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Content: SPIRITUALITY

Content: Nithyananda

Content: Man is a potential. Today you see yourself as being your body, attached to a name and personality built over years of experiences. You play different roles as social entity, family figure etc.

Content: You are that, but you are much more also. Tremendous possibilities are lying dormant in you! You can manifest all your dreams once you unlock your personal energy and awaken to the real nature of Existence.

Content: But for that to happen, you have to go in and befriend yourself, you have to start a solid collaboration with You.

Content: Spirituality is the science that guides you to become your best friend and associate, in order to manifest auspiciousness in every aspect of your life!

Content: -Nithyananda

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Content: Nithyananda

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• Nithyananda

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Content: Table of Contents

Content: Why Spirituality

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Content: Is This Spirituality?

Content: 12

Content: How to Center Yourself

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Content: The Cognitive Shift

Content: 26

Content: The Power of the Mind

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Content: Spirituality and Service

Content: 44

Content: Global Peace

Content: 47

Content: Appendix

Content: 53

Content: Why Spirituality

Content: Spirituality is often viewed as a mysterious philosophy, out of the world and destined for a few. To modern man's view, especially in the West, spirituality is associated with yogis and sages of India, with the ancient Christian mystics or the modern new age adepts.

Content: We remember the stories of the saints and mystics of the past and their intense attempt to merge with the spirit or what religions call God. We remember Buddha, an enlightened master who was a storelight of wisdom and compassion, we remember Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the exalted devotee of Mother Kali, or we remember Mother Theresa, a philanthropist tirelessly engaged in service to society.

Content: as a complete individual. You then become an asset to society in which you live, and to the world.

Content: Spiritual practices have deep positive effects on our physiology and unlock these strengths.

Content: Spiritual practices have a metaphysical effect as well on us. We have a physical body and an etheric body as well. This etheric body is a storehouse of prana, or life energy. Prana is the energy that we take in when we breathe in air. Air is the medium to bring in prana for us. Actually, we don’t need air to survive; we need only prana. This prana is surrounding us, and we are able to absorb it better when our mind and body are in balance.

Content: We have an energy system called the chakra system in our body. It is a metaphysical phenomenon. It comprises seven subtle energy centers located along the spine. They control our physical, mental and emotional activities. Only when these chakras function harmoniously can you experience a sense of physical well-being and good health. These chakras are like energy centers that contract or expand depending on our state of mind. When they are opened, they draw

Content: tremendous prana to the body. These centers then distribute this vital energy into our etheric body, via the nadis, which are subtle channels of energy. This has a direct impact on our mental and physical condition.

Content: The intake of prana energy is directly connected to our mood. It is a mechanical process. Whenever you are in a low mood, your chakras are locked, your energy level is low and you remain in a low mood. Whenever you start some techniques like yoga, meditation or mantra chanting and bring awareness into it, you straightaway feel something is opening up in you. Effortlessly, something would have unlocked in you, and a new energy floods your system. This happens because you have shifted your attention from your problem to your center. Even if you fall into meditation only for a second, you will feel this opening up in you. Meditation gives instant results. And its effects are so calming that within a short time, you learn how to shift all your modes of response to stress, fear, anger etc.

Content: Let me tell you a story. It is actually an experiment that was conducted in University of Chicago.

Content: A young healthy and intelligent man wakes up and gets ready to go to work. His wife looks at him and tells, 'You are looking tired, are you feeling okay?'

Content: He feels irritated by her comment and tells her to stop imagining things and leaves to work.

Content: As he takes his car out of the garage, his neighbor is watching him and shouts out, 'Are you feeling well? You look out of sorts!'

Content: The man is surprised this time, but tells him that he is alright and drives out. He reaches his office, and as he walks in, the receptionist looks at him with concern and says, 'Sir, you look ill! Why did you come to work?' The man replies, 'Well, I think I'm fine. Let's see...' And he goes to his bureau.

Content: He starts working and a colleague enters and exclaims, 'Hey! You look awful. What's the matter? Do you have fever or something?'

Content: Now, this is too much for the man. He begins to feel uneasy and sick.

Content: Just then his boss calls him and he goes in. The boss takes one look at him and says, 'You look

Content: really unwell. Are you sure you can carry on today? Why don't you go and see a doctor?'

