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The sacred Banyan tree in the Bidadi ashram encloses a natural cave which is a live samadhi of two enlightened beings - one male and the other female. Meditating under this banyan tree brings great benefits to the meditator besides materializing boons for him.
CONTENTS Volume 1, Issue 4, August, 2012
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Who is Nithyananda ? ...6 My Dear Ones ...7 Life Strategy: Password for Success & Enlightenment ...8,9 Bliss Bites: Mint Tambuli ... 10,11 Vedic Renaissance : Vishnu’s Darshan ...12,13 Siddha & Ayurveda: Coconuts ...14,15 Vedic Renaissance: Raksha Bandhan ...16 Vedic Renaissance: Krishna Janmashtami ...16, 17 Upcoming Events ... 18-20
Green Smoothies ... Pg 11
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Be Unclutched: Unclutch Doesn’t Mean Laziness ...22, 23g Yoga & Kriya: Kriya for Low Self Esteem ...24, 25 Main Story: Freedom ... 26-31 Beyond Mind: Watch Your Breath...32, 33
Be Unclutched: Page25
Science Meets Spirituality: Thoughts, DNA, Love, Health & You ! ...34 - 36 Esoteric Realms: Time, a Myth ...38-40 Nithya Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology): Clicks for the Month ...42-44 Abhyasah (Practice): Crossword ...45 Abhyasah (Practice): Gentle Kicks ...45 Vitarka, Logic that Inspires ...Pg 50
Who is Nithyananda ? Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a global leader in the science of enlightenment. Recently coronated as the 293rd pontiff of the world's most ancient Hindu organization, Madurai Aadheenam, Nithyananda is revered as a living avatar (divine incarnation) by millions worldwide. He is the most-watched spiritual teacher on youtube.com with more than14 million views, and the author of more than 300 books published in 27 global languages. Nithyananda was recently named among the world's top 100 most spiritually influential personalities of 2012 by renowned esoteric magazine 'Mind Body Spirit' from Watkins.
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Disclaimer The meditation techniques included in this magazine are to be practiced only under the direct supervision of an ordained teacher of Nithyananda Mission (NM) and in consultation with your personal physician to determine your fitness and ability to do the techniques. They are not intended to be a substitute for medical attention, examination, diagnosis or treatment. If someone tries these techniques without prior participation in the meditation programs of NM and without the direct supervision of an ordained teacher of NM, they shall be doing so entirely at their own risk; neither the author nor NM shall be responsible for the consequences of their actions. Š2012 Dhyanapeeta Charitable Trust All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. In the event that you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for our actions.
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The only possibility of co-existence without violence is freedom-based thinking. A real sannyasi is a person who is free in his inner space, who has not done atma hatya. A person who has healed himself completely. A real sadhu is free of greed-based and powerbased systems. Let the collective myth not be the flow of your thought trend. Let you not judge that you are poor based on money-based or power-based lifestyle. Let your thinking be freedom based. The moment your thought trend has started working freedom-based, you are a sadhu, un-exploitable. Don’t be the richest or most powerful man on planet earth, be a God on planet earth! Be Blissful!
Paramahamsa Nithyananda Spiritual Founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
life strategy
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Password for Success and Enlightenment
Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourses on Bhagavad Gita, 2011, Bidadi Ashram
Life is a constant struggle. Every man,
our questions which start with “How
from a grocery store owner to a steel
much longer... ?”. As long as people
mills owner is struggling in their life and
believe that life is fun and joy, they
often wondering the same thing - “How
keep jumping from one thing to another
much more struggle? When am I going to
without
get where I want to be? Are my dreams
any commitment towards their work.
even worth fighting for?”
Even the smallest of disappointments
any
determination,
without
is enough to shake them and question The answer to all these questions comes
their beliefs in their own dreams. They
from a simple understanding of life itself.
give up easily to move on to pastures
As said by Buddha, “Life is suffering”.
which look greener. But the truth is that
Buddha was not being pessimistic or
grass is always green on the other side
dooming everyone to suffer by saying
if you think life is joy. If you accept that
this, no! He is merely indicating the path
life is struggle, and that is the only path
to success and enlightenment. He is
to success, the pull towards other things
telling us a subtle truth that will dissolve
automatically disappears.
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To achieve any success in the outer world ultimate, which can liberate him and go or in the inner world, great perseverance beyond all sufferings in life. and preserving of purpose is needed. The understanding that life is suffering
The truth is that life is joy, the fact
liberates people from the fantasies that
is that life is suffering. Until one
there is a greener side and makes people stick to their purpose in life. The struggle doesn’t seem as bad, and the longer one sticks to the task, the more he progresses. It is the same in a pursuit of enlightenment as well. It entails a lot of initial disappointments, failures, but if that
reaches a space where he can experience the truth, only accepting the fact can raise him and show him the way forward. When one starts working with the fact, the truth automatically reveals itself to him. When one starts with the assumption that life is suffering and continues to work towards
makes a seeker think that enlightenment his goals of success and/or enlightenment is not for him, or that his life is better with unwavering determination and without enlightenment, he will simply commitment, he slowly reaches the revert back to his old ways which look place where his desires are fulfilled and more appealing at that moment, but where the truth can become his own will never be able to experience the experience. n
bliss bites
Mint Tambuli (Mint and Coconut Gravy) Tambuli is a kind of gravy which is generally prepared in the summer season. It is a specialty in the coastal parts of Karnataka. It is a dish that can be eaten with rice and ghee (clarified butter), or as a sidedish for rotis and chapatis. It is a refreshing dish that soothes the body and the mind through its cooling effects.
