UN-CLUTCHING

Man by his very nature is an unclutched and blissful being. What do we mean by the word unclutched? Let me explain.

Every thought that arises in us is like a bubble that forms, rises and dies before the next thought comes up. For example, if you are sitting in a chair and suddenly get up, the moment you have decided to get up, that moment the thought of sitting has left you. If you are working on your computer and decide to shut down the machine, that moment, the thought that you want to work has died. So every thought is unconnected and happens in a series, one after the other. One has to die before the next one comes up. This is our true nature.

Our true nature is to renounce thoughts every passing moment. By renounce, I mean simply allowing each thought to rise like a bubble and burst and allowing the next thought to rise. Our thoughts have only a vertical existence, like rising bubbles.

This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without tying to connect them is what we mean by being unclutched. As long as this natural process is allowed to happen, things are all right.

But what we do is, we start connecting these thoughts randomly and form a shaft. By doing this, we convert a vertical and unclutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity. Here starts the whole problem. As long as each thought is allowed to rise and die, we can take on any amount of load at the physical and mental planes and our consciousness will remain light and blissful. Once we start connecting thoughts, our consciousness suffers and we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our being.

All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, ego and attention, are purely because we find a connection between independent incidents, between independent thoughts, and create a concept for ourselves
and start relating with that concept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts ad suffer because of this.

These emotions create all forms of violence, be they religious wars, social conflicts, or political unrest. The basis or the roots of all forms of violence is our emotions and the basis of our emotions is our habit of creating imaginary shafts of our thoughts and empowering them to work on us.

While creating these shafts, we choose the thoughts depending on whether we want pain or pleasure. We pick pleasant thoughts at random and connect them to form a shaft of pleasure or pick negative thoughts and connect them to form a shaft of pain. We create shafts of pain and pleasure alternately for ourselves, and oscillate between these two emotions. To unclutch from this tendency is the master key to a blissful life.

If you deeply analyze how we connect our thoughts instead of renouncing them, you will understand how we create suffering for ourselves. It is the mind that finds the connection. As such, there is no connection between our thoughts.

We have been trained to feed on words and thoughts. That is why we create these shafts. We feed on words because we operate out of fear or greed all the time. Out of fear or greed, we create connectivity in our thoughts. We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go, there is nothing to hold on to. We have never experienced an unclutched state of mind where there is no shaft, only bubble-like thoughts.

In the unclutched state there is no scope for fear or greed. You will simply BE, that’s all. But it becomes difficult to understand that we can exist without this shaft of thoughts.

An eye specialist was treating a blind man. He assured him, “Once I operate on your eye, you will have your vision back and you can throw your stick away.”

The blind man became afraid when he heard this. He asked the doctor, “I understand that I will get my vision, but how can I walk without my stick?”

The man was so used to walking with the stick that he could not understand that by getting the vision he could throw away the stick! In the same way, when the truth is that we can live in an unclutched fashion blissfully, we
wonder how. We see unclutching thought shafts as inevitable!

We fail to see how mythical the whole thing is. Our mind is a myth. We have empowered it and become a slave to it, that’s all. It is nothing but mental slavery.

Just watch the thoughts rising in you. Clearly see how each thought rises and dies and the next thought comes up. Observe how you effortlessly connect these thoughts and create ideas and concepts. Watch the play of these concepts upon yourself; you will understand how you create the whole myth. I tell you: Connecting thoughts is the Original Sin.

Living in an unclutched fashion is the way to a blissful living. Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that you will not pass any judgement on any thought or any incident.

When you work in an unclutched fashion, you will find your capacity expanding; you will take on a lot more responsibility without getting stressed; you will not experience mood swings between pain and pleasure; you will be blissful all the time. We are so used to happiness that comes with a reason. This reason is again a shaft that we create with our thoughts. Once you stop creating these shafts, you will be blissful all the time.

WORDS FROM PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA'S SHIVA SUTRAS DISCOURSES:

