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Content: "I am the totality of billions of people's aspiration for the higher and the ultimate superconscious breakthrough"

Content: should first introduce the software of the universe: The knowledge of the state, space and powers of Sadashiva, the pure Consciousness makes up the very software of the universe. Within the software itself, a system is put in place which is triggered whenever there is a problem and sends automatic costumer call. The problem could be in the form of virus or the loss of the software in almost all systems. When the customer call goes, the updated software is downloaded and the person responsible comes down. He, Himself, establishes the new software and makes it work again. This whole thing is what I call Sanatana Hindu Dharma.

Content: I am…I am the totality of billions of people's aspiration for the higher and the ultimate superconscious breakthrough which is really needed for this age because of the large number of calls that customer care has received not only about the viruses in the software but about the the original software almost getting lost and being in extreme danger. My happening is the answer for this whole problem.

Content: I know for sure now the introduction will look too big, but once I deliver what I brought and people start using it, living it and enjoying, you will understand this is a very fair introduction- even too small.

Content: Avatara Leela, The Autobiography of The Avatar, is a five-volume series on the life story of The Avatar, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. This book is a glimpse of the first volume to have a taste of the greatest happening on Planet Earth.

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Content: The Living Story of Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Content: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Content: Nothing written explained, shared or promoted in this free publication should be considered or construed as medical advice or a substitute for medical care. Any instructions, teachings and suggestions contained in this publication are purely in a spiritual capacity and not intended to be any sort of guarantee or definitive statement about one's health or one's past, present, or future.

Content: This book is not a platform, guide or instruction for learning or practicing any meditation, siddhi, process, asana, kriya, diet, or other technique that is described or pictured in this book. Any such technique included in this book is for illustrative and informative purposes only and should be practiced only under the guidance of a trained teacher or Acharya, ordained by H. H. Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

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Content: glimpses of

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Content: The Autobiography of The Avatar

Content: Volume 1

Content: Compiler's Note

Content: Before you begin this incredible journey, please note that all the text that appears in straight font is The Avatar's own words. All text that appears in italics is narration written by the blessed compilers of this purana.

Content: tava kathāmṛtam tapta-jīvanam kavibhir īditam kalmasāpaham śravaṇa-maṅgalam śrīmad ātataṃ bhuvi grṇanti ye bhūri-dā janāḥ

Content: Srimad Bhagavatam (10.31.9)

Content: That is which is sweet to hear,

Content: That which when heard, immediately raises one to the high conscious state,

Content: That which takes us to another level, just by remembering it

Content: That which gives deep pleasure not only to the listener, but also to the person who narrates it,

Content: O Lord, may I narrate Your story!

Content: DWAJAROHANAM DAY

Content: Gracing the Bengaluru Adheenam for Avatar Dinabrahmotsavam on January 1, 2018

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Content: Mahasadashiva

Content: the Ever-Auspicous,

Content: Eternal, Immutable, Beginningless, Endless.

Content: I create these infinite Manifest

Content: and Unmanifest Universes again and again,

Content: through the power of My third eye.

Content: I am the Hub of the great wheel

Content: on which millions upon millions of galaxies spin.

Content: As Advaita, Oneness,

Content: I am the spindle and the fulcrum

Content: of All that Exists.

Content: As Adishakti, the Primal Power,

Content: I am ananta koti brahmanda yoni,

Content: the womb and the Lord of numberless worlds.

Content: As Ishwara, the Infinite Lord and Doer,

Content: I create, sustain, destroy,

Content: delude and liberate through My grace.

Content: As the ten incarnations of Vishnu,

Content: I grace this loka again and again,

Content: to preserve and to destroy.

Content: ॐ अरुणागिरी योगीश्वरा,

Content: pradeepa sarvesham,

Content: the Illuminator of all,

Content: I walk sun-clad and free

Content: In the sacred land of Arunachala.

Content: As Meenakshi, who graces with a glance,

Content: I conquer and reign, heal and bless.

Content: As Nithyananda, the Eternally Blissful,

Content: I manifest yet again

Content: to remind what has been forgotten.

Content: And as You,

Content: I remember and rejoice.

Content: My story can never be told -

Content: for there exists no observer

Content: who is apart from Me.

Content: My story can never be understood -

Content: for the very dhi, the intelligence

Content: which illumines Me, is also I.

Content: My abode is mano-vacham-agocharam -

Content: a realm hidden from mind and words.

Content: Yet a million voices chant My name

Content: and sing My glory

Content: in the songs of their own Existence.

Content: i am the light in a million suns.

Content: I am the Sweetness in nectar,

Content: I am the Salt in the ocean,

Content: I am the Color in the sky.

Content: I am the Bliss in the blissful

Content: and the Misery in the miserable,

Content: the Goodness in the good

Content: and the Wickedness in the wicked:

Content: I am the Wisdom in the wise,

Content: and the Ignorance in the ignorant

Content: is also I.

Content: I am hidden in the essence

Content: and possibility of All,

Content: as the tree in the seed,

Content: as the fire in the flintstone,

Content: as the fragrance in the flower,

Content: as the unheard silence in the music

Content: I am the Potter and the Pot,

Content: the Hand that holds

Content: and the Force that moulds,

Content: the Wheel that spins

Content: and the very Clay itself.

Content: all is my sweet leela

Content: to celebrate Myself

Content: in a million forms and ways

Content: Eko'ham bahusyam!

Content: And when the play is over,

Content: by My own nissankalpa,

Content: My causeless Will,

Content: withdrawing All this into Me,

Content: I Alone remain

Content: in eternal glory,

Content: Kaivalya.

Content: TIRUVANNAMALAI TEMPLE TOWN South India Aerial view of the land on which I descended

Content: avatar the grand descent of consciousness into form

Content: The story of The Avatar is the story of the Cosmos itself - the grand Descent of Consciousness into form.

Content: Pure Consciousness pervades everything. The great rishis of Hindu tradition reveal that both the manifested and the unmanifested universe are pure Consciousness, and matter is simply projected Consciousness.

Content: The subtlest field of Consciousness of the cosmos, which is in a constant ‘state of emergence (spanda) is called Sadashiva. The instantaneous manifestation as matter, is Adishakti - the subtle creative pulse vibration of the Universe as it manifests into the dynamism of living form.

Content: Every moment - even as you are reading this - the cosmos is emerging from pure Consciousness into the manifold manifestation of matter, and dissolving back into its Source, in the enchanting, eternal and most intimate dance of Sadashiva (Pure Consciousness) and Adishakti (Pure Manifestation).

Content: Among the countless manifestations of Consciousness, the most sacred is The Avatar, for He embodies the purest Consciousness, uncorrupted and incorruptible by its descent into the world of form.

Content: SADASHIVA DARSHAN

Content: During the Mahasadashivoham program on 22 December 2017

Content: the mark of kali

Content: Time (Kaala) is divided into four ages, or yugas, that make up a cycle. The Avatar descends in the time of the most dire need - the Kali Yuga (Age of Kali). Kali is the age of great delusion, where our experience of life is most distant from reality. Sadashiva says reality is eternal bliss and complete fulfillment in every moment. Meanwhile, what we feel inside is distinctly opposite. This duality, between reality and experience, between what you believe and what reality is, is what our rishis signify as the beginning of ‘Kali’, the mark of Kali.

Content: The accumulation of this delusion has reached the point where if humanity does not fix itself now, it will end up in its own collapse. This is the reason for the descent of the Avatar.

Content: MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS

Content: In farms all over the world that are focused on producing for the mass, the treatment of the animals is horrific. In this picture, you see a overcrowded farm in the United States where the cows don't have room to roam as they want.

Content: The tremendous experience of pain that life in all forms is undergoing across all nations, religions, castes, classes and genders has increased drastically over the past two thousand years. Not only humans, but animals, plants and the very land that we walk on has been affected by the misguided decisions of people in power, and the silence of others. We have seen pain in the aggressive form of violence and vengeance, in the manipulative form as greed and exploitation, and in a disguised form as immense boredom and tiredness. In all dimensions of life, the reality of pain unites us all more than anything else. Though we may disagree about whom we pray to, what we eat or how we go about earning our livelihood, when it comes to the suffering we have seen, heard of and been through, there is no denying that it is a universal experience.

Content: When we face the facts, we are a trembling force of life, foolishly overwhelmed by the grandeur of the universe, and at the same time wanting to conquer it. What we lack is a valid, working solution. Having acknowledged that, the question now is, 'Where do we go from here?'

Content: SUICIDE OF YOUTH

Content: The twenty-first has witnessed the most number of youth suicides than any other century in the last two thousand years. The growing number of suicides is also at an alarming growing rate, showing the desperate state of humanity for a permanent solution.

Content: Most often, where we look for the solution is itself the source of the problem! We seek solutions in the institutions that we ourselves have created. The government, health institutions, and research and development universities have all shown that what they offer as a solution, if anything, is only a temporary bandage over what is a gaping wound. Solutions nowadays even create other problems, like pain medication that comes with its own set of possibly even fatal side effects. We have seen enough of these so-called solutions. It is time for the real, permanent and pervasive solution that fixes what we have created for ourselves, once and for all.

Content: WAR ON ALL FRONTS

Content: With two World Wars and numerous brazen attacks from the level of one person to another to the level of countries against one another, the violence of humanity has peaked and showing no signs of relief.

Content: SADASHIVA DARSHAN

Content: I arrived just in time to give the conscious breakthrough to humanity. 1979 would have been too late.

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Content: purana is not history

Content: There are two things: purana and history. Both are different. In Western countries, all the eleven dimensions needs to be compiled, I decided 'Better let me do it directly!'

Content: what they write is history. In Eastern countries, the history that we write is called purana! There is a big difference between the two. History means, that which happens in the two dimensions of length and breadth. For example, 'He was born at this time this morning. He did this at this particular time this evening. He did this at this time at night.' It is two-dimensional; meaning, what you see in everyday life. This is called history.

Content: Purana is the recording of multiple-dimensions. Every happening has an impact on all eleven dimensions of the universe. Whoever can see the impact of every happening on all eleven dimensions and records it is Vyasa, and what he records is purana. Vyasa is not the name of some individual. It is a title. The Vyasa who compiled the eighteen puranas and four vedas is called Badanarayana. Understand: his name is Badanarayana; his title is Vyasa.

Content: My happening cannot be recorded a person with convoluted space. It can neither be recorded by the media nor just by the facts. It has to be recorded from all the eleven dimensions. Because what is happening in

Content: Truth versus Fact

Content: Truth is life. Fact is history. Whatever you experience, if you convert it to words, it is history. If you experience it within you, it will be life! Any extraordinary experience, if you convert it to words, it will be flat, like history. Without converting it to history, if you keep it inside you, it will remain as experience. If you convert it to words, it will not be an experience anymore. If it is history, it will not become purana. If it is a purana, it will not be history.

Content: All that was written in Western countries is history. All that was written in Eastern countries is purana! If it is told as purana, all the facts will be hit. You cannot do that. If you tell as history, the Truth will get hit. Then, listening to it is of no use!

Content: For the first time, Western countries' facts, and the Eastern countries' purana (which conveys the impact it has on people) are being combined and told. Combining life and history, I am going to narrate as living history!

Content: Intensity is the essence of My life If you read this deeply, the essence of this life story will enter you. Whichever incarnation's life story you read or listen to deeply, that incarnation's story's essence will flower in you. Essence of My life story is INTENSITY. Whatever is done will be intense. That is the essence. The side effect of this essence is bliss etc. All incarnations will have all attributes, but there will be a main character in each one of them. In My

Content: life, whatever I do, there will be intensity and completeness in it. So If you listen to My life story, that intensity or completeness will catch you.

Content: As long as you think you are the body, that intensity will not happen. As long as you think you are the mind, that intensity will not happen. Only when you realise you the soul, that intensity will happen. That intensity is the essence of My life.

Content: Understand this: My life is not an individual's history. The science of cores of Vedic Dharma's incarnations and rishis has been realized one again in Me. The Enlightenment science has been realized once again. So, if you understand My biography, you will understand that enlightenment science. You cannot understand a scientist's biography without understanding that science. You cannot understand an enlightened being's biography without having Enlightenment! The reason why I am narrating My biography. long with this, enlightenment will also flower in you. So understand these enlightening truths deeply.

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Content: 1978

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Content: MAP OF TIRUVANNAMALAI, South India

Content: The universe has been planning for the happening of The Avatar since the beginning of time.

Content: ARUNACHALA HILL

Content: Tiruvannamalai

Content: SAGE AGASTYA

Content: The Nadi Readings are about the entire history of life in the universe, written originally by the ancient rishis,

Content: including the renowned Sage and Siddha Agastya.

Content: timeless revelations

Content: on the avatar

Content: The universe has been planning for the happening of

Content: The Avatar since the beginning of time. Nadi readings are an

Content: astrological phenomenon where through many different means,

Content: either through

Content: a person or through palm leaf recordings, the past,

Content: present and future is revealed to any individual at any time.

Content: They are extremely profound sources that expose the depth

Content: of Hinduism and the inner achievements of the giants in Hindu

Content: history.

Content: The nadi readings are originally written by the ancient rishis,

Content: including the renowned sage and Siddha Agastya, about

Content: the entire history of life in the universe. They were recorded

Content: when the rishis had access to the Akashic Records, and

Content: wrote down what they saw was happening in the grand

Content: scheme of the universe.

Content: This particular nadi reading referring to The Avatar was spontaneously revealed (or revealed through divine intervention) to a disciple who had sought his own nadi reading. It must be mentioned here that this particular disciple was a resident of New Zealand and was a complete stranger to the nadi readers.

Content: The original nadi is in Tamil.

Content: Jeeva nadi - Nadi reading is an ancient palm leaf reading where the thumb impression of the person seeking his past, present or future leads to picking of a palm leaf from an already available set of palm leaves written by the ancient sages like Agastya. The picked palm leaf is read out to the person. Jeeva Nadi is a special palm leaf reading that does not require the thumb impression of the person seeking the nadi and the text appears spontaneously in response to a person's query.

