
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molecule of the cell. Without mitochondria, the cell can produce only 2 ATPs per glucose molecule. The mitochondrion, on the other hand, can produce 32 ATPs per molecule of glucose, which is a 1700% increase in efficiency. Mitochondria are also involved in other cell processes such as cell division and growth, as well as cell death.
The Science of Mitochondrial Function The human body is essentially an assembly of 50 trillion individual cells living in unison, working towards a common goal. Each cell is by itself a complete living entity with its own processes for sustenance of life, reproduction and so on. Most of the components of the cells are common to all, fulfilling basic common needs, yet each has its own specialized departmental work, be it secreting hormones, enzymes and so on. All these cells are powered by a single battery within the cell called the mitochondrion.
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Mitochondria have their own set of DNA, which allows them to function independently. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus of the cell, which is covered by a protective layer of histones, the mitochondrial DNA is naked and thus exposed to increased possibilities of damage. As it is, the repair mechanism of the mitochondrial DNA is not as efficient as that of the nuclear DNA. As we age, significant errors creep into the mitochondrial DNA which go unrepaired or insufficiently repaired. This leads to malfunction in the electron transfer chain of the mitochondria. Instead of producing pure energy in the form of ATP, a non-productive oxygen species called reactive oxygen species (ROS) is produced. This ROS damages cellular structures including the exposed mitochondrial DNA,
leading to a vicious cycle of dysfunction and aging, which in turn leads to cell death.
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Mitochondrial Assay—The Study a. 10 random blood samples from Inner Awakening® participants from above 50 years of age as study group
Laboratory Analysis The MTT assays were performed at Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, Mangalore University.
b. Blood samples were taken on Day 0 and Day 18
All results including the physical, physiological measurements and the MTT assay were statistically evaluated by professional biostatistician Dr. K. P. Suresh, Scientist (Bio Statistics), National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore.
c. Labeling was double blinded and sent to the laboratory for MTT assay d. All participants received the powerful ‘energy darshan’ (shaktipat) from Paramahamsa Nithyananda every day, in addition to participating in yoga, meditation and cathartic processes.
Material and Methods This colorimetric assay is dependent on the ability of viable cells to metabolize a water-soluble tertazolium salt (yellow color) into a water insoluble formazan product (purple color). It measures the activity of cellular respiratory enzymes that reduce MTT. Since only viable cells perform this activity, the assay is used to measure the viability and proliferation of cells.
Procedure: Isolation of Mononuclear Cells (MNC) Human Mononuclear cells can be separated from heparinized blood samples or from the buffy coat of centrifuged blood
1. Dilute buffy coats 1:4 (v/v) or heparinized blood samples 1:2 (v/v) with Dulbecco’s Phosphate buffered saline (PBS) without Ca2+ and Mg2+. 2. To a 10 ml centrifuge tube add 2 ml of defibrinated or anticoagulant treated blood and an equal volume of balanced salt solution (final volume 4 ml). 3. Mix the blood and buffer by inverting the tube several times or by drawing the mixture in and out of a pipette.
Procedure for Isolation of Mononuclear Cells 1. Invert the Ficoll-Paque media bottle several times to ensure thorough mixing. 2. Using aseptic techniques, add Ficoll-Paque media (3 ml) to the centrifuge tube. 3. Carefully layer the diluted blood sample (4 ml) onto the Ficoll-Paque media solution. 4. Centrifuge at 400 g for 30 to 40 minutes at 18ºC to 20°C (brake should be turned off). 5. Draw off the upper layer containing plasma and platelets using a sterile pipette, leaving the mononuclear cell layer undisturbed at the interface. 6. Transfer the layer of mononuclear cells to a sterile centrifuge tube using a sterile pipette.
A Micro-titer Plate after MTT Assay Tetrazolium salts are converted by metabolically active cells to formazan, which can be quantified by measuring absorbance at 570 nm. 4. Remove the supernatant. 5. Re-suspend the mononuclear cells in 6 to 8 ml balanced salt solution. 6. Centrifuge at 400 to 500 × g (or 60 to 100 × g for removal of platelets) for 10 min at 18°C to 20°C. 7. Remove the supernatant.
Fig: ROS mediated cell damage
Since the etiology of many diseases is currently being quoted as related to free-radical mediated damage, mitochondria seemed to be the right subject for study and that is where we started. Genetics also plays a major role in the etio-pathogenesis of diseases. Genetic studies were carried out on participants who had significant health recoveries. QEEG studies were also done to study the effect on brain waves.
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8. For cell counts, dilute first 1:10 in supplemented RPMI -1640, and then 1:2 with 0.1% trypan blue solution, and count the cells with a Hemocytometer.
1. Estimate the volume of the transferred mononuclear cells. Add at least 3 volumes (~ 6 ml) of balanced salt solution to the mononuclear cells in the centrifuge tube. sample with sodium citrate as an anticoagulant after removal of the erythrocytes and the plasma. The residual fraction (25–40 ml) contains more than 90% of the leukocytes, 10% of the erythrocytes, and 5% of the plasma.
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MTT Assay - Steps 1. Remove the culture medium from cell monolayers cultured in 96-well plates. 2. Reconstitute each well with 0.2 mL supplemented RPMI-1640 containing 1 mg/mL MTT. 3. Incubate the cultures for 2–4 hours at 37°C. 4. Remove the supernatants from the wells. 5. Add 0.2 mL per well of a lysing reagent containing 0.04 N HCl in isopropanol.
Decision: The p value and the level of significance are compared. If p < 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected and the alternate hypothesis is accepted. If p ≥ 0.05, the null hypothesis is accepted. Computations: The tables below give us the various computations and the p value. Comparison of the change in MTT Assay at Day 0 and Day 20 in study group:
Conclusion ♦♦ The effective transmission of healing energy to participants by an adept healer through the process of energy darshan leads to Kundalini awakening to a statistically significant degree. ♦♦ The addition of yoga and meditation along with energy darshan leads to greater increase in cellular energy.
In study group, there was an increase in mean MTT Assay from Day 0 to Day 20. The increase in MTT Assay from Day 0 to Day 20 in Study Group was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001).
6. Mix the content of the wells thoroughly. 7. Read the plates in an automated microplate spectrophotometer at 570 and 630 nm as reference. References Mossman, T. (1983). Rapid colorimetric assay for cellular growth and survival. Journal of Immunological Methods, 65 (1-2), 55-63. Sieuweters, A. M., Klijn, J. G., Peters, H. A., & Foekens, J. A. (1995; Nov. 33). MTT tetrazolium salt assay scrutinized. Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem, 11, 813-823.
Summary ♦♦ The MTT assay is a well-established protocol for the study of cell viability and metabolism (Mitochondria). ♦♦ There was a dramatic increase in mitochondrial activity in the study group. ♦♦ Normally, processes like yoga or exercise or meditation increase mitochondrial activity by about 40-50%. ♦♦ This study conclusively showed approximately 1000% increase of mitochondrial activity (cell viability) in the IA participants.
Darzynkiewicz, Z., Li, X., & Gong, J. (1994). Assays of cell viability: discrimination of cells dying by apoptosis, Methods in Cell Biology, 41, 15-38.
Statistical Analysis Null Hypothesis: There is no significant difference in the mean value between two groups, i.e. µ1 = µ2 Alternate Hypothesis: There is a significant difference in the mean value between two groups, i.e. µ1 ≠ µ2 Level of Significance: α = 0.05 Statistical test used: t test
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My relationships have been beautifully healed
I am liberated from psoriasis-arthritis
I have been healed of my fear of public speaking
My lactose intolerance disappeared!
Name: Sathiyan Kutty
Legal name: Sarah Goldblatt
Legal name: Roy Vlemincx
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Deepthananda
Location: Gent, Belgium Email: mokshamondo@live.be
Location: Port Washington, New York, United States
When I left to attend the Inner Awakening program in March 2013, my husband was enraged that I was leaving my family at time that was quite tumultuous at home. He felt that I was abandoning him and my four children. I left for India in fear. I had always let fear run my life. I returned from India fearless.
I had been suffering from psoriasis-arthritis with several infected joints and tendons. In December 2013, I attended the Inner Awakening program in Bali. I experienced healing a lot of healing through the darshans of my Master Swamiji. It was very gentle, intense, sometimes subtle, but definitely effective!!
My experience at Inner Awakening was the best and most profound of my life - beyond marriage and childbirth. I experienced so many emotional shifts and mystical moments. When I returned back home, I could see that I was much more equipped to handle all situations in my life. I used to be an angry person who typically saw the downside of situations. But after IA, have gained intense confidence, focus and patience and the ability to consistently be in the positive.
At first I had to sit on a chair during the satsangs, because of too much knee pain, but soon I could sit on the ground and felt lighter and lighter, and then the knee pain disappeared! I learned that this psoriasis-arthritis is nothing but carrying a wrong idea of myself. During every darshan, I felt as if Swamiji operated on me with such precision and unconditional love. Every day it was deeper and deeper healing, opening all my chakras, awakening my kundalini energy, every day a little higher.
I no longer yelled at my children, and was able to authentically listen to them. My older daughter of 15, who is adopted and never showed me affection, began hugging me and wanting to hang out.
Also, my thoughts became less, and more positive. My self-doubt, hatred and denial patterns became clear, and deeper restful awareness was introduced into my bio memory, muscle memory and inner space. Super!
My husband, though still claiming to be upset that I was gone for 24 days, consistently commented on the change in me. In fact, one day he said, “I like you so much more now, I really, really do.” I too am much happier with the new me. I feel so strong and joyful inside.
This was strengthened by early morning yoga and a Nirahari (liquid) diet, my favorite way to break my food pattern!
I should also mention that as a yoga teacher, I am experiencing so much growth since attending my first Inner Awakening. I have been able to enrich my students in a new way, to help them cognize and internalize that life is possibility. Again, it is not a coincidence that my yoga classes are growing.
Spiritual name: Sri Nithya Poornananda
Name: Rose Li
Location: California, USA
Location: San Francisco, USA
Email: sri.nithya.poornananda@gmail. com
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I am an IT professional living in San Francisco Bay Area.
I have been very fortunate to have had a good physical health all my life.
In 2012 December I attended a program called Inner Awakening with Paramahamsa Nithyananda on board a cruise ship in South East Asia.
The only health issue I had was being lactose intolerant for most of my life. I avoided all dairy products in my food intake, as I would have a stomach
Inner Awakening was the most profound spiritual experience for me and it healed years of emotional pain caused by my past failures in business and relationships.
upset and temporary hives on my face and neck. It was during the Sarva Darshan one morning in November 2013, I asked Him for healing to cure my lactose intolerance. I had my doubts after the darshan, but I really didn’t think about it much after that day.
At one time after Inner Awakening, I experienced a state of completion when all the heaviness in me caused by all my past negative emotions suddenly dropped in an instant. At that moment, I experienced deep inner peace, inner healing and bliss. Since then, I do not experience anxiety or depression. I am able to speak in public, something I could never do my whole life. Even as I write this story, I sit with a beautiful smile on my face; thanks to the Master and his powerful techniques to overcome my own inhibitions.
In the following week, I went to Bali for Inner Awakening. During one morning breakfast, I decided to try drinking milk. It tasted yummy, pure and light; but to my surprise, I felt great afterwards! I couldn’t believe it, so I started to drink 2 cups, and then 3 cups, and then I decided to try ice cream for dessert, and guess what, I still felt great afterwards!
My whole life has transformed and I am deeply grateful to the Master for healing me head to toe.
All the years of my lactose intolerance symptoms have disappeared. It’s been 6 months since Bali IA, and I have zero lactose issue. Thank you Swamiji.
Whenever Swamiji puts his hand on my head, I felt healing energy flowing down my spine. It was so liberating! Everything looked so bright, everybody was radiating bliss. “It is possible” came back into my inner space!! Amazing experience with Guru! Thank you Swamiji!
Expansion brings expansion!!! I used to feel like a failure. Now I see that I am divine and blessed. I have so much gratitude to Swamiji and Nithyananda sangha!
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Impact of Kundalini Awakening on Gene Function
Gene Gene is a functional hereditary unit made up of DNA, which occupies a fixed location on a chromosome.
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Health: Health is defined as not merely absence of illness, but also a sense of positive feeling in physical, physiological, psychological and emotional states.
A chromosome is a long strand of DNA, found within the nucleus of a cell. A human being has 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell of which 22 are autosomal (not sex-related). The last pair are the sex chromosomes, which determine our gender.