Content: The young man has had enough. He feels he is actually ill now, and decides to go home.

Content: As he drives home, he feels his temperature rising. When he reaches home, his wife is surprised to see him back. She reaches out and touches his forehead and finds that he has temperature!

Content: He developed high temperature!

Content: The experiment was conducted on 11 people and all the 11 people fell sick at the end of it!

Content: Understand, this is what happens when you are not centered in your own inner energy. You will move from a high to a low because of outer influences.

Content: Once you have found your center, that is your being, you are able to go back to it consciously to get rejuvenated. All of your inner strengths start unfolding and you begin to develop courage, energy, stamina, confidence and leadership qualities. Your work ability takes a quantum leap. You become your own source of energy and popular as well, because you are an energizing personality!

Content: How to Center Yourself

Content: To go back to your center, you need to go deeper and deeper into yourself.

Content: Practice witnessing your thoughts, your emotions, until you reach the space where there is complete equilibrium. This effort will soon become effortless!

Content: You will fall into your natural you, the you who is neither conditioned by society, nor by collections of experiences.

Content: Right now, you are three persons:

Content: The person others think you are, the person you believe you are and the person you really are!

Content: But who are you?

Content: Are you what society calls a chief executive or a laborer, a doctor or a dropout? Are you a 'depressed' wife or a 'respected' father? Are you a first-ranked student in school or a so-called criminal? Are you a generous husband or a stressed CEO? Are you a role model?

Content: Are you only these?

Content: As of now, you identify yourself with what others project on you and start reflecting it. You become it and get stuck in an identity which becomes your own prison. Your energy becomes solidified instead of flowing. From then onwards, no evolution happens, because there is no space available for change to happen.

Content: Be very clear: changing your spouse won't help. Taking a holiday won't help. Buying a new car, going to a psychiatrist or changing your outer space won't help.

Content: You can only help yourself by changing your inner space and by starting to work on it, from where you are.

Content: You need to spiritualize your life!

Content: Spirituality is all about going back to yourself, and start collaborating with you.

Content: Spiritual people are those who have started acknowledging they are something other than their social identity or material possessions. They are those who are moving beyond the boundaries of social conditionings, in order to be themselves more fully.

Content: Never think running away to the forest far away from your responsibility is needed for spirituality to happen!

Content: A simple cognitive shift will do.

Content: The Cognitive Shift

Content: The cognitive shift is the change that happens in you as a natural consequence of you reaching your being more frequently.

Content: As we practice looking in, we discover a new world completely unknown to us.

Content: As we reach our being, we start unveiling all the powers that were lying dormant within: strength, intelligence, balance, spontaneity.

Content: We start discovering a peaceful, loving and beautiful feeling that we never experienced before. As we go deeper, we encounter Bliss, and notice that this feeling is always there because it is the natural state of our being. We are nitya

Content: ananda, eternal bliss - a feeling that is meant to grow to eventually become more real than the outer world.

Content: To feel it, nothing more is needed than practicing going back to our center. This experience will happen by itself through spiritual practices. You don't need to force it. Once it happens you will just drop yourself easily and fall in, you will rise in love with Existence!

Content: Then slowly, as you start functioning from that center, you start expressing spiritual qualities. Your whole perception of the world changes and you witness a subtle beauty, an auspiciousness, perfect silence and harmony everywhere. It is then that you realize that nothing is ever disharmonious in Existence.

Content: You then come face to face with what the mystics call God.

Content: A small story:

Content: Once upon a time there lived a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip

Content: to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with some cookies and a bottle of juice and started his journey.

Content: After sometime, he came across an old woman. She was sitting in the park just staring at some pigeons.

Content: The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase.

Content: He was about to drink his juice when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry, so he offered her a cookie.

Content: She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty and the boy wanted to see it again.

Content: So he offered her juice.

Content: Once again she smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat there all afternoon eating and

Content: smiling, but they never spoke to each other.

Content: It became dark and the boy felt tired and he wanted to leave that place. But before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug.

Content: The old woman gave him her biggest smile ever. The boy went home and opened the door of his house. After some time, his mother saw him and was surprised by the look of joy on his face.

