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... The meditation technique(s) included in this book are meant to be practiced.
Life is for transformation; not for knowledge -Nithyananda
928 Huntington Dr, Duarte, Los Angeles CA 91010 USA Ph.: 626-205-3286 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.nithyananda.org
Dhyanapeetam Nithyanandapuri Kallugopahalli Mysore Road Bidadi, Bangalore District - 562 109 Karnataka, INDIA. Office: (+91) +80 56691844 / 7202085 Fax: (+91) +80 7288207 For healing: Email:
[email protected] For enquiries or blessings: Email:
[email protected] Website: www.nithyananda.org Dhyanapeetam Sri Ananda Rajarajeshwari Temple Nithyananda Giri Pashambanda Sathamrai Village Shamshabad Mandal Rangareddy District - 501 218 Andhra Pradesh INDIA Office: (+91) 93470 65288 Further Contacts: Sydney, Australia: +612 0404082927 Vancouver, Canada: +1 6046284479 Singapore: +65 97383511 Guadeloupe, F.W.I. (and also for France): 0590203697
His name is
Nithyananda... 'I am not here to prove I am God I am here to prove you are God!'
The meditation technique(s) included in this book are meant to be practiced only after personal instructions by an ordained teacher of Nithyananda Foundation, through any of the meditation programs. It is not advised that a person who has not yet attended one of these programs, try these techniques. If some one does try these techniques without prior participation in the meditation programs of the Foundation, they shall be doing so entirely at their own risk; neither the author nor Nithyananda Foundation shall be responsible for the consequences of their actions.
A Vision that has come to be A Mission that is the Master key To take one from mind to no-mind To bring bliss to all of mankind
Published by Nithyananda Foundation, Bangalore, India Copyright© 2006 First Edition: May 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use without permission in writing from Nithyananda Foundation. In the event that you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions. All proceeds from the sales of this book go towards supporting Nithyananda Foundation's charitable activities. Printed in India by W. Q. Judge Press, Bangalore, India
The sacred banyan tree - Ashram, Bangalore, India
Be blissful !
The meditation technique(s) included in this book are meant to be practiced only after personal instructions by an ordained teacher of Nithyananda Foundation, through any of the meditation programs. It is not advised that a person who has not yet attended one of these programs, try these techniques. If some one does try these techniques without prior participation in the meditation programs of the Foundation, they shall be doing so entirely at their own risk; neither the author nor Nithyananda Foundation shall be responsible for the consequences of their actions.
A Vision that has come to be A Mission that is the Master key To take one from mind to no-mind To bring bliss to all of mankind
Published by Nithyananda Foundation, Bangalore, India Copyright© 2006 First Edition: May 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use without permission in writing from Nithyananda Foundation. In the event that you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions. All proceeds from the sales of this book go towards supporting Nithyananda Foundation's charitable activities. Printed in India by W. Q. Judge Press, Bangalore, India
The sacred banyan tree - Ashram, Bangalore, India
Be blissful !
An introduction to the vision and the mission...
An Introduction Nithyananda is an enlightened Master and modern mystic amidst us today. He is on a mission to re-establish the science of inner bliss on planet Earth. Born in Thiruvannamalai, South India, and enduring years of intense penance, through single-minded pursuit, he experienced inner bliss. Nithyananda’s spiritual quest started seamlessly at a young age. At the age of 12, he had his first deep spiritual experience. At 17, he left home on a journey of self-realization and wandered the length and breadth of India and Nepal. He studied Yoga, Tantra and other Eastern metaphysical Sciences and had many profound spiritual experiences. Of the 30,000 km that he covered visiting great shrines and practicing intense meditation, over 2,000 km he covered by foot. By intense study and deep meditation, he has emerged as an inspiring personality for millions of people worldwide. As a result of deep spiritual experiences, he has formulated a Technology of Bliss to explode the Individual Consciousness, to awaken man to the divinity and bliss within. Through powerful words and simple meditation techniques, he provides life solutions to individuals. Scores of people around the world have experienced radical transformation in short periods of time. He says, ‘Meditation is the master key that can bring success in the material world and deep fulfillment in your space within’. He devises numerous meditation techniques for every conceivable type of man to experience inner silence and outer peace. To help touch base with oneself is the core of his mission. 2
