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Content: Makha-Pūrvaphālgunī Uttaraphālgunī Nakṣatras

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Content: 'The Lord is in all beings and the entire Universe is in Him.'

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  • Bṛhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra

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Content: The meditation techniques included in this book are to be practiced only under the direct supervision of an ordained teacher of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and in consultation with your personal physician to determine your fitness and ability to do the techniques. They are not intended to be a substitute for medical attention, examination, diagnosis or treatment. If someone tries these techniques without prior participation in the meditation programs of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and without the direct supervision of an ordained teacher of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, they shall be doing so entirely at their own risk; neither the author nor Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam nor Nithyananda Publishers shall be responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Content: Published by: Nithyananda Publishers Nithyanandapuri, Off Mysore road Bidadi 562 109, Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India

Content: Copyright 2009 - 'Living Enlightenment year'

Content: First Edition: December 2009, Ebook ISBN: 979-8-88572-225-4 ISBN: 978-1-60607-119-9 M.R.P in India only: ISBN: 1-60607-119-X

Content: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. In the event that you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions. All proceeds from the sale of this book go towards supporting charitable activities.

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Content: Universal Truth

Content: If you look deeply, if you look beyond mundane life, beyond the day-to-day life we live... If you contemplate on a night sky... you will see that the most intimate and complete relationship man owns is the relationship to the Universe. In fact, it is man's ultimate relationship: he takes birth, lives and merges back into it. Nothing happens outside of it; even his enlightenment happens in it. Just as the child grows in his mother's womb, man evolves in the cosmic womb. He is the microcosm of a tremendous cosmic macrocosm. Therefore, all components of man, from the grossest to the subtlest, come from the universe: his body, his mind, his energy and his very consciousness are elements of the cosmos. Universe and man are indivisible. Whatever happens in the Universe resounds in the human consciousness, and whatever happens in the human consciousness resounds in the Universe. Both are a unique consciousness.

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Content: The Great Vedic Astronomy

Content: Man has been deeply fascinated by the Cosmos since the beginning of time. Early cultures worked on understanding the phenomena that happen in the sky; they observed them in order to understand what role the sky played in their lives. From these attempts, the science of astronomy was born.

Content: In this field, the ancient Vedic contribution is well known. The earliest references to astronomy are found in the Rg Veda, which are dated 2000 BC. Around 500 BCE, Āryabhaṭa, a great astronomer, presented a system that showed the earth to spin on its axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to the Sun. He also discovered how the lunar and solar eclipses occur and was the earliest to discover that the orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses, just as Copernicus and Galileo concluded a thousand years later. He even determined the diameter of the Earth to be 5,000 yojanas, approximately 36,000 km, which is very close to the actual figure.

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Content: These traditions related these objects and their movements to natural events such as rain, drought, seasons and tides; they related them to auspicious or inauspicious occurrences on planet Earth. Jyotiṣa, the science of Vedic astrology, took birth out of observations and perceptions based on these astronomical phenomena. The first astronomers were actually Ṛṣis and sages, who understood the sky was a divine happening; they identified celestial objects with energies and Gods and connected astronomy to astrology.

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Content: Jyotiṣa Simply Put

Content: Astrology manifested in the inner vision of the ancient sages and Ṛṣis of India. These yogīs and enlightened beings were able to see beyond the realm of names and forms. They could feel and express the subtle reality that exists behind cosmic phenomena. As such, they perceived the primal powers of cosmic intelligence in the planets and stars (the macrocosm), and worshipped the cosmic powers within themselves (the microcosm) as powers of their being.

Content: By concentrating intensely on the Sun and other planets, they understood the movement of the life force in their body, and by meditating on the life force, they also came to understand the movement of the Sun and the planets in the heavens. Through this technique called saṃyama, they could unravel the secrets of the universe. They brought down their understanding into a system of Vedic science, which became known as Jyotiṣa: the science of light.

Content: Parāśara was one such sage. He is known for being

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Content: the father of Jyotiṣa. He wrote the magnum opus Bṛhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra, which systematically explains the theory of predictive astrology. According to history, he is the grandson of Vasiṣṭa and also father of Veda Vyāsa, who wrote the great epic Māhābhārata. The depth of his astrological knowledge was so great that one evening while crossing a river in a boat, he casually looked at his favorite stars in heaven and suddenly realized it was an exceptionally auspicious moment. He concluded that if a child were conceived at that moment, he would be an expert in the scriptures. So he told this to the lady rowing the boat and requested that she marry him. She agreed and the son born out of their spiritual union was Veda Vyāsa!

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Content: By observing the movements of the celestial bodies through time and space, the science of Vedic Astrology can be applied to each human incarnation to encourage the soul to develop to its fullest potential.

Content: In Paramahamsa Nithyananda's own words:

Content: 'The moment the consciousness enters the body, the energy level of the cosmos at the time of birth gets printed in that consciousness. Your inner space gets a print of the cosmic energy level and the position of the nine major energy centers of the solar system.

Content: The astrological planets are not only astronomical, they are energies. A particular energy of push and pull exists between them. The different energy positions clearly decide the cosmic energy level during the time of birth. Based on that, Jyotiṣa will be able to predict the course of life. Understand, not exact incidences because you have freedom. You have freedom to decide whether to sit here or not, to read this or not.

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Content: The major course of life- if you will get enlightened or not can be predicted. Principles can be predicted, not policies! Having an idea about your horoscope will give you intelligence and acceptance in your life: intelligence to take decisions and the acceptance to bear the inevitable things. According to me, a seeker should have a basic knowledge about his horoscope.’

Content: Jyotiṣa and Living Enlightenment

Content: Jyotiṣa can help one to read his destiny. But what is actually destiny?

