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Content: A Preview of the 5-Volume Series on The Life of The Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Content: The Autobiography of The Avatar™ is the most valuable book in existence. This book will reveal the deepest core of Bhagavan Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the deepest core of the cosmos itself. This book will leave the reader blinking, staring directly into the thoughtless empty space that is our true source. This autobiography will deliver The Avatar™ himself to you. The next question, then, is what can the reader do to hold the most of him? Paramahamsa Nithyananda himself answers:

Content: "Human Beings need to remember only one thing - when Cosmos rushes towards you, when Sadashiva rushes towards you with a tremendous love, when he overflows in you, do not be stupid enough to have doubts. First don't doubt, "Am I qualified for it?"

Content: The moment you have that self-doubt, self-hatred, self-denial, you have doubt on him. He has nothing to achieve through you. Neither your money nor your beauty, or your age or your wealth or your possessions- nothing is useful for him. Whatever you think is the most valuable in your life, nothing is useful for him. Nothing is useful for him. He is not looking at you for any utility value. He is looking at you only as a conscious

Content: value. He is flowing towards you, rushing towards you, just to manifest through you. Understand, officially and formally I am declaring today - my only interest is to manifest through all of you as Oneness and powers of Oneness.

Content: The second serious problem every seeker goes through is being overwhelmed when you know the logic with which Sadāshiva is functioning. Don't be caught with your cozy understandings, cozy ideas about Cosmos. It is too big. It is too much. When you decide to get comfortable with the way it functions, you become part of his secret life, Sadashiva's secret life.

Content: "When you become part of the secret life of Sadashiva, he just manifests oneness through you. he just manifests all the experiences and powers through you."

Content: This book is just the introduction to the Autobiography of The Avatar. The entire life of Bhagavan will be delivered in 5 volumes of thick

Content: books as well as many short additions and a website that shows live updates of the happenings around The Avatar. Autobiography of

Content: The Avatar is your gateway to knowing him and having him manifest through you.

Content: Autobiography of The Avatar Volume 1: The Golden Child

Content: Introduction to Volume 1

Content: Volume 1 of the Autobiography of The Avatar covers the life of The Avatar from before 1978 to 1990, when he was twelve years old. This book will include vivid and experiential descriptions of all of Paramahamsa Nithyananda's past lives- or previous bio-memories that he collected to descend on Earth today. The reader will travel through the childhood of The Avatar up until his enlightenment experience. It is truly The Golden Childhood.

Content: The Cosmic Sutra

Content: Just to come away for a few hours to sit with his devotees, The Avatar put the daily functions of the cosmos on a smooth sailing auto-pilot. He sat on the stone ground of his courtyard surrounded by his devotees on all sides. Perhaps a slight chill was in the air but the intimacy of the moment - the sheer purity of the guru and shishya relationship - overwhelmed any cold. They sat so close to him, their beings completely full by the moment. Somehow, though there were at least 40 people around him, every single one felt their personal relationship with him stirring within them leaving them yearning for more.

Content: "Actually each statement I am making now is a deity. Because they are yearning for my space, I allowed them to come down and be near me for sometime. That is why you are all understanding these truths now,"

Content: "That means they are here now, Swamiji?" said one young devotee, as if she suddenly became aware of various presences that she could not see. Bhagavan looked at her and said, "If you are understanding this, they have to be here" Her body flushed with joy and complete awe as she closed her eyes for a moment and prayed to them - the deities of these truths - to let these understandings remain with her forever.

Content: Large paper boards were held up in front of Bhagavan as he filled in charts with the truths of the cosmos. While these were available in all of Sadashiva's works, never before had they been presented like this, in such a broken down, comprehensible manner. He made it clear that to continue to manifest powers, you must understand these truths thoroughly. You must know the laws of the cosmos - to know which way to proceed and what kind of patterns not to fall into. He presented the universe to these fortunate devotees with three main subjects: ishvara, jagat and jiva which are the Hindu versions of God, Universe and Self. Large paper boards were held up in front of Bhagavan as he filled in charts with the truths of the cosmos. While these were available in all of Sadashiva's works, never before had they been presented like this, in such a broken down, comprehensible manner. He made it clear that to continue to manifest powers, you must understand these truths thoroughly.

Content: "Understanding these can directly lead you to enlightenment Because I am revealing them to you, I want to give you enlightenment"

Content: The disciples jumped at the opportunity. "Swamiji, all of us want enlightenment" one said.

