Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda

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Paramahamsa Nithyananda is an Indian spiritual guru and founder of the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam. Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam is a worldwide movement for meditation and healing. The foundation has its spiritual headquarters in Bengaluru, India. The advent of Paramahamsa Nithyananda on planet earth is to create a new cycle of individual consciousness causing Collective Consciousness to enter into the Super Conscious zone. To achieve this, Nithyananda Mission aims to initiate 100 million people into the unique meditation Nithya Dhyaan and one hundred thousand people to 'live enlightenment'

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[edit] Early life

Nithyananda was born on January 1st, 1978, as Rajasekaran, the second child of Arunachalam and Lokanayaki in Thiruvannamalai, home to Arunachala, the spiritual heart center of our planet. On the tenth day after his birth, an astrologer was summoned to cast his horoscope and awed by the unique configuration of planets in Nithyananda’s birthchart exclaimed that Nithyananda would grow up to be a Raja Sannyasi (King among Swamis).

True to the astrologer's words, Rajasekaran showed spiritual inclinations from a tender age. He would make idols out of mud, clay and soap stone, decorate them and worship them with a deep fervor. This aspect of Nithyananda’s personality would remain unchanged; the miniature stone figures have been superseded by the spectacular and towering deity idols that grace the temples of Life Bliss Foundation in North America and other countries today.

In childhood as well as throughout his wandering years, Nithyananda was deeply inspired by two great saints of Bharat, Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi. A photograph of Ramakrishna was the focus of Nithyananda’s worship practices, and he was blessed to have had direct darshan, or superconscious experience of Ramakrishna in the flesh. His spiritual teachers in Thiruvannamalai awakened Nithyananda’s enormous latent spiritual potential

[edit] Later Years

Nithyananda would often meditate all night long in the cremation grounds of Tiruvannamalai, absorbed in the vibrant silence of Arunachala, and at the break of dawn, he would return home. During his teenage years, after a profound cognitive shift in his understanding through an encounter with a Siddha in Thiruvannamalai, the urge which he had since childhood, to leave home as a sannyasi, reached its peak. After completing his diploma in Mechanical Engineering at Gudiyattam, Nithyananda made the final resolve to set out on his spiritual journey as a wandering ascetic. He embarked on what was to be an arduous journey, stretching thousands of miles covered mostly by foot, over a period of 6 years, traversing the land of Bharat. From Tapovan in the Himalayas to Kanyakumari in the South, from Dwaraka in the West to Ganga Sagar in the East, Nithyananda wandered for several years in India and in Nepal, practicing intense austerities and studying with many sadhus.

Amongst Nithyananda’s numerous soul-stirring experiences was this one, in the Himalayas: One day in Gaurikund, high in the Himalayas, he saw a lovely vision, of a young man with a glowing countenance and flowing locks, walking towards him with long strides and captivating grace. He realized, only after physically verifying the solidity of the radiant and divine being facing him, it was Mahaavatar Babaji, the Enlightened Master who has dwelled in the Himalayas for thousands of years in perpetual youth. At the moment of passing by him, Babaji looked into his eyes and pronounced, 'Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda!’ – signifying the state he would soon come to achieve.

Nithyananda's single-minded pursuit of the Divine truth led to deeper and more profound experiences over the years. Finally, when He was 22 years old and staying on the banks of the river Narmada, the final explosion happened, into the experience of Superconsciousness, where space and time, body and mind, the seer and the seen - all dissolved into the state of Eternal Bliss, or Nithya Ananda.

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"Be Blissful" is Swami Nithyananda's mission statement. He says, "Healing is only my visiting card, my mission is to awaken the divinity that lies latent in every being and manifestation."

[edit] Programs

Life Bliss Program Level 1 - ASP Understand and energize your chakras – get the keys to a life of bliss Did you know a secret of life? The true nature, the core of you is BLISS. Then, why are you caught in the sea of emotions – the high of love followed by the low of jealousy, the high of confidence collapsing into the low of worry, …?

We have seven chakras or subtle energy centers in our body which are responsible for all the powerful emotions we go through. LBP Level 1 - ASP is a program where you can learn what the chakras are about and how to use them so you can lead a life of joy.

When the chakras are blocked, you struggle with negative emotions and experience low energy.

When the and you are in a state of constant, bubbling energy. Life Bliss Program Level 1 (LBP Level 1) is a program specially designed by Nithyananda to cleanse and energize the chakras and to reveal your true potential.

Benefits

  • Emotional intelligence - understand and handle your emotions
  • Guaranteed solution to transcend your negative emotions

- Lust, fear, worry, want of love, jealousy, ego, discontent

  • Simple, powerful and effective meditation techniques in 2 days
  • Experience blissful living every moment of life

Although this is the start of the spiritual journey for many, Dhyanapeetam and the Life Bliss Organization offer many other programs which can be found on their website.

In September 2006, Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda created a new meditation technique, combining elements of various other techniques and yoga postures. This technique is called Nithya Dhyaan, translated into English as Eternal Meditation. In the U.S., this technique is also called the Life Bliss Meditation (LBM). This technique is 45 minutes in length and was created to provide a single technique, that if practiced, can lead the practitioner to Enlightenment, without any other technique. This technique lends itself to a shorter workshop that is usually conducted by Acharyas of the foundation. This workshop usually is conducted as a 3 hour workshop.

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