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Genes Don’t Give Shape to a Baby. You Do.

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— By Dr. Srilekha Kartik
Conceiving and nurturing a healthy child is every parent’s dream. A baby is the miraculous expression of the ultimate creative skill of nature. Two cells unite and manifest as a community of 50 trillion cells working in perfect harmony in a highly structured environment. Is there something more that parents can contribute to this ultimate happening, than just the genes in their germ cells and nourishment to the growing fetus? Are the character, behavior and health of the child a victim to the genes that he inherits?

Increasing scientific evidence is proving that parents can actively participate in this evolutionary journey to shape the fundamental characteristics of their baby, including his health and intelligence. Science has come a long way from the days of “genetic determinism” where everything that characterized a person was purely determined by the genes(nature) he inherited to “epigenetics”, where environmental factors and our perception of the same (nurture) are responsible for the genes to ‘turn on’ and express themselves [1].

Genes cannot self-actualize, that means they cannot turn themselves on or off. Gene expression is under the regulatory control of environmental signals [2]. The belief that nature determines the biology fosters the feelings of helplessness and victimhood. After all, no one can change the genes they inherited, nor control what genes they will pass on to their child. On the other hand when nurture is the ‘control’ mechanism, parents realize that they have a fundamental impact on the developmental expression of their offspring [3].

Science has now proved that nurture, i.e. perception of the environment and the attitude of parents, determines some fundamental characteristics of the baby. The baby begins its life even before conception in the physical, mental and emotional ecology of the parents. Their health and balance of body, mind, and very importantly their emotions, come together to create the baby’s physical, mental and emotional self.

Gestation is the first and most vital environment the baby will ever have, and has the greatest impact on him [4]. 50% of the baby’s intelligence can be determined by the prenatal and pre-conceptional environment. By living in fear, parents can short change the baby’s intelligence by 50%[5].

“It makes a difference whether we are conceived in love, haste or hate”, says Dr Thomas Verny, an eminent prenatal psychiatrist6.

These influences start manifesting even before the conception happens, starting from the time of the germ cell maturation. Interestingly, aboriginal cultures have recognized the influence of the conception environment for millennia. Prior to conceiving a child, couples ceremonially purify their minds and bodies through various practices and processes unique to their tradition.

The eN Pregnancy Care program offered by Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam is a blend of modern scientific revelations and ancient Vedic techniques and processes to help a pregnant couple steer through this beautiful journey and actualise the child of their dreams.

The question “How?” to consciously shape the baby in the womb will be addressed in the successive issues of the magazine.

References:
1. Thaler, Science, 1994, 264: 224-225
2. Symer & Bender, Nature, 2001, 411: 146-149
3. Bruce Lipton, J of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health
4. Turner JRG, International Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine ISSN 0943-5417
5. Delvin , et al, 1997; McGue 1997
6. Nurturing Your Child from Conception, 2002

Completion Makes the World Go Round

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 Overcome Your Fear!

Listen, if your root patterns are the seed, and your incompletions are the tree, suffering is the fruit, then fear is the sand, the soil on which the seed grows. Fear is the base on which all these incompletions and root patterns grow.

All the incompletions related to greed are only in muscle-memory level; meaning, only a little deeper than your skin. But, all the incompletions related to fear are in your bio-memory level, where your whole body responds from, where your whole body goes through a very poisonous chemical change. It is such a dangerous thing! You allowing the chemical change due to fear is the worst punishment you give to yourself. It is worse than drinking alcohol and smoking. It can cause cancer and more diseases than smoking, drinking or taking drugs. That is why I always insist: work on your completion, get out of fear itself, not the situations which you think cause the fear.

Change of Place Will not Change Your Life!

It is very unfortunate, sometimes we think that by changing the situation we can come out of the fear. But again and again, life will teach you that only by completing you will come out of any fear, never by changing any situation. But what to do? Everybody thinks the solution in front of them is the easiest solution and it will be permanent. No!

Whenever you act from your incompletions of fear and anxiety, it is literally like you are going through an acid bath. At that time, you don’t know this, and you escape from that situation. I have seen in my life, whoever escaped from a situation which creates fear, they die in that same pattern. So, whenever you are attacked by fear and incompletions of fear, don’t change the situation. The first priority should be completing with the fear, completing with your anxiety, completing with your incompletions. Because, when you change the situation, it may give a temporary relief. Incompletions of fear will be complete only with one truth. You need to internalize this one truth: Anything you resist will persist. So, do the completion wherever you are resisting.

Life is Boring Without Completion

Without completion, life will be boring! Anything you do out of incompletion will be boring, even if it is new things. That is why the incomplete society is going mad after these adrenalin related things. Today, you try to go on a roller coaster but that also does not give a ‘kick’; then you move to some other mad entertainment; then finally, you decide do bungee jumping! See, what all you do for the sake of a ‘kick’ and adrenalin!

A small joke:
Wife: Honey, the doctor has advised me to take a month’s vacation in some serene place like Switzerland or Greece. Where shall we go?
Husband: To another doctor!

Understand, unless you change the space of incompletion, nothing, nothing, nothing is going to help you, nothing is going to transform your life. This is a very important truth. Stop changing the situation to save yourself! Start changing the incompletion in you.

Respect Your Life!

Listen! Only when completion starts, only when the incompletions melt down, when you reject incompletions from your cognition, even respect for your life starts. When you respect life, when you understand life, when you respond to life out of completion, life will respond to you out of completion. Only after completion, life starts in you. Only after completion, you even relate with your own life.
Completion brings a deep respect for your life within you. Please listen! Don’t ever think you have respect for your life, you have concern for your life. Any addiction you carry, whether it is alcohol, smoking, or even addiction to worrying, clearly shows you don’t have respect for your life. Don’t take your respect for your life as guaranteed or granted. Because you don’t have respect for your life, life reacts the same way to you.