Content: jeeVa nadí of the avatar

Content: பாதிமதி சடையதனில் தரித்தவிசா மார்வலிக்கு பதியாக அமர்ந்தநதா நிதியபதை நிலையாக கொண் டேவா நித்யானந்த குலமக்களுக்கு அகத்தியன்யான

Content: To the Ishvara who wears the half-moon in His Jata (matted locks), The Lord who sits as Parvati's consort The Lord whose state is justice For the Nithyananda sangha Me, Agastya

Content: அகத்தியன்யான் சப்தரிசிகளும் பதினெண் சித்தர்களும் அழுநிகழ்நோம் ரிஷமுனி அருளினை செம்மையாக நித்யானந்த இதுதனமே சுற்றிநே பரிவாக்கும் சத்தியமாக்க

Content: Me, Agastya, the seven Rishis and the eighteen Siddhas Will now reveal the divine prediction for Paramahamsa Nithyananda, who protects the world, at this time, to protect the truth surrounding Him

Content: சத்தியமான தவரினி உலகமக்கள் சன்மார்க்க வழிநின்ற வாழ்வதற்க இதுவலகில் உள்ளமையான போதனைகள் இனையெலாம் குறித்து நிறுத்துவ பரிசத்தவாழ்வு

Content: Truthful Supreme Rishi To help people live the path of righteousness He gives truthful lessons to the world Not even an iota of wrong A life of purity

Content: Goutama

Content: Bharadwaja

Content: Vishwamitra

Content: Kashyapa

Content: Jamadagni

Content: Vasistha

Content: Atri

Content: வாழ்க்கென்ற பரமகம்சர் தன்மக்கனுக்கு வழிகாட்டும் தர்மவழி காட்டியதார் தாழ்வில்லா முழுமுத்தி தேவர்களும் தவரிசையை சுற்றிபே யாவதாரத்துள்

Content: அவதாரத்துள் ஆனந்தானந்த வ ரூட வசனக அளுங்கினும் சத்துருணிம் மாளிர்க்கு பாவியினி யோக்கியப் புண்ணியகளோர்க்கி பரமகம்ச இறைகாட்சி ஆன்மாதெளிவு

Content: Agathiyar Bhogar Gorakkar Kailasanathar Sattai Nathar Thirumoolar Nandi Devar Koonkanar Konganavar

Content: தெளிவுட செய்துயே மக்களுக்கு தெளிவட்டாத பேரின்ப அளித்தார்ப்பா நாளெல்லாம் கடந்துநந்த நித்யானந்தர் ஞானத்தின் அருள்நோதி ஆதிசிவமே

Content: சிவலேசை அவதரிதாப் பிற்படவெட்டு சர்வசேலேக சங்காரியாப் வியாபித்தென்று புலிக்கும் ராஜகுருவின் அஃறித்தபரம்தயாப் பதஞ்சலி நந்ததேவர் சிவவாக்கியரும்

Content: சிவமான மச்சமுனி கமலமுனிவர் சட்டைநாதர் போகரும் புலிப்பாணி சித்தர் தவம்கெழாத் தவன்வந்த சிவரூபமும் தவத்தொடு கோரக்கர் கொங்கணரும்

Content: Matsyamuni Vasamuni Kurmamuni Kamalamuni Idaikadar Punakesar Sundaraandar Uromarishi Brahmamuni

Content: கொங்கணவரும் பாம்பாட்டி பட்டினத்தார் சடையே நரதரும் ரோமரசியும் மங்களாம்ப அத்திரிமுனிவர் மரசியோடு மாளங்கன் மார்க்கணேடயன் காகபுசுண்டர்

Content: Along with Narada, Roma Rishi, The auspicious Atri Munivar, along with Mareechi, Malankan, Markandeyar, Kakabhusandar

Content: புசண் டருன் வசிஷ்டர் வால்மீகர் பூலோகத்தில் வியாக்ரமாவதார் பத்திரகிரியார் ரூடப்ஷோத கபிலவாயுடு நவக்கோடிசித்தர் என்றிணான்கு பபமக்கள் நிற்பகளித்தார்

Content: Along with Bhusandar, Vasishtar, Valmiki, The one in the earth - Vyakramavatar, Pattirakiriyar 9 crore Siddhas, who live with Shiva in Kailash, Merged in Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Content: ஆனந்தவம் இதுகாலம் உற்றிருக்க அகிலம்வாயும் நித்யானந்த குலம்களுக்கு மனக்கவலை மணச்சலனம் போக்கிடவே மாழுனி அகத்தியப்பான் அருள்பாபிப்பேன்

Content: He is living Blissful tapas in this world for To remove the worries in their mind and Disturbances/movements in their minds Me, Agastya the great Rishi is blessing

Content: சரவணவன் அவதரித்த நித்யானந்தர் உலகம்மைக்கக் வழுறித்த மக்களையே உன்னையப்பான் சிவதலைப்பே போத்துளுந்ததார்

Content: Nithyananda has incarnated as Sarvesvara To save the planet earth and show the way to the people He has come to teach the truths of Sadashivatva

Content: போத்தனையால் பாவிகளும் புண்ணியராவார் பதகோடி மக்களை நித்யானந்தரை நீதிபானந்த ஆனந்தமன்ட ர் நித்யானந்தத்தின் உண்மையை கண்டமக்கள்

Content: By His teaching even many sinners became virtuous, Many crores people became blissful Just by thinking about Him, they achieved bliss The people who have experienced the truth of bliss followed Him

Content: மக்களெலாம் பரமகச்சரை உலகுங்கிதும் மகசனல கதரக ரு பனதேந்திர

Content: People from all over the world Followed unblemished Nithyananda,

Content: கேட்கவேண்டும் நித்யானந்த மக்களிப்போ

Content: You should listen carefully:

Content: குவலையத்தில் நித்யானந்தர் பிறக்கும்முன்னே முன்னவே ஏழுகோடி மக்களையே மாநிலத்தில் பதிந்துது ஒருகோடி பேர்புத்து தன்னொடு ஏழுகோடி மக்களையும் தன்குடியின் ஒருகோடி மக்களையும் மக்களையும் பிறக்கச்செய்தார்

Content: In this world, before Nithyananda was born He made 3 crore people To be born in the world 7 crore people were born with Him After He was born he has invited 7 crore people to this world He made them to be born on this earth

Content: மதமெல்லாம் நித்யானந்தர் குலமேகத் தோற்றும் இக்காலம் சர்வசக்திகளும் பிறந்திருக்கிற இல்லோரும் நித்யானந்தரை வந்துசேர்வார்

Content: வந்துவே கோடிக்கள் பின்பற்றும் போது வளமாகும் நாட்டினும் சித்தர்களாசி இருந்திட நித்யானந்தரை போற்றிவாழ்வோம் ரடவ செந்தின் பரம்பம்சர் சரவேகசன்வரே

Content: Let us live this day worshiping Nithyananda As, Paramahamsa Sarveshwar is none other than Eesan (SHIVA)

Content: நாளெல்லாம் மக்களும் போற்றிவணங்கி நித்யானந்தரை கடவுளின்று சொல்வாருமக்கள்

Content: Agathiyan Bhogar Goraknath Kailasanatha Sattai Nathar Thirumoolar Nandi Devar Koonkanar Konganavar

Content: மக்களெல்லாம் நித்யானந்தர் மாலையணிந்து மகிழ்வே போற்றிவணங்கும் காலம்தன்னில் அனைகலும் நித்யானந்தர் மரபின்தோய்யப் அருள்பெற்ற இவ்வகுத் அகத்தியன்சொல்லை

Content: சொல்லினைகள் முற்றிலும் கேட் கவேனும் சிவனெனுளான் உ.லககக்க நிதியானந்தவருவில் பலாக்கோடி சித்தர்களின் தவப்பயனால் பரமசிவன் பரமகுருவாய் வந்திருக்கிறார்

Content: ஆகவே உலகையிர்களெல்லாம் அவர்த யிரே அவிலைப்களெல்லாம் தன் மக்களாக செக்துருவாய் குத்தசிவனாய் சிவா சொல்லிய சந்திரனைய் வாழ்கின்றார்

Content: வாழ்கின்ற நித்யானந்தர் குற்றுமில்லா வரம்பெற்ற ஆதிசிவம் அருள்நினமகள்

Content: Matsyamuni Vasamuni Kurmamuni Kamalamuni Idaikadar Punakesar Sundaraandar Uromarishi Brahmamuni

Content: a blessing of many lifetimes

Content: MY MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS Yellammal and Raju Mudaliar

Content: My maternal grandfather and grandmother prayed for their favorite deities to be born

Content: I had always heard that when my mother was carrying me, every day my grandfather would go to Arunachaleshwara temple and pray that Shiva should be born to him as a grandchild.

Content: But recently my mother told me that my grandmother used to pray every day that Devi Meenakshi should be born to her as a grandchild!

Content: So, here I am!

Content: The timing was ideal for a female child’s birth

Content: It was the Tamil month of Margazhi (January 1978) on the chitra nakshatra (star). The important aspect of My horoscope is: chitra nakshatra, kanni rasi, kanni lagnam. Those of you who know astrology will know that for this combination, only a girl child can be born. Because it was a body that was beyond male and female, at a time suitable for a girl child, a male body was born!

Content: My mother experienced Enlightenment when I was born

Content: One more important thing: when an enlightened soul, enlightened Consciousness, lands on the body, for those three kshanās, three moments, the mother who is giving birth becomes enlightened. She gets the sātorī experience. This happened with Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi’s

Content: mothers. Even with My own mother, when I saw her energy, I saw very clearly, she had the Enlightenment experience when I took birth.

Content: Swami Amma speaks on the conception and delivery

Content: As if in response to His grandparents’ prayers, The Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda came down with the bio-memory of both Arunachaleshwara and Meenakshi. Their prayers actually reflected the yearning of the entire humanity - itself another sweet leela of the Cosmos! His mother, however, did not pray to any god or goddess to come as her child. In a rare interview, Ma Nithya Lokanayakananda, The Avatar’s biological mother and now His initiated sanyāsi disciple, lovingly called ‘Swami Amma’ by His other disciples, remembers the details of her pregnancy… a momentous period in the purana (epic history) of The Avatar!

Content: MY PARENTS

Content: Arunachalam and Lokanayaki

Content: MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE

Content: Kanni Kovil Street (now called Raja Rajan Street), Tiruvannamalai

Content: Question: Did you plan for the second child, Amma?

Content: Swami Amma: We never planned that way. Nowadays people say they want a child, or they don't want a child. Nothing like that. Just like that, in regular life, we conceived. We never thought we want or we don't want; it just happened.

Content: My parents were planning to go to Tirupati, so my husband, my first son Senthil (the Avatar's elder brother), my paatti (grandmother) and some others, all went as a group. We went to seven or eight temples. We went to Kalahasti and Kanchipuram also. It was a one-week trip. We went around the Tirupati hill, and early in the morning, we did angapradakshinam (circumambulating the temple with the entire body, by rolling on the ground). My husband and I also did that. I had bouts of vomiting after that. Then I got a doubt - because I had missed my periods that month. It was confirmed that I had conceived.

Content: Everything was normal. I continued my routine life. It was normal for nine months, and after that I went to the hospital for the delivery.

Content: Question: Can you tell us about your delivery pain and how it started?

Content: Swami Amma: When the pain started, it was a slight pain. The time was evening, around 6.30 p.m. My mother had gone for a condolence visit due to a death in my neighborhood. I neglected my mild pain, and I was cooking rice, making coffee, and distributing to everybody.

Content: When my mother came back, she looked at my face she said, 'Your face was looking fine when I left, but now it looks different.' I said, 'I had mild pain, but I am doing some work.'

Content: In those days, they would not take you to the hospital when you have only a slight pain. They would touch your crown of the head, and if you had sweat on your forehead, then they would take you to the hospital! She said, 'Do not do any work', and she went in for her bath. Then we went to the hospital around 9.30 or 10.00 p.m.

Content: Question: Who else went with you to the hospital?

Content: Swami Amma: In those days they would say that the mother should not come to the hospital with the pregnant daughter, so two neighbors came with me. After that my mother, my husband, everybody came immediately. I was in my mother-in-law's house for eight months of my pregnancy, and in the beginning of the ninth month, I came to my mother's house.

Content: Question: Was the delivery smooth?

Content: Swami Amma: Yes, the delivery was smooth. The baby was really big! The nurses and doctors asked me, 'Didn't you eat anything other than Horlicks?' The baby was so big! They said that the baby was so chubby, beautiful, fair, and looked like a baby from a healthy family. I had a normal delivery and I was discharged from the hospital in five days. We came home.

Content: I was in my parents' home for three months. I was doing all the routine work. I never expected anybody else to do my work. I was normal. I would do all the work. My mother used to say that for nine days, I should not do anything, so from the tenth day I started doing work. I would fold clothes, help the children comb their hair, help in cleaning the vegetables, etc. I would help in the cleaning work and my mother would do the kitchen work. Then I went back to my mother-in-law's house on Tiruvoodal street.

Content: Question: How was the naming ceremony?

Content: Swami Amma: On the ninth day, the priest came and did all the rituals. We both decided on the name of the child. My husband was fond of my father and he wanted to name the child after him. I liked the name Shekar. Since my father's name is Raja Mudaliar, we combined both the names and gave the name 'Rajashekar'.

Content: Question: What did the astrologer say?

Content: Swami Amma: My husband's brother showed him the baby's horoscope, and the astrologer told that he will become a Swami (a monk).

Content: GOVERNMENT TIRUVANNAMALAI MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL II The hospital in Tiruvannamalai where I was delivered

Content: ஆதியும் ஆதுமலை அன்று இருவர் தேடுமலை சோதிமதி ஆடு அவம் சூடுமலை - நீதி தழைக்குமலை ஞானத் தபோதனரை வான்று அழைக்குமலை அண்ணா மலை

Content: Aadhi nadam adumalai andriruar thedumalai jyothimathi adaravam soodumalai - neethi Tazhaikkumalai jnanathabothanarai Vaavendrazhaikku malai Annamalai!

Content: Annamalai Venba (Verse 1) by Guru Namasivayar

Content: Mountain that is dancing the primal dance (Shiva tandava)

Content: Mountain which the two were seeking (Brahma and Vishnu)

Content: Mountain that the moon and serpent are adorning

Content: Mountain where cosmic law flourishes

Content: Mountain that pulls incarnations and enlightened beings

Content: Annamalai!

Content: the pull of arunachala

Content: Arunachala is a spiritual airport and incubator for incarnations.

Content: Understand deeply: this mountain is not an ordinary mountain. If we keep a receiving station, it will receive any type of wave or signal right? Like that, this sacred place is the place that pulls incarnations. It not only pulls incarnations from this place; wherever they might be, it will pull them! It has that power. This mountain is the spiritual incubator created by our ancestors.

Content: When a baby is born prematurely, they place the baby in an incubator. The incubator has the same temperature as the mother's womb. They give the baby food in it. The incubator takes complete care of the baby. Only if that incubator is there, the baby can become healthy. Like that, for an incarnation to descend and settle in the human body, the spiritual incubator is what is Tiruvannamalai. Our ancestors have done this for incarnations to descend and settle in the body. It is like an airport.

Content: In an airport, can the flight directly land and halt? You need a runway, right? In the same way, when the formless Existence descends into a human form, it descends like the Ganga; like a thunderbolt! It has to descend, apply the brakes and settle with the body. Tiruvannamalai is the runway for that. It is the spiritual runway, spiritual airport. It is the spiritual airport created for incarnations to descend. Not only that, it is a strong attraction..!

Content: ARUNACHALA

Content: Tiruvannamalai

Content: My birth as I see it

Content: Swami Amma, profoundly innocent as she is, did not know that all the gods and goddesses in Devaloka, including Vishnu and Brahma themselves, were looking upon Earth from the heavenly skies. 1978 marked the end of negativity once and for all. All the accumulated suffering and calamities that had happened since the end of the era of the Krishna Avatara were destined to evaporate. The entire universe rejoiced as Sadashiva descended from Kailasha in all His grandeur, for yet another leela on planet Earth! All the gandharvas, munis, rishis, and even the asuras and dwellers of the netherworlds, were all watching, waiting eagerly for the birth of The Avatar of Sadashiva, who would be called Paramahamsa Nityananda.

Content: When I talk about My birth and life, I do not know at all how I am going to express Myself. I do not know how IT is going to express Itself..! I too can only bow down to that energy, and along with you all, allow that Energy to work the way It wants to.

Content: I entered into that light in the form of a brilliant meteor

Content: It was neither dark nor light-filled; an indeterminate color covered planet Earth.

Content: Suddenly, a bright light appeared from a region, which I now see as Southern India. At that time I did not know where it was. Borders are what we draw. Where is there border in the Cosmos?

Content: I entered into that light in the form of a brilliant meteor.

Content: The very next sight that I perceived with my inner eye was Arunachala, and I knew that I had assumed the body once more. I had entered the womb of My mother. It was a conscious birth.

Content: I took a muhurta, which is a period of about 45 minutes in the Hindu system of time measurement, to settle into the body.

Content: I remember how I took this body, this form...

Content: I always felt I took birth, or I took the body, because of the attraction, the pull, that Arunachala hill has for enlightened beings. There is a very beautiful verse in Tamil which refers to Arunachala as the hill which attracts enlightened beings around it. The hill is especially revered for attracting enlightened beings, not only from this planet Earth, but even from other planets. Even from other, different spaces, it can attract and pull the enlightened beings to planet Earth.

Content: I never took the hill for granted. It was an 'ever-living presence'.

Content: People ask me, "What is the difference between God in the Himalayas and God in Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai)?" In the Himalayas, He lives. In Tiruvannamalai, the mountain itself is God! There, it is the house; here, it is the person himself, the very form. There is a difference between the two. "Velli malai veruthathale than ga malaikku vanthaaraam!" Because he got tired of the silver hill, he came to the golden hill! Himalayas, Kailash, is Velli malai - silver hill; Tiruvannamalai is than ga malai - golden hill!

Content: The moment of assuming the body

Content: I will describe exactly what happened.

