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Content: BEWARE GOD WALKS HERE

Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Content: BEWARE GOD WALKS HERE

Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Content: BEWARE GOD WALKS HERE

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Content: Beware: God Walks Here

Content: Uncommon happenings seemingly happen commonly at Dhyanapeetam.

Content: Long crowds gather for The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam's healing touch. Paramashivaratri night discourses, which till 2003 attracted a few dozen hardcore devotees, now pack the Ananda Sabha in hundreds with more having to be turned away. Dhyanapeetam which can comfortably accommodate fifty people is being called upon to house and feed three hundred or more that throng the Ananda Healing Initiation and other programs. We are going through a phase in the Dhyanapeetam movement that is as exhilarating as it is energizing, as challenging as it is heartwarming. When Swami is around the ashram is heaven on earth; when he is away it is still the hub of a committed movement that fires on all cylinders.

Content: A few days into the Acharya training program, where I had the dubious distinction of being one of the Master Trainers, the only perquisite of which seemed to be being bullied by over eager lady trainees who seemed more eager to train me than being trained, the laptop that I was using crashed. The laptop was borrowed from Ramya and I was using it to prepare canned material culled from Swami's earlier discourses that could be used by Acharya Trainees for their ASP classes. At the time the laptop crashed I had put in at least three days of hard work of about 50 pages. After a tea break when I got back to the Laughing Temple Ramya was looking crest fallen; knowing her penchant for practical jokes I wasn't too worried when she reported that her machine had stopped working; I insisted on rebooting it a few times till I was convinced that Ramya wasn't bluffing and it was beyond my technical capabilities to get it to work again. I was more or less resigned to building the Training material from start, when I saw the gleam in Ramya's eyes.

Content: "Let's take it to Swami to get it fixed", Ramya said. To me, it didn't for some reason seem a foolish idea. I said, "let's go" and walked across with her to a hut across, where Swami was holding court happily disrupting the rigorous schedule that I had set for some of the lady trainee bullies who now had the excuse of his presence not to do any work. Ramya gave the laptop to Swami and said, "Swami, it is not working." Swami took it in his hands, turned it around a few times, slapped it a couple of times, gave it back to Ramya saying, "It'll work now."

Content: Ramya and I walked back to the Laughing Temple across the dirt track. I told Ramya," as soon as you start the laptop make a CD of my stuff." Wide eyed she responded, "How selfish you are, What about all my stuff! I have all my jokes and transcriptions in it too." "Ok, that too", I had no doubt that the laptop would restart, and it did, and Ramya backed up all important folders onto CDs in case the energizing did not last too long. It is a different matter that the laptop is chugging along merrily after several months now.

Content: A few minutes later I was summoned to Swami's court. The audience there wanted to know my reaction to the laptop restarting; they had assumed that my intellectual and analytical background would not accept this strange computer repair. They seemed very surprised when I said that I had no doubt at all when Ramya took the laptop back from Swami's hands that it would work; my only concern was for how long; hence my eagerness to back up.

Content: People ask me whether I could feel Swami's energy from the first time I met him. The truthful answer is in the negative. Even the energy darshan at the ASP course that Swami conducted, while emotionally very comforting, was not any kind of a spiritual experience. I started feeling the power of Swami's presence after my Ananda Gandha initiation following the Healing Initiation program. Surprisingly for me, who usually waits till almost the end for my darshan, I rushed to be amongst the first few for the initiation. After the initiation I went to a corner of the noisy hall full of dancing dervishes, sat down and closed my eyes. It must have been close to forty minutes before I opened them again. The experience was the most powerful that I had had in over thirty years of various esoteric and often exotic meditative practices. From the moment I focused on my Ananda Gandha spot and visualized Swami's smiling face my entire body was suffused with an over powering energy field. Having practiced Reiki and other energy healing techniques I was very familiar with energy flow from and to the body, but this was a very different experience. If Reiki was a shallow pond this was a roaring ocean; the best energy flow that I had ever had in the past with Reiki and other healing practices was a tingling flow from the palms, and that is what even my Masters had experienced. Now, my entire body was a radiating energy field, and for quite some time I had no consciousness of anything external.

Content: From that point my senses seemed more refined to feel Swami's energy. In later energy darshans my body felt a very strong force that pushed and pulled me, swayed me till I was in Swami's arms being blessed by him. Praveen, a far more evolved adept who was visiting the ashram, taught me how to focus upon the energy and capture it. Even from a corner of the Ananda Sabha I could focus on Swami's energy and feel its impact. In fact it probably was happening even before without my awareness. I needed far less sleep in the ashram, just a few hours; at home nothing less than eight hours would help me feel fresh and again an hour long nap in the afternoon. Now, four hours of sleep between two and six, to be in time for Guru Puja after a shower and with no nap during the day, was comfortable. I understood what Swami meant when he said that while staying in the ashram healers do not really need to practice the obligatory Shakti Dharana meditation before going to bed. Dhyanapeetam, at least when Swami was in residence, was an energy centre that one was constantly plugged into.