Full and Fulfilled

Completion means creating a space which is full and where you can live. Completion keeps you full and gives you the space to live! Incompletion keeps you full, but never fulfilled; you will never be able to live there.
All the modern day CEOs and leaders are filled with stress. You are filled, not fulfilled! You are occupied, but not useful! Before making one decision, you will think about it 200 times, so you are tired! Please understand, reduce the bureaucratic stress you create for yourself. Reduce the incompletions you infuse into yourself. Reduce the abuse you do to yourself.

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Be Integrated With Who You Want to Be!

Please listen! Maintain Integrity with what you want to BE! Because every thought, whether it happens with awareness or without awareness, gets a ‘tathaastu’ from the Cosmos… a huge ‘tathaastu’, from the Cosmos!
You will have to bear the consequences of your thoughts, whether you want it or not, you are aware of it or not.

Just understand one thing, bring integrity into your thinking; do completion with your thoughts every time you have a thought which is not aligned with what you want to be. Complete every thought which is not aligned with your authenticity, which is not aligned with your mamakara (what you believe as you), ahamkara (what you project as yourself to others), anyakara (others’ expectation from you) and sva anyakara (what you believe about others and life). By bringing integrity into your thinking, you will radiate completion!

Are you Operating from a Pattern or Possibility?

Please listen, whether your inner space is pattern or possibility, can be understood just by looking at the results you produce by your actions. The results you have as the inner and outer reality of your life are the real reflection of the inner space you are carrying which is either a space of patterns or a space of possibility. You need to understand that based on the results you produce, you can very clearly see whether you are established in a space of patterns or possibility.

Stand Up to Your Patterns!

A small story:
A blonde goes to the doctor with both of her ears and her right hand burnt. “Sit down and tell me how it happened,” says the doctor.
“I was ironing my clothes when I received a call. Instead of picking up the phone, I picked up the iron and burned my ear.”
“’What about the other ear and your hand?”
“I tried to call for an ambulance.”
Allowing your patterns to affect your actions and decisions again and again is allowing them to gain power over you. The best way to reach completion is to never allow your pattern to stand up again. Before the fellow stands up, beat it! The biggest problem we have is that today we complete – and if we feel complete, great – then we take rest till the next time when the pattern comes up again and then we feel suffocated. That is wrong. Even if you feel complete, continue the completion process by digging out, digging out, digging out. Ask yourself, ‘Is there any other incompletion, are there any other ideas I carry as impossible?’

Just because you feel light, relieved in your heart, just because the suffocations are less in your heart, don’t think that completion is done. Feeling that no suffocation is there is the first step of completion. With this you get the signal that you are moving in the right direction. The board “Bangalore: 97 Kms” is not Bangalore! The moment you see the board “Bangalore: 97 Kms”, you say, “Come on, great! I have reached Bangalore!” And you just lie down, put your tent and start cooking and rolling on the ground! No! The board “Bangalore: 97 Kms” is not Bangalore itself! Same way, the relief you find for the first few days during the completion is not the end of completion! Completion should be carried on till you become enlightened.

Disown Your Incompletions!

Understand, when a robber, burglar and murderer can become Valmiki overnight, when a womanizer like Arunagirinatha Swami can become a great saint overnight, your incompletions are nothing in front of all of them. In front of Tulsidas’ attachments, your attachments and incompletions are nothing!

Your incompletions will get more and more powerful as long as you associate yourself with them. Don’t constantly associate with that incompletion! Don’t even own up! Just disown! Disowning your incompletions is complete completion. If you are convinced that you have disowned your incompletions, you are complete!

See, there are some incompletions, from which you can simply disassociate yourself. You yourself believe you are disassociated from them. There are some incompletions, even you don’t believe you are disassociated from them. Complete only with those incompletions. Disassociating yourself from all incompletions is real completion.

The more you become complete, the more you become a matured soul. The soul which is complete is equivalent to the soul which has seen life, which has experienced everything. Incompletion makes you more and more immature. Completion makes you more and more matured.

From Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Talks (Nithya Satsang) on the Subject of “Completion” in August, 2013, Bidadi Ashram, India

Horoscope for November, 2013

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By Ma Nithya Chandrananda

Monthly Horoscope For Vedic Moon Signs. Vedic Moon Signs can be found in the birth chart or “kundali” which can be prepared by an astrologer or generated online on a Vedic astrology website

Aries

The more self-love enters your system, the easier it will be to go through your transformation without falling into depression or doubts. ‘Yes’ is the key word. You always think that we need someone else to love. You will not be able to practice it with others, unless you learn to love yourself. You can encompass the other only when you have integrated yourself in love; otherwise, your love is pseudo. What you dislike in others is always a projection of you and the way you judge people tells a lot about how you view yourself. Keep your awareness upon this understanding throughout November.

Taurus

Our problems in life are existential. You cannot solve them by thinking alone. You can only solve them by living through them. You are advised to enter into those experiences of struggles and pain, instead of standing aside and resisting it. The mind thinks it can find solutions to emotions and repress them, without feeling it through the body authentically. This is how our relationship with our body has decreased throughout our life. When you operate from the head only, your body disconnects itself from the mind. Slowly, you lose contact with your own presence. Observing the breath is a way for you to regain it.

Gemini

Your mood is light; you can enjoy with your friends and kids in a laid back manner. This is an excellent time for letting go of negative attitudes and animosities that might have been holding you back. It is also a good time for accomplishing projects that involve charitable and spiritual work. Drop everything you feel is not your own experience and which does not resonate with love. Just let go of your protective shield, drop your defenses and open up yourself to your loved ones authentically!

Cancer

Mastering any aggressive, impulsive behaviour and bad temper is possible in November, and welcome too. Keep a balance between thoughts and actions during this period. Everything will work out beautifully once you have exhausted your surplus energy through action. Rash and impulsive decisions with regard to real estate investments, travel and domestic matters should be avoided during this period at all times. Taking decisions from the intuitive level opens the door to ‘the workings of God’ in your life. Expressing it in your home, workplace or in personal matters will bring lightning changes in situations that have been stuck for months!