Content: Understand: if I present one dimension, another dimension stands pending! If I present another dimension, one more dimension becomes pending! I want to present the birth in two or three dimensions, but the moment I present it from one dimension, your understanding is able to receive only that much. Anyhow...!

Content: Listen: usually, when we die, we take the next human body within three kshanas. Kshana is the gap between one thought and the next thought. If you have lived a very calm life, your kshana might be even a hundred years. If you lived a life of restlessness, then one kshana can be just microseconds. In one second, even a thousands of thoughts come and go! That is what happens.

Content: Let me tell you exactly how it happened.

Content: When you sleep and get up, as soon as you wake up, you will be able to tell what happened during the night, and what was the first thought that came to you when you woke up, right? Everyone will be able to tell that. Just like how you will be able to tell the first thought that came to you when moving from sleep to waking state, I am able to tell what happened when I moved from the previous death to the present birth. The reason is, I have more awareness, that's all! There is nothing mystical in this. You have enough awareness to tell what happened while moving from sleep to waking state. My awareness is such, I can tell what happened when moving from death to birth.

Content: TIRUVANNAMALAI TEMPLE TOWN

Content: First, there was a vision. It was like I had slept and woken up. This birth is actually like you slept and woke up! First, I could see a world where darkness covered darkness. Then I saw in South India, Arunachala, and the light on top of it. The next thing, the third thing... I took the body! The reflection on planet Earth happened!

Content: Understand deeply: there was no pain or suffering or loss of memory. You all cannot recall the scene of your taking birth. There is no memory there. The moment you enter the mother's womb, the past memories get disconnected. For Me, that does not happen. When you wake up from sleep, are the dreams disconnected, or are the previous day's happenings disconnected? No! In the same way, without loss of memory, and without going to the coma stage, it happens with full awareness.

Content: With that awareness, first let me tell you what exactly happened. After that I will tell you the interpretation, the significance. Understand: I saw three slides. The first slide: a world where darkness covered darkness; I saw the Cosmos. The second slide: Tiruvannamalai mountain and the light; I saw it at 11.45 p.m. At that moment itself, I took the body, but for the delivery to happen, and for My mother to see Me, it took till 12.32 p.m. It has taken one kshana - around 45 minutes. It means that the mind was so peaceful, that one kshana was 45 minutes; it was peaceful without the next thought coming in.

Content: I saw very clearly that in all the three states - waking state, dream or sleep, it was like as if I was in the normal, awake state, and I entered the body just sitting in that state! This is fundamentally My birth. What you need to understand deeply about birth is, if you are without samskaras (engraved memories), if your nadi (energy channels) or kshana is broad, you can be born in a very simple, easy way, with awareness. This is what they call conscious birth.

Content: Next, I saw very clearly, suddenly a light ball, whatever I feel as 'Me', landed into My mother's umbilical cord. When I landed, when that light ball landed, already My body was out of My mother's womb. Maybe I can put it in this way: the umbilical cord had stretched to the extent that the necessity to be in the mother's womb was no more. I do not know whether I was physically out or not; the umbilical cord had become so stiff that the necessity to be in My mother's womb was not there anymore. So I remember very clearly, I landed only on the umbilical cord; then I just saw that I had a body, and immediately I had the vision of Arunachala! That is all that exactly happened.

Content: I don't know exactly when My physical eyes opened, or when I physically happened on the planet Earth... meaning, the physical identification of the exact physical time, chronological time, I am not able to scan... because, as per the medical understanding, when there is no necessity to be in the mother's womb, the child comes out of the body and the umbilical cord is disconnected. I am saying that I was already out of My mother's womb. But when I scan inside, from the spiritual experience I don't have any verification about whether My body was already out of My mother's womb or not, when I landed. I only felt that the necessity to be in My mother's womb was not there. It was at that moment, that light just hit My mother's umbilical cord and assumed this body.

Content: From that moment, I know this body is there, which happened out of that light, that intense light. If I describe it, maybe I can say it was a light ball or something like that. Whenever I fall asleep, I fall into that only. Whenever I fall into samadhi, I fall into that's all. All other superficial things that happen, like jagrat (waking state), swapna (dream state), and sushupti (deep sleep state) are only superficial. That is why all those three do not make any difference in this body.

Content: ARUNACHALA PATH AND TIRUVANNAMALAI TRIPLE TOWER

Content: The date and time (as measured in bhuloka - planet Earth)

Content: My mother told Me that My maternal grandfather went to the temple that day and brought back prasad (food offered to the deity in the temple) and gave it to her. She ate that prasad, and in a few hours, the labor pain started. The moment Annamalaiyar’s prasad went in, she had the labor pain! They went to the doctor. Without any trouble, the baby was born.

Content: From Amma’s side, whatever she says is the fact that happened outside. We will compare the fact and the truth, and see deeply. As per her, it was at night, at around 12.32 a.m. As per My experience, it is 11.45 p.m. It has taken 42 minutes settle in the body and come out. One kshana has taken 42 minutes - almost equal to a muhurta (48 minutes).

Content: Another way is from the mother’s side - the fact. If you see from that side, it is at 12.32 a.m. that the delivery has happened (In the year 1978, in the Tamil month of Margazhi, on the star - chitra nakshatra, kanni rasi, kanni lagnam). It was a normal delivery without any pain. Only thing, the baby was really big! Doctors thought it was going to be twins!

Content: My mother said that I was ten pounds in weight. Indian village mothers can never imagine delivering a ten-pound child, because usually Indian village mothers are malnourished - and I was not born in a very rich family, I was born in a middle-class family - and there was no special pregnancy care given to My mother. My mother said she felt as if I was inside for five years! The body was mature, equivalent to a three-year old child - just like Meenakshi, who was never born, but had directly walked out of a sacred fire ritual as a three-year-old girl.

Content: My mother says I never ever cried as well.

Content: 1979 | ME As a one-year-old

Content: the happening

Content: The advent of The Avatar is the greatest happening in the universe. Every single being, every single individual consciousness which is in the body while He is in the body is blessed, because each has the possibility of meeting Him. Every single being which is even only able to get a glimpse of Him is even more blessed, because upon death, just the power of that glimpse can push you past all your current suffering to choose the life of seeking in the next birth. Above all, if you are able to interact with The Avatar, live around Him and imbibe Him, you are truly the most blessed being of all on planet Earth, because it is possible that you will finally realize the Ultimate and become enlightened in this very life.

Content: In many people's biographies, only after the organization forms, the biography is written. There are be many insertions and so on; it develops as it goes. It is written from the angle of the organization. From the angle of what they want to tell, the biography is be rewritten. It is a rethinking process.

Content: But Mine cannot be done like that! There are records that I have written at age 10. There are photos taken at age 10. Not only that, there are witnesses who have seen it. I am not narrating it after it has happened; I have written the script already, and I am executing it! So I can tell whatever happened with courage. All the witnesses can also listen to it.

Content: Even in My autobiography, when I say I became enlightened, it is only for you to understand. Otherwise, I am very clear: I was like this from birth, from the moment I entered the body. I can see very clearly how I entered the body, and how I started moving the body. The whole thing is written on Me, like on a screen. I can see anything written on the screen. If the screen is alive, it can see anything projected on it. The screen very clearly feels everything.

Content: Even during birth, the whole thing was known to Me. See, at that point, I became the screen; I realized I am a screen on which the whole thing is being projected. So, for you to understand, I say I took birth, I became enlightened, and all that... but I very clearly feel that when I took birth itself, if I had a body which could talk, I would have spoken what I am speaking now very clearly, the same way. So, it is not 'evolved knowledge'; it is avimukta vijnana (knowledge that is never forgotten).

Content: My vision is My integrity

Content: Making advaita the root cognition in every field on planet Earth is My mission, for which I landed in this body, for which I assumed the human body. I will do this mission! This is the purpose of My birth.

Content: When I assumed My body, I was very clearly planning - what is the real knowledge or the essence we need to carry? See, when you go for a trip or tour, you know the purpose, and you pack based on that. If it is trekking, you pack trekking shoes and all those things. If it is spiritual tourism, you pack the things necessary for that. For every kind of tourism, you pack the things which are required. Before landing, I saw very clearly the need of planet Earth that I need to pack: I saw very clearly that it is love and consciousness, nothing else! Planet Earth does not need intelligence to create infrastructure. It needs a little more consciousness and love in the hearts of the decision makers. When I landed, I saw very clearly: now humanity needs only one thing - inner awakening.

Content: You think we don’t have wealth. You think we don’t have intelligence. No. We just don’t have love. It is love, and a sense of responsibility for poverty and suffering on the planet Earth that we lack, not infrastructure.

Content: I tell you: humanity has reached the fulfillment of outer infrastructure before January 1978. Only after that, I landed on the planet. I am not making up any stories or jokes. Humanity has reached whatever is necessary for the outer world fulfillment at least two centuries before My advent or birth.

Content: Now I tell you: I brought enough of power and energy to planet Earth when I landed, to put a safety net for all you people. Understand, it is not out of pride or anything, but I have to tell you: I am an avatara purusha with the tremendous energy to create a net for all of you.

Content: So be very clear, just live this dharma; you will never fall, you will only fly. Even if you fall, My net is there to take care of you. With the authority that I am an incarnation who landed on the planet Earth to give this great science to all of you, I give you all the ultimate security: just relax. I will take care.

Content: AMMANI AMMAN TEMPLE TOWER OF ARUNACHALESHWARA TEMPLE

Content: North-facing tower

Content: Tiruvannamalai

Content: I give you all abhaya

Content: I give you all the abhaya - protection. I have brought enough powers - in this very body which is talking to you - to be a net when you are flying! Nothing wrong can happen. You have heard this word directly from the Source. Nothing else needs to be done in your life. Remember, just live this truth. Even if you have created enough of mess already, and you are unclutching suddenly, I am taking responsibility for all the mess you created. I will take care.

Content: Remember me wherever you are; I will be there. I will be there. Just live this truth. I take all the responsibility. I am taking all the responsibility. Just live this truth. Everything else is taken care of. Just live this dharma.

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Content: Q: Beloved Swamiji, how does it feel to be an Avatar?

Content: How does it feel!

Content: It's like... morning... somewhere in Kailasa...

Content: then zooming out a few trillion miles

Content: away....you can't even equate it with any trillion

Content: miles... and then slowly opening the eyes and

Content: seeing, "Oh, Planet Earth, yes okay... India...

Content: Bengaluru... Aadheenam, the banyan tree is

Content: there, ahh.."

Content: (laughs)

Content: Okay, let Me put it in a precise few words; let

Content: me map it down to the language which you

Content: guys understand: the cognition of the whole

Content: Cosmos, Mahasadasiva, operating, using this

Content: body and mind and this system. This system

Content: knows only one thing - it is being used by the

Content: Cosmos. The Cosmos is going to do whatever it

Content: wants to do through this body and mind - and

Content: it will protect, take care of this body and mind,

Content: and manifest whatever is required whenever it

Content: is required.

Content: Because of this grounded cognition, this body

Content: and mind does not have the anxiety to know

Content: what is going to happen in the future. Only

Content: when you have anxiety, you feel, "What will

Content: happen in the future?" This body and mind

Content: does not have the anxiety to know what is

Content: going to happen in the future, so it does not

Content: even bother to look at what is going to happen

Content: in the future. It knows, "Sadāshiva is

Content: operating, and He is going to do what He

Content: needs to do, and He will protect."

Content: Understand. I am anxious about your future,

Content: so I look into what is going to happen to you in

Content: future. I am not bothered or anxious about My

Content: future, so I never look at what is going to

Content: happen in My future! For you, I use My powers,

Content: but never for Me. I know for sure that I have to

Content: protect you. For Me, I know - I am protected. It

Content: is a paradox of all-knowingness (sarvajñattva),

Content: and not knowing even the next step, because

Content: there is no anxiety!

Content: This paradox - or I should say, 'this union of

Content: man and God,' or in My own way, 'GODDeL

Content: and man' - the paradox of this, mixture of all

Content: this, is what precisely is - Nithyananda.

Content: Understand: I am a paradox for the people who

Content: can't understand, a union of all the paradoxes

Content: for the people who are able to grasp Me, the

Content: completion of God and man for those who try

Content: to receive something from Me, an Incarnation

Content: for the people who are manifesting powers

Content: through Me, and the Ultimate for the people

Content: who are feeling completely empowered by Me.

Content: Whatever the other's image posed on Me,

Content: imposed on Me or superimposed on Me, the

Content: precise inner image I feel and the outer image I

Content: wanted to project is all of these words - plus a huge

Content: component which cannot be verbalized! The roar

Content: or the hair or the big-big eyes or the huge teeth -

Content: all these can be descriptions of the lion by others;

Content: it can only be other's image of the lion. What lion

Content: feels as lion - how can it be described?! I can go on

Content: and on and on! To be sincere and integrated, it is

Content: the Universe, Para, the Ultimate, operating

Content: through this body. That's it.

Content: GODDeL - The Avatar's definition of God as per the Hindu scriptures, who performs the panchaḳṛtya (five sacred Cosmic acts)

Content: of Generation, Operation, Destruction, Delusion and Liberation.

Content: the avatar

Content: 1979 | MY PARENTS, MY YOUNGER BROTHER AND ME

Content: I am standing in front of My father

Content: 1979 | MY PARENTS, MY YOUNGER BROTHER AND ME

Content: I am sitting in front of My mother

Content: 67

Content: TIRUVOODAL STREET

Content: Where I used to live. If you come out of My house, you will see this exact view.

Content: 69

Content: 1979-1980

Content: Leela of

Content: devotion

Content: Chapter 3

Content: ARUNACHALESHWARA TEMPLE

Content: Raja Gopuram - East-facing temple tower, 135 feet tall

Content: What happens in the multiverse most often goes unnoticed by our meager human eyes. Planets collide into each other. A loophole from one dimension to the other suddenly opens. A gigantic star implodes and creates an enormous gravitational pull, sucking any matter that surrounds it into its depths. These cosmic happenings only show up on our radar as a microscopic blink - and what's more, we only come to know about them thousands, or perhaps millions, of years after they take place.

Content: It is only by chance that we even realize that somewhere, something phenomenal has actually happened. Then, just for one chilling moment, we grasp the enormity of this grand universe.

Content: The happening of The Avatar on planet Earth is such an event - except that it is a million, trillion, times more impactful and meaningful for the universe. While a black hole emerging might be irrelevant in the grand scheme of our lives, the advent of The Avatar is directly relevant to every single form of life. Through the eleven dimensions, the Cosmos itself, the pure Consciousness, accepts a human body to interact with the most advanced form of life, and raise life itself to the next level.

Content: Therefore, the moment of recognition of this grand event is proportionally more profound. The beings who understand the significance of The Avatar buzz with excitement. Bhudevi, Mother Earth herself, rejoices that the feet of her beloved Father, from whom she came, are gracing her surface.

Content: All of life that understands the Happening, relishes this momentous occasion, and vibrates with the single sentiment that The Avatar Himself reverberates with upon

Content: His arrival on Planet Earth:

Content: Celebrate!

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Content: Why do we worship deities?

Content: Worship 'through' the deity

Content: In Hinduism, we have over three crore

Content: (thirty million) deities that have a history

Content: and following of their own. On a daily basis,

Content: they are worshipped in temples all over

Content: India. Every family and every community

Content: has a separate deity that has been

Content: worshipped for generations. Every concept,

Content: every theory, every energy has a deity. For

Content: example, each of the nine planets has its

Content: own presiding deity, as well as each of the

Content: constellations. Hinduism is a religion that

Content: recognizes the divinity in everything on

Content: planet Earth. Even the milestones placed on

Content: highways by the British in India during the

Content: 1800s were worshipped as Shiva lingas

Content: (symbolic forms of the Hindu God, Shiva) in

Content: the rural parts of India, and decorated with

Content: traditional garments and turmeric paste!

