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Content: DEATH IS A CELEBRATION SERIES

Content: KAILASA's NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL

Content: Presents

Content: REALITY IS A DREAM

Content: VOLUME 5

Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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Content: DISCLAIMER

Content: KAILASA's Rajavidya Nithyananda Gurukul

Content: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

Content: All meditation techniques, practices and procedures described or recommended in this book, are suitable for practice only under the direct supervision of an instructor, trained and ordained by Supreme Pontiff His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam. Further, you should consult your personal physician to determine whether those techniques, practices are suitable for you in relation to your own health and ability. This publication is not intended to be a substitute for any personal medical attention, examination or treatment. Should any person engage in any of the techniques, practices described or recommended in this book, he/she would be doing so at his/her own risk. The authors and publisher advise readers to take full responsibility for their health and know their limits.

Content: Readers understand that all blessings, instructions, initiations, teachings and suggestions made as part of any program/technique described in the book are purely in a spiritual capacity and are not intended to be any sort of guarantee or definitive statement about the past, present, or the future or any sort of medical advice, physical or mental. Readers understand that the author, publisher, co-collaborators with any or all of the programs/techniques, instructions, initiations, teachings described in the book do not make any claims, promises, or guarantees about the individual or group outcome of any or all the programs/techniques described in the book.

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Content: ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Content: THE SPH NiTHYANANDA PARAMASHiVAM

Content: The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is recognized as the 1008th living manifestation of Paramashiva, Paramavatar of Paramaśiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma (“Hinduism”) and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts. The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism).

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Content: ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Content: THE SPH

Content: NiTHYANANDA

Content: PARAMASHiVAM

Content: The SPH was coronated as

Content: Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual

Content: Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest

Content: apex monastic order) and the youngest

Content: Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the

Content: 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff)

Content: of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam,

Content: ordained as the 293rd Guru

Content: Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of

Content: Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained

Content: as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of

Content: Dharmamukthi Swargapuram

Content: Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd

Content: Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The

Content: SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the

Content: reigning spiritual emperor of 20 ancient

Content: traditional Hindu kingdoms and the

Content: reviver of the most ancient, most

Content: peaceful, still-living and long-lasting

Content: demonstrable system that shows the

Content: possibility of peaceful co-existence

Content: amongst people.

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Content: Hinduism is the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people despite fundamental differences in their preferences and realities.

Content: Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions).

Content: The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam.

Content: Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.

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Content: DEATH IS A CELEBRATION

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Content: WHAT IS DEATH?

Content: You may say death is the event that happens at the end of our lives. If death were nothing more than that, it would be so easy!

Content: But death is that which is happening every moment of our lives.

Content: Death changes the very quality of our life. It is not the end, but it is the climax of our lives - towards which our whole life is being oriented.

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Content: The Reason--

Content: If you deeply analyze, our whole life is

Content: controlled by our concept of death. Even

Content: our social structure is guided by our

Content: concept of death. The cultures which

Content: believe in a single life, with no concept of

Content: reincarnation, have poured all their

Content: energies into excelling in life because there

Content: is only life available. They have achieved

Content: the peak in terms of assimilation of

Content: information, gaining of knowledge and

Content: material comforts.

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Content: These cultures have given rise to Science. Science helps us live life at its optimum. Science helps us get the maximum out of this life.

Content: On the other hand, the cultures which believe in reincarnation have turned the focus of their life inwards. Their search is different. They are not motivated to live life in a hurry, because Eternity is granted to them.

Content: But these cultures have developed the Inner Science. They have the leisure to turn their minds to the inner search, to ponder over the meaning of life.

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Content: Source: Nithy

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Content: Our whole mental set-up, the course of our lives, our society, our culture, our religion - everything is based on nothing but our idea of death. We try our best not to think about death - but death pervades every moment of our life!

Content: Not only that, all our fears of losing our name and fame, losing our loved ones, losing our physical and mental health etc are all subtly related to our fear of death.

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Content: FOR MOST PEOPLE, LIFE NEVER GOES BEYOND THE SWADHISHTANA CHAKRA

Content: Swadhishtana - 'Where your being is established'. swa means self and adhishthana means established.