Leo

Writing to your own self is a royal path towards healing. Writing your feelings on paper can help you express things you would never be able to express ; it can bring to the surface many hidden feelings and knowledge you never knew you had before. Your being is trying to reach you every minute, but your mind is too busy to hear its subtle voice. Writing will bring a whole new understanding in your being. Write to yourself as if you were your closest friend. Just let the words flow on paper be close to your heart; express things you would never speak out loud. You will connect to root patterns and open up your practice of *svapoornatva kriya (completion).

Virgo

Time is perfect for you to practice watchful awareness on your pattern of working in ‘survival mode’. Learn to speak less and to the right person. This airy energy can be used in a more socially friendly, practical and useful way. Whenever a triggering situation happens, remember to show compassion and empathy at all times. Beware of excess of all types and addiction to speech, thoughts, food, poisons and secret activities. Drink neem juice every day to settle your stomach and balance the vata dosha in your body by eating at regular times.

Libra

You may encounter partnership issues this month. Any joint aspects of life will remain under pressure; there is a need to take a real break from your routine life. Your identity is undergoing a transformation and much reshuffling of your mental patterns is going on. Your career will be in a phase of high activity and your mind will dwell in spiritual realms! There may be multiple new opportunities that will create confusion and doubts in terms of choices and path. Avoid disputes with colleagues and do not underestimate them in speech or writings.

Scorpio

This month will add auspiciousness to you. You have enough concentration and focus to channel in important projects, conducive to success in the near future. November will especially bring some new opportunities. You can enjoy positive changes in regard to what you do professionally as well. Look out for the propositions you are offered in all aspects of life, you may find amazing perspectives to expand by working through it!

Sagittarius

It will be wise to take a balanced diet, especially in relation to vitamins, proteins and minerals during this period. You are advised to exercise more than usual, in order to strengthen the body before winter. Be aware of the opinions you create with others, and how you are influenced by your friends. It is good to practice integrity and clarity in order to keep transparent relationships with your dear ones, or else, this could dent your relationships unnecessarily.

Capricorn

This month, your energy goes towards creating wealth and status. This is the time to work on your career and professional goals. You have a flair and drive to sense what needs to be done and how it should be done. Work on harnessing your intuition for your day to day life! In fact, all genius decisions, discoveries and masterpieces were made out of sheer intuition. Never let your practicality and goals cut you off your intuition. When you reject it, you close your door to the higher aspects of life, and reduce existence to an object.

Aquarius

The end of 2013 is an excellent time to enjoy the company of the sages in satsang. Reading books and watching Swamiji’s Youtube discourses is encouraged. Your understanding of your patterns is ripening in this intense period, but the click that can lift you out is about to happen. Just one word of the master is enough to create that click and disentangle you from it! What is needed is your deep receptive mood.

Pisces

Be authentic with your anger, lust, jealousy, love, feeling of solitude, fear of losing control over life, hanging on to your identity and patterns. Go to the peak and valley of it. With any particular emotion, just see the whole thing consciously. When you are filled with a desire, your whole being vibrates with that desire. When you come in contact with the object of your desire: a person, a project, a reputation or a property, the excitement manifests itself to its peak, then suddenly you fall to the valley. Just be with the desire and its intensity, welcome it to the depth and exhaust this karma once for all.

Break Free From Your Root Pattern

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Why do people do the things they do. Why do people feel the way they do. Why do some things always go wrong. Why do some things get stuck. Why do we make the same mistakes again and again…

These are questions which hit everyone at some point of time or the other. Everyone has the same questions. Few have the answer…

When we are children, the world feels perfect. There is no divide between a child’s world and the whole world. Until one day, when something goes wrong and everything seems to fall out of rhythm. The world looks like it is going to collapse. Maybe the child’s older brother towers over him and yells at him, snatching the ice-cream from out of his hands. The child is small and scared and feels powerless. He forms some ideas about himself and the world in these vulnerable moments. Unfortunately, these ideas or cognitions live inside him for the rest of his life. Little does he know, that these ideas are the root cause of all the things that go wrong in his life as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, as an old man and until his last breath.

Everyone was once a child. Everyone has been shaken to their root at some time or the other in their lives. It could be something as life shattering and grave as child abuse and something as small as a mother scolding a child for rolling in the mud. Nevertheless, it is how the child perceives the situation that matters; because whatever the situation may be, it is the cognition or ideas that the child forms about himself and the world at that time that runs his life. This happens with everyone, only that the painful memory gets suppressed somewhere in the archives of the mind and people forget what it was that first jolted their existence.

This limiting or negative cognition that everyone gives to themselves in their moments of powerlessness is called a root thought pattern, and it is the running thread of everyone’s lives. They may or may not be aware of it, it is there nevertheless, like an undercurrent in all their actions and thoughts.

It is possible to find out one’s root thought pattern by following a simple but powerful technique which has been outlined below.

Step 1.
Remember the earliest incident in your life which has imbalanced you thoroughly; means, which made you feel powerless, cornered, shattered. It may be at the age of three; your mother just made you sit on the dining table so that you will not be playing around. It can be any simple incident also. This is the first time you remember feeling powerless and helpless in your life. Dig out the earliest incident you remember when you felt powerless.

Step 2.
Now, relive this incident as if it is happening right now. Visualize that you are back in that moment in time, surrounded by the same people. How do you feel? Re-live it. Go through all those emotions and thoughts.

Step 3.
When you are reliving the incident, see what ideas you give to yourself. See 1) What you think about you 2) What you think about life and others 3) How you projected yourself to the others (What actions did you take when you got jolted? That is what you projected to the others)

These three statements are your root cognition that runs your life even now. This is your root pattern. To be free of the root thought pattern, the *svapoornatva and poornatva kriya can be practiced regularly everyday.

In the Inner Awakening program, Paramahamsa Nithyananda leads the participants into discovering and completing with their root thought patterns to make a quantum shift in their lives in just 21 days.