Content: The concept of many gods unique to the

Content: Vedic tradition stems from this view that

Content: everything in the world, including oneself, is

Content: a worthy vessel for the Divine energy. To

Content: commune directly with the energy is not

Content: easy for the average human mind, but to

Content: connect to it through a beloved form is a joy

Content: for the devotee. The thirty million deities

Content: that make up the Hindu pantheon of gods

Content: symbolize this very idea: that the Divine can

Content: be worshipped and attained through any

Content: desired form. When the Hindu worships his

Content: ishta devata - chosen deity - he is not

Content: worshipping the idol itself; rather, he is in

Content: direct communion with the Divine energy

Content: expressing through that idol - a subtle truth

Content: that many miss, and therefore condemn the

Content: worship of idols in the Vedic tradition.

Content: Hinduism is an inclusive religion, open to all

Content: who walk in; there is no exclusivity of beliefs

Content: in Hindu philosophy. It is a journey of

Content: inclusive acceptance, not a destination of

Content: exclusive belief. There is a plethora of deities,

Content: but if we don't find one we connect with, we

Content: are welcome to create our own. Whatever we

Content: feel as God, we can build a temple for it!

Content: Jeeva, agat, Ishvara

Content: The concepts of jeeva, jagat and Ishvara

Content: play a role in deity worship as well. While

Content: the jeeva remains, you, 'the self', Ishvara is

Content: what you want to become - God. Jagat - the

Content: world - is how you will make what you want

Content: into reality. These concepts recognize the

Content: natural inner ambition that we feel to

Content: expand, grow and become our highest

Content: reality. When we worship Sadashiva (Lord

Content: Shiva), we accept that He is our highest

Content: reality. He is what we want to become. Since

Content: the beginning, in order to fulfill this

Content: ambition, we created temples and temple-

Content: based communities. As Bhagavan

Content: describes, to maintain the

Content: Arunachaleshwara Temple and

Content: environment, the citizens formed sixteen

Content: communities, each community taking one

Content: responsibility through which their

Content: connection to the Divine thrived. In the

Content: same way, people gravitated toward

Content: temples all over India and created a

Content: beautiful civilization that was engineered

Content: for enlightenment right from the beginning.

Content: A typical South Indian temple tower featuring the many deities of Hinduism

Content: consecration of deities

Content: PRANA PRATISHTA

Content: I am doing the prana pratishta process for Ganesha during the Ganesh brahmotsav celebrations on 28 September 2016, Bengaluru Aadheenam

Content: Deities, therefore, are integral to the Hindu lifestyle. Our enlightened Gurus and Avatars who continue to happen in India energize deities through a process called prana pratishta. While priests can conduct only the ‘mantra pratishta’- energizing deities through the chanting of mantras (sacred verses), only enlightened beings can perform the prana pratishta, which literally means ‘infusing life breath into the deity’. In the biggest temples, all over India, it was always only an enlightened being who installed the energy in that temple. Temples are monuments of spiritual liberation, and among the ultimate achievements Hindus accomplished as a result of eons of journeying within.

Content: The energies of an ordinary human being get exhausted whenever they are repeatedly expressed. For example, grief or joy exhausts itself when expressed through tears; pitta (the fire element in the body) exhausts itself through anger; lust exhausts itself through the sex act; the power of speech exhausts itself in the very saliva, the moment words are uttered. All these energies of expression become exhausted as soon as one uses them.

Content: Avatars do not need a body to execute their work, they can continue to do the things they do, even after they leave their physical body. The sanctums and deities created and energized by them radiate inexhaustible energy, which nurtures everybody who seeks it.

Content: Once the prana pratishta has been performed, the deity is a living, independent intelligence; not stone, five-metal, or marble. The deities are living, like human beings; only more so! Therefore, when we offer puja, abhisheka (sacred bath) or conduct the marriages of deities, we are not worshipping mere stone: We are worshipping ‘through’ the stone - worshipping the Cosmic energy that exists beyond it. The deity is a beautiful way to connect to that energy, and create a sweet divine space inside us called bhaava samadhi. Devotion is this sweet space that is alive and develops between you and the deity.

Content: There are thousands of miracles which show that this process is not simply a sacred sentiment; it is scientific and real. Deities are living entities who talk, eat and respond just like we do. Ganesha drinks milk in temples all over the world. Mahakaleshwar in Ujjain accepts your offering of alcohol by drinking it when you keep it near his mouth. In Udupi, Krishna turns his entire body in order to give darshan to a sincere devotee. Devi reduces her height so that she will fit through the wooden door when the priests take her out of the garba mandir (sanctum sanctorum). You can hear the anklets of Devi Meenakshi in Madurai and the anklets of Nataraja in Chidambaram!

Content: puja practice is the key

Content: As Bhagavan Paramahamsa Nithyananda says, “Puja is the ultimate shaktipada process.” Shaktipada is an energy-filled space of Oneness that you experience with the cosmos through a physical form, either with the form of your Guru or a deity. Ultimately, your prayers and worship are not a bargaining method with the Divine. Even when you pray, you need to recognize and celebrate the fact that you are divine.

Content: We are all divine. We are all the expression of the universal energy. Whether or not you accept Hinduism as your faith, the truth is that divinity is your true nature. We manifest our reality out of the cognitions that we have about ourselves, the world around us, and life in general. Whether you manifest a lower reality or the ultimate reality of being Sadashiva: you are the Ultimate, because it is YOU who manifest, and not because of what you manifest.

Content: In the Agamas, as revealed by Sadashiva Himself, practice is the key. As we saw before, The Avatar compares the Veda-Agamas to an electric circuit: you cannot understand the electric circuit just by the on-off switch. It is convenient when the on-off switch is working, but what happens when it is not? You must know the entire electric circuit. In the same way, we must practice everything prescribed by Sadashiva in the Agamas, so that we can experience Oneness and shaktipada with him. Puja and worship is that entire circuit. Following yogic practices,

Content: offering puja, listening to the great truths in Hindu scriptures and living them with integrity - all of these are daily disciplines that Sadashiva reveals as necessary for enlightenment. This, in essence, is why we offer deity worship.

Content: The devotion that is a result of this, is the perfect gift from the Divine. Devotion blossoms like a flower from within, and from the flower, nectar oozes. It is sweetness multifold. By chanting the words that invoke Sadashiva and merging with the energy of Sadashiva ourselves, puja is offered to the Divine from this space of Oneness. It is the ultimate process that starts our whole day off in bliss.

Content: The right foundation

Content: It is with this foundation in His very blood and ancestry that Paramahamsa Nithyananda began His life on planet Earth. Puja, deity worship and devotion to Sadashiva were the pillars on which Bhagavan built His whole life, setting an example for the entire civilization of Nithyananda Yogis that was to come after Him.

Content: From the time He remembers His life on the planet, Bhagavan remembers being around the temple with deities and puja.

Content: The young Avatar went to the temple every day, riding on His grandfather’s shoulders. It was here that He listened to the Hindu Puranas (Hindu narratives of actual happenings in the universe) for the first time. Raju Mudaliar would narrate stories of Prahlada, Markandeya, Nachiketa and Dhruva, child heroes from the Puranas of Hinduism.

Content: It was with the same devotion that Raju Mudaliar performed his puja, and took the young Avatar to the temple every single day. He adored his grandson, and knew that He was no ordinary child. He did not take Him to the temple to teach Him the culture and stories from His heritage. He took Him to the temple because he knew that was where God belonged. Bhagavan remembers these trips fondly even today.

Content: PUJA

Content: Everyday morning, people from around the world offer puja as part of their morning routine

Content: TIRUMANJANA GOPURAM

Content: South-facing temple tower of Arunachaleshwara temple.

Content: This is the road we would take to enter the temple going from My grandfather's house

Content: My grandfather was My first guru

Content: MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER

Content: Raju Mudaliar

Content: He told Me stories from the temple pillars

Content: When I was just three, My grandfather would carry Me on his shoulders to the

Content: Arunachaleshwara Temple. He would take Me around the temple and tell Me all the

Content: great epic stories - Puranas. I was fortunate enough to have such an amazing person as

Content: My grandfather. I still remember him holding Me on his shoulders. He would take Me

Content: to every pillar in the Tiruvannamalai Temple and explain the stories of the figures

Content: carved on them. Some of the great stories I heard from his own mouth are:

Content: Markandeya, the great Saint Kannappa, Nachiketa and Bhakta Prahlada. I am going to

Content: honor all those stone pillars by replicating them in the Bidadi temple, with a statue of

Content: My grandfather carrying Me on his shoulder and showing all those and explaining!

Content: Thanks to the time he spent with Me, explaining all those beautiful ideals, even before I

Content: entered the human society. What an amazing preparation he did!

Content: 83

Content: THE TEMPLE PILLARS

Content: These are the very pillar-depictions my grandfather pointed out and narrated stories about

Content: I still remember: when I went back home, I would have to repeat the whole story to My family. That was the way I was trained as a speaker! Apart from speaking, it was also that these great ideas were getting into My system. Before the age of three I started giving satsangs (discourses)! Now I am revealing to you one of the important truths: never have I read any great Puranas! I would simply start narrating the story! Later on, when I got the chance to read the book, I would see that it is exactly right! Whether it is stories of temples or people, I would simply start telling the story. But later on, when I got the chance to read the book, when I read, it would be exactly the same, verbatim!

Content: He taught consciousness, not conscience

Content: I am so happy that I was born in such an atmosphere and brought up with these great ideas. At such a young age, all these great ideas and truths were put inside Me.

Content: Somehow the Eastern society, at least in the

Content: villages, not in the cities - the cities can't be called Eastern society - in the villages, you are not given morality; you are given truths. My grandfather used to explain things to Me in detail through the stories. Whenever you are made to understand, it doesn't remain as conscience - it becomes part of your being. But when it is given as a rule, it becomes mere conscience.

Content: Today nobody is there to talk to you; you are just given laws straightaway. Mother is busy in the office, father is busy with his job, and you are sitting here with laws, over! So, naturally, you will try to break them. Somehow, I was fortunate. My elders used to tell Me clear stories... what it is, what for it is done... it used to be an inspiration.

Content: Recently, we got a book that I used before My enlightenment, which was there with some of My friends. So many things I have written down in that book! When I read it, I was shocked at how

Content: ARUNACHALESHWARA TEMPLE

Content: Tiruvannamalai

Content: many people have inspired Me; in how many ways I derived inspiration! Throughout that book, I have not written a single moral. I have written many stories, with only inspiration, never laws. If you receive techniques, it will directly lead to consciousness. If you receive only instructions, it will lead to conscience. Teachings create consciousness; techniques create consciousness.

Content: He had such faith in his own body and mind

Content: Today, the whole world is contaminated by the idea that old age is retirement, and you destroy your body and mind with this. I tell you: My grandfather used to have such faith on his own body, mind and consciousness! In his whole life, he was hospitalized only twice. Such a hardworking man! Please understand: your body is actually a mechanism. What you cognize about your body, mind, and you is a mechanism. Whatever you cognize becomes reality. And I have seen the faith he had about himself. I am so thankful to him, because he took care that the idea of sickness never settled inside My system. By seeing him and living around him, health became My basic cognition.

Content: He was the only active earning member of the family. He had everything in his hand. But he did not own a car even till his death; such a simple personal life! And till the end, he used to say, "I will go walking and come back walking." Till his last breath, he had everything under his control, and gracefully exited.

Content: I learned how not to 'settle down' in life

Content: My mother's side is highly cultured. My grandfather was such a spiritual man. Even on the day he died (he was in his nineties), he did his puja, went to the hospital and died! I have never seen him miss his puja; cold, cough, family reasons, nothing will make him miss it. He went walking to his office in the morning, and attended to his daily office routine. Till the last day, he had the bunch of keys, meaning the control over the whole organization, which he built from the beginning. He came home from office one Saturday afternoon as usual by walk, felt uneasy and rested. They had to admit him in the hospital. He passed away on Monday. So literally, till the day he died, he attended office!

Content: When I saw My grandfather, My great-grandmother, all of them, I saw that the concept of 'settling down' never existed for them. It is good that I was brought up by them. Now, these modern-day IT people think, "I will work till forty and then retire. I will make money, buy a flat and a car, and settle down by forty." It means that even while they are studying, acquiring knowledge, the goal is just to acquire some comforts and luxury and drop out! This is the kind of inspiration they have about knowledge and life. Then, their knowledge will be so heavy on them. They will only try to constantly find cunning methods of how to know less and make more money, because the purpose becomes money, wealth, luxury, comfort. The purpose of being active or having knowledge should not be just acquiring some wealth, or luxury or comforts. I am not saying don't acquire. I am only saying that alone should not be the purpose.

Content: He taught Me not just integrity, but charity too My grandfather was a person of such charity. Every night, even if it was one o'clock, two o'clock in the night, only after signing the ledger and completing the accounts of the shop, he would go to bed. I learnt that habit from him. In those days, there was no computer; it was only in the notebook. And the most important thing was - he had a box. On that box, there would be a board called magamabandu. It means, he would put ten percent of his net income in that box every day, and that was kept aside for charity. So when people came asking for donations for any temple function, religious function, temple inauguration or annadaan (free food distribution), based on their expense level, he would give a donation.

Content: Once, I asked him, "What is the use of giving money like this, of giving donations like this?" He said, "The result of giving donations is: more people will come to receive more donations, that's all."

Content: Understand: reward for wealth is more wealth; reward for love is more love; reward for work is more work; reward for charity is more charity opportunities; reward for integrity is more integrity. Cognizing the joy that integrity brings in you, the powerfulness you experience through integrity; cognizing that integrity is the ultimate, will lead to not having blind spots.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S RICE SHOP

Content: Mandi Street, Tiruvannamalai

Content: KANNI KOVIL STREET

Content: Now called Raja Rajan street, this is my grandfather's house street

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE

Content: In anything, whether in your relationship with your body; or your relationship with life; or your relationship with Existence; or your relationship with the ultimate Source; or your relationship with society; or your relationship with humanity and its laws, at every level, recognize integrity as your strategy - be true to the thought current you are living.

Content: He fed the sadhus every day

Content: My mental setup of giving food to people, I got from My grandfather. He would go to the temple every day; search for sadhus (monks) near the temple; bring them home, make them sit down and recite some stotras (devotional songs) or verses from the Puranas, like Shiva Puranam; offer them arati (ceremonial waving of lamps); offer them dakshina (money), then feed them, and only after that, he would eat. He never taught Me anything, but he was such a strong influence on Me!

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE

Content: This is the very hall where sadhus were served food

Content: Once, I caught a guy who had come to our house dressed as a sadhu doing something else during other times. I came home and told My grandfather that he was not a sadhu. My grandfather just said, “Don’t bother. Even for that half an hour, if he is wearing all the Shaivite symbols like kumkum (energized processed turmeric) and rudraksha (sacred beads), just give him food. At least for the sake of food, he will remember Shiva, and will be tuned to our tradition. Then slowly, he may become that way permanently!”

Content: In India, if you live like a sadhu, all the basic needs will be fulfilled. That trend should be maintained in the society. I learnt that mental setup from My grandfather. Now that I have the money, thousands of sadhus are given free food in our Aadheenams!

Content: I can say one thing for sure: in the whole world, the lifestyle of sharing food freely at no cost exists only in India. It is part of the Vedic tradition, because we are a grain-based civilization. All religious ceremonies include the sharing of prasadam (consecrated food) and sharing food is not just part of social or religious ceremonies; it is a lifestyle.

Content: I grew up in ten houses!

Content: In Indian villages, you don’t grow up in one house; you usually live in ten to twelve houses - the houses of relatives, neighbors, friends! For four or five days, you stay in one house, and then for four or five days, you stay in another house! Saturday and Sunday, you stay in another house. That is the way we all grew up and there will not be any particular reason for it! Just like that, I would go to My grandparents’ house, and would not come back home for even twenty days! I would just stay there, because My school and everything would be close by.

Content: And I have seen that all those houses would be always open to everyone, whether they are visitors or guests or sadhus or beggars. All the villagers who came on business to the town would straightaway walk into My grandfather’s house and have their meal and leave. And it is not as if they would inform My grandfather beforehand about their arrival. If they were coming to town, they knew that in Mudaliar’s house, food would be available. And My grandfather or grandmother would not even ask who they were or where they were coming from - nothing! There would be an area allotted specially for guests. If anybody came and sat there, the two or three ladies of the house would first serve them water and then ask, “Have you eaten (lunch or dinner or breakfast)?” And the guest would say, “No, I came here to eat only.” So they would bring a banana leaf and start serving them food. It was the regular routine.

