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October, 2013 Horoscope for Vedic Moon Signs

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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

October is an excellent period to develop your ability to commit in a partnership. You seek fast results in everything you do! But becoming willing to take responsibility for the effects of your actions on others is a must! Mature your relationships with the power of the *poornatva kriya, undetaking completion with yourself and others. Bring balance between the ‘I’ and the ‘you’. Your impatience and opinions create the tendency to blame others and your irritation may really throw you off balance. Your excessive independence is more a kind of self protection and selfishness, rather than freedom and autonomy!

Taurus

The key word is: practicality! You need to live reality as it is, in all its ordinary flow, trivial duties which you would like to escape for the time being! Enlightenment always happens in the ordinary, in the simple, in the present moment, and not in some remote dimension in the astral plane nor in isolation. There is nowhere to run away. Be realistic and humble in front of all menial tasks. Do it as if your breath was holding on to it. Be complete in your day to day life and practice this wisdom throughout October.

Gemini

Mental tensions are likely to increase. Irritations and frustration level may shoot up due to growing mental pressure. Completion with the fear of not performing to your optimum will help you to relax. Problems related to stomach could increase. You are advised to take precautions to prevent such situations from prevailing – drink Neem juice to settle your digestion. It is advised to control your speech and not say rude things to your family members as it would worsen a situation.

Cancer

October will start with your positive outlook, you will be in a flowing and easy mood, with a skill to promote work. Your ability to create and consolidate your networks will be at its best. You will feel a change after 17th October, 2013 as you will create strength in what you do and be able to take a stand for the responsibilities you took up. Give your listening to members of your extended family; they will need you and your undivided attention to settle issues.

Leo

Whenever you are looking, moving, relating to any person or object, let your awareness be on the space between you and that object. Feel that all the objects around you are just tiny particles in space. See space, hear space, feel space everywhere. Continuously experience the silent presence of space in and around you. When you work with this technique, you will lose your fascination with the material world and liberate yourself from greedy attachments to gains.

Virgo

Planet Jupiter is sitting in the tenth house of your horoscope, so you are likely to get the support of your seniors and colleagues at your workplace. It could also lead to a promotion and a rise in your enthusiasm. The period is excellent to go out and enrich your brothers and sisters with the four tattvas. Be aware of sudden decisions you make, and use your intuition and discrimination in business matters because you could take wrong decisions. If you are into business, make sure you go through all the paperwork carefully when you are about to sign a deal.

Libra

You are advised to recite the mantra “Om Sham Shanaishcharaye Namah” for completion with Saturn energy. Also, worshiping Lord Ganesha will bring good results in all aspects. There is a conflict between the personality you show to the outer world and the personality you reveal in your inner world. The uneasy feeling between these two identities creates tensions. Remember you are much more than these two identities. When you “unclutch” from it, you will realize you are beyond your self-imposed stress.

Scorpio

On 19th and 20th October 2013, be aware of your inner space and how your thoughts and feelings are blending together to lead you to action. You may feel surges of irritation towards people on no grounds at all! If you feel puzzled about it then it means you have not analyzed it sincerely. Finding out the root of it and completing will help you stop your impulse for anger as soon it shows up as a slight movement within. Controlling it will keep your pitta dosha (a body humour which controls digestion, metabolism, and energy) balanced. Choose wisdom over egoistic reactions, practice *svapoornatva kriya for completion with yourself!

Sagittarius

The planets are blessing you with a beautiful period of development in and through your social networks as well as rise in your professional status. Your relationships and partnerships are under Jupiter’s blessings, giving you easeness with yourself, fulfillment and an ability to outgrow any difficulties. This whole month planetary energies are gracious, so take up opportunities and step out of your comfort zone to reach your star! All your efforts to break the limits you put on yourself will be very rewarding.

Capricorn

It is up to you to make the best of this time professionally, as you have inner strength to climb up the ladder and outgrow a situation where you have felt stuck for some time. You can rely on your power of communication. Travelling will open and instigate new opportunities. Your learn the art of diplomacy and how to use it to help yourself and others around you. This is an excellent time to practice meditation regularly! Also, any commitment you take up in life now will get strongly imprinted as a vow in your inner space.

Aquarius

Emphasis should be on spiritual progress. You can gain tremendous insights by assessing your patterns and penning down their dynamics in day-to-day life. Lots of insights can be revealed by writing those words! Make yourself empty and know that emptiness is your real nature. The courage to be empty is to be one with the Whole. When you are full, you remain empty, and when you experience your emptiness, you are fulfilled. Use this technique in all areas of life in October.

Pisces

The period until July 2014, shows great potential and will to study a topic in depth. Any spiritual and yogic sciences will be fascinating to you. Offer enough space to your life partner. Let the person be him/herself without feeling your weight upon their shoulders! Be there for this person, listen to their feelings and wishes, be aware of their body language. It will help you to un-entangle situations where the other is not able to share what is in their heart.

The Nature of Perception

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By Dr. Alpana Agarwal

The science of perception is described in detail by eastern mystics. According to the Vedic philosophy, information is received through all the five senses but there is a lot that goes on in the brain before actual perception happens. Many recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience provide proof in support of the theory given by the Vedic seers.