Nithyananda Foundation is his worldwide movement for meditation. Nithyananda Meditation Academy (NMA) is the name given to the Foundation’s institutions worldwide. First established in Bangalore, India, and second in Los Angeles, USA, these two academies serve as the Eastern and Western hemisphere headquarters worldwide. The NMA Bangalore, India… Enlightened Masters radiate and instill the Existential energy around them. This is why radical transformation happens by their mere presence. Nestling among low hills and spread over several acres of land, the ashram Ananda Sabha - meditation (as it is referred to in India), is resonant with hall, NMA - Bangalore, India the energy radiated by the Master. Exuding mysticism and equipped with modern amenities, this is a space where mere existence is meditation! Thousands have experienced healing at the physical and mental levels by just being in this energy field. The energy hub of the ashram is a sacred banyan tree. Revealed to the Master in his Lord Anandeshwar vision and worshipped as the guiding spirit of The primeval Guru under the sacred the ashram, this sacred banyan encloses a banyan - NMA space resonant with the Existential energy. Bangalore, India Nithyananda says, ‘This space is like an airstrip for the spirit to soar and experience the profundity of Existence itself’. The NMA - Los Angeles, USA… The Western Hemisphere headquarters in Los Angeles, inaugurated in Sep 2005, organizes and conducts the Master’s world tours and 3
carries forth his message to the rest of the world. • A Nithyananda International Yoga and Meditation University (NIYMU) • A grand Meditation hall pulsating with the cosmic energy • A Temple of Sanathana Dharma (Hinduism) where Existence is celebrated through worship
NMA - Los Angeles, USA
are some of the planned activities for the upcoming phase here. The future… With time-tested Vedic inputs and modern technology, the Nithyananda Meditation Academies are spiritual laboratories where inner growth is profound and outer growth, incidental. From small beginnings, these academies are envisioned to be a place and space to explore and explode, through a host of activities, from meditation to science. They offer Quantum Spirituality where material and spiritual worlds merge and create blissful living; where creative intelligence stems from deep Consciousness. In the pipeline are a host of projects at the various academies worldwide, as well as new academies coming up, to provide services in varied fields to humanity at large. Established in the year 2003 and now spanning 21 countries, the Nithyananda Foundation continues to transform humanity through transformation of the individual.
Nithya spiritual healing and meditation Healing is restoring physical and mental health. There are seven energy centres in our body called chakras. They have a deep relationship with our physical, mental and emotional well-being. Due to our emotions or internal disturbances, if any one of these chakras gets disturbed, disease prevails. Different diseases are 4
associated with different emotions and therefore with different chakras. If you can activate or energise the chakras by a meditation technique, you can free yourself from disease. Nithyananda says, ‘The attitude of meditating creates positive vibrations, which heals.’ Nithya spiritual healing is a method of chakra-based healing prayer through meditation. Nithya spiritual healers are those initiated into this science of healing, who offer this free healing service to humanity at large.
Meditation programs Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) / Life Bliss Program (LBP) - Energize yourself! The ASP or LBP is a chakra meditation camp. It introduces us to the 7 vital energy centers in our body called the chakras, whose functioning has a direct bearing upon our physical and mental well-being. It explains the direct relationship between our emotions and these energy centers. This meditation camp promises: •
Meditation in progress - Ashram, Bangalore, India
Effective handling of emotions
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Better clarity and a positive mental setup
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Better interpersonal relationships
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Renewed and inspired attitude towards work
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A blissful life
There is a similar such program designed for students, referred to as student ASP or student LBP. 5
Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP) - Death demystified! Death is the mystery of all mysteries. Our idea and fear of death pervades every moment of our lives and creates conflicting emotions in us. We simply miss out on the art of real living because of this.
Meditation in progress - Guadeloupe, FWI
This program clearly explains what happens at the time of death. It draws the relation between our created emotions of desire, fear, guilt, pain and pleasure with the seven energy bodies in us. It explains how each of these emotions arises from one of these seven bodies and how they work upon the departing soul as it crosses each of them. It brings to surface all our conscious and unconscious emotions that have been accumulated over the past lives, so we may be free from their clutches. It is like a complete spiritual bath to be reborn, equipped with the technique to live and leave joyously with astounding awareness. Shakti Spurana Program (SSP) - Cleanse yourself! This meditation program gives us an insight into the 3 energy bodies in us that are the physical, subtle and causal bodies. Suppressed emotions, unfulfilled desires, restlessness, nervousness, lethargy and similar such emotions associated with these 3 energy bodies are dealt with.