NUTRITIONAL PROFILE Mint is a herb which has found a significant place in Indian kitchens. It is an excellent remedy for reducing symptoms related to digestion. It is well known for its properties related to indigestion, stomach cramps, menstrual cramps, flatulence, body heat, stomach upset, nausea, vomiting and colic pain. Mint also can be used as an appetite stimulant. Asafoetida or hing added to the gravy is great for digestion.
INGREDIENTS 1. Mint - 1 and a half cup 2. Pepper - 1 tsp 3. Coconut - 1/2 cup 4.Yogurt - 1 cup 5. Salt as per taste 6. Coriander : 4-5 stems
GARNISH 1. Mustard Seeds - 1tsp 2. Cumin Seeds - 1tsp 3. Asafoetida (Hing) - a pinch 4. Curry Leaves - a few
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PROCEDURE 1. In a pan, add a teaspoon of ghee, the mint leaves, coriander leaves and pepper, and fry them till the mint leaves shrink a little.
2.Then, add the coconut.
3. Grind the overall mixture in a blender to get a smooth paste. Water can be added to get the desired consistency.
4 Next, add the yogurt and salt to taste
5. Garnish with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
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Vishnu’s Darshan
Once Narada, a devotee of Lord Vishnu, person who was just jumping and dancing was going to Vaikuntha (abode of Lord under a tree. He asked Narada, ‘O Narada! Vishnu). On the way, he saw a yogi sitting Please ask Lord Vishnu, when will I have and meditating. The yogi asked Narada, his darshan.’ It is important to note that ‘O Narada! Please ask Lord Vishnu how he never asked when he will become long do I have to wait for enlightenment, enlightened. He simply asked Narada when will I become enlightened?’ Narada when he will have Lord Vishnu’s darshan. assured him that he will ask Lord Vishnu He further requested, ‘Please tell Him to about his enlightenment and continued grace me, how long shall I wait for His his journey.
grace?’ Narada said, ‘I will surely ask,
On the way, there was another ecstatic don’t worry.’
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Narada went to Vaikuntha and came back impatience for other material objects., with the replies. The first yogi asked him they cannot be in surrender and don’t get about God’s reply. Narada said, ‘Lord enlightened. If seekers try to catch the Vishnu told me that you will have to wait experience, if they try to possess nithya for four more janmas (lives) to become ananda (eternal bliss) the experience may enlightened.’ Hearing this the first yogi was slip away, like a soap. Surrender happens depressed. He became anxious that he has to wait for four more janmas. The other person who was ecstatic asked Narada ‘What did God say?’ Narada replied, ‘God told me that you have to wait for as many janmas as there are leaves in this tree; only then will you have his darshan, only then will his grace descend upon you.’ The moment the ecstatic man heard this he said, “I don’t care how long I have to wait. Just his assurance that he will grace me is enough’. He started jumping and dancing again. As soon as he uttered these
in deep patience and in the decision to wait. In the life of Buddha, he tried various
words, lightning happened and the divine meditation techniques and spiritual practices with utmost sincerity to get descended, he became enlightened! enlightened. When nothing worked, he It may happen in the life a spiritual seeker decided to relax and let go of everything, that because of their urgency and greed simply trusting existence. That very for enlightenment which is akin to their moment, he got enlightened. n
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Coconuts History
leaves, fruit, husk, etc. is used in innumerable
Coconut (Cocus nocifera) has been known and ways. The husk can be used to make ropes, yarn, mulch, brushes and compost. The palm cultivated in India for over three thousand leaves are used to thatch roofs and for mats to years and has a very special significance in the sit or sleep on. Its branches are used to make Hindu tradition. In Sanskrit, it is known as brooms and shore up the structure of houses. Kalpa Vriksha, which means “the tree which The coconut shell is used as material to make provides all the necessities of life” or “wishcups, spoons and ladles. fulfilling tree” due to its many uses in rituals, festivals, medicine and cooking. The coconut is The tender, white meat of the fruit can be eaten an auspicious symbol representing health and raw, or used in curries, chutneys and desserts. prosperity.
USES
It is also grated, dried and ground up to make coconut flakes and coconut flour for baking. Coconut milk is extracted from the pulp and is
Every part of the tree from the trunk to the used to thicken sauces and curries.
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Coconut oil is then extracted from the milk, which is used in health products for hair and skin care and is also one of the healthiest cooking oils available. It can be used to boost the immune system, treat digestive problems, kill viruses, bacteria and fungi. Coconut water is a very refreshing drink, packed with simple sugar, electrolytes and minerals to replenish hydration levels in the body. It is composed of naturally occurring bio-active enzymes, which aid in digestion and metabolism. It is an excellent source of electrolytes which maintain proper function of your nerves, heart, and other muscles. Its water is also a very good source of B-complex vitamins such as riboflavin and niacin. It contains large amount of fiber, which helps with digestion and the elimination of waste.
Acne Treatment Acne can be treated with a mixture of 25 grams of paste of turmeric with a glass of coconut water. Leave for the night, then add 3 teaspoons of red sandalwood powder. Stir all these ingredients until smooth, then store again undisturbed for 3 days. Strain this mixture with three layers of gauze. Save this juice in a bottle, and apply to face twice a day until the acne disappears.