How Perception Happens

Perception takes place as a series of steps. Taking the example of eyes, the visual information from the scene in front of the eyes goes to a space called chakshu. Chakshu is just like a digital signal processor. Whatever is seen through the eyes is converted into a bio-signal in the chakshu. For the case of eyes, the chakshu are the rods and cones in the retina which convert the light falling on them into a neural signal. The signal is then sent to a space called chitta, which is the equivalent of a computer’s memory storing all the data. The process of comparison and elimination now starts in the memory – “this is not a stone, this is not a tree, this is not an animal.” Chitta can be correlated with the primary visual cortex (1). It has been found by scientists that only 20 percent of the nerves coming to the primary visual cortex are from the eyes, the rest are from other areas of the brain, for example those in charge of memory. It is logical to conclude that only 20 percent of perception is based on input through the eyes, while 80 percent contributions are from the “mind” (2).
In the next step, identification happens in the visual areas of the brain (3), called as manas by Vedic rishis. For example, when one sees a familiar face or object or place, the manas recognizes the image – mother, boss, dog, rose, book, park, school, river. Next, the file moves to a space called ego, where the connection between the individual and the identified objects/persons/place is established. The information is relayed to the amygdala (a gateway to the limbic system) to recognize the emotional significance of the scene. Past incidents connected to the person/object/place are then retrieved and the information passed on to the limbic system, which produces a response in the person.

Why Do Memories Get Triggered?

The process of perception follows a logical path until the manas. After the manas when the information goes to the ego, the perception gets colored by the individual’s ego. It is well recognized both by neuroscience and psychology, that deep-seated memories play an important role in perception and decision making. Perception is not factual – perception is facts processed based on memory. Memory of past events, especially their emotional context, is called “Episodic Memory”, and this information is stored in the limbic system. If a scene reminds a person of some unpleasant experience in the past, unconsciously the painful memory gets triggered. For example, if the person was hurt by someone in the past, next time he sees that person, he would go through anger or sadness. This serves a purpose in the scheme of things, which is to avoid future hurt.

Root Thought Patterns

The problem arises when this memory gets triggered when it is not needed, due to some similarity between the past painful experience and the scene before the person. Now, even if the person sees anything or anyone which remotely resembles that person who caused the original hurt, or a situation similar to the original incident, he again goes through the same low mood, affecting his decisions. This process can happen quite unconsciously, and in the case of very old or repressed memories, one may not even know the reason for a sudden dislike to a place, person or situation. These kind of deeply engraved memories are called samskaras. It is important to understand, that a memory is not only a memory of the incidents that happened at a certain time, but also the cognition that a person has of those incidents. What the person believes himself and others to be in the situation is also engraved in his bio-memory along with the information that is received through the five senses. These cognitions are called the “root thought patterns”. Sometimes, even if one is aware of what is right, one ends up making the wrong decisions due to the root thought patterns. All addictions happen because of an incomplete and inadequate cognition which becomes engraved in a person, and then begins to override the intelligence of the individual. According to Freud, human beings are completely unconscious of 90 per cent of what goes on in their minds. Most of the decisions are not taken consciously, and can be traced back to the unconscious mental patterns.

Only when a person has completed with all their root thought patterns, can true perception happen. *Svapoornatva and poornatva are the two techniques given by Nithyananda to complete with root patterns, and reclaim the ability to perceive life without the interference of the unconscious mental patterns.

References

1 For details of the process of visual perception, refer to “Phantoms in the Brain” by Sandra Blakeslee & V.S. Ramachandran
2 Richard Gregory, “Brainy Mind”, British Medical Journal, 19 December 1998, issue 317: pp. 1693–1695
3 Refer to the works of Semir Zeki, John Allman, John Kaas, David Van Essen, Margaret Livingstone and David Hubel

Nithya Dhyaan

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Nithya Dhyaan is a 35-minute meditation designed by Nithyananda to unclutch from the mind and move beyond it. It cleanses and energises the vital energy centers or chakras in the body, which are responsible for the swaying emotions and stored negative memories. It brings intense awareness into the system to awaken the inner intelligence. The meditation causes an experience of a growing explosion in consciousness that can steer a person towards a life of totality and completion.

Nithya Dhyaan is a technique that gives a seeker what he needs to balance himself and be in complete harmony with his body, mind and spirit. It enables him to harness the inner intelligence and to excel in the inner and outer worlds.

STEP 1

vajrasana

Please be seated in a yogic posture called Vajrasana. Sit on your mat on the floor with both your legs stretched out. Next fold both the legs, one after the other at the knees and rest your posterior on your heels with your toes turned outward. This is Vajrasana. With open palms, place your hands on the thigh joint where it meets the hips, with your thumb pointing backwards and the remaining four fingers pointing forwards as if you are holding your hips. You can use a cushion or a rolled towel under your ankles. Sit comfortably with your head, neck and spine in a straight line.

Now close your eyes and breathe chaotically for 7 minutes. Breathe intensely and non rhythmically. Your entire upper body should move as you breathe. However, do not over-strain yourself. If you have had a recent surgery or have a medical problem or if you are pregnant, please do this step carefully, with the level of intensity that feels comfortable.