Logic is only one part,Part can't understand the whole.If your logic can't understand the mind itself,then how can it understand consciousness which is beyond its reach.From the young age you are constantly thought everything to bring under the control of your logic. You are thought to bring everything int hat umbrella ,logic.In the eastern tradition you are thought to expand the umbrella, so that the whole world can come under it, but in the so called outer science so called logic oriented education system,it teaches you to bring under the control of logic so naturally you reduce the world,You do not expand you, you do not expand your umbrella, you reduce the world to keep it under the umbrella.The vedic tradition, the conscious based education system teaches you to expand your umbrella, so that the whole world can be under it.But the logic based education system, to bring the whole world under your umbrella means its trying to make your world small.That is why you constantly analize,analize..Any specialazation, trying things to bring under your control, under your logic, naturally you make it smaller,smaller and smaller,they tire your logic, Your logic will become copletely tired,But Zen do the opposite, Suddenly you will create a space you allow the consciousness to open you will allow the relaxation to happen,that moment suddenly you realize that click happens.That possibilty for the click SATORİ! that UNCLUTCHING is more in meditation.In meditation you can only create a space where the possibilities is more.You can't do anything for a seed to grow, you can create the space the possibility! so that the chances are more.That's all.Directly you can't do anything,you can't just open the seed and take the plant out, No!You have to create the space and wait.The satori_ click does not happen because of the pressure we create.When you get that SATORİ, you are initiated.Initiation, is Transformation of the Lamp!

BEYOND WAKING, DREAMING, and DEEP SLEEP STATES

Beyond " Waking" , Dreaming, and Deep Sleep States

WAKING, DREAMING, DEEP SLEEP STATE

The dream state is a subconscious dream. The waking state is a conscious dream. The higher state is a super conscious dream.
If this is the case then how come in the dream state , the moment we realize that we are dreaming, we will come out of the dream. But in the waking state, we can doubt and suspect that it is a conscious dream, still the world continues to exist?


In the dream state ( subconscious dream), the gap between seer and seen is lesser than in the "waking state" ( conscious dream) . In the deep sleep state, there is no distance between seer and seen . That is why there is a knowing but nothing is known. A person who is exhausted of these states can understand the futility and unclutch from all these three states. You realize that the individual consciousness is the thread that runs beneath all these three states. The whole attention will turn towards the center (Seer), and awakening to the 4th state/ Turiya happens (JNANA YOGA) . When this happens, the jump between the Seer and Seen stop. The process of Seeing also stops. There will be no Seer, Seen, or Seeing.

1. Waking State : Physical Body (Form)

Distance between body and world is large.( The gap between seer and seen is more)

There are THOUGHTS & consciousness of " I". The frequency of thought is higher than the frequency of the consciousness of I exist. That is why you are able to have the ability to alter your thoughts and your life somewhat.

2. Dream State : Prana Body
Gap between body and world is lesser than the waking state. ( The gap between the experiencer and experienced is lesser than in the waking state.) The flow of prana creates dream.
There are THOUGHTS & low consciousness of " I". The frequency of thought is LOWER than the frequency of the consciousness of " I" exist. That is why you are not able to have the ability to alter your thoughts and your dream .

3. Deep Sleep state : Knowing
No distance between body and world , both seer and seen are one and the same. There is knowing but there is no knower. That is why nothing is known.
There is NO THOUGHT & NO consciousness of " I" exist.

4. Fourth State :
Intense Awareness - the space in which awakening can happens .

There is NO THOUGHT & there is the consciousness of " I" exist.


FOURTH STATE : 0 TPS



The greater your thoughts per second (TPS) , the further you are from consciousness of the present moment and you are simply worrying about the future. By doing this, the present slips into the past, without you ever getting a glimpse of or experiencing the bliss of the present. When your TPS comes down, you enter more and more into the present, getting a clearer vision of the past and the future. Familiar incidents from even past births and intuitions of the future start to surface in you. When this happens , be very clear: for those few moments, your TPS has dropped and you are more in the present. When your TPS is zero , you can clearly see the entire past and future. It is the point where the concept of time collapses. The point where the idea of gravity disappears. ( Note: 0 TPS or absence of thought is not the Final state , but it is the gateway. The other states will open up only through this state)

If the Fourth State totally penetrates both the Wakeful State (with "I" consciousness) and Deep Sleep State (no "I" consciousness) , that is what we call Living Enlightenment.



Consciousness Expansion:
"The moment you become " Nobody" , the Divine descends on you."- Nithyananda



Swamiji's description of his first experience of consciousness explosion.
( Note: This is not referring to the Emptiness.)

LIVING WITHOUT DEPENDENCY ON MIND & EGO

Living Without Dependency On Mind & Ego

How do you go about and function in the world without thinking / worrying about the future ,clinging to a repetitive routine, or chasing a goal?

1. REALIZING REALITY :
Non-Attached Living

Living with the clarity that life and the whole cosmos is a continuously changing dream ( Yukti).