It is a core process affecting all individual cells of the body (50 trillion cells) and their relationship with one another to function as a whole (human being). The relationship of this whole, its interaction with physical and environmental factors (society), and the influence of this interdependence on the collective consciousness (spiritual health) are likewise aspects of the domain of health. There are four different aspects of health: • Physical • Physiological • Psychological • Spiritual
Molecular Basis of Life Life: The ability of any structure, whether molecule, organelle, cell or multi-cellular organism, to function in its environment by actively processing signals, responding to stimuli, preserving its systems, repairing damage and reproducing itself to further propagate its species, is known as Life. Life processes also include undergoing quantum adaptive changes to deal with a dynamic and changing environment.
Of all the possible combinations of elements, the formation of a specially designed molecule called DNA (Deoxy ribo nucleic acid), became the fundamental mechanism of giving life to otherwise inanimate molecules. The DNA is a poly-nucleotide chain containing a repetitive backbone of sugar-phosphate units with small organic bases Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine - attached to each sugar.
The primordial universe consisted initially of sub atomic particles (energy), which combined together to form atoms, the smallest organized unit of life - for example, the atom of hydrogen. Hydrogen in turn can be further combined to form molecules through chemical bonds, for example, the molecule of water and so on, which is hydrogen bonded to oxygen.
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the human species.
The complete set of chromosomes (with their genes) in an organism is called its “Genome”.
Genes and Disease
The Human Genome contains between 25,000 and 30,000 genes similar to that of a mouse and less than a grain of rice, which contains 50-60,000 genes. Hence it is clear that it is not the number of genes, but what a gene can do that determines the complexity of a living organism.
Some diseases involve a single gene mutation such as sickle-cell anemia, which affects only a small subset of humanity. Other diseases involve multiple genes. Over 100 genes are implicated in susceptibility to asthma and cancer, causing disease due to genomic instability often involving the mutation (change) of genes from their normally programmed behavior.
Genes not only transmit information from generation to generation, but also act on a minute-to-minute basis, reacting to external needs, synthesizing amino acids and proteins which carry out the various functions of the body, whether structural, enzymatic or defensive mechanisms.
Gene-related metabolic pathways such as MAP-K, which stands for Mitogen Associated Protein Kinase, are implicated in the processing of long-term potentiation (LTP), the basis for learning and memory. In human beings, DNA is present in: ♦♦ The nucleus of the cell as chromosomes, completely covered (protected) by a histone coat. ♦♦ The organelle called the mitochondrion, the powerhouse or energy-producing battery of the cell.
Comparative Genomics The human and chimpanzee genomes are 96% identical. The 4% gap makes a profound difference in the physical and psychological presentation (phenotype) of these two species.
Mitochondrial DNA is naked, unprotected by the histone coat. This makes the mitochondrial DNA more susceptible to damage. Built-in mechanisms function to constantly repair the DNA when errors occur.
For example, language, which is unique to humans, has been tracked down to a double mutation in a gene called ‘FOX P2’. This single factor forms the entire basis for verbal communication in
Gene Expression It is estimated that only 10,000 of the 30,000 human genes are expressed at any given time (redundancy). Since many genes are repeated and many parts of the chromosomes do not contain genetic material, it is estimated that only 5% of the human genome is actively expressed and has functional genes. There is a parallel to this in the Cosmos, where the sum total of all known matter makes up only 5% of the universe, the remaining 95% as yet unknown.
Expression, Up Regulation and Down Regulation of Gene, Or Its End Product - The Receptor
Review of Literature
Gene Expression is the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product. The process is used by all known life to generate the macromolecular machinery for life. For example, depending on environmental conditions, the common yeast undergoes a quantum shift in metabolic pathway from fermentation to oxidative metabolism, upon exhaustion of glucose as an energy source. This is called dioxy or double growth. Experiments in fruit flies demonstrated differential expression of genes during waking and sleeping states. During the waking state, genes and encoding proteins involved in detoxification and defense mechanisms are highly expressed. During sleep, nerve-related genes are expressed, which leads to consolidation of memory. (It is significant to note here that His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda routinely advises spiritual aspirants to take a bath and meditate just before sleep, to avoid the consolidation of negative energies/ emotions accumulated during the day into the bio-memory.)
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consumption and CO2 elimination during meditation. This was published in the Journal of Human Stress, 1, 37-44. ♦♦ Peng and Henry (2004) studied the heart rate dynamics during meditation, which was published in the International Journal of Cardiology, 95, 19-27 ♦♦ Zheng (2007) studied the modulation of immune functions and oxidative status, induced by noise stress, published in Journal of Occupational Heath, 49, 32-38 ♦♦ Glaser (1990) studied psychological stress-induced modulation of IL2 receptor gene expression, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, 47, 707-712 The current study during Inner Awakening® was based on a similar study done at Harvard Medical School by Dusck, et al. (2008) on genomic counter stress changes, induced by the relaxation response, published in Public Library Of Science One, 3 (7).
Control sample collection date: April 12, 2011
In times of shortage, certain genes or their end products (specific receptors) are up regulated or increased because of an apparent shortage of access to specific materials. Example: In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, there is an up regulation of insulin receptors, in the hope of capturing passing Insulin molecules for glucose metabolism in the cell. This phenomenon is called ‘Insulin Resistance’.
Test Sample collection date: May 2, 2011 Venue: Nithyananda Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam, Bidadi, INDIA Contract scientific services were carried out by Leads Clin, Bangalore. Principal Investigator: Dr. Krishna Shama Rao, Yenapoya Medical University
Down Regulation
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Certain hormones can also down regulate or decrease the receptors in order to balance the internal environment of the cell, as happens with excess availability of substances.
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Forty healthy adult volunteers, male and female enrolled for the 21 day Inner Awakening® program, volunteered to give blood samples with informed consent for differential gene expression study before and after Inner Awakening®.
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The objective of the study was to explore Indian traditional yoga and meditation techniques through new experimental biology and bioinformatics. ♦♦ Gene expression changes including up regulation and down regulation were assessed by micro array analysis, using affymetrix HG-U 133+ 2.O gene chips. ♦♦ Gene Ontology (GO) categories were identified using expression analysis systematic explorer (EASE Analysis).
1. Add 1/10 volume 3M NaOH, pH 5.2 and 2.5 volumes ethanol. 2. Mix and incubate at -20°C for at least 1 hour. 3. Centrifuge at ≥ 12,000 x g in a micro-centrifuge for 20 minutes at 4°C. 4. Wash pellet twice with 80% ethanol. 5. Air dry pellet. Check for dryness before proceeding. 6. Re-suspend pellet in DEPC-treated water.
Study Design & Labeling In the study, we compared gene expression profiles in whole blood between Test and Control samples. Samples collected from volunteers before program were named as BIAY samples and after the program were named as AIAY samples. BIAY were considered as controls and AIAY were considered as test samples. Sample numbers 1-10 were pooled in as BIAY1 matched against sample numbers 1-10 of after samples as AIAY1 and studied BIAY1 vs AIAY1 Similarly, samples 10-20, 20-30 and 30-40 were named and matched respectively as BIAY2 vs AIAY2, BIAY3 vs AIAY3 and BIAY4 vs AIAY4. Human whole genome HG-U133_Plus_2 chips form affymetrix have been used for the study.
Materials and Methods Blood sample collection and RNA storing: Five milliliters of blood was collected from volunteers in EDTA vacutainers, mixed with 25ml of Erythrocyte Lysis Buffer, Qiagen, and incubated for 10 minutes on ice, then mixed by vortexing briefly 2 times during incubation and kept for 10-20 minutes and centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes at 4°C and the supernatant was completely removed and discarded. After 10-20 minutes visible pellets were re-suspended in 10ml of solution. RNA Precipitation Procedure:
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intensity data of gene chip expression probe arrays checked normalized and CEL files were stored for further analysis. e) Microarray Data Analysis was done using the latest version software Gene Spring 11.5. The CEL files are imported in Affymetrix Expression workflow using Technology for HG-U133_Plus_2. Summarization: We opted for MAS 5 summarization. It also provides flag information for the probe sets. Baseline to median of all samples was applied for this data. Analysis: A t test unpaired was used to identify the differentially expressing entities. Fold change analysis at the cut-off of 2 was performed. Hierarchical clustering on the output was performed. Gene Ontology Analysis was done by using fold change output. NCI to find significant pathways was used for pathway analysis.
a) Autoimmunity b) Neurotransmitter: Neurotransmitter Uptake, Inhibitors, Receptors and Synaptic Transmission together. c) Cancer: Brain, Liver and Neoplastic Stem Cells separately. We limited the network building to these terms because including all of the cancer MeSH terms leads to large network. Following are the observations made: Significant genes from Pathways which are two fold up or down regulated: • with Autoimmunity: 18 • with Neurotransmitter: 17 • with Brain cancer: 40
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a) 420 Up regulated and 165 Down regulated entities are obtained.
• with Neoplastic Stem cells: 18
b) Gene Ontology has shown significantly enriched GO terms, and pathway analysis has shown significant gene expression differences in the following 22 pathways: p38 signalling mediated by MAPKAP kinases, P38 MAPK signalling pathway, validate targets of C-MYC transcriptional activation, VEGFR1 specific signals, TNF alpha/NF-kB, TGFBR, Hypoxic and oxygen homeostasis, regulation of HIF-1-alpha, Endogenous TLR signalling, Direct Interactions, Cellular roles of Anthrax toxin, C-MYC pathway, BMP receptor signalling, Androgen Receptor Androgen-mediated signalling, ATF-2 transcription factor network, signalling mediated by p38-alpha and p38-beta, Regulation of p38-alpha and p38-beta, Regulation of Androgen receptor activity, N0 cadherin signalling events, IL27-mediated signalling events and IL12-mediated signalling events.
Interestingly 8 genes were common in all the cancer lists. 3 (EIF4E, BMI1, TMEF2) of these were significant in C-MYC pathway as well. 5 out of 59 significant genes from liver cancer network are also found in IL 12 mediated signalling pathways, 7 in BMP receptor signalling, 3 in IL27, 5 in TGFBR, 4 in Androgen receptor and 8 in c-myc pathway.
c) GSEA analysis for the dataset wherein Kaposi Liver cancer Poor Survival was found to be significant. d) Further analysis was done for cancer, autoimmune and neurotransmission related diseases and results are as below. MeSH pathway analysis was done for the following terms:
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Discussion & Summary 1. The control group was the participants of Inner Awakening® on day 0, and the study group was the same participants post Inner Awakening®, day 21. Hence, human variations of gene expression between control and study groups have been completely avoided. 2. 420 up regulated and 165 down regulated entities have been demonstrated within a short period of 21 days. The shortest previous study done at Harvard Medical School was of 8 weeks duration. 3. Gene ontology studies and pathway analysis has shown significant gene expression differences in 22 pathways. 4. MeSH pathway analysis, further subdivided the GO pathways under the following: • Auto Immunity • Neurotransmitter • Malignancy • Androgen related • Mitochondria There is a 7-fold increase in pathways related to Immune modulation, Inflammation, Hypoxia regulation etc. This matches with the clinical relief of inflammatory symptoms in the Inner Awakening® participants, both in relation to autoimmune disorders
like rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions. MAP-K signalling pathways are largely implicated in long term potentiation involved in learning and memory. Eight children participated in the Inner Awakening® for Kids program in parallel with the Inner Awakening® program for adults, and their memory and ability to recall were tested and recorded before and after 21 days. The significant improvement in memory correlates well with the MAP-K gene up regulation. Almost 117 gene expression changes with relationship to various known malignancies were noticed following MeSH analysis; however none of the registered participants had any recorded malignant conditions during the Inner Awakening® processes. There was more than a 7-fold increase in Androgen receptor activity and other Androgen mediated signalling events. It is well known in Vedic/yogic literatures that the intense practice of certain Kriyas and meditation can lead to a natural suppression of sex-related desires (Muladhara Chakra), which, similar to insulin resistance, would lead to up-regulation of androgen receptors in peripheral cells. The only other condition where such upregulation of androgen receptors is seen is in prostate cancer. However, none of the participants had any history of cancer of the prostate. Previous study on the mitochondrial activity of Inner Awakening® participants using the MTT assay techniques revealed a 967% increase of mitochondrial activity. This correlates well with the current finding of a significant increase of MAP-K and other related pathways, which are essential in increasing both the number and size of mitochondria.
Studies are being structured to do concommitant fMRI and qEEG studies to correlate with neurotransmitter activity in relation to normal brain physiology and psychiatric illnesses.
The study was conducted at Nithyananda Peetham, using processes under the guidance of His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
Quantitative EEG (qEEG) Studies The brain is essentially a bioelectric organ. The EEG or electroencephalogram has long been used to record and study the electrical activity of the outermost layer of the brain – the cerebral cortex. A more advanced form of EEG has been developed, called quantitative EEG or qEEG, in which the electrical signal is converted to digital form and compared to a database of individuals without any known neurological disorder.
