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Paramahamsa Speaks...

Paramahamsa Nithyananda talks on His Vision and Mission to a Seattle television channel (Featured in: 'Raising Community Consciousness' program)

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Paramahamsa Nithyananda talks to a Seattle television channel (Featured in: 'Raising Community Consciousness' program)

Paramahamsa Speaks...

• NITHYANANDA

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My advent on planet Earth is to create a new cycle of individual consciousness causing Collective Consciousness to enter the Superconscious zone.

To achieve this,

One hundred thousand people will be initiated to live as Jeevan Muktas – liberated beings experiencing ‘living enlightenment’

&

One billion people will be initiated into Nithya Dhyaan – Life Bliss Meditation – designed to cause a shift in the individual consciousness on planet Earth.

• Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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This book carries profound messages from Nithyananda to a television channel in Seattle, USA featured in the program: 'Raising Community Consciousness' in 2007. Through a captivating dialogue, he reveals the essence of his own being and his Mission.

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Interviewer (I): Welcome to 'Being in Seattle'. I am Rosemary Brocolli, and this is a very special program for me today. I am having the opportunity to actually sit across from a recognized enlightened master, and I am just so thrilled to jump in and talk with Swamiji and all of you. Welcome, Swamiji!

Paramahamsa (P): Welcome!

I: Swamiji, one of the things I am really excited to talk to you about, is to do with one of the marks of an enlightened person - that is 'living in the moment'. This is something that a lot of people in our audience are striving for. So, during our talk today, I would love it if you could start by telling us what it really feels like to be in the moment.

P: First thing: living in the moment happens only when you are really enjoying this moment. We should understand why we are so much caught in the past. We are caught in the past because it always feels that memories are much more solid than reality. Thinking that memories are a more solid experience than reality is what we call 'illusion'.

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Even in your day to day life you can see: when you go to some place on vacation or for a picnic with your family, the first thing you do is take photographs. You stand, smile and take photographs, so that later on you can see the photographs and enjoy.

You don't really enjoy the very moment. You simply make everything into past, and then you know how to enjoy the past. Somehow, our mind is trained to believe that the past is more enjoyable, joyful, blissful, colorful than the present. This is the first thing which we need to understand and change.

I: Let the audience know a little about your past. You were born in South India and you have a tradition of having astrologers present at birth. Can you just tell the audience a little about what happened with the astrologer who predicted your future as soon as you were born?

P: First thing: in the Vedic tradition, they have a special and beautiful science called Astrology. Based on the time of birth, they predict the life course of that soul. We believe

that every soul consciously decides the time and place of birth and also parents whom to take birth with, based on their mission - based on their decision on how to live in this birth. So, based on that theory, the astrologer sits and predicts how the main course of the life of the person will be. The person who predicted my horoscope was in the astrology field for nine generations. It was not just a profession for him; it was his life. He predicted so many things about my elders and other family people, and everything came to be true.

He predicted that I will become a Paramahamsa - an Enlightened One, a leader among the Swamis. He called it Raja Sannyasi - leader among Swamis. Not only that, after writing my horoscope, he said that he was going to die within 21 days. He was very old at that time. He said, 'After writing this horoscope, I don't want to touch anything else. I have done the best! Now it is time for me to relax.' After that horoscope, he did not touch anything else, and as he predicted, on the 21st day he passed away; he left the body. This can show the authority with which he was living, the authenticity with which he was practicing that

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science. When you practice the science as a profession, there is always a little bit of marketing in it. But he was a person from R&D - Research and Development division, not marketing!

I: I also want to say that astrology in the Vedic sense is so much different. What I would like to mention to all of them listening is that what we want to do is really go beyond Western understanding of some of the things you are talking about, Swamiji.

P: Yes. In the original astrology, the Sanskrit word is called jyotisha. It means, showing the way or path to Light. Originally, astrology science was created to choose the right path towards ultimate enlightenment for every individual. They would see the person's mental setup, and decide the right path in which he would become enlightened and have the ultimate experience. As a byproduct, these people learnt the science of predicting the major activities - day to day things that would happen in the person's life. But astrology was not originally created just to predict when you will get married, who you will

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get married to, when you will find your love, when you will find your car, or when you will find your new home. No! All these are only byproducts. The main purpose of astrology is to find and choose the right path towards liberation or enlightenment.

I: Swamiji, could you tell the audience about your path? You had a regular childhood. Did you have any brothers and sisters?