Content: She asked him, 'What did you do today that made you so happy?' He replied, 'I had lunch with God'.

Content: But before his mother could respond, he added, 'You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I have ever seen!'

Content: Meanwhile, the old woman also returned to her home radiant with joy. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face and he asked, 'Mother, what did you do today that made you so happy?' She replied, 'I ate cookies with God in the park'. But before he son responded, she added, 'Do you know, God is much younger than I expected!'

Content: These are the truly beautiful things that can happen to you when you spiritualize yourself. Such beauty and simplicity will happen in you! Qualities such as sharing, caring, and openness will start singing through you and as you identify more and more with these qualities, you just will not act as you acted before.

Content: This cognitive shift will take place within you as a natural consequence of such experiences. You start operating from your center. You start relating more and more from your heart. And slowly, you move from your mind to the no-mind state. You understand how your mind is playing havoc in your life and become freer from it - its grip on you will subside slowly.

Content: The Power of the Mind

Content: Let me tell you about a research that was conducted in the last century:

Content: A man was punished with life sentence for a crime he had committed. Some scientists approached him and asked, 'You have received the death sentence, which will occur on the due date, is that true?' He replied that it was true and that there was no way he could be saved. Then the scientists asked him if he could give his body for experimentation before his death for the welfare of mankind. The man agreed.

Content: The scientists took written permission to perform the experiment from the court of law itself. The scientists, the psychiatrists and the doctors came

Content: all equipped on the day the man was to be electrocuted. They started their experiments.

Content: They told him that anyway he was going to die, so instead of getting electrocuted, he would die of snake bite. They explained that they wanted to find out how poison spreads in the body and how a man dies after a snake bite. They convinced him that they wanted to explore the remedy that heals a man bitten by a snake. They asked him if he agreed. He gave his consent for the whole experiment.

Content: The scientists gave a live demonstration of the effects of snake bite on a horse. A few minutes after the snake bit the horse, it fell down. It started trembling and died a few seconds later.

Content: The scientists then told the man that this experiment would be conducted on him and this is how his final journey would be.

Content: The man's eyes were covered with a black band and his upper half of body was covered with a veil so that he could not see anything. He was told that in the next two minutes, the snake will bite him.

Content: They used a rat instead of a snake for the whole procedure, but the man was told that the snake had bitten him and he was about to die.

Content: His mind was convinced that a snake had bitten him, and therefore he held a strong belief that he would die in the same manner the horse died. As soon as the 'snake' bit him, the power of his mind produced trembling in his body. The man trembled in the same way as the horse did, and died.

Content: Scientists investigated his blood and found snake poison in it!

Content: The mind has the power to create anything positive, or anything negative. It can destroy your life; it can save you as well! It can create diseases in you; it can heal you. It can create heaven on earth; it can create hell on earth. It can make you feel contented; it can make you feel miserable in the same situation.

Content: Mind creates the poison of illusion in your system.

Content: This mind is nothing else but illusion, or what we call in Sanskrit Maya. 'Ya ma iti maya': that

Content: which does not exist is Maya. That which does not exist but continuously disturbs! In this report, the man died from a snake bite that never happened! In the same way, we are dying every day under the pressure of worries that are never true.

Content: Do you know that 99 % of your worries never come true?

Content: Do you know that these worries are created only by your mind?

Content: You always think worries are created by external matters. You always blame the outside world, the people around you, accusing them of causing worries in you. If the cause for worries was external there should be at least one person who has beaten all these causes and got free from worries! But is it the case? Anyone you meet has got some worry or the other. Whether they are rich or poor, married or unmarried, with children or without, working for salary or having their own business, everyone seems to have worries.

Content: Understand, the cause of worries is internal, not external. This is the truth. If you look carefully,

Content: you will realize that worry is nothing more than your response to an event. The way you choose to respond determines whether it becomes a worry for you or not.

Content: Let us take an example?

Content: Let us say that the company in which you are working is going through a crisis. It is sacking employees. There is every possibility that you may lose your job as well.