To seek help with finding your root patterns, You can call Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Enriching temple at the following number: +91 80 27279999

Haritaki, the Wonder Fruit

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Haritaki or Terminalia chebula is a wonder drug, finding its place in a wide range of therapeutic usage in the Ayurveda system of medicine. It is a very large tree growing throughout the deciduous forests of India and Sri Lanka, growing up to 2000m. Haritaki is described as the ‘remover of diseases’. Hara is also the name of Lord Shiva, thus reflecting the sacred nature and exalted position of the plant. It literally means ‘green’. It is also ‘abhaya’ or ‘fearless’ of any disease. It is said to have originated when a drop of immortal nectar (amrita) fell from heaven to earth. It is considered to be the best herb for the digestive system and lungs.

HEALTH BENEFITS

The Fruit

The fruits of Haritaki are one of the main ingredients in many Ayurvedic formulations. Eg: The popular ‘Triphala’. Haritaki fruits are highly nutritious for human health as they contain various vitamins, minerals and proteins. They are an excellent source of vitamin C. These fruits are also rich in several minerals including selenium, potassium, manganese, iron and copper.

  • The fruits are also proved to have strong antibacterial and cardiotonic properties. They prevent the growth of many harmful intestinal bacteria.
  • These fruits are beneficial for the five senses as they improve their receiving powers.
  • A half tsp. of fruit pulp powder when ingested every night followed by a little warm water is used for healing ulcers (of both mouth and stomach) and wounds.
  • It is used as an eyewash, for relief from various eye-infections.
  • Gargling with a decoction made from the fruits is very good for fighting oral ulcers, stomatitis and sore throat.
  • Haritaki fruit, mixed with dry ginger powder and hot water, is used for treating asthma and hiccups.
  • This fruit is used for fighting many diseases including leprosy, chronic as well as intermittent fever, narcosis, diarrhea and anorexia.
  • It is a good nervine. It is used in nervous weakness, nervous irritability. Its fruit pulp increases the oxygen levels of the blood, thereby promoting longevity of tissues.
  • These fruits are used for fighting many digestive disorders such as flatulence, distention and parasitic infections.
  • A decoction of this fruit is used to fight against hepatitis and obesity.

The Powder

  • A paste of Haritaki and water is found to be anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Its decoction as a lotion is a surgical dressing for healing wounds.
  • It reduces lipid deposits in the blood and liver. When consumed with honey, it helps reduce cholesterol.
  • Its powder is a good astringent for loose gums, bleeding and ulceration in gums.
  • Powdered Haritaki is used along with ghee and honey for curing anemia.
  • It is good for chronic cough, sore throat and asthma.
  • It is useful in skin disorders with discharges, like allergies.
  • It is used to treat chronic fever.
  • On long term use, it is helpful in gaining weight in the emaciated persons and in losing weight in obese persons.
  • When taken with meals it sharpens the intellect, increases strength, stimulates the senses, expels the urine, stool and other waste materials from the body. It saves the person from the vitiating effects of bodily humors.
  • Haritaki reduces the ill effects of fat rich, creamy and oily food. Haritaki is the definite aid for persons who habitually overeat.

Haritaki is reputed for its alterative, adaptogenic and tonic effect when used throughout the year with different substances in different six seasons of the year. If we review all the herbal formulations in Ayurveda’s all classical texts, we will find haritaki to be one of the most frequently used ayurvedic herbs. In Ayurveda, haritaki is the best for purifying the channels of the body.

Sheetoshna Sukha Dukha Samyama: Go Beyond Pain

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How many people feel that they are being run ragged by their knee jerk reactions to situations? How often they wish they could stop being a victim of circumstance, and be at peace no matter what was going on. The solution can be found in a Samyama.

A Samyama is a tool that allows a person to receive deeper knowledge, powers and perfections through the combined practice of concentration, meditation and yoga.

“Sheetoshna Sukha Dukheshu” – sheeta (cold) and ushna (hot) attacks a person from outside skin, while sukha (happiness) and dukha (sorrow) attacks one from inside skin. But whether in cold or warm atmosphere, pleasant or unpleasant situations, being respected or dishonored, the one who has subdued the Self which is made out of patterns and is firmly established in this state always remains centered. Here is a powerful technique to attain this state. It is to be noted that the sequence of the steps should not be changed.

Step 1. Mastering Cold

Just sit in the cold and see what happens in your skin, what is happening outside the body. Without naming it as cold or suffering or pain, just look. Tell yourself that “Something is going on, let me see what happens, how that feeling touches my skin and how am I getting agitated and irritated for no reason”. Sit with a deep patience. With this you will be able to master cold, cold will not master you at all.

Step 2. Mastering Heat

The moment you realize that cold does not give any more suffering, you will gain the confidence to work with heat. Do Pancha Tapas – make a fire circle (your height will be the diameter of the circle) and sit inside it for an hour. You will slowly start feeling the heat and it will increase in half an hour. Then see what is going on in your skin. In 2 days you will master heat.

Step 3. Mastering Unpleasantness

Next step is to master unpleasantness. Sit in a room with whatever you consider as unpleasant, for example with a photograph of a person who makes you squirm or an aroma which is not agreeable to you. Look near the chest area, and from inside the skin where the attack starts and sit with that. In two days you will realize there is no such thing as unpleasantness, and it is just your own decision to be in unpleasantness.

Step 4. Mastering Pleasantness

The same thing needs to be done when you are happy. Just sit and ask, “What is this pleasantness? Why do I feel so expanded inside?” You have to feel this from inside the skin and you will master this state also.

All these states have no life independent of a person’s will. When this is understood , their being becomes centered on the supreme state. When one becomes perfect being centered in oneself, they will be immune to these fluctuations. When one sees what is really happening with passiveness and patience, they will be able to face life with such joy and courage. This samyama can get people out of all mental and psychological disorders and enrich lives.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on 4th September, 2012 at Kodaikanal, India

Sleep Like a Baby!