STEP 2

Continue to sit in Vajrasana. You now need to form the ‘chin mudra’. A mudra is a symbolic gesture of the hands and fingers. Place your hands on your knees. Your hands with open palms should be facing upward. Let the tip of the index finger touch the tip of the thumb, as if forming a circle. The three other fingers, arms and the hands remain relaxed.

Now, hum intensely for 7 minutes. Breathe in deeply and as you exhale create a humming sound from your navel. Your mouth should be closed. You will feel a vibration starting from your lips and mouth. Be relaxed. Do not strain yourself. If you have had a recent surgery or have a medical problem or you are pregnant, please do this step carefully, with the level of intensity that feels comfortable.

STEP 3

You may now sit cross-legged on the floor if you wish to or continue to sit in Vajrasana. Now, for 7 minutes, take your awareness through each of the body’s seven energy centers, called chakras, starting from the Mooladhara Chakra or Root Center which is the base of the spine to the Sahasrara Chakra, which is the Crown Center. (See figure)

When you meditate on each chakra, feel intensely that:

the chakra is pure
the chakra is filled with energy
the chakra is overflowing with bliss
the chakra is radiating Nithyananda, or eternal bliss

STEP 4

For 7 minutes just be unclutched in silence. Be a witness to whatever is happening inside you and around you. Do not suppress your thoughts. Do not follow your thoughts. Just watch your thoughts as an observer.

STEP 5

For the last 7 minutes remain in a deep mood of gratitude. When your whole being overflows with gratitude, you commune with the existential energy. You may chant the Guru Pooja Mantra or just listen to the mantra and offer your gratitude to Existence and to your Guru. Offer your gratitude with your whole being.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

Completion, Your Very Nature

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Completion & Incompletion

Incompletion is anything that leaves you with an experience of low energy, low emotions and a general feeling of unfulfillment. Any action that is unfulfilled as per your expectation, either because of an outer hindrance or an inner hindrance, is incompletion. Anything from the past that hinders you from participating in life as it happens, is incompletion.

Completion does not mean accepting everything that happens in life. Completion is not blind acceptance. Completion simply means not resisting the flow of life.

What is the difference between ‘resisting’, ‘accepting’ and ‘not resisting’?

For example, just imagine that you are sitting in your garden one morning and sipping a cup of tea. Suddenly you see a man charging towards you with a knife!

Now, you have three ways of responding to this unexpected happening in your life: One, you can resist the moment, and get angry, panic and say, ‘Oh, this guy has been my neighbor for ten years, I did so much for him, he even borrowed money from me and never returned it, now how can he do this to me?’ and so on – getting caught in your own perceptions, and in the process, completely losing sight of what you actually need to do in the situation. This is acting out of incompletion.

Or you can just accept the situation and feel like a saint, saying, ‘After all, this is life!’ – not even making an attempt to change the situation. This is acting out of powerlessness, and hence, also acting out of incompletion because the root of powerlessness is in incompletion.

Understand, neither of these two attitudes is completion. Completion means simply assessing the situation as it is. A man rushing towards you with a knife is a man rushing towards you with a knife – that’s all. When you assess the situation without applying your personal filter to it, you will know exactly what action to take – just duck, run away, or stand there and fight him!

Why Incompletion?

Incompletion comes out of the assumption that something larger than you exists out there for you, which can complete you. Your life is nothing but a journey from incompletion to incompletion. The idea that something outside you can complete you, can add to you, can fulfil you, immediately reduces you to the level of matter. You forget that you are not matter – you are life! Only life can infuse life into matter; matter cannot infuse life into life! Only you can infuse value into anything that is outside you. Even the so-called positive happenings in your life are usually a result of incompletion. Your success, your relationships, your wealth – everything is triggered by a sense of incompletion. Whether you realize it or not, you are complete unto yourself. Then why do you look to something external to complete you?

Incompletion is like a poison in your life. It is incompletion that drives you to take one birth after another. Any incomplete action is karma. It will pull you to repeat that action again and again till you achieve completion. Any action performed from a state of incompletion will only lead to more incompletion. Anything done from a state of completion will lead to completion in others also. If you feel disturbed by a woman outside, understand: the disturbance is not from the outer woman. It is always from the inner woman. It is always from the woman who is inside with whom you are incomplete.

Completion is Your Nature

The Sanskrit word ‘poornatva’ means, ‘the state of completion’.

Completion is the state which leaves nothing left to be desired, either in the inner world or in the outer world. When in completion, there is no space for fear, greed, anger, doubt, envy or any of the low-energy emotions and conflicts you create for yourself. Completion is an unclouded inner space. In such a space, irrespective of what is happening in the outer world, completion alone remains. The Shanti mantra (peace chant) drawn from the Hindu Upanishads says that the whole cosmos resonates with completion.

‘Om poornamadah poornamidam poornaat poornamudachyate
Poornasya poornamaadaya poornamevaavashishyate’

Everything in the cosmos resonates innately with completion. It is completion here, it is completion there. Completion is born out of completion. If you remove completion from completion, completion alone remains!

Are You Running Away From You?

Listen: Since completion is your innate nature, you are never comfortable with your own incompletions. For the very reason that they remind you of your incompleteness, you never want to face them! All your life, you keep running from the ghost of your incomplete self. The more and more you run away from you, the more you are haunted by the incompletions – through life and across lives.