Treatment for Infection Fill a sterilized eyedropper with organic, extra virgin coconut oil and put several drops into your ear canal to help soothe an ear infection. Lie still for several minutes to allow the oil to travel into the canal. Apply a coconut oil-based moisturizer to the skin following your bath or shower. The fatty acids in coconut oil help to re-establish the skin’s acidic balance and speed the healing of inflammation and infection.
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Raksha Bandhan One of the ancient vedic festivals that celebrates sacred sentiments between a brother and a sister is Raksha Bandhan. ‘Raksha’ means protection and ‘bandhan’ means bond. So, by tying the sacred thread of love, a sister promises to protect her brother from all negativity. A ‘rakhi’ symbolizes the protection and care that a sister fosters for her brother. Like a shield, this thread guards the brother from every possible danger in life.
to their cousins as well. Raksha Bandhan symbolizes all aspects of protection of good from evil forces. Raksha Bandhan gives an opportunity for families to get together and reunite after a long time, and for restoring and refreshing the bonds of love that they share. Not only this, it is one of the few festivals that highlights a different way of connecting with a woman. Many festivals celebrate the romantic dimension of a relationship between two people, but this Vedic tradition gives cousins a status similar instills in people, the sacred relationship to siblings, therefore girls often tie the rakhi between a brother and his sister. Taken from Nithyananda’Janmashtami Discourse, 1st September, 2010, Bidadi Ashram
Krishna Janmashtami Krishna Janmashtami is a joyous celebration of Krishna’s birth, celebrated on the 8th day (Ashtami) of the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadra (Aug-Sept) in the Hindu calendar. The celebration takes place at midnight with pujas, bhajans, fasting, enactments of Krishna’s life and other rituals. It is no wonder that it is such a huge day for celebration as Krishna is, after thousands of years, still the most beloved being ever to incarnate on earth. His birth was one of the greatest breakthroughs in spiritual consciousness. No other being either before or since
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has been able to express every dimension, task of describing him almost impossible. every opposite without conflict. His escaping The one thread connecting every aspect from war and his courage have no conflict. of Krishna is love. Krishna is the very His romance and his knowledge have no embodiment of love. Every incident, every conflict.The Radha Krishna and Gita Krishna happening, every expression is one of love. have no conflict. It is hard to imagine the He is able to infuse love even into the hearts greatest romancer to ever live, standing of his enemies. You cannot separate Krishna on the battlefield giving the Bhagavad Gita and love. You cannot remember Krishna teachings to Arjuna. Yet there is no conflict without remembering love. between these aspects of Krishna. From his multi-dimensional human personality to Let this great incarnation, the conflict free his playfulness, his being an expression of ideal, conflict free idol, bless us all. Let us extraordinary energy, and the author of the offer our humble devotion at his feet. Let most comprehensive unabridged dictionary him bless us all to imbibe the conflict free of world philosophies, Krishna makes the life and imbibe his very presence in us. n
upcoming events
Nithya Kriya, Thiruvannamalai Dates: 20th - 23rd September, 2012
Inner Awakening, Bidadi Dates: October 7th - October 28th, 2012 See www.innerawakening.org for more details
Awakening the World Tour Istanbul, Turkey 30th October - Free Evening Meditation 31st October - Manifest Your Reality
London, UK 1st November - Free Evening Meditation 2nd November - Manifest Your Reality 2nd November - Memory Camp for Children 3rd-4th November - Nithya Dhyana 3rd-4th November - Memory Camp for Children
Paris, France 5th November - Free Evening Meditation
Poprad, Slovakia 8th November - Free Evening Meditation 9th November - Manifest Your Reality 9th November - Memory Camp for Children
Paris, France 10th November - Free Evening Meditation 11th November - Manifest Your Reality 11th November - Memory Camp for Children 12th-13th November - Nithya Dhyana 12th-13th November - Memory Camp for Children 14th November - Spiritual Healing Initiation
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Guadeloupe, France 15th November - Free Evening Meditation 16th November - Manifest Your Reality 16th November - Memory Camp for Children 17th-18th November - Nithya Dhyana 17th-18th November - Memory Camp for Children
Vancouver, Canada 20th November - Free Evening Meditation 21st November - Manifest Your Reality 21st November - Memory Camp for Children
Toronto, Canada 22nd November - Free Evening Meditation 23rd November - Manifest Your Reality 23rd November - Memory Camp for Children 24th-25th November - Nithya Dhyana 24th-25th November - Memory Camp for Children 26th November - Spiritual Healing Initiation
Calgary, Canada 27th November - Free Evening Meditation 28th November - Manifest Your Reality 28th November - Memory Camp for Children
Monterray, Mexico 10th November - Free Evening Meditation 11th November - Manifest Your Reality 11th November - Memory Camp for Children
Mexico City, Mexico 2nd December - Free Evening Meditation 3rd December - Manifest Your Reality 3rd December - Memory Camp for Children
Schedule is subject to change. Please check the website www.nithyananda.org for further details.