Content: There are only two types of destinies:

Content: The first one is destiny as defined by a dictionary: destiny lived within the boundaries of the ego, with its own expectations, hopes, desires, successes and failures. It is constantly changing. Because it evolves under mind’s law, it is mechanical, accidental and coincidental. This ‘destiny’ is lived in the dimension of the mind, so it has no existential reality in itself. It is nothing more than a reproduction of one’s past in the

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Content: present, which conditions the future in a mechanical way.

Content: The other destiny is existential and ultimate; it is the flowering of consciousness into enlightenment. Understand: the only thing predestined in the scheme of life is that man is meant to evolve to reach enlightenment. The rest is just incidental; it happens for no other reason than to teach and mold the being towards seeking enlightenment. Living enlightenment is all about making conscious choices, free from the unconscious push and pull of the saṃskāras.

Content: The further you wander from your center, the more you lose yourself in your periphery, the more you are subjected to incidents and accidents. Whereas, when you live enlightenment, you are centered, you are within your boundaries, you are aware. You become predestined, because your predestination is to reach enlightenment; your destiny is to become more and more aware. Then you become the agent of your fate,

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Content: and you move beyond grahas’ influences. This is how you come to terms with your karmas.

Content: For that to happen, a simple understanding of the forces at work in you can help clarity manifest in your daily routine. In addition to this, you can follow a couple of guidelines to keep your body healthy with the science of Āyurveda and raise your energy level with yoga, the use of gemstones, rudrākṣa beads, mantra chanting, and a basic knowledge of your psychological tendencies coupled with the ancient Vedic wisdom expressed by the great enlightened Masters.

Content: All these remedies will bring lucidity about your mental set-up and support for eventually dropping your conditionings, unclutching from your mind and emotions and fostering your intelligence and energy to Live Enlightenment.

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Content: Understanding Grahas and Nakṣatras

Content: The grahas are energy centers, energy fields that planets exert in the universe. Each of the nine main grahas in Vedic astrology has a specific energy field that creates specific effects on our planet Earth. For example, the moon has a strong impact on the movements of the sea and on plant growth; it even influences the mind of human beings.

Content: In the same way, the major energy centers produce an effect on living beings and influence their potential at birth, their mental set-up and, therefore, the course of their destiny. In Jyotiṣa, grahas are often referred to as the agents of the karmas for which the soul took birth. Human personality and life have their counterparts in the structure of the cosmic physiology, represented by the grahas and the nakṣatras.

Content: There are nine grahas (nine influences or ‘planets’) in our solar system: the Sun (Sūrya), the Moon (Candra), Mars (Mangal), Mercury (Budha), Jupiter (Guru), Venus (Śukra), Saturn (Śani) and two nodes called Rāhu (ascending lunar node) and Ketu (descending lunar node).

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Content: node). These represent archetypes. Sūrya, for example, represents consciousness; Candra represents the cosmic mind; Budha represents the cosmic intellect, etc.

Content: Most of the calendars of the world have been set by the Sun's and Moon's movements (measuring the day, month and year) and were of great importance for agriculture, because the harvest depended on planting at the correct time of the year. But the Vedic tradition uses a system of 27 nakṣatras to calculate months. The nakṣatra is the constellation in which the moon sits in the heaven at a particular time. In each month, the full moon sits in a particular constellation, and the Vedic month will have this nakṣatra's name.

Content: Each nakṣatra falls under the rule of one graha, sometimes two. Each graha is assigned three nakṣatras. For example, if the child is born when the moon sits in Pūrvabhadrapada nakṣatra, his birth star will be Pūrvabhadrapada, and his sign will be Pisces (called meena in Sanskrit), ruled by planet Jupiter (guru). Uttarabhadrapada and Revati, the two next nakṣatras, also

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Content: fall under the lordship of Jupiter and the Pisces sign. All three will therefore have similar characteristics and will influence the child’s mind and consciousness at the time of birth, shaping his destiny.

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Content: If Sun is your Star

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Content: 'I worship the Sun who has the luster of a red hibiscus flower, who has the power of perception, of great effulgence, the dispeller of darkness, who destroys all sins, the maker of the day.'

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  • Veda Vyāsa

Content: Dynamic: How we realize ourselves, how we radiate

Content: Keywords: Nobility, individuality, generosity, power, authority, leadership, ego, self- centeredness,

Content: Sign: Leo

Content: Colors: Orange red, gold

Content: Gender: Masculine

Content: Cakra: Maṇipūraka, Sahasrāra

Content: Temperament: Sattva (pure)

Content: Governing deity: Lord Śiva

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Content: The Sun in Vedic Scriptures

Content: According to Vedic mythology, Sūrya was married to Sākhya (Consciousness) and had three children- Vaivasvata Manu, Yama and Yamunā.

Content: Sākhya loved her husband, but his light was too strong for her eyes and thus when her husband came close to her, she closed her eyes.

Content: This irritated the Sun, who thought his wife did not like him.

Content: One day Sākhya decided to go away from home, leaving in her place her body-double, Chāyā (shadow).

Content: For some time, Sākhya lived with her father and then hiding in the form of a mare, she went to the mountains to pray.

Content: At first Sun did not realize that the person living with him as his wife was not Sākhya but Chāyā.

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Content: When he realized it, he went to search for his wife. He saw her praying in the form of a mare and he turned into a horse and approached near her.

Content: Sākhya told him that his radiance was too strong for her. So Sun decided to divide his light into sixteen parts - the different parts of the Sun’s light created Earth and other planets, while the Sun was left with one-sixteenth part of his original light. Sākhya came back to live with Sun and gave birth to twins, the Aśvini kumāras.

Content: While Sākhya had been away, Sun had other children with his wife’s double Chāyā. One of their children was Saturn, who also found a place among the planets.

Content: Vaivasvata Manu, the Sun’s first child is also the first man and the person who would save the life forms at the top of Sumer Mountain during the primordial floods.

Content: Yama, Sun’s second born, is the lord of death, his daughter Yamunā is the sacred river and the Aśvini kumāras are the healers of the gods.

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Content: Tendencies of Sun and Leo

Content: 'Sun's eyes are honey-colored. He has a square body. He is of clean habits, bilious, intelligent.'