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In this form of functional brain imaging, the brain’s electrical activity, as measured in 19 or 25 sites on the head, are analyzed using complex mathematical and statistical tools in comparison to norms or averages. The results of these analyses can then be presented in graphic form, resulting in topographical displays of brain electrical activity, sometimes called “brain maps”.
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A fitted electrode cap with leads placed according to the International 10/20 System is applied to achieve a standardized 19 channel EEG recording.
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Techniques of pranayama, which include various forms of bandhas and kumbhakas, would naturally be expected to affect oxygen homeostasis under hypoxic conditions, and the up regulation of the HIF-1-alpha signifies the same. Further studies in collaboration with Medical Universities, may provide greater information on changes in mitochondrial activity in relation to age, health and disease.
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The waveforms recorded reflect the level of arousal of the person: delta activity (2-4 cps) accompanies deep sleep; theta (4-7cps) states of drowsiness; alpha (8-11 cps) relaxed states. Beta range activity reflects an engaged or active brain, and, with very fast beta activity, an excited or urgent/emergency state of mind.
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In deep meditation, EEG studies have shown the simultaneous global presence of delta activity with increased beta presence in the pre frontal area. This signifies a state of ‘Restful Awareness’.
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On the other hand, a direct transmission of Cosmic energy (Kundalini Shakti in Vedic literature) clearly demonstrates cessation of superficial cortical activity and the presence of multiple high amplitude spikes, not correlating with the known alpha, beta, delta and theta rhythms, suggesting that the EEG machine is picking up intense activity from sub cortical areas from hypothalamus and limbic systems.
QEEG studies were conducted on participants who had Kundalini awakening to study its effect on the brain. The qEEG’s were reported by Dr Kanak Pandey, Neurologist.(1) The participants underwent a series of standardized tests, basic recordings were done with open eyes and closed eyes and also when the Kundalini energy was activated by the Master’s initiation. Data were analyzed; digitized data were subjected to an automatic artifact detection routine and supplemented by visual review and these were the observations made:
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The values are dramatically high in most of the activated people. This may be indicative of very elevated, rapid, parallel processing. It may indicate enhanced cognitive and mental functioning; this can be calibrated by post activation assessment on various cognitive functions. These elevated changes may help a person develop better learning and executive abilities.
Positive impacts: 1. Better focusing ability 2. Better alertness and attentiveness 3. Better short term memory 4. Faster multi processing 5. Better problem solving and decision making ability 6. Warm and positive personality traits Figure: During eyes closed baseline rest, the theta rhythm (4-8 Hz) dominates the spectral energies of a child’s brain whereas the alpha rhythm (8-12 Hz) dominates adult brain.
1. Dr. Kanak Panday is the founder of Gunjan Human Karigar and Maxcellence—Peak Performance Solutions. She is a trained psychologist having more than 23 years of experience as a behavioral psychological consultant with various reputed industrial
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Continuing Breakthroughs in the new Millennium
Conclusion
Paramahamsa Nithyananda has extended the horizon of human possibility. Working first with a close group of devotees, and later incorporating the technique into a public program, he successfully launched the Nirahara Sammyama, a voluntary 21-day initiation process in the year 2012, in which the body requires no food to function. Participants have been able to carry out normal daily activities and work without weakness, despite no nutritional intake. Those who felt symptoms of hunger were mandated to eat, and some opted to consume juice when needed. Many, however, took nothing, not even water, without experiencing any ill effects. They have even been able to cook for others without wanting to eat.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda continues to delve deeper into common Source of science and mysticism. Planet Earth is pleading for a new way of life for all its inhabitants, a way of peaceful co-existence and joyous creativity. The solution lies at our fingertips: by opening to our own internal energy or kundalini shakti, we can resolve the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy crisis and begin to savor our life instead of struggling through it. We have also the precious resource and grace of the Avatar who can bring our energy into bloom: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
This landmark event in itself is remarkable. What truly breaks new ground is that Paramahamsa Nithyananda has guided the public groups at a distance, and in unprecedented numbers. Some yogic masters have succeeded in the past with a few close disciples who live around them. But none has ever been known to sustain more than four hundred devotees over thousands of miles all over the world, solely by the power of their initiation, irrespective of the geographical distance. Paramahamsa Nithyanandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to heal and transmit initiation to those far away provides ever stronger evidence that energy is not limited by space, time or physical form. Furthermore, his capacity to awaken extraordinary powers in others proves the Vedic understanding that these siddhis are the birthright of all humans. The research findings also confirm what the Hindu scriptures have declared for millennia: while siddhas, mystics or yogic masters may acquire these skills for themselves after long years of spiritual effort, or as a side-effect of enlightenment, only the rarest being known as the Avatar, by virtue of being established in the space of non-dual Oneness, can awaken these siddhis in others by the sheer power of His presence. The world looks forward to a new evolutionary wave, guided by the wisdom and vision of Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
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Design Here, we have investigated the effects of an intensive three-week Inner Awakening® spiritual program on telomerase activity and the peripheral blood stem cells in participants before and after the MBT. A total of 108 people were enrolled in the study; 38 men and 70 women (aged 18-90) randomly assigned for the study.
Introduction Aging represents the accumulation of physiological, biological and associated alterations in a person for a longer period of time [1,2]. Aging is one of the most critical known risk factors for many human disease [3]. Roughly 0.1 million people worldwide die each day of age-related complications [4].
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Key modalities of integrative medicine known to rejuvenate the mind and body are meditation, yoga, completion process, energy initiation by Paramahamsa Nithyananda every day and unrestricted satvic diet.
Note: Results of these studies were published in the below journals: 1. Journal of Stem Cells, Volume 10, Issue 2 (pp. 107-125)
It has been shown previously that intensive or prolonged mind and body therapies (MBT) may have beneficial effects on the wellbeing of both healthy people and patients. Telomerase activity and levels of peripheral blood adult pluripotent stem cells (PB-APSC) are reliable markers of long-term well-being that are known to decrease with age. The objective of this study is to understand the effect of our MBT program on telomerase activity and stem cells in blood collected from the participants.
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There are several cellular, molecular, biochemical, and clinical markers to evaluate the rate of aging in an individual. These markers are extensively being used to evaluate anti-aging potential of any MBT program. Telomerase activity levels in a cell and evaluation of the circulating adult stem cells in an individual are two such molecular and cellular parameters for detecting aging [10]. Telomeres are DNA sequences that are essential for protecting chromosome ends and ensuring chromosome stability during replication and also allow cells to distinguish chromosome ends. However, their lengths get reduced with each cell division and further shortened during oxidative stress [11]. Below a critical telomere length, cell division can no longer occur which causes cells to enter in a state of senescence that can further enhance the tissue aging process [12,13,14,15,16,17].
Integrative mind-body therapies (MBTs), which include meditation, pranayama, other kinds of breath control exercises, and yoga have gained importance and intense attention from the scientific community over the last two decades. Among the various types of MBTs, meditation has still been considered as one of the most common practiced techniques. Many scientific studies have been carried out to understand the efficacy of meditation on physical and mental well-being [5]. Meditation, yoga with breath control exercises, and controlled diet with right nutritional supplementation exert the best anti-aging effects including reduced anxiety and illness, slow-down of the aging process, and improved cognitive function [6,7,8]. During these years the scientific community has been consistently trying to understand the safety and efficacy of meditation on physical and mental well-being. Recent studies show that meditation with breath and diet control, can lead to stable changes in brain pattern for a longer period of time as compared to non-meditating human beings, thereby indicating the importance of intentional practices. These studies may help in understanding the basic unifying mechanisms of the brain, mind and body that enhance our capacity to adapt to stressful and uncertain conditions [9].
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Nevertheless, a recent longitudinal study indicates that telomere length of peripheral blood mononuclear cells can increase over time [18-20]. This recent finding thus emphasize the need for identifying potential regulator(s) that control telomere length shortening. The rate of telomere shortening or lengthening depends primarily on the activity and the levels of telomerase [21], which adds DNA sequences back to telomeres and thereby increases their length and restore normal cellular function [22]. Lately telomere length has been proposed as a useful “psychobiomarker” [18,21,23,24] and the new findings indicate that telomere length can be regulated in part by psychological stress [25,26]. Additionally, literature in the Hindu (and later Buddhist) traditions indicate the role of meditation in the reduction of psychological stress, which may be due to upregulation of telomerase activity [27]. Adult stem cells are capable of renewal and facilitate regeneration of lost tissues and also repair damaged tissues in the body during stress/insult [28]. Importantly, maintenance of stem cell quiescence is essential for preserving the long-term self-renewal potential of the stem cell pool [28] such as in the brain, bone marrow, musculoskeletal system, and the skin. Furthermore, there is an emerging body of evidence that signals such as metabolic stress can lead to impairment of adult stem cells function in vivo [29].
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Ethics Statement The study protocol and the design have been approved by Institutional Ethics Committee. Informed consents in writing were obtained from all subjects prior to start-date of experimentation.
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On day 1 of the program, 5 ml of peripheral blood was collected from each subject in anticoagulant EDTA vacutainer (BD Biosciences, San Jose, USA). After 21 days (i.e., end of the program) again 5ml blood was collected in anticoagulant vacutainer and forwarded through validated clinical cold chain.
The study determined effect of telomere shortening on aging by detecting peripheral blood adult regenerative stem cell (ARSS) and telomerase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). All samples were collected at the site of the study. The study originally included 110 participants. The samples from 2 participants could not be used since either they missed a session or were not good enough for further analysis. Hence total of 108 patients were enrolled in the study, 38 men and 70 women (aged 18-90) .
layer was collected and washed 3 times in PBS supplemented with 2% FBS (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, BC. Canada), and finally an aliquot containing 0.2 million cells was transferred into an Eppendorf tube (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) and centrifuged at 3000g for 5 min. The pelleted cells were preserved at -80°C until use. Heat-denatured telomerase was used as a negative control for TRAP reaction. The positive control was done using one million telomerase positive cells supplied in the kit. The relative telomerase activity was calculated by taking negative control values as 1 and the data were normalized based on exact protein content of the samples.
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Stem cell isolation process Viability measurement was done by using Trypan blue (0.4% Trypan blue stain, Invitrogen, Grand Island, NY, USA). Trypan blue exclusion method [30] was used to count viable PBMCs. Stem cell count was done using hemocytometry. Adult regenerative stem cell (ARSS) was collected from the peripheral blood by density gradient centrifugation [31] and sedimentation process [32]. Our approved protocol on the isolation of PMBC was initially established by examining key pluripotency markers such as OCT4, SOX2, NANOG by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) [33].
The Inner Awakening® program consisted of completion process, meditation, yoga and pranayama in the morning, and energy initiations by Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Interactive sessions were held between mentors and participants throughout the day. Diet was strictly vegetarian with no calorie restriction. The participants of the Inner Awakening® program were from Indian and international locations with different ethnicities, social backgrounds and represented unique lifestyles, with stress and physiological problems at varying degrees. Most of them had never undergone any similar or the same MBT programs previously. Participant’s blood samples were assessed before and after the MBT. Inclusion criteria were: age 18–90 years, no chronic diseases such as CMV infection, heart diseases, diabetes, HIV etc, and good psychological health, for example lack of anxiety and depression, lack of bipolar disorders or schizophrenia.
Each patient served as their own control. We tested the differences in pre and post values for stem cell and telomerase. Day 0 served as control for both telomerase and stemcell measurement and Day 21 post meditation program served as the test sample. We tested for differences in pre versus post using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. We found that for both changes in stem cells and telomerase, there was a significant increase, P < 0.01.
Telomerase activity measurement in PBMCs Telomerase relative activity assessment was done as per the instruction of Millipore’s TRAPeze telomerase detection kit (Billerica, MA, USA) with each sample being analyzed in triplicate. These assays were done in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) counts. Protein estimation assay was done using Lowry method [34] and equal amount of protein lysate (0.4μg) was used for TRAP reaction. PBMCs were isolated by centrifugation using Lympho-Ficoll (Ficoll-Paque Plus; GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, UK) gradient density centrifugation for 30 minutes at 400g. The mononuclear
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Results A proper randomization of patients was done before the start of the treatment. As shown in Table 1 (page 148), all patients participated in this study were randomized in terms of age, sex, stem cells, and telomerase activity prior to meditation. The randomization was successful as evidenced by age-range, sex of the patients just to be sure increased telomerase activity in the treated group were not due to inclusion of more young people.
Mind-Body Therapy (MBT) program did not affect the viability of stem cells Out of 110 patients, 2 patients’ samples were found to be contaminated and hence rejected for the study. Using Trypan blue exclusion method 80-90% viability was observed in all subjects (101 - 208). The results are presented in Table 2 (page 150). A close examination of the table revealed that the retreat did not affect the viability of the stem cells among all subjects. Substantially large numbers of stem cells (80-90%) were found to be viable before and after the meditation.