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Insomnia is most often thought of as both a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical and psychiatric disorders. It is characterized by persistent difficulty in falling asleep, staying asleep or sleep of poor quality. Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. One way of defining insomnia is “difficulties initiating and/or maintaining sleep, or non-restorative sleep, associated with impairments of daytime functioning or marked distress for more than one month.” The disease can be classified as primary and secondary (co-morbid) insomnia. Primary insomnia is a sleep disorder not attributable to a medical, psychiatric or environmental cause. A complete diagnosis will provide a clear difference between insomnia as secondary to another condition, primary insomnia co-morbid with one or more conditions and free standing primary insomnia. Sleep studies using polysomnography have suggested that people who have sleep disruption have elevated night time levels of circulating cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. MUDRA

  • Lie on the ground, face downwards
  • Put your hands on the ground with your palms facing the ground
  • Place your chest on your hands
  • Make sure your nose touches the ground
  • Raise your thighs one foot above the ground, making sure your legs are straight.
  • Keep the legs up for 11 seconds and gently lower your legs to the ground
  • Repeat this 11 times

2. UDDIYANA BANDHA

  • Lie on the ground. Keep your face downwards with your palms facing the ground
  • Place your chest on your palms
  • Make sure your nose touches the ground
  • Keep your legs straight on the ground
  • Pull the abdominal muscles inward and upwards so that the organs of the abdomen touch the muscles of the back
  • Hold this pose for as long as you can (at least 21 counts)
  • Relax the abdomen and chin and then exhale through the nostrils
  • Repeat this 21 times

3. STEPS (1) AND (2) COMBINED

  • Lie on the ground. Keep your face downwards with your palms facing the ground
  • Place your chest on your palms
  • Make sure your nose touches the ground
  • Keep your legs straight on the ground
  • Pull the abdominal muscles inward and upwards, so that the organs of the abdomen touch the back muscles
  • Raise your thighs one foot above the ground, making sure your legs are straight.
  • Keep your feet together
  • Hold as long as you can
  • When you cannot hold anymore, relax the abdomen and legs and then exhale through the nostrils
  • Repeat this 21 times

Kriya taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Morning Discourse on 28th October, 2011 at the Bidadi Ashram, India

Ananda Tapas: A Story from the Life of Nithyananda

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There is a very intense meditation technique called the “Ananda Tapas”. This involves the meditator to sit within a circle of fire for several hours for many days under the supervision of the Master. This technique dissolves the samskaras (biomemory) completely and the engraved memories are burned and boiled away. Paramahamsa Nithyananda mentions a beautiful incident in his past that happened when he was performing the Ananda Tapas.

While doing the Ananda Tapas, he enlisted the help of a villager to take care of tending to the fire by adding more fuel to the fire. The villager gathered wood and dried cow dung cakes to keep the fire burning. However he was a poor guy and had no money to keep the fire burning continuously. While Nithyananda was pondering upon this situation, his eyes fell upon a lamp that he received as a gift when he had gone to a feast in Mysore. He gave this lamp to the villager and instructed him to sell it to buy the necessary fuel needed to keep the fire burning. The villager came back saying that it was a silver lamp and he got good money back in return. Nithyananda was surprised because the lamp was not made of silver when he received it. He suddenly remembered a sadhu (monk) who had handled this lamp. This sadhu was a great enlightened being who never needed anything, no clothes, no food, no water and no sleep. However the sadhu used to smoke ganja (a local version of hashish or opium) by placing it in a chillum (straight conical pipe made of clay and used by wandering Hindu sadhus). When his stock of ganja ran almost empty he would place a few copper coins in the chillum and would tap the ashes out of the chillum and lo behold! Gold coins would fall out of it. The copper coins miraculously got converted into gold coins in his chillum. The sadhu played with the lamp and gave it back to Nithyananda.

After a few days the money received by selling the silver lamp was exhausted, and yet the meditation had to be continued. Nithyananda remembered this sadhu and jovially said within himself that the sadhu should have changed it into a gold lamp instead of a silver lamp.

The next day Nithyananda was invited to a nearby ashram for bhiksha (gifted meal) as a rich man was giving food and distributing gifts to all the sadhus. He was shocked when he received the same silver lamp back from the rich man. The rich man said that from the day he bought the lamp from the villager, a sadhu appeared in his dream everyday telling him to give the lamp to a young swami. As the rich man noticed that Nithyananda was the youngest among the group that is why he was giving it back to him. Nithyananda still needed money to continue with his tapas hence he offered to exchange the silver lamp for money with the rich man. On hearing the reason for the exchange, the rich man generously offered to take care of all of Nithyananda’s needs for two months and did not take anything back in return.

This is the greatness of enlightened beings. With the highest purpose in mind, when you make a request for help, they just respond back to you irrespective of time and space. In Nithyananda’s life, a casual, honest request to an enlightened being for financial assistance to complete his tapas, was immediately granted through the generous rich man who came in search of Nithyananda to offer monetary help.

A Simple Life!

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I am initiated by Paramahamsa Nithyananda into the science of Nirahara. My only consumption now is water, light soups, buttermilk, kanji, juices etc. The ultimate goal is to evolve towards consuming only water and thereafter to fully allow the body to use only prana (life force energy) from space.

After seven months of being a Nirahari I got some blood tests done, in order to check what it looks like when prana takes care of my body. Today I received the results. The doctor informed me, that all the values are super: sugar, iron, kidneys, cholesterol level, adrenal gland is fat-free, iron value is 20. “Everything is super”, she said. In the past, I used to donate blood regularly, but several times due to low iron levels I was not allowed to. Now after living on prana, all values including iron have come to their original state of balance, restoring perfect health.

Needless to say, I also feel energetic and healthy. I sleep no more than 4 hours a day, performing a lot of intellectual and physical work, even doing yoga. However this proof from the medical field is important for those who may have doubts about Nirahara Samyama, and whether the body can really sustain itself on prana.