P: Yes, I had one younger brother and one elder brother.

I: At the age of 17, you went up to your mother and then what happened...?

P: I was fortunately born and brought up in a place which is a spiritual nerve center of India. That place is called Arunachala. You may have heard of Ramana Maharshi, a great enlightened master from this place in Southern India. Many of the people in your audience might have visited the

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place because it is a very famous spiritual nerve center which attracts millions of devotees, seekers and visitors every year from around the world. I was born and brought up there. That very ambience, that very place, is like a spiritual university. Continuously, spiritually related debates, discussions, class sessions, festivals and ceremonies will be going on, throughout the year - 365 days, 24/7. That ambience gave me a lot of inspiration and courage to experiment. The city still boasts of the unbroken lineage of living enlightened masters for the last 2000 years. I have seen so many siddhas, yogis, rishis, munis and enlightened beings. They were all my inspiration to travel, to do a little research and development in that path. (Paramahamsa answers this question later in the interview).

I: I think it would be helpful to the audience to know what you thought of these masters at that young age. I mean, how were these masters different from other people?

P: They were so joyful and ecstatic all the time! Come what may in life, I never saw suffering or disturbance in

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their faces, even though they lived in utter poverty. The poverty itself was a chosen, conscious choice by them. Consciously, they chose poverty, sacrifice and service.

I: Why would they do that?

P: They just feel that they don't need anything! There is so much of fulfillment in their inner space. There was one such master whom I had the fortune to live with. Everyday, about 300 to 400 people would come to have his darshan, to see him, to get his blessings, to get his opinions about their life, and to find the path. He had taken a vow that before he slept everyday, he would not have any money or anything kept for the next day. Whatever was around him, he would distribute to people. Beggars, poor people - whoever came to him, he would just give anything that came to his hand. At the end of the day, he would just sleep with his hand under the head. Just a complete, beautiful life. When I saw him, I was so inspired. Oh God... these people were out of the world. They can see anybody and tell what is going on inside their mind or what is going to happen in that person's future. I had the fortune of living around him for

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6 years. I have never seen him eating or drinking or sleeping. He would just lie down. I have never seen him having regular sleep like us.

This really shocks us! Sorry, forgive me if you are not able to digest what I am saying, but I have seen it. I am also a person with great logic, with the nature of doubting everything. I question everything. But when you live around this kind of a person, the impression which he makes on you is amazing. I didn't have to doubt because I saw a living example! Just imagine: here is somebody sitting in front of me, who never used even clothes; he was just naked and living like a child, happily. His name is Isakki Swamigal. He just lived so happily. I have never seen him in a low mood. Continuously he would be overflowing and bubbling with joy. He didn't need anything from the outer world. He was just completely fulfilled. We call this atmarahitaha in Sanskrit. It means: completely fulfilled in oneself. He was radiating, giving so much to the outer world, but never took anything from the outer world. When you see this kind of a person, the impression which he makes on you, you just can't imagine...!

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I: Is he your master then?

P: I can say he was my main inspiration source. I had two or three people teaching me. I have learned from many people. He was one of the main inspiration sources. You could say he is one of my masters in that sense.

I: Can you explain to us your journey from one master to another?

P: In India, if you want to learn, you are supposed to take up the wandering path. You are supposed to leave your home and hometown, travel from village to village by walk, beg and eat in places wherever you are given food, and learn from life and the masters whom you meet on the way. It is a very beautiful journey.

I: I want the audience to know that in school, you did very well. I mean, you were very good in Math and Science. So, you were really ahead of yourself.

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P: Not only ahead, I already had whatever the outer world could offer. I never had an insecurity or felt there was something which the outer world could offer me. I had everything already. I consciously decided to travel in this path. I went and told my mother that I wanted to take up sannyas life, the spiritual journey, the research and development in the Inner Science. She simply started crying. I asked her, ‘You mean I cannot go?’ She said, ‘No, I can’t say that you cannot go. It is just that I am not able to tolerate it now, or digest it now, so I am crying. I can’t stop you. You can continue your path.’ She gave me her blessing. I continued my path.

Around nine years, I lived wandering - begging and eating, sleeping under trees, studying with different masters. One important thing you should know: India is such a holy land; every village, when you wander, people know that you are a seeker, and they offer food to you. That society itself is programmed to take care of seekers. For years I wandered the length and breadth of India, studying, learning, practising and experimenting in the Inner Science. The beauty of that social system is, all 9 years I was given food, shelter and clothes, with respect!