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  • Bṛhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra

Content: Symbol: The lion

Content: Element: Fire

Content: Ruling Planet: Sun/Sūrya

Content: Ayurvedic constitution: Pitta (fire)

Content: Healing stone: Carnelian

Content: The Sun is the soul of the universe. It represents the life force that vivifies and gives life to the whole solar system. It also produces the gravitational pull that holds the planet together. It represents the Ātma, which is the soul of the individual.

Content: Leo individuals possess a strong sense of self, a great character and will power. They are determined and confident, able to radiate their skills in a generous

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Content: manner. They have a mind of their own and are difficult to influence since they are those who generally influence others!

Content: They are very proud and courageous, ambitious, and can have strong and passionate reactions to their surroundings, environment and society. This can lead them to take up responsibility to better the world around them in one way or another.

Content: Like the Sun, Leo natives like to shine and are often the center of attention. They follow dharma, the path of righteousness, do good deeds, have strong values and receive honor.

Content: They are strong souls, who have powerful emotions and an overwhelming need for recognition which can lead them to mental exhaustion. The expectations they impose onto themselves are so high that they easily fall into deep depression when they fail.

Content: They can get quickly annoyed and bad tempered,

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Content: but the anger quickly disappears without trace.

Content: Generally, the Sun principle is found in natal charts of important leaders, lovers of fine arts, great philosophers and respected sages.

Content: Leo Nakṣatra: Makha, Pūrvaphālgunī, Uttaraphālgunī

Content: Characteristics of a Makha-born

Content: Makha signifies ‘the mighty one’, and reflects strength and leadership qualities.

Content: You may experience contradictions under Makha’s influence. Often, you swing between a need to be active and productive, and then recede to be idle and inactive.

Content: This behavior complicates your plans. It leads to psychological tensions and a sense of frustration.

Content: But whatever is your outcome, you always strive to make your life purposeful.

Content: You have inner strength; you are influential and tend to lose your temper now and then.

Content: You can

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Content: impact people wherever you go and through whatever you do. Others get inspired by your optimism and free spirit. You can actually surprise people with your activities. You are able to do extraordinary things that bring respect to you. You generally have high self-esteem and never compromise your virtue and dignity.

Content: You are very religious yet maintain close contact with government and high society. As a result, you get lots of favors from these sectors. You make a point of sustaining your reputation and honor in society, which is why you are very careful in whatever you do.

Content: As a Makha born, you enjoy your family life to the fullest and have an eye for luxurious things. You are very smart at financial matters. You put much of your effort in affairs related to finance, which results in profitable gains.

Content: You may not have many friends, but you care for them and love them. When misunderstood by your relations, you feel sad and gloomy, in spite of your motivations and efforts to achieve your goal. Your

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Content: idealism is strong, even at the relationship level, and people may not be up to your expectations. Welcoming them for what they are is a trait you will develop with time.

Content: You have the capacity to command and are successful in careers such as law, corporate work, banking, the cosmetics industry, music, archeology, historian, management, even free lance jobs.

Content: Characteristics of a Pūrvaphālgunī-born

Content: Pūrvaphālgunī is the symbol of good fortune. It symbolizes ‘the fruit of the tree’, as well as the Śiva linga which confers the power of creative pro-creation to this star. A person born under this nakṣatra will have a long face, be youthful in nature, carefree, affectionate, and vitalizing.

Content: The person manifests a dynamic energy with an impulse to express many desires and is always ready to plunge into activity. A great love for music, dance and drama is strong, as is a very sociable nature.

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Content: As a Leo born, you draw people towards you and you can make friends easily. You are a honest person of good behavior. You will react immediately if you witness any illegal activity. You are very dedicated to your education and strive to realize your ambitions. You can be good at investigative research and skilled in public administrative studies.

Content: As you are honest and fair; you will do wonders in the legal field and law enforcement. Being also creative, you will show abilities in the performing arts. Other successful sectors for you are hotel and government services, banking, business management, radio, television, photography, jewelry, healing.

Content: You will enjoy a good health but may occasionally suffer from abdominal problems. Take extra care of your heart's health and blood pressure.

Content: Your challenge is your pride and narcissism which can be quite egotistic. Your arrogance and pride are often too showy to keep you in good terms with your loved ones. Life's experiences will teach you to control

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Content: your attachments and shower your generosity, humility, and loyalty to those close to you.

Content: Characteristics of an Uttaraphālgunī-born

Content: Uttaraphālgunī nakṣatra can bring great opportunities for inner and outer growth and expansion in the native’s existence. Here, one can overcome one’s limitations, be they physical, material, mental or spiritual. It may also confer yogic abilities and a deep spiritual quest. Courage, endurance and ambition are channeled towards fighting for a righteous cause in a chosen field.

Content: As an Uttaraphālgunī born, you have great friendliness, compassion and kindness towards others and specifically the socially or physically unprivileged. You deeply feel for the people in need around you and are eager to stretch a helping hand towards them. You are a humanitarian at heart. This nakṣatra influences leaders in their field, stable people with successful abilities. Naturally independent, you take up

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Content: responsibilities and accomplish the work at hand perfectly. You are self-motivated and lead your subordinates with responsibility.

Content: Normally, you are a tall and broad figure, bright and generally cool. You are religious, devout and strong. You are interested in studying research subjects, literature, engineering, mathematics, astronomy or astrology, and will do well in careers such as social work, writing, media industry, the healing arts, health sector or business.

Content: But you may feel lonely sometimes, especially when you are not able to be in a deep and meaningful relationship. It is difficult to be alone, and you would rather be friends with the wrong people than learning to befriend yourself. Lacking gratitude and taking your loved ones for granted is a trait you may have to work on. Developing a thankful attitude will expand you on all levels.