MBT augmented stem cells numbers in peripheral blood isolated from the participants Having established that the retreat did not have much effect on the viability of stem cells, we asked the question whether meditation affected the number of total stem cell in subjects. Table 3 (page 151) shows the stem cell fold changes in subjects before and after the meditation. Thus program group participants showed higher fold changes in stem cell numbers, indicating a possible role of stem cells on the well-being of the subjects undergoing meditation. In addition, a substantial percentage of subjects (about 90%) exhibited increased stem cell counts after meditation as shown in Table 5 (page 154).
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MBT augmented telomerase activity in stem cells isolated from peripheral blood from the participants Furthermore, having established that meditation had a marked effect on the stem cell fold changes among the majority of the people undergoing MBT as opposed to pre-MBT group, we went on to investigate a key molecular parameter of well-being: telomerase activity. Table 4 (page 152-153) represents the telomerase activity fold changes in subjects before and after the meditation. Thus telomerase activity was augmented in the majority of the subjects after MBT, thereby indicating better well-being status. In addition, as shown in Table 5, about 45% of people showed more than one-fold of telomerase activity after MBT. Furthermore, about 27% of people showed higher fold changes (2-fold) in telomerase activity after MBT retreat.
Discussion Telomerase activity is critical to prevent early telomere shortening which can delay the aging process [21,14,15]. Interventions that can augment telomerase activity are clinically important because [27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39] there are no known pharmacological or behavioral interventions that have this beneficial effect to date. Also there is an inverse relationship between telomerase activity and perceived stress [25] that can be reduced by meditative practice [40,41].
participants had significantly higher telomerase activity compared to the premeditated group. Interestingly, increased telomerase activity among the program participants was associated with increased stem cells count in the blood, thereby indicating an inter-relationship between increased stem cells numbers and telomerase activity. The reasons for the positive correlation between the increased stem cell count and increased telomerase activity could be twofold. First, increased telomerase activity could be due to intrinsic telomerase activity in the stem cells. So the higher the stem cell number the higher is the overall telomerase activity. Second, since the stem cells have a potent healing capacity, they could migrate and home to the damaged tissue, due to agerelated processes, and stabilize the telomere length by activating telomerase enzyme through an unknown mechanism. However, we don’t know for sure whether the positive correlation between stem cell number and telomerase activity is direct or indirect.
This increase was due to a reduction in ‘‘intrusive thoughts’’ as reported by the patients. Given that meditative practice and negative impact of intrusive thoughts are inversely co-related, it is plausible that the increase in telomerase activity reported in that study might be in part due to meditation-induced changes. Importantly, the association between changes in control preMBT and post-retreat telomerase activity in the present study is consistent with the previous report showing an inverse relationship between perceived stress and immune cell telomerase activity in caregivers for their chronically ill children.
Conclusion Statistical analysis reveals that more than 45% participants showed more than one-fold change post the Inner Awakening® program and more than 27% participants showed more than two-fold change post the Inner Awakening® program. This is a significant increase in telomerase activity in as short a period as 3 weeks.
Furthermore, a recent pilot study on early-stage prostate cancer patients [26], in which a modest increase in telomerase activity (2.22 as opposed to 2.0 before MBT) occurred in response to lifestyle changes including a small amount of meditation or yoga. This is consistent with the positive effect of MBT on the enhancement of telomerase activity.
To our knowledge, ours is the first study to date where simultaneous investigation of the critical cellular and molecular parameters of measuring human well-being were investigated. Most earlier studies had looked at the effect of meditation on telomerase activity only. However, in this particular study we looked at the effect of the MBT on stem cell population along with telomerase activity. Furthermore, in this study, we examined if there is any interrelationship between the telomerase activity and the augmentation of stem cell counts in subjects. Since stem cells are responsible for new cell generation, higher stem cell counts could facilitate any age-related damaged tissue healing processes. We found after intensive MBT training, retreat
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♦♦ Pro-inflammatory genes are down regulated.
Longevity and Health ♦♦ The ultimate goal of any life form is to preserve life, increase life span without reducing productivity. This can be achieved by the prevention of diseases most of which are lifestyle-related and by the reduction of stress and cellular inflammation. ♦♦ The detailed scientific studies conducted during the Inner Awakening® program, from December 2010 till date, have encompassed several different aspects of human molecular physiology. There is ample evidence in scientific literature that malfunctions of mitochondria, increase in proinflammatory genes and regulatory pathways, decrease in telomerase enzyme and decrease in the stem cell numbers in the body are responsible for premature ageing, diseases and death.
♦♦ Gene and signaling pathways which enhance production of mitochondria and stem cells are up regulated. ♦♦ The number of stem cells is increased. ♦♦ Telomerase activity is significantly increased. ♦♦ Questionnaire-based evaluations suggest significant decrease in lifestyle diseases, psychosomatic conditions and autoimmune diseases. ♦♦ The expected life span of a human was declared as 120 years in yogic scientific literature, which has now reduced due to poor lifestyle, etc. ♦♦ With programs like Inner Awakening®, involving powerful initiations from an Avatar, it is possible to reestablish the Vedic life span of 120 years, with an improved quality of life, and avoiding preventable diseases.
♦♦ The remarkable evidence gathered so far in Inner Awakening® studies indicate that Mitochondria levels increase several-fold.
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda conducts the powerful Kundalini AwakeningSM initiation process for participants during the Inner AwakeningÂŽ program
My sun allergy never came back
From that day my sugar levels are normal Name: Arun Manoharan
Name: Arthi Desai
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Location: Florida, USA
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In 2011, I developed diabetes or sugar imbalance in the body.
I used to have a sun allergy that would not allow me to step out into the sun for even a few minutes. Even if I had a slight exposure to the sun, my skin would break out into terrible rashes.
While attending the Inner Awakening program, during one of the darshans, I asked Swamiji to heal me. Swamiji healed me and told me that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have diabetes and not to worry about it.
When I attended Inner Awakening, I shared my problem with Swamiji and requested him to heal me.
When I went back and checked my sugar levels, I found that they had returned to normal.
Swamiji healed me and assured me that the allergy would not come back.
From that day, my sugar levels are normal. Thank You very much Swamiji.
Since then, I frequently move around in the sun, but to my delight and gratitude, the rashes never came back!
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I wanted very badly to attend the Inner Awakening program being conducted by Swamiji in Varanasi. Since my employer was not ready to give my leave of absence, I simply left my job and went to Inner Awakening along with my wife.
Nirahara SammyamaSM Going Beyond Food
I had a very strained relationship with my mother and hadn’t spoken to her in ten years. This always weighed on my mind, but I did not know how to make up to her after all these years. When I attended the Inner Awakening program, we had several ‘completion’ sessions where we had to call up our family or friends whom we had had issues with, and ‘complete’ with them, or bring the relationship back on track.
I shared this with Swamiji and requested his blessings for a new job. Swamiji blessed us and said that he will take care. Within just two weeks, I got a better-paying job than my earlier one!
For me, everything was going well, until l had to ring my mother. That was the miracle.
Also, after IA, I am experiencing a lot of clarity and no disturbance from the inner chatter, leading to a more calm, confidence and restful awareness in my life.
I was hesitant to call my mother, but I know that Swamiji was with me when I made that call. Here l was talking to her, as if nothing had ever happened! I don’t know how it all happened, but the healing was there. It was simply amazing. Thank you so much for guiding us through the completion process, and for being there for me Swamiji. It has changed mine and my mother’s life.
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Nithya SammyamasSM: Techniques for Extraordinary Living
ammyama’ means rediscovering, exploring and expressing the possibilities of extraordinary experiences and powers which are available to all of us.
Nithya SammyamasSM are a series of extraordinary techniques revealed by the Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda to take humanity to the next level of health, awareness and extraordinary living. Among these, the one that has caught the attention of seekers and medical professionals alike is the Nirahara Sammyama, the science of going beyond the need for food.
The human being is at the top of the food chain. Through the millions of years of human existence, the bio-memory of deriving energy from minimal naturally occurring food sources has been transmitted through our genes. Over a period of time, social circumstances changed the natural way of living, leading to cultivation and consumption of cooked food materials.
The purpose of Nithya SammyamaSM is not only to empower us with extraordinary capabilities. These sammyamas are powerful catalysts on the path of the spiritual seeker, preparing the body and mind to hold and radiate the phenomenal energies that are released with enlightenment. They also give us the confidence that we are progressing on the path.
The human body is a masterpiece of millions of years of creative evolution. The human bio-memory contains the cumulative biomemory of every form of life that we have taken before. Whatever we think of as miraculous powers in the modern day are only skills and abilities that we once had, but have forgotten in our present human birth.
Each sammyama is designed to liberate us from the physical and mental patterns that are binding us to lives of disease, fear and mental poverty. The sincere practice of any of these sammyamas can liberate us from the limitations of body-mind and take us to higher and higher states of awareness, helping us grow from human to superhuman states in consciousness, freedom, power and bliss.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda says, ‘If a fish can live underwater, you can live underwater. If a bird can fly, you can fly!’
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Traditional yoga texts recognize Sammyama as the integration of the last four limbs of ashtanga yoga – pratyahara (shutting down the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (contemplation) and samadhi. 21 units of pratyahara is considered to be equivalent to one unit of dharana, 21 units of dharana is equivalent to one unit of dhyana and 21 units of dhyana is equivalent to one unit of samadhi. Sammyama is the integration of all these. Patanjali Yoga Sutra, one of yoga’s foundational texts, states:
trayam ekatra sammyamah (3.4) The integration of these three (dharana, dhyana and samadhi) is Sammyama.
tajjayāt prajnālokah (3.5) From the mastery of sammyama, comes the light of consciousness. Sammyama was also offered as a technique for spiritual enlightenment in the Tamil epic ‘Tirumandiram’ revealed by the saint Tirumoolar, who is believed to have lived in the physical body for over 3000 years without any solid food. The word ‘Tirumandiram’ translates as the ‘Science of Miracles’.
Nirahara Sammyama: The Science of living Food-free The human being is physically designed to consume only vegetarian foods which are not processed. The human being does not have the ability to process and digest raw meat, unlike carnivores. There is a degree of similarity in the initial development of all complex life forms, and the very early embryo looks very similar in various species, from fish to human. This gives us an idea that there is some common genetic thread in all life forms, with significant differences in their manifestation, as the genetic material itself is both intelligent and dynamic. The word ‘Sammyama’ comes from the Sanskrit word ‘sam-yama’ which means ‘that which ties together’. Sammyama is an intense process that gathers and concentrates our scattered energies in a single direction.
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in space and time. It is the nature of the mind to be restless and scattered. By creating a strong flow of thought in one direction, sammyama shakes the very roots of the mind, uprooting patterns and habits of a lifetime – sometimes lifetimes. For those who can withstand the churning of sammyama, it helps break free from the mental patterns once and for all.”
Nirahara Sammyama: The Process The specific kriya or process of Nirahara Sammyama expresses the latent genes in us, which contain the code for survival on minimal or no obvious food material. Nirahara Sammyama is the science of energizing the body by the utilization of the subtle form of bio-energy (life energy or prana), to contribute to the largest extent in maintaining the cellular activities of the body.
Sammyama on any particular aspect endows the practitioners with a power related to that aspect. For example, sammyama on the nadi chakra creates the siddhi (yogic power) of nirahara.
The gross supplier of energy is food in the form of carbohydrate, protein, fat and micronutrients, which are significantly restricted, with the practitioner consuming only a liquid diet consisting of pure fruit or vegetable juice without the addition of any nutritional supplements.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda reveals:
The Nirahara Sammyama process was perfected and made applicable by His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda as a combination of three techniques and processes:
Sammyama is far more than just a technique or process. Sammyama is diving into your center and staying there by the power of tapas (spiritual discipline).
• Initiation • Shitkari Kumbhaka Pranayama
As a laser beam illuminates whatever it falls upon, a concentrated mind that has mastered Sammyama can simply illumine any field that it chooses to focus on. All deeper and subtler states of knowledge can be mastered only through the process of Sammyama.
• Liquid diet - largely to allow adequate hydration
Sammyama is also the key to the expression of extraordinary yogic powers, because sammyama breaks the individual and collective bonds that bind us
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Science of Nirahara Sammyama
Science behind liquid vegetarian diet
Initiation Science
The human being is colonized by more bacteria than there are cells. The entire alimentary tract is colonized by bacteria, the species of which depend on our lifestyle and diet. The microflora of the gut of a being living on animal products is distinctively different from that of a vegetarian.
Sammyama happens when your ability to feel, think & be – all three are centered on one subject. To be completely effective, sammyama needs three components – the presence of an Avatar who initiates one into the sammyama, the technique itself, and the Sangha or group of practitioners experimenting with the technique. The right ambience creates a powerful energy field where beginners can simply pick up the positive bio-memory of those who are already trained in that sammyama. As explained in earlier chapters, Initiation or Deeksha is a technique of transferring bio-energy directly from the Master to the practitioner. This involves both the quantum concept of entanglement as well as a direct or classical transmission of energy, which results in changes at the levels of bio-memory (gene and gene Expression), cellular energy (mitochondria), and several other changes at the molecular level.