Whatever you are doing is conscious dreaming , whether it be driving, working, eating, or enjoying. The next question would be " If I'am dreaming, then why should I bother doing anything?" Why should you not do ? In a dream you can't do anything wrong. You don't want to do because you take it seriously. If you remember that it is just a dream , your doing or non-doing is not going to change anything. Let It Happen! Let you do what you are doing! Just be very clear that the whole thing is your projection ( holographic delusion projected by the mind). An enlightened person sees things the way it really is and lives life as if it were a play (lila), not as a reality as everyone perceive.



2. FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION:
Learning To Live From Being Instead of Ego

Continuously living in a deep feeling of connection with the whole of existence and what is( Bhakti).

Spontaneity- Living From Moment to Moment


To live freely in the present moment without plans , you need to be able to flow spontaneously. From early childhood, we have been conditioned to live with a predictable schedule and be bound by our routines. In school we have a syllabus, at work we have a time to clock in and clock out. Everyday will be almost the same as the other. We are continually reproducing our past into the future. Once routine and schedule are taken away from us, we are at a loss and do not know what to do. That is because we lose the ability to follow our internal clock and flow spontaneously with life in each and every moment. Our intuition or inner rhythm is naturally in tune with the flow of the universe .

Krishna says " Those people who execute their duties according to my injunctions (consciousness)........." . When he says my injunctions, he means the injunctions from Being (instead of from ego and mind). When you enter into your being whatever your being says is Krishna's words. When you start living without mind , in the initial level, you will make one or two mistakes. Don't worry, that is tapas. When you drop the goal, you will be guided by nature. Have courage and just enter into the zone of no-mind, the zone of eternal consciousness. All you need to do is keep your mind quiet and relax from your ego. We always think " If I relax from my mind, how will I know what is right and what is wrong? " Once you understand that life is purposeless, there is no question about what you should or should not do. Drop your purposes and ego to fall into your being , you will become an instrument in the hands of divine. Simply, when you become an instrument in the divine's hand , the moment you drop your ego, your words becomes mantra to guide people.

Follow your consciousness instead of social conscience/ conditioning, mind, or ego. The man who live according to his consciousness is the one who lives in shraddha. Shraddha means having the understanding , faith, and the courage to experiment with that idea. Why do we need courage to experiment. After depending on the stick to walk all his life a man that was born blind cannot understand how is it possible to walk without a stick and that it is not a part of him. But until he gets his eyes , he had to have the courage to lie down on the operation table. Now you may have a serious doubt "How can I live without mental proliferation?". I tell you, your doubt is nothing but the same doubt the blind man is having, "How can I walk without a stick?". Only after he gets his sight, he will be able to realize that it is possible. In same way, only when you reach the being you will understand that you don't need mind to live. We can never imagine how we can survive without mental planning, proliferation, and worrying. You may ask " If I don't worry what will happen to my children , house, wife, property, lawsuit ,etc..? You need to have the understanding, belief, and courage to experiment, before you can experience living in zero TPS.

( This initial phase of dropping the mind and ego to fall into your being can be totally disorienting , that is why the ashram atmosphere can make it less scary( helpful but not required) . In the ashram, monastery, or retreat, you don't have to worry about all sorts of financial obligations, work schedule, material goals, etc. There will be less things to worry about. You can go on a personal retreat for a period of time (about 1year ) until you are accustomed to living beyond mind, and living from your being, it doesn't have to be in an ashram.)

At some point during this process we may ask " Swamiji, should I continue with my spiritual life or material life? Which one should I give more importance to ? Should I meditate or should I go for a job? The moment you start choosing you start giving power to the mind. Your desire makes you choose. Your fear makes you choose. These two are the root of choosing. Real spirituality is living in this moment. When you live in this moment , you have the capacity to grow in the vertical and horizontal direction at the same time and same space. When you start living intensely, you start being whole. Never choose mentally before you start living. Just start living intensely as you feel, as your heart guides. What has to drop, will drop automatically. At the very basic level is instinct ( animal). In the level of intellect ( human), you choose mentally. In level of intuition (divine), you go with the flow spontaneously . Living from moment to moment you radiate bliss. When you radiate bliss, you understand why you are here, what you need, what you truly want, and what is your role in this universe. Unless we experience deep ease within ourselves, we will not even know why are we running all our lives. By the time we know, our lives are almost over.