I no longer run my life for buying food, so my motivation for work has taken a turn towards enjoying my work for a change. I have found the right balance between working and fulfilling my other hobbies, creative skills, and discovering my inner potential. I am finally feeling fulfilled and enriched. I am no longer a slave to work, and not running away from life either. I no longer spend the whole day working and hating it, instead my work has started enriching those involved in it. At 58, I have finally started living and enjoying the experience of life.

Another natural side effect of practicing Nirahara is that fear, uncertainty and greed have disappeared from my system. The urge to possess things from the external world, accumulation of money, goods, and the madness of consumerism luring people to satisfy the lower pleasures just disappears. Man is by nature meant to be simple and blissful, not constantly manipulated and stressed over money and belly. No one can manipulate happy people, and life as a Nirahari will show everyone how very limited the social idea of happiness is in the first place.

Embracing Nirahara as a lifestyle is a concrete, effective and visible action that has the power to raise the consciousness mankind lives in. It is like a small stone thrown from the top of a snowy mountain that launches an avalanche of tremendous, superconscious power that can only do good for us and those around us. This avalanche can destroy the outdated, hardened patterns of the world and its false order – patterns that are suffocating our innate connection with God, and the divine nature within us.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly cherish the most sophisticated mechanism in the universe, the human body, and that is why I have chosen to allow it to thrive on pure prana, the life force that is our birthright. Thank God no one has yet thought of bottling prana and selling it!

By Mirjana Brickweg (Ma Nithya Guruswathikananda)
Entrepreneur & Event Organizer
Rijeka, Croatia

The World of the Baul Mystics

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Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Paramahamsa Nithyananda

THE BAULS’ TRADITION

Vedic tradition has seen many streams of living enlightened masters, out of which many streams have dried up. The streams which have an unbroken lineage of living enlightened masters are Vedanta, Aghori, Tantra and Bauls. The Baul Mystics are not well known as a mainstream tradition just because of their habit of not having any property. That is the only reason they are not well known, otherwise they have all the qualifications to be respected as living stream of enlightened masters. The Bauls have a strong belief that the moment you start staying in one place, corruption starts happening. I do agree with it. Organization sometimes unconsciously forces people to dilute the truth. In a way I can say unconscious people will dilute the truth even if there is no organization.

That’s the reason I accepted to have an organization – because otherwise people are going to dilute the truth.
But the Bauls are such a pure and uncompromising tradition that they they don’t have an organization or even a permanent place to stay. I had the fortune of spending some time in Bengal and being associated with some of the Baul sannyasis. The Baul sannyasis are not celibates or unmarried. They live like a breeze. They travel place to place, sometimes alone, sometimes together. They sing so beautifully. Each Baul can at least sing two thousand verses. Sometimes the verses are of their predecessors, the early masters, sometimes it is their own spontaneous compositions.

THE MAIN THEME

But the main theme which runs through the Baul tradition is the pure love towards everything that exists; to the river, hill, sun, moon, plants, trees, animals and to themselves. Whatever exists they flood it with love. That is why they are not socially accepted, because they are such a joyful species. I can say, Bauls and Tantrics are actually a different species altogether – one of the most endangered species on planet earth. They are an altogether different species. It’s a different life. The very word “Baul” means (it’s a Bengali word) ‘mad’. If somebody else calls you mad, there is every possibility that you may get hurt. If you yourself declare I am ‘mad’, you are liberated. It is a great liberation from the social image.

THE “MAHAVAKYA”

Each tradition has a “mahavakya” – means the ultimate truth, the ultimate word. Vedanta has a mahavakya, Tantrics they have their mahavakya, Aghoris have their own mahavakya. The mahavakya for Bauls is “NO to society and social hypocrisy”. One of the core messages they transmit to the disciples is to break free from social hypocrisy – the unconsciousness being carried from generation to generation and transmitted to you unconsciously without knowing why, what, without having any reason. Constantly, a kind of unconscious lifestyle, unnecessary lifestyle is made into a legitimate living condition or trend and forced on human beings in the name of social etiquette or tradition. It is unnecessary social hypocrisy which keeps you away from enlightenment and is the cause of your suffering.

BAULS’ KUMBHA MELA

The Bauls are ultimate beings from my experience. I have seen Bauls in lakhs (1 Lakh = 100.000). Just like Vedantis have a Kumbha Mela in Allahabad and Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjaini, Bauls have their own Kumbha Mela in Calcutta. I’ll sincerely suggest at least all my disciples should make pilgrimage to the Bauls’ Kumbha Mela.

They gather every year. If you Google you will find out their date in Calcutta. They don’t have a big organization structure; only a few people maintain this website. Almost all Baul mystics gather. None of them are well known to society because they live such a beautiful life, such an innocent life that society cannot tolerate them. The collective unconsciousness cannot tolerate them so they don’t recognize the Baul mystics. I can say that it the most powerful congregation I have ever seen. There is a beautiful book called ‘Nine Lives’ which beautifully describes Bauls’ Kumbha Mela. The whole theme of their Kumbha Mela is only one line, ‘Say NO to social hypocrisy’.

The Bauls are an amazing people who really live with a backbone. Even the Zen tradition has missed one point – not to have a permanent place to stay. There are only two traditions which still maintain that – Aghoris and Bauls. Aghoris don’t have permanent address, but they have monasteries where Aghoris can stay temporarily and then go somewhere else. But Bauls have not even compromised to that level. Bauls are literally like butterflies. They happen, fly, spread colors, and just disappear; nothing else. The only truth the Bauls radiate is ‘Say NO to all social hypocrisy’.

Sit today – you must be having thousands of social hypocrisies inside you now. Pick up only one, just one, and say No to it.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Morning Discourse on 14th August, 2010, Bidadi Ashram

Deep Connections between Mantra Chanting & Healing

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In the Upanishads (collection of spiritual texts that form theoretical basis for the Hindu religion) the word nada brahma is mentioned which means from sound, existence expresses itself. Everything in this universe is made out of subatomic particles called quarts. Nithyananda says that it is the nada (called sound in Sanskrit) or the sound that acts as an energy binding the quarts together thus creating a solid form called matter. So any solid matter including our body is created out of nada. A great saint who lived few centuries ago, Arunagirinathar sang a beautiful verse regarding creation. It goes as follows – nada bindu kalaathi namo namo. The subatomic particles or the quarts are poetically described as the bindu while the life force energy or the force which creates matter is poetically described as nada. Nithyananda explains that the saint describes creation through nada poetically by describing Subramanya (a Hindu deity), an expression of Shiva (one among the Hindu Trinity), as the lord of nada and bindu.