Enlightenment intensive meditation program Ashram Bangalore, India
It offers solutions and techniques to kindle the inner intelligence to liberate ourselves from these emotions. 6
Atma Spurana Program (ATSP) - Connect with your Self Man is an integral part of Existence. When he realizes this experientially, he is enlightened. This meditation program describes the five body sheaths called koshas that stand in the way of man realising this truth. It offers techniques that pull our awareness through these sheaths to reach the Self. Bhakti Spurana Program (BSP) - Enrich your emotional Being Over passing years, the mind has taken over the being. Humanity has fallen victim to the futility of the intellect. The emotional being suffers as a result of this. Bhakti or devotion is the language of Meditation program - St.Louis, USA the being. It is supreme love towards Existence or God. It frees us from base emotions, bringing equanimity of the mind and deep fulfillment. It fulfills our wants and takes us beyond them. Many have attained enlightenment through the ways of bhakti. The Bhakti Spurana Program is a 4-day program that unfolds the path of devotion to the modern man. It steers us from intellect to the being, from mundane worship to sheer intimacy - with the Divine. Nithyanandam - Enlightenment intensive This is a 15-day intense meditation camp; a unique and first ever offering of the technology of Bliss or Nithyanandam. All keys to the ‘Experience of Enlightenment’, are handed over in totality. This is an opportunity to go beyond body and mind and experience pure Consciousness. 7
Dhyana Spurana Program - Mind is a myth; realize and liberate! Your mind is nothing but a collection of your thoughts. By nature, your thoughts are unconnected, independent and illogical. But you try to connect all these thoughts and A session under the sacred create suffering for yourself. The banyan - Ashram, Bangalore, India moment you realize that your thoughts are unconnected and independent, you drop your mind and become un-clutched. The moment you drop your mind, you are liberated. The Dhyana Spurana Program is a meditation program, that helps you drop your mind and remain centered in pure Consciousness. Arogya Spurana Program and meditation therapy - be healthy! Arogya or Good Health is not just an absence of disease, it is a positive well-beingness. The Arogya Spurana Program is an intense meditation camp, on the integrated science of body, mind and spirit. It is an opportunity to understand that our body is not just a bio-mechanism but one that has its roots in deep Consciousness and Intelligence. The Arogya Spurana Meditation therapy is a health and healing program that takes you through meditation and healing besides creating a new mental setup attuned towards a positive wellbeingness. Nithya Spiritual healing initiation - become a healer! The Nithya Spiritual healing initiation is a scientific process by which you are initiated in the Ananda Gandha chakra to become 8
a channel for the Divine Energy to flow through you to heal others. It works on the principle that Energy is Intelligence. The uniqueness of this is that, it not only stimulates healing in the patient but also helps in your own spiritual growth. Outwardly it is healing and inwardly it is meditation.
Healing initiation Houston, USA
There are numerous other meditation programs being continuously worked out for the mind, body and spirit for youth and adults alike.
Ananda Yogam Ananda Yogam is a free one-year residential program for youth between 18 and 30 years of age. With its roots in the Eastern system of Mysticism and Vedic learning, this program is to empower the modern youth with •
Vocational skills
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Success Formulae and deeper Truths for life
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Healing, meditation and yoga for overall well-being
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The capacity to actualize one’s entire potential
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Creative intelligence and spontaneity
This program creates a clear and sound mental makeup in every individual. It unleashes the untapped and infinite capacity within, to excel in the outer world while remaining centered within. It instills in one, the essence of the ancient Vedic principles and the modern system of Logic. It creates individuals with a capacity to be economically and spiritually stable. 9
Above all, it is a lifetime opportunity to live and learn under the tutelage of an enlightened Master. The Foundation invites youth to be a part of this transforming experience.
Nithyananda Gurukul Nithyananda Gurukul is the loving space for children to learn and grow, and become wonderful energies of love and compassion. It creates a space for self-transformation where education is transmission of wisdom, not just knowledge. It protects and develops the innate intelligence of the child. It creates a fearless approach to life and learning. Life at the Gurukul is as challenging as is joyful. The children here grow to be responsible individuals, well learned and capable of facing the toughest challenges of life, centered deeply within.