We have a feeling that if we do not dream ( fantasize, desire, setting goals) then what is life . During this phase of the practice it is normal to experience restlessness. Having the freedom to do whatever you want while your vision or wisdom is still dormant can be a terrible state to be in. You will be so lost and confuse. However, when running back to your mind , you are usually not planning, but worrying. Even by your planning, you are only reproducing your past into the future. Your mind has convinced you that you cannot live without it in your life. There is a great fear , " If I stop day dreaming, how will I plan my next step in life or decide how to invest". Because you do not have the courage to live with the spontaneous visions happening ( intuition) , you are constantly struggling with worrying in your day to day life. Living based on spontaneous vision is what I call psychological revolution. The visionary in you becomes awakened. If you live with daydreaming, the ability to have vision remains dormant, and suppressed. It takes courage and patience before the dormant ability to have spontaneous vision or intuition develops. At first you will make one or two mistake when it is still weak. Like when you first learn how to walk you will fall a few times, but that doesn't mean that you should stop trying to learn how to walk.

It is not hard to give one glimpse of higher states, but in order to retain it , you need to have a psychological revolution happened in you first.


PSYCHOLOGICAL REVOLUTION:
The Awakening of Intuitive Insights

When the cosmic constitution is understood by your being, you live according to the universal truth, or the truth of things as it really is instead of as you perceived . Constantly your thinking process comes back again and again to the understanding It becomes the key in every situation.
This releases tremendous energy that awakens the intuitive faculties other beings usually do not have ( the non mechanical part of your brain). You will see as if your whole brain is alive. Because of that you will feel that your whole body is alive. That is what I call a psychological revolution.

When this happens your body is incapable of receiving the new energy that comes from this new intuitive revelations. Your earlier hardware or body is not directly capable of accepting the new expression, the new energy . When these two are trying to settle with each other , what happens is what I called ecstasy or bliss. Bliss is a by product or side-effect of a new psychological revolution trying to settle in your body. Because continuously it reveals newer understanding and insights, as long as you carry the body you will continuously feel the bliss expressing, the bliss exploding. The more the hardware (body) tries to settle and live with the new software ( new intuitive insights / revelations that continuously unfold and new way of life) it becomes more capable, sensitive, intelligent, and it opens more and more possibility to experience and internalize bliss.

Psychological revolution is the clear insight or understanding about self, world , and true nature which gives you a complete rest and enables you to find a solution for all your day to day problems. Only a person who went through a psychological revolution will be able to successfully meditate .



MEDITATION

There are meditation techniques where you internalize and practice constantly, during all activities ( Nithya) . For example, the Ananda Ghanda is a Nithya technique , because you need to put awareness, and constantly trying to be aware of that area all day long, during all activities. There are meditation techniques where you internalize and practice at a particular time of the day ( Dhyana, sitting meditation, etc). Ananda sutra is the type of teaching where you understand / internalize and live/ express it in your life without the need to remember or practice any technique given by someone. The ananda sutra gives you total freedom ( due to liberating insights) . Sitting meditation practice ( Dhyana technique ) and present moment awareness during all activities (Nithya technique) create a space for liberating insights to happen (Ananda sutra ). For example, a living master just says something that clicked, automatically it puts you into Turiya or other states.

Nithya & Dhyana Technique : During sitting meditation sessions and while performing activities.

Witnessing ( Equanimity & Awareness)

* Witness the Movements of Body : Every moment there will be a slight movement in the belly ( due to breathing).

* Witness the Movements of Prana : Inhaling and exhaling

* Witness the Movements of Mind : Sit next to your thought like a friend, let it tell you whatever it wants to. We are continuously fighting with body and mind. Only when you feel a deep friendliness with body and mind can you go beyond body and mind. If you feel the enmity relationship toward body and mind, you will abuse the body and mind. Now accept the body and mind like a friend. Let everything inside come out. Neither support nor suppress them. Witnessing is like a fire, all the thoughts will be burn away. If you support , you will be going behind the garbage. If you suppress you will be analyzing and push it aside. Just witness , automatically you will go beyond the body and mind.



The Power of Coincidence -Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains that the very quality of your Inner Space can create miracles in your life. The power to create miracles is what is called the 'power of coincidence'. We just have to open and trust that our Consciousness is connected to the universe, that the Divine is continually caring for us. Just as you create an entire world in the dream state, you have the power to create your world in the waking state. When you reside in Universal Consciousness or Bliss Consciousness, you attract the power of coincidence. It is not necessary to depend on the planning of the mind and ego.

3. CONTENTMENT :
( Live And Act From a Feeling of Fulfillment and Wholeness, Your Original Nature)


FREEDOM :
If you have the faith and courage to live your life free of your so called mind, (which includes inner chattering, proliferation,etc..) you then experience liberation from it.

CONTENTMENT:
Living with the Wisdom to fully accept what is and be happy with what you have(Buddhi ).