Content: In Indian villages, this was the normal lifestyle. Only when I describe it now, it looks like a big thing. Actually, only when I started traveling outside India and saw the lifestyle in other countries, I even understood that it is such a big thing! I saw that even if it is your own son’s house, you have to make two phone calls and confirm that you are coming at such and such a time! I was really shocked.

Content: Sharing food is the most dharmic principle. Research says that the most common past-life causes for morbid obesity are: starvation in one or more past lives that leads to the constant desire to overeat, and fear or guilt from past lives of depriving others of food. Both lead to karma that lands in your system and create the effect of making you overeat. So, sharing food should be a lifestyle in our sangha (spiritual community). In all your houses, the kitchen should be open for anybody who is hungry. It should be a rule.

Content: He lived an enlightened lifestyle

Content: I can tell you, the enlightened lifestyle is much more than enlightenment! I can tell you from My experience - whatever I started living after enlightenment, My grandfather used to live it very casually. I have seen it. Sometimes I look back and think, “God! To live this way it took enlightenment for Me, but My grandfather used to live it so casually!” His idea, his way of thinking, his way of functioning, was so casually centered on this.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER

Content: Yellammal and Raju Mudaliar

Content: i learnt chanting and reading from him

Content: I learnt this habit of reading a few pages of the sacred scriptures before falling asleep from My grandfather. He used to go to sleep at midnight, but even at that time, he would sit and chant Tirujnanasambandar's Thevaram before sleeping. He couldn't read English; he could read only Tamil books. He was not a great pundit, but he would chant the few mantras, stotras (devotional songs) and shaastras (Hindu scriptures) he knew. Sometimes it would be in Sanskrit; sometimes it would be in Tamil. For half an hour or one hour he would chant and nobody else in the room could sleep! He used to sleep in the hall. And he would be sitting and chanting so beautifully, just lost in himself, reciting the verses on Mahadeva! I was very close to him. I would sleep next to him only. He was My favorite, and I used to be his pet, because I had been given his name: My pre-monastic name is his name.

Content: He had a beautiful voice. He would chant Tirujnanasambandar's Thevaram and Manikkavasagar's Thiruvasagam, the sacred sentiment verses. The last few years before his passing away, he lost his eyesight. He could not read. So he trained two of his sons to read these verses out to him. One nice thing is that My uncles also learnt how to recite these verses properly for him, and every night they would sit and recite at least one hour for him.

Content: Tiru jnanasambandar

Content: தொடருடைய செவியன் விடை யெரியோர் தூவெண்மதிக் கண்ணிை.பசு.த. காடுடைய மலரான்முனை நாட்பனித்தே யொதுடைய சிற்ப பிறடையபிற மரபுவேறி பெம்மான்வின்.

Content: ~ Tirukadikkaappu (Verse 1.1) in Thevaram, by Tirujnanasambandar

Content: The God with a ring in His ears appears on the sacred Bull He has the moon on His head He wears the ash of the burned bodies in the cremation ground He - that thief - has stolen my heart He blessed Brahma, who is on the Lotus, when he prayed Him in the past He is that Lord of the great Piramapuram

Content: Tirujnanasambandar is one of the sixty-three nayanmars, who are the greatest devotees of Sadashiva. He contributed greatly to the volumes of poems that make up the composition - Thevaram. Along with him, the saints Thiruvanakukkarasar, Manickavasagar and Sundarar contributed to the Thevaram. These verses, which first reverberated in their inner space, are now recited on the lips of every Shaivite, yearning for the same deep reverence and devotion.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S BOOKSHELF & CUPBOARDS, Inside his puja room

Content: i picked up his lifestyle

Content: I picked up that exact lifestyle from him. I never slept without reading a spiritual scripture, till I started My public life, till I realized My Avataric mission! After that, I was not able to read for more than one- and-a-half to two years. Then, when I started My public life, naturally when you are falling into samadhi, there is no need to read any books. After I started teaching, I started reading for the sake of teaching. But till then, I never missed reading a spiritual scripture before going to bed.

Content: When something goes inside you when you are a kid, and becomes part of your bio-memory, and muscle-memory, it becomes an experience, a cognition; you just radiate it with so much strength and power! Just recently in the temple, a Gurukul (residential Vedic school) kid was chanting mantras for homa (fire ritual). I stopped him and said, “You are doing inauthentically. That is why you are not able to bring rain. Sit and bring yourself to completion and start chanting.” The kid

Content: realized he had some incompletions, went and completed with everyone, and came and did the homa. It started raining! Understand! It is an experience for kids! It is not just a story! It is an experience!

Content: The little bit of Tamil knowledge I have in Thevaram, Tiruvasagam and all such verses, was what I learnt from My grandfather, from chanting every night. I tell you: read some sacred sentiments, like these spiritual scriptures, before going to bed. It enriches the quality of consciousness in which you sleep, in which you function, in which you act and in which you flow- in which you carry your whole day!

Content: You may think, “Oh, I know all these ideas... what is there?” No! Your brain needs to be reminded all the time, again and again, because forgetfulness is the basic quality of your mind. Reminding yourself again and again is the highest spiritual practice.

Content: He put the seed of puja inside Me

Content: When I was young, I used to hear the Shiva Purana being sung on the loudspeaker every day in the temple. Growing up, it was literally the background music to My life. My life started with puja.

Content: It is Ganesha puja with which My whole life started. Actually, had I not taken up public life, I would have been a temple priest! Not author or orator, only pujari. I would have been a pujari just sitting in some remote corner, of a Shiva temple, from morning till night, maybe just sitting and pouring water on the Shiva linga, or chanting some shlokas or the mantras I know. That would have been My favorite time-pass or life-pass!

Content: In a way, I owe My whole mission to My grandfather! From the time I remember Me, I used to be with him for puja. When I was just a few months old, My mother used to put Me where he does puja. So, only hearing his morning puja bell, I would open My eyes! Most of the days, his puja’s naivedyam (food offering) would be milk, and it used to be the first food I would consume. I really thank him for the sincerity in puja, which he put inside Me. Fortunately, it grew, it was nourished by My other mentors, and culminated in completion with Arunagiri Yogishwara’s blessings!

Content: My Grandfather's Puja Room Door

Content: Venugopal (Venu), the second of the three maternal uncles (mother's brothers) of Bhagavan, shares his brief observations of Him as a child, when He would come home and interact with His grandfather, Raju Mudaliar (Interviewed on 31 October 2017):

Content: My father would do all the pujas. At that time He (Swami) would be standing and watching. Sometimes He would sing songs. He would sing Shiva Puranam. Shiva Puranam is the song that my father taught all of us.

Content: My father would wake up at five a.m. and perform the Ganesha puja every morning at six a.m. At that time, he would compulsorily sit, and he would teach and make us sing the Shiva Puranam.

Content: After puja, my father would have breakfast and go to the shop. He would return only in the night. Then he would read books related spirituality for some time before going to sleep. Swami would also come and participate in the pujas during functions like Deepavali, Pongal, Saturday worship, etc. We would offer puja to Lord Venkatachala pathy during the Tamil month of Purattaasi.

Content: Jnanashekaran (Jnanam), the youngest of the three maternal uncles of Bhagavan, who is only five years older to Him, recalls Him involving in the puja of Raju Mudaliar as a child (Interviewed on 7 November 2017):

Content: He would mingle a lot with my father. He would be familiar with all at the temple. He liked that a lot. From a young age, His entertainment was inclined only towards the temple and its activities. He would sit with my father during his puja, learn all the songs, and help as well. After my father poured water on the deities, He would drape the cloth around them. He would help in applying sandal paste on the deities and soon.

Content: JNANASHEKARAN, Maternal Uncle

Content: MY GRANDFATHER (4th from the right) At a public function

Content: Anbazhagan (Anbu), son-in-law of the family, Bhagavan's mother's younger sister's husband who took responsibility for Him many times alongside His father till He went to the polytechnic institute, also mentions the 'grandfather relationship'. His more detailed sharings will be found across this volume and the coming volumes (Interviewed on 7 Nov.2017).

Content: From a young age, He would have a lot of devotion to God. Whenever His grandfather, Raju Mudaliar thatha ('grandfather' in Tamil), went to the temple, He would go along with him propriate seasons. In the Tamil month of Margazhi, we listened to songs like Tiruppavai and Tiruvenpavai.

Content: ANBAZHAGAN, My mother's sister's husband

Content: Senthil, Bhagavan's older brother, an eye-witness and playmate during the days spent in Tiruvannamalai, is exhilarated to share about the times in grandfather's house. Needless to say, Senthil's memoirs are spread across this volume, with many instances recounted in all their delightful details! (Interviewed on 21 December 2017)

Content: We used to hardly be in our house in Tiruvoodal street. We would be only in grandfather's house most of the time. Our grandfather used to take Swami and me to the temple every time he went. Inside the Goddess Unnamulai Amman shrine, he would point out the depictions of Hindu saints on the pillars and the wall paintings, and narrate their life stories to us. I recall hearing stories of Kannappa Nayanar and Bhakta Prahlada. I remember that one of the paintings portraying Kannappa Nayanar was donated to the temple by my grandfather and it would carry his name on it.

Content: Our grandfather would come home late from the shop. He would always read books before going to sleep. We learnt everything only in our grandfather's house, whether it was reading or chanting or singing devotional songs. The Shiva Puranam was an integral part of our life. Like how the morning prayer was to school, Shiva Puranam was to our life! Initially our grandfather sat us down and taught a few lines for us to repeat. Then, we picked up from him singing aloud during puja, and later, we would sing and he would do puja! We also learnt devotional songs on Lord Ganesha like 'Paalum theli thenum...' and on Lord Muruga like 'Yerumayil yeri vilayaadum...'.I recall listening to Skanda shashti kavacham and Venkateshwara suprabhatham during the ap

Content: SENTHIL KUMAR, My brother, 2 years older to me

Content: he was so integrated

Content: to his decision to live

Content: My grandfather was a rice merchant. Rice loads

Content: would come from the villages in bullock carts at

Content: night. Using a fire torch or lantern, they would

Content: unload the rice bags. In those days, lorries were

Content: not that popular. On many days, he would come

Content: home from his shop only at one o'clock in the

Content: night. Even then, he would wash himself, do the

Content: achamana (ritualistic cleansing), apply vibhooti

Content: (sacred ash), perform the anushthana (rituals),

Content: do the night puja for ten or fifteen minutes, keep

Content: the shop key at the feet of Mahadeva, and only

Content: then go to sleep.

Content: No matter what time he went to bed, the next

Content: morning he would be up before sunrise; it is

Content: called brahma muhurta, the auspicious time

Content: when a Shaivite is supposed to wake up. I have

Content: never seen him missing this till the day he left

Content: the body! He would take a bath, do his

Content: anushthana, come back to the deity and offer

Content: his morning worship. Even when he had to go

Content: to any program at five o'clock, he would wake

Content: up at three and finish everything before five.

Content: I have not seen him doing yoga, but I have seen

Content: him doing pranayama (a formal breath control

Content: practice). He would do pranayama and start

Content: his puja.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER

Content: With his peers

Content: I learnt this from My grandfather: Decide

Content: for what you believe as pleasure, life, joy, bliss,

Content: and take continuous responsibility for it. That

Content: is what is 'making the decision to live'! So first,

Content: you need to have a clear understanding of what

Content: you consider as life. It is not just deciding to

Content: breathe, inhale and exhale; it is what you

Content: consider as joy, the purpose of your life,

Content: inspiration for your life, excitement for your life

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• saying yes to that, deciding for that.

Content: Nothing is right or wrong. For instance,

Content: deciding for political power is not something

Content: wrong. Deciding for money is not something

Content: wrong. Deciding for enlightenment is not

Content: something wrong. Nothing is right or wrong.

Content: Your decision without conflict makes

Content: everything right. Your decision with conflict

Content: makes everything wrong. If you have self-doubt,

Content: self-hatred, self-denial - what I call SDHD - even

Content: if you decide for Advaita, it will be wrong! If you

Content: don't have SDHD (Self Doubt, Self Hatred, Self

Content: Denial), even if you decide for money or

Content: political power, or any mundane or so-called

Content: ordinary thing, it will not be wrong. Finally, it

Content: boils down to the strength of your decision.

Content: One should decide to live in this world for

Content: hundreds of years, all the while doing one's deeds

Content: dispassionately as sanctioned by the scriptures.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S RICE SHOP

Content: You can see the bags of rice unloaded after their long journey in

Content: bullock carts from the fields in the outskirts of Tiruvannamalai.

Content: his puja altar, and my role in it

Content: It was My grandfather who taught Me the spiritual routine. He is the one solely responsible for whatever revival I am doing through deity worship today.

Content: I had the good fortune to sit with him during his daily puja. He had a beautiful family of deities: Mahadeva, Devi, Ganesha, and two or three other deities, like a small deity of Subramanya, Surya and Nandi - the Shiva Panchaayatana (the ‘five supports’ or five deities worshiped as part of Shiva worship). He also had Vishnu, Ranganatha and Venkateshwara (deities from the Vaishnava tradition). Venkateshwara was also our family deity. So, all of them were there!

Content: He would do his puja in very relaxed way, spending a lot of time, not in a hurry. He spent his time washing and cleaning the deities, clothing them, putting jewels on them, applying sandalwood paste, and offering flowers or a bael leaf, and then the naivedyam He did this elaborately, in a very relaxed way. And he would do long rituals - eleven times super-brain yoga for Ganesha and eleven times for Shiva. When he finished with each deity, I would move that deity from this side to the other for accounting purposes - signifying that he is done with that deity!

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S DEITIES

Content: These are a few of his deities - Ganesha and Shiva linga

Content: his sincerity and integrity to puja

Content: After puja, he would pick up the key, seeking the deity's permission, and then go to his shop. Every time he took major decisions, or left the house for even a small action like going to the local temple, he would take the permission of the deity first. Once he came back, he would wash his feet, except when he was coming back from the temple. He would go again where the family deities were kept, do namaskar, respond to them, or report to them what he had done; only then he would continue with his other activities.

Content: For around eighty-two years, not a single day he missed his morning puja. I don't know whether he had the idea of enlightenment or anything, but his sincerity - such an amazing sincerity - has gone into My head. That has gone into My system. I tell you: just this one seed back then! I remember, unless I sat with him for the morning puja, I would not feel that day is going smoothly. And if anything happened - if I lost My pencil or pen - I would think, "Oh, today I did not attend the puja!" So that was My life - and after some time, because the very inner self was enjoying it, it became such a big joy. I tell you: it is from him that I learnt the uninterrupted spiritual routine. I am so happy that he did it till the day he died.

Content: He literally did not even cross the district border in his lifetime, except for a few pilgrimages. When he was in his late eighties, he came to Bangalore to see our ashram. He himself used to say that after Kashi and Rameshwaram, he stepped out of Tiruvannamalai only to come to Bangalore.

Content: MY GRAND FATHER At a temple function

Content: The Avatar remembers spending many of His most joyful childhood moments with His grandfather. From the morning puja to the time He went to bed, He would be around him. Even when His grandfather went to his shop, he would take his beloved grandson with him, where He witnessed all the negotiations that went on. His grandfather was an example of a highly integrated and ethical businessman. Finally, when they wrapped up for the day, His grandfather would take Him home, feed Him dinner and put Him to bed. In their home, they even had a beautiful routine of chanting from the scriptures before resting for the night.

Content: With the sincerity and discipline instilled in Him by His grandfather, the little Avatar began His own daily and immensely fulfilling personal worship. From the tender age of three, He started to perform puja for every one of His deities. They each had their own abhishekam (sacred bath), their own vastram (clothes) and abharanam (jewelry). He reveals that He never once felt that the deity was just a stone!