Content: "No" he responded abruptly. "You cannot speak for all like that"

Content: Another devotee said, "I would like it"

Content: Bhagavan paused and then spoke, "You are taking this too casually. It is not some candy in the store. Now even if I give, you will take it for granted. The way you said, "I would like it" - it's too casual"

Content: "Swamiji" finally another sincere disciple spoke up. "Please bless me to understand these truths completely so that I will get enlightened"

Content: He paused once, looked down and closed his eyes for a second. Then, in a very soft voice he blessed her, "Thathastu"

Content: The entire scene was very unlike the manner in which incarnations have delivered truths in Hindu history. Krishna was in Vishwaroopa in the middle of the battlefield when he delivered the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna. Dakshinamurthy delivered truths in silence under the banyan tree to maharishis. But Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda adopted this intimate setting for the delivery of these truths. Soaking and overflowing with love, it was reminiscent of none other than the time he as a boy spent with Arunagiri Yogishwaara. With this raw love in every inhale and exhale of the atmosphere, Paramahamsa Nithyananda spoke the truths of the cosmos.

Content: concepts. Those who lived in different lokas - dimensions - from the one humans are accustomed to. Those beings that were each great devotees of Sadashiva, for only through him, they attain the bliss of being revealed to ignorant minds. When they had heard that once again, Sadashiva was on Earth, dwelling in bhu loka, bringing those beings from darkness to light, their craving began building and building until it finally surpassed the floodgates of his graciousness. Sadashiva allowed them to be around him for a few human hours, a few ages in their time. Only then, when they land on Earth, does the knowledge of the universe grace the minds of humans. If the witnesses wholly understand these vast concepts, they owe it to those beings. They have to bow down to these great deities and be grateful for their love of Sadashiva.

Content: Before it is revealed to the reader here, let them take a moment to bow down to the deities that represent these

Content: Sadashiva.

Content: The deities danced on Sadashiva's tongue as he spoke the truths of jiva (self), jagat (universe) and ishvara.

Content: He said

Content: "Visualize a gold wire ball, chaotically caught and soaked in a nectar. That liquid is the avyaktha, the unmanifest, component of Sadashiva. And the wires running around is the vyaktha component of Sadashiva. Avyaktha and vyaktha; one is vyaktha component of Sadashiva. Avyaktha and vyaktha; one is a liquid gold and one a solid

Content: gold. For both, the material is same. It becomes a solid due to Sadashiva's decision to enjoy. It can at anytime return to liquid.

Content: His decision of will to enjoy himself is the steam. That steam makes the liquid into solid. The steam is will-persistence. The will to enjoy himself in multiple ways is the steam which makes the liquid into solid within his own sphere and celebrates"

Content: He began in this manner. He went on to describe the 25 states of consciousness, 11 dimensions of the universe and 5 actions of Sadashiva in the most elaborate, enlightening detail.

Content: "I was not brought up at home. I was brought up in the temple."

Content: Hinduism responds. That is why this lifestyle produces the most passionate and fervent devotees. The power of people like Shakaracharya or Sri Ramakrishna can pierce through the arrogance of an atheist. It is in the very nature of Hinduism to produce the greatest kind of devotees in the world. Just because of one thing: Hinduism responds. It drinks the offerings of temple-goers and it gives darshan everywhere in the world, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the mountains of cotton candy created in dreams. It is not a one sided faith. Hinduism is a two way street where humans interact with the higher identity of themselves- Sadashiva.

Content: Since the very beginning, when he was known as Rajashekaran, Paramahamsa Nithyananda's connection to Hinduism was fervent. No mere child will have passion as strong as he had for temples, deities and puja. The very first spiritual experience he had was at the age of three. Deities were integral to The Avatar's life - as if he was closer to them and their lives than any other human he interacted with in this lifetime.

Content: Inspired by the story of Nambiar Nandi, when Ganesha himself came down to eat the neivedhyam that Nambiar offered, as a young child, Paramahamsa Nithyananda, yearned to experience that himself.

Content: He had described his intention then, "With Nambiandar Nandi, he did tapas, but in my case I was torturing Ganesha. I was doing kutarka. I was finding fault with everything external. So I decided, 'till Ganesha eats, I will not eat. That is the most authentic decision I made. I will stretch myself. I sat so strongly with authenticity."