Little Anandas Nithyananda says, ‘Every child is like a flower waiting to bloom and radiate its unique beauty and fragrance. Facilitating this is the sole work of education.’ Little Anandas is a program designed for children. It offers exposure to a wide range of activities like music, dance, art, meditation and more, to open out the creativity, spontaneity and sensitivity in children. The children are facilitated to be well centered, while participating wholly in any activity outside. 10
Science and Spirituality Nithyananda works with doctors and scientists world-over to record and analyze the mystic phenomena through modern technology. He is continuing to intrigue the world of medical science with results from the study of his own neurological system. From the results recorded, scientists are compelled to declare that the human mind can choose to heal the human body…
With the research team at the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Oklahoma, USA
Following is a brief summary of a research report from scientists and doctors in USA. Feb 2004 – Research by Oklahoma City’s finest and most experienced physicians, neuropsychologists and researchers of the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Neuropsychology Department and the PET Center of Oklahoma. Key observations: • The activity in the frontal lobes of his brain, which are associated with the functions of intelligence, attention, wisdom and judgment, were found to be six over times higher than any average individual. • While in deep meditation, the mesial frontal areas lighted up, causing Research in progress suggestive medical proof of the presence of the Third eye, as is spoken of in the ancient Vedas. • Through measurement of his brain waves, it was evident that he had complete control of his mind at all times, unlike ordinary humans. 11
• The state of no-mind was tangible through the administered tests. • The state of permanent and heightened bliss was evident through released chemicals in the body. The team concluded: For the first time in our century, science has hopefully found a key to supernormal and paranormal phenomena, with sound medical evidence that explains why the spiritually superevolved are blessed with ‘powers’ that the rest of us can only dream about.
The Mahamantra Meditation Technique The Mahamantra meditation is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist technique to awaken the Anahata chakra, located at the heart center. This meditation makes your mind firm and stable. It creates a good energy flow in you. While doing this meditation you may wear your mala around your neck. It will serve to store the energy that you create during meditation. It should be done on an empty stomach, preferably early morning, or two hours after any meal. It can be done either alone or as a group. When done as a group, it effectively energizes the place where it is done. Part I Sit cross-legged in a comfortable position on the floor, or in a chair, with the head, neck and spine in a straight line. Close your eyes, and harden the eyeballs with mental pressure and try to be with no thoughts. Keep your lips together and produce the sound ‘Mmmm…’ from inside. 12
This humming should be as lengthy as possible before taking the next breath. It should also be as deep as possible, from the navel center, and as loud as possible. Don’t make an effort to take in a deep breath after every ‘Mmmm’; the body itself will take breaths when needed. Don’t become tense. Put in your whole Being and energy into creating this vibration. Just become the humming. Let your whole body be filled with the vibration of the humming. At the end of 20 minutes, stop the humming. If you are playing the cassette, you will hear ‘Stop!’ and you stop as you are, abruptly. Part II After stopping the humming, keep your eyes closed and remain silent and inactive for 10 minutes with a smiling face and blissful mood. If any thought comes to you, let it come. Simply watch your mind as if you are watching the television, without resisting your thoughts or passing any judgment on them. Remain silent and blissful. During this time, the energy created by the 20 minutes of humming will enter all the corners of your Being and cleanse it deeply. Be blissful!
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The Master’s words… Be un-clutched, be blissful! Man by his very nature is an un-clutched and blissful Being. What do we mean by the term un-clutched? Let me explain: Every thought that arises in us is like a bubble that forms, rises and dies. Every thought independently rises and dies before the next thought comes up. For example, if you are sitting in a chair and suddenly get up, the moment you have decided to get up, that moment the thought of sitting has left you. So every thought is unconnected and happens in series, one after the other. One thought has to die before the next one comes up. This is our true nature. Our true nature is to renounce thoughts every passing moment. By the word renounce, I mean simply allowing each thought to rise like a bubble and burst and allowing the next thought to rise. Our thoughts have only a vertical existence, like rising bubbles. This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without trying to connect them is what we mean by being un-clutched. As long as this natural process is allowed to happen, things are alright. But what we do is, we start connecting these thoughts randomly and forming a shaft. By doing this, we convert the vertical and unclutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity. Here starts the whole problem. As long as each thought is allowed to rise and die, our Consciousness remains light and blissful. Once we start connecting the thoughts, our Consciousness suffers and we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our Being. All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, ego and attention-need are purely because we find a connection between independent incidents, between independent thoughts, 14
and create a concept for ourselves and start relating with that concept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts and we suffer because of this. It is these emotions that create all forms of violence be it religious wars, social conflicts or political unrest. We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go, there is nothing else to hold on to. We have never experienced an un-clutched state of mind where there is no shaft, there are only bubble-like thoughts. I tell you: Connecting thoughts is the Original Sin. Living in an un-clutched fashion is the only way to a blissful living. Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that you will not pass any judgment on any thought or any incident. The moment you find yourself connecting, simply un-clutch from it; your mental setup will automatically be transformed. When you work in an un-clutched fashion, you will find your capacity expanding; you will not experience mood swings between pain and pleasure; you will not experience ego clashes because ego itself is a product of connecting thoughts and forming opinions about yourself and others; you will be blissful all the time. By the term un-clutched, I do not mean that you should be aloof and cold to people and situations around you. Try to understand: Just don’t connect your thoughts and start the process of creating shafts, that’s all. Remember that you are a beautiful and un-clutched Being by nature; that is enough. You will stop creating misery for yourself and for others. Be Blissful!