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I: Can you please tell the audience about the moment of your enlightenment?

P: I can say a few strong experiences which led to enlightenment, because the enlightenment itself I am not able to verbalize. It was such a powerful and strong experience. Maybe I will tell one or two experiences which I can verbalize.

The first experience was like an opening in the inner space. Even with closed eyes I was able to see all 360 degrees around me. Whatever was around me, not only was I able to see, I was able to feel... Seeing is a very superficial word. Seeing is something like seeing with your two eyes. But if you are able to see the same thing without your eyes, in your inner space, you can feel everything is part of you. Anything you see in your inner space is part of you, am I right?

So, when I say I was able to see, I mean I could feel that everything inside my inner space was part of me. If I am to tell this in a few more words... Now, you know you are alive inside your skin. You know you are living inside your skin.

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skin. I felt the same life not only inside my skin, but outside my skin also! I felt that I am alive in the rocks, in the plants, in the flowers, all the living beings, and animate and inanimate things around me. That was the first experience.

It opened a deep compassion and love for everything. Reverence for life happened by that experience. I felt very clearly, I experienced that I am not alive just inside my skin, I am alive in the other's skin also. I am alive inside this furniture also. I am alive in that plant also. I am alive in that flower. I just experienced that I am alive in everything around me and inside and outside my skin. That was the first opening. We call it the 360 degrees experience.

And anybody who goes through this experience, not only does he become nonviolent, reverence for life happens. Acceptance of every being as he is, starts coming into you. Then, religious fanaticism, communal fanaticism, linguistic fanaticism, everything disappears. Everything just disappears. You realize you can't die or kill somebody for just the sake of some concept. You will have solid reverence for life, not just nonviolence. Just nonviolence is the negative part of reverence for life. The positive part is reverence -

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the real respect. Acceptance of life happens when you experience that you are alive not just in your skin, but you are alive in every skin, inside every skin. That was the first glimpse which happened in me which led to enlightenment. The enlightenment itself, if I have to define, or verbalize, I can’t do it exactly.

Maybe I can verbalize one or two symptoms of enlightenment. The inner chatter that happens continuously, has disappeared. See, the inner chatter happens in you only when you say ‘no’ to life. If you say an utter and complete ‘Yes’ to life, to the present moment, there won’t be any inner chattering. If you say YES to the present moment, there won’t be inner chattering.

Inner chattering is the fight between the identity which you show to the outer world and the identity which you believe in the inner world as you. We carry two identities: one identity which you project to the outer world, how we want the world to recognize or know us. This identity will always be much more than what we really are. The inner chattering is nothing but the fight between the identity which you show to the outer world and the

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identity which you carry in the inner world. When you say a deep Yes to the present moment, the inner chattering disappears. That is what happened in enlightenment. It was such an amazing, unbroken, continuous, intense joy, bliss, love, and compassion.

I: Most of us try to achieve this state with drugs. But what you are saying is that it goes beyond what we can achieve...

P: The problem with drugs is, you only become addicted to it, and you need to use more and more after every session. With drugs, after every session, you need to increase the dosage. With meditation, after every meditation, you can decrease the time of it. After every session of the drug, you become more and more addicted to it. After every session of meditation, you are more and more liberated from it.

I: What is your mission really to do with what?

P: We have many meditation programs for different types of people: for people who work in the intellectual field, for people who are in the corporate field, for people who want to work on de-addiction, for people who want to work on their health... For different purposes, we have designed different programs. Of course, everything ultimately leads to enlightenment! It leads to that one science. We now have a new yoga system, Nithya Yoga. We have designed so many different programs, and created so many teachers.

We have many ashramites living in our ashrams, practicing and presenting these great truths to the world. We have Swamis who are dedicated full-time to practice and do research and development in the inner science and offer it to the world. This whole mission has happened just out of the honesty and commitment to the Truth that we stand for.

I: I know one thing very dear to your heart and that is offering programs to young people. Could you just tell us a little bit about your programs?

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P: We have three levels of programs. Below the age of seven, we have programs to help kids, to teach them how to live without getting conditioned by society; how to retain their joy. Retaining the innocence itself is a beautiful thing. For further information, you can go to our website or contact the nearest center.