Content: As soon you hear this news, you start going into deep worries. Worries possess you. You start thinking, ‘What is going to happen? What will my wife say? The children will be ashamed! I bought a new car on credit, how will I pay it?’ All your deepest fears surface and you may even visualize yourself ending your life on a sidewalk as a homeless person!

Content: Worrying like this won’t improve your situation. It will not improve your problem at all. Unfortunately, you may get sacked, but you may not get sacked at all as well! Endless possibilities are there. Nothing is certain but one thing: you are likely to develop a stomach ulcer worrying like this!

Content: So why add more trouble to your troubles? Stop worrying about what is beyond your perception. Stop worrying about your worries. When you worry about your worries, you create a constant inner chatter in you. Then this constant inner chatter in you that creates worries becomes your master!

Content: Have the wisdom to use your energy in a positive way, not in a negative way. Whenever such a threat happens in your life, sit down, and become aware of how your mind is playing havoc on you.

Content: You can try a small technique.

Content: Just sit for a few minutes with your eyes closed, by yourself in a quiet place. Keep a paper and a pen next to you. Don’t focus your mind on anything particular. Just witness your thoughts. Just see what is going on in your mind. You will see the continuous stream of thoughts flowing through it. You will see the constant inner chatter being created in your system.

Content: Then take the pen and sincerely pen down your entire thoughts one after the other as they happen. Do this for five minutes!

Content: Now read...

Content: You will be shocked! How disconnected, how irrelevant your thoughts are! One thought will target one matter, and the next will have jumped to a conclusion which is not directly relevant to the matter! You will start imagining yourself being sacked, then going back to your house and announcing the news to your wife, who will soon divorce and leave the house with your children. Then you will picture yourself wandering around employment agencies, without finding work, then go into deep depression and lose everything.

Content: All your energy will be propelled towards creating negative scenarios about the future.

Content: But can you tell for sure that things will happen this way? And then if it’s meant to happen this way, what control do you have on this? What is meant to happen will happen, but your response to it is completely in your hands: the way you respond is your free will.

Content: Of course, these issues are the most important things in your life today, and so you have a strong emotional attachment to it. That is natural.

Content: But never forget that it is useless to visualize so many steps ahead. Also, remember that you are beyond all your social identities! So there is no need to excessively worry about them.

Content: Your creative power is infinite, but for it to unfold, you have to stop procrastinating, stop creating poison in your system, find positive solutions to your problems and start trusting your inner creativity, therefore drawing auspiciousness to you. Start working on yourself.

Content: The reason why worry kills more people than work, is that more people worry than actually work!

Content: Once you do this exercise, you will understand the nature of the mind, and a cognitive shift will happen in you.

Content: From my experience, I assure you, Existence is taking care of the needs of each and every being on Planet Earth every moment. But in your race to social success, you have lost trust in the Universe. You have lost your connection with faith and the beauty of the power of coincidence. That is why you always fall into depression when some unexpected events happen.

Content: You see, change in life is inevitable. Life is not the secure ground you wish it to be; anything can happen any moment. The Universe has an intelligence of its own that nobody can control. This life you are living today won't be the same forever. Understand that the whole thing is a wonderful orchestration of Existence. So just welcome it, instead of procrastinating over it!

Content: What is the power of coincidence?

Content: Have you ever suddenly thought about an old friend? And when thinking about him, the telephone rings and he is there on the phone?

Content: Slowly, as you open up to Existence, you notice such miracles happening around you. These miraculous coincidences are what you call 'power of coincidence'. Spirituality is making you more sensitive to the space in which you live, to your surroundings, so that you start acknowledging that you are having a relationship with the Whole, with Existence itself.

Content: Sometimes, when you have a sincere question, a stranger comes to you and gives an answer. Or, you desire some kind of sweet food and somebody

Content: comes and offers it to you. Or you remember somebody wearing an orange cloth and all of a sudden somebody with the same dress passes by you!

Content: Many such beautiful coincidences will happen around you when you enter the spiritual zone. You will realize that the universe surrounding you is a living, intelligent entity that is responding to your thoughts.

Content: You then start relating with God, Existence, the Master... Life takes up a new flavor. You experience the tremendous beauty of Existence.

Content: The more you go towards your center, the more you become aware of such beautiful synchronicities that happen in your life. There exists a power in the universe that works in synergy with you to make you evolve into an ever more conscious human being.

