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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 en-
courage us in reaching out to the great
truths." ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
4CONTENTSVolume 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
5 Nithyananda Times
October 2012, Volume 1, Issue 6
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Disclaimer
The meditation techniques included in this magazine are
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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.
Who is Nithyananda ?
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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 NithyanandaSpiritual Founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
8life strategy
Swami Vivekananda’s words “Arise, Awake!” still thunder and inspire millions of people around the
world. These two words carry a call for the whole humanity
to realize and wake up to their potential. This is not just a
teaching from a renowned world teacher but a clarion call
for future of humanity. Too many youngsters today face
the confusion of trying to find what they really want to
do in their life. Technology has brought the whole world
together but also, it has brought exposure to too many
options and distractions so that one loses their true calling,
their uniqueness, their individual self. A child is naturally
drawn to what he or she really feels authentic and joy,
creativity and spontaneity effortlessly shine through. So
how is it that they lose this natural capacity? How is it
that the youngsters are so connected with the information
about the world out there but so disconnected from their
own wisdom?
Knowing one’s life purpose is about discovering
one’s innate wisdom. This cannot be achieved through
thinking, rationalizing or analyzing. Wisdom is not
information! Humanity has seen the shift from hunting
and gathering age to agricultural age 5000 years ago to
industrial revolution few hundred years ago to information
age few decades ago. The next step in this evolution
invariably leads to the Age of Wisdom. Wisdom, not
philosophy, that one can subscribe to that is preached by
a religion, culture or creed but wisdom that is innate in
everyone. Just like joy, creativity, and love has no religion,
has no cast, similarly wisdom has no ethnocentric or socio-
centric values or agenda. But how does one really discover
this wisdom?
Arise and Awake to Life’s Purpose !
9 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.
Photo (c) Chris Zielecki
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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!
life strategy
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 !
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This is what is needed now, for each individual
to find that key! Humanity does not need a new
political system or a new economic system or a
philosophy, humanity needs humans to embark
on a journey of self-discovery. This journey of self-
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
to flower into anything else other than a rose - it
simply cannot! It does not compare itself with a lotus
or a lily or a sunflower, and does not think that there
are so many other roses, how does it matter that
one more rose flower will make any difference? No!
It simply flowers! Because that is the whole point of
its existence - to flower! That is the whole point of
life - for that ruthless authenticity to flower into one’s
life’s purpose and when one’s life purpose flowers
it paves the way for clarity, actions, behaviors, and
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
is this extraordinary life that is each individual’s birth
right. So arise and awake because life begins only
after the discovery of life’s purpose. Life begins with
this one resolution to embark upon a journey of self-
discovery. Life begins right here and right now.
life strategy
12vedic renaissance
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 15th September, 2010, Bidadi Ashram, India
Deep Connections between Mantra Chanting & Healing
13 vedic renaissance
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.
Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on 15th September, 2010, Bidadi Ashram, India
Deep Connections between Mantra Chanting & Healing
14siddha & ayurveda
Haritaki or Terminalia chebula is a wonder
drug, finding its place in a wide range of therapeutic
usage in the ayurveda system of medicine. It is a
very large tree growing throughout the deciduous
forests of India and Sri Lanka, growing up to 2000m.
Haritaki is described as the ‘remover of diseases’.
Hara is also the name of Lord Shiva, thus reflecting
the sacred nature and exalted position of the
plant. It literally means ‘green’. It is also ‘abhaya’ or
‘fearless’ of any disease. It is said to have originated
when a drop of immortal nectar (amrita) fell from
heaven to earth. It is considered to be the best
herb for the digestive system and lungs.
HEALTH BENEFITS
The Fruit
The fruits of Haritaki are one of the main ingredients
in many Ayurvedic formulations. Eg: The popular
‘Triphala’. Haritaki fruits are highly nutritious for
human health as they contain various vitamins,
minerals and proteins. They are an excellent source
of vitamin C. These fruits are also rich in several
minerals including selenium, potassium, manganese,
iron and copper.
•The fruits are also proved to have strong
antibacterial and cardiotonic properties.
They prevent the growth of many harmful
intestinal bacteria.
• These fruits are beneficial for the five senses as
they improve their receiving powers.
•A half tsp. of fruit pulp powder when ingested
every night followed by a little warm water is used
for healing ulcers (of both mouth and stomach)
and wounds.