Content: The world around Paramahamsa Nithyananda's three year old body became hazy, blurry and glowing. He shared that in that moment, "I could see very clearly that my mind had raised to the level of bhaava samadhi - the zone where the solid is not solid, the liquid is not liquid. It was neither the formless, nor the physical form."

Content: It had been three days since he last consumed food. The young Avatar simply sat and stared at a small stone Ganesha. Swimming in his love for the deity, he had forgotten the rumblings of an empty stomach. It was only when the hard edges of reality disappeared, like the hard edges of kutarka, that Ganesha appeared to enjoy The Avatar.

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda remembers, "When I opened my eyes and saw- I promise- there was no food. The food had disappeared! I do not know if Ganesha had eaten it or his vehicle rat had eaten the food, but I knew that if he ate, I will be filled with the tremendous gift of faith. I saw the deity's mouth had pieces particles of the food. If Ganesha ate, he would give the prasada. The end fruitful result was tremendous trust, love and devotion. I had that prasada. I can be very sure Ganesha ate! The whole being was in ecstasy! As a three-year-old boy, this experience gave me such a strong confidence, and courage about the inner world. When I looked in, I got that even God comes down to fulfill our request."

Content: Yogananda Puri is the man crouched by the tree, planting the Kalpavriksha Tree in Thiruvannamalai. Young Rajashekaran, The Avatar, is peeking his head out of the group of boys with a forehead full of vibhuti on the left hand side. This is the only photograph of Paramahamsa Nithyananda and Yogananda Puri together

Content: The Declaration of Sannyas

Content: Yogananda Puri was one of the greatest yogacharyas from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s life. The Avatar remembers him as the “The yogi who made me a yogi.” From the age of four years old, Yogananda Puri trained The Avatar’s body. He was the one who witnessed the first declaration of Sannyas made by Paramahamsa Nithyananda well before any other child has even given a thought about his future. Yogananda Puri once asked him, “Which do you want to be? Sannyas? Or grihasta?”

Content: Rolling his shoulders back and puffing his small chest out, he responded, "Sannyas!"

Content: Yogananda Puri put a hand on his head for a few seconds.

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda described his reaction, "After two-three days, I asked, 'Did you purify my brain to give a sannyas life?'

Content: He said, 'I just increased the frequency to seeking, that's all.' He said, 'Just the seeking becomes powerful, all good would become your bio memory.'

Content: The Avatar with his brothers at a young age. He is on the far left.

Content: For the hundreds of Sannyasis that Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated and the lakhs that he will in the future, he prescribed the same. He said, "Anyone struggling with any vow of Sannyas - brahmacharya, and aparigraha, or asteya- you're seeking is not intense! Or, if you're struggling with integrity, or inauthenticity, irresponsibility, selfishness, it just boils down to only one: not having enough seeking. Just increase the intensity of seeking.

Content: Yogananda Puri just put his left hand on my head and touched some of the points on my brain, like he was playing with the head. The ecstasy and pleasure increased in the system..."

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda looked up at the ceiling of the hall as he recalled this with a wide smile on his face, shaking his head slightly as if he was speaking about an incredible love affair. He finished with "just unimaginable".

Content: At the age of Yogi Ramsuratkumar's darshans, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is seated in the back intently listening.

Content: The Missed Chance

Content: Yogi Ramsuratkumar was an extremely well known enlightened master from the birthplace of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. The young Avatar used to often sit with him in the burial ground, very intimately amongst the smoke of burning bodies while speaking of great Hindu truths. He was also known as "Visiri Swamigal" because of the fan he always carried in his hand. Another thing that characterized him was his beedi.

Content: As a child, Paramahamsa Nithyananda vowed never to have alcohol Ramsuratkumar a doubt emerged from within, “He’s a great or smoke. This was the standard his parents brought him up in. enlightened master. Why is he smoking beedi?” Even now, though he is recognized as an Avatar who is beyond the body, he maintains this rule. Even if other gurus partake, he tells Immediately after this thought passed through him, Yogi his disciples, “you should do what the guru says, not what they Ramsuratkumar turned his gaze toward Bhagavan, smiled and do”. The one exception that Paramahamsa Nithyananda allows extended the beedi towards him. “Smoke” his body language told is if the guru himself gives. If the guru gives, you should always ten year old Avatar accept it. One day as Paramahamsa Nithyananda sat with a Yogi

Content: This action paralyzed Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Yogi it. I was just frozen. That beedi is slowly moving, moving, burning, Ramsuratkumar's beedi burned in front of him, a glowing crimson burning, burning

Content: around the brown color of the beedi. The notion was daunting. His He continues, "When the fire was about to touch his finger he just whole life he swore he would never do such a thing. His parents dropped the beedi and held me with both my ears. And he just held conditioned him such the idea of smoking was against his orthodox me with both ears and pulled me towards him and blew that smoke on my face."