Content: I tell you, this universe is calling you to become a spiritual person. It is calling you to open up to it; it is ready to patiently prove that you can trust its intelligence. The more you drop your mind and fears, the more you will understand what I mean.

Content: Any positive intention of yours will start materializing in your life. Any endeavours you do with a positive intention for your growth and other's growth will find fulfilment, because you are working in tune with your center and the universe. You are working in collaboration with yourself; you have become your associate; you have fallen in tune. Therefore you attract auspiciousness to you, and the Universe responds to your thoughts.

Content: A beautiful awareness of being part of a macrocosmic orchestra wherein you just need to flow with the music and enjoy, will fall on you! When you are in tune with the flow of existence and go with it, you will be so spontaneous; you will be able to take on everything that comes your way, and you will simply expand with gratitude!

Content: A nice story:

Content: There was a little flower in the desert where everything was dry. It was growing by itself, enjoying every day that passed by and saying to the Sun, 'When shall I be grown up?' And the Sun would say, 'Be patient. Each time I touch you, you grow a little'. She was then very pleased, because she would have a chance to bring beauty to that corner of the sand. And this is all she wanted to do: bring a little bit of beauty to that world.

Content: One day the hunter came by and stepped on her. She was going to die and she felt so sad. Not because she was dying, but because she would not have a chance to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.

Content: God was watching her, and was listening. He said, 'She should be living' and he reached down and touched her, and gave her life.

Content: And she grew up to be a beautiful flower, and that corner of the desert became so beautiful because of her.

Content: From anywhere you are, if you are ready to open up, to flower, you can become a treasure in that place; you can make a difference around you. You can bring God down to planet Earth!

Content: This is exactly what enlightened masters are. They are beautiful flowers that magnify everything around them. They attract others by their sheer beauty and naturalness. They are incarnations of love and service to their fellow beings. They are the embodiment of spirituality!

Content: Spirituality is not just a personal thing. It can have definite repercussions on society also. Spirituality is not only rituals, it is compassion also. It is a service to society; it is a deep love and concern for humanity's welfare.

Content: Vivekananda, the disciple of the great Bengali Saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says beautifully, ‘Aatmano mokshaartbam jagat bitaayache’, ‘Though we may attain enlightenment, to harness it for the service of humanity is true spirituality.’

Content: Selfless service to society can encourage a person to reach the higher state of consciousness. Selfless service gives the needed strength and courage to

Content: awaken the sleeping divinity in oneself. Every opportunity to serve is a gift from Existence. Service to fellow beings done with gratitude will lead one to enlightenment, because it has the ability to remove the ego, to kindle love and tolerance in us, and to give bliss to ourselves and others. In fact, service is the first and last step on the spiritual path.

Content: My vision is to create a new age man, one who realizes that he is pure bliss, who lives with sound spiritual strength in the material world, who embraces anything with totality, who is total not just perfect, who understands that this universe is a wonderful chaos with an amazing order, who strives to move in tune with it and becomes a mere witness in the event. He will live like a Paramahamsa – an enlightened one! His life itself will be meditative, deeply rooted in the Universal Consciousness, moving in synchronicity with the power of coincidence, serving himself and others, and producing results seamlessly.

Content: This man will naturally take up responsibilities. Responsibility is nothing but the ability to respond spontaneously to any situation. Responsibility is growth; responsibility is expansion. If you take

Content: up responsibility, you naturally become a leader, you generate energy.

Content: If ever you work and feel like a slave, be sure that you are working with no feeling of responsibility! When you work with responsibility, you are a leader.

Content: Once you expand your inner space, you can take responsibility for the whole world. The divine energy then simply starts flowing through you.

Content: Whenever you take up responsibility for everything around you with an elevated consciousness, you become automatically socially conscious as well. You become an enlightened CEO - chief executive officer! All the organizations you create as enlightened CEOs will also be socially responsible as a natural by-product. You will not create one more corporation that disrespects and considers human lives, the Earth and nature as just profit or loss. Wealth will not be created at the expense of the poor by exploiting the poor. Instead of creating more social, economical and environmental problems, such businesses will have tremendous positive impact and make the world a better place for everybody.