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UNCLUTCH DOESN’T MEAN LAZINESS ! Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourse on Unclutching, 2007
Unclutching, a word that leads to infinite usually wasted in psychological worrying possibilities. From a student in graduate and irritation, will instead become positive, school, to a doctor working in a busy hospital, creative energy. Instead of slaving over work, to an everyday housewife, unclutching is stressing out over deadlines, and worrying a process that has the potential to benefit about every little detail, an unclutched anyone and everyone. It does not lead to a gradual transformation, rather, its effects are like a quantum explosion. A single jump, that’s all it takes. If that jump is made, will all activity and work stop? No! In fact, when someone unclutches
person will be able to work freely, without the pressure and irritation that normally accompanies an undertaking. Normally, we carry a deep irritation, vengeance, and arrogance within us, and we express the same through our body language, our words, our very steps! Unclutching will release the
from their identity, they express a creativity innate intelligence that we have stored within and intelligence that is both spontaneous our being so we are free from the negativity we and natural. In other words, unclutching carry with us. does not mean laziness! On the contrary, an unclutched being is free from the prison of In fact, if it weren’t for our egos, unclutching their own identity. The tremendous energy, would be our natural state.
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Because we believe and defend our philosophies so strongly, we are scared to use our intelligence to look in. Once we do, we will see how much energy we are wasting in psychological worrying! If we see how worrying has become our natural state we can simply move away from it. However, time and again we are given more things to worry about. It seems almost impossible to move away from worries then! We are told from a very young age that if we work hard we will achieve. There will be no need to worry after that! But is this really the case? How much stock can we put in the idea of hard work itself? We have just come to accept this idea as a natural factor of life, like breathing. However, if we use a little intelligence we can see that the idea of hard work is a pure myth! We take simple tasks, plan them out ten times, worry about whether we will accomplish them or not ten more times, and after completing them, talk and brag out them ten more times, and call this hard work!
An unclutched person will work smart, not hard. This is the main difference. Unclutch from your identity, and allow the natural intelligence of your being to shine forth. The body will simply move and a new, miraculous awakening will continuously express itself, in a stress-free and spontaneous way. Worries will become a thing of the past, and work will no longer be a burden, but an avenue for intense creativity! Pure intelligence will overcome the laziness and restlessness of the body, and life itself will simply transform!
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Kriya to Cure Low Self Esteem
Taken from Nithyananda’s Morning Discourse, 14th December, 2011, Bidadi Ashram
Self-esteem is a term in psychology to achieved; neurotic guilt; floating hostility; reflect a person’s overall evaluation defensive tendencies and a general inability or appraisal of her or his own worth. to enjoy life. A person with low self-esteem usually presents the following symptoms: An habitual state of dissatisfaction with oneself; hypersensitivity
to
criticism;
chronic indecision from an exaggerated
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Sit in Padmasana
fear of making a mistake; being unwilling (Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Upadesha 1, Verses to say “no” out of fear of displeasing the 45 & 47) petitioner; excessive perfectionism which leads to frustration when perfection is not Place the left foot under the right thigh
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Now place the right foot upon the left thigh
2. In Padmasana, Jalandhara Bandha (Gheranda Samhita, Upadesha 3,Verse 12) Contract the throat Press the chin on the chest Do this 21 times
3.Visualization Visualize that you are at least five times taller and bigger than you are Feel you are twenty feet tall Visualize yourself as twenty feet tall, fifty feet wide, alive, living, sit with this visualization for seven minutes. Once seven minutes are over, relax and just sit silently for a few minutes. For More Kriyas, visit the Nithya Kriyas Website DISCLAIMER: This technique is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical diagnosis or treatment. Individuals with any type of medical condition, the elderly, children below 14, women who are pregnant or suspect they may be pregnant are advised to seek professional medical advice before practicing this technique. Viewers who are not on two-way video conferencing are cautioned that they are practicing these techniques at their own risk.
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FREEDOM ! Freedom,
the truth for which almost the whole world gives its life. If you just look inside the human consciousness the very flow of human consciousness is towards freedom. If you see the history of all civilizations, all the expression is always towards freedom. Whatever they thought as freedom, they were always putting their energy in that direction.
is the ultimate, they start move towards social freedom. If you think economical freedom is the ultimate, you start working for economic freedom. Whatever you consider as a freedom, you start working towards it. You start traveling towards it.
Let us look deeply inside the very basis of freedom. How human beings decide whether political freedom is important or Even money - Why do you think so much religious freedom is important or spiritual of desire for wealth in the world? Because freedom is important or economical with money you have more choices. You freedom is important. experience a glimpse of freedom with money. Without money you have only Very beautifully Upanishad says, one suffering. With money you have many ‘Ekoham bahushyaam’. ‘The one which suffering between which you can choose. is me let it, let me become many.’ One more beautiful Upanishadic statement, Whether it is our running behind money, ‘The one became many just to enjoy or political freedom or social freedom itself.’ The basic idea with which the one whatever you may call it with different became many is to enjoy itself. That is names. But finally human consciousness why I say the basic thread of this whole constantly expands towards freedom. If creation is compassion. When the one you think political freedom is the ultimate, became many the only commandment you start moving towards political it created for itself is ‘let us all co exist freedom. If a society thinks social freedom blissfully’.