Pranayama Science Shitkari Kumbhaka described in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Yogi Svatmarama
atha sītkārī sītkām kuryāttathā vaktre ghrānenaiva vijrmbhikām evam abhyāsayoghena kāmadevo dvitīyakah | yoginī chakrasammānyah srshtisamhārakārakah na kshudhā na trshā nidrā naivālasyam prajāyate || One should always inhale through the mouth, retain and exhale through the nose. With this practice, one becomes a cupid. He is regarded adorable by all the yoginis and does not suffer from hunger, thirst, sleep and drowsiness.
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As per the Trisikhibrahmanopanisad, the height of the human body is 96 digits length with the vital breadth or Prana longer than the body by 12 digit lengths. In the middle of the body is the Sikhi or the fire situated just at the level of the nabhi (navel) and is called the Nadi Chakra. The regulation of the vital life-energy, Prana and Apana happens at the level of the Nabhikanda, i.e. region originating from the navel. Unlike traditional pranayamas, which are used to raise the Kundalini (the potential energy) up from Muladhara Chakra to Sahasrara (from base of spine to top of head) and therefore, the in-breath and out-breath flow from the nose or occasionally the mouth, in Nirahara sammyama, the in-breath is through the mouth. This allows part of the prana (the life-energy) to enter the traditional route and the other part to directly enter the belly to activate the nadi chakra. This increases the redistribution of prana into the samana system, thus providing energy in lieu of gross food. The Kumbhaka or breath retention after filling the lungs with breath, allows time for the energy to be distributed from the Nadi chakra into the various abdominal organs, thus energizing and purifying them.
The microflora of a person on largely liquid vegetable and food based diet is also different and supports the production of vital micronutreints at the same time minimizing the production of exo and endotoxins produced by the gut flora. This allows for maximum absorption of nutrition including micronutrients in the system.
Study Thirty-eight participants from around the world gathered in Tiruvannamalai in India in October 2012, to experience THE Sammyama, an ancient Vedic practice that has been awakened by the Avatar, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Participants drank only liquids, including juice and soup.
It is the Vitamin B12 that is involved in the metabolism of every cell in the body, especially affecting DNA synthesis and function. Without ample amounts of this vitamin, we can experience irreversible damage to the brain, increasing the risk of Dementia, and Alzheimer’s Disease. It also plays a key role in the prevention of heart disease, because of its ability to lower homocysteine levels. Normally Vitamin B12 is acquired by eating animal derived foods like meat and eggs. However, there are some vegetables which have lower quantities of Vitamin B12. Also medical literature shows increase in Vitamin B12 in organically grown plants like Spinach where cow dung is used as manure instead of synthetic fertilizers. Yet the Niraharis had massive increase in Vitamin B12 by only drinking vegetable based fluids. The process of shifting to a liquid based vegetarian diet changes the blood micro flora tremendously and reduces toxin-producing bacteria. On the other hand, the specific kriya for Nirahara Sammyama directs the vital energy or prana towards the abdominal organs making the gut more efficient in absorbing micronutrients.
Cholesterol Total Cholesterol levels reduced to normal levels in 85% of the participants in just 21 days! HDL (good cholesterol levels) gained by 45%. Even postmenopausal women gained in good cholesterol. Menopausal women do not produce high levels of estrogen. Normally estrogen is needed for HDL to elevate.
The exhalation through the nose allows for Prana to move through the Ida and Pingala, and enter the Susumna activating or resetting the hypothalamus to control hunger, thirst, sleep and drowsiness.
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increases the sensitivity of the body to realign itself at both macro and micro nutrient levels.
stimulation of the bone marrow through increased production of the erythropoietin by the kidneys. Improved functioning of the kidney has already been reflected on Sammyama participants by a consistant decrease in the blood urea levels.
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Also, the process of Kumbhaka in the Nirahara Sammyama Kriya, would induce the formation of hypoxia inducing factor (HIF), which in turn will stimulate the formation of erythropoietin (production of HIF) related to gene expression. This has already been shown in earlier studies of 21 days Inner AwakeningÂŽ.
Vitamin D levels rose 100% in all participants. High levels of Vitamin D leads to reversal of aging, heightened immune function, and promotion of calcium absorption. This reduces the risk of osteoporosis and fractures.
Implication Normally vitamin D is either acquired from food sources like milk and meat or from exposure to sun.
Thyroid Function
Vitamin D3 increase following direct exposure to sun is usually estimated in relation to the number of sun hours of exposure.
Thyroid functions improved drastically, altering the levels of TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) and T3 levels increased 33%.
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Though the Nirahara Sammyama participants were largely indoors, the availability of indirect sunlight including UV light during the day cannot be discounted.
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This resulted in normalization of the thyroid hormone levels, thereby normalizing the effects of thyroid hormone on body metabolism.
Considering the very significant increase in the Vitamin D3 levels in just 3 weeks, the likely mechanism is a heightened sensitivity of the skin to manufacture Vitamin D3 even at minimum sunlight exposure.
Blood glucose levels returned to normal levels in diabetics, even without their medication. The post Sammyama fasting levels were much higher in most of the participants.
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Here the liver produced glucose through a process of neo glucogenesis utilizing stored body fat.
Hemoglobin of male and female participants combined rose 70%. Hemoglobin is essential in producing red blood cells which carry oxygen and provides us with vital energy.
Implication The synthesis of hemoglobin requires not only the presence of iron which can be obtained from food sources, but also
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♦♦ Increased responsibility for thoughts and actions
Compiled Results
♦♦ Clarity of speech and expression
♦♦ Recoveries from many serious mental and physical diseases
♦♦ Balanced emotions
♦♦ Huge shifts in energy
♦♦ Alertness in body and mind
♦♦ Reduced mental chatter
♦♦ Lighter body
♦♦ Less unnecessary chatter when communicating with people
Spiritual name: Ma Nithya Brahmananda
♦♦ Greater flexibility both mentally and physically
Location: Mountain View, CA, United States
♦♦ Calmness and contentment in inner space
♦♦ Increased gratitude
Email: oraichinni@gmail.com
♦♦ Increased awareness of engrams (negative thought patterns)
♦♦ Decreased feelings of irritation
♦♦ Increased awareness and removal of destructive patterns
♦♦ Drastic and permanent weight balancing
♦♦ Reduction of hours of sleep, yet rested and energized ♦♦ The majority of participants reported needing only 4-5 hours of sleep per night ♦♦ Heightened ability to respond to situations spontaneously without negativity
I am living in a blessed body now
My compulsive eating pattern is gone
♦♦ Increased intuition
For the first time in history, using the combination of modern science and yogic science, it has been unequivocally demonstrated that liquid vegetarian diet in combination with yogic techniques not only maintains good health, but in fact enhances various parameters of wellbeing.
Name: Donna Johansen Place: San Diego, USA Email: donna@johansendesign.com
I started the Nirahara process in July 2012 and continued into the advanced process of ‘The Sammyama’. The experience took me beyond the pattern of food. My body became much lighter and sensitive to energy.
I had been obese since I had my caesarian section 20 years ago. After practising Nirahara Sammyama, I am successfully losing the fat which I fought against hopelessly with all kinds of exercises and dieting. I used to have heavy sweating due to low blood sugar when I did not eat in time. I no longer have this problem. I also had acidity which is not there anymore.
I am a professional designer and artist. The effect of The Sammyama was a noticeable increase in creativity and execution of details. The hands carried an energy through them that did not exist before. The designs are much more spontaneous than ever before!
The compulsive eating pattern of wanting to eat comfort food disappeared. I have full freedom to eat or not to eat whenever I choose to.
Increased flexibility in my body was a pleasant, unexpected side effect! My core strength increased drastically without any conscious decision on my part to build it.
Travelling has become lot easier. I do not depend upon anything or anybody for food anymore. Whenever I get the food, and if I need to eat, I eat!
There is a huge utility value to not being pulled by the emotions of hunger. Traveling long distances became very easy and stress free. My deep gratitude to Swamiji for the gift of The Sammyama. There is no will-power involved. The body responds directly to the energetic configurations installed by the Master. The energy of the sammyama expresses itself by itself.
Immense energy keeps radiating all through and I am able to sit in utter silence, focusing for longer hours with much more ease in meditations. The energy that Swamiji radiates is being understood better by this body.
There is not a moment that goes by that I don’t acknowledge this extraordinary
I understand the emptiness within with great joy. There is so much more of awareness of the body and the thoughts now. The lighter body is allowing me to do much more of active yoga and other practices.
happening. “Before the sammyama I knew logically that I was blessed by Swamiji. After the sammyama, every cell of my body knew experientially that I am living in a blessed body now. Thank you for healing me in so many ways Swamiji!
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My hemoglobin shot up after three weeks of fasting!
I experienced a continuous blast of energy even without eating
My need for food has dropped by 80% Legal name: Sangita Mistry
Name: Sanjay Verma Location: San Jose, California, USA
Name: Dr. Srilekha Karthik
Spiritual name: Nithya Kavyaroopini
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I have a Masters in Computer Science from IIT and work as a Strategic Planner in the semiconductor industry. I completed the Nirahara Sammyama at Nithyananda Vedic Temple, San Jose with the grace and guidance of my Guru, Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda. It was nothing sort of miraculous to feel a continuous blast of energy all the time despite not consuming any solid food at all! Simply unimaginable for a logical mind with a lifetime of conditioning and habits which had taught that food and various supplements were the source of energy and strength. To my amazement, I found that solid food caused me to become lethargic, overweight and would cause me to want to lie down right after eating.
I attended the advanced level of Nirahara sammyama at Kodaikanal.
4. Breaking from my food patterns
In 2012, I participated in Nirahara Sammyama process which lasted for 21 days. During this process, I was facing lot of work pressure at home and also on the professional front (three times more than on regular days).
When we set out, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to complete the sammyama.
5. Freedom from the necessity of tea and coffee
But Swamiji was the strength that made it happen for me so beautifully.
7. Freedom to eat when I want and not out of pressure from hunger
But to my surprise, the whole thing went through was like a piece of cake!! I did a good job of juggling everything with such ease and productivity, it was amazing! During this period, I would sleep for just 4 hours a night, and it would be a deep quality sleep, without dreams or disturbance of any sort. I experienced a state of constant bliss, fulfilment, gratitude and devotion.
What a liberating experience it was to be free from dependence on solid food! I am much more active, with regular yoga, meditations and exercise. I was complimented about the glow on my face, my body got into shape and my hypertension problem improved greatly too.
I also constantly practiced chanting the mantra that Swamiji had given us during the sammyama. Every evening, between 6-8 pm, I experienced a sweetness in my throat (mystical yogic experience of amrita or nectar), which was accompanied by a state of indescribable bliss.
By the Master’s grace, I experienced energy emanating from the throat, sweetness on the tip of tongue and much deeper sleep. Above everything, I experienced a highly elevated awareness, clarity and restfulness, enabling much more effective meditations. Hopefully, someday I would be able to become a lifetime Nirahari, as several of my friends have already become.
As a doctor, I was astonished to find that my hemoglobin, which was 11% prior to the sammyama, shot up to 13% after not eating for 3 weeks!! That beats all logic! Nirahara is a wonderful way to live, not bound to be eating regular meals on all days, and at the same time, enjoying your occasional meal better than ever before, because of the awareness that has been infused into the process of eating.
My heartfelt thanks and tremendous gratitude to Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda for giving such a precious gift to humanity. May we all benefit from this and be free from several sufferings.
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I am a paediatrician by profession.
I pray for Swamiji’s blessings to start living as a lifetime Nirahari in the near future.
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Normally, I am prone to headaches if I don’t eat or go in the sun, but here I was, with no debilitatintg effect at all, and on the contrary feeling light and healthy. I lost a total of about 10 kgs during the total sammyama process. Now I live a life of no hunger, no weakness and a constant flow of energy and bliss. I have gained health and energy, and moved out of many, many food patterns.
6. Total food intake has dropped by 80%
8. Anti-aging - looking at least 10 years younger!! 9. Feeling light and blissful 10. More concentration power 11. Can feel the energy flow of kundalini shakti in my spine and back 12. Can feel lot of creativity flowering in me.
Not just that - the creativity seems to be just flowering in me, and I am doing so many things that I had not done earlier… at my age, I started learning desktop publishing, designing clothes, reading, etc. I feel full of life and full of confidence now.
The greatest gain for me is the faith that I can live a healthy life without food, due to Swamiji’s blessing. What a liberation!
Nirahara sammyama has too many benefits to list, but if I had to make a list of, it would look like this!