Just as sound is responsible for the creation of the human body so also it is responsible for any kind of physical or mental sickness an individual would have. The quart, by its nature, is pure consciousness and free of all disease. Once the energy field that binds the quarts responsible for the disease is altered, then the disease gets cured automatically. Healing happens only when work is done on the nada (not on the bindu).

Healing can happen in two ways, by creating the right sound and by repairing the wounded nada through sound – taking the disturbed nada structure to a being in whom anahata dhvani (uncreated sound or the sound which is created without any collision of matter) happens continuously. Thus, mental and spiritual health is restored through the right sound. When the wounded nada being goes near a being in anahata dhvani, his whole body and mind goes through a complete restructuring and healing, the brain is rewired, consciousness is raised and a cognitive transformation happens. That is why the master’s intense radiating anahata dhvani is called sarva roga nivarini (cure for all diseases). The sounds created out of the anahata dhvani is mantra.

The whole world follows one of these two traditions – light based and sound based tradition. Traditions that were created by manipulating light particles are light based traditions while the traditions that were created by working with nada are sound based traditions. While the western world used light particles as the foundation on which science progressed, the Vedic tradition focused on sound to create. In the Vedas it is written that the pushpaka vimanam (ancient flying chariots) functioned by creating a particular vibration. Weapons were employed using sound vibration. Vedic masters were able to summon the Sun and the Moon just by sound. Nithyananda says that it is time to rediscover this science and make it available to humanity again. He says he and his sangha (spiritual community) have already taken up the science of using soundless sound and mantras for transformation.

Bring World Peace By Unclutching

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Photo (c) Trifon Marchovski
Photo (c) Trifon Marchovski

WHAT IS PEACE ?

Being peaceful within means being in completely unclutched space or the restful awareness space internally and taking more and more responsibility and being productive externally. Let me define “peace”. Peace means: being at ease internally and responding to the world in a most efficient way, and being most productive to the humanity. If you wish to authentically make a difference and bring peace to the world, you must first bring peace yourself within. Being peaceful within means: being in completely unclutched space, or the restful awareness space.

Let me define this word “Unclutching – Being Unclutched”. When you are not transferring the stress and load created by one thought to the other thought and carrying that load constantly. Please understand, usually you transfer the load and the stress you create by one thought to the other thought and when you are constantly transferring those emotions to the next thought your inner space becomes insensitive, loaded with so much of emotions, it naturally sinks into depression, restlessness, boredom – all the negative emotions. Unclutching is not connecting one thought and the other thought and carrying the same stress and emotions.

When you unclutch you stop carrying the stress and negative emotions from one thought to the other thought and when you don’t carry that stress, suffering, negativity, pressure, restlessness from one thought to the other thought naturally you experience peace inside.

LEVELS OF PEACE

Peace at the level of self: Being in the restful awareness zone at all times, being unclutched within is peace at the level of self. Please understand; every human being has the birthright for the peace within. The Peace at the level of self is the birthright of every human being and everyone should do it. Everyone should have this peace experience – life while you are living.

Second: Peace at the level of Family. Being unclutched and mature in your relationships and executing your responsibility towards your family and relationships. Every householder, person who has a family, is responsible for his family’s peace. Even if you are not the head of a family, please understand; every person who is part of the family is responsible for the peace of the family.

Third: Peace at the level of community. Being unclutched in the way you relate with your community, taking up responsibility towards your community and performing actions that radiate responsibility. I tell you, when you unclutch, so much of your inner space will be freely available to you. You will be able to do so many creative things, radiating responsibility.

Fourth: Peace at the level of Society – Being unclutched in the way you relate to the society and being responsible at the societal level. Please understand; only at this level you will really feel the sacrifice – the “tyaga” – the joy of sacrifice happening to you. I tell you, only at that moment you really feel: “What can I contribute to others and make a difference?”

When each individual is established in being unclutched at the level of Self naturally he will create the peace at the level of family, then at the level of community and it will expand to the level of society. Naturally peace has to start happening at the level of nation and the whole civilization itself.

Taken from Nithyananda’s  Peace Webinar on 22nd April, 2012, Bidadi 

Turmeric: A Spice that Heals

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Ayurvedic Healing properties of turmeric
Ayurvedic Healing properties of turmeric

Indian Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a leafy, aromatic plant in the ginger family with a unique spicy fragrance. The spice made from the plant’s rhizome is a staple of Indian cuisine. Turmeric is a potent medicine widely used in Ayurveda and traditional herbal medicine. Modern medical studies have found that ‘curcumin’, one of the components of turmeric, is the most biologically active component with healing properties. In the ancient Indian Vedic civilization, turmeric was revered as a holy powder, dating back nearly 5000 years.

Dry turmeric is added as an offering in fire sacrifices (homa, yagna), releasing a cleansing and healing smoke. The spice is called ‘Indian saffron’. Thanks to its brilliant yellow colour, it is an ideal choice as a food flavour, an effective ingredient in medicines and cosmetics, and a natural colorant.