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Glimpses…
• Scores of people touched through numerous meditation camps world over • Free discourses and spiritual gatherings organized continuously world wide
Addressing the members of the Unitarian Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Apr '05
• Free meditation camps organized in rural areas for better living • Lakhs of youth touched and transformed through meditation, discourses, volunteership and one-year free residential programs. Building blocks donated to schools for learning in rural areas
Lord Ananda Venkateshwar Los Angeles, USA
• Discourses and meditation camps conducted in prisons to transform extremist attitudes
Discourse at Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, USA April’ 05
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• Revival of the ancient Gurukul system of children learning at the feet of the Master, adapted to modern day technology
At the laughing temple Ashram Bangalore, India
• Millions of people offered relief through free Nithya Spiritual Healing service worldwide • Continued support to scientists and researchers to bridge science and spirituality
Little Anandas Program Ashram Bangalore, India
• The Master’s talks, music, and other energized items available through mobile and permanent Ananda Galleria (Divine shops) worldwide
In Malaysia - a warm welcome - July '05
• Organised tours to the Himalayas and other sacred and high-energy places with the Master
At the Oklahoma Medical Baptist Center, OK, USA - Mar '05
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• Periodic initiation given to those wishing sannyas, brahmacharya or other spiritual initiation • Hundreds of teachers trained continuously by the Master himself to carry forth his message of meditation and bliss
Discourse at Petrobras, one of the largest chemical companies in Brazil, South America - Jul '05
• Wisdom from the Master reached to millions through live interviews on radio and television, international and local magazines and newspapers Meeting with Dr.Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate for his research on principles underlying LASER and MASER - Mar '05
• Nithyanandam monthly Tamil magazine launched and published by the ashram to keep people abreast of the organizational activities. An English magazine to be launched soon. • Thousands of homes, visited and energized by the Master himself
An interview at the Radio Caribbean International (RCI) station, Guadeloupe, FWI Oct '05
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• Spiritual leaders worldwide embraced to work towards global peace and harmony • Thousands of Ananda Sevaks (blissful volunteers) offer service for selftransformation and benefit to society
Trip to the Himalayas - June ’05
• Growing number of Nithyananda Meditation academies worldwide • Status of Non-profit organization acquired from the Government of the United States of America
Warm reception - Vancouver, Canada - April ’06
Teachers' training program - North of San Francisco, USA May '05
Ananda Rajarajeshwari - the main deity at the ashram in Hyderbad, India
Ananda sevaks (blissful volunteers) at work...
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Ananda Sutras… - Techniques for bliss Ananda Sutras are not just words from the Master. They are techniques that can directly reveal our inherent blissful nature to us.
Morality… Morality is never to be self-imposed; it should flower from pure inner intelligence.
Service… Do service for the joy that it gives!
Sympathy Vs. Empathy… Sympathy is an expression of ego; empathy is an expression of pure love.
Defending or Offending? Defending is what gives rise to offending. If every country is defending itself, then who is really offending? Violence starts with defence.
Reality… Your partner can become your beloved if you are willing to seek reality.
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Life is for transformation; not for knowledge -Nithyananda
928 Huntington Dr, Duarte, Los Angeles CA 91010 USA Ph.: 626-205-3286 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.nithyananda.org
Dhyanapeetam Nithyanandapuri Kallugopahalli Mysore Road Bidadi, Bangalore District - 562 109 Karnataka, INDIA. Office: (+91) +80 56691844 / 7202085 Fax: (+91) +80 7288207 For healing: Email:
[email protected] For enquiries or blessings: Email:
[email protected] Website: www.nithyananda.org Dhyanapeetam Sri Ananda Rajarajeshwari Temple Nithyananda Giri Pashambanda Sathamrai Village Shamshabad Mandal Rangareddy District - 501 218 Andhra Pradesh INDIA Office: (+91) 93470 65288 Further Contacts: Sydney, Australia: +612 0404082927 Vancouver, Canada: +1 6046284479 Singapore: +65 97383511 Guadeloupe, F.W.I. (and also for France): 0590203697
His name is
Nithyananda... 'I am not here to prove I am God I am here to prove you are God!'