Thank you Swamiji for this blessing.
1. Being able to live without solid food for months together 2. No loss of energy or feeling of weakness 3. No headaches or physical debility
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Epilogue 2012-2020: The Great Conscious Shift 2012: The point of transformation First, a glimpse of the famous 2012 predictions, which have captured the imagination of an entire generation, and about which speculation is rife in scientific and academic circles. Vedic prophecy: Sage Agastya, who established the uncannily accurate nadi system of prophesy many centuries ago, concludes his predictions at December 2012, with the observation that after this date a new consciousness will take over, and only one who is living in that new state of consciousness can continue the predictions. The Mayan calendar: Known as a civilization of geniuses, the ancient Maya also devised a calendar which could accurately predict global events centuries into the future. Surprisingly, the Mayan predictions also end abruptly on December 21, 2012. The predictions say that after this date, there will be such a huge shift in human consciousness that any predictions made before that date will no longer be valid. Astronomical significance: In 2012, all the planets of our solar system are going to be aligned with the sun – an event which has never been recorded before. On Dec 21, 2012, which is a winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere) the centre of the galaxy will align with our sun – a rare event that happens once in thousands of years.
Major astronomical events are also being predicted – possible meteor crashes (similar to the one millions of years ago which caused the extermination of dinosaurs), Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the sun causing solar storms and galactic core explosion.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda on 2012 and enlightenment As I observe what is going on in and around me, I notice a change in the power of mother Earth.
Individuals and cultures that champion the idea of thinking may brand these changes as negative, and create new diseases and medicines to deal with a natural and healthy change on planet earth.
On the planet earth itself, there are expected to be potential major changes – the shifting of the magnetic poles of the earth causing the whole Earth to ‘tip over’, global warming, etc.
She is releasing her grip on people through gravity, and this has very profound effects. Our minds become quieter, and we need fewer thoughts to do any given task.
Let us celebrate that ‘less thought more action’ is a natural expansion of life! ‘No mind, only action’ is a natural expansion of human experience and expression.
Fractal Time: Fractal time experts extrapolate from the rapidly increasing rate of changes (technological, social, population, etc.) that around 2012, the rate of change may reach such a speed that change is all that will exist.
This is the observable change, and people react to this change in two ways.
We can look at this expansion as similar to the expansion that happened when monkeys started to attempt walking on two legs. When the first monkey tried this, all the other monkeys would have said, ‘No, No... it cannot be done’! There would have been a huge bunch of monkeys criticizing the first monkey. But there would also have been a few intelligent monkeys saying, ‘What he says may be practical, why not try?’
Symbols: Research on the Nazca lines (symbolic stylized figures that have been etched onto the rocky desert between the Peruvian coast and the Andes Mountains, creating the world’s largest piece of art) indicate that they may contain in-depth astronomical information with most of the lines fanning out from ‘radiating centers’ representing a map of the stars (belt of Orion). There is a range of predictions - catastrophes, a global cataclysm, a flood of change, the end of a great cycle of time, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, among many others. There are also researchers in the frontiers of science leading to spirituality, providing the bigger picture: ‘The Cosmos will be reborn or recreated. We will reach the Zero Point of the process - a moment of collective spiritual birth. Our basic orientations will be inverted. On the level of human civilization, our basic assumptions and foundation values will be exposed, and we will have the opportunity to embrace values long since driven under the surface of our collective consciousness.’ (Researcher John Major Jenkins - Maya Cosmogenisis 2012)
On the one hand, the whole society today is based on the value of thinking – it values and encourages a large number of thoughts. On the other hand there are people from the Vedic culture, meditators and spiritual seekers who know the value of a quiet mind. They know that a quiet mind or no-mind (an enlightened state) means causeless bliss, extraordinary intelligence and high performance. As this change in the earth’s gravity is taking place, those people who are focused on a love of thinking are finding that their minds are getting quieter. This new experience can be unsettling; if they don’t like this new experience, they can fall into depression. They find the lack of thoughts very boring, and so they feel lost; life loses meaning and low energy results. This is why we are seeing a rapid increase in depression in countries whose culture is based on constant thinking. The people who are tuned in to quietness or are seeking spiritual enlightenment are finding that they are suddenly reaching quieter states more easily. This allows them to do more with fewer thoughts. They are suddenly finding new levels of creativity, spontaneity and energy. As we move towards 2012, we will find that a task that took 100 thoughts in 2008 will be done with only 40 thoughts. This is the physical effect on the body of the changes in the earth. The friction between thought and action will decrease. By 2012 we can convert these low levels of thoughts into direct enlightened action. If you are habituated to enjoying low levels of thoughts, this will be a
The Earth is currently moving across the center of the Milky Way, which is a very powerful source of magnetic energy. On December 21, 2012, Earth will have direct access to that field of energy.
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When the monkey started walking on two legs with an erect spine, the brain started developing. But that first monkey couldn’t even have imagined all the biological developments and the consequent after-effects of his action! In the same way, the idea that we can perform action only from no-mind is so foreign to us. It is only after the monkey started walking erect that the subtle brain grooves started developing, the thinking started. When the still subtler brain grooves in the brain system start developing, that is when the enlightenment experience starts happening. Monkey walking on two legs brought mind. Now it is time for enlightenment to bring no-mind! Living with no-mind is what I call living enlightenment. This is just a glimpse of the thousand or million-dimensional effects of conscious development, leading to an enlightened humanity. We are witnessing a change on a grander scale than the changes that took place when monkeys chose to stand up and walk on two legs. We can choose to fight this change or flow with this change. The choice then was: remain as monkeys or become human. Now it is: remain as human or live enlightenment!
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Glossary A Adi Shankaracharya – An Avatar or Incarnation of Lord Shiva who appeared in 8th century in India as a Sannyasi (monk) . Re-establisher of Advaita Vedanta truth, and celebrated as the great reviver of Sanatana Dharma and the monastic system. Ajna chakra – (lit. wheel of cosmic command). Also called the third eye, the seat of divine vision and intuition. The subtle sixth energy center in the human system located between the eyebrows in the pituitary region encompassing most of the brain.
Ashtanga Yoga – The yoga system introduced by Sage Patanjali. ‘Ashta’ means eight, and ‘anga’ means ‘limbs’. The eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga are: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi. Ashta Mahasiddhis – Eight mighty yogic powers or perfections in the Vedic sciences that are extraordinary divine powers expressed through divine beings and incarnations to fulfill their cosmic purpose or dharma.
Akashic Records – The cosmic records of all happenings - past, present, future, imprinted in Space or Aksha element. Only incarnations or Avatars, beyond time and space, can directly read, decode these records and reveal the Truths.
Ananda Gandha – (lit. the fragrance of bliss). The point where all the chakras or energy centers collapse in the human system. Its doorway is between the Anahata (heart center) and Manipuraka (navel center) chakras. It is said to be the size of a thumb (angustha matra) and can only be awakened or opened by Avatars. Paramahamsa Nithyananda has awakened Ananda Gandha for thousands of disciples, making them channels of cosmic energy.
Arunachala – The sacred mountain which is direct manifestation of Lord Shiva, where He appeared as the cosmic infinite light shaft in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai, in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Amygdala – Part of the limbic system located deep in the Temporal lobe. The amygdala stores episodic autobiographical memory (EAM). It imports, stores and retrieves EAM. Thus, it acts as an emotional browser.
Ardhanarishwara – The Absolute form and energy of Lord Shiva and Devi who are in eternal union and beyond the male and female attributes, as they are whole and non-separate.
Amsa Avatar – lit. a part or a dimension incarnation who descends for a specific purpose carrying some attributes, dimensions of the complete incarnations.
Adult Stem Cell – The undifferentiated (uncommitted) reserve cells of the body which in the adult are present in small numbers, in niche areas usually relatively devoid of oxygen (relative hypoxia). Unlike the embryo, where the stem cells can commit into any part of the body (totipotent), in the adult, it is limited in its capacity to commit (multipotent). These stem cells are relatively naive and a small quantum of the reserve commit and multiply at time of need, while the rest stay in their potential state.
ATP – Stands for ‘adenosine triphosphate’ and is the fundamental unit of biological energy. It is produced in the mitochondria, like converting gross food like carbohydrates, fats and proteins into ATP, depending on the availability of nutrient food.
Adult regenerative stem cell (ARSS) – This is synonymous with adult stem cells.
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B Bhagavad Gita – (lit: song of God). One of the core Vedic texts, uttered directly by Bhagavan Sri Krishna to his disciple, friend and devotee, Arjuna; it contains the pure essence of all Upanishads, the absolute Truth and the path of karma (actions),
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dharma and liberation (moksha), granting the nectar of Advaita, oneness with Divine.
using the divine power of the third eye, which intuitively cognizes beyond the normal seen.
Bhagavan – (lit: god who possesses fortune, divinity and infinite supreme attributes) the blessed one; addressed in Vedic scriptures for an incarnation or Avatar, the Supreme God or embodiment of Absolute Truth.
Bipolar and Ganglion cells – Bipolar cells are specialized cells connecting the Rods (photo receptors) of the retina to the ganglionic cells. The classical theory postulated presence of light activates retinal rods which inhibits bipolar cells which themselves are inhibitory by nature, therefore leading to increased firing from bipolar cells. This leads to activation of ganglion cells. In darkness, exactly the opposite is expected to happen. However, there is now evidence that under certain special circumstances, bipolar sensitive cells themselves maybe photosensitive, leading to the activation of visual system, bypassing the light - rod - bipolar cell process. The ganglion cells are the second group of specialized cells involved in transmission of light. Depending on the amount of glutamate (inhibitory neurotransmitter) released by the bipolar cells, the ganglion cells maybe more or less excited. The socalled off ganglion cells which are normally less excited have shown in recent studies to be themselves photoreceptive directly, bypassing both the retinal rods and cones as well as the bipolar cells. This is akin to a no retinal pathway of vision and has been used in cutting edge visual neuroscience to directly stimulate these cells via micro electrodes or injection of stem cells.
Brahma – The Lord who is the Cosmic creator; one of the Trimurtis or three-deities in Vedic tradition. Brahman – (lit. absolute of universe). The ultimate existential reality; the core truth and cosmic principle found in the Vedic texts. Brahmanda – (lit. egg of the universe). Sanskrit term for Macrocosm or the whole universe. (see also Pindanada) Brahmarandra – Brahmarandra stands for the opening to Brahma and is synonymous with the Sahasrara which is not a chakra, but a subtle opening on the top of the head. It has been sometimes mistakenly referred to as Dvadasanta. Bhrumadhya – (lit. the middle of the eyebrows). Sanskrit term for denoting the ‘third-eye’, Big Bang – Working backwards using Einstein’s equation, mathematically about 13.7 billion years ago, the distance between the neighboring masses must have been zero. The entire universe squashed into a single point or zero size and this space-time event is called the Big Bang. Theoretical physics and mathematics have no formula to explain what happened before space-time zero. Big Bang is said to be the beginning of the current universe. Black Hole – When a star runs out of fuel, it starts condensing due to cooling of the temperature making it extremely dense. The high density significantly increases the gravitational force sucking everything around it, including light and therefore appears as a black hole. It is postulated that all the antiparticles and anti-matter, which are mathematically present, but not seen are residing in the black hole. Blindfolded Reading – The act of reading things and cognizing objects or the sight with eyes closed and covered with a cloth
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C Chidakasha – The etherical space or Akasha that is occupied by the mind or mental body. Colliculus – There are two-paired colliculi called superior colliculus related to vision and inferior colliculus related to hearing. The superior colliculus in humans lies in the mid brain close to the pineal gland, acts as a relay in both directions along the optic pathway (from the eye to the orbital cortex). It is involved with saccadic or the continuous mediolateral movement of the eyeball necessary for receiving sensory input and locating objects in time and space.
D Dasha Mahavidyas – lit. the ten great sacred wisdoms of Devi, the cosmic source representing her ten aspects in the Shakta or Devi worship tradition.