Swamiji says the same divine nature that you see expressing through him is in you also. Live and radiate enlightenment . Just be open to whatever may unfold. Live and express your true nature. When you act from your true nature , from the feeling of fulfillment , fulfillment results. When you act from a feeling of discontentment, the outcome will be more discontentment or more desires. The nature of the mind is such that it always wait for something that's just around the corner before it allows you to be happy. It is similar to someone sitting on a donkey and dangle an apple in front of it to make it run. Yet no matter how much the donkey runs, it can never eat the apple, even though it appears to be just a few inch away.

When a person lives enlightenment and radiates the true nature , his/her presence will give others a glimpse of the true nature that many have forgotten in themselves. Spontaneously , the person will help raise human consciousness. It is time that the human consciousness have to enter into the new zone, the zone of Super Consciousness. Live enlightenment is the ultimate thing you can do for yourself, the world, and the Cosmos.


4. EXPRESSING ENERGY:
Living with the Energy to change what you want to change (Shakti ).



Whatever you see is made out of mind stuff ( projected by the mind) . This wall is not made out of brick, it is made out of your mind stuff ( in other words energy vibrated at a slow frequency molded by the mind ) . Let me be very clear, I am , made out of your mind stuff ( your own projection). Being awakened is to realize that the whole thing is made out of your mind stuff. Then what happens, you know, you can do anything you want to do. Sometimes you don't feel like doing anything, you'll relax. Sometimes, you feel like doing something , you will simply do it. For example, Vivekananda wanted to creates, he just creates. Ramana Maharishi doesn't wanted to do anything, he was just lying down. Both are awakened. When you are awakened , you know the science of this whole world. You know the basic formula out of which the whole thing was made.

To make the whole world blissful, happy, you don't have to do anything else . All you have to do is shift your center. When one person even struggles to become enlightened raises the consciousness of at least millions of individuals. Master is a person who awakens the unknown enlightened dimension in you ( like the potential of a caterpillar to become a butterfly ). All the people who are living in the 100 frequency for example, live in the same kind of atmosphere, and the ones living in the 200 frequency see the same kind of world. Inevitably, everything has to change around you. I want to make this into an enlightened community. When a group of people are living enlightenment, it becomes an energy, inevitably everybody around will be spontaneously transformed .

STORY & BIOGRAPHY OF A PARAMAHAMSA: NITHYANANDA

Nithyananda was born in Tiruvannamalai, India, on the Ashtami day. Ashtami is considered to be worldly and therefore not considered an unfavorable period by ascetics. Legend has it that ashtami prayed to Krishna to redeemed itself and Krishna decided to be born on the ashtami day to prove to the world that spirituality can be pursued by a person of the world, while still leading a material life of comfort. It is very much in this tradition of Krishna's philosophy that Nithyananda preaches today the concept of Quantum Spirituality where materialism and spirituality meet, seamlessly combining material success sand spiritual evolution. There is no need to make a choice, Nithyananda says, between normal life and material goals of family, career , money and success that one seeks and spiritual values of renunciation and perceiving the rest of he world to be one's own. This concept has changed the lives of many who have heard Nithyananda, by removing the feeling of guilt of having to make a choice.


Nithyananda says, remembering his conscious birth:
" It was neither dark nor light- filled ; an indeterminate color covered planet Earth. Suddenly a bright and brilliant light appeared from a region , which I now see as Southern India. I entered into that light in the form of a brilliant meteor. The very next sight that I perceived with my inner eye was Arunachala, and I knew that I had assumed the body once more; I had entered the womb of my mother. It was a conscious birth. I entered into the body at 11:45 pm. I took a period of about 45 minutes to settle into the body."

EARLY YEARS

Right from early childhood, Nithyananda was drawn to spirituality . He spent as much time as he could with idols; he interacted with them as if they were living beings, which to him they certainly were. These were his only joy. He rarely participated in sports and games like normal boys of his age. He collected these idols and by associating with sculptors in the temple, learned how to make them well, from wood, soft stone and wet earth. Some of the idols that he had made and worshiped and played with, are now on display at the ashram in Bangalore, India.

With a hammer and chisel , a couple of long screws and small pieces of wood, he flattened the tins and made a small altar for his idols in the rear of his house. He invited his friends and family members to his altar, offered puja to the idols and distributed puffed rice to them. 

Before or after attaining inner bliss, this aspect remained unchanged in him. Today, Nithyananda gathers people from world over, just by the power of thought, at the ashram or elsewhere, and conducts grand functions, radiating bliss to one and all.