Content: Location: 2 inches below the navel

Content: Locked by: Fear, especially the fear of Death

Content: Unlocked by: Acceptance of Death

Content: Meditation technique from: Vedanta

Content: Name of technique: Nirbhaya Dhyana

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Content: Between the two chakras of muladhara(root chakra) and swadhishtana, we are born, we live and we die. Our very existence is centered around either greed or fear all the time. We don't know any other way of life. We don't have the courage to take on any other way of life.

Content: Without fear, the word Death itself loses the meaning which we have been associating with it.

Content: Fear is the root cause of the way we look at Death.

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Content: WHY ARE WE AFRAiD OF DEATH?

Content: Why is the whole of humanity struggling against one thing, the only thing that is a certainty in all our lives?

Content: Can we make the whole earth flat?

Content: No, it is a proven fact that the earth is round. But if we struggle against this fact, then there is something wrong in our struggle, in our understanding. It is the same with death too. Why are we struggling to accept the truth? Because of the struggle, most people die unable to accept death when it comes - just as they have lived, unable to accept life as it is.

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Content: WE ARE AFRAID BECAUSE INSTINCTIVELY WE RESIST CHANGE AND DEATH IS AN ABRUPT CHANGE IN LIFE.

Content: Source: Nithyanandapedia.org

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Content: The master Chuang Tzu says beautifully, ‘Man’s thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.

Content: We are afraid because we do not know who we are. We hold an identity of ourselves inside us, based on our family, relationships, job, wealth, social image etc. Death removes this very foundation on which our identity is built, so we feel death snatches everything that is ours. Our understanding about death, or rather our misunderstanding about death, makes death a fearful, frightening experience.

Content: The man who resists death dies even while he lives. He dies every moment because he is tortured by the very idea of death.

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Content: Death does not only mean physical death. Losing anything is a form of death. Losing your comfortable life is one form of death, losing your relatives is another.

Content: Loss in any form is nothing but death. There are two issues: the incident of death that happens at the end of our lives, and psychological death. Real death happens only once, but psychological death, the fear of death, permeates our life. The idea and fear of death decides our entire life structure.

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Content: You may ask why people are so depressed and disturbed when they lose their close relatives.

Content: Even if you are not emotionally attached to them and in a sense are waiting for them to die you will be deeply affected by their death!

Content: It is more so when you are close to them, attached to them emotionally.

Content: Whenever your mother dies your whole left side will suffer.

Content: Whenever your father dies, your whole right side will suffer.

Content: Whenever your brothers die your hands will suffer.

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Content: Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Content: vāyur-anilam amṛtam athedaṁ bhasmāntagam śarīram |

Content: auṁ krato smara kṛtaguṁ smara krato smara kṛtaguṁ smara || 17 ||

Content: Translation:

Content: Let the vital life-energy ‘Wind’ present in the body, now merge into the all-pervading, eternal cosmic life-energy; and now let this gross body along with subtle body, disintegrate into its basic elements and be reduced to the sacred ashes.

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Content: Source : Nithyanandapedia.org

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Content: Body assumes its shape and it can go back to the basic elements. Let the prana, vayu relax, merge into the Cosmic life, anilam; and let the body retire to the basic elements, become ashes. But you remember what all you did to become One with the Cosmos. Oh Cosmos,

Content: The way Sanātana Dharma approaches Death It's very clear, the body has nothing useful. It has no use after death, that is why they say, let it disintegrate - bhasmāntagum śareeram. This verse declares about the need of cremation for Hindus.

Content: WHY CREMATION iN HiNDUiSM?

Content: It is this verse shows the way why cremation in Hindu tradition, because - vāyur-anilam amṛtam athedam. Let the ‘prana’ merge with the Cosmic Prana. bhasmāntaguṁ śareeram - let the body go back to its basic elements, no use! After you leave the body, it has no use; you don’t need this after that. If you want, you will have one more body. You will take a new body, but this itself is not required.

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Content: THE CONTEXT YOU HOLD ABOUT DEATH MATTERS!