Content: The smoke overwhelmed his face, arying the saliva around his eyes

Content: On top of that Paramahamsa Nithyananda described, "I had a deep and throat. When the smoke cleared, reality shifted around him respect for him so that reverence is pushing me towards him to take

Content: He said, "I tell you, that moment like a whole movie became mute. Means, I can see everything, vividly but no sound goes inside. I am just like a vast witness. Two and a half days I was in that same samadhi space. After a few hours I am walking, going back to the house. My mother is putting a plate and she's putting the food. I am seeing everything but no sound. Everything is vivid but no sound. I thought I became deaf but it is not that I become deaf. Inside, no sound. It is such vast peace. After 2, 3 days, I slowly settle down.

Content: At the end of the two and half days, the young Avatar settled down and he began to hear once again. The first thing he did was ask Yogi Ramsuratkumar, "What is it that you want me to learn from this?"

Content: To this, his mentor responded, "If this small blow can make that experience in you then don't you understand what is going on in this body? I need at least a small rope to tie, what I am, into this body.

Content: The mother of The Avatar was named Ma Nithya Lokanayakande by Paramahamsa Nithyananda after his mission started. She is lovingly called Swamamma.

Content: This is how Paramahamsa Nithyananda learned what he tells his devotees. We should do what the guru say, not what they do.

Content: Yet, this regret remained within him. He said, "I can say at least I would have come out of 2 years of my struggle. Two years struggle could have been sorted out in 2 seconds. I still repent for not picking up the beedi from Ramsuratkumar."

Content: Unstructured but Intense

Content: Arunagiri Yogishwara is an incarnation of Sadashiva that lived in the physical plane 3,000 years ago. Now, in Thiruvannamalai he is accessible in all planes. There are so many accounts of his darshans in and around Thiruvannamalai. People see him in dreams, roaming the forests of Arunachala Hill floating in the air, in the corners

Content: and secret passageways of temples. Especially for Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Arunagiri Yogishwara gave darshan for nine months. The beautiful relationship that evolved between them became one of the most central events in the childhood of The Avatar.

Content: The Arunachaleshwara Temple located in Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Content: He begins with a bright smile on his face, "It was around the time I was eleven-eleven years of age and a half, before my enlightenment experience. One day as usual I was going around the temple."

Content: But the rest of the day went on anything but usual. When he arrived at the temple, coming out from below the main shrine, the young Avatar saw a beautiful sadhu walking out. He describes, "young, well-built, long hair, with the sacred ash on the face and kumkum and rudraksha, only one dhotī in the hip and only one towel on shoulder, bare chest, whole body was literally shining; shining means really shining, glowing in the golden color" He asked, "Where are you from?"

Content: The sadhu replied, "I stay here only" nodding at the cave-like structure behind him.

Content: "What is your name?" "Arunagiri Yogeshwara" Understand I am neither lying no am I a brain deranged person. I am not telling you any stories. I am telling you the truth as it happened.

Content: Even the way that he describes the story is an initiation in itself. The reader and listener will fall in love with Arunagiri Yogeshwara as he did, yearn to spend time with him as he did. During the signature 21-day program, Inner Awakening®, when he shares the experience he tells the participants, "When I am going to narrate, that same experience I will be letting it happen in my brain. I will be letting that same neuron activity happen in my brain. So just sit and listen from the space of feeling connection; you will see the same neuron activity just mirroring in your brain."

Content: He began asking more and more questions until the conversation like someone who was in love for the first time, he watched the clock flowed easily into other topics from temple festivities to town gossip. until he could go back to the temple. Early in the morning at four-o-clock, he called “Swamil” at the same shrine and Arunagiri Yogishwara walked out of what looked like a cave.

Content: Immediately, a vibrant connection was made between them.

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda shares that the connection he felt was “friendliness to the extreme, to the extent even when I am sitting next to him I feel like I will put one of my finger on him, on his body, pass between them. Not only experiential lessons on the vedas, on his leg or on his hand. I will just put one of my finger on him; tantra, agama and upanishad but also casual conversation about the just want to be touching him. Or I will just hold his little finger and temple priest.