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S RICE SHOP Very table where he sat

Content: My grandfather's spiritual routine became Mine

Content: From the time I can remember, from the moment I started thinking, I have enjoyed this ritualistic worship so much. Understand: I never thought - not only logically, even unconsciously - that deities are just representations of God. I always felt that they are alive! I never ever thought that I am doing this as a technique for enlightenment, or that it is a great thing. Sadashiva saved Me! Fortunately, at that time I did not know about enlightenment! So I did not develop the logic that I am doing the rituals and puja everyday so that God will give Me enlightenment one day. That foolish nonsense was not in My head. All I knew was: here is a deity that I have to take care of. That's all. Here is God; I have to attend to Him - over!

Content: He gifted Me deities!

Content: These are the few deities My grandfather gifted Me:

Content: There are two Shiva lingas - one green, another small one in metal; I think it is panchaloha (an amalgam of five metals).

Content: The green one was gifted to Me by My grandfather.

Content: The deity of Annapurani, he brought from Kashi. When he went on a pilgrimage to Kashi, he bought that deity and gifted it to Me.

Content: All these deities are still with Me.

Content: MY GRANDFATHER'S DEITIES,

Content: The circled ones are what he gave me. The rest I collected.

Content: how ganesha came alive in my life

Content: My spiritual life started with Ganesha

Content: My spiritual life started with Ganesha; Ganesha eating the food I offered is the first spiritual experience that happened in My life. And I can say, My spiritual journey was successful and unfolded with all its glory, beauty and depth after that. It was Ganesha who inaugurated My spiritual life.

Content: When all these truths get into your own system when you are a kid…when you are fresh and about to start life… nothing like it! It gets into your very bio-memory! I tell you, it gets into your very bio-memory!

Content: This whole revival of deity worship of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, which I am doing now, started just with one small Ganesha gifted to Me when I was the age of three. If that same Ganesha or even a bigger Ganesha was gifted to Me when I was eighteen, I don’t think this revival would have happened. Just that one Ganesha at the age of three got into My very bio-memory, became an experience! That is why I could transmit that experience to tons and tons of people, and this whole Sanatana Hindu Dharma is revived!

Content: GANESHA - MY FIRST DEITY

Content: This is the Ganesha that ate the food I served!

Content: This Ganesha is part of my personal puja altar even today

Content: Ganesha was My first deity.

Content: On My third birthday, My father and grandfather were both carrying Me to the temple. In villages, they will carry the kid on the shoulder or on the chest. Usually My grandfather would carry Me to the temple. On that day, because it was My birthday, My father also came along. (When I say ‘grandfather’, I mean My mother’s father. My father’s father passed away even before My father’s marriage. Of course, in India, you usually get kids after marriage! I wanted to clarify that it would usually be that way!)

Content: Even though My grandfather was a very devoted person, he was a miser! He would not spend money. So, many times, when My grandfather carried Me to the temple, I would show the shops outside the temple where they sold small Ganesha deities. I would point with My hand and say, “I want Ganesha, I want Ganesha.” That day, My father was also there. My father was not a great devotee, but he was a spendthrift! The moment I asked, he said, “Come on, I will buy and give you!” He would spend money left and right, and a lot of spending for pride also, just to show, “See how well I treat people!” So he bought and gave Me the Ganesha!

Content: I started giving satsangs even before the age of three! When My grandfather took Me to the temple, I heard some preachers and priests reciting a story. I came back and repeated it verbatim! The Ganesha deity was given to Me by My father because I narrated the whole story of Shiva and Ganesha.

Content: SHOPS SELLING DEITIES OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

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Content: My first encounter with wealth

Content: I remember the first incident related to wealth that happened in My life soon after I received the Ganesha. In Indian villages, during festivals, the uncles and aunts would give money to the kids. My brothers and I were given some coins by My uncles. I asked My father, "What should I do with this?" My father said, "You can buy whatever you want." I said, "I wanted a Ganesha and I already got it; now what should I do?" My father said, "You can give it to anyone you like." I thought, "Okay, what is there in this? I can use it if I want; if not, I can give it away." So I called My cousin and he just grabbed all the coins from Me!

Content: This is the first memory I have of wealth, and I still live by it. I have not created any relationship with wealth; I have created neither joy nor created any suffering in My relationship with wealth. I just know that wealth is always living with Me.

Content: Ganesha - the most loved God!

Content: I can say, the most worshiped deity in India is Ganesha. Almost every street has a Ganesha temple! You don't need a big ritualistic puja for him. A village lady, after her bath in the river, comes and offers water to the Ganesha deity on the banks of the river, worships him and goes away. You cannot worship any other god like this, without much ritual.

Content: Ganesha is the most beloved and friendly God from the Hindu tradition. His very form is so nice! You can relate to him in any way you want. He is unassuming and non-demanding. He is the most easily

Content: accessible - bhole baba! He is so easily pleased - ashutosha! He is a powerful, divine being, pleased just by the offering of a coconut. Ganesha is still the sweetheart of Hindu children, especially school-going children who are writing exams. From the time I remember, all my examinations were written only by Ganesha!

Content: Ganesha outlives all philosophies. He feels all philosophies are boredom. He is like a modern day teenage kid who eats left and right, sits with Facebook all the time and does not bother about any serious philosophy, but who has all the powers!

Content: He doesn't come under any rule or regulation, but he has all the powers and is the embodiment of satchitananda - auspiciousness, intelligence and energy. Above all, he is a being close to our hearts. There cannot be any philosophical explanation about him. He is just a part of us, that's all!

Content: Whether it is Vyasa, the first master, or a more recent master, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, all of them have to start their work bowing to Ganesha! Whether they are going to sing a stotra or give a teaching...even if they have to teach the enlightenment science which says 'God is formless', they have to start with Ganesha!

Content: Even if they have to express that 'God is nirguna bramhan (beyond the three basic human attributes)', they first have to say, "Let me bow down to Ganesha to express these great truths properly."

Content: ARUNACHALESWAR TEMPLE FESTIVAL Ganesha in procession

Content: I didn't just worship Ganesha - I lived with him!

Content: When I woke up in the morning, I would wake My Ganesha up. Before I took a drink of water, I would offer water to him. After I brushed My teeth, I would use a small brush to brush his teeth. His original tusk was gone, because I used to brush it so hard - grrggrgr! I used to think that it is a big tusk, so I have to clean it properly. Then, after I took a bath, I would give him also a bath. Once I put on My clothes, I would put on clothes and jewels for him. Once I applied the holy ash, I would apply holy ash and sandalwood paste on him. When I ate, I would feed him also - meaning, I would offer naivedyam to him.

Content: I had not yet started school, so there was no routine for Me - other than playing with Ganesha! I would make a small chariot for him, put him in that and drive him around. I would be playing with him the whole day. I even used to go to bed with him, under a small mosquito net. I was living with him; he became part of Me.

Content: I would do puja every day to Ganesha. I would pour water on him, put a little food in front of him and offer arati: wave the lamp before him, wave the camphor before him. It was not like I was just doing a small puja or anything; I had such a strong feeling-connection with him that I felt that Ganesha was actually there...that the deity was not just a stone; it was Ganesha Himself!

Content: If you are just doing puja for some other reason, you will never enter that place again that day. I have seen many people doing puja. In the morning, they go into the puja room, roll around with the deity and pour water or do whatever needs to be done. But once they come out, they would never even go that side again, because it would be such a heavy routine for them; they would never make the mistake of entering into that room again that day! But for Me, it was like living with him. The whole day I would be sitting with Ganesha, fanning him, or doing whatever I could. Anything given to Me, I would bring and put it in front of him. I was a small boy living with God!

Content: Leela Dhyana - meditation on the Divine play

Content: Many of our devotees tell Me, "Swamiji, I was cooking, washing and doing all my work, but as an undercurrent, your memory was there inside me, Swamiji! It is so sweet; I am just filled with You! I don't know why, but I am not able to forget You."

Content: This is what we call in Sanskrit as leela dhyana, constantly being in meditation on the Divine Play! When the leela dhyana gets mature, you enter into samprajnata samadhi. That was what was happening with Me and Ganesha. I would be centered on Ganesha; whatever I did the whole day, I lived with him. Leela dhyana - meditating on or strongly feeling connected to a deity's form - starts building the right reasoning, vitarka, in your life.

Content: i hear the story of the child devotee, nambiyandar nambi

Content: One day, I went to the temple. In the Arunachaleshwara temple in My hometown, almost 300 out of 365 days of the year, there would some festival: deities would be going around in procession, or there would be some spiritual lecture.

Content: During My childhood, I used to attend many satsangs (discourses). One day, the speaker was narrating an incident from the life of Nambiyandar Nambi (a Shaivaite scholar) when he was a young boy. He was born and brought up in Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu, in South India. His life-story is very beautiful!

Content: These are typical stories. You will see that, in every State of India, there will be at least ten stories like this! See, when a whole civilization is interested in football matches, just because the entire country is interested, huge football stadiums are built; amazing football players are created. Because so many people are dedicating their energy to it, football literally becomes a religion!

Content: In the same way, if there is a huge crowd interested in God, and in the divine sciences, then naturally, a large temple infrastructure is created. Thousands of the best saints who can relate with God are created! That's all! If people ask Me, "How can hundreds of saints happen in one country? How do you have so many saints, and so many stories about so many saints' lives?" I also ask them, "How do you have so many football players, or so many car companies?" That's all! In the U.S., they don't care much about Benzes or BMWs.

Content: They are there for regular use. In the same way, in India, saints are there for regular use! Too much is available! In India, it happens! Come on, we are a 'God-producing' country - the country, the civilization which produces gods, which produces incarnations, saints!

Content: I still remember that speaker's name - Selva Ganapathy! He was a famous religious speaker in Tamil Nadu. The first story that impressed Me was about the scholar Nambiyandar Nambi. When Nambiyandar Nambi was a child, his father used to offer worship at a Ganesha temple every day. He was a temple priest. One day, the father was sick, so he told his little son, "You please go and offer worship at the temple today."

Content: So Nambiyandar Nambi went to the temple with the food offering and all the worship articles. He performed all the rituals, like the sacred bath, dressing up the deity, decorating it with flowers and finally, offering the food. He placed the food in front of Ganesha. He thought that Ganesha actually eats the food every day. He was offering food for the first time, and he thought that Ganesha was supposed to eat it! He did not know that his father brought the food back home every day. So, with all his innocence, authenticity and integrity, he sat there, waiting for Ganesha to eat the food.

Content: Half an hour, one hour, two hours went by...and the food was still there! The boy started worrying and asked Ganesha, "What happened? Did I do anything wrong? You are not eating! Come and eat! I have to go back soon...my father is sick." Of course, there was no response. Then he said, "If you don't eat, my father may scold me; he may shout at me - please do something! If I have made any mistake, forgive me, and please eat!" Of course, Ganesha was very silent. Nambiyandar Nambi became very serious. He told Ganesha, "No, no, no! You have to eat! Please eat."

Content: OPEN SPACE IN FRONT OF ARUNACHALESHWARA TEMPLE

Content: Where the spiritual talks used to happen in temporarily erected stages

Content: Nambiyandar Nambi's extreme devotion!

Content: The Kathopanishad beautifully says Shraddha vivechah (authenticity) happens when you are possessed by a certain truth.

Content: The Upanishad describes Nachiketa, the hero of the Upanishad, who confronted Death itself, possessed by shraddha - authenticity, the Truth.

Content: Sometimes, when you face a difficult time in life, you suddenly decide, 'I will be very straight, honest and dharmic. I will not bend.' You might know that if you adjust a little bit, or tell one lie or alter one word, you can escape from the situation, but you suddenly feel, 'No, I am going to be very straight, come what may.' In those few moments, you are possessed by shraddha - authenticity, the Truth.

Content: So, shraddha vivechah happened to Nambiyandar Nambi. Suddenly, he felt, 'Ganesha has to eat!' He started weeping. He said, 'Till you eat, I am not going to leave this place.' Five to six hours went by, but the food was still there. Ganesha was just sitting there. Then he went to the

Content: extreme: a suicide threat! He said, 'I will bang my head on these temple steps and die if you don't eat!' And he really started banging his head on the steps!

Content: At that time, he just knew that Ganesha was going to eat; even a slight doubt did not exist in him. He started banging his head on the steps - and the story says, suddenly Ganesha appeared and ate the food and blessed him!

Content: You will find hundreds of such stories about saints. It is not a story; it is history, truth!

Content: When the boy went back to his father, his father asked, 'What happened? Where is the food offering?'

Content: Nambiyandar Nambi said, 'Ganesha ate it.' The father could not believe it. He asked, 'Did Ganesha eat it, or did you eat it?' The son responded, 'No, Ganesha ate it! If you come with me, I will show you.'

Content: So he took his father to the temple who stood outside and saw with his own eyes, Ganesha emerging and eating the food served by his son!

Content: SELVAGANAPATHY

Content: The famous Tamil orator from whom I hear the Nambiyandar Nambi story

Content: I decide to make

Content: lup ganesha Eat!

Content: When I heard this story, I was shocked. The whole story became part of My inner space,

Content: part of My bio-energy. Something in My bio-energy got kindled. Whatever is inside

Content: you will be kindled by even a spark from outside. It awakened something in Me so

Content: strongly! It is like when kids go to Disneyland, they literally feel that all the characters

Content: they see on TV - like Tom and Jerry - actually live in Disneyland!

Content: Something happened in My inner space because of that story. I thought, “Then why is

Content: My Ganesha not eating? I am giving him food every day, but he is not eating! Then what

Content: am I doing?” I ran back home. In those days, there were not many four-wheelers on the

Content: road. Now it has become a big town. There were mostly only two-wheelers and cycles at

Content: that time. I still remember, I hit two cycles that day when I ran home to feed Ganesha!

Content: Understand: when you are in integrity, you will respect every person’s words, even if

Content: they are non-integrated! You will trust that the word is out of integrity, because you

Content: don’t know anything other than integrity! If you are established in integrity, not only

Content: will you have the power to make your words into reality, you can make even others’

Content: words into reality, even if the other person is non-integrated.

Content: I try My best to convince Ganesha

Content: Because I never experienced the space of

Content: lack of integrity in My life, I simply trusted

Content: the speaker’s integrity. I suddenly decided:

Content: I will also make My Ganesha eat!

Content: And it was not just for the fun of it; I felt

Content: that because he had not been eating, he

Content: must have been very hungry all these days,

Content: and he must be really lean. At a young age,

Content: we learn from our parents that if you don’t

Content: eat, you will die! I had learnt three or four

Content: things: if you don’t eat, you will die; if you

Content: don’t eat, some ghost will come and take

Content: you away; if you don’t eat, a crow will come

Content: and make its droppings on your head! So I

Content: thought, “There may be a ghost possessing

Content: My Ganesha. Maybe he is sick; that is why

Content: he does not walk on his own and I have to

Content: pull him!”

Content: Understand: when I heard the story, I

Content: decided, “I will also make My Ganesha eat.”

Content: This is tarka, simple logic: when he made

Content: Ganesha eat, why not Me? It is simple

Content: tarka.

Content: are not growing!” That was My argument

Content: with him!

Content: The temple Ganesha deity was five or six

Content: feet tall! Especially in the

Content: Arunachaleshwara temple, there is a very

Content: big Ganesha. His name is Sambandha

Content: Ganapathy! So I used to tell, “You should

Content: become like that Ganesha. Only if you eat

Content: properly, you will become like that

Content: Ganesha.” I told this because My people

Content: used to say to Me, “Only if you eat, you will

Content: become big like us.” So I also thought,

Content: “Only if Ganesha eats he will become big,

Content: like that Ganesha in the temple.” I told him,

Content: “Don’t worry, you eat, and I will build a

Content: temple like this for you.” I think My

Content: commitment to Ganesha is why I am now

Content: building big-big temples and installing

Content: big-big Ganeshas! I am fulfilling My word

Content: to Ganesha!

Content: But Ganesha was not eating. Maybe he

Content: heard Me, but he did not respond. For two

Content: or three days, I was sitting and convincing

Content: him about why he should eat. Maybe that

Content: was the time that matter was melting into

Content: Consciousness - meaning, the word was

Content: moving the world. By again and again

Content: saying, “Eat! You should eat!” to Ganesha, it

Content: became a declaration. When I started

Content: declaring again and again that he should

Content: eat, I think Ganesha also started giving his

Content: listening! Understand: when your

Content: declarations are very strong, even if there is

Content: a stone in front of you, it will listen!