Content: Global Peace

Content: In Western countries, when a group disagrees with a war going on in the world, it gathers in the streets and starts demonstrating resistance. Then the demonstration ends up in violence and ravage. Why is this so? Even non-violent organizations are using violent words and actions to spread their opinions.

Content: Real non-violence, abimsa, as we call it in Sanskrit, starts within oneself. Violence drops naturally from a man who is in tune with himself. He has consciously stopped harming himself - adding positive peace to the world by cultivating peace within him.

Content: An interesting series of experiments has been conducted in Washington, USA:

Content: A group of people was asked to meditate together. The crime rate in the city was tracked before, during and after the meditation. Surprisingly, during the time people were meditating, the crime rate was found to drop!

Content: This series of experiments and many others conducted in universities as well as various cities around the world excludes the possibility of the positive effect of meditation being just a coincidence.

Content: We are all connected to each other not only socially; we are all part of the Whole also, we are a collective consciousness.

Content: We are not individual islands as we think. Our thoughts, our emotions, our feelings affect ourselves and the rest of the world. When all of us feel and radiate peace, global peace happens beautifully. Similarly, when one individual starts transforming himself, he opens up the possibility for the transformation to happen in others as well!

Content: Once we realize our inner divinity, we naturally respect ourselves, and fall into gratitude and awe in front of our wonderful body-mind system and the pure gift of life.

Content: Our body is the temple of God, never forget this.

Content: We unfortunately disrespect the wonderful energy we are and create problems and interfere with the natural laws of life. We then directly contribute to the collective negativity of the universe. Natural catastrophes are physical manifestations of this collective negativity. It is therefore the responsibility of each one of us to realize the vision of a beautiful planet Earth nurturing and being nurtured by our collective positive consciousness. Each one of us is personally responsible for that to happen.

Content: The responsibility to start taking this into account on a large scale is in our hands.

Content: It is time to stop running in search of solutions in the outer world. It is time to look inwards and to spiritualize our life. Only individual transformation will transform the world.

Content: This is the message that enlightened masters have given us time and again.

Content: As you come closer and closer to your center, all the great truths delivered by the masters will be revealed to you.

Content: A small story:

Content: A fox was feeling very thirsty. Troubled by thirst he ran towards a river and started drinking water as soon as he reached the riverside.

Content: A fish observing the desperation of the fox to drink water asked, 'Why do you enjoy the water so much? I do not enjoy water that much.'

Content: The fox replied, 'Do you want to know why I enjoy water so much?'

Content: The fish said, 'Yes!'

Content: The fox immediately held the fish by its neck and threw it on the surface of the hot sand bank. The poor fish started trembling without water. It was about to die when the fox put the fish back in the river and asked, 'Do you now understand why you enjoy water so much?'

Content: The fish said, 'Yes, now I understood that water is my life and my life is impossible without water!' For the soul who wanders in the labyrinth of worldly life, when the search becomes an urge and when the

Content: urge becomes a search, spirituality becomes the water, the guide, the meaning and the ultimate solution. Spirituality is the last science, the science where illusion ceases and eternal life starts. It is the science of liberation itself.

Content: May you become, radiate and express Eternal Bliss, nithyananda! Thank you.

Content: Appendix

Content: About Nithyananda

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

Content: His mission is to first give the experiential understanding that bliss is not an end goal but the path itself - which is living in bliss 24 hours a day! He brings to understanding that this is

Content: possible for every one of us through working in our own inner space.

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

Content: He has devised myriad programs that cause one to fall into the natural space called meditation. He says, 'Meditation is the master key that can bring success in the material world and deep fulfillment in your space within.'

Content: Nithyananda Mission

Content: Nithyananda Mission is Nithyananda's worldwide movement for inner bliss. It has under its fold, the International Vedic Hindu University (IVHU), Florida, USA.

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda's mission is to create a new cycle of individual consciousness in planet Earth, causing Collective Consciousness to enter into the Superconscious zone. To achieve this, the Mission aims to initiate one billion people into the unique meditation - Nithya Dhyaan, and one hundred thousand people into 'living enlightenment'.

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

Content: They offer guaranteed life solutions that have seen quick and effective transformation of lives.