Content: They spent the whole day together once again. Every subject would sitting and talking”

Content: Nine months passed in this manner.

Content: That night when the temple closed and Bhagavan had to return home,

Content: Lord Dakshinamurthy sitting underneath the banyan tree with rishis around him, imbibing radiant silence.

Content: Finally one day, the young Avatar asked for Arunagiri Yogishwara to come to his house once.

Content: In response, Arunagiri Yogishwara told him, "You come to my house."

Content: Immediately, he seized the opportunity and agreed. They both got up.

Content: The next pivotal moments Paramahamsa Nithyananda describes in detail, "He entered into that cave by bending. I remember he just held my hand and pressed. Now, for first time when he pressed the hand I lost body consciousness. All these days I was with him I never lost body consciousness. He just walked into a cave and I also walked with him and suddenly the cave opened and we came out and I saw a huge banyan tree, little bigger than our Bidadi banyan tree. It was Arunachala hill that much I could very clearly say and the huge banyan tree and maybe some 20-30 sadhus were sitting around the seat of the guru. That seat of the guru was empty. They were all sitting down meditating. The moment he walked in all of them got up and stood and did namaskar."

Content: A few moments after they all settled down once again, one of the Arunagiri Yogishwara laughed and said, "Why are you not wearing here?" referring to Paramahamsa Nithyananda as 12 year old in the white and blue uniform.

Content: He then implored, "You give me. You give me kaavil!"

Content: He stood for his defense, "I may not be wearing kaavi. I am also Sannyasi only."

Content: With a laugh, Arunagiri Yogishwara looked to the side and suddenly another rishi was bringing the saffron cloth. He called Paramahamsa Nithyananda to come and take it. Within moments, he stripped his blue shirt and shorts and walked, naked, in front of his guru. Arunagiri Yogishwara tied the cloth around him and inserted the extra into his hip. Unbeknowest to the young boy, he had been initiated into Sannyas.

Content: When Paramahamsa Nithyananda and Arunagiri Yogishwara emerged from the cave, his young body was clad in nothing but saffron colored cloth. While this might be a shock to any onlooker, for

Content: During a recent program, Paramahamsa Nithyananda showed the wooden sandals that Arunagiri Yogeshwara and the kavi he revered. In this photograph, you can see both.

Content: When guru and disciple bid their goodbye, Paramahamsa Nithyananda began to tell everyone. The first person he ran to was his childhood guru Mata Vibhudananda Puri, or Kupammal.

Content: After expecting an equally jovial response from someone he looked up to so much, Mata Mata Vibhudananda Devi Devi's sober response was a shock. From the clouds, eleven year old Paramahamsa Nithyananda plummeted to the Earth again.

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Content: Then, he put his hand on her head and swore. 'I promise in the name of Arunachaleshwara, on you, on me, I have not stolen this cloth'

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda put his hand on her like he does now during energy darshan. From the way she stopped and stayed still for a moment, it was easy to tell some energy was transferred even then. She asked him slowly to describe the sadhu he's been sitting with for so long. How did he look? Where did he come from? All

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda told her was his name, 'Arunagiri Yogishwa'.

Content: Mata Mata Vibhudananda Devi Devi didn't have a second thought. She swiftly fell flat in front of his feet. Shocked The Avatar fell silent.

Content: Both of them spoke in low voices now. Mata Mata Vibhudananda Devi asked one, then two and then three times more if who

Content: Paramahamsa Nithyananda saw was really Arunagiri Yogishwara witness the night seva done in the garbha mandir. He continues,

Content: Only then, when Paramahamsa Nithyananda was just about to be completely fed up, Mata Mata Vibhudananda Devi Devi explained

Content: 'So I just opened my eyes, and saw that everything was looking too new. I slowly walked to the garbha mandir, in those days, it was not that this garbha mandir was Arunagiri Yogishwara's jeeva samadhi that crowded and the garbha mandir, no priest was there.

Content: and he was one of the greatest incarnations that ever lived. It was as if two extremes were pulling him from one end to the other. On one end, he had now broken his oath to his guru. On the other, he just found out that Sadashiva himself took this form and came to him.