The only way to be free is to face the incompletion directly. Identify the source of incompletion which is rooted in an inadequate cognition of some situation that happened in your life, and then complete with it. The *poornatva and svapoornatva kriyas are powerful processes to restore this completion to your being.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

Sade Sati & Saturn

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Sade Sati (7½ years) is often termed as one of the most dreaded planetary transits afflicting human beings. However, it is not to be dreaded when approached with the antidote of spiritual wisdom.

When Saturn (Shani) transits through the 12th, 1st, and 2nd house from your natal Moon (position of the Moon in the birth chart), the yoga (alignment) is called Sade Sati. In Hindi, Sade means ‘half’ and Sati means ‘seven’. Saturn takes 2½ years to pass through each sign; its passing through 3 signs takes 7½ years, hence the name Sade Sati.

Just as the energy of the Sun’s principle can burn impurities in the person’s chart, Jupiter’s energy can empower through generosity and enriching, while Mercury motivates the person to listen instead of talking, Mars leads to action, Venus inspires to accept the beauty in others with love and Moon creates the feeling of being part of the same family, Saturn teaches the person how to become realistic and thrive in solitude without feeling fearful and depressed. It teaches to face one’s fears and limitations in order to walk the talk and spiritualize one’s life.

Sade Sati is all about facing yourself with maturity and taking up the responsibility for your transformation. To the person undergoing it, this period will appear as if Kaal (time) itself is on hold. Actually this space is necessary to understand your emotions, and your responsibility towards what you create in your world because of them. By doing so, you iron out and destroy your karmas of this life and redefine your existence.

Sharing Guru’s gentle energy through enriching is the ultimate remedy during this period, bringing expansion where Saturn tends to shrink one’s consciousness. Sharing knowledge, blessing others and seeing the good in them even in times of disputes, dissatisfaction, depression, differences, disharmony or failures are the qualities of the dignified Saturn energy.

The painful effect of Sade Sati, which is known to many, happens only when you are not ready to admit your complete responsibility for what is. The negative side of Saturn then manifests as a current of resistance to the present moment. Saturn then becomes “malefic”, as astrologers say.

The highest frequency of Saturn embodied in this yoga, manifests when you decide to face yourself and complete with your patterns. Completion with yourself gives the courage to handle whatever life brings with integrity and authenticity.

In a way, Saturn’s principle represents how you relate to Kaal (time). Since it intensifies any experience, it makes one’s consciousness experience it deeply in order to gain maturity. It also sends karmic retribution and points out which aspects of life you have to focus on and clear up in order to grow.

The condition of Saturn in a chart shows how permanent and synchronized a person’s connection with their consciousness and awareness is, even during the most challenging times. A well-placed Saturn shows that the person knows when to go slow, when to go fast, when to work, when to surrender, when to have endurance and how to be stable in the most difficult and tricky circumstances.

A challenging placement of Saturn will allow the person to fall into the darkness of ignorance when life hits; no light seems to reach such a person. Saturn becomes the shadow of the Sun and the person refuses any help and behaves in an unwise and foolish way, binding himself in chains of suffering. Saturn then becomes a tamasic force (causing ignorance) on the consciousness of that person. Without grace, proper understanding and techniques, one may lose faith in the ever-auspicious nature of existence. With the practice of the four tattvas, one can go beyond even the ill-effects of Saturn’s weak placement and reach one’s eternally blissful natural state.

What Space Are You In?

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The Inner Space

Have you ever heard or thought about the “space” you are in? You may think about the physical space, like living in a city, in nature, in a house or an apartment. Here we are talking about a different space, the inner space, the space you can create within you for life to manifest as a reality.

Nithyananda Yoga is about creating your inner space consciously. The truth is that the space you create inside you is how life will appear for you.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains a deep secret of yoga: when you move your body with any thought, intention or inner space, that space will get registered in your muscle memory, in your physical reality. Life will bring forth this reality for you.

Body is a Reflection of Your Space

Your body, your outer space is a pure reflection of your inner space. When you feel angry, your body boils with anger. When you are in fear, your body trembles in fear. When you feel lust, your body responds to the lust. One single thought is enough to activate your whole biology.

When your inner space is filled with unconscious thoughts and patterns, you will not even know why you act the way you act. It will be an automatic response to life from the limited cognition of the deep thought patterns rooted in your mind. This is the cause of all sufferings in our life, what takes us away from the space of yoga.

Spontaneous Disappearance of Mental Patterns

Nithyananda Yoga is the space where you are free of patterns, where you are a spontaneous expression of the life energy that oozes through you. This is what Patanjali means by “Yogaha Chitta Vritti Nirodaha” in his second sutra (techniques) in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Yoga is the spontaneous disappearance of mental patterns. So, freeing ourselves from the root patterns we carry is the space of yoga.

During the yoga practice, deep breathing and asanas (posture), you continuously tense and relax the muscles, joints, nerves and every organ in your body. When you do these physical movements, you create the same space physically. New cells are born every moment. That new body is going to be a direct reflection of the inner space you carry. In that moment, if you inner space if filled with patterns like anger or worry even on the subtlest level, you are going to fill your body with the same patterns, allowing them to grow deeper roots. You may feel good for some time after the yoga class, but the moment someone steps on your toe, the same anger will come out.