Health Benefits

  • In the Ayurvedic system of medicine, turmeric has been prescribed for the treatment of upper respiratory disorders, jaundice, as a stomach and intestinal soother, and as an anti-inflammatory substance.
  • Turmeric powder in warm milk is useful in conditions of sore throat and cough with expectoration. The hot milk eases the throat and turmeric fights throat infection.
  • The antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antiseptic properties of turmeric prove effective topically in various skin disorders including skin cancer.
  • Turmeric is popularly used to create face masks by blending turmeric powder with yogurt, honey or milk and applying the paste to the skin.
  • A combination of turmeric with sandalwood powder as a paste can be applied to the skin to combat acne.
  • Women in India and parts of Asia use turmeric masks on a daily basis for skin rejuvenation and to soften the appearance of lines and wrinkles, also significantly reducing the facial hair.
  • For maintaining elasticity of skin and to prevent stretch marks in pregnant women, a mixture of turmeric powder with yogurt is applied to the abdomen and wiped off after 5-10 minutes.
  • Turmeric with a gram of flour, mixed in water can be used as an overall body scrub before showering. Doing this regularly gives a glowing skin.
  • For toothache and gum infections, a mixture of turmeric, rock salt and mustard oil can be applied to the affected area around two to three times a day, followed by washing the mouth with warm water.
  • A combination of table salt and turmeric powder used as tooth powder relieves one from tooth infections.
  • For heavy headache, sinusitis, cold, or throat irritation, a piece of dry turmeric rhizome is used with the help of tongs, the other end placed in a flame of a lit lamp. Inhaling the fumes gives instant relief. Or, add to water for steam inhalation.
  • In India, it is a common practice to apply a paste of turmeric to minor cuts and bruises. Its antiseptic property is perfect as it quickens healing. If you feel a burning sensation, it just means the turmeric is acting!
  • As an effective anti-inflammatory, turmeric is used in treating Rheumatoid Arthritis. Turmeric powder taken thrice daily helps reduce swelling and inflammation around joints.

Live Stress Free! A Simple Technique

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Every researcher that devoted time and energy to understanding stress in human beings has managed to unveil a temporary solution or two, but what nobody discovered was that laying an emphasis on anything, including the necessity of a stress-free life, brings in stress. There may be a thousand solutions to overcome this stress, but emphasizing on their importance will only bring in more and more conflict.

Anything done out of free will is a technique for a stress-free life, even if it is as simple as a hand movement. One way to live this life is by obtaining technical information about everything, be it walking, cooking or talking. For example: Why does one breathe? Where does it lead? Does it help achieve a goal? If it doesn’t, can it be changed?

Lack of relevant technical information is the root cause of conflict and stress. At many points, human beings find themselves having desires that completely contradict each other. Bringing in the right technical information helps fuel the intelligence to understand that ultimately, only one of the conflicting desires can be fulfilled and helps in making an informed choice. In more ways than one, this technique brings tremendous clarity within.

Understanding and adding information to the system helps iron out one’s life. This process of ironing out life is a spiritual routine that has been observed by sannyasis and yogis all over the world. Even the spiritual beings that wandered observed this routine in the time between Guru Poornima and Navaratri, where they stayed put and added enough information to ensure that they lived a life completely devoid of stress. Every action is done as a conscious choice and is celebrated. Every individual who seeks spiritual enlightenment is advised to observe this technique, even for the simplest of actions.

Basic observation can help infer that the average individual does not stay within his or her bodily boundaries while performing the simplest of actions. It is much easier to get caught up in a distant fantasy or in an irrelevant train of imagination while in the shower. Staying completely conscious of oneself adds intensity to these actions and cleanses the body and mind much more effectively. Correctly applied, this technique ensures the end of laziness when it comes to physical work. It helps one understand that it is lack of technical information that allows lethargy to take over.

There are five techniques to lead a stress free life. They involve bathing consciously, having breakfast consciously, going to work (or school) consciously, having lunch consciously and at the end of the day, falling asleep consciously. The beauty of these techniques is that nothing is changed from the routine; all that is added is enough technical information to eradicate stress and ensure that life is as beautiful as it should be.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Morning Discourse, 4th September, 2010, Bidadi Ashram

Miraculous Healing of Allergies & Health Improvements

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My name is Ma Ananda Sanghavasini. I am a Meditation Facilitator in Calgary, Canada. I would like to share a few amazing healing experiences that has happened to me because of Swamiji’s healing and “THE Samyama” program offered by Swamiji free of cost.

First is a miraculous healing of a severe allergic reaction. Since the year 2000 I have been suffering from allergic reactions to heat and exposure to sunlight. This reaction manifests itself as a swelling of the face while face and neck are covered in small blisters. It is extremely uncomfortable and painful to say the least. Right before the start of THE Samyama program I was suffering from such an allergic reaction. I asked Swamiji for healing; not only for the healing of swelling and blisters but also for the patterns that keep causing this. Swamiji gave His blessings and told me He would clear it. In the past this allergic reaction would have taken at least 3 weeks to clear up. Now, with Swamiji’s blessings and healing, it took 4-5 days!

The healing that happened for me was not only of the skin but of the inner wounds of self-hatred as well. Swamiji explained that THE Samyama works deeply on clearing all patterns related to self-hatred along with all food-related patterns.

After the program Swamiji had requested for all of us to get tests done recommended by a physician to make sure we are all healthy. I did all the tests; blood- and urine work, ECG, Ultrasounds, etc. The test results were astonishing. Of course I felt great, I didn’t need any ‘proof’ for that. Nevertheless, to see the facts right there on top of the experiences of healing I had is nothing short of a miracle.

There are two major improvements in my health since I started participating in Nirahara Samyama that allopathic medicine had failed to heal.

1) About 5 years ago doctors noticed three or four huge ovarian cysts on each ovary on an ultra sound that was done. Especially the left ovary had been extremely painful. Now, after having done the ultra sound as a check- up for THE samyama, there was no trace of any cysts!

2) From when I was about 16 years old until now, at the age of 40, I have suffered from Hypoglycemia. This resulted in blood sugar levels going up and down, mood swings and feelings of weakness and dizziness continuously. After participating in THE Samyama last month, I suddenly came to the realization that I have had none of these symptoms at all since the beginning of the Nirahara Samyama first level!

There are no words to express the gratitude for the blessings of healing that Swamiji keeps showering on all of us.

To know more about Nirahara Samyama, please visit bfoodfree.org or write to us.

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