•It is used as an eyewash, for relief from various
eye-infections.
•Gargling with a decoction made from the fruits
is very good for fighting oral ulcers, stomatitis and
sore throat.
•Haritaki fruit, mixed with dry ginger powder and
hot water, is used for treating asthma and hiccups.
•This fruit is used for fighting many diseases
including leprosy, chronic as well as intermittent
fever, narcosis, diarrhea and anorexia.
•It is a good nervine. It is used in nervous weakness,
nervous irritability. Its fruit pulp increases the
oxygen levels of the blood, thereby promoting
longevity of tissues.
•These fruits are used for fighting many digestive
disorders such as flatulence, distention and parasitic
infections.
• A decoction of this fruit is used to fight against
hepatitis and obesity.
Haritaki, The Wonder Fruit!
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The Powder
A paste of Haritaki and water is found to be anti-
inflammatory 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.
16samyama
Sheetoshna Sukha Dukha SamyamaTaken 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.
samyama
18bliss 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.
19 bliss bitesTo make a basic strawberry smoothie, you need:
1 cup fresh strawberries1 cup yogurt1 tsp honey for sweetening (optional)
Blend in a conventional mixer or smoothie maker.
Variations:
Carrot juice, or fruits like banana or peaches can be added to the smoothie for a richer, more complex taste. Instead of yogurt, milk (dairy/soy/almond) can be used.
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Levels of Unclutching
be unclutched!
Taken from Nithyananda’s “Be Unclutched” Webinar on
22nd April, 2012, Bidadi
The word “Unclutching” does not exist in the
Oxford dictionary as it is my contribution to the English
language. This process of unclutching can directly
upgrade your very consciousness.
I will give you the 9 levels of unclutching. In every
level of unclutching, in every aspect of unclutching,
you will experience a new, free dimension of yourself.
1) Unclutching from the outer world problems
and difficulties related to name and fame and money.
If you unclutch, I am not saying you will lose the
money, name and fame. No. You will lose the problems,
suffocations and stress created in yourself because of
money and name and fame. When they are removed
you will have a pure inner space where you can create
whatever you want in the outer world. The biggest
asset any human being can have is free, extra inner
space in which you can do your creation.
2) Unclutching from the outer world identities.
The identities you carry are social, professional, racial
and national. Sometime you identify yourself based on
religion, country, caste, community and creed. Universal
intelligence awakens inside yourself the moment you
unclutch from low level identities.
3) Unclutching from thoughts; from the
verbalization and visualization happening inside.
Continuously try to unclutch from both. Extraordinary
powers will start expressing when you start unclutching
from verbalization and visualization. Whenever the
verbalization (words) or the visualization (ideas) happen
inside – unclutch. Even boredom and restlessness
are just one more thought, one more visualization;
unclutch even from that.
21 be unclutched!
4) Unclutching from your own emotion, pain
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
between the ahankara and mamakara - it means the
identity you project.
6) Unclutching from the very bio-memories,
the very patterns you are carrying. These are patterns
of depression, irritation, pain, suffering and one’s own
ideas. Unclutch from the patterns until the realization
comes that there are no patterns in reality. In reality you
are alone, just existing! If you are alone, how can there
be an enemy? You are alone and there is no enemy!
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
from the concept of time!
9) Unclutching from the very idea “I”! The very
idea “I” is the source of everything you experience, you
perceive. Unclutch from that very source, the idea of “I”.
You can start at any one of these 9 levels. Because
of the benefits and experiences you will have, you will
simply move to the next level and experience all levels.
22vedic renaissance
Taken from Nithyananda’s Talk on Navarathri Celebrations in October 2010
Sketch by Varsha Singh, Bangalore
23 vedic renaissance
Navarathri is a vedic festival of nine
nights and ten days during which
nine forms of Shakti/Devi (Divine
Goddess) are worshiped and the 10th
day is referred to as Vijaya Dashami
or Dussehra. The dates of the festival
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
the children into writing and reading,
which is called Vidyarambham. In
vedic tradition, thousands of children
are initiated into the world of letters
on this day.