Create a New Space

For example, if someone’s root pattern is that “I am not good enough”, every time they move their body there will be more of this thought filling their muscle memory. After 100 times of repeating this thought in their inner space, this is going to be their very bio-memory, at the DNA level. They are going to see, feel and experience more and more of “I am not good enough” in life.

You have a choice: You can create a limiting space filled with root patterns, or fill it with a new cognition of expansion and feel fulfilled and free. Do you want a limiting space to see more of the same experiences in your life, or create a free space for expansion to happen? The conscious choice is yours. It is a simple decision, a cognitive shift.

Radiate the Space of Nithyananda Yoga

In Nithyananda Yoga, we do not simply move the body to achieve a particular pose, or breath. We move the body from a base of completion, where you are no more slave to your mental patterns. With this cognitive shift, your biology and your muscles start expressing and radiating the space of positivity, possibility, leadership and enlightenment.
What does this look like in the real world? Our physical bodies glow with life force, our relationships reflect true intimacy, our bank accounts are pouring riches, and our outlook on life is inspiring us to enrich and improve others’ lives to this same optimal standard of living. When these holistic results are radiating from the new found you, you are in the space of Nithyananda Yoga.

Nithya Kriya for Heart Diseases

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“Cardiovascular disease” is the name given to any of a number of diseases that affect the heart itself and/or the vascular system, especially the blood vessels leading to and from the heart. Apart from congenital heart diseases, in which the person is born with the heart disease, the most common types of acquired heart disease are coronary artery disease (CAD) and congestive heart failure (CHF). CAD and CHF are caused by high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, obesity and hereditary factors.

Some of the symptoms of heart diseases are pain in the chest, shortness of breath, palpitations, swelling of feet or legs, weakness and cyanosis (skin turning a blue colour). However, it is important to know that often a person can have a heart disease and not feel sick.

Instructions

Step 1: Bhujangasana

  • Lie flat on the stomach with legs straight, feet together and soles of the feet facing upward
  • Place the palms of the hands flat on the floor, below and slightly to the side of the shoulders
  • The fingers should be together and pointing forward
  • The arms should be positioned so that the elbows point backward and are close to the sides of the body
  • Rest the forehead on the floor and close the eyes
  • Relax the whole body, especially the lower back
  • Slowly raise the head, neck and shoulders
  • Straightening the elbows, raise the trunk as high as possible
  • Use the back muscles more than the arm muscles (Be aware of using the back muscle first while starting to raise the trunk. Then use the arm muscle to raise the trunk further and arch the back)
  • Tilt the head backward, so that the chin points forward and the back of the neck is gently compressed
  • In the final position, the pubic bone remains in contact with the floor and the navel is raised a maximum of 3 cm (if the navel is raised too high, the bend tends to be in the knees and not in the back)
  • The arms may or may not be straight
  • Hold the final position for 60 seconds
  • To return to the starting position, slowly bring the head forward, release the upper back by bending the arms. Lower the navel, chest, shoulders and finally the forehead to the floor
  • Relax the lower back muscles

Step 2: In Bhujangasana, Uddiyana Bandha

  • Get into Bhujangasana
  • Exhale completely
  • Without inhaling, contract the bowels equably above and below the navel towards the back, so that the abdominal viscera may touch the back
  • Hold as long as possible judiciously
  • Release the pose while inhaling slowly and rest the forehead on the ground
  • Do this for 21 times

Step 3: In Bhujangasana, Jalandhar Bandha

  • Get into Bhujangasana
  • Inhale fully
  • Place the chin on the chest and contract the throat
  • Hold as long as possible judiciously
  • Release the pose and the throat lock while exhaling slowly
  • Rest with the forehead on the ground for a moment
  • Do this 21 times

Step 4: Bhadrasana

  • Bring the sole of the feet together, and place the heels crosswise under the genitals
  • Take hold of the toes with the hands
  • Fix the gaze on the tip of the nose
  • Stay in this posture for 3 minutes

Step 5: In Bhadrasana, Sheethali Pranayama

  • Continue to sit in Bhadrasana
  • Close the eyes and relax the whole body
  • Extend the tongue outside the mouth and roll the sides of the tongue up so that it forms a tube
  • Inhale slowly through the tongue and fill the abdomen slowly
  • At the end of inhalation, roll the tongue in, close the mouth swallow the whole air and retain
  • Exhale slowly through the nose
  • Do this 21 times

Step 6: In Bhadrasana, Sheetkari Pranayama

  • Press the lower and upper teeth together and separate the lips as much as comfortable
  • Breathe in slowly through the gaps of the teeth
  • Listen slowly to the sound of the breath as the air is being drawn in
  • Close the mouth at the end of the inhalation
  • Hold as long as you can
  • Exhale slowly through the nose
  • Do this 21 times

Kriya Given by Nithyananda on 3rd November, 2011, in Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

For more kriyas, please visit www.nithyananda.org/nithya-kriyas

Sneha Abhyanga

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Sneha Abhyanga

Sneha Abhyanga (anointing the body with oil) is an ancient Indian Ayurvedic oil massage therapy for healing and detoxifying the body and mind. Abhyanga has been practiced for thousands of years to maintain health, excellent sleep patterns and increase longevity, and also as a therapeutic procedure for many disorders. Abhyanga can be easily incorporated into the daily routine by almost anyone.