There is the next level program for kids between seven and fourteen years of age, where we teach them the basic science of meditation and how to awaken their intelligence to internalize social laws without making them as conditioning. See, if you understand about society and the ways in which society works and civilization operates, you will know how to play with the mass, but how not to get conditioned by it. The coat is necessary to go to the office. When you come back from your profession or your office, you can just be with yourself. You can become completely relaxed from the conditioning.

The third level is where we give them just weekend workshops.

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We have a next level program for those above 21. In this, for one year, we give them complete free food and stay in India, and teach them the basic science of enlightenment. This is offered completely free. Anybody from around the world can come and stay there for one year. One year we will give them free food and stay. All the course materials will be given for free. They can learn the inner science, study the enlightenment science, and practice in that beautiful ambience.

We believe that knowledge is free because I myself was given this science freely. We have a spiritual university in India where we offer this program. Not only can they learn, but they can also get a certificate to teach others. We request only one thing from them: to have an honest seeking and not just abuse the hospitality. If you have an honest seeking and interest to learn, you are welcome to come for the one year free program.

We have regular programs and training mechanisms where people can come and not only learn intellectual things, but can also practice the basic sciences like Ayurveda, yoga, meditation and basic life solutions from the Vedic tradition.

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They can also learn how to create better inner software for their whole life.

I: I love what you just said, increase the positive energies of each person, and by doing that we are really emanating more positive energies.

P: Clearing and creating the right inner software is a basic need. That is the reason we are offering all these programs freely to the public. See, it is time to save planet Earth by creating more and more people who are awakened, who are enlightened! Unless we create a critical mass of enlightened people, we can't think of saving planet Earth, because so many calamities happening around the world are actually created by unconscious human beings. Global warming, HIV, religious terrorism, fanaticism and so many atomic weapons getting piled are all because of this. Today, we are facing so many dangers, that unless we create a peaceful, blissful, joyful, enlightened humanity, we will not be able to preserve this beautiful planet Earth. So, we are all out to create a peaceful, joyful, blissful, conscious, enlightened humanity.

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We request anybody who is interested to come and check us out, and if they are interested in learning more, to come to India. If you are above 21, you can stay there. We will be happy to share all of our wisdom. You can study, internalize, and share with people. I always tell people: knowledge is free, without copyright! I don't have copyright on any of my techniques or methods because in the East, in the Vedic tradition, we believe that knowledge should be shared with anybody who is interested, who is sincere.

I: Yes, and I want all of you to know that if you go to Paramahamsa's website, if you love spiritual study, it's a Mecca... I mean I myself have downloaded so many articles.

P: We have something like 4700 hours of recorded discourse, 200 volumes published in 12 languages, 300 audio CDs released and 470 DVDs released. Over 200 YouTube clips are available on YouTube; you can see everything and experience, experiment, explore...!

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I: Something that I read in your material that I never heard anybody say quite like this, and I think maybe my audience would be interested in this too is... You said, 'Responsibility is a consciousness. The moment you feel responsible for what is happening around you, that moment the divine energy will rush into you.' I love that!

P: We always think we should take up a job or responsibilities based on how much energy we have. We think, 'I have this much energy, so I should take on this much responsibility in my life.' But the truth is, when you take more responsibility, you just expand; more energy starts expressing through you. It is not that you will take responsibility according to the energy. You will have energy according to the responsibilities which you take up. The more responsibility you take up on your shoulders, the more energy expression starts happening through you. If you feel responsible for whatever is happening around you, you suddenly become a leader. You start transforming your life and others' lives. Responsibility is one of the ways to consciously grow.

Taking responsibility for others is the technique for enlightenment. That is what the Bhagavad Gita calls Karma

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Yoga. When you really feel that you should do the karma (sincere work), take responsibility for others without being bothered about the results. Just out of your compassion, out of feeling responsible, you will start working; just out of overflowing responsibility. This is what we call spiritual life. Working out of overflowing energy and overflowing compassion, with an overflowing feeling of responsibility for everything, is spiritual life.

I: That's beautiful.

P: Not working for greed, or working based on fear, but working out of overflowing responsibility, is conscious life.

I: That's beautiful. That leads me into wanting to talk to you about the energy flow. I know another part of your vision or your grace to the planet is to teach us about healing, and in your system, healing is a very big thing. Can you talk to us about that?