Whatever type of a person someone
may be, they become intense during
a particular time and this intensity
is called “Rathri”. Navarathri means
nine such nights. Whether a person
is a yogi or bhogi or rogi, night makes
you intense. Neither a rogi - person
with a disease, nor a bhogi - person
who is enjoying sensual pleasures,
nor a yogi – the one working for
enlightenment, can sleep in the night.
All three will get intensified in their
lines during night. The remembrance
about the importance of the time can
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
these nine nights and ten days, a
person is not supposed to take any
decisions. If the intensity is positive it
will settle inside and if it is negative it
will go out. These nine nights and ten
days, all a person needs to do is to be
more and more aware, be in silence
and remember the concept of time.
The important thing is that when a
person decides to be intense and do
whatever they do with awareness, in a
few days, the person will understand
boundary-less time which is not
packed by a past or future, because
the present gives a new opening of
freedom. The suffocation-less inner
space is what is called as Vedic
mind. Breakthroughs happen when
the concept of time with boundary
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
this truth will enable a person to
push himself to the extreme of what
they are doing. Break into this truth
and the mind beyond Kaala or time
is guaranteed!
Navarathri, Nine Days of Celebration
24main story
“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.
“yogi yunjita satatam atmanam rahasi sthitah |
ekaki yata-cittatma nirasir aparigrahah ||” -
Bhagavad Gita, Dhyana Yoga, 6.10
Identity is Confused Reality!
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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 is
different, trying 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.
Identity is Confused Reality!
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The ability to drop your identity in front of
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
exactly same problems!
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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Your identity costs you only your
life, nothing else. It is the identity with
which your heart associates yourself - that
should become sadhu – chilli-less, anger-
less, violence-less. Then you will become
the centre of creativity. You will express
so much leadership quality and the ability
to inspire. The ability to inspire others is
nothing but the ability to inspire yourself.
That’s all. The ability to inspire can never
be a cunning technical truth. If you are able
to inspire yourself to sit in the morning
satsang everyday and apply these truths,
you will have the ability to inspire your
subordinates and make them do the work.
The idea of enemy or friend is based on your perception which itself is
unstable. You are constantly building the
multi-storey towers on the earth which is
going through constant earthquakes. You
are building skyscrapers on tectonic plates.
Your hatred, your love, your friendship,
your enmity are all skyscrapers. But you
are using it on tectonic plates. Your whole
life is wasted on just protecting your
identity which is going to ditch you at the
end of your life. You go around and fall out
with so many fellows for the conspiracy
done against you, but you never look in
and suspect the conspiracy done against
you by your own identity.
Blessed are those who realize the
conspiracy done against them by
their own identity. Cursed are those
who never realize the conspiracy done
against them by their own identity. If
you are able to beg food and your needs
from the people, you grow as a sadhu.
If you are able to drop your identity and
beg forgiveness from other identities you
become jeevan mukta. If you are able
to beg others to drop their identity, you
become incarnation!
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
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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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30beyond mind
Awareness on Third Eye to
be Non- JudgmentalTaken 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 non-
restorative 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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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
• 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 back muscles
• Raise your thighs one foot above the ground, making sure your legs
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
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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Kailash,
Darshan of Lifetimes!
By Sri Nithya
Vedaswaroopananda,
Bangalore, India
kailash
Going to Kailash with Swamiji is entirely a
unique experience. In many places we observed miracles
happening so casually.
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
Darshan from Mansarovar. The earlier batch who went to
Kailash last year scared us about coldness of Mansarovar
water but when we entered the water was not cold at
all. Swamiji did a process before we touched the water
then asked us to enter. We happily spent 20 minutes in
the waters of Mansarovar enjoying the Kailash darshan.
From that time onwards till we started back, every day
we had clear darshan of Kailash which is the biggest
fortune to all of us.
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
at all and the guide also said, it is not the time. Next day
we all were getting ready to go for parikrama. This time
Swamiji encouraged many to go but only few were ready
to for the parikrama and the rest wanted to spend time
with Swamiji.
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We started on horses and mules carried all
of our luggage in the parikrama. In many places we
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
Kailash. More close we go more we were amazed to see
the single stone mountain standing tall and welcoming.
We all felt that all the effort was worth for that darshan
of Kailash.
Next day morning when we got up, we could
not see Kailash at all as it already started snowing, as
Swamiji told in akashic readings. We decided to start
back and joined the rest of the group in Kathmandu.
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.