The Sanskrit word ‘sneha’ can be translated as both ‘oil’ and ‘love’. Abhyanga comes from two words, ‘abhi’ and ‘anga’, meaning gentle movements over body parts. Like the experience of being loved, abhyanga can give a deep feeling of stability and warmth. Sneha is subtle; this allows the oil/love to pass through minute channels in the body and penetrate deep layers of tissue.

Skin is the largest organ of our body. It produces naturally occurring anti-depressants, anti-cancerous and anti-aging substances as well as hormones that enhance circulation. Abhyanga works along the energy channels of our body in a synchronized manner to restore the flow of vital energy, prana, where it has become blocked. Lymphatic stimulation with ayurvedic herbal oils helps squeeze out toxic accumulation from channels. These herbal infused oils focus on detoxifying the body and eliminating the stored up cellular waste which precipitates into diseases.

Indications

Abhyanga is recommended for everyone as a daily ritual, but it is especially needed if someone’s routine demands a lot of physical activities like standing, walking, traveling or mental activities like talking, studying, and so on, or when one is stressed out, anxious or afraid.

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Why You Need Sneha Abhyanga

Sneha Abhyanga,

  • Rejuvenates entire body, delaying aging
  • Relieves fatigue, promotes deeper sleep
  • Enhances complexion and lustre of skin
  • Removes facial wrinkles and stiffness of neck and jaw
  • Makes hair grow luxuriantly thick, soft and glossy
  • Stimulates internal organs and circulation
  • Lubricates and imparts firmness to limbs and joints
  • Coarseness, stiffness, fatigue and numbness of feet are alleviated
  • Bestows good vision and soothes and invigorates the sense organs
  • Corrects any digestion related problem and variations in blood pressure

What Oils are to Be Used?

Sesame is considered to be the ‘king of oils’ and it is the preferred choice of oil because it is inherently warming. For increasing strength and stamina, Ashwagandha Oil or the Ksheerabala oil are the best.

For joint pain or weakness, Mahanarayan Oil made from over 30 herbs is recommended. Following this with a warm bath of 1/3 cup baking soda and 1/3 cup ginger powder can further enhance the effects.

Applying Bhringaraj oil or Brahmi oil to scalp and soles of feet at bedtime reduces excess heat in the body and mind and encourages sound sleep. If medicated oils are not available, olive oil or coconut oil can also be used for abhyanga. If someone spends a lot of time in the hot sun, Neem oil can be added to the basic abhyanga oil used.

How to Practice Sneha Abhyanga?

Take around 20 ml of oil in a steel bowl. Make sure the oil is not rancid.
Place the oil bowl in a pan of hot water until the oil is pleasantly warm. Do not heat the oil directly.
Sit or stand comfortably in a warm room, on a towel or a carpet. Make sure you’re protected from any wind, during and after abhyanga.

Massage the oil into your entire body, beginning with extremities and working toward the middle of the body. Use long strokes on the limbs and circular strokes on the joints. Massage the abdomen and chest in broad, clockwise, circular motions. On the abdomen, follow the path of the large intestine by moving up on the right side of the abdomen, then across, then down left.

Give a little extra time and attention to massaging the scalp, ears and feet. Apply oil to the crown of your head (adhipati marma – a pressure point according to Ayurveda) and work slowly out from there in circular strokes. Put a few drops of warm oil into the opening of the ear canal using the little finger tip. Use the palms of your hands to massage the soles of your feet with a firm pressure, taking care to get in between the toes.
Enjoy a warm bath after a 15-minute massage.

The Story of Nithyananda’s Enlightenment

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Listening to the Words of a Master

Nithyananda’s first experience of enlightenment happened when he was between eleven and twelve years old, on the day of paurnami, or full moon. It all started when Nithyananda went to listen to Annamalai Swamigal, an enlightened being who was a disciple of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. There were a few seekers sitting around him, listening to the spiritual truths he was sharing. From these truths, Nithyananda understood one thing: “We are not the body. There is no pain or suffering for us”. This really surprised Nithyananda, because he had seen children cry when they were beaten, although he had never been beaten himself. This was the beginning of Nithyananda’s search. Even though he didn’t understand what Annamalai Swamigal said, he was in the pure space of listening, so whatever he had said was intensely working on him.

Sri Ramakrishna says, “An oyster has to receive rain showers during Swaati Nakshatra, and catch that drop of water. Then the oyster goes into the ocean and processes that drop of water, which eventually becomes a pearl.” Because Nithyananda was in the pure space of listening, he could receive the words from the Master and they could work on him to bring out the pearl of enlightenment one and a half years later.

Experimenting with the Truths

Although Nithyananda was in the pure space of listening, he was not capable of cognizing what he had heard. If he was, he would have become enlightened right at that moment. But since he wasn’t capable of cognizing what Annamalai Swamigal had said, he only listened. However, because his listening was so pure, the words were working intensely on him. He was possessed by those words! Whatever he was doing physically, the words were working on him.