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Diamagnetics – 60% of the body is water. Water forms the maximum content of all cells. Water interacts with strong electromagnetic forces and thus acts as a magnetic conductor. This property of water is called diamagnetic property. Diamagnetics has been used in advanced physics laboratories in levitating small objects including small animals. Deeksha – Initiation (into a mantra or a spiritual technique) given by a Guru or Enlightened Master or Avatar. There are many types of deekshas given by Guru to his/her disciples on the path of his/her spiritual evolution as an act of ultimate grace of Guru. Devi Bhagavata Purana – The purana or historical happenings narrating the glory of Devi or Shakti, the Supreme Mother Goddess as the source of existence and her sacred acts; ascribed in 18,000 verses by Bhagavan Sri Veda Vyasa. Divyashareeri – (lit. the ones with divine bodies). The mediums or energy channels of Divine. Dr. Ervin Laszlo – A Hungarian philosopher who researched extensively on quantum consciousness. In his 2004 book, ‘Science and the Akashic field’, he posited that quantum vacuum is the fundamental energy and information carrying field of the past, present and the future. It is now proven that, vacuum contains energy in the form of anti-particles (Stephen Hawking), and can therefore transmit information in time and space. Dvadasantha – In the Vedic yogic science of pranayama, the inbreath (apana) and the out-breath (prana) traverse a distance of 12 finger breadths or dvadasantha called antira (inner) and bahira (outer). Dwadasantha Goraksha Sathaka also describes the 12th chakra (energy center) as Dwadasantha or 12th. D-Spot – The inferno medial prefrontal cortex has specialized receptors for dopamine, a hormone which causes a sense of well being and ecstasy. The D-spot can be seen as the very anterior part of the complex Limbic system, and can be demonstrated in PET scans on an Avatar or an Enlightened being.
E Einstein Relativity – In 1904, Einstein wrote 3 scientific papers
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which completely changed science as it existed prior to that. The first was the theory of special relativity that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, and it was summed up in his famous equation E=mc2 In 1915, Einstein realized that the old theory did not explain gravity, and for the first time established that the 4 dimensional space-time is actually curved or warped. This was called general relativity. Entanglement – An entangled system is one whose quantum state cannot be factored as a product of the states of its local constituents (individual particles) (Dwaita). If entangled, one constituent cannot be described without simultaneously considering other constituents (Advaita). For example, if a measurement is made on one entangled particle, or other entangled particles, they simultaneously are aware of this measurement.
a protein. It was earlier thought that one gene could produce only one protein. However, with the completion of the human genome project, it is now established that a single gene can code for more than one protein, may be up to 100’s of proteins. Each protein has a different structure and function in the cell and is unique by itself. Gene Ontology (GO) – Gene Ontology is a technique with a bioinformatics technique, which had gathered and classified all the existing information on the genes and their products. This allows research to be aligned in the direction of the study and constantly adds on more information to the existing bank of known genes and their expression. Ghatakasha – The etherical space or akasha that is occupied by the living form i.e. a human body.
Entrainment – Entrainment results from synchronous electrical activity among ensembles of cortical neurons in response to period vibration of an external stimuli, such as sound or light. This is the basis of achieving neural entrainment through mantras or use of light.
Goloka – The imperishable, eternal abode of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the complete Divinity and source of all Avatars. Goloka is described in great detail in scriptures such as Garga Samhita and puranas.
Entero-rhinal Pathway – It is that part of the limbic system related to memory, and associations to memory. It is in the pyriform cortex part of the olfactory bulb. (see also ‘limbic system’)
Gotra – The progeny or clan of a person, according to which the progeny source of each person in Hinduism comes from an enlightened sage or Rsi (or Rishi) and the descendants, be it sons or disciples, carry the similar genetic composition and root qualities.
G Garga Samhita – The rare Vedic purana composed by Sri Garga Muni at the behest of Sri Narada, filled with the divine plays of Lord Krishna and glorification of Sri Radha-Krishna. Gandha – Sweet fragrance normally used for describing the sacred fragrance that emits from flowers, sacred herbs, and naturally from divine beings. Genome – The complete set of chromosomes (with their genes) in an organism. Contains 25-30,000 genes that are packed densely into 23 pairs of chromosomes. At any given time about 10,000 genes are expressed or active in a human being. Gene Expression – The process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product, like
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Goraksanath – (also Gorakhnath) the Yogi incarnation of Lord Shiva in the Nath lineage of Shaivism, who was the disciple of Guru Matsyendranath. The roots of Hatha Yoga and several source Yogic texts are attributed to Goraksanath. Guru – Literally one who leads from gu (darkness) to ru (light); who liberates from the cycle of birth-death. At the heart of Vedic tradition, is the ‘Guru’, who is the statement of God; without whom liberation or living an enlightened life is not possible. Gluon – There are two types of fundamental elementary particles: 1. Constitutional particles 2. Energy based field particles. The strong force responsible for the tight binding of Quarks to form neutrons and protons are called Gluons. Thus Gluons are extremely short ranged forces. Graviton – The long range force that is extremely weak (10 raised
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H Hari – name of Lord Vishnu (see Vishnu) Hiranyagarbha – (lit. the golden womb). The source of all creation of the manifested Cosmos in Vedic science and cosmology. Upanishads call It the ‘ source of universe’ Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle – This principle was postulated in 1927, where it was shown that, it is physically impossible to measure simultaneously the exact position and the exact linear momentum of a particle. The inference is that the actual energy of a particle can never be measured with complete precision in a short interval of time. Hippocampus – Hippocampus is that part of the limbic system that plays a central role in consolidation of new memories. Hippocampus is associated with a process of cognition, spatial memory and learning.
I Isha Upanishad – (or Ishavasya Upanishad). The first Upanishad of the 108 main Upanishads, the essence of Vedic knowledge revealed by Lord Shiva to the Vedic sages or Rsis - declaring that ‘everything that exists is energy, consciousness’; contains 18 verses. Ishtadevata – Favorite or chosen God or Deity onto whom one is devoted single-mindedly. Inner Awakening – 21-day Spiritual Yoga program conducted by H.H. Paramahamsa Nithyananda, wherein the Avatar transmits the greatest human experience of 21 deekshas (initiations) to participants, awakening their Kundalini Shakti, the inner potential energy and their bio-memory with cosmic intelligence and spiritual powers. Infero-medial prefrontal cortex –The cortex tightly linked to the limbic system. It is believed to be the D-Spot, associated with
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pleasure and ecstasy. Inferotempero cortex – The Inferotempero cortex was originally directly linked to the standard visual pathway and associated with recognition of face and numbers. Recent researchers on single cell functions of the infero temporal cortex suggest a strong connection to the Hippocampus, Amygdala and Prefrontal cortex. Thus, it appears to be a part of the Limbic system, where individual cell or a small cluster of cells are dedicated to a specific memory and or emotion. Ida Nadi, Pingala Nadi, Sushmna Nadi – Nadi is the subtle nerve center or channel through which the cosmic energy or life force flows in the physical, subtle and causal bodies. Over 70,000 Nadis exists in human system. Ida Nadi or moon nadi lies to the left of the spine; Pingala Nadi, the solar nadi lies to the right of the spine and Sushmna Nadi runs along the spinal cord in the center, through the seven energy centers carrying the kundalini shakti, the cosmic energy from base of the spine to the Sahasrara (crown opening). Incompletion – (or apurnatva) Anything that does not allow, anything which stands in-between you and the present moment, acting as a barrier; not allowing you to connect completely with life and with other people (as defined by Paramahamsa Nithyananda).
K Kalpataru – The sacred mystical banyan tree, which blesses with fulfillment of true desires. Kalabhairava – Lord Shiva as the Lord of Time and Space, who is compassion personified. When Shiva appeared and destroyed the ego of Brahma and gave him enlightenment, that energy is Kalabhairava. Kapila Avatar – One of the Avatar’s or incarnations of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu who appeared to transmit spiritual knowledge; he is extolled in Srimad Bhagavatam Purana, the cosmic history. He is the founder of the Samkhya Vedic philosia.
Kurma Avatar – (lit. turtle incarnation) The second Avatar of Lord Vishnu in the golden age or Satya Yuga. He bore the tremendous weight of Mt. Mandara during the churning of the milky ocean by the Gods and demons. Krishna – Lord Sri Krishna Vasudeva or Bhagavan (All-Divine) Himself; the complete incarnation, Purnavatar – the source of all Avatars and all existence. Sri Krishna appears as the 8th Avatar of Lord Vishnu in Dvapara Yuga 5000 years back, while He is the source of Vishnu. Most worshipped Supreme Divine whose sacred life plays, leelas are detailed in Mahabharat and Srimad Bhagavatam. He happens every time and age to reestablish dharma and liberate his devotees. Koshas - Means sheath; vessel, container; layer. The five sheaths through which the soul functions simultaneously in the various planes or levels of existence. Kundalini Shakti – The primal, inner potential energy residing in each human being at the base of the spine. Awakening this cosmic energy elevates the human consciousness.
L Laghima – The Vedic mystic power or siddhi of levitation, going beyond the gravitational force. Lila Avatar – The divine play incarnation of Supreme Divinity Leptons – Fundamental particles meaning small or light, that participate in the weak interaction. For example, electrons are leptons that are orbiting the nucleus of an atom and can easily be shifted from one orbital to another as they are held by very weak forces. Limbic System – A complex set of brain structures including cortical, subcritical and diencephalic structures. The structures of the limbic system are involved in motivation, learning, emotion and memory. It also influences the endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system. It is deeply connected to the nucleus accumbens, which is the brain’s pleasure center, based on dopamine and anandamide.
Karana Brahman, Karya Brahman – The supreme cause (karana) of the Absolute existence; the effect (karya) or manifestation of Absolute Existence or Brahman
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molecular changes following yoga and meditation.
M Marichi – One of the seven great Sages or Saptarishis and the son of the Cosmic creator, Lord Brahma. Materialization – The creation or appearance of matter De novo from a previously unknown source. Mahavatar Babaji – The Divine Saint, Yogi who is the great Avatar of Lord Shiva, living in eternal youth in Himalayas. Appearing to divine beings and his disciples, He manifests at will. At Gaurikund, Babaji appeared to Paramahamsa Nithyananda and initiated him into his name. Paramahamsa Yogananda also gives first hand records about his encounters with Babaji in his autobiography. M-Theory – The theory that unites all 5 string theories as well as super gravity within a single theoretical framework. Mitochondria – These are intra cellular organelles that function like a battery of a cell. Chemical reactions in the mitochondria, based on current cycle and the electron transport chain, produce the fundamental unit of biological energy called ATP. Thus, the mitochondria is responsible for the energy systems of both the individual cell as well as the entire organism. Meenakshi Chakra – The Meenakshi Chakra has been described by Ramana Maharishi as the 12th or the Guru Chakra (energy center), also called Dwadasantha in other tantric references. Medulla Oblongata – The inferior part of the brain stem. The presence of the vagus nerve makes it a centre for circulation and respiration. The reticular activating system is closely related in the medulla oblongata and is responsible for wakefulness and alertness. Volitional control of breathing and circulation through yoga and meditation allows one to control wakefulness and alertness as well. Melatonin – Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in the absence of light. It controls the sleep, waking cycle and has significant anti-ageing effect through modulation of hypothalamic and pituitary hormones. Mononuclear cells (MNC) – These are white blood cells present in the peripheral blood and are easily accessible to study
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N Narada – also called Devrishi, the great sage of gods, who constantly travels the universe and one of the greatest devotees of Lord Narayana (Vishnu). Nara-Narayana Rsi – The twin brother Avatars of Lord Narayana as Narayana and Nara Rsi, who incarnated on earth to protect dharma. They did intense penance for ages at Badrika Ashram at Badrinath, North India and reincarnate as Sri Krishna and Arjuna. Nrsimbha – The half-man and half-lion Avatar, fourth Avatar of Lord Vishnu, who appeared to protect his devotee Prahlad and destroy the demon king, Hiranyakashipu. Nirahara Sammyama – The Vedic science of energizing the body by the utilization of the subtle form of bio-energy (or prana) to maintain the cellular activities of the body. During this process, the initiate lives on minimal liquid sattvik diet or just water, while reawakening the power to absorb the life-energy directly from prana. Paramahamsa Nithyananda has revived this rare sacred science and initiated thousands into Nirahara Sammyama successfully. (www.bfoodfree.org) Neuroplasticity – The ability of the brain to constantly rewire, based on new demands and maintain the wiring indefinitely. Unlike earlier beliefs, it is now shown that neuroplasticity can occur even in the ageing brain. The phenomenon of neuroplasticity is used in several meditation techniques to rewire the brain.
O Olfactory Bulbs – The Olfactory bulbs have a dual role in their functioning. They act as smell receptors. They are also part of the limbic system through the pyriform cortex part of the olfactory bulb. Optic tract – The optic tract is the part of the normal visual pathway starting from the retina and ending in the occipital cortex. The pathway also involves the superior colliculus and
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the lateral geniculate body apart from the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
P Parashurama – The sixth Avatar of Lord Vishnu, who appeared as a Brahmin sage. His history is detailed during the ages Treta Yuga and Dvapar Yuga in Ramayana and Mahabharat. The axe holder and perfect in martial arts, he rid the Earth from unrighteous rulers or Ksatriyas 21 times. Parakaya Pravesham – The mystic Vedic science of entering or manifesting into another body. Only perfected sages, enlightened beings and Avatars have this rare power. Parakasha – The universal etherical Space or Akasha. Patanjali Yoga Sutra – 196 aphorisms systematizing the yoga by Sage Patanjali, the incarnation or Avatar of Ananta Shesha, the cosmic serpent, the potent cosmic energy of Lord Vishnu. Purnavatar – Complete incarnation who appears age after age to perform three main divine acts – protect the dharma (righteousness), save and liberate the devotees and spiritual beings, and destroy the negative energies; he also performs infinite divine acts for his devotees. Refers to Lord Sri Krishna in all scriptures.
are technically massless and move at the speed of light regardless of the medium, but can be bent by gravity. Pluripotent Stem Cells ( PB-APSC) – When stem cells retain the ability to differentiate and commit themselves into forming a number of different cell lines, they are said to be pluripotent. Pluripotent stem cells have more regenerative capacity than the adult multipotent stem cells. Prana Pratishtha – The sacred Vedic science of establishing lifebreath energy into an idol or manifest an object, making it into a living Deity or life energy.