Content: The same phenomenon was in evidence as we Acharya Trainees sat in front of him, as Swami flew on the swing in his verandah. Much of what he did in the guise of training the Acharya Trainees had nothing tangible to do with any known form of training. As Priya and others said, he kept throwing energy at us. The process was one of refining base metal. The transformation was an energy transfer

Content: During the Acharya Training, one midnight as we were still struggling at the Laughing Temple Swami suddenly sprang up from no where. He first told us that there was a big snake behind the Temple but was moving away and we had nothing to fear from it. He then invited those of us who had covered our schedule for the day to join him on a moon light walk. He soon had a gaggle of twenty behind him. Trailing him, I heard him say that he wanted to go up to the Dakshinamurthy Temple under the Banyan Tree; he then muttereded something about that it will be scary, and walked to the block of rooms across the ashram gate outside. We sat there for a while and around one when he got up and started walking back towards the ashram, I asked, "Swami, aren't we going the Banyan Tree?". He turned to look at me and said," Better not now. He will be walking there and the snakes will be out. We would be disturbing the snakes if we go there now."

Content: Just about two weeks before, a few days before the Acharya Training started, Swami had been lecturing on the Siva Sutras. Siva Sutras are teachings imparted by Paraamashiva to Parvati on Self Realization and are a collection of complex and concise epigrams. I was able to attend only two of these. The second discourse that I attended went on for over four hours with Swami explaining the unreality of life expressed as a doubt by Parvati. That evening there was a fire in the adjoining land in front of the Office area and after the fire was put out I left.

Content: Two days later on the 28th of January 2005, Paramashiva walked in Dhyanapeetam.

Content: Swami says: "It was early morning, about half past five. I had come out and was standing on the threshold of my room with one hand on the door lintel. I saw some one walking past close to the verandah in front of me. Since normally no one comes into this area I was surprised and shouted out in Tamil, "who is it?" The person turned, and I recognized him as Paramashiva . For a moment I was confused. As an enlightened person I can not see visions as normal people do. If I saw Paramashiva , He must be real. The only way to check this out was to see if His feet touched the ground. In a vision the feet do not touch the ground.

Content: I rushed out, fell at His feet and grasped the left one with my right hand; with the tips of my fingers resting on His sandal and the base of my hand touching the soil. It was real. His feet were touching ground. I looked at His other foot. I could see the grass being crushed under His feet by his footwear.

Content: I looked up. Paramashivawas smiling at me, obviously amused at what I was doing to check out if He was real. I sprang back to look at Him. I had nothing to say. He continued to smile at me for a few seconds, then turned and walked way. Suddenly He disappeared from my sight."

Content: Five other people glimpsed or felt Paramashiva that morning. Anand and Dr. Chanthiran from Salem had stepped out of their rooms inside the ashram and saw a form moving past them. Anand drew a picture based on what he saw which matched Swami's description.

Content: Priyamai, Maneesha and Bandhu were on their way to the Banyan Tree when they felt someone brushing past them.

Content: Swami's description of Paramashiva was vivid. In a video that I saw where he talked to ashramites on his experience on the same day he said: "Paramashiva was very much like what we see in His pictures, except that He did not have a cobra around his neck. He was golden in color, dazzling, with long hair. He had a short garment wrapped around His waist and hip that came above His knees and had a tiger skin wrapped over it. He was wearing wooden sandals. He had many rudraksha necklaces on His neck. He had a hunter's horn tucked in His waistband, carried a small drum on one hand and a trident on the other. His trident was a lot smarter than mine; I noted the design and will get one made similar to that!"

Content: A day after this incident Swami went into Samadhi for a whole day. He says that this was the first time that he recovered consciousness without external help from out of a Samadhi. When he came out of Samadhi that evening he asked the ashramites and others who had come to hear him on Siva Sutra, just to sit in front of him at the Ananda Nilayam and meditate. Most of them went into deep meditation that lasted for over two hours.

Content: The place where Swami saw Paramashiva in front of his room is now marked with a few stones so that people do not walk over this spot. Other than that there is nothing to indicate that Paramashiva walks at Dhyanapeetam. Swami says that the Banyan tree is the abode of Paramashiva in the form of Banashankara, the consort of Banshankari, who is the guardian mother of the city of Bangalore.

Content: Banashankara, Dakshinamurthy, Paramashiva or Nithyananda, God does walk in Dhyanapeetam, and with a little effort one can feel His energy. As I write this in March 2005 when Dhyanapeetam hosts only a few hundred at a time, I can see soon, very soon, the numbers growing into hundreds of thousands.

Content: Who can keep man away from where God walks!

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