Content: So I ran and told Ganesha, “Don’t worry,

Content: from today I will give you food. You should

Content: eat it properly.” Because he was more like a

Content: friend to Me, I started talking to him, “You

Content: should eat properly and you should be

Content: healthy.” And I also thought, “He is a child

Content: Ganesha; he has to eat and become like the

Content: big Ganesha in the temple!” I would tell

Content: him, “Only because you are not eating, you

Content: Shraddha Vivechah - Authenticity - possesses Me

Content: Anyway, the Shraddha Vivechah happened! I became possessed by shraddha. When you are possessed by shraddha, you will not have kutarka (negative logic) at all. You may ask Me, "When you heard the story of Nambiyandar Nandi, you tried it out, but you are telling us not to try it!" See, in My case, there was no kutarka at all. If there is no kutarka, then you are also a professional; you can try it! But inside, in one corner of you, there is kutarka. That is why I am saying don't try till that kutarka disappears, especially these risky techniques.

Content: I decided to take the next jump, from integrity towards authenticity. Understand: whenever you move from integrity to authenticity, it will not always be completely authentic. Your efforts may be inauthentic to start with, but later you will move to authenticity.

Content: Anyway, I decided, "I have to make him eat!" See, in My house, it was a joint family. One of My grandmothers... she was a distant relative. If the kids didn't eat, this old lady would threaten them. In the center of the garden, there was a huge well, a village-type well. She would shout, "If you don't eat, I will put you inside the well!" She would take the kid by the hand, take a little food in the other hand, show him the well and say, "See? I will drop you inside!" The kids would cry with their mouth wide open and she would put the food inside! That is the way she would feed kids.

Content: So, I had heard only that logic. Naturally, what would I do? I decided that I would also do the same thing with Ganesha! I went and put a little food in front of Ganesha and told him, "Eat now!" When I saw that he had not eaten even after half an hour, I started using the same technique. I told him, "I will put you in the well!"

Content: Please understand: the teacher taught Me tarka; the old lady from My family taught Me kutarka. She was My father's periamma (elder aunt). So I started shouting in the same way! She would use all the old Tamil words to threaten us kids. I started using all those words: "Better eat now, or you are going to be in the well!"

Content: I lower Ganesha into the open well

Content: I took Ganesha in one hand and kept some food in the other hand. I showed him the well and told him, "See this well? I will throw you inside." I tried this two or three times. But he was not opening his mouth! There used to be a bucket with which they would draw water from the well. I put Ganesha in the bucket and started lowering him into the well with a small rope, and threatening him, "See? I will really drown you!" Within ten feet the water was there. It was a village well, and the groundwater level was very high. Especially in Arunachala, even with three hundred and sixty-seven tanks all around the hill, the groundwater level was still very high, just ten feet!

Content: When the bucket was about to touch the water, I suddenly realized that he might have changed his mind and might want to eat, but I had not put any food in the bucket! If he changed his mind now, how would he eat? I had seen My uncles: they would carry the kid and show him the well and tell him, "I will throw you inside right now!" Then the kid would cry, "No! No! I will listen to whatever you say!"

Content: So suddenly it struck Me, "If Ganesha has changed his mind now, how will he eat?" So I brought him out, placed some food also in the vessel, and started lowering him again. The bucket was almost touching the water surface, but nothing was happening. I did not have the heart to put Ganesha into the water either. It was too much. He really meant a lot to Me! He was no more a stone deity for Me. He was life for Me! If your child plays with a Barbie doll, you will understand what I am saying. For a child, that Barbie doll is a member of the family. In the same way, Ganesha was part of Me; he had become part of My very cognition! It was a very strong relationship, so I could only threaten him; I could not actually put him in the well! So, what to do? Finally, I took him out.

Content: i try a different diet...

Content: Then I thought, "Maybe he did not like the cooking; he did not like the food." See how kutarka works! Kutarka will say, "Everything is wrong except you!" Understand: that is kutarka. So I started thinking that maybe the food was not right; maybe My mother was not cooking properly.

Content: Then I dropped the plan of feeding him that day, took him out and left him in the small temple which I had, and then I went to Arunachaleshwara temple. In the temple, they offer food to the deities every day. I thought that the food was actually eaten by the deities every day, so I went straight to the temple cook. I used to do a lot of voluntary work, like washing vessels and cleaning the floor in the temple. That was My only entertainment!

Content: You all have a separate entertainment track, right? In My life, entertainment also was related to the temple only. Spiritual things were entertainment for Me. No cinema, no drama. I have never played goli (traditional Tamil game with marbles) or catapult with the boys! All children play these games, right? But there was no such play in My life. From birth, the purpose of having come was My only focus! For what purpose I came, only that I attended to. I did not attend to anything else. These things may seem like small things. But these are major components. If other boys are playing, there will be at least a natural inclination to play, right? There was no question of that. From then till now, only one relationship existed for Me - disciple! No other relationship! At that time also, the boys around Me were disciples only!

Content: So I asked the cook, "Will you give Me a little food for My Ganesha?" He said, "Why only a little food? Take a lot!"

Content: He gave Me a lot of it. I brought it home and said, "See! I have brought you the same diet which you eat in the temple every day! Now there is no reason, no excuse... come on, eat!" I was continuously thinking that deities ate the food in the temples! I never even imagined that they would just show the food to the deity and then bring it away! So I was sitting, sitting, sitting, for maybe three to four hours; he was not eating.

Content: Then I said, "I have brought the right diet now; I am not going to let you go today." Again, I put him in that bucket and started the same drama. By then, I had memorized all the abusive words My grandmother would utter to make a child eat! All those words I memorized like a shloka (chant) and started repeating them! I really thought that those words were very powerful and they would make him eat. All the techniques that I tried with My old diet, I tried step by step with this new diet. The bucket was almost at the water level. From above, I shouted, "Are you listening to what I am saying?" But of course, he was not eating. And I could not drown him, because I had a very loving relationship with him. So, what to do? Again, I took him out..!

Content: SUNDARAMOORTHI

Content: Now retired from the temple service, Sundaramoorthi is the cook who served at that temple kitchen at the time, from who, I got the temple food to feed my Ganesha.

Content: MADAPPALLI

Content: Arunchaleshwara temple kitchen

Content: I can say that I was really depressed and very worried. In a completely low mood, I was just sitting. I had practically fixed all the problems. Whatever I was supposed to do, I had done. When My grandmother did all those things to any child, the child ate. And I knew only those techniques; I didn’t know any other technique. I had not read any book on how to feed Ganesha or how to feed kids. Whatever manual was there in front of Me, I had worked out fully. But nothing was working. Ganesha was lying there, and I was sitting.

Content: One nice thing with shraddha is, even if you start with kutarka, the power of trust is such, the power of shraddha is such, that it will turn the whole thing to vitarka - right logic, because ‘trust’ is not just energy or logic, it is intelligence.

Content: Tarka is logic, kutarka is negative logic, constantly negating, and vitarka is trust with positive energy and logic. The shraddha was so powerful that suddenly, something clicked in Me. Oh God! I can say this was one of the most powerful clicks that happened in My life; a very strong click! When I decided to make Ganesha eat, My efforts were inauthentic. But, only from there you can move to authenticity. Even with inauthenticity, if you take responsibility and enrich, I tell you: the cosmos will appear as the Guru and give you the shift towards authenticity.

Content: The cosmos finally gave Me that click. At that moment, the inner awakening happened in Me, “Maybe something is wrong inside Me.” I realized that Nambiyandar Nandi, the boy-saint who made Ganesha eat, had tortured himself, not Ganesha. He sacrificed himself! Here, I was torturing Ganesha, not Myself! That was the inauthenticity. I had to take the responsibility. I could not be constantly putting the blame on others! With this strong click, the kutarka became vitarka. The wrong reasoning became right reasoning. When that click happened, I thought, “Yes! Nambiyandar Nambi found fault only with himself when Ganesha did not eat, not with Ganesha or with the diet or with something else. He was not complaining about the outside; he turned inside.” In My case, I was complaining about Ganesha. I was trying what My granny was trying. I was talking about the diet. I was thinking that My mother was not cooking properly. I was thinking about everything in the outer world. I was finding fault with everything external. Suddenly, I realized, “Yes!” And I turned and looked in , understanding that the problem must be within Me. Let Me work on it.

Content: For every achievement, the inspiration is only from inside. For every expression, experience is from only inside. Look in! Turn in. Looking in, turning in, you will find the solution for everything. That is the only way to inner awakening! You are so obsessed with looking out, you never look in - because you were never told; you never tried; you never believed.

Content: Look in! That is the essence of life! As long as you think others are the source of a problem, it will never be solved. I realized: I am the Source; I am responsible; I should sacrifice; I should take the responsibility and I should enrich.

Content: Understand: the biggest transformation that can happen to any human being is realizing: ‘I am the Source’. Just you understanding, ‘I am the Source’, and taking responsibility, will transform your inauthenticity into authenticity.

Content: Kutarka, shraddha and vitarka That vitarka, that click, that right reasoning, happened in Me! It is a contemplation, a blissful flowering and the state of pure awareness. Please understand: it was a very strong click. “Yes, in Nambiyandar Nambi’s case, he did tapas (spiritual discipline), but in My case, I was torturing Ganesha! No, let Me do tapas.”

Content: Shraddha is like a loaded gun. When the right vitarka happens with shraddha, it is like triggering the gun. Without shraddha, the kutarka can never become vitarka; the wrong reasoning can never become the right reasoning.

Content: See, the way in which thoughts are created in your system, if it leads you to the experience for which you are hardwired, you are having vitarka, right reasoning. When one thought leads to another thought, which leads to another thought, and suddenly you are in such a deeply relaxed feeling or experience, it is called vitarka. Any thought which creates negativity or ill feeling about yourself, and which radiates the same ill feeling about others, is called kutarka. If you are going against that for which you are hardwired, it is kutarka. If you are going in the direction for which you are hardwired, it is called vitarka.

Content: So with shraddha, when the right reasoning happened, the trigger was pulled! Suddenly the click happened - “It is time I look inside; it is time I turn inside and change something inside Me.”

Content: Then I decided, “I am not going to eat till Ganesha eats.” It was a strong will, authenticity. Even in those days, I used to be very strong-willed. Once I decide, it has to happen, that’s it!

Content: Two days pass by… I don’t give up! So I brought the food again and arranged everything. I actually used to have a small shrine, a kind of a temple, in the rear of the house. It was My own. I would be staying there and spending My time only there. I can say that is the first ashram I built for Myself and My deities! I used to spend My time there, so that nobody would disturb Me. Usually they would send My food there, or I would go and bring My food when it was time. Otherwise, I would be spending the whole day there. So I sat there with all the arrangements for Ganesha to eat.

Content: One day passed - and the food was still there! I was very strong about no question of Myself eating. So I would go and bring food, keep it in front of Ganesha, remove the old food, throw it away, and sit and wait. One day and one night passed. I was not even sleepy; I was sitting. I had a strong will from My young age. If I decide, I decide, that’s all. Even now, no one can influence My opinions! No one can impress upon My decisions. At the most, they can only request. The only way to dilute Me is by a request! The only heat, which can melt this steel, is a prayer or request, nothing else!

Content: Again, the second day also passed. I was very strong. See, usually, for a small boy, without food, naturally the logic will become imbalanced; the willpower will come down. But I said, “Nothing doing, I am going to do it. I am not going to eat till he eats.”

Content: We both sat. I did not have the doubt or the desire or the temptation of: “It’s OK, I will eat. No!” It was ‘sitting with authenticity’.

Content: the ‘click’ happens!

Content: all. It is Meenakshi’s gift! With her authenticity, Meenakshi was just able to go straight to Kailash and finish off even Nandi!

Content: the third day....

Content: the explosion happens!

Content: Maybe on the third day, I touched the zone where trust and vitarka - right reasoning - both became part of My very bio-memory, My very system. That is when the explosion happened! I could see very clearly that My mind had risen to the level of bhava samadhi - the zone where solid is not solid, liquid is not liquid. It is like when ice and water meet and melt...that zone, neither formless, nor the physical form....

Content: Suddenly, I can say, I fell into some state, surely not unconsciousness, and I saw very clearly - Ganesha sitting in front of Me and eating! I have to tell you the truth: when I opened My eyes and saw, I promise, there was no food. The food had disappeared!

Content: In whatever way you want to understand it, you can understand it, but the food was not there. And I know Ganesha ate it. People with kutarka might say, "Who knows, when you were closing your eyes, some rat could have come and eaten it!" Whether Ganesha ate it, or his rat ate it, let the kutarkis think about it! I know for sure: Ganesha ate it!

Content: I experience the prasada he gave Me!

Content: When Ganesha eats what you offer, he gives you some prasada (sacred gift); he gives you some benefits, some boons. Strong trust and extraordinary ecstasy are the prasada, the gifts or boons that I received: "If I have received the prasada, it means he has eaten!" The whole being was in ecstasy! As a three-year-old boy, this experience gave

Content: Me such strong confidence and courage in the inner world. When I looked in, I got it: even God comes down to fulfill our request!

Content: Samprajnata Samadhi

Content: Please understand: when I heard that saint's story and started thinking, "When he can, why not Me?" That is tarka - right logic. When I started trying the wrong method, the wrong technique, it was kutarka - negative logic. And because of My trust, when the right thing clicked, it was vitarka, and it led to samprajnata samadhi - samadhi experienced through a beloved form.

Content: What I had was samprajnata samadhi (being one with the Divine form) with Ganesha. He came out and started eating - that is called samprajnata samadhi, one level of samadhi. It is like a spiritual experience with the form of a deity, with a form of Existence.

Content: All the enlightened masters' forms are expressions of Existence. If you have samadhi experience with that form, it means that all other thoughts have disappeared, and only your Guru's form is there in front of you; you are having samprajnata samadhi.

Content: When Ganesha was himself eating, I had entered a different frequency. Those two-and-a-half days when he was not eating were normal, but when he was eating, for

Content: one or two hours, I was in a different frequency. When I came down from that experience, the food was not there. In this frequency also, the food had disappeared! When he was eating itself, I was not in the frequency of seeing any other object; I was not seeing the place where he was eating, I was not seeing the plate, I was not seeing the food; I was in a different frequency. In that frequency I saw only Ganesha eating. So except Ganesha, there was nothing in Me at that time. When I came down to the normal frequency, I saw the same Ganesha and the same plate, but the food was not there.

Content: So, in both the frequencies, the incident happened, but I experienced it in the higher frequency. When I came down to the lower frequency, I saw that the food was not there.

Content: We may think some rat ate the food. In that case, the darshan (vision of the Divine) would not have happened. We may think the darshan might have happened in some trance. But then there is no chance that the food also would have disappeared. So, since both have come together - the darshan and

Content: the food going missing - it can be confirmed that the incident is the truth.

Content: I share about this miracle to Yogananda Puri

Content: This is the first miracle that happened in My life. The food was not completely missing. There were grains strewn here and there. When the elephant eats it will splatter it here and there is it right? It was like that. And the whole place became so fragrant and with a new kind of a feel!

Content: See: when I narrate the story, what happens inside you depends on the state of your mind. But inside Me, it created a deep and ardent faith. If something creates faith in us then that is the truth only. It cannot be anything else.

Content: Later, I told this incident of feeding Ganesha to Yogananda Puri. He could neither believe it nor disbelieve it. He came and saw the place where it happened. When he came and saw, he not only prostrated several times in that place, every time he came he would come to that spot and only then leave; he had so much respect for it!

Content: LESSONS from the GANESHA STORY

Content: The four tattvas: Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching

Content: The possibility or incident that Ganesha came and ate in Nambiyandar Nambi's life was a reality for Me. I never questioned the factuality of that incident. It was very clear, because of the trust, that if he did not eat, there was some problem with Me, that's all! The kutarka, which happened with the actualities of our Puranas, is the worst thing that has happened to the Indian consciousness. Whether it happened because of themselves, or because of some foreign invasion teaching them, it is the worst thing that has happened to Indians.