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Pindananda – (lit. egg of embodied mass or individual). Sanskrit term for microcosm. As per Vedic sciences, the macrocosm reflects in the microcosm or within an individual (also see Brahmanda). Photon – Photon is a quantum of light which is the smallest packet in the electromagnetic field. All energy forces from the entire electromagnetic field range are called photons. Photons
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Srimad Bhagavatam – also called Bhagavata Purana: (lit: Divine eternal happenings of Supreme God); richest philosophy celebrating the Divine love as path, goal of life; scientific history of Brahmanda (whole Cosmos), compiled by Sri Veda Vyasa; essence of all Vedanta literatures. Siddhis – Mystic powers, the perfections of expressing extraordinary divine powers for the benefit of humanity.
Samsara – The material world which is the play of the illusory energy of Divine (yoga maya).
Quantum Mechanics – Quantum mechanics is the new physical science that applies to very small structures like atoms, protons and other particles. Mathematically, they work up to a distance called Planck’s length, below which there is no current mathematical model.
Samasti – Advaita or expanded state of oneness. Samasti technically means collectivity and the understanding that we are not individual Koshas (sheaths), but a universal or a unified Kosha.
Shodashi Mantra – A powerful sixteen syllable chant of Devi, the Cosmic Mother as part of the Sri Vidya tradition of Devi worship. Sri Chakra Mandala – The diagrammatic representation of the Cosmos with interlocking triangles. A powerful energy center of Devi, the Cosmic mother that awakens energies. Swami Vivekananda – Chief disciple of Bhagavan Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, founder of Ramakrishna Order. 19th century Enlightened Master, the greatest being of the era who spread Hinduism, Yoga, Vedanta in Europe and America and raised India’s consciousness.
Sakshi – Observation or cognition. Sakshi is the understatement through analysis and intranalizing that our koshas are not individual (vyasti), but are Samasti which is Advaita, nonduality.
Rama – The seventh Avatar of Lord Vishnu who appeared in the golden age, Treta Yuga as the son of King Dasrath. Known as ‘Maryada Purushottam – perfect virtuous supreme being’, he is epitome of Dharma and Consciousness; he wiped out demons or collective negativity from the face of earth; establishing truth through Rama Rajya, kingdom of Rama on Earth for thousands of years; glorified in ‘Ramayana’ scripture.
Sangha – Spiritual community established on dharma, truth by the Guru.
Rg Veda – One of the four main Vedas, the Vedic Sanskrit texts of Santana Dharma, holding the eternal truth. The oldest existing sacred text which is shruti, heard containing collection of 1028 hymns and 10,600 verses dedicated to the Divine.
Shvetadvipa – (lit. the white island or land) As per Vedic cosmology, Shvetadipa is located on the northern side of the milky ocean, where the devotees of Lord Vishnu reside.
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Spanda – The subtle creative pulse vibration of the Universe as it manifests into the dynamism of living form.
Samadhi – (‘sam’ is ‘together’, ‘fully’, ‘adhi’ means ‘established in complete equilibrium)’ The state of true yoga, in which the meditator and subject or object of meditation are united and merge into wholeness or Pure Consciousness. It is the topmost goal of a seeker to unite with the Divine.
Sammyama – (lit. holding together, integration). The simultaneous practice of dharana (meditation), dhyana (meditation), Samadhi (uniting in oneness). Sammyama means exploring and discovering your various possibilities and powers being centered on certain technique or spiritual process.
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Quarks – Quark is a charged elementary particle that interacts with the strong force. They come in 6 flavours: Up, down, straight, charmed, bottom and top. They also come in 3 colors: Red, green and blue. These are mere English terms and have no meaning attached to them.
Quantum Entanglement – (see entanglement). Purana – The true historical happenings that record the divine appearances of Avatars and their divine life acts (leelas) from time eternal. Reading, studying them bestows trust, devotion onto the Divine and Its devotees, and liberation. There are 18 Mahapuranas (great Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (minor Puranas) with over 400,000 verses. Srimad Bhagavatam Purana is the crest jewel nectar of all Puranas, ascribed by Bhagavan Sri Veda Vyasa.
Rishis or Rsis – The perfected sages, who actually see and experience the revealed truth or mantra; commonly named ‘Vedic Seers’.
Sahasrara – (lit. thousand petals or openings) Crown opening on top of head, awakened by Guru’s grace. Stephen Hawking – Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has written several books explaining the physics of the Cosmos to be general, for non-mathematical readers, who wish to understand the universe they live in.
Shiva – also Mahadev, Supreme God of gods. the rejuvenator in the Hindu sacred trinity. Shiva means ‘causeless auspiciousness—mangalatva’; ‘The original substance of Existence is Shiva’—defines Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
String Theory – String theory is the theory of physics in which particles are described as waves on strings, uniting both quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Shambala – A metaphysical plane or abode in Himalayas where the enlightened ones or ones of pure inner space reside.
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two slits caused the photon to enter both the slits simultaneously, thus proving that the particle actually behaves like a wave. This experiment proved that all fundamental particles have the dual nature of particle and wave simultaneously.
T Tapovan – (lit. the forest of penance). The sacred forest region located in Himalayas where saints, mystics and divine beings reside dedicating themselves to spiritual austerities.
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Taittriyopanisad – The seventh primary Upanishad as part of Krsna Yajurveda as per the Muktika cannon of 108 Upanishads, which are the essence of Vedic knowledge.
Upanishad – Sacred cosmic revelations that are the source of all spiritual texts or the Vedas on planet. Upanishad literally means ‘sitting with the Master.’ There were 1,180 Upanishads related to 1,180 branches of Vedas; with 108 main Upanishads.
Ten (10) -dimensions, 11-dimension – Einstein established that there are 4 space-time dimensions by his theory of relativity. The M-Theory, which reconciles the super string theory with super gravity, mathematically depicts a universe with 10 or 11 dimensions. These extra dimensions are infinitely small and so curled up that we cannot see them; called Grassman’s Dimensions to distinguish them from ordinary dimensions. (see also M-Theory)
Unified Vacuum – Earlier, it was thought that vacuum contained nothing. Scientific evidence today is that energy is present even in apparently empty space. For example, anti particles are present in vacuum called vacuum fluctuations. In fact, the energy system inside a vacuum causes expansion of the universe and acceleration, unlike the effect of mass. Unclutching® – The term and spiritual initiation given by Paramahamsa Nithyananda for the ultimate process of meditation that leads one to Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the space of no-thoughts, beyond the confines of mind, body, senses, Unclutching® is the neutral space between every thought, and every incoming and outgoing breath. It is a self-purifying process to realize the natural, blissful state that we reside in.
TPS – Thoughts per second (term coined by Paramahamsa Nithyananda) Trimurtis – (lit. the three deities) The Vedic Gods namely Sri Brahma, Sri Vishnu and Shiva are the trimurtis who create, maintain and rejuvenate the whole existence and all beings. Tirumular – A Shaivaite Saint (follower of Lord Shiva) and writer, who is one of the 63 Nayanars and 18 Siddhas (perfected beings) from South India. His main work is ‘Tirumantiram’.
Urey-Miller Experiment – The Urey-Miller Experiment of 1952 was a chemical experiment, simulating conditions on early Earth. Miller demonstrated the presence of amino acids under these conditions, thus establishing the concept of abiogenesis. Miller’s student, Prof. Bade, in 2007, using stored vials from Miller’s original experiment, found over 25 amino acids using modern techniques. This suggests that biologically needed amino acids were produced even in early Earth atmosphere.
Telomerase – An enzyme required to manufacture and maintain the telomere, which is a cap like structure at the end of each chromosome. The telomere is essential for protecting the gene and allowing the cell to multiple. Shortening of the telomere, due to deficiency of telomerase, leads to ageing and cell death. Teleportation – Teleportation is a process by which information or mass (both are energies), can be transported exactly from one location to another. In quantum teleportation, qubits of energy or information can be teleported between two entangled atoms.
Vijnanamaya Kosha – “Sheath of cognition.” Fourth of the five sheaths (koshas). The soul’s mental or cognitive-intuitive sheath, also called the actinodic sheath. Vijnana Bhairava Tantra – The sacred text is an intimate talk between Lord Shiva and His consort Devi or Shakti. It presents 112 meditation techniques (dharana), revealing the essence to realize the Ultimate Reality. Visual Cortex – The visual cortex lies in the posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere called the occipital lobe. It processes the inverted image recorded on the retina into a meaningful, perceptual vision of the object and its location in time and space. Vivekchudamani – (lit. crest jewel of ‘vivek’ or conscious discrimination). A Vedic hymn composed by Adi Shankara in 8th century, expounding the Advaita Vedanta philosophy in 580 verses; it especially describes discrimination between the real and unreal; changing and eternal. Vedanta Prabodha – Vedanta Pradodha was written by Swami Paramananda Bharati of the Shringeri Shankaracharya Math, giving a detailed exposition of Adi Shankara’s teachings. Vyasti – Vyasti is an individual state where the being cognizes itself as being separate from the Cosmos; a state of Dvaita (duality).
V Vajradanda Chakra – This is the 11th chakra (energy center) described by Goraksanath, and represents a shaft of golden light, emanating from the 12th chakra to enter the brain through the Sahasrara (crown opening). This is the basis of the meditation technique for awakening the Ajna chakra.
Thomas Young – Double-Slit Experiment – His unique experiment in which a single photon fired against a wall with
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Vishnu – The Supreme Divine or Bhagavan; He is the allpervading consciousness, protector and maintainer of All and everything. He incarnates in every age on Earth to uplift humanity and liberate sages, devotees. His most sublime Avatars are – Lord Sri Rama and Lord Sri Krishna amongst his 21 main Avatars.
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8. Introduction to Biological Ageing Theory by Goldsmith 2nd edition-2014 9. The Biology of Ageing by Arking 3rd edition - 2006 10. The Science of Ageing, Scientific American - 2013 11. Endocrinology- Vol 1, 2 and 3 by DeGroot -2006 12. Simultaneous EEG and FMRI by Markus Ullsperger-2010 13. Mitochondria by Sehffler- 2nd edition - 2008 14. Clinical Enchaphalography by Misra - 2005 15. Evolve your Brain by Jo Dispenza - 2007 16. Text book of Medical Physiology by Gyton - 2008
This volume of Avatar Shastra contains a world-view of scientific content including theories, experiments, medical references and rich spiritual content declared in the authenic Vedic texts; beyond these are the direct words of the Living Avatar, the ultimate authority on Truth. These have been referenced for giving the reader a broad and expansive foundation of understanding, as well as a depth of insight. Should the reader like to explore these subjects in greater detail, the following books are suggested for reading.
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1. Bhagavad Gita Decoded by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
1. Dark Matter Dark Energy Dark Gravity by Stephen Perrenod - 2011 2. The basic duality of particle of physics by Pongkan Tongkhonburi 3. A unified grand tour of theoretical physics by Ian Lawriethird edition - 2013 4. From the Universe to the Elementary Particles by Ulrich Ellwanger - 2012 5. The relationship between matter gravity and dark energy by Nicholas Summers- 2009 6. CK - 12- Basics physics - 2nd edition - 2012 7. Serways Essentials of college physics - 2007 8. Physics for the IB Diploma, 5th edition by Tsokos- 2012 9. The 4% Universe by Richard Panek- 2011 10. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking -2001 11. Physics of the impossible by Michio Kapu
2. Isavasya Upanishad by Paramahamsa Nithyananda 3. Taittiriya Upanishad 4. Trisikhibrahmanopanisad 5. Devi Bhagavatam 6. Garga Samhita 7. Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Swami Swatmarama 8. Srimad Bhagavatam 9. Vedanta Prabodha by Swami Paramananda Bharathi 10. Viveka Chudamani by Adi Shankaracharya 11. Vijnana Bhairava Tantra 12. Linga Purana by J.J. Shastri 13. White Shadow of Consciousness by Gautham Chatterji 14. Goraksa Sathaka by Goraksanath
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