Generally we hear people saying we need
blessings of the Divine to see Kailash, but I understood
after seeing many group members, we need to bless
ourselves and make an effort first then only we can see
how the Divine will take care. Inspite of our effort it is
not happening means it may not be a good time for us
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
interested in this subject. It is such a mysterious topic
that it immediately attracts attention, even if a person’s
religion itself does not believe in reincarnation. I talk
about past lives so that you can know the facts about your
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 Past has three laYers. From the
present moment till the moment you took birth in this
body is the first layer. From your previous life till the
very first time you assumed a body is the second layer.
It could be your life as a fish, a tree, or a bird, it doesn’t
matter. From the inception of the universe till this very
moment is the third layer past. This third layer is where
the cosmic archives are found. You cannot access this
and you don’t need to. For attaining Jeevan Mukti, the
ultimate spiritual consciousness, you only need to work
on the first two layers.
the 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
are the memories which are engraved in your system, in
your inner space and make you repeat the same actions
again and again, even if you know that it is not good for
you. When you created them, you created laws for your
own happiness. When time has passed, you forget the
spirit with which you made them, and follow them by
letter.
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that is whY You alwaYs break a law that
you follow by letter, and not by spirit. These engrams
become bondages to you. I will give you an example -
when you were young and somebody bullied you to a
corner, you screamed. You found that this always solved
the problem, and the bullies ran away. However, forty
years later, when you have forgotten the origin and
reason for this engram, and you get pushed to a corner,
you still scream. This no longer helps you, but you follow
it anyway. You don’t remember the spirit of the engram,
and only follow the letter. These are dead mental patterns.
So, when you work on the first layer past, you will figure
out when, why and how you created your engrams. The
moment I had the experience of my first layer past,
I just knew that I am not going to die. That’s all! All the
responses created by me may die, but I myself am never
going to die. Exploring the first layer past liberates you
from many of your psychological problems.
anger under Your control is Power, greed under your control is energy, fear under your control
is cautiousness, desire under your control is creativity.
When you know why you created what you created, you
will have the tremendous freedom to throw what is not
delivering the same result to alter things for the results
you need. If you know the spirit of the law, you get the
intelligence to alter, correct, manipulate, delete the law as
you want for the required results.
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Exploring the second layer past liberates you
from all your physiological problems. Your mind is
the totality of the first layer past and your body is the
totality of the second layer past. Maya is the totality
of your third layer past. Let me give you some more
insights into the second layer past. Sometimes, the
habits which have become your bio-memory do not
start just in this body. They start from your earlier
bodies, from your past births. There are many bio-
memories that may be related to your past lives. For
example, if someone died due to a snake bite in their
past life, they will still carry the mark on their body. So,
there are many diseases that you can just walk out of,
if you can work on your second layer past.
If you work on the first layer past, you walk out of
many mental disorders. Your mind-related life will be
complete and fulfilled. If you work on the second layer
past, you walk out of many physical disorders. I have
seen people walk out of cancer when they understood,
in which life they had picked up that pattern. Past is not
dead till you completely disconnect from it. As long as
it is hanging attached to you, it has its own effect on
you. Working on your past lives directly transforms
your present and makes you enlightened, as well as
makes you live enlightenment.
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40creative juices
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 . . .
My LifeBy Mahesh Nayak, Mississippi, USA
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Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Discourse on 8th September, 2012 in Kodaikanal, India.
in the life of
Begging to Lose Identity
Nithyananda
with his spiritual
mentor Mata
Kuppammal during
childhood years
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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.
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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.
in the life of
45 abhyasah (practice)
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: According to you, who really is
beautiful?
Hitch 2: What do you think about predicting
the future?
Hitch 3: How should a good education system
be?
Hitch 4:What is sin?
Hitch 5: Are you God?
Answers from the master:
Gentle Kick 1: The concept of what we call beauty
is a mirage. When you are hungry, food becomes
tasty. When you are inferior you appoint someone
as superior. Beauty is so relative.
Gentle Kick 2: It is an interesting way of cheating
yourself. Your future is to be designed, not to be
predicted.
Gentle Kick 3: It should kindle the inner
intelligence in every child to flower with creativity
and fulfillment.
Gentle Kick 4: Using this word.
Gentle Kick 5: Are you human? I am not here to
prove I am God. I am here to prove you are God
GENTLE KICKS
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