Content: From the right context and understanding there is no such thing as death. When there is a wrong context, every moment you will be dying. When there is a right context, even what you think as the so-called death is not death. With a wrong understanding and wrong context just the thought, “Will this roof fall on my head?” is enough to put you into a panic attack. Just a small jolt in the flight is enough. Sometimes it is not even required, just your thought, a jolt in your thinking is enough to put you in the fear of death and make you go through death.

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Content: Source: Nithyananda

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Content: The first thing you need to know about death is, the actual happening has no significance at all. Imagination about the happening plays all the chaos, havoc in your life. Please listen; actual happening has no significance at all.

Content: This is what you think of as death, that one day you will suddenly disappear, your body will be taken and burnt or cremated or buried disposed. After that you won’t exist in the form you are existing now, that is what is, actual incident you call it as death. It has no significance.

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Content: HOW TO ACTUALLY ViEW DEATH?

Content: Death is nothing but a job change, profession change or career change. It has no significance. Just like you change your jobs, change your career, change your profession, sometime change the city you are living in, sometime change your spouse, sometime change your house, you just change your body.

Content: You might be thinking “No, that means too much”. The incident really has no significance at all. Changing your body happens so regularly in your life, it has no significance. Body changing has no significance. It is regular phenomena;

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Content: WHAT is THAT MAKES DEATH so FRiGHTENiNG, FEARFUL?

Content: It is cleaning of all the memory.

Content: There is only one thing in the death, actually happening which you are not seeing during the life;

Content: that is you forgetting the whole memory, cleaning of all memories,

Content: that is the beauty of death, never try to demystify that because just like once in a while you need stomach cleansing, stomach washing, once in

Content: a while you need all the memories getting cleansed.

Content: You get the fresh slate, you get the fresh life, you get the fresh energy, you get the fresh space.

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Content: Source: Nithyanandaped

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Content: A Small Story:

Content: Once, in USA, a young lady asked the great

Content: Indian monk Swami Vivekananda*

Content: 'What is life?' Swami Vivekananda said, 'Come

Content: with me to India. I will teach you.'

Content: She asked,

Content: 'What will you teach me?' He said, 'I will teach

Content: you how to die.'

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Content: The question is about life but the answer is about death! It seems strange! What Swami Vivekananda* is saying is that if you know the secret of death, the quality of your life will be different. Your very understanding and attitude towards everything will change. We can actually use our lives to prepare for death. We do not have to wait for the pain of seeing someone's death or the shock of being faced with a critical illness to force us to look into the meaning of life.

Content: DEATH iS NOT A MERE iNCiDENT AT THE END OF YOUR LiFE. iT iS A PROFOUND KNOWiNG. iF YOU KNOW HOW TO DiE, YOU KNOW HOW TO LiVE. LiViNG AND LEAViNG ARE TwO SiDES OF THE SAME THiNG. YOUR LiFE WiLL BE TOTALLY DiFFERENT ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND DEATH.

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Content: REALiTY

Content: iS

Content: A

Content: DREAM

Content: All Right

Content: Source: Nithyanan

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Content: iNTRODUCTION

Content: Reality is a dream, controlling life through awareness and dissolving into cosmic space.

Content: You are not the senses. You are not the eyes.

Content: The eyes are just instrument. Many times you can see, your eyes may go open but you are not seeing, not registering the scene you are seeing.

Content: You are not the two holes called the eyes. You are only seeing through the two holes called eyes.

Content: If you feel you are the two eyes you are caught in eyes.

Content: An important truth dreams are made of the same stuff of which this waking world is made.

Content: The air you breathe is just a vehicle in which the prana comes in and goes out.

Content: Prana is the life force the energy itself.

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Content: As long as the incoming breath is bringing in more prana and going out as an empty vehicle, your life will be strengthened. If the reverse starts happening, if the air comes with less prana and goes out with more prana, it means death is nearing or the life energy is going towards death. When death nears, just the empty air will enter but when it goes out, it will go with the prana

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Content: Source: Nithyanandapedia.org

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Content: Prana moves, functions and stays in the ajna Chakra when you are in the waking state. When you are in the dream state, it moves around the neck, around the Vishuddi chakra. When you are in a deep sleep, it moves around the anahata chakra heart center.