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Content: Energy Centers and Leo

Content: Maṇipūraka Cakra: the Fire of Transformation

Content: There are seven major energy centers in our body, called cakras in Sanskrit. They are directly connected to our emotions and impact different aspects of our personality and the way we relate to ourselves, others, and to Existence.

Content: Each planet resonates with a particular energy center in the body. The fiery energy of Sun is connected to maṇipūraka cakra located in the navel region. Its energy can sometimes imbalance the cakra, especially when it is channeled towards worrying! Maṇipūraka flowers when you stop worrying about your worries.

Content: A balanced maṇipūraka cakra will confer a good digestion and physical well-being.

Content: It is a proven fact that cakras correspond and affect the functioning of specific glands that constitute the body's endocrine system. This is why worrying

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Content: imbalances your system, and creates chronic diseases in the long run. Your body and mind are very deeply rooted in our consciousness!

Content: To keep manipūraka balanced, bringing awareness into your mind and irritations, practicing meditation and yoga will benefit you. On a higher level, the Sun is connected to sahasrāra cakra, the crown’s energy center located at the top of the head. This cakra particularly holds all of the solar qualities, radiating through gratitude and enlightenment. It bestows life and healing around the individual. Learning to foster gratitude will kindle this cakra and will gradually actualize the Sun’s radiation in one’s life.

Content: Wearing carnelian stone can also contribute to maintain your balance.

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Content: Leo and Āyurveda: Understand your Constitution

Content: In a birth chart, many influences have to be considered to find out one’s body type. Consulting an experienced Ayurvedic doctor will help you to understand your body constitution.

Content: Generally, the Ayurvedic dośa (body constitution) related to Leo is pitta.

Content: Let’s use this scale:

Content: If you experience symptoms such as excessive body heat, digestive problems, a tendency to be unnecessarily angry, impatient, a tendency to exert excessive effort to achieve goals, vision difficulties, tendency to make errors in judgment because of mental or emotional confusion, then there is a good possibility you are suffering from pitta imbalance.

Content: If you have a strong power of digestion, a good vitality, goal-setting inclinations, problem-solving skills,

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Content: Here are some of the common characteristics of people who have a predominantly pitta body constitution:

Content: A strong and well-built body

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Content: Aggressive, sometimes demanding or pushy

Content: Enjoy challenges

Content: Under stress, pittas become irritated and angry

Content: Uncomfortable in sun or hot weather; heat makes them very tired

Content: Perspire a lot

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Content: Good public speakers, capable of sharp and cutting speech

Content: Generally good management and leadership ability

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Content: Typical physical problems include rashes or inflammations of the skin, acne, boils, ulcers, heartburn and acidity, insomnia, burning eyes and blurred vision and anemia.

Content: How to manage pitta?

Content: Factors that can cause pitta to increase include a diet that contains too many hot or spicy foods, fasting or skipping meals, over-exposure to the sun or to hot temperatures and emotional traumas. Pitta is stimulated by pungent, sour and salty food and weakened by sweet, bitter and acid tasting foods. A pitta type should also take care not to do things too rapidly, including eating!

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Content: Food items to balance pitta:

Content: Dairy milk, butter, and ghee are good for pacifying pitta.

Content: Sweet, bitter, and astringent tastes decrease pitta influences. Therefore if your pitta characteristics are too pronounced, you can add complex carbohydrates like wheat, white rice, barley and oats to your plate and favor sweet fruits such as grapes, cherries, melons, berries, avocados, coconuts, pomegranates, mangoes, and fully ripened oranges or pineapples. Incorporate asparagus, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, ladies fingers, beans, green beans, zucchini and green leafy vegetables such as lettuce to your diet.

Content: And remember, except tofu and split-mung dhal, beans and bean products are not too good for your constitution.

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Content: Meditation for Leo: Balance your Pitta!

Content: Leo natives can be benefitted through techniques which build energy in their body and enable them to radiate their natural warmth. Leo people like to work on themselves in a practical way, through physical practices (hatha yoga) or mental techniques like visualizations, or rituals fostering gratitude and devotion.

Content: Here is a meditation for you:

Content: The first 10 minutes: In standing position, close your eyes and start to shake your body intensely from head to toe. Let your body become like a liquid.

Content: The next 10 minutes: Sit down wherever you are. Sit on a chair if you need to and create whatever sounds and gibberish comes to your mind. Release all the irritation you hold inside. If it is needed, visualize or remember situations which caused tensions in you, and focus on bringing out sounds from your navel area. Express yourselves!

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Content: The last 10 minutes: Just sit quietly. Witness whatever is happening in your body and mind, without passing any judgment on any of your thoughts, without resisting any thought and without destroying any thought. Just be as you are, enjoy the light sensation in your manipūraka cakra!

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Content: Nithya Dhyaan: the Universal Technique

Content: Nithya Dhyaan is a formula and technique that works on all the components of your being. Whatever your birth sign may be, it awakens the cosmic powers within you and makes them available to your being to excel in all spheres of life.

Content: This is a five-step technique. Allow seven minutes for each step. Keep your eyes closed throughout the meditation.

Content: 1- Chaotic breathing:

Content: Sit in vajrāsana (kneel and sit on your heels). Place your hands on your hips and breathe chaotically, without a repetitive rhythm. Just focus on your breathing; let your entire being become the breathing.

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Content: 2- Intense Humming:

Content: Continue to sit in vajrāsana, form cin mudra with your fingers (with the thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched), and place your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards. In this posture, with your mouth closed, produce your body, as loudly and lengthily as possible.

Content: the sound ‘Mmmm...’ from inside

Content: 3- Cakra awareness:

Content: You may continue to sit in vajrāsana or sit crossed legged if you wish. Keep your fingers in cin mudra position. Now, bring your awareness to each cakra one after the other, from mūlādhāra cakra (root center) to sahasrāra cakra (crown

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Content: center). Feel each cakra completely as if your whole being has become that energy center.