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main story Taken from Nithyananda’s ‘Freedom Discourse’ on 10th July, 2010, Bidadi Ashram
That is why I say compassion is the only compassion, by ahimsa. commandment from God, the cosmic Understand, freedom has more to do law. Everything else is a man made with the inner space in which you are law. But compassion is the cosmic law. established, from where you are making When the ‘one’ became ‘many’ with this decisions. The point where you receive cosmic thought, ‘Let us all co-exist’, the information from the outer world and process, make decisions. Freedom is compassion became a base material. more dependent on that space than the place where you live. I tell you from my AHIMSA experience, freedom has nothing to do with the place you live in. It is the space We can see in our civilization, even for you are established. If you are established political freedom we trusted a saint- in a zone where the information is ‘Mahatma’ – Gandhi - a person who is received and processed, and decisions established in non-violence, ahimsa. I tell are made with deep friendliness, with you, in any crisis ahimsa, compassion, deep joy, with deep compassion I tell you non-violence, is the best strategy. I am are established in the real freedom. The telling from my experience. There is ultimate freedom which can’t be taken no crisis which cannot be handled by away by anybody.
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“FREEDOM FROM ”... Freedom from something is negative part of freedom. Freedom for something is positive part of freedom. Freedom from and for is the ultimate freedom. Freedom from something means freedom from some bondage – freedom from prison, freedom from some conditions etc. The negative part of freedom will never give you the fulfillment unless you have the positive part of freedom. Freedom for what? Unless you understand the ‘freedom for’, the ‘freedom from’ will not give you fulfillment. You will take it for granted. The ‘freedom from’ will be forgotten in few days. None of you are celebrating that you have been free. ‘Freedom from’ is always forgotten taken for granted when you don’t know the ‘freedom for’. Please understand, ‘freedom from’ means bondages. When you are free from that you are free from fears. ‘Freedom for’ means greeds, goals. When you are free from that, you are free from greed. When you are free from the hatred or vengeance, suddenly you experience a different dimension of freedom, the ultimate freedom. How much ever you grab things or people, places or objects you will not be living with it. Nothing can be added to
you. This is an important truth, please understand when you are established in Ahimsa, even if your body is taken away from you, even if you are killed, what all you think as joy which you want to experience through the body , you will be able to experience even without that body. But if you are established in vengeance, even if you have the body you will not be able to experience what you want. Even if you are eating you will be thinking something else, you will not be enjoying. Even if you are listening you will be thinking something else, you will not be enjoying. I have seen people going to the vacation places, going to the hill resorts, such a beautiful scene, they will not be enjoying the scene. They will be planning how to own a cottage here, how to own a house here, how to own a farmhouse here. They cannot enjoy anything unless it belongs to them legally. By the time it belongs to them legally, they are running behind the carpenter, plumber and electrician to take care of that house. A person who is established in vengeance, will never be enjoying anything, something else will be going on. A person who is established in compassion, ahimsa, even if the body is taken away from him, he will be enjoying whatever he wants.
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LIFE AS IT IS Please understand, the greatest foolishness that a human being can commit is strategy planning to come out of a crisis. Any strategy planning you make when you are in a crisis, you will be putting more and more crisis, because when the crisis happens, an ordinary mind gets caught in fear and greed, and it’s almost like negotiating with life. You can negotiate with each other, giving something and taking something. You cannot negotiate with life, you cannot bargain with life. With life there is no negotiation, only pure surrender. When the life happens in your life larger than your life size, if you are shaken, it is a crisis. If you are relaxed it is a teaching. See, when life interferes in your life larger than life-size means you are not able to measure it. In college I have seen the senior used to rag juniors. ‘What department you are in?’ The junior says, ‘I am in civil engineering.’ ‘Do you know how to do survey?’ ‘Yes I learnt.’ These guys will give a matchstick and tell them survey this whole room. Same way, when life happens in front of you, if you start asking questions ‘why this to me? What? Why? When? Why?’, it’s almost like trying to measure life, like measuring the whole hall with a matchstick. You cannot measure life with your matchstick. ‘Why, when, what.’ Your length, breadth, depth is too small to measure life. When you try to solve life with the matchstick, you will be creating more and more chaos. When you are established in deep compassion, deep sympathy, you will just see life is appreciated as it is. Life is experienced as it is
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FREEDOM FROM VENGEANCE - THE PROCESS I will give you a simple process to lust or hatred or vengeance - bring it experience this truth. Sit with yourself to your consciousness, inner space and in a relaxed way. Inside your mind call reason with it logically 7 times continuously. the people whom you feel are accused in By the time you finish the seventh time, your life, with whom you cherish hatred that emotion will lose its power over you. and anger. Call them one by one. Logically reason - even if I take revenge on him or Blood her is my life going to be fulfilled? NO.
cannot
wash
blood.