P: We help people heal themselves by giving them simple meditation techniques. See, by its very nature, the body constantly heals itself, rejuvenates itself, and replaces itself. Even medical science agrees that the body heals itself constantly. It rejuvenates itself constantly. Healer means, a person who helps others to heal themselves more quickly and in a conscious way.

Now you too heal yourself, but not consciously. If you are helped, taught how to heal yourself, the simple science, if you consciously start practicing that science, encouraging the self-healing system, you can quickly come out of the diseases and mental disorders. Healer is a person who helps the other person quicken the healing process which is already happening in him.

I: When we try to use drugs or pharmaceutical things, it is not really dealing with the consciousness is it? What are you doing if you are just thinking, ‘Oh, if I have this disease, I just take this drug.’ ? You are just at the level of the body, is it not?

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P: See, what I am saying is, there are different levels of diseases. Just physical level diseases can be helped by the regular drugs, by the allopathy system; no doubt about it. I am not saying that allopathy is false or anything, but there are some diseases, psychosomatic disorders, which you need to handle from the conscious level. Just handling your body as a biomechanism is not enough. So, in those places, you need spiritual guidance, life solutions.

I: Swamiji, I want the audience to know that for those of them who want to educate themselves more on the chakras, yours is a really big system for it. I want to really understand the chakras more myself.

P: We have healers around the world. You can contact the nearest healing center or our website. Every day, 26,000 people come inside our healing centers to get healed and to meditate.

I: I know that you think of meditation as a medication.

P: Yes. It can be complementary. I am not contradicting any other system. Just a little alteration in the way in which you think about yourself can do miracles in your body and mind. Second thing: the energy centers are disturbed when you are disturbed by a particular emotion. Then, you can immediately see that your health is also disturbed. For example, traditionally we say that the navel center is disturbed by worrying emotions - unnecessary anxiety.

If you receive some shocking information or message from somebody, first thing will be that your stomach gets upset. That's why you say, ‘I can't stomach it’, ‘I can't digest it’, ‘I don't have the stomach to listen to all those things’. Every emotion is connected to one energy center. If you are disturbed by that emotion, you can feel the reaction in that energy center. And now, Kirlean photography has proven the existence of these energy centers. It is a science.

I: I've heard of Kirlean photography. I know you are a scientist. Is Kirlean photography real?

P: In many countries, Kirlean photography is used as an advanced diagnosis method for tuberculosis, cancers etc. With this, they are able to diagnose six months ahead of any other available diagnosis method, as they can see the aura. Kirlean photography is now an accepted diagnosis method in many countries.

In many countries, they use this as a diagnosis method. So, I think surely, many doors can open if we start putting a little bit of our energy into the chakra science also, because the future is going to be holistic. The future is holistic. There are so many millions of people around the world who have already started exploring in this consciousness, in the energy medicine sciences, the alternative systems. We don't have to completely say that some system is right or wrong. If we take help from all the systems, we will make a better lifestyle, better consciousness for us. I always tell people: every system is a garden. Go to all the gardens and pluck the best flowers, and make a beautiful bouquet for yourself. Why should you miss other gardens just because you are visiting one garden? And the future is going to be in the hands of the

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people who accept every system with sympathy, love and an open mind.

I: Can you give us some words of comfort in terms of, let's say here in America, some of us who see what our politicians are doing and some of the decisions, and some of the suffering that is taking place in the world… How can we look at that and not be so stressful ourselves?

P: First thing: every major decision taken at the higher level is the expression of collective positivity or collective negativity. So before going out and blaming the others, or leaders, or politicians, if we can put a little bit of energy towards ourselves and feel and start working to create more positive consciousness from our inner space, we will be doing something.

See, there are two ways: just talking about things, or doing things. If you are interested in just talking about things, then blame politicians and leaders. Start blaming and criticizing everybody, but this is not going to be directly useful. It will

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only be pulling down your energy also, that's all. That is one way of working.

The other way is being sincere about doing something. If you are interested in doing something, let us do it in the way where we will be creating more collective positive energy. Let us create more positivity from our side. Bring more love in your actions. Increase the frequency of your consciousness. When more and more people start working on themselves, the collective positivity has to express itself through the right politicians and the right leaders! See, all leaders are channels of collective positivity or negativity created by the mass. They are also guided by the mass.