Content: 4- Silent Meditation: Be unclutched

Content: In this step, carry the understanding with you that your thoughts are unconnected, irrational and unclutched. Don’t try to create thoughts, don’t try to maintain thoughts, don’t try to destroy thoughts or react to them. Just sit and watch them. Understand,

Content: by your very nature, you are pure being and bliss.

Content: 5- Guru Pūja

Content: Now, connect, relax and rest into the universal energy. Just sit in a very deep and passive way, feeling one with the whole, God,

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Content: or your Master. Listen to the Guru Pūja mantras and feel their vibration in you. Express your gratitude with reverence.

Content: You will find further details on the benefits of Nithya Dhyaan; along with the meditation instructions, in the comprehensive booklet and audio CD called Nithya Dhyaan- Experience bliss.

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Content: Nithya Yoga for You

Content: When the dynamism is low in the person, martial arts can be practiced to strengthen Sun energy. Otherwise, gentle yoga postures which work on manipuraka cakra, as well as Sūrya Namaskār (the ancient Sun salutation), can be practiced by all natives!

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Content: Instructions:

Content: To blissfully enjoy the benefits of any āsana, make sure your body is warmed up, the spine worked on and stretched out before entering the postures.

Content: Sit in vajrāsana (kneel and sit on your heels)

Content: Perform the posture on the right side first. Simply allow the buttocks to fall to the left side.

Content: Using your hands, help to lift your right leg and place the foot on the outside of the left knee.

Content: Ensure that both hips are down on the floor as evenly as possible.

Content: Bring the right hand behind your back (about 1 foot away from the spine), fingertips pointing outward. (Elbow can be bent if needed to create more space between torso and legs).

Content: Bring the left arm up, and push back the knee with the left elbow. Keep the elbow bent with the palm facing outward.

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Content: Look over your right shoulder.

Content: Inhale, lengthen the spine.

Content: Exhale, gently twist around, looking gently over your right shoulder more.

Content: You can hold this asana for 6 breaths.

Content: After the last exhale, inhale as you bring the head around to the front.

Content: Then exhale and allow the body to unwind slowly.

Content: Repeat on the other side.

Content: Benefits:

Content: This asana gives a complete rotary movement to the entire vertebral column and works on the digestive power which planet Mars represents. It can lead one to complete inner transformation by giving an experience of no-mind state.

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Content: Sūrya Namaskār

Content: Sūrya Namaskār (the Sun salutation) is called the king of asanas. It is a sequence of 12 postures, each symbolizing a sign of the zodiac. This sequence of asanas has the amazing ability to activate the best characteristics of your birth chart by bringing energy to your body, a clearer thinking through emotional balancing, and a restored health, thereby enabling you to express your intelligence and uniqueness. It is a technique to experience a conflict-free life, fulfillment and eternal bliss.

Content: Its practice awakens the body’s innate intelligence to produce energy from the sun. It is designed to access the etheric energy all around you. When performed facing the East in the first rays of the morning sun, along with the appropriate breathing technique and the mantra, the effect on the individual mind, body and spirit is incomparable.

Content: It is said that the daily practice of Sūrya Namaskār

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Content: Sūrya Namaskār mantras

Content: A mantra is a composition of syllables, words or sentences that, when repeated with awareness and visualization, has a powerful and penetrating influence on the mind. Before each repetition of Sūrya Namaskār, one chants the corresponding mantra, which is a glorification of the Sun. This simple method leads us to the experience that the outer Sun symbolizes the shining intelligence in our inner sky. We come to understand our connectivity to the cosmic energy that pervades all the grahas. The characteristics of our sign get activated to unfold its inherent potential.

Content: Aum hrāḿ mitrāya namaḥ Salutations to the friend of all

Content: Aum hrīḿ ravaye namaḥ Salutations to the shining one

Content: Aum hrūḿ sūryāya namaḥ Salutations to the one who induces activity

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Content: Aum hraim bhānave namaḥ Salutations to the one who illumines

Content: Aum hraum khagāa namaḥ Salutations to the one who moves swiftly

Content: Aum hrah pūṣṇe namaḥ Salutations to the giver of strength

Content: Aum hrāṃ hiraṇyagarbhāya namaḥ Salutations to the golden Cosmic Self

Content: Aum hrīṃ marīcaye namaḥ Salutations to the Lord of dawn

Content: Aum hrūṃ ādityāya namaḥ Salutations to the son of Aditi, the infinite Cosmic mother

Content: Aum hraim savitre namaḥ Salutations to the eternal benevolent mother

Content: Aum hraum arkāya namaḥ Salutations to the one who is praiseworthy

Content: Aum hrah bhāskarāya namaḥ Salutations to the one who leads to enlightenment

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Content: Sūrya Namaskār āsana sequence

Content: To blissfully enjoy the benefits of any āsana, make sure your body is warmed up, the spine limber and stretched out before entering the postures.

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Content: Stand with feet slightly apart. Bring hands together into prayer position in front of your chest. Keep your eyes open during the practice of the asanas. Chant the corresponding mantra loudly.

Content: Inhaling, gracefully sweep the arms up over your head and gently arch the spine backwards.

Content: Exhaling and bending from the hips, sweep the arms forward and down so the hands touch the floor close to the feet and the forehead comes in close to the knees. Bend the knees to allow for greater ease in doing this.

Content: Step the right foot back as far as you can and as you inhale, lift your heart center up.

Content: Step the left foot back and assume the plank position with spine, neck, and head in a straight line, hands placed directly under your shoulders.

Content: On the exhale, lower the knees, chest and chin to the floor assuming aṣṭānga namaskār. Point the toes.

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Content: Inhale, raise the head and chest off the floor by engaging the lower back and gently pushing with your hands. Keeping the elbows bent at a 90-degree angle, come into bhujangāsana.

Content: Exhaling, push with your hands, raise your hips into the air and back and assume the downward dog pose. Push your heels towards the floor.

Content: Gently look forward at your hands and step the left foot forward as far as you can, close to the hands. Inhale, lift your heart.