After a lot of contemplation, Nithyananda decided to experiment on himself to see if he experienced pain or not. He picked up his father’s razor and cut himself on the thigh. He made a very deep and long cut, which later required thirteen stitches. At the time, Nithyananda didn’t have any technique to go beyond pain and he had not experienced enlightenment either, so when the blood started gushing out, he was shaken.

Self Inquiry

After a few days, Nithyananda approached Annamalai Swamigal again to ask him why he had said that there is no pain or suffering. Annamalai Swamigal laughed and told Nithyananda, “You have not understood what I said, but your attitude of experimenting is a great quality, you should hold on to it and you will achieve the ultimate”. This conversation did not satisfy Nithyananda. He said he need not have gone through this suffering if Annamalai Swamigal had uttered these words before he had cut himself. Annamalai Swamigal just said, “You will understand when the time comes, don’t worry.”

He gave Nithyananda one last teaching. He said, “Find out WHO has the feeling that there is pain or suffering”. For Nithyananda, these words were an initiation. During his free moments, he would sit and contemplate, “WHO is feeling the pain in me?” This self enquiry was done by Nithyananda when he was ten years old, and he was practising it without even knowing he was practising it. About a year and a half later, he had his first experience of enlightenment.

360 Degree Vision

He went to the foothills of Arunachala Hill in the evening, where there is a coral hillock called Pavazha Kundru. It is on the same rock that Devi Parvati did tapas and became enlightened, so it is a very powerful space and has a profound connection with spiritual energy. He was practising the same technique of self enquiry and asking himself, “Who am I? Who is having the experience of pain and suffering?”
Between sunset and moonrise, Nithyananda experienced a sudden revelation. His eyes were closed, and he suddenly knew who the experiencer was. He felt alive and being present to everything. He could literally see everything with a 360 degree vision. He could see the temple on one side, the tree on the other and every plant and stone around. He was able to see the whole at a time, simultaneously, and without opening his eyes.

Achieving the Ultimate

When he understood, he was able to see and feel everything. In the same way one feels powerfully alive in his own skin and can feel it when someone else touches him, Nithyananda felt powerfully alive with everything – the plants, the hill, the stones. For about an hour and a half, his body did not move. When it was later in the evening, he slowly descended from the hill and even though it was dark, he did not need light to see. He felt this way for two and a half days. He could see and feel everything as his own presence.

Because Nithyananda was in completion, the words of Annamalai Swamigal entered his being. Because of his integrity, the words were continuously working on him. When Nithyananda cut himself, he was stretching himself to the truth, he was acting from authenticity. He took the responsibility to find the root source of who was feeling the pain and suffering. Nithyananda’s enlightenment experience is a reflection of the power of the four tattvas (principles) – just by living them in a state of completion and in the space of pure listening, one can directly achieve enlightenment itself.

Rudrabhishekam

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Lord Shiva is an embodiment of the four tattvas (principles). He is pure, intense life energy. The Shiva linga – or the aroop roopa (formless form) of Shiva – signifies the tattva of responsibility and leadership in the formless form of Shiva. The Shiva linga has four parts – the base, which is like a frustum of a cone, represents the tattva of integrity. The part above that which is a mirror image of the base represents the tattva of authenticity. The baana or the column represents responsibility, and the yoni peetha or the gomukha from where the water falls off, represents enriching.

The first Shiva linga was the Arunachala hill, which was created when Shiva emerged as a column of light shaft, out of the consciousness of responsibility. Lord Brahma represents integrity and Lord Vishnu represents authenticity and expansion. When there was a clash between Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva emerged as a shaft of light, taking responsibility for their inauthenticity. The Skanda purana explains how Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu had been fighting for years, because of which the world was getting destroyed. Lord Shiva emerged and said – “Who amongst you sees either my feet or my head, my beginning or my end, is dear to me.” In the end, when neither of them succeeded, Lord Shiva made them realize their inauthenticity. Thus, peace in the cosmos was restored. When Lord Shiva took the responsibility, He became the leader for Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu.

Even though Lord Shiva was not the reason for the fight between them, He took responsibility for it. There are many situations, where someone may not be the reason for the conflict, but if he or she takes responsibility for the situation, immediately they will be able to be successful in it. Unfortunately, when in conflict, people are not able to take responsibility, whereas that is the time when they need to take responsibility. At this time, some external force is needed to raise their inner space.

Worshiping Lord Shiva is nothing but connecting to His energy, which directly infuses the space of responsibility in the worshiper, and makes leadership happen in the person offering the worship. When someone worships Lord Shiva in the form of a Shiva linga in the Rudrabhishekam, they are connecting with divine energy of Lord Shiva, which will give the worshiper the clarity to resolve the conflict by taking responsibility and create life as he or she wants. Rudrabhishekam is one perfect way of taking control over situations in life and completing conflicts in life. Shiva linga is an embodiment of the whole, and human beings are parts of the whole. When someone connects with the Whole, any of the incompletions they may have get fulfilled because of the totality of the Whole.

Inner Awakening: My Encounter with Life!