Violence
cannot nullify violence, if we go on doing eye for an eye whole world will become
Please understand, you always think blind. A judge who has the power to judge that whenever you are in crisis, when and judges will only be a judge. Maybe you take revenge on the person who international court judge. But a judge created problem for you, you achieved who has the power to judge and does something. NO, that is not your success, not judge anybody is GOD. So call every even if you take revenge on him finally accused you have in your heart, in your suddenly you feel you are feeling empty, inner space. Conduct the court session you are not feeling fulfilled. Taking revenge and acquit them with honor. When you on somebody, is not going to be fulfilling acquit everybody and everything without you, it’s just going to be the diversion judging suddenly you will see you are the of your life energy, wasting of your life cosmic judge, you are God. energy. Any emotion can be nullified when you reason with it 7 times continuously. This tremendous experience of no need I am giving you an important clue. Any for the body and freedom from hatred is emotion, whether it is anger or
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Watch Your Breath Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourse, April, 2006, Los Angeles, USA
In his first Sutra, Shiva gives this most Fear of losing identity causes a jump over simple meditation. Buddha used this the gap because identity doesn’t exist technique and called it Vipassana there. There is avoidance of maintaining which means sitting with the Self, or awareness in this gap because the fear sitting with God. Indeed, this method of losing identity is stronger than the is the essence of Buddhism. No other fear of death. What may happen to technique has brought so many millions “me” after “I” dies is a less terrifying to enlightenment. When asked if he had thought than “I” won’t exist. This to pick one of the millions of meditation creates the impulse to protect the techniques, Nithyananda says that this unreal or comparative reality (identity) is the one he would choose because if from the real existential reality (pure all spiritual knowledge on the planet consciousness). were lost, this is the one that could keep enlightenment alive. The secret lies in the simple observance and bringing awareness and presence to the breath. The process of breathing
Here Shiva is creating the subtlest possible technique. A human being as such cannot work directly on the ether or mind. It can only be touched through
in and out is not a parallel movement the breath and this is the bridge between as one might think, but rather a circular the individual and the Universe. It is the movement. Between the in breath bridge between the body and the mind. (down) and the out breath (up) and Humans are composed of 5 elements, again between the out and in breaths but it is only when the breath happens that mind happens. The body is matter. there are gaps. The mind is ether. The breath is the When reaching the gap the mind stops. bridge.
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The breath and the mind are very closely related. The length, breadth, and depth of the breath correspond directly to the number of thoughts experienced. With long slow deep breaths, the number of thoughts is reduced. Being aware of the unconscious fear and slowing the thoughts enhances the ability to drop into the neutral zone, just as when driving a car it is necessary to go into neutral before changing gears.
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Quiet the mind with long, slow, deep breaths 2. Bring awareness to the gap just at the end of the in (down) breath, and just before it turns up into the out breath, and again between the out (up) and in (down) breaths. 3. Relax. Allow the breath to carry you into your inner space, the zone where neither breath nor mind exist. 4. Surrender. Allow yourself to become more and more comfortable with this neutral zone. If you are able to relax into this zone with awareness, an explosion of consciousness can happen. 5. Be patient. You cannot bully yourself into a sense of security. In every breath God is knocking at your door. n
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Thoughts, DNA, Love , Health & YOU ! Within the last several decades, the field affection were graded using a five-point scale of science has taken a huge leap forward in ranging from “negative” levels of affection its understanding of human consciousness. to “extravagant” levels. As expected, For many years, this topic was avoided by mainstream scientists who felt that Taken from Nithyananda’s Morning Discourse, consciousness was a subjective experience 23rd October, 2010, Bidadi Ashram and could not be explained using objective experimental inquiry. However, beginning in the 1980’s, scientists, primarily within the fields of psychology and neuroscience, began conducting experimental studies dealing with consciousness and cognition. Moreover, within the realm of physics, the exploration of quantum mechanics has provided a completely different way of looking at the world than previous scientific thought allowed. Now, science has once again taken a huge leap forward through a more balanced assessment of consciousness, thought and emotions and the effects they have on the overall wellness of a human being.
babies need hugs ! In a recent study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, behavioral scientists have proven that giving babies hugs and affection reduces their rates of anxiety, hostility, and general levels of distress. The study was conducted using nearly 500 infants that were followed from infancy into their adult years. The levels of
infants who were given “extravagant” or “caressing” levels of affection by mothers displayed less anxiousness, hostility, and overall distress when they were older. In this way, scientists have also proven that positive human emotions can also help shape a healthy immune system since feelings of anxiousness and stress
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can have a negative impact on health, individuals trained in mental and emotional especially in those already suffering an self-management. In other words, how to consciously enhance positive emotional illness. thoughts, such as love and well-being. Also, thoughts and emotions have the
the role of the dna The researchers hypothesized that there exists
an
energy-based
information
exchange between the human heart and the rest of the body, which they termed heart energy.
Moreover, they
hypothesized heart energy acts through DNA to produce physiological benefits in human beings, such as health and vitality. They proved these assumptions by measuring changes in DNA within the vials using ECG monitoring and UV spectra analysis. Volunteers capable of generating feelings of deep love and gratitude were able to physically alter the structure of the DNA in the vials. The results generated showed that DNA conformation was capacity to alter the physical structure affected differently based on varying intentions. For example, when gratitude, of human DNA, as proven by scientists in love and appreciation was felt, the DNA the Institute of Heart Math in 2001. The unwound, relaxed, and became longer. scientists placed human placental DNA In contrast, thoughts of anger, fear and samples in a container. Twenty-eight vials frustration caused the DNA to become of DNA were given to researchers and increasingly wound and shorter.
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DNA unwinds and is wound up again for specific processes within the human body, such as transcription. Transcription is important for generating proteins and enzymes, which regulate many of the body’s basic cell functions. Therefore, the researchers were able to prove that the heart energy has a direct correlation on some of the most basic and essential biological functions of a human being.
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They reported a 300,000 times increase in resistance to the HIV virus in participants who displayed feelings of love, gratitude, and appreciation.