Content: Fear and bliss pulled him a part. Paramahamsa Nithyananda describes, 'The little bit of whatever bad karmas were left got burnt by that fear whether he may or may not come at all. This bliss and joy and pain burnt both the karmas. I just dropped. I can say by crying, crying, crying I just slept away there itself. I should not even use the word slept. I fell into some state. I got lost'

Content: Through the night, he remained there itself, unable to see through his turmoil, until a well-known watchman told him to go and

Content: The moment I entered the ardha mantapa the hall next to the garbha mandir to have darshan of the deity, in the moment I looked body, I just saw that twoness disappear. That Shivoham SM and Unclutching had happened. I just became one. The Shivoham SM has become reality. After that, I never saw him physically. I never felt separated from him. I never felt the need to see him again. Just we became one

Content: He ran as fast as he could to reach his guru. Then he told us,

Content: Arunagiri Yogishwara sitting on the linga

Content: Anchoring into Turiya

Content: Annamalai Swamigal was a direct disciple of Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi. Paramahamsa Nithyananda beautifully described an incident between the two of them that happened much before the avatar was born.

Content: Annamalai Swamigal was once bathing Ramana Maharishi. Often, the fresh water rolled down his back when suddenly, Annamalai the sensation of water falling on the body sends enlightened masters as well. Unaccustomed to this space, he remained there well after

Content: into a blissful state of meditation. Ramana Maharishi came out of samadhi. Now, the guru helped the disciple. Ramana Maharishi took care that his body was in a comfortable position until he resurfaced from the ocean of bliss.

Content: in this space as his disciple attended to him. Stroke by gentle stroke "Now, just sit" he told his disciple.

Content: Annamalai Swamigal deep in samadhi.

Content: And his life was decided. Annamalai Swamigal remained there, I wondered how this could be, for if my mother beat me, I could feel where Ramana Maharishi told him to sit down, for the rest of his the pain!

Content: guru's life. He had been the construction manager at that time and one of his most trusted devotees but all of that came to an abrupt As an intense seeker even at a young age, Paramahamsa stop that day as instructed by the guru. Even years later in early Nithyananda decided to experiment. He went home and took the 1950 when devotees gathered around Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi blade that his father uses to shave to cut himself in the thigh and as he was leaving the body, Annamalai Swamigal remained there see if he had pain.

Content: in the distant corner of his quarters. It was this great being who gave the technique that took Paramahamsa Nithyananda beyond In his own words, he said, "Naturally, it not only pained me but I thoughts at the age of 12. He describes, "Once when I visited him had to be taken to hospital for the wound to be stitched, with more with my parents, he was addressing a group of seekers and was puja from my mother! I had both pain and suffering. I wondered saying, 'We are not the body, we are athman; no pain or suffering what this Swami had taught us- 'no suffering or pain'

Content: touches us'.

Content: Later on the young avatar approached Annamalai Swamigal and brought him, hoping he would give me some in consolation! Honestly, related what happened after. He remembered, "I approached the I neither understood nor was convinced of what he said. Swami and related what had happened to me. He then made a profound statement which transformed my life.

Content: He said, 'You may have pain and suffering now but do not worry. Your attitude of analyzing and searching the truth, your courage to experiment with truth will liberate you from all pains, go ahead!' He then advised me to start searching for the source of thoughts. Of course, at that age I was only irritated by his comments and my attention was rather on the fruits and sweets that devotees had opened

Content: However, after a few days I began to playfully and casually try out the technique of trying to see the origin of thoughts. I did not do this with any expectation or idea. All I knew was what the Swami had told me: that I would go beyond pain or suffering if I did this technique. I had no concept of God, Brahman, Atma or Gnan. One evening , at the foothills of Arunachala, I was trying out the same technique with eyes closed. I had fallen into deep meditation ; suddenly something

Content: "The next moment it was as if a door had opened inside me and that I were all just me. The experience was so intense and ecstatic that it had complete 360 degree vision, both laterally and vertically. I could was more than 3 or 4 hours before I opened my eyes. I felt feverish see all four sides - the temple behind me, the hill in front of me, the city on my sides). I could see vertically too - the sky, the rock on which I was sitting. For normal people who have only a maximum of 180 degree of these visions, I know this is very difficult to comprehend. All radiance might resemble the effulgence of the supreme person in that I can do is promise solemnly that it did happen. No other intellectual universal Form. These concepts can never be understood by ordinary explanation is possible. Not only was I able to see all round, I was also intellect. In my experience, it was like the light of a hundred suns and able to feel that whatever I was seeing was me. Whether they were the cooling effect of a hundred moons. Such was the pleasance of the plants or rocks or the city or the hill , whatever I could see, I felt they experience."

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