So, there are two ways of looking at things: sitting and blaming things or working to create more positive energy. I think a sincere person should start working towards creating more positive energy, than blaming, criticizing, getting upset or disturbed. If you are getting upset, disturbed, what is going to happen? Nothing except that you will have a little more depression, a little more negativity, and because of that only adding more negativity, more mass to the negative consciousness. So, I feel, revolution is not the way, evolution is the way.

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Every revolution promised the truth or the ultimate solution. In the last 3000 years of the history of planet Earth, we have had 5000 wars. 5000 recorded wars in humanity! 5000 wars in 3000 years. It seems like human beings were not doing anything but waging war, war and war. The reason is, we believed in revolution. Now it is time to believe in individual evolution. You see, mass revolution becomes again one more system. Anybody who comes to power is again led by mass negativity or mass positivity. It is now our responsibility to add more and more positivity. That is the only thing an individual can do.

I: Right. What we are getting more and more is understanding how we really do affect our surroundings like we are awakening to really how our being is.

P: Peace needs to be brought into the individual's heart, then it will radiate and transform the whole planet Earth. Let us all be honest to our Being and bring peace to it.

Then, you will just radiate it like a flower! And you will add to the collective positive consciousness. Instead of

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getting upset or disturbed by the negative decisions, just create positive energy so that they also are affected by this positive consciousnessness. Then you will see that it radiates through the leaders also.

I: Every day people are dying in ways that are painful. Now that this war is going on.... how do you deal with knowing that people are dying from suffering? How do you deal with that? Little babies, old people... How do you understand that?

P: How to get rid of suffering in the world?

The only way is, at least let us work so that in the near future we can avoid these kinds of things. See, what is happening is the result of our past. At least, in the present, let us create more and more positive consciousnessness and energy, so that we will avoid these things in the future. If we also get agitated, disturbed, then we will again start creating more violence and negativity to stop the violence. Violence cannot stop violence. Blood cannot wash blood. Buddha says beautifully, if we start thinking in the line of 'eye for an eye', the whole world will become blind. If

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we start working with the logic 'eye for an eye', then a person from this group will take an eye from a person in the other group, and a person from that group will take an eye from a person in this group. Then the whole world will become blind. The only thing we can do is start creating more and more positive and peaceful ambience inside your being, and continuously work to create peace and love outside your field. That is the only possible solution.

Just decide: yes, in this moment with the power that I have, I will do a little service with whatever I have available to me, and I will send out peaceful prayers, thoughts and positive energy. Whatever I have under the control of my body and mind, I will make it positive, instead of just getting upset with somebody or with some system, or blaming things the way in which things are going....

I: So my state of being upset is being transmitted out into the world, and I'm really worsening the condition?

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P: And getting agitated. See, getting agitated is not going to be productive in this situation. You understand? This war itself is created by people who are agitated. If we are also agitated, how do you think we are going to solve the problem? We are only going to add more problems. So the only way is, do whatever you can without getting agitated.

I: Because, I mean, technically, if there is only the present moment and I am right here, the only thing I know is right here, and I may not realize it by being here, I really am doing something to bring peace to the whole planet.

P: The only way is 'by being here' and adding more and more joy or bliss or silence to the whole consciousness. By you getting agitated, you have already lost the game. Because the war itself is created by people who are agitated. If we are also agitated, how are we going to do something good, do something right for planet Earth? That is not the way. See, anybody who tried in the way of revolution has only created one more system, one more tradition, one more power game. It ended up in one more war. So, the only

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way is the way of the Buddha, the way of peace, the way of silence, the way of Shiva.

Working with yourself, becoming a strong leader, doing things which need to be done without getting agitated, is the right way. We are doing as much as we can towards peace, silence and bliss, and helping people who are stranded by the wars. We are trying to bring more and more peace into the consciousness of the leaders. We are supposed to become productive people, not agitated people.

I: Right, exactly! And for those who are locally listening to this talk, I understand that weekly they can go to some place. Is it in Seattle, in Bellevue?

P: We have the Bellevue center.

I: They can go on Sundays and there is a meditation.

P: And you can learn more about the science which I am teaching.

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I: Could you just give me one meditation technique that you would suggest that we can do?

P: Nithya Dhyaan. I call that as a technique for eternal bliss. Nithya Dhyaan - a simple technique. I can just give the steps now. It is a five step technique. In the first step, just sit comfortably and deeply inhale and exhale. You have lost touch, you have got disconnected from your breathing. It has become shallow because you are lost in your past and future. Inhaling and exhaling deeply will bring you inside your boundary, to the present moment. That is the first step. Of course, this meditation is described in a detailed way in our website lifebliss.org. You can download from that and practice and explore. Now I am giving you the method. In the first step, inhale and exhale intensely, deeply. In the second step, do intense humming so that your inner chatter will be silenced. Your inner chatter will become silenced because catharsis will happen. The third step is relaxing and putting your awareness in every energy center. And the fourth step is just to be un-clutched. It means not to create a chain or link of thoughts. Do not create a shaft of thoughts. Whenever thoughts arise in you, just be a witness. Sit in a relaxed way. If any word or letter or

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thought rises in you, do not create, maintain or destroy it. Just witness it. In the fifth step, sit in a relaxed way, in a deep and prayerful way. Surrender to the whole cosmic energy. Be receptive to the whole cosmic love, energy and compassion.

These five steps, in a detailed way, are described in our website lifebliss.org. Download and practice it. (It is always better to get it demonstrated through one of our teachers). This one technique is enough. This is the essence of my teachings.

I: That's so great. Thank you so much. Well we are at the end of this hour. It was really a blessing to be with you. I think all of you can appreciate what it was like for me to look into His eyes. I've been in bliss just being able to be with you. Thank you so much.

P: Thank you. So I welcome you all, let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss - nithyananda. Thank you.

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About Nithyananda

The endless quest of man for the purpose of life ends with this sentence: bliss is the path and the goal. This is the experience and teaching of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, an enlightened master and modern mystic amidst us today.

His mission is to first give the experiential understanding that bliss is not an end goal but the path itself - which is living in bliss 24 hours a day! He brings to understanding that this is possible for every one of us through working in our own inner space.

Nithyananda was born in Tiruvannamalai - a spiritual nerve center in South India. Through intense meditation and study of yoga, tantra and other Eastern metaphysical sciences, he attained inner bliss. From his own experience, he has formulated a Technology of Bliss to explode the individual consciousness, and create spiritually strong individuals.

He has devised myriad programs that cause one to fall into the natural space called meditation. He says, ‘Meditation is the master

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key that can bring success in the material world and deep fulfillment in your space within.'

Nithyananda Mission

Nithyananda Mission is Nithyananda's worldwide movement for inner bliss. It has under its fold, Life Bliss Foundation (LBF) and the International Vedic Hindu University (IVHU), Florida, USA.

The advent of Paramahamsa Nithyananda on planet earth is to create a new cycle of individual consciousness causing Collective Consciousness to enter into the Superconscious zone. To achieve this, the Mission aims to initiate one billion people into the unique meditation - Nithya Dhyaan, and one hundred thousand people into ‘living enlightenment’.

Nithyananda Mission centers and ashrams worldwide serve as spiritual laboratories where inner growth is profound and outer growth is a natural consequence. These academies offer a place and space to explore and explode through a host of activities, from meditation to science. They nurture quantum spirituality, where material and spiritual worlds merge and create blissful living.

They offer guaranteed life solutions that have seen quick and effective transformation of lives. A diverse range of meditation programs

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are offered worldwide through IVHU. Further, free energy healing through the Nithya Spiritual Healing system, free education to youth, encouragement to art and culture, corporate programs, free medical camps, free meals, a one-year residential training program in India called the Life Bliss Technology program, an in-house Gurukul system of learning for children, and many more such services are offered around the world.

Ananda Sevaks of the Nithya Dheera Seva Sena (NDSS) - volunteer force - comprising growing numbers of dedicated volunteers around the world support the mission with great enthusiasm.

Offerings from Life Bliss Foundation

Life Bliss Foundation (LBF) is the teachings wing of Nithyananda Mission that offers specialized meditation programs worldwide, to benefit millions of people at the levels of body, mind and spirit. A few of them are listed below:

Life Bliss Program Level 1 - Ananda Spurana Program (LBP Level 1 - ASP)

• Energize yourself

A chakra workout program that relaxes and energizes the seven major chakras in your system. It gives clear intellectual and experiential understanding of your various emotions - greed, fear, worry,

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attention need, stress, jealousy, ego, discontentment etc. It is designed to create a spiritual effect at the physical level. It is a guaranteed life solution to experience the reality of your own bliss. It is a highly effective workshop, testified by millions of people around the globe.

Life Bliss Program Level 2 - Nithyananda Spurana Program (LBP Level 2 - NSP)

• Death demystified!

A program that unleashes the art of living by demystifying the concept of death. If you know the process and purpose of death, you will live your life in an entirely different way! It creates the space to detach from ingrained and unconscious emotions like guilt, pleasure and pain, all of which stem from the ultimate fear of death. It is a gateway to a new life driven by natural intelligence and spontaneous enthusiasm.

Life Bliss Program Level 3 - Atma Spurana Program (LBP Level 3 - ATSP)

• Connect with your Self!

This is a breakthrough program that analyzes clearly the workings of the mind and shows you experientially how to be the master of the mind rather than let it rule over you. It involves the whole

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tremendous intellectual understanding coupled with novel meditations to produce instant experiential understanding.

Life Bliss Technology (LBT)

Life Bliss Technology (LBT) is a one-year residential program for youth aged between 18 and 30 years of age, on practical life skills. With its roots in the Eastern system of Vedic education, this program is designed to empower modern youth with good physical, mental and emotional health. By nurturing creative intelligence and spontaneity, and imparting vocational skills, it creates economically and spiritually self-sufficient youth. Above all, it offers a lifetime opportunity to live and learn under the tutelage of an enlightened Master!

Nithya Spiritual Healing

• Healing through Cosmic energy

A unique and powerful means of healing through the Cosmic energy, this is a meditation for the healer and a means to get healed for the recipient of the healing. Nithyananda continues to initiate thousands of Nithya Spiritual Healers worldwide into this scientific and time-tested healing technique which has healed millions of people of ailments ranging from migraine to cancer.

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Nithya Dhyaan

• Life Bliss Meditation

Become one among the millions who walk on planet Earth – Unclutched! Register online and get initiated.

Nithya Dhyaan is a powerful everyday meditation prescribed by Nithyananda to humanity at large. It is a formula or a technique which is holistic and complete. It works on the entire being to transform it and make it ready for the ultimate experience of enlightenment to dawn. Each segment of this technique complements the remaining segments to help raise the individual consciousness. It trains you to un-clutch from your mind and live a blissful life. It is the meditation for Eternal Bliss.

If you wish to be initiated into Nithya Dhyaan, you may visit http://www.dhyanapeetam.org and register online. You will receive through mail, a mala, bracelet, a spiritual name given by Nithyananda for your own spiritual growth (optional), Nithya Dhyaan Meditation CD and Nithya Dhyaan booklet in a language of your choice, personally signed by Nithyananda (mention your choice in the comment column).

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Contact Us

USA:

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Vedic Temple

9720 Central Avenue, Montclair,

CA 91763

USA

Ph.: 1-909-625-1400

Email: [email protected]

URL: www.lifebliss.org

INDIA:

Bangalore, Karnataka

(Spiritual headquarters. Vedic Temple located here)

Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam

Nithyanandapuri

Kallugopahalli

Mysore Road, Bidadi

Bangalore - 562 109

Karnataka

Ph.: +91 +80 27202801 / 92430 48957

Telefax: 27202084

Email: [email protected]

URL:www.nithyananda.org

For list of centers worldwide visit www.nithyananda.org

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Suggested for further reading

Guaranteed Solutions for lust, fear, worry...

Nithyananda Vol. 1 (The first volume of a biographical account of Nithyananda)

Liberate Your-Self (Life Bliss Program Level 2 - Nithyananda Spurana Program)

Follow me IN! (Life Bliss Program Level 3 - Atma Spurana Program)

You can Heal (Nithya Spiritual Healing)

Meditation is for you

Bliss is the path and the goal

The only way out is IN

Rising in love with the Master

Bhagavad Gita series

Uncommon answers to common questions

Open the door...Let the breeze in!

Nithya Yoga - The ultimate practice for Body, Mind and Being

To purchase books and other items, visit www.lifeblissgalleria.com or contact us.

Visit http://www.youtube.com/lifeblissfoundation to view over 400 FREE video discourses of Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

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Ever wondered about the deeper questions on life…

What is it to be in the moment?

What exactly happens in enlightenment?

How is the ‘bliss’ through meditation different from that through drugs?

How to get rid of suffering in the world?

…

Deep, profound Truths explained simply precisely by enlightened Master Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

“Responsibility is a consciousness. The moment you feel responsible for what is happening around you, that moment the divine energy will rush into you.”

-Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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