MEMORABLE PEOPLE HE HAS MET AND SIGNIFICANT PLACES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

Nithyananda befriended various sages in his early childhood. Raghupati Yogi was one of them. He was a yogi of great skills and powers. He had learned yogic procedures from Buddhist lamas and was well versed in the Yoga of Patanjali . For as long as Nithyananda could remember, whenever he was alone, he used to see a group of eleven people around himself. He got so used to seeing them that he used to think they were his relatives who were part of his joint family, till he realized that only he and no one else could see them. When he met Raghupati Yogi and was initiated by him, these people stopped appearing. The boy asked Yogi about this. Raghupati Yogi told him that these people were Siva gana or soldiers, who were protecting him till then. He said, " They have handed you over to me." Raghupati Yogi would without fail come to Nithyananda's house in the morning everyday. Yogi would take him to the temple and for three to four hours each day make him practice Yoga techniques. Over time, he taught all eight parts of the ashtanga yoga , including pranayama and asana. After Yoga practice, he would take the boy to breakfast. He was very loving and brought the boy candies and chocolates to keep the boy's interest alive. Raghupati Yogi came into Nithyananda's life to help prepare Nithyananda and his body to receive and hold energy of enlightenment, which Nithyananda now says was like keeping four elephants in a small hut. Nithyananda remembers Raghupati Yogi with tremendous affection and respect.

When he was about seven, Nithyananda met Narayanaswami which he addressed as Thatha ( grandfather). He was a master of tantra, yantra and mantra. Nithyananda spent 6 years around Thatha. He had great powers of telepathy. The local police would come to him seeking help in identifying perpetrators of crime. When people came seeking his help, Thatha would light a lamp, and mutter some mantra. He would then collect the black soot from the lamp and apply it on the mirror that he had. Immediately, the picture of what had happened, whether it was a burglary or a person missing, would be played out as if on television. Whatever Thatha earned, whatever people gave him for his services, he would give away the same day. Nithyananda was his errand boy, happy watching the television show in the mirror, getting to know all the gossip in town, and sharing the joy of those who found what they came seeking.
Kuppammal Patti ( his mentor)



SIVA APPEARS IN HUMAN FORM
( THE FLOWERING OF BHAKTI )

Within the temple of Arunachala in Tiruvannamalai, at the rear of the main building housing the shrine of the deity Arunachaleshwara, is the burial place or tomb ( jiva samadhi) of Arunagiri Yogiswara. Arunagiri Yogiswara is considered to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva Himself. One day, (around the age of 9) as Nithyananda was sitting on this spot , he saw a handsome young man emerge from a dark corner of this jiva samadhi. This young man came up to him and started talking to him. Nithyananda did not remember what the two of them talked about, except that the interaction left a profoundly blissful experience upon him. It also created a great longing in him to meet this young man again.
Nithyananda started coming to this place everyday without fail. Once he reached the jiva samadhi, he would call out, " Swami, Swami" and the young man would emerge smiling. Nithyananda lost himself talking to him. It was as if he was a part of himself. He found himself filled with bliss and comfort. They talked or hours day after day. Since very few people came to this spot in the temple, they were left alone most of the time. Nithyananda asked the young man what his name was. The young man told him that his name was Arunagiri Yogiswara. Nithyananda at that time had no idea who Arunagiri Yogiswara was and did not recognize the name. Arunagiri Yogiswara became the hero , idol and inspiration to him. Nithyananda was convinced that Arunagiri Yogiswara was what he wanted to be when he grew up. Everything about the young man was magnetic and enchanting. Nithyananda's attachment for the young man was so strong that he could not wait to see him in the morning. He would rise very early in the mornings and leave home immediately for the temple and the jiva samadhi.
What Nithyananda felt with this young man was an indescribable joy of spirit. It was his inner self - realizing , that was his link with this person. It was as if he saw himself, his own Self, in the young man. Arunagiri Yogiswara was the first person who helped Nithyananda develop a conscious experience of himself. Through his discussions with him, he made Nithyananda look beyond his fabricated self/ identity. Even though he was still no more than a child, Nithyananda felt the stirrings of the need to look within and explore deeper about his own existence, without quite knowing why or how.