Science has displayed enormous growth in terms of its scope within recent years. With more research on the horizon, perhaps science will succeed in explaining more of the world’s greatest spiritual mysteries in quantifiable and measurable ways. With the backing of scientifically corroborated studies and research models, correct spiritual knowledge and practice can bring Moreover, a follow-up study was later about a new clarity in mankind that can conducted using HIV-positive patients. help people live healthier and longer. n
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esoteric realms
Time,
TIME IS A LIE Time is the greatest lie ever told to humanity. There is no such thing as the existence of time. The sun is rising and setting. The moon is rising and setting. Seasons are happening not as you planned. Please understand, we think, only in modern days the seasons are not happening properly. Seasons never happened properly because there is no such thing as the proper existence for a season. Maybe you try to understand with certain averages, between 20 degrees and 30 degrees, between 60 degrees and 70 degrees. With averages you come up with arguments to support some greatest lie called time. Where is
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a Myth time? There is no such thing as ‘time exists’. Sun rises and falls, moon rises and falls, body rises and falls, that’s all. Where is time? What is the definition of a day? It is not existential reality. A day is not a day as you think. It is the definition you created, which the whole world has accepted non-controversially.
REALITY Any definition accepted non controversially by the world does not become existential reality. It’s a taught fact. If all of us sit together and pass a certain resolution, “let there not be anymore tsunami’s on the planet earth”, you think it is going to become existential reality? At the most it can become a law in all the places where human beings are living but not more than that. Time is the root cause of all sufferings. Realize this one truth and decide not to bend for anything. See, as per your reality, anything which you perceive for a long period you conceive that as a reality.
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That is why you think of dreams as illusions because you perceive that for only a few hours. This waking state you perceive as reality, because you perceive this for 70 years. So you perceive this as a reality. Time is the worst myth, greatest lie, the most sadistic concept taught to human beings by the unconscious human beings who are in turn taught that same foolishness by some other unconscious human beings. Do not inherit sadism. When you learn the concept of time, you inherit sadism.
understand, being external to all the happenings internally - means whatever you consider as the internal happening, the
concept
of
time,
stress created by time, strengths and weaknesses of your body and mind, the ideas and experience you have about consciousness, all are experienced as internal. When it is experienced as external, you are beyond time. Meditate on this one sacred secret. Live this sutra, live this one sacred
HAPPENINGS secret. Whatever you think of as internal should become external to you.The more and more internal things Life needs to be lived with the become external for you, the more tremendous freedom that time is you are grown spiritually. Understand, a lie. Being an external to all the if inside there are a hundred things, for happenings internally is what I mean somebody twenty things may become by being liberated from time. Please external. EXPERIENCING AS EXTERNAL
Taken from Nithyananda’s Yoga Sutra Discourses in July, 2011, Bidadi Ashram
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This means initially your body will When you externalize internal things, become external for you. Yes, this more and more liberation happens, is not me. Then, your prana, your that’s all. When you externalize, first air circulation will become external the body becomes external, then for you. This is not me. Then mental prana becomes external, then the thoughts will become external for thoughts
becomes
external. Then
you. This is not me. But initially, all emotions
become
external. Then
this will be internal for you. Then the pains caused by those emotions emotions, ‘Oh! This is not me!’
become
external, then
the
very
experience of consciousness becomes Understand, this is externalizing all the external. Only finally, ultimately, the most subtle internal happenings. When pure consciousness alone remains you internalize the external things, as internal. I am revealing one of the more and more bondage happens. important truths. n
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nithya jyotisha (vedic astrology)
Aries.
This month, your energy goes to creating wealth and status. This is time to work on your career and professional goals.You have flair and drive to sense what needs to be done and how it should be done. Work on harnessing your intuition for your day to day life! In fact, all genius decisions, discoveries and masterpieces were made out of sheer intuition. Never let your practicality and your goals cut you off your intuition. When you reject it, you close your door to the higher aspects of life, and reduce existence to an object. There may be a plan for business in your life, but your life should never be only a business plan!
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Gemini. Writing to your self is a royal path towards healing. Writing your feelings on paper can help you to express things you would never be able to express ; it can bring to the surface many hidden feelings and knowledge you never knew you had before. Your Being is trying to reach you every minute, but your mind is too busy to hear its subtle voice. Writing will bring a whole new understanding in your being. Write to yourself as if you were your closest friend. Just let the words flow on paper, don’t edit them and be close to your heart; express things you would never speak out loud. You will connect to past wounds and heal them gracefully.
Cancer. The month is bringing expansion Taurus.
Worry and tension come when you think you are the doer. If you shift the sense of ownership to a higher energy and continue to do your work blissfully, you will feel tremendously relaxed! When you surrender to an enlightened Master, you are actually surrendering to one who has no ego, no identity and hence no vested interest of his own. By holding his hand, you ask him to take you to the ocean of bliss he is in. When you surrender to the higher energy, you can never feel drained and exhausted since you connect to the highest energy. Surrendering is the technique.
into its fold, a deep feeling of easiness and IS-ness within your community, family, and partnerships. You have a generous heart and a compulsion to shower your beloveds with gifts and caring attention. You are on your path to express your feminine energy. Relate to the world, yourself and God as if they are your children. Put others before you. Care for your near and dear ones, visualize your beloved master residing in each and everyone as your beloved child! This motherly energy exists in all men as well. To manifest and to realize it, is at the core of your enlightenment. So go ahead, and enjoy!
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LeO.
A failure brings a discouragement
LiBra.