Content: Constantly, life is slipping and entering into death. Actually we don't live. We are just waiting for death to happen. That is the reason however many years you may live, you don't feel satisfied, and you don't feel you have lived your life because you don't even know what life is.

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Content: The moment you start becoming aware, you start deciding and you start controlling your life. When you become completely aware you will start controlling your death also. If you are consciously thinking, it is life. If your consciousness can't think, it is death. In the conscious level, if you are aware, it is dream.

Content: If you are able to see anything, if you are able to sense anything, if you are able to feel anything then it is called dream. If you are not aware of anything, if you are not able to understand any movement it is deep sleep. When you bring more awareness into your life you take charge of your life.

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Content: Actually when you master the prana, you understand that death as you think doesn't exist.

Content: Death is dissolving into the cosmic space. During death, the consciousness that is caught in your body relaxes into the consciousness that is outside your body. See, there is a space that is outside your skin and there is a space that is caught inside your skin. When your boundary is destroyed at some point, the space that is caught inside the body will simply relax into the space that is outside the body. Understanding this truth will liberate you from the fear of death. There is nothing in you that can be destroyed.

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Content: GOALS To make the children understand about the courage to face life and death and about dissolving into the cosmic space.

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Content: What happens when you think you are the two eyes?

Content: Are we registering every scene that we see?

Content: What are dreams made up of?

Content: Which is the vehicle in which the prana comes?

Content: What is prana?

Content: When will our life will be strengthened?

Content: What happens when death nears?

Content: What happens when we are in the waking state?

Content: What happens when we are in the dream state?

Content: What happens when we are in the deep sleep?

Content: What happens when you start becoming aware?

Content: What is life? What happens during death?

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Content: CONCLUSION Dreams are made of the same stuff of which this waking world is made. If you are consciously thinking it is life. If your consciousness can't think, it is death.

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Content: ART OF

Content: THE DAY

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Content: ART OF THE DAY: FEAR STROKES ART FOR DEATH DRAWING

Content: MATERIALS NEEDED

Content: Plain sheet

Content: Brush

Content: (sketch pen of dark colours) or pencil.

Content: PROCEDURE

Content: Explain the art to the children. Encourage the child to strike with paint brush strokes on the paper, paint more strokes in a random way. This is called fear stroke drawing

Content: INFERENCE

Content: Death is a primal fear, that of the unknown. The fear of leaving the body and mind has existed through the ages. We are scared of death because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change.

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Content: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

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Content: ACTiViTY OF THE DAY

Content: DRAW AND PAiNT DREAMS ACTiViTY.

Content: MATERIALS NEEDED

Content: Plain sheet

Content: Sketch pen or pencil

Content: Poster colors.

Content: PROCEDURE

Content: Encourage each child to draw what was their latest or repeatedly recurring dream. Ask them to depict that dream in a pictorial form and paint it nicely. Give turn for each child to explain what they have drawn.

Content: INFERENCE

Content: Life is nothing but day dreaming and dream is nothing but night life. Night life is dream and day dream is life.

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Content: STORY TiME!

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Content: STORY TIME!

Content: Once a woman came with her dead son to Buddha. She was sad with grief of the death of her only son.

Content: Woman: Master, please give me some medicine that will get my boy back to life.

Content: Buddha: Give me a handful of mustard seed. The women got up immediately.

Content: Buddha: The mustard seed must be from a house where no one has lost a dear one- child, husband, parent, friend.

Content: The women went from house to house. Out of pity for the desperately crying woman, people gave her mustard seeds from their house. But she asked whether they had lost a dear one, they had some one or the other who had died in the house.

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Content: She went from house to house till sunset but found no house where a death had not happened. Slowly the truth started drawing on her - death is inevitable.

Content: She buried her son's body and returned to Buddha. She fell at the feet of Buddha and asked him, Buddha! Master, Please teach me the truth.

Content: What is death: What exists beyond death?

Content: She became Buddha's disciple and followed Buddha for the rest of her life.

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