One day , Kuppammal Patti ( his mentor) inquired about the situation and did not believe Nithyananda that he was talking to Arunagiri Yogiswara. She demanded that the boy takes her to see who he was talking about. He did as told , but this time Arunagiri Yogiswara no longer come out when Nithyananda called him. After the incident he could not interact and hang out with Arunagiri Yogiswara as before. The boy wondered what went wrong. Was he wrong in telling Kuppammal about the Yogi? Was it supposed to be a secret between the two of them, that no one else was supposed to know about? Did he loose his friend through his carelessness, through his ignorant action? Was the Yogi angry with him? Will he never come back to see him? Nithyananda was a searing pain, pain of losing a part of himself. The boy spent the whole night in agony. Early next morning, the boy ran to that same spot where he sat in front of the jiva samadhi and wept. Suddenly Nithyananda saw Arunagiri Yogiswara in front of him. His whole form was in shining light, almost transparent.
Arunagiri Yogiswara smiled tenderly at the boy, full of compassion and love. he said, " Dear one, you and I are one. We can never get separated. But the play is over. You will not miss me any longer. You will not be separated. We are one."
Saying this, the form of Arunagiri Yogiswara merged into the boy and disappeared from his view. At that moment, Nithyananda did not feel the separation and loss from Arunagiri Yogiswara at all. It was as if Arunagiri Yogiswara was a part of him now. A deep fulfillment descended on him; complete bliss. It was an overflow of love , compassion, all positive emotions at their highest level.


FIRST SPIRITUAL AWAKENING ( STREAM ENTRY)
When Nithyananda was about 12 years old, he was as usual sitting on a rock locally called " Pearl Rock" in the Arunachala hill and meditating, actually playing with this technique given to him by ANNAMALAI SWAMIGAL, when a strange experience happened. It was on the Buddha Purnima day( full moon day) in the month of Vaikasi (May- June as per the Tamil Calendar), and evening sunset period.

In the midst of his meditation , Nithyananda felt something opening up within him, something was getting crushed, something else was getting created. It was like a vessel inside getting broken and a door opening, both together at the same time. It was a feeling of creation and destruction at the same time; and a very pleasurable feeling. A feeling of calmness descended on him. Even with his eyes closed, he could see all around him. He did not need his eyes to be open to see. Not just that, he had a 360 degree vision with his eyes closed. With equal clarity, Nithyananda could see the hill in front of him, the temple behind him, the rock below him, the stars above him the trees to the left, part of the hill to the right, all these were in his visionary field, without having to open his eyes!

Nithyananda said " At that moment, I awakened to the realization that I was one with the whole of Existence and everything was I!" He said pointing to the tree in front of him, " It was like this tree became my bone and this thatch above became my nerves!" Nithyananda stayed in this state for over an hour and a half. The after effects of this spiritual experience that Nithyananda now calls satori, lasted about three days.

This satori experience was the beginning of a new phase of spiritual development in Nithyananda's life. From this point, Nithyananda could see all around him when he wished. From this time onwards, from this profound incident, Nithyananda found that he could not balance himself on a cycle or a two -wheeler. There was no sense of balance in the body. He could not also wear any tight fitting clothes after this profound experience. Nithyananda took to meditating in the cremation grounds in the outskirts of Tiruvannamalai. Extended hours, through the night, absorbed in the vibrant silence of Arunachala, deeply yearning to become one with it. At the break of dawn he would return home.

LEAVING HOME


The urge to leave home after completion of his diploma became unmanageable. He felt he was ready to leave. He felt he could not continue living the way he was at home and had a distaste for society's hypocrisy. His whole life seemed a lie. It was suffocating to live under social bondage. Soon after, Nithyananda felt it was time to leave home. Suddenly one evening , the urge was so strong that he decided he needed to act immediately. He felt he had to jump out of the life he was leading and into the life he was seeking without further delay. He could not bear to continue living the way he did any longer.


Before he left Tiruvannamalai, Nithyananda went to the temple of Arunachala, and stood

at the sanctum sanctorium in front of Arunachaleshwara. For the first time, he felt the extent of the depth of his connection to Arunachaleshwara. As he stood in front of his beloved Arunachaleshwara, tears flowed unceasingly from his eyes. Nithyananda could see the living energy behind the idol radiating compassion and blessing . He heard a distinct voice, the Lord blessing him, " You will come back to me, you will come back successfully." Nithyananda prostrated before the idol and took leave with deep love and fulfillment. Nithyananda felt that Arunachaleshwara was with him in this journey.

In fact, the only problem Nithyananda had in leaving his home was in leaving Arunachala. After his experience with Arunagiri Yogisware, this was the only time in his life that he felt that he would be missing something. It was only when he came to bid farewell to his dear Arunachaleshwara at the temple that he did for the first time feel that he was about to lose something. He never thought he would ever return. His goal was enlightenment, which he thought would happen when he was old, eighty or ninety , before he died.