Content: A diverse range of meditation programs are offered worldwide through IVHU. Further, free energy healing through the Nithya Spiritual Healing system, free education to youth, encouragement to art and culture, corporate programs, free medical camps, free meals, a one-year residential training program in India called the Life Bliss Technology program, an in-house

Content: Gurukul system of learning for children, and many more such services are offered around the world.

Content: Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam is the wing of the Mission that handles the spiritual activities. Life Bliss Foundation (LBF) is the wing of the Mission that handles the teachings.

Content: Offerings from Life Bliss Foundation (LBF)

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

Content: Life Bliss Program Level 1

Content: Ananda Spurana Program - ASP

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• Energize yourself

Content: A chakra workout program that relaxes and energizes the seven major chakras in your system. It gives clear intellectual and experiential

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

Content: Life Bliss Program Level 2

Content: Nithyananda Spurana Program - NSP

Content: -Death demystified!

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

Content: Life Bliss Program Level 3

Content: Atma Spurana Program - ATSP

Content:

• Connect with your Self!

Content: This is a breakthrough program that analyzes clearly the workings of the mind and shows you experientially how to be the master of the mind rather than let it rule over you. It involves the whole tremendous intellectual understanding coupled with novel meditations to produce instant experiential understanding.

Content: Life Bliss Technology (LBT)

Content:

• A one-year free residential life sciences program

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

Content: Nithya Spiritual Healing

Content:

• Healing through Cosmic energy

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

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Content: SPIRITUALITY

Content: Nithya Dhyaan - Life Bliss Meditation

Content: Become one among the millions

Content: who walk on planet Earth -

Content: Un-clutched! Register online and

Content: get initiated.

Content: Nithya Dhyaan is a powerful

Content: everyday meditation prescribed by Nithyananda to

Content: humanity at large. It is a formula or a technique which

Content: is holistic and complete. It works on the entire being

Content: to transform it and make it ready for the ultimate

Content: experience of enlightenment to dawn. Each segment

Content: of this technique complements the remaining

Content: segments to help raise the individual consciousness.

Content: It trains you to un-clutch from your mind and live a

Content: blissful life. It is the meditation for Eternal Bliss.

Content: If you wish to be initiated into Nithya Dhyaan, you

Content: may register online. You will receive through mail,

Content: a mala, bracelet, a spiritual name given by

Content: Nithyananda for your own spiritual growth

Content: (optional), Nithya Dhyaan Meditation CD and

Content: Nithya Dhyaan booklet in a language of your choice,

Content: personally signed by Nithyananda (mention your

Content: choice in the comment column).

Content: APPENDIX

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Content: Contact us

Content: Listed below are the two main ashrams of the

Content: Mission.

Content: USA:

Content: Los Angeles

Content: Los Angeles Vedic Temple

Content: 9720 Central Avenue, Montclair,

Content: CA 91763, USA

Content: Ph.: 1-909-625-1400

Content: Email:

Content: [email protected]

Content: URL:

Content: www.lifebliss.org

Content: INDIA:

Content: Bangalore, Karnataka

Content: (Spiritual headquarters. Vedic Temple located here)

Content: Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam

Content: Nithyanandapuri, Kallugopahalli

Content: Mysore Road, Bidadi

Content: Bangalore - 562 109, Karnataka

Content: Ph.: +91 80 27202801 / 92430 48957

Content: Telefax: +91 80 27202084

Content: Email:

Content: [email protected]

Content: URL:

Content: www.nithyananda.org

Content: You may visit our websites for locations of other

Content: ashrams and centers worldwide.

Content: Suggested for further reading

Content: Why Series

Content: Guaranteed Solutions for sex, fear, worry etc.

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

Content: The Door to Enlightenment (Life Bliss Program Level 2 - Nithyananda Spurana Program)

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

Content: You can Heal (Nithya Spiritual Healing)

Content: Meditation is for You

Content: Bliss is the path and the goal

Content: The only way out is IN

Content: Rising in love with the Master

Content: Bhagavad Gita series

Content: Uncommon answers to common questions

Content: Open the door...Let the breeze in!

Content: Nithya Yoga - The Ultimate Practice for Body, Mind and Being

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

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