Content: Step the right foot forward to meet the right hand. Bend your knees if you need, exhale, and bring the head in close to the legs.

Content: On an inhale, sweep your arms up over your head and gently arch the spine, saluting the Sun.

Content: Exhale, bring your arms down and your hands back into prayer position in front of your chest.

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Content: Nithya Yoga is Paramahamsa Nithyananda's unique offering to the world, helping the practitioner to be in the state of yoga every moment. You will find further details on the benefits of Sūrya Namaskār in the book titled: Nithya Yoga - The Ultimate Practice for Body Mind and Being.

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Content: Birthstones for Leo

Content: Carnelian gemstone bracelet

Content: This book comes with a unique energy bead bracelet which beautifully combines semi-precious stones with rudrākṣa beads- enhancing and radiating the properties of the stones. This bracelet attunes you to the Universe and contributes to destroy sufferings related to negative karmas. It is specially blessed by Nithyananda, the enlightened Master of our times for the fortunate ones who wish to receive the blessings of the Universe! Enlightened Masters are said to be the manifestation of the Cosmic Energy, which radiates through the 9 planets. It empowers you to expand your inner intelligence into Living Enlightenment!

Content: Jyotiṣa uses different gemstones (also called birthstones) to strengthen the planets energies.

Content: Gemstones are the finest and purest consolidation of minerals that exists, formed under extreme heat and pressure inside the earth. Stones are crystals of

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Content: clear and purified minerals that are also found in the human body.

Content: Because of their mineral quality, they are agents of electromagnetic energy, which influences the electromechanical nature of the human body. When a stone is in contact with the skin, it starts working on the physiology and the energy level of the body, as well as the pranic layer of energy.

Content: The carnelian represents the Sun in the natal chart. It rules energy, vitality and the ability to radiate. It is beneficial for

Content: Love, confidence, loyalty and courage

Content: Stamina, strength

Content: Positive and clear visualization

Content: Dynamic leadership

Content: Sharpness of mind

Content: Stimulating heart cakra

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Content: Monetary gains,

Content: Fostering devotion

Content: Functioning of the heart, minimize the heart beat, prevent heart stroke

Content: Curing liver problem

Content: Lowering high blood sugar levels

Content: Back pain, bone fracture

Content: Detoxifying blood

Content: Reducing the risk of head injury,

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Content: Rudrākṣa Beads

Content: Leo's Cosmic seed

Content: Today, scientific experiments have verified the intrinsic properties of the rudrākṣa. These are: dynamic polarity, bioelectricity, and paramagnetic and diamagnetic propertiesall of which effectively control

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Content: hyperactivity, eliminate stress and bring beneficial effects on body and mind.

Content: Rudrākṣa beads are emblems of Lord Śiva, who is believed to be at the very core of the centrifugal force of the universe, representing Brahman or the cosmic Sun: the aspect of creation which continually dissolves to begin a new cycle of creation, preservation, dissolution and recreation of the Universe. Therefore, wearing rudrākṣa attunes one with the cosmic energy that destroys karmas and confers spiritual liberation. It cannot have an adverse effect on the wearer because of its auspicious signification and can be worn by anyone, irrespective of his or her moon sign. Rudrākṣa beads have immense benefits:

Content: They protect against negative planetary positions and enforce the positive effects of the birthstone which you wear

Content: They keep, foster and protect one’s own energy

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Content: They can tap into energy fields to restore energy in the wearer.

Content: They stimulate an individual's consciousness and sub-consciousness

Content: They stimulate the mind, sharpens the intellect, gives power and opens the third eye

Content: They ensure peace of mind and harmony of relationships

Content: They help to cure dangerous diseases such as epilepsy, cough, and small pox and heal poisonous wounds

Content: They actualize Master's blessings into your life

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Content: Navagraha Pūja

Content: The Navagraha pūja is a Vedic prayer which produces tremendous positive energy, and helps everyone to gain courage to face any situation in life.

Content: This ritual traditionally performed for the nine planets, brings solace to the person's mind, and dilutes any negative influences which can be felt during certain period called ‘Navagraha dośa’; when the planets are not in proper alignment, influencing the person negatively. Due to these, people fall into depression

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Content: and certain low moods. This period may last for some time, depending on the power of the planet.

Content: However this can be averted with intelligence. Navagraha pūja is conducted to connect oneself to the cosmic intelligence, to avert any hindrances and to bestow tremendous peace and contentment in life. This pūja is a collection of prayers and rituals performed to the planets in the form of deities.

Content: With the blessing of these nine planets, the person is helped to attain good health, prosperity, knowledge and enlightenment.

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Content: Navagraha Homa

Content: Homa is a fire ritual, and an intense spiritual practice which becomes a powerful meditation technique when performed with devotion. During homa, one invokes the cosmic energy and visualizes it in the fire. Offerings to the planet deity through the fire are made at the same time.

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Content: Through the mantra chanted and the purification effect of the fire; the body, the space in which the ritual happens and the people attending the prayer are benefited, and the planetary effect decreased.

Content: When this homa is done as a personal spiritual practice, the energy is brought from the nirvanic to the physical layer of the body through all subtle energy layers, healing the person and raising his level of energy- allowing him to transform his destiny.

Content: Navagraha pūja and homa services are available in all Nithyananda Vedic Temples throughout USA, and Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam ashrams throughout India.

Content: Find out your nearest Temple in India on www.nithyananda.org and www.nithyanandavedictemple.org for USA, contact them to have more details if you are interested in benefiting from these services.

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Content: Mantra for Leo

Content: Aum hrīṁ Nityānandāya namaḥ

Content: (Om Hreem Nithyanandaya Namaha)

Content: In this mantra, Aum is the primordial sound and is the representation of Śiva’s energy, the male aspect of the universe. Actually, Aum is the cosmic sound that pervades the grahas, their movements and their effects on us.

Content: The Bīja mantra (seed sound), Hrīṁ, has no linguistic meaning but encloses a powerful vibration which attunes you to the primordial energy from which the grahas originate: the female energy, Śakti.

Content: Nithyananda means Eternal Bliss and invokes the truth which is our true nature, and the nature of our own intelligence. It is the pūrṇa mūla mantra (the complete mantra) because it represents a straight path to both Śakti (success in this world) and to Śiva (success in the cosmic world) which is ‘enlightenment’.

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Content: Namaha means 'I surrender' my ego to Existence, to the Master. Thus this sacred mantra awakens the completeness and fulfillment inside us and balances the male and female energies which exist inside every one of us.

Content: The repetition of this mantra is a powerful technique which can be performed throughout the day as you go about your daily routine. It can also be uttered aloud 108 times every morning. The number 108, which is a multiple of 9, has been sacred since time immemorial. That is because the number 9 is the limit of all numbers: 0 to 9 is all one needs to make up an infinite amount of numbers. Therefore, 108 symbolizes and connects you to infinity.

Content: Its beautiful sound should be pronounced clearly and as loudly as possible and from the navel region.

Content: Eventually, this mantra will replace your inner chatter and create silence in your mind. Your whole being integrates itself towards enlightenment which leads you out of the dynamic of karma and planetary effects.

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Content: Five Techniques for a Leo Mind

Content: Be who you are!

Content: Learning the art of being self-sufficient is the ability to be alone without feeling a need to crave for attention or too much entertainment. You may be seeking much of outer recognition of your talents and performances. Nothing wrong with that... But to expand to a space where there is no more reaction to other's appreciation or depreciation about what you do is much better. To be at your creativity and potential's peak, you need to be content, utterly filled and fulfilled with yourself. All good things start happening effortlessly once this happens.

Content: Relax!

Content: Whenever you feel constrained or irritated by the responsibilities you are shouldering, whenever you are not able to forget your work and family issues and carry their remembrance wherever you go, then you forgot that these responsibilities were your conscious

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Content: choice in the first place. Because you remember them continuously, you feel they are imposed on you and then develop irritation and violence towards those things: they constantly bind you in the present moment. Those choices you made became like a knotted rope around your being. Start to loosen the knots one by one; review them and acknowledge that you are the one who chose them in the first place. This simple technique will relax you from the suffocation you sometimes feel.

Content: Break free from your identity!

Content: We are constantly protecting our identity, but our identity is completely social. It is not existential. It is created out of our comparison with what is around us: it is a comparative reality. Whatever you think as your identity, your money, your relationships, your age, your sex, whatever you call your identity is just societal. Being afraid of existential reality, we try to protect our comparative reality, and we think we are protecting something which has a solid existence. In fact, we try

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Content: to protect what is not from what IS. We try to protect our identity from the reality. The neutral zone, the space existing between two breaths, is the reality. One can go back to it with awareness. Moving into your relationships with that deep understanding will help you to overcome flooding emotions or unnecessary tensions.

Content: Be Grateful!

Content: The main reason why you miss experiencing gratitude is that you take everything for granted. Understand, people could be doing something else instead of doing things for you. So it is really a gift from them. You have to thank them for it. When we start feeling grateful for small things, our whole sensitivity increases. We will become more refined. Psychologists have studied the effects of the feeling of gratitude on people. In their first study, they concluded that gratitude played a major role in a person's well-being. Understand, if ever you feel life is dull, that it is not as juicy as it should be, it is because gratitude has not

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Content: yet flowered in you. Gratitude is the energy that makes your life intense and exciting every moment. This is a basic secret of life.

Content: Friendship Vs Friendliness

Content: Developing friendship and friendliness can become a spiritual technique. Friendship is a relationship, whereas friendliness is a quality, not a relationship. It is not subjected to anybody else; it is basically your inner quality. You can be friendly even when you are alone. But you cannot be in friendship when you are alone - another person is needed. A beautiful friendliness can exist with the whole of existence, with a flower, with a river, with the moon. Friendliness is infinite, because it is not dependent on another but on the quality of your consciousness. As you develop friendliness in your friendship, extend that friendliness to the whole of the universe!

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Content: Sūrya (the Sun god) as represented in Tiruvannamalai Ashram (India). Around the Sun stand the other 8 Navagraha deities (deities associated with the nine planets), along with their Navagraha trees (trees associated with the nine planets), to bless all with abundance. The circle of deities is placed around the main deities of the temple, Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari; located near a powerful energy field of 1008 Śiva lingas radiating Śiva’s cosmic energy in an extremely auspicious atmosphere.

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Content: Glossary

Content: Nakṣatra: the constellation in which the moon sits in the heaven at a particular time, commonly called as ‘birth Star’

Content: Vedic sciences: refer to a number of disciplines found in the Vedas, a large body of texts originating in ancient India, among the oldest sacred texts

Content: Ṛg Veda: an ancient Indian sacred collection of hymns, counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas

Content: Āryabhaṭa: One of the first astronomer and great mathematician of India, born in 476

Content: Copernicus: (1473-1543) the first astronomer to formulate a heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe

Content: Galileo: (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and important astronomical observations

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Content: Yojanas: a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India. The exact measurement is being given between 6 to 15 km (4 and 9 miles)

Content: Ṛṣi: a sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, a “seer” able to reach states of higher consciousness

Content: Yogi: a practitioner of various forms of spiritual discipline, as yoga

Content: Parāśara: author of many ancient Indian texts and important astrological texts, known as a traveling Master

Content: Bṛhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra: a prominent astrological scientific text, written as a recorded dialogue between Parāśara and his disciple Maitreya

Content: Vaśiṣṭha: Rāma’s guru, a great Ṛṣi and had complete knowledge of the whole cosmos and the gods

Content: Veda Vyāsa: A sage of ancient India. He is the compiler of the Vedas and great epics like the Māhābhārata

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Content: Māhābhārata: One of the major Sanskrit epic of India and philosophical scripture, depicting a great war that happened in India, written in 250 000 verses

Content: Samskāra: Engraved memories, memories stored in the subconscious part of the mind. They are continually interfering with our decision making process

Content: Grahas: energy centers, energy fields that planets exert in the universe. They are generally assimilated to ‘planets’

Content: Karmas: karma is the collection of unfulfilled experiences and actions that stay in us and constantly pull us to fulfill them

Content: Āyurveda: a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian Subcontinent; ayus meaning ‘life’, and veda, meaning ‘related to knowledge’ or ‘science’

Content: Yoga: literally union, union of the individual self and the divine Self, often taken to mean Hatha yoga, which is one of the components of yogasana, relating to body postures

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Content: Rudrākṣa: a large broad-leaved tree whose seed is traditionally revered and used for prayer beads, or mala, mainly growing in foothills of the Himalayas up to South-East Asia.