Content: Please understand: with the power of Integrity, I decided to feed Ganesha. With the power of Authenticity, I took the Responsibility of making him eat. After that experience, the joy of Enriching - sharing with the world - had started happening in My system!

Content: I work with thousands of patients, meaning people with different kinds of diseases. I am well known for healing different kinds of patients and diseases. In My experience, I have understood many important secrets about the body and mind. I have read many of them in the Upanishads or the Puranas, or the traditional scriptures, but I have started realizing them experientially now. Please understand, literally what you believe as your body and mind becomes reality in your life in ten to twenty days. I have seen this happening.

Content: The tremendous trust in the power of Integrity

Content: Many times, people ask Me, 'If I just say I am complete, how can I be complete?' You can, because you are nothing but the bunch of words you utter consciously or unconsciously to yourself or to others. Unfortunately, 99.99% of your words are unconsciously uttered. That is where the problem starts. So, many times you don't recognize the power of the words you utter, especially towards yourself. You should have tremendous trust over the power of your words, over the power of your integrity. You always feel, 'I am integrated, but I still need to evolve'.

Content: If you declare completion now, you are complete. But if you say, 'No! No! Now I am saying I am complete, but I am not complete.' Then you have already decided that you don't want to be complete! Declare that you are complete! Roar like a lion and stand on completion! I tell you: you are nothing but the words you utter.

Content: So understand, the first lesson you need to learn from this story is the ability to trust the power of your integrity. If you say, 'I am free,' you are free! If you say you are bound, you are bound! If you say you are a liar, you are a liar! If you say you are enriching, you are enriching! It is just you! If you utter the words, 'I am efficient. I am powerful,' you are that! If you utter the words, 'No! I am powerless. I am inefficient,' you are that!

Content: The words you utter to yourself and to others is life! What a big relief! This can be good news for you if you start believing it. It can be great news for you if you start living it. It can be bad news for you if you start worrying about it.

Content: The second truth you need to know is about the power of your authenticity. Even in the initial level, what you do might look like inauthenticity, but just stand by it; it will rise to the next level of authenticity. In this story, in the beginning, when I started feeding or planning to feed Ganesha, it was inauthentic. But, even if it was inauthentic, when you are authentic towards your inauthenticity, it will lead to authenticity!

Content: The third important lesson you need to know: when you take responsibility, when you decide to become responsible, the whole cosmos simply listens to you, follows you! With responsibility, even if you sit in one corner, the very space changes the way the world responds towards you.

Content: Vivekananda beautifully says, 'In India, even if we want wealth, we sit under a tree and create the space. It happens around us!' He told these words in the U.S., the country which teaches you that you have to work so hard to accumulate wealth, and that if you sit with yourself, you may accumulate peace, but not even a piece of bread!

Content: What do you think I did in My life? I just sat under the banyan tree at Bidadi and created the space. See the city happening here! Do you know that when this land was donated, it was infested with 1,800 snakes?! There was a snake farm here. Before donating this land to us, the owner moved the snake farm out. When he was welcoming Me to this land, he told Me, "Swamiji, we have moved almost all the snakes out. We had 30,000 snakes earlier. But during the transition, 1,800 snakes escaped, Swamiji!"

Content: Today, a city has happened! It took us two-and-a-half years just to get a telephone connection! But now, anything I speak sitting here, people are listening, sitting all over the world! I just created the space! Now this place has become the model, the source, for multiple spiritual cities to happen all over the world! So, when you take responsibility, when you sit and create the space, and you are ready to sacrifice, the world will simply move based on your word!

Content: The world moves as you want!

Content: The fourth truth you need to learn from this is: when Ganesha ate, I saw the tremendous joy, the inspiration to raise Myself to the next level, to enrich Myself and enrich others. It is not that after that, I kept quiet. I started creating a group of people who would go around and worship every Ganesha in the city and village.

Content: BANYAN TREE, BENGALURU AADHEENAM

Content: I am under the Banyan tree at the Bengaluru Aadheenam on 2 Aug 2016, on the day of Guru Jeyarathi, when, as per Vedic Astrology, the planet Guru moves from one house to the next.

Content: The experience of Ganesha eating gave birth to Ganesha in Me. After that, I remember - wherever Ganesha was seen, I would see that he was literally happening in Me! In Tiruvannamalai, every street will have ten Ganeshas! In that one year, that habit, that pattern of worshipping Ganesha that got developed, was there in My life till I left Tiruvannamalai.

Content: Even if I went to school, which was at 8:30 in the morning, I would have to start from home at seven o'clock itself. The school was only two kilometers from My house. My elder brother would drive Me on a cycle.

Content: Only later on I discovered that because the 'right side - left side' separation was not there in Me, I could not ride a cycle. Especially on a bicycle, you need to feel a separation between the right and left sides of you, because you need to give separate signals and balance it.

Content: Only if your left side is suppressed, you will get the balance between left side and right side. For all of you, the left side will be suppressed because of others constantly telling you, "Don't touch with your left hand. Don't eat with your left hand. Don't do with your left hand." The left side becoming suppressed is a very big reason for you becoming normal human beings. When you are born, you are God only. When the left side becomes suppressed, you become normal humans. One portion of your body becomes suppressed. For Me, that suppression never happened. I never allowed that conditioning. From then till now I will eat with both hands. I can write with both hands even now. If you see Me during programs, I will autograph with both hands! I will give energy darshan (energy transmission) with both hands.

Content: But because the right and left are not separated, there would not be balance in the body. I would not be able to tell between right and left sides. The whole body would be like a single organism. There would be no split of right and left inside the consciousness, so I will not be able to balance; I would not be able to ride a cycle.

Content: Till the end, My elder brother drove Me to school. Even after he left school, he would still drop Me. And he would curse Me, because at every spot, even at corner houses, where for the sake of vaastu parihara (remedy in Hindu system of architecture) or for warding off evil eyes, they would have placed a Ganesha deity, I would stop and worship! I would not leave even those Ganeshas! I would do all My shodashopachara puja (ritual of sixteen offerings), vandana (worship), namaskara (joining the palms in humble obeisance), and what not! I had My own protocol also - three times this, three times that - it was almost like ten minutes of akhada (physical exercise)!

Content: For Me, it had become an experience. But this poor fellow, My elder brother...it was such a big torture for him! But he had to take Me to school every day! If he did not take Me, I had no problem, because I did not want to go to school anyway! But they wanted Me to go to school. See, the time it took for him to take Me to school, even that much time I would not spend in school itself! And the funny thing is, I would do the same thing on the way back also! Sometimes, if I was late, the school watchman would not even search for Me anywhere else. He would straightaway know that I would be doing this to every Ganesha!

Content: From My house to the school, at least twenty-five Ganeshas were there. Without missing even once, try to do these three actions, three times each, twenty-five times - then you will understand! It is equivalent to doing akhada in twenty-five places! The Ganesha would be hiding in a small place, and I would stand in a corner so that I could see him! People would laugh seeing Me!

Content: For almost a year, Ganesha was living with Me So in every one of you, the Divine has to incarnate. Sometimes, even a powerful click, a concept clicking within you, makes this incarnation happen inside you. Sometimes, even the darshan of the Guru makes the incarnation happen in you. Whether by the darshan of the Guru, or by the words of the Guru, or by the nearness or presence of the Guru, or on your own; sometimes, with even just a book, or some strong suffering, or some separation, or feeling of insecurity, or some accident, or some disease... Even these strong actions in life can make the incarnation happen in you. But in some form, in some way, the incarnation has to happen in you.

Content: I can tell you from My own experience how these incarnations happen. When devotees sit in front of Me with tremendous devotion or love, I can see very clearly, part of Me, without My instruction or command, just expands and extends to them so powerfully!

Content: The vatavarana (ambience) matters! Whatever is in you is awakened by the external happenings or information.

Content: I have seen one of My friends... he was so interested in politics, that even at the age of eight, wherever political meetings happened, he would go and listen. Once the speaker left and the crowd dispersed, he would get onto the stage and give the same speech! He would scream in exactly the same way, "Soda! Soda!" (Usually, when the politicians spoke, they would ask for soda.)

Content: We both had an agreement: he would help Me in My puja, I would assist him by giving him soda! I used to be his assistant when he gave his political discourses. When I did My puja, he would be My assistant, getting My flowers, making the sandalwood paste and all that. So, whatever is in you is awakened by the external happenings or information.

Content: The western world kids are taught to live with Barbie dolls or cartoons that they see on television. Fortunately, God saved Me! I was born in a village in South India. From a young age, I was living and practicing the presence of God.

Content: What I understood about Ganesha at the age of three, and what I understand about Ganesha now, is different. But that understanding at the age of three only has led Me to this understanding. If I was busy with Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, I would have been disillusioned at the age of thirteen that Tom and Jerry don't exist, but I would not have reached any higher understanding.

Content: Because I started living with Ganesha at the age of three, even at the age of thirty-five I had a higher understanding of Ganesha, which has led Me to higher and higher planes of existence - ishta nishtha and leela dhyana - practicing the presence of God, living with God!

Content: have your atma moorti,

Content: but also relate to the temple deity!

Content: In Hindu tradition, there is a concept called atma moorti, meaning 'my own version of Shiva' (or any deity). It means, "He is just my own version; nobody else is allowed." This is called ishta nishtha or leela dhyana. Srimad Bhagavatam acknowledges this process as a very powerful spiritual practice. So having your own version of the Guru or God, and relating to it, is a very powerful process! It is called leela dhyana, literally 'living with Me'!

Content: I have seen so many ordinary villagers in India, living with their chosen ideal and living the highest form of enlightened life, without even knowing the words Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility and Enriching! Without knowing any of these words, they radiate enlightenment! I tell you, just this one truth, ishta nishtha and leela dhyana, has made millions of Indian villagers enlightened! Millions of Indian villagers practice the presence of God. So understand, unknowingly, you are practicing the presence of God!

Content: But understand one thing: My Ganesha ate, but I cannot go to the temple and make that Ganesha eat, because the temple Ganesha belongs to the whole world. I cannot tell the temple Ganesha, "I will put you in the well!" But, I can play with My own version of Ganesha. I can tell him, "I will put you in the well!" I can do anything I want with him! I tell you, with your atma moorti, spiritual life starts. But you should take care that when you go to the temple, you don't lose that feeling-connection with the temple moorti also! You should understand that the temple moorti has space for everyone!

Content: The problem is, in your inner space, if you have place for one person, you don't have place for anybody else. That is why am also like that! You are a transformer! house connection; I am Understand: in your connection that you your house; you cannot light up the whole city. connection; I am a for everyone!

Content: KARPAGA VINAYAGAR TEMPLE

Content: I am talking oh Ganesha at the everyday morning puja saying 'Oh Ganesha, please remove all the obstacles and give us the buddhi to act in the right way' in this big Shrine.

Content: My revival of deity worship started with ganesha

Content: My spiritual life started with Ganesha. Ganesha eating the food I offered is the first spiritual experience that happened in My life. My first satsang was on Ganesha, and My first puja was done to Ganesha. I can say, My spiritual journey was successful and unfolded with all its glory, beauty and depth because of that! It was such an auspicious beginning... that is why My life is continuously extraordinary with auspicious incidents. I am trying to trace the day Ganesha ate the food I offered. We will declare that day as Annapurna Day in our mission!

Content: Understand: this whole revival of deity worship, of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, which I am doing now, started with just one small Ganesha gifted to Me when I was three years old! If that same Ganesha or even a bigger Ganesha was gifted to Me when I was eighteen, I don’t think this revival would have happened. Just that one Ganesha at the age of three got into My very bio-memory, became an experience. That is why I am able to transmit that experience to tons and tons of people, and this whole Sanatana Hindu Dharma is revived!

Content: Just yesterday, one participant in the Inner Awakening program came and said, “Swamiji, it is so sweet to talk to deities and relate with them! I saw them blessing me, relating back to me, responding to me!”

Content: I said, “Wow! I have done My job!”

Content: bringing the great truths back to life

Content: When an enlightened person happens in the body, he brings all the great truths to life. He brings everything back to life. Sometimes people ask Me, “Why did you do so much tapas, so much of spiritual practices, Swamiji? Why do you need to do all these things like puja and feeding Ganesha? You are after all born enlightened; You could have expressed Your enlightenment directly.” Understand: expressing enlightenment is one thing; bringing all these truths back to life through every incident, through every ritual, through every technique, is another thing. That is the purpose of an enlightened being landing in the human body!

Content: the lifestyle of manifesting extraordinary shaktiṣ

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda is experienced by millions worldwide as The Avatar of this day and age, bringing permanent, precious solutions from ancient Hindu sacred texts for the global crisis being faced today. His Holiness is reviving sacred yogic sciences from Sanatana Hindu Dharma - including awakening of the kundalini shakti - our own highest potential energy, the third eye, and the expression of extraordinary powers. He works tirelessly to awaken individuals and communities to their highest possibility - a stress-free life of high achievement, power, bliss and advaita… Oneness.

Content: The life of Paramahamsa Nithyananda is a living example of the shastras that were written so long ago by Bhagavan Sadashiva Himself. Every teaching He elaborates on today is a result of His intense practice on Himself and the resulting success. Out of His extraordinary compassion, The Avatar landed on Earth to once again revive the sacred secrets from Sanatana Hindu Dharma.

Content: Ever since the beginning of civilization, Sanatana Hindu Dharma has been the cradle of enlightened beings and highly advanced sciences. It is where the science of enlightenment and powers (shaktis) were lived and taught as a lifestyle. Sadashiva speaks on 463 various shaktis including:

Content: seeing through the third eye

Content: reading the past and the future through Akashic Readings

Content: creating alchemy products for spiritual evolution

Content: scanning bodies for disease and healing

Content: remote scanning for retrieving lost items

Content: levitation

Content: materialization of objects

Content: The initiated disciples of Paramahamsa Nithyananda express much more than just these powers through His powerful deekshas (initiations). These powers manifest from the ‘feeling connection’ and ‘integrity’ to the Divine, from the space of Oneness with the Divine. Through this, Paramahamsa Nithyananda re-establishes the ancient era of power manifesting beings on the planet.

Content: Bhagavan Sadashiva refers to this Oneness as shuddhadvaitam.

Content: He reveals in Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, sutra 113, dhāraṇā 87:

Content: sampradāyamimāṁ devi śṛṇu samyagvadāmyaham | kaivalyam jāyate sadyo netrayoḥ stabdhamātrāyoḥ || 113 ||

Content: Translation

Content: O Devi, listen to this sacred tradition, I shall reveal it to you vividly, completely. Just keep your eyes completely wide open, do not see or perceive anything, by simply keeping it fixed with a steady gaze (on the reality within). By this, the state of aloneness {kaivalya}, the Oneness that expresses as extraordinary powers and experiences will occur immediately.

Content: Summary:

Content: In this sutra, Sadashiva reveals the technique of experiencing Oneness with Him and from that Oneness awakening the powers of the third eye.

Content: The shaktis cannot be unlocked by the reading or studying of the agamas. It can happen only through initiation from a living incarnation.

Content: One cannot taste the nectar by speaking about it. In the same way, the science of Oneness and the powers revealed by Sadashiva in the agamas, can be tasted, experienced and celebrated only from the Guru, who gives us the nectar of Oneness with the Divine that he embodies.

Content: A Nithyananda Gurukul Student explains: “The moment I close my eyes, I just get into the space of Oneness with Swamiji. When I get into that space it’s a different realm, a different world altogether. So in that space it’s that reasonless, causeless joy. Then when I am asked, ‘where is the lost ring?’ I just see the whole scene happening, like a playback video with audio. And the moment you express these powers, your whole body, your whole being, just gets into a space that cannot be described. So much of sweetness and calmness; nothing can shake you!”

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• Sri Nithya Sundareswarananda Maharaj.

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Content: NITHYANANDA GURUKUL

Content: The center for creating a new species of power-manifesting humans.

Content: Featuring students of the gurukul demonstrating their powers in December 2016.

Content: SRI NITHYA SUNDARESHWARA NANDA MAHARAJ

Content: Balasanth of the Nithyananda Gurukul