AWAKENING IN ETERNAL BLISS

Swamiji attained the ultimate state of consciousness, the State of Nithyananda (Eternal Bliss) at the age of 22.

When Nithyananda left home after his first spiritual experience, he had a clear understanding of how ephemeral social life was. However, his mind was not empty. It still had an alloying element that separated the near enlightened fish from the Swan. The wanderings and the penance burnt out the remnants of the alloy; the mind was left behind purposely so that the final union could take place.
Finally the fish looked up and became the Swan; nithyananda became Nithyananda. In turn, the Swan awaits other fish to look up so that they too can join him in the sky!




TAKING UP THE MISSION
Our carried over desires and mental attitudes, based on our past actions, cause rebirth and the cycle of life and death. Once this karmic load is extinguished, and enlightenment results, this cycle stops. An enlightened being has no automatic rebirth. It is true that in locations in this Universe of ours, other than planet Earth , living beings with intelligence, such as human beings, exist. However, it is only from planet Earth, can a conscious being proceed towards enlightenment, which is the state of super consciousness. Enlightened beings come back to planet Earth as incarnations, based on a need expressed by Mother Earth. They are recalled , as it were, and sucked back as energy by a desperate need upon this planet for their presence. The spiritual positivism of enlightened beings is needed to counteract the accumulate negativity of the planet.

Nithyananda says we are all enlightened; we are all born with divinity within ourselves. It is the awareness of this divinity within us that is missing in most of us. " The only difference between you and I , " he says, " is that I know I am divine, and you as yet do not know." Since that truth exists in us, we cannot achieve it; we just need to become aware of it , that's all. And it is his work to remind us of this inner divinity ( buddha nature) within.

THE TEACHING

Enlightenment happens; it cannot be made to happen. Enlightenment is like river water. It stays in your hands as long as your hands are open; once you close your hands to possess it, there is nothing to hold. Our ego believes that there is purpose to life- material, relational and spiritual. The more the purpose to work towards, the stronger our ego feels. If we drop all other purposes and still hold on to the purpose of enlightenment , it is futile. Only when we realize that life is totally purposeless and drop our ego, will enlightenment happen to us. The only purpose of existence is bliss, that's all.
How can we enjoy without possessing, without making something our own? We are like water bubbles on a wave in the ocean. But what happens is , each bubble catches hold of a few more bubbles calling them wife, husband, father, and son. It collects pieces of sand, thinking they are jewels. The bubble does not understand that it can burst any moment. And one big bubble says , it is going to be enlightened. The mind waits for something to happen. It waits for salary, weekly, monthly, yearly, and 5 yearly payments. Our ego is stuck on what we see as a purpose in life. ONCE WE HAVE A GOAL, WE MISS THE PATH!

MY PERSONAL FEELINGS TO MY BELOVED GURU SWAMIJI PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA

One day, I was searching for some meditation techniques on you tube ,then incidently I found Swamiji's discourses on youtube.And when I started to watch , His techniques and teachings really gave me a lot of energy, I can't describe.I am fully energised with his state of mind and presence,and I am so happy ,I know in my deepest feelings He is the light. 15 years or so I had some altered state of experiences..and (Saw Swamiji in my vision also!)and after that I really wondered and wanted to know!, so that was how I was interested in all spirituality.
To this moment,I have searched,read a lot of spiritual teachings,sufism,budism,astrology,hermetism,kabalah 10 sephiras with its connecting to astrology, read and studied various kinds of books.And after all that knowledge,I was not feeling good because I found my self full of information but not living it,and also alone,how can I describe it I don't know,My knowledge was like bigger than my living.I was not living my knowledge.And it is not what I want,so 5 years ago after a very deep holy experiment,stopped all working on waking up from uncounciousness and mind.And I said,enough it is time to forget everything and started to live foots on the ground,and to facing loving all what reality.And Swamiji, I am very happy to say this to,I am on my spiritual way back again,After when I was searching for kundalini energy on you tube, I found his videos and had a look and to this moment I am watching all the videos.And I am fallowing every latest news.
I was surprised and I really felt so happy,happy,happy that There is one living on earth living Enlightenment,and shares it,Working for people's Enlightenment,It so PRECIOUS.I won't be able to explain my feelings, beyond words.I am so happy and blessed He is here and working on this planet. And living so far away from his place he is giving and fulling me with blissful energies, love and light.And I want to be very near him as soon as possible.Join His programs.As soon as, I want to be in his ashram and live ,internalize his techniques and want to master them fully and deeply and serve Humanity.
LOVE,LOVE,LOVE
Nithyanandam
Reyhan Buket