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In Conversation with Sri Nithya Deekshananda

Q. How did you come to know about Swamiji?

A. I was in third year of my Mechanical Engineering course. I remember in those days I used to watch a lot of spiritual gurus on Youtube. One day when I was listening to one such video, I saw a young face in my Youtube (youtube.com/lifeblissfoundation) suggestion list. I was wondering how someone can achieve enlightenment at such a young age. I remember I became a fan of Swamiji immediately after watching his first video. In those days whenever I got some time, I used to go back to Youtube and try a few of his meditations. After 6 months of living with the teachings of Swamiji, I decided to meet him. It was more of a calling from his end. It was a Kalpataru program. Immediately when the screens opened for the Pada Puja, I felt a gush of energy up my spine, and I knew I have come back to the source. That evening when I went near him, all my desires disappeared. I just wanted to be there. In that moment the world stopped for me. Tears were flowing continuously for no reason at all. I had never experienced such a blissful state before. I knew I had found my Master, or in other words, my Master found me.

Q. When did you decide to do Inner Awakening (IA) ?

A. Immediately after my first darshan I wanted to spend more time around Swamiji and I knew IA is the best platform to be in his presence. I was studying at that time and never looked for possibilities. As soon as I started earning, IA was my top priority. But as months passed I was not saving enough to make it into a reality. Then I heard about the power of integrated declaration. I declared for May IA in March 2013 and a lot of miracles happened during this time. I made initial registration and was waiting for rest of the money to come. But just five days before IA, miraculously I started seeing the possibility of where I can get the money and within two days the whole money got arranged.

The leave of absence was still an obstacle and I was in a situation where it was almost impossible. There came a moment when I even decided to quit my job. But Kaalabhairava said in one of the akashic readings that I will get a leave and I just stayed with his statement and suddenly I got a call from my boss who convinced a lot of people and made IA happen for me. I somehow showed up on the day IA started and I still get goosebumps when I think of how the entire puzzle unfolded miraculously.

Q. Why did you choose to do Inner Awakening? What was on your mind before deciding to come for IA?

A. There came a point in my life where nothing was going right for me. They say nothing fails like success. So here was a boy who has achieved everything he wanted in the outer world and still he was not fulfilled. I was unable to get up in time, was dragging myself through the day and things started getting bad in April when I could not even focus on an iota of my work. I literally felt as if I am even struggling to breathe and I simply knew that I have to be in IA or else I may not survive. There was a strong yearning from within to transform and I knew that the Master will simply transform me.

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Q. Did you get what you were expecting from IA?

A. The truth is, I got way more than what I expected. I got my whole life back. I can actually feel the 360 degree shift happening in my being. I realized that I was living with an entirely wrong cognition about life, how I lacked clarity and acted based on some notions which I had formed when I was a kid. More importantly, I realized how everyone around me was living a similar kind of life. I realized how deeply each one of us is connected. Now, after IA, every day I get up being inspired by my own life. Swamiji has freed up a lot of space in us and that is why suddenly the productivity has gone up. I cannot see a sign of boredom and depression in my life anymore, and more importantly, I feel extremely healthy and energetic.

Q. What was the most amazing experience you had in IA?

A. While we were working on finding our root patterns, during one of the meditations I had a vision that I am in my mother’s womb and she has met with an accident. I could see that in that moment of absolute powerlessness a lot of pain got stored in my system. During this powerful meditation I actually could see the whole scene of where it happened and how it happened with three dimensional clarity. I immediately called my mother and she confirmed that such an accident happened 1.5 months before I was born. I felt so relieved, as if a huge load got lifted off my chest after the entire process.

Q. What was your root pattern and how was it impacting your life?

A. I realized that the basic root pattern from which I was suffering was powerlessness and the pattern of quitting. All my life, whenever I have failed, I decided to quit before even exploring alternative possibilities. Be it profession or relationships, I quit many times just before reaching the target and slowly I was losing confidence on me. As a compensating alternative cognition to hide my weakness I became aggressive and I realized that I have hurt many people in the past. Also I had a deep feeling that life is not fair to me. All these were undercurrents in whatever I did and it always left me unfulfilled. During IA, Swamiji has given us enough protective coating to live a pattern-less life.

Q. What was your biggest takeaway from IA?

A. I can say my biggest takeaway was the real “me”. Everything else I got was a bonus, but for the first time in life I was so deeply introduced to myself. The whole architecture of my life got revealed to me and I could see the loopholes in the design I created for myself. More importantly, I could see how I can redesign and alter my reality. Apart from this, the powerful initiations like Vak Siddhi (the mystical power which manifests any declartion of the person into reality) initiation and Healer’s initiation (the initiation to heal anyone) are some of the invaluable gifts of IA. Above all, being in the presence of an incarnation for 21 days is something incomparable. All I can say, is that words are inadequate to define what happens in IA.

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Discover What Controls Your Life!

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The Root Cause of Behavior

All human beings need to know why they behave the way they behave, what drives them to do the things they do. Whatever their profession, whatever attitudes they react with, the cause is always the same: their root pattern is responsible for everything in their lives.

The first strong experience that shocks every human being in early life, which influences them to continue the same behaviours, is called the “root thought pattern”.

Once this pattern takes root in people, their growth stops. Only the pattern continues to grow. Unfortunately it becomes so much a part of their identity that people do not realize that it is something separate from them. It becomes the master, directing every decision and causing imbalance and suffