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"The ashram is a loving and caring place to grow spiritually. In the outer world, people will disturb, obstruct and stop us from being our natural blissful state by bringing in their intellect and limited perceptions. In the ashram, people encourage us in reaching out to the great truths." ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
CONTENTS Volume 1, Issue 6, October, 2012
Who is Nithyananda ? ... 6 My Dear Ones ... 7 Life Strategy: Arise & Awake to Life’s Purpose! ... 8-11 Vedic Renaissance : Healing Through Mantras ...12,13 Siddha & Ayurveda: Haritaki, the Wonder Fruit ...14,15 Samyama: Sheetoshna Sukha Dukha Samyama. Beyond Pain & Pleasures! ... 16,17 Bliss Bites: Merry Berry Smoothie ... 18,19 Be Unclutched: Nine Levels of Unclutching ... 20, 21 Vedic Renaissance: Navarathri, Nine Days of Celebration ... 22,23 Main Story: Identity is Confused Reality! ... 24-28 Beyond Mind: Awareness on Third Eye to be Non Judgmental ... 30,31 Yoga & Kriya: Sleep Like a Baby! Kriya for Insomnia ... 32,33 Kailash: Kailash, the Darshan of Lifetimes ! ... 34, 35 Esoteric Realms: Explore your Past! ... 36-38 Creative Juices: My Life ... 40 In the Life Of: Begging to Drop Identity ... 42-44 Abhyasah (Practice): Crossword & Gentle Kicks ..45
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Nithyananda Times October 2012, Volume 1, Issue 6 Owned by: EN Galleria Private Limited Published By: Sri Nithya Atmaprabhananda Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Kallugopahalli Off Mysore Road Bidadi Bangalore - 562 109 (Phone: 97422 03311, +91 80 28022100) Editor Valli Ramanathan E-mail editorial@nithyanandatimes.org subscriptions@nithyanandatimes.org sponsors@nithyanandatimes.org Website www.nithyanandatimes.org www.nithyananda.org www.youtube.com/lifeblissfoundation 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.
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Who is Nithyananda ?
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a global leader in the science of enlightenment. 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.
A spiritual genius with an enlightened insight into everything from management to meditation, from relationships to religion, and from success to spirituality, Nithyananda brings to us a wealth of practical wisdom, meditation techniques, kriyas and tools for lasting inner transformation. A trained yogi, a powerful spiritual healer and a siddha, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is working actively with scientists and researchers worldwide to decode the mystical yogic sciences of the East, including levitation, teleportation and manifestation (materialization).
When Paramahamsa Nithyananda ascends the traditional seat of deeksha daana (initiation) every morning and starts his discourse (satsang), thousands of people from over 30 countries participate live via 2-way video conferencing, while thousands view it live on Nithyananda TV.
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My Dear Ones, The ability to renounce the identities constantly is thriving. Person who thrives with the ability to renounce identity is Jeevan Mukta. The being who is capable of thriving continuously by renouncing the old identities is living enlightenment. Do not wait for the wounds in you to be healed by others. Do not wait for wounds in others to be healed in course of time. Do not wait for others to heal the pain you are carrying inside you. Do not wait for the other’s pain to heal in the course of time. Instead, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains in others, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains inside you by dropping it.
Be Blissful!
Paramahamsa Nithyananda Spiritual Founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
life strategy
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Arise and Awake to Life’s Purpose !
Swami Vivekananda’s words “Arise, Awake!”
own wisdom?
still thunder and inspire millions of people around the world. These two words carry a call for the whole humanity
Knowing one’s life purpose is about discovering
to realize and wake up to their potential. This is not just a
one’s innate wisdom. This cannot be achieved through
teaching from a renowned world teacher but a clarion call
thinking, rationalizing or analyzing. Wisdom is not
for future of humanity. Too many youngsters today face
information! Humanity has seen the shift from hunting
the confusion of trying to find what they really want to
and gathering age to agricultural age 5000 years ago to
do in their life. Technology has brought the whole world
industrial revolution few hundred years ago to information
together but also, it has brought exposure to too many
age few decades ago. The next step in this evolution
options and distractions so that one loses their true calling,
invariably leads to the Age of Wisdom. Wisdom, not
their uniqueness, their individual self. A child is naturally
philosophy, that one can subscribe to that is preached by
drawn to what he or she really feels authentic and joy,
a religion, culture or creed but wisdom that is innate in
creativity and spontaneity effortlessly shine through. So
everyone. Just like joy, creativity, and love has no religion,
how is it that they lose this natural capacity? How is it
has no cast, similarly wisdom has no ethnocentric or socio-
that the youngsters are so connected with the information
centric values or agenda. But how does one really discover
about the world out there but so disconnected from their
this wisdom?
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Photo (c) Chris Zielecki
life strategy
Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Talks on the Bhagavad Gita in 2011, Bidadi Ashram, India
The answer is in silence or rather answer IS Silence! It is only in a deep silence that wisdom awakens. Only when the clouded sky clears up, the sun can shine through. Only when the mind subsides, wisdom can express itself. Easier said than done, one might say, but there is a good news to all of this. By the very nature
of the mind, it stops after every thought - there is a gap between two thoughts. The famous phrase, “god is in the gap” is an apt one because in this gap lies answers to humanity’s confusions. It is this space that is the doorway to finding one’s life purpose. The good news is that this space is available right here, right now. Awareness is the key! One has to be aware of this gap and that is all that is needed to experience this unclutched space.
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Stress is nothing but the friction with life which happens when one is not performing day to day activities with an alignment with his or her life’s purpose !
People spend thousands of dollars in stress relieving workshops, hire coaches and psychologists to try to understand what is it that they want to do in life. So it is understandable that it is hard for many people to believe that the answer can be so simple. But it is that simple! Stress is nothing but the friction with life which happens when one is not performing day to day activities with an alignment with his or her life purpose. Awareness of this space brings about a total psychological revolution, alters brain synapses and opens a new way of experiencing the world and self. So the answer may be simple but it has the potential to totally transform lives and bring about a major shift in one’s modus operandi. A key may look small but it can open big doors!
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This is what is needed now, for each individual It simply flowers! Because that is the whole point of to find that key! Humanity does not need a new its existence - to flower! That is the whole point of political system or a new economic system or a life - for that ruthless authenticity to flower into one’s philosophy, humanity needs humans to embark life’s purpose and when one’s life purpose flowers on a journey of self-discovery. This journey of self- it paves the way for clarity, actions, behaviors, and discovery awakens ruthless authenticity. Although upon hearing ruthless authenticity, one might visualize a great deal of force or struggle that goes into being authentic, but that is not the case. Ruthless authenticity is a dimension of wisdom. Every single rose bud has ruthless authenticity - it does not want
relationships that are out of pure ecstasy. Out of this comes an unshakable confidence and a fierce will to live life to its fullest.
When one discovers the purpose of their life, then no longer can they possess that life’s purpose, but rather, that purpose possess them! It
to flower into anything else other than a rose - it is this extraordinary life that is each individual’s birth simply cannot! It does not compare itself with a lotus right. So arise and awake because life begins only or a lily or a sunflower, and does not think that there after the discovery of life’s purpose. Life begins with are so many other roses, how does it matter that this one resolution to embark upon a journey of selfone more rose flower will make any difference? No! discovery. Life begins right here and right now.
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Deep Connections between Mantra Chanting & Hea In the Upanishads (collection of spiritual texts that form theoretical basis for the Hindu religion) the word nada brahma is mentioned which means from sound, existence expresses itself. Everything in this universe is made out of subatomic particles called quarts. Nithyananda says that it is the nada (called sound in sanskrit) or the sound that acts as an energy binding the quarts together thus creating a solid form called matter. So any solid matter including our body is created out of nada. A great saint who lived few centuries ago, Arunagirinathar sang a beautiful verse regarding creation. It goes as follows - nada bindu kalaathi namo namo. The subatomic particles or the quarts is poetically described as the bindu while the life force energy or the force which creates matter is poetically described as nada. Nithyananda explains that the saint describes creation through nada poetically by describing Subramanya (a Hindu deity), an expression of Shiva (one among the Hindu Trinity), as the lord of nada and bindu.
Just as sound is responsible for the creation of the human body so also it is responsible for any kind of physical or mental sickness an individual would have. The quart, by its nature, is pure consciousness and free of all disease. Once the energy field that binds the quarts responsible for the disease is altered, then the disease gets cured automatically. Healing happens only when work is done on the nada (not on the bindu).
Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on
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n 15th September, 2010, Bidadi Ashram, India
Healing can happen in two ways, by creating the right sound and by repairing the wounded nada through sound taking the disturbed nada structure to a being in whom anahata dhvani (uncreated sound or the sound which is created without any collision of matter) happens continuously. Thus, mental and spiritual health is restored through the right sound. When the wounded nada being goes near a being in anahata dhvani, his whole body and mind goes through a complete restructuring and healing, the brain is rewired, consciousness is raised and a cognitive transformation happens. That is why the master's intense radiating anahata dhvani is called sarva roga nivarini (cure for all diseases). The sounds created out of the anahata dhwani is mantra.
The whole world follows one of these two traditions - light based and sound based tradition. Traditions that were created by manipulating light particles are light based traditions while the traditions that were created by working with nada are sound based traditions. While the western world used light particles as the foundation on which science progressed, the vedic tradition focused on sound to create. In the vedas it is written that the pushpaka vimanam (ancient flying chariots) functioned by creating a particular vibration. Weapons were employed using sound vibration. Vedic masters were able to summon the sun and the moon just by sound. Nithyananda says that it is time to rediscover this science and make it available to humanity again. He says he and his sangha (spiritual community) have already taken up the science of using soundless sound and mantras for transformation.
siddha & ayurveda
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Haritaki, The Wonder Fruit! Haritaki or Terminalia chebula is a wonder drug, finding its place in a wide range of therapeutic
antibacterial and cardiotonic properties. They prevent the growth of many harmful
usage in the ayurveda system of medicine. It is a
intestinal bacteria.
very large tree growing throughout the deciduous
• These fruits are beneficial for the five senses as
forests of India and Sri Lanka, growing up to 2000m.
they improve their receiving powers.
Haritaki is described as the ‘remover of diseases’.
•A half tsp. of fruit pulp powder when ingested
Hara is also the name of Lord Shiva, thus reflecting
every night followed by a little warm water is used
the sacred nature and exalted position of the
for healing ulcers (of both mouth and stomach)
plant. It literally means ‘green’. It is also ‘abhaya’ or
and wounds.
‘fearless’ of any disease. It is said to have originated
•It is used as an eyewash, for relief from various
when a drop of immortal nectar (amrita) fell from
eye-infections.
heaven to earth. It is considered to be the best
•Gargling with a decoction made from the fruits
herb for the digestive system and lungs.
is very good for fighting oral ulcers, stomatitis and sore throat.
HEALTH BENEFITS
•Haritaki fruit, mixed with dry ginger powder and hot water, is used for treating asthma and hiccups.
The Fruit
•This fruit is used for fighting many diseases including leprosy, chronic as well as intermittent
The fruits of Haritaki are one of the main ingredients
fever, narcosis, diarrhea and anorexia.
in many Ayurvedic formulations. Eg: The popular
•It is a good nervine. It is used in nervous weakness,
‘Triphala’. Haritaki fruits are highly nutritious for
nervous irritability. Its fruit pulp increases the
human health as they contain various vitamins,
oxygen levels of the blood, thereby promoting
minerals and proteins.They are an excellent source
longevity of tissues.
of vitamin C. These fruits are also rich in several
•These fruits are used for fighting many digestive
minerals including selenium, potassium, manganese,
disorders such as flatulence, distention and parasitic
iron and copper.
infections. • A decoction of this fruit is used to fight against
•The fruits are also proved to have strong
hepatitis and obesity.
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The Powder A paste of Haritaki and water is found to be antiinflammatory and analgesic. Its decoction as a lotion is a surgical dressing for healing wounds. • It reduces lipid deposits in the blood and liver. When consumed with honey, it helps reduce cholesterol. • Its powder is a good astringent for loose gums, bleeding and ulceration in gums. • Powdered Haritaki is used along with ghee and honey for curing anemia. • It is good for chronic cough, sore throat and asthma. • It is useful in skin disorders with discharges, like allergies. • It is used to treat chronic fever. • On long term use, it is helpful in gaining weight in
the emaciated persons and in losing weight in obese persons. • When taken with meals it sharpens the intellect, increases strength, stimulates the senses, expels the urine, stool and other waste materials from the body. It saves the person from the vitiating effects of bodily humors. • Haritaki reduces the ill effects of fat rich, creamy and oily food. Haritaki is the definite aid for persons who habitually overeat. Haritaki is reputed for its alterative, adaptogenic and tonic effect when used throughout the year with different substances in different six seasons of the year. If we review all the herbal formulations in Ayurveda's all classical texts, we will find haritaki to be one of the most frequently used ayurvedic herbs. In Ayurveda haritaki is the best for purifying the channels of the body.
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Sheetoshna Sukha Dukha Samyama Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on 4th September, 2012 at Kodaikanal, India
How many people feel
that they are
being run ragged by their knee jerk reactions to situations? How often they wish they could stop being a victim of circumstance, and be at peace no matter what was going on. The solution can be found in a Samyama.
A Samyama is a tool that allows a person to receive deeper knowledge, powers and perfections through the combined practice of concentration, meditation and yoga.
“Sheetoshna Sukha Dukheshu” - sheeta (cold) and ushna (hot) attacks a person from outside skin, while sukha (happiness) and dukha (sorrow) attacks one from inside skin. But whether in cold or warm atmosphere, pleasant or unpleasant situations, being respected or dishonored, the one who has subdued the Self which is made out of patterns and is firmly established in this state always remains centered. Here is a powerful technique to attain this state. It is to be noted that the sequence of the steps should not be changed.
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Step 1. Mastering Cold : Just sit in the cold and see what happens in your skin, what is happening outside the body. Without naming it as cold or suffering or pain, just look. Tell yourself that “Something is going on, let me see what happens, how that feeling touches my skin and how am I getting agitated and irritated for no reason”. Sit with a deep patience. With this you will be able to master cold, cold will not master you at all.
Step 2. Mastering Heat : The moment you realize that cold does not give any more suffering, you will gain the confidence to work with heat. Do Pancha Tapas - make a fire circle (your height will be the diameter of the circle) and sit inside it for an hour. You will slowly start feeling the heat and it will increase in half an hour. Then see what is going on in your skin. In 2 days you will master heat.
Step 3. Mastering Unpleasantness : Next step is to master unpleasantness. Sit in a room with whatever you consider as unpleasant, for example with a photograph of a person who makes you squirm or an aroma which is not agreeable to you. Look near the chest area, and from inside the skin where the attack starts and sit with that. In two days you will realize there is no such thing as unpleasantness, and it is just your own decision to be in unpleasantness.
Step 4. Mastering Pleasantness : The same thing needs to be done when you are happy. Just sit and ask, “What is this pleasantness? Why do I feel so expanded inside?” You have to feel this from inside the skin and you will master this state also.
All these states have no life independent of a person’s will. When this is understood , their being becomes centered on the supreme state. When one becomes perfect being centered in oneself, they will be immune to these fluctuations. When one sees what is really happening with passiveness and patience, they will be able to face life with such joy and courage. This samyama can get people out of all mental and psychological disorders and enrich lives.
bliss bites
Merry Berry Smoothie!
Smoothies are a quick and delicious way to pack a lot of healthy and nutritious fruits to your diet. They can be made with yogurt, milk, soy milk, almond milk or just ice. Since all the ingredients are blended together into a smooth liquid, they are very easy to digest as well. They help to keep you hydrated, satiated yet feeling light. They can be part of breakfast or taken as a snack anytime during the day. Strawberries are a popular and nutritious fruit which is commonly added to many smoothie recipes. They are rich in antioxidants, Vitamin C and fiber. They are very versatile and taste good blended with ice, yogurt, milk or nut milk. They go well with many other fruits as well, for example bananas, blueberries, peaches, carrots etc.
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Levels of Unclutching
Taken from Nithyananda’s “Be Unclutched” Webinar on 22nd April, 2012, Bidadi
The word “Unclutching” does not exist in the space in which you can do your creation. Oxford dictionary as it is my contribution to the English language. This process of unclutching can directly upgrade your very consciousness.
2) Unclutching from the outer world identities. The identities you carry are social, professional, racial and national. Sometime you identify yourself based on
I will give you the 9 levels of unclutching. In every religion, country, caste, community and creed. Universal level of unclutching, in every aspect of unclutching, intelligence awakens inside yourself the moment you you will experience a new, free dimension of yourself.
unclutch from low level identities.
1) Unclutching from the outer world problems 3) Unclutching from thoughts; from the and difficulties related to name and fame and money. verbalization and visualization happening inside. If you unclutch, I am not saying you will lose the Continuously try to unclutch from both. Extraordinary money, name and fame. No. You will lose the problems, powers will start expressing when you start unclutching suffocations and stress created in yourself because of from verbalization and visualization. Whenever the money and name and fame. When they are removed verbalization (words) or the visualization (ideas) happen you will have a pure inner space where you can create inside – unclutch. Even boredom and restlessness whatever you want in the outer world. The biggest are just one more thought, one more visualization; asset any human being can have is free, extra inner unclutch even from that.
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4) Unclutching from your own emotion, pain be an enemy? You are alone and there is no enemy! and pleasure. A body which does not give pain, a friend who does not give doubt, a wife who does not give instability - they are all rare blessings. It is such a joy to live with a body which does not give pain. When you unclutch from pain and pleasures, not only are you free from it, even your health improves drastically.
5) Unclutching from inner world identities like parental conditioning – ahamkara and mamakara. Ahankara is the idea you project to others about yourself. “Mama” means the idea you believe about yourself. Your whole life is nothing but the fight
7) Unclutching from the body itself. When you unclutch from the body thousands of disorders you creates for yourself, like arthritis and high or low blood pressure, will completely disappear.
8) Unclutching from the idea of time. Unclutch during the day, evening, midnight - go on unclutching. Unclutch from the idea of boredom and feeling restless. Unclutch from the idea of time. Time is the greatest myth and worst conditioning you carry. Actually there is no such thing as time. Time is the illusion which has become part of your consciousness itself. Unclutch
between the ahankara and mamakara - it means the from the concept of time! identity you project.
9) Unclutching from the very idea “I”! The very
6) Unclutching from the very bio-memories, idea “I” is the source of everything you experience, you the very patterns you are carrying. These are patterns perceive. Unclutch from that very source, the idea of “I”. of depression, irritation, pain, suffering and one’s own ideas. Unclutch from the patterns until the realization You can start at any one of these 9 levels. Because comes that there are no patterns in reality. In reality you of the benefits and experiences you will have, you will are alone, just existing! If you are alone, how can there simply move to the next level and experience all levels.
vedic renaissance
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Taken from Nithyananda’s Talk on Navarathri Celebrations in October 2010
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Navarathri, Nine Days of Celebration Navarathri is a vedic festival of nine
is a yogi or bhogi or rogi, night makes
whatever they do with awareness, in a
nights and ten days during which
you intense. Neither a rogi - person
few days, the person will understand
nine forms of Shakti/Devi (Divine
with a disease, nor a bhogi - person
boundary-less time which is not
Goddess) are worshiped and the 10th
who is enjoying sensual pleasures,
packed by a past or future, because
day is referred to as Vijaya Dashami
nor a yogi – the one working for
the present gives a new opening of
or Dussehra. The dates of the festival
enlightenment, can sleep in the night.
freedom. The suffocation-less inner
All three will get intensified in their
space is what is called as Vedic
lines during night. The remembrance
mind. Breakthroughs happen when
about the importance of the time can
the concept of time with boundary
are determined according to the lunar calendar and this year it falls between 15th Oct and 24th Oct. Navarathri is divided into sets of three days, to adore three different aspects of the supreme goddesses. The 10th day of Vijaya Dashami is considered auspicious for initiating
make a person intense in every step. At this time, if a person is negative, he becomes intensely negative and if a person is positive, he becomes intensely positive. That is why during
the children into writing and reading,
these nine nights and ten days, a
which is called Vidyarambham. In
person is not supposed to take any
vedic tradition, thousands of children
decisions. If the intensity is positive it
are initiated into the world of letters
will settle inside and if it is negative it
on this day.
will go out. These nine nights and ten days, all a person needs to do is to be
is understood. The mind becomes a vedic mind and the body becomes a yogic body. When the intensity can be maintained for nine nights, it will lead to the responsibility of action as well as freedom of inaction. That is what is meant when it is said that Devi fought for nine nights and destroyed all the demons, was coronated on the tenth day and relaxed in freedom. Meditating on
Whatever type of a person someone
more and more aware, be in silence
this truth will enable a person to
may be, they become intense during
and remember the concept of time.
push himself to the extreme of what
a particular time and this intensity
they are doing. Break into this truth
is called “Rathri�. Navarathri means
The important thing is that when a
and the mind beyond Kaala or time
nine such nights. Whether a person
person decides to be intense and do
is guaranteed!
main story
Identity is Confused Reality! “yogi yunjita satatam atmanam rahasi sthitah | ekaki yata-cittatma nirasir aparigrahah ||” Bhagavad Gita, Dhyana Yoga, 6.10
“The Jeevan mukta having subdued his thoughts and character his identity being free from desires, with an attitude of renunciation, seated within oneself in aloneness should continuously connect with the higher state of consciousness by unclutching.”
Subduing thoughts anybody can do. It is not a big thing. Thoughts can be reduced very easily with very simple techniques.
Any simple technique like
washing your water pot can bring your thoughts down. That is not a big thing. Subduing your identity. Thoughts are food, identity is the person who eats. Who eats should be subdued, not just the food. The identity grows, expands with thoughts. If the identity is not getting touched it is easy to have less number of thoughts. When the identity is touched, just like how bees come out of the beehive comb, your thoughts will come out like the bees. People who are otherwise calm, if a person they don’t like pokes them, just like bees their thoughts come out. If your identity is not touched, having less thoughts is not a big thing.
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The ultimate ability is the ability to renounce the desire to be a hero! The ability to renounce the identity. The attack on me in 2010 was not defamation, it was literally creating identity crisis.
Defamation
different,
trying
is to
create identity crisis is
different.
Trying
to
confuse
people
completely
about
who I am. And they tried to even confuse me! See, constantly for
3
years
if
someone tells you – “You are a cheat, you are a cheat”, you may start thinking, “Am I really a cheat?” Not once I doubted me. How can I doubt me? Understand it is easy to live when the whole world doubts you. It is impossible to live when you doubt yourself. After all this I have not doubted myself for a moment because I have experienced myself. I have seen the beautiful side of me, the graceful side of me. When I saw the graceful side of me, I just fell in love with myself.
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The ability to drop your identity in front of exactly same problems! anyone is the quality of a sadhu and I wanted this to be a Guru vaak to all my ashramites. You think all the abuse I am going through, I am worthy of it? It is excess being done on me. But that is the way life is. That is the way humanity is. That is because you did not become enlightened few thousand years before and serve humanity. I am struggling all alone. See lakhs of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All the people who are dead are they worthy of that death? The ability to drop the identity is jivanmukti. I tell you one more secret. As long as you have a certain identity, you will always feel the society is adharmic towards you. It is a basic secret. Your logic is filled with pus. It sees only from your side. If I judge whatever is done to me by the society is adharmic, my logic becomes pus.
Society is not a group of people. Society is the other person. It is not collective. It is even one person whom you hate. Whoever you think is the worst person you have seen in your life is society for you. If you have somebody as your enemy and feel that this fellow cannot come out of patterns and he will suffer, understand that now God is sending you the diagnosis! He is giving you the possibility to diagnose you. You have
The most fortunate human being is the one who does not suspect himself, does not doubt himself. He is completely able to put his whole faith on him. You putting your faith on you does not happen by you convincing you but it happens by you dropping your identity about you. Go around, whomever you think of as your enemy, again and again sit with them and express the opinions you carry about them and vice versa. One more funny thing you will realize is that who you think of as an important enemy in your life may not think that you are an important enemy in his life. I have seen love is always a triangular and hatred is always triangular too. If you love someone, that person loves somebody else. If you hate someone, that person hates someone else. It is never a straight line, it is a law. You will never have direct enmity for your enemy who is supposed to be your enemy. So whoever you think of as your direct enemy is not your enemy. It is a law. These are all sarvabhoumya – universal - laws. One thing you need to be very clear about. Your logic has no capacity to find your enemy. So whoever you think as your enemy is not your enemy. When you sit with him and open up you will realize that that person has somebody else as his main enemy.
Your logic has no capacity to find your enemy! Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Bhagavad Gita Discourse on 8th September 2012, Kodaikanal, India
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I am asking you to give up the identity in the worldly life even if you say “I have to see practically”. I am talking to you understanding all the “practicalities”. I am telling everyone clearly that I know all the situations which you have gone through, are going through and will go through. This truth is to be practiced at all times and not to be compromised at any time on the pretext of a “practical situation”. “What Swamiji said is right. But even if he was here, he would have behaved like this only”. No! I am telling you this for all possible situations. Ability to let go of your identity makes you the hero whose identity can never be destroyed. I want those heroes around me. They are jeevanmuktas
Your identity costs you only your your enmity are all skyscrapers. But you life, nothing else. It is the identity with are using it on tectonic plates. Your whole which your heart associates yourself - that life is wasted on just protecting your should become sadhu – chilli-less, anger- identity which is going to ditch you at the less, violence-less. Then you will become end of your life. You go around and fall out the centre of creativity. You will express with so many fellows for the conspiracy so much leadership quality and the ability done against you, but you never look in to inspire. The ability to inspire others is and suspect the conspiracy done against nothing but the ability to inspire yourself. you by your own identity. That’s all. The ability to inspire can never be a cunning technical truth. If you are able Blessed are those who realize the to inspire yourself to sit in the morning conspiracy done against them by satsang everyday and apply these truths, their own identity. Cursed are those you will have the ability to inspire your who never realize the conspiracy done subordinates and make them do the work. against them by their own identity. If you are able to beg food and your needs
The idea of enemy or friend is based on your perception which itself is from the people, you grow as a sadhu. unstable. You are constantly building the If you are able to drop your identity and multi-storey towers on the earth which is beg forgiveness from other identities you going through constant earthquakes. You become jeevan mukta. If you are able are building skyscrapers on tectonic plates. to beg others to drop their identity, you Your hatred, your love, your friendship, become incarnation!
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Understand, I am not asking you guys to go around and beg for food . That will be easy for you to do. That will not have much impact. But if you can go around and beg for forgiveness for what others think as hurt by you, that is what I want. What you think of as the hurt
that you have caused to others may not be the real hurt. What they think as the hurt you have caused to them is the real hurt. Same way, what you think of as the hurt others have caused you, they may have not done it consciously. So, forgive them. Same way, what others think of as the hurt you have caused to them, you may not even know. Ask them to forgive you. This is the science of forgiving, the
science of gracefully moving ahead . In life anybody who thrives will be in renunciation. Thriving happens on renunciation. Renunciation is the ground on which the seed of thriving thrives.
The ability to renounce the identities constantly is thriving. The person who thrives with the ability to renounce identity is Jeevan Mukta. The being who is capable of thriving continuously by renouncing the old identities is living enlightenment. Do not wait for the wounds in you to be healed by others. Do not wait for the wounds in others to be healed in the course of time. Do not wait for others to heal the pain you are carrying inside you. Do not wait for the other’s pain to heal in the course of time. Instead, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains in others, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains inside you by dropping it.
Photo (c) Phil Trewin
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beyond mind
Awareness on Third Eye to be Non- Judgmental Taken from Nithyananda’s Shiva Sutra Talks, November 2007, Los Angeles, USA
To truly capture the essence of liberation, it helps to understand the third eye at a deeper level. At present, an individual's view of the world is only 120 degrees wide. This implies that concentrating on a specific object will require all other objects to be excluded, resulting in a narrower degree of vision. However, turning all awareness to the third eye and focusing on the subject rather than on the object will ultimately expand the degree of vision. Everything will be absorbed with newly found detail and clarity, from an enhanced perspective.
In addition to turning all awareness towards the third eye, Shiva also says that awareness must prevail even before a thought arises. Typically, when a thought rises, it is either suppressed or pursued. In either case, there is no awareness of the thought before it rises. Just as the divine trinity creates, maintains and destroys, the human mind is continuously involved in either creating a thought, keeping it alive or killing it.
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It is when an individual moves beyond these three actions that he attains the state of enlightenment, of Para Brahma. Going beyond the actions of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (Hindu trinity of Gods) in creation, maintenance and destruction of a thought will awaken one to the ultimate reality that he IS existence. In essence, being aware of a thought even before it rises is eternal liberation in its greatest form.
Usually, an individual is tied down by his thoughts; he forms an opinion without even looking at the situation with clarity. There are two ways of forming an opinion - either by collecting enough arguments to arrive at the judgment or by passing the verdict and then collecting enough arguments to support it. The average human is bound by the latter, and being aware of a thought even before it rises sets him free from this judgmental attitude. However, it is important to know the difference between being aware of a thought and suppressing the thought as it rises. For example, neither suppressing nor expressing anger will help. However, being in a state of awareness even before the anger arises is the only way to truly break free from the pattern of thought.
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Sleep like a Baby! Kriya taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on 28th October, 2011 at the Bidadi Ashram, India
Insomnia is most often thought of as both a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical and psychiatric disorders. It is characterized by persistent difficulty in falling asleep, staying asleep or sleep of poor quality. Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. One way of defining insomnia is "difficulties initiating and/or maintaining sleep, or nonrestorative sleep, associated with impairments of daytime functioning or marked distress for more than one month." The disease can be classified as primary and secondary (co-morbid) insomnia. Primary insomnia is a sleep disorder not attributable to a medical, psychiatric or environmental cause. A complete diagnosis will provide a clear difference between insomnia as secondary to another condition, primary insomnia co-morbid with one or more conditions and free standing primary insomnia. Sleep studies using polysomnography have suggested that people who have sleep disruption have elevated nighttime levels of circulating cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone
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yoga & kriya 1. MUDRA • Lie on the ground, face downwards • Put your hands on the ground with your palms facing the ground • Place your chest on your hands • Make sure your nose touches the ground • Raise your thighs one foot above the ground, making sure your legs are straight. • Keep the legs up for 11 seconds and gently lower your legs to the ground • Repeat this 11 times
2. UDDIYANA BANDHA • Lie on the ground. Keep your face downwards with your palms facing the ground • Place your chest on your palms • Make sure your nose touches the ground • Keep your legs straight on the ground • Pull the abdominal muscles inward and upwards so that the organs of the abdomen touch the muscles of the back • Hold this pose for as long as you can (at least 21 counts) • Relax the abdomen and chin and then exhale through the nostrils • Repeat this 21 times 3. STEPS (1) AND (2) COMBINED • Lie on the ground. Keep your face downwards with your palms facing the ground DISCLAIMER: This technique is not
• Place your chest on your palms
intended to be a substitute for professional
• Make sure your nose touches the ground
medical diagnosis or treatment. Individuals
• Keep your legs straight on the ground
with any type of medical condition, the
• Pull the abdominal muscles inward and upwards, so that the organs
elderly, children below 14, women who
of the abdomen touch the back muscles
are pregnant or suspect they may be
• Raise your thighs one foot above the ground, making sure your legs
pregnant are advised to seek professional medical advice before practicing this technique. Viewers who are not on twoway video conferencing are cautioned that they are practicing these techniques at their own risk.
are straight. • Keep your feet together • Hold as long as you can • When you cannot hold anymore, relax the abdomen and legs and then exhale through the nostrils • Repeat this 21 times
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Kailash, Darshan of Lifetimes! By Sri Nithya Vedaswaroopananda, Bangalore, India
Going to Kailash with Swamiji is entirely a
the waters of Mansarovar enjoying the Kailash darshan.
unique experience. In many places we observed miracles
From that time onwards till we started back, every day
happening so casually.
we had clear darshan of Kailash which is the biggest fortune to all of us.
The first few days we spent in Kathmandu for acclimatization then started towards Tibet border after getting darshan of Pashupatinath and Mankamna Devi. When we reached Mansarovar, the climate was really warm but still we were not able to see Kailash. We stopped at one spot and as usual Swami ji waved his hand and the clouds gave way and all of us had our first Kailash
After spending a night in the banks of Mansarovar we started towards Yamadwar, where Markandeya was rescued by Lord Shiva and gave eternal life. At Yamadwar Swamiji did akashic readings and said HE is coming to this place after 3400 years in human frequency and as a note of joy cosmos is going to cover all nearby mountains with snow. On our way to Yamadwar we saw no snow
Darshan from Mansarovar. The earlier batch who went to
at all and the guide also said, it is not the time. Next day
Kailash last year scared us about coldness of Mansarovar
we all were getting ready to go for parikrama. This time
water but when we entered the water was not cold at
Swamiji encouraged many to go but only few were ready
all. Swamiji did a process before we touched the water
to for the parikrama and the rest wanted to spend time
then asked us to enter. We happily spent 20 minutes in
with Swamiji.
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We started on horses and mules carried all
Swamiji told in akashic readings. We decided to start
of our luggage in the parikrama. In many places we
back and joined the rest of the group in Kathmandu.
saw gigantic view of Kailash. It is amazing and cannot be explained in words. After 6 hours of journey we stopped for night halt. We really were amazed to see very comfortable facilities in that place and straight view of Kailash from the rooms where we stayed. As soon as we reach we all went on a trek towards the holy
Only after seeing Kailash I understood it's a must for every human to have darshan of Kailash. I have seen people getting big positive transformation just after having Kailash darshan and I am experiencing myself the same after Kailash yatra.
Kailash. More close we go more we were amazed to see
Generally we hear people saying we need
the single stone mountain standing tall and welcoming.
blessings of the Divine to see Kailash, but I understood
We all felt that all the effort was worth for that darshan
after seeing many group members, we need to bless
of Kailash.
ourselves and make an effort first then only we can see how the Divine will take care. Inspite of our effort it is
Next day morning when we got up, we could
not happening means it may not be a good time for us
not see Kailash at all as it already started snowing, as
but not putting an effort cannot be justified.
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Taken from Nithyananda’s Webinar on Past Lives on 29th August, 2011, Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore
Past
lives!
There
is no one who is not
the cosmic archives are found. You cannot access this
interested in this subject. It is such a mysterious topic
and you don’t need to. For attaining Jeevan Mukti, the
that it immediately attracts attention, even if a person’s
ultimate spiritual consciousness, you only need to work
religion itself does not believe in reincarnation. I talk
on the first two layers.
about past lives so that you can know the facts about your
The
own past life, and use those facts to overcome mental patterns and sufferings in this life. Knowing about your past lives will transform you and is necessary for your spiritual growth sometimes.
Your
first
layer
past
carries
thousands of engrams which influence your decisions. Your relationships, your responses, your thinking, everything is guided by the engrams and patterns that you accumulated in the first layer. Engrams
past has three layers. From the
are the memories which are engraved in your system, in
present moment till the moment you took birth in this
your inner space and make you repeat the same actions
body is the first layer. From your previous life till the
again and again, even if you know that it is not good for
very first time you assumed a body is the second layer.
you. When you created them, you created laws for your
It could be your life as a fish, a tree, or a bird, it doesn’t
own happiness. When time has passed, you forget the
matter. From the inception of the universe till this very
spirit with which you made them, and follow them by
moment is the third layer past. This third layer is where
letter.
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That is why you always break a law that
I just knew that I am not going to die. That’s all! All the
you follow by letter, and not by spirit. These engrams
responses created by me may die, but I myself am never
become bondages to you. I will give you an example -
going to die. Exploring the first layer past liberates you
when you were young and somebody bullied you to a
from many of your psychological problems.
corner, you screamed. You found that this always solved the problem, and the bullies ran away. However, forty
Anger under your control is power,
years later, when you have forgotten the origin and
greed under your control is energy, fear under your control
reason for this engram, and you get pushed to a corner,
is cautiousness, desire under your control is creativity.
you still scream. This no longer helps you, but you follow
When you know why you created what you created, you
it anyway. You don’t remember the spirit of the engram,
will have the tremendous freedom to throw what is not
and only follow the letter. These are dead mental patterns.
delivering the same result to alter things for the results
So, when you work on the first layer past, you will figure
you need. If you know the spirit of the law, you get the
out when, why and how you created your engrams. The
intelligence to alter, correct, manipulate, delete the law as
moment I had the experience of my first layer past,
you want for the required results.
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Exploring the second layer past liberates you if you can work on your second layer past. from all your physiological problems. Your mind is the totality of the first layer past and your body is the If you work on the first layer past, you walk out of totality of the second layer past. Maya is the totality many mental disorders. Your mind-related life will be of your third layer past. Let me give you some more complete and fulfilled. If you work on the second layer insights into the second layer past. Sometimes, the past, you walk out of many physical disorders. I have habits which have become your bio-memory do not seen people walk out of cancer when they understood, start just in this body. They start from your earlier in which life they had picked up that pattern. Past is not bodies, from your past births. There are many bio- dead till you completely disconnect from it. As long as memories that may be related to your past lives. For it is hanging attached to you, it has its own effect on example, if someone died due to a snake bite in their you. Working on your past lives directly transforms past life, they will still carry the mark on their body. So, your present and makes you enlightened, as well as there are many diseases that you can just walk out of, makes you live enlightenment.
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My Life By Mahesh Nayak, Mississippi, USA
I was walking along a path, one step at a time Trudging through the stones, happy and gay When suddenly, realization dawned upon me My goal in life – ahead it lay. Oops – my attention waivers Right into a quagmire These sands of ignorance Never letting me go higher. Panic stricken, I cry for help But my path was deserted Wouldn’t someone come? I hope O divine light – Why am I neglected? Seconds turn into minutes and hours And soon I discover This quicksand cannot kill me With joy – this truth, I uncover. Swimming about in this quagmire Has begun to be my pastime ‘Things can change’ – to myself, I justify Yet never accounting for lost time. I stopped seeking help Nor do I struggle to get onto land Because I am enjoying my stay In this luxurious quicksand ! Time flies into days and months Was there a path? – I doubt This quagmire has trapped me I am too deep – How do I get out? Suddenly I am awakened from my dream Broken from my shackles Flying about the unrestrained sky, I realize Up ahead, my path was bliss. I was so near, yet so far Up ahead, my path contained BLISS !! Disappointed and in agony, I cried ‘Oh God, how could I miss?’ Poof, I was on the path again . . .
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Begging to Lose Identity
Nithyananda with his spiritual mentor Mata Kuppammal during childhood years
Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Discourse on 8th September, 2012 in Kodaikanal, India.
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The identity is what is believed to make a human being what he is. If a person looks at an animal, they would never see that the animal has an identity. It is the biggest obstacle in a person’s life, not just for those on the path to enlightenment, but in everyday life as well. Getting rid of one’s ego is the best way he can help himself.
In Nithyananda’s life, he had to get rid of his ego, his identity, at a very young age. He was set on his spiritual path from a very early age, and his Guru and mentor, Mata Kuppamal, made sure to incorporate this concept into his spiritual education. She told him that he would fulfill his spiritual mission only if he learned to drop his identity first. As a fifteen year old boy, this was a difficult concept for Nithyananda to understand and imbibe. So, to teach him effectively, she handed him a bowl and told him to go around his village, begging.
This was meant to be a blow to his ego. Nithyananda’s grandfather was a wealthy and important man, being the head of the Rice Merchant’s Association. The small village of Thiruvannamalai was involved in the rice cultivation and trading business, being one of the largest suppliers of rice in the south. It was a booming business of which his grandfather was the head. Yet, Nithyananda knew he had no choice and he picked up his bowl, put on his Kavi (saffron attire) and started off to beg.
He went to the very street where his family’s shops were set up, where his neighbours and friends were. Kuppamal had instructed him to go to this street on purpose, as she knew this would be the best way to teach him the concept of losing his identity. All of his friends and his family considered him to be ‘crazy’ because of his decision to follow his spiritual path.
in the life of
However, they did not think that he would go to this extreme. As he moved from one shop to the next, begging, he finally reached his grandfather’s shop. His grandfather asked him to name a price, a price that would make him stop this begging. He was tired of the neighbouring shops calling and complaining about his grandson’s new avatar! Nithyananda refused, saying that it was Kuppamal’s instruction that he complete this process, and that he cannot disobey her. His grandfather was a close acquaintance of Raghupati Yogi, another mentor of young Nithyananda, and called him to put some sense into the boy’s head. However, Nithyananda moved on to the next shop before Raghupati Yogi arrived.
The next shop belonged to his classmate’s family. His classmate was sitting there at the time, and when Nithyananda came to beg, she started yelling at him, calling him crazy and abusing him. Her father chided her for doing so, explaining that the begging may be for spiritual reasons. However, she continued to throw her anger at Nithyananda.
At that moment, he could clearly feel that his body which was being abused by this person and his self, his consciousness, were two different things. The body that stood there was different and he was different. It was this spiritual practice that helped him understand and go beyond the identity crisis.
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GENTLE KICKS Below there are a few questions which we call
Answers from the master:
as a hitch. What you have to do is to think of a solution according to your understanding. Then
Gentle Kick 1: The concept of what we call beauty
read the answer given by the master. Read just
is a mirage. When you are hungry, food becomes
one question at a time and check its answer. The
tasty. When you are inferior you appoint someone
beauty of this exercise is that the answers given
as superior. Beauty is so relative.
here will act as gentle kicks given by a trained soccer player which will lead the ball directly to
Gentle Kick 2: It is an interesting way of cheating
the goal post. Your honesty here is going to decide
yourself. Your future is to be designed, not to be
the level of benefit. So enjoy!
predicted.
Hitch 1: According to you, who really is
Gentle Kick 3: It should kindle the inner
beautiful?
intelligence in every child to flower with creativity
Hitch 2: What do you think about predicting
and fulfillment.
the future? Hitch 3: How should a good education system
Gentle Kick 4: Using this word.
be? Hitch 4:What is sin?
Gentle Kick 5: Are you human? I am not here to
Hitch 5: Are you God?
prove I am God. I am here to prove you are God
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