It could be a good time for creating
that throws you in a deep questioning balance between work and home.You will mood… ‘Why am I running like that? develop bhakti, devotion, love and inner What is the purpose of my life?’ Do not peace into your private life. Anything you think too much about all this philosophical do related to home, landscaping, care, will questions. Actually, you are existing, in the give a profitable result.The more you share ups and downs, and things are happening what you receive, the more you expand. without reason. Work on vairagya, non We are part of all that is around us, we possessiveness of what you have, and are not separated as we think. Expand renunciation of what you don’t have. If your yourself in the expression you like the questioning comes out of frustration, then best.The impulse of the month favors you just accept that you haven’t yet achieved to be fully focused on what you do. Be what your ego wants, be wise, patient, and involved in your community. Let you be a carry on until your goal is reached.
light there.
VirgO.
ScOrpiO .
The time is excellent to enjoy
The more self-love enters
the company of the wise. Read books, your system, the more it is easy to go watch Swamiji’s Youtube discourses. Much through your transformation without will happen around the month: sharing, falling into ditches. ‘Yes’ is the key word. understanding and growth because the Say ‘yes’ to yourself. We always think that introspection you felt those past months to love, one needs somebody else. But if is about to bear fruits. You have become you don’t learn it with yourself you will sensitive to the wrong mental patterns in not be able to practice it with others. you. Your understanding of your problem This is the basic secret of love. You can is ripped, but the click to lift you out only encompass the other when you have completely is yet to happen. Just one word integrated yourself in love; otherwise, of the master is enough to lift you out. So your love is pseudo. What you dislike in be in a deep receptive mood, the gift can others is always a projection of you and happen any moment!
the way you judge people tells a lot about how you consider yourself.
Sagittarius.
Our problems in life are
existential. You cannot solve by thinking
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Aquarius.
Some of you may go through
only. You can only solve them by living financial turmoil during August. Existence through them. You can only enter into has many ways to teach us through those experiences of struggles and pain, experience.When there is more insecurity, instead of standing aside and try to more danger, the only way to respond to it resist it. The mind thinks it can even find is by awareness. Just stand in your sincerity solutions to emotions, without feeling and authenticity. Money is not the aim of them through the body. That is how our the cosmic constitution, but the learning relation to the physical has disappeared. that stands behind the experience is the One operates from the head only, and the goal. Ultimately, whatever you have now body disconnects itself from the mind. will leave you when death comes. Envision Slowly, we have lost our contact with our the problem under a bigger scope, which own presence, and need to regain it.
will give you great freedom and insight into the inner mysteries of life!
CapricOrn .
When your logic manages
your anger, you will have two problems.
Pisces.
Your mood is light; you can
You will be shouting and showing your enjoy your friends and kids in a laid back anger when it is not necessary, because manner.This is an excellent time for letting you‘ll have lots of suppression. When go of negative attitudes and any animosities you are not expressing it, you will be that might have been holding you back. suppressing it, and you may create all kinds It is also a good time for accomplishing of discomforts. Suppressing or expressing- ideas that involve charitable and spiritual both are not going to help. You will think: work. Drop everything you feel is not what am I supposed to do? Just be, that’s your own experience. Just let go of your all. Let it come as it comes. Feel it. It will protective shield, drop your defenses and no more remain with you.
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CrOSSWORD ACROSS 2. Practice of internal chanting of any mantra (two words separated by hyphen) 3. Sanskrit name for ‘’bow”. Also weapon of lord Rama 5. The path of yoga which teaches the process of achieving perfection in action. (two words separated by hyphen) 6. Daily food offering to people in ashram 7. A powder used for social and religious markings in Hinduism generally dark red in colour 8. A Vedic festival primarily observed in India and Nepal, which celebrates the relationship between brothers, cousins and sisters (two words separated by hyphen) 12. A sacred stone found in Gandaki River situated high in the Himalayas in Nepal
DOWN 9. Great scientist of ancient days who can transmit 1. An enlightened master who spent days absorbed in such deep samadhi that he was even indifferent to the bites of vermin and pests (two words separated by hyphen) 4. According to Hinduism, Lord Shiva, the destroyer of ignorance and illusion, resides at the summit of this legendary mountain
the science of enlightenment with the help of herbs or medicines. 10. The gap between one thought and another thought is equal to one _______ 11. A semi precious gemstone whose lingam is considered to be auspicious
Gentle Kicks Below there are a few questions which we call as a hitch. What you have to do is to think of a solution according to your understanding. Then read the answer given by the master. Read just one question at a time and check its answer. The beauty of this exercise is that the answers given here will act as gentle kicks given by a trained soccer player which will lead the ball directly to the goal post. Your honesty here is going to decide the level of benefit. So enjoy! Hitch 1: What exactly is a prayer? Hitch 2: What do you think of a beloved’s “I love you”? Hitch 3: What is real yoga? Hitch 4: Why are others are not listening to me? Hitch 5: Why does everyone like music? Answers from the master:
Gentle Kick 1: Just feeling grateful for whatever has been given to us. I mean, you should even be thankful for the breath which just a second ago went through your system. Gentle Kick 2: It is a conspiracy. Gentle Kick 3: Yoga is not just bending your body front and back and trying to create knots. All the 21 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita use the word yoga. But nowhere can you find anything on bending and putting knots in your body. Real yoga is union of body, mind and spirit. Gentle Kick 4: They are a natural replica of you. You never listen to yourself! Gentle Kick 5: Because music makes you aware of the silence within and without.
Siddhars 10. Kshana 11. Spatika CROSSWORD KEY: 1.Ramana-Maharshi 2. Ajapa-Japa Dhanush 3. 4. Kailash 5. Karma-yoga 6. Annadan 7. Kumkum 8. Raksha-Bandhan 9.
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