Content: Sanskrit: language of the Rg Veda and of many scriptures, as well as mantras

Content: Mantra: a sound, a formula, sometimes a word or set of words, which because of their inherent sounds, have energizing properties, an approach to spiritual evolution.

Content: Unclutching: understanding that each thought is completely independent, unconnected to the precedent; which leads to disengage oneself from the mind, resulting in experiencing the no-mind state

Content: Sattva: a state of mind in which the mind is steady, calm and peaceful

Content: Lord Śiva: rejuvenator in the trinity also means ‘causeless auspiciousness’

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Content: Pitta: one of the three dośas (or attributes) of the body in Āyurveda, created by the dynamic interplay of water and fire.

Content: Ātma: individual self, part of the universal Brahman

Content: Dharma: righteousness

Content: Śiva liga: ‘sign of Śiva’; the most prevalent emblem of Śiva, rounded, elliptical image found in all Śiva temples

Content: Cakra: literally a ‘wheel’: refers to energy centers in the mind-body system

Content: Sanskrit: the Indo-Aryan language, language of the Ṛg Veda and of many scriptures, as well as mantras

Content: Sahasrāra cakra: seventh energy center; located on the top of the head, also called ‘crown cakra’

Content: Lassi: a popular and traditional yoghurt-based drink

Content: Vajrāsana: common yoga and meditation posture, where the person sits on his heels

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Content: Cin mudra: palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched

Content: Guru pūja: form of worship offered to the master.

Content: Asana: body postures performed in yoga, literally means ‘seat’

Content: Nitya ānanda: eternal bliss

Content: Aṣṭānga namaskār: prostrating to a deity or master by lying on the floor with all eight limbs of the body touching the earth

Content: Bhujangāsana: ‘cobra posture’ in yoga, in which the head and chest are raised while lying down

Content: Pranic layer: the second layer of energy of the body, related to prana or life energy

Content: Lord Śiva: rejuvenator in the trinity also means ‘causeless auspiciousness’

Content: Brahman: the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality, the Divine Ground of all matter,

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Content: energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe

Content: Bīja mantra: refers to the single syllable mantra used to invoke certain deities

Content: Pūja: a ritual made of different offerings related to the deity propitiated

Content: Navagraha doṣa: literally means ‘planetary defects’ or inauspicious alignment of planets

Content: Homa: ancestral Vedic fire ritual

Content: Nirvanic layer: seventh subtle body that we have and last layer of energy which is the space where one experiences intense bliss

Content: Physical layer: the gross body made of flesh and bones

Content: Aum: the primordial cosmic sound from which the whole Universe emerged

Content: Śakti: energy, intelligent energy, considered feminine aspect of Śiva

Content: Jivan Mukti: the state of achieving liberation from the cycle of birth and death during one’s lifetime

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Content: About Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda is an enlightened master living amidst us today. With a worldwide movement for meditation and inner bliss, Nithyananda offers solutions for situations as practical as every day stress to the quest for something as profound as enlightenment. He left home at a young age and traveled the length and breadth of India, visiting holy shrines and associating himself with spiritual masters and mystics. He realized his intrinsic knowledge through the paths of meditation, yoga, tantra, knowledge, devotion and other Eastern metaphysical sciences. With an enlightened insight into the core of human nature, Nithyananda has defined his mission for humanity at large. Rooted in the ancient tradition of living enlightenment, and embracing all world religions as sacred and unique, Nithyananda draws people from around the globe, crossing all societal, cultural, language, age and gender barriers.

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Content: About Nithyananda Mission

Content: Nithyananda Mission is a worldwide movement for spreading meditation and inner bliss. The services provided by the organization include meditation, yoga, corporate leadership programs, free energy healing through the Nithya Spiritual Healing system, free education to youth, promoting art and culture satsangs (spiritual gatherings), free medical camps and eye surgeries, free meals at all ashrams worldwide, a holistic system of education for children through the āśram gurukul and a host of specially designed meditation programs.

Content: Programs Offered by Nithyananda Mission

Content: Inner Awakening

Content: Inner Awakening is a 21-day 'master' program that is intensely transformative. It is designed to reproduce all the components of Jivan Mukti or 'Living Enlightenment' in every individual and brings about

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Content: an irreversible alchemy of moving from the mundane to the Divine.

Content: Life Bliss Engineering (LBE)

Content: LBE is a 90-day residential program to experience the intense and transformative power of being in an enlightened master's presence. Conducted at the Bengaluru ashram in India, it takes you to the depths of your being through yoga, meditation and a wide range of multifarious activities and helps you to awaken your innate peak potential. It is a lifetime opportunity to learn directly from a living enlightened master, to engineer your very body and mind for enlightened living.

Content: Kalpataru

Content: A one-day meditation program that sows in you the seed of Living Enlightenment. This program empowers you with the energy to align your actions with your intentions so you move with outer world success and inner bliss.

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Content: Contact Us

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Content: INDIA:

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Content: “Let you all experience and radiate Jīvan Mukti, Living Enlightenment” - Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Content: NOTES

Content: Ebook ISBN: 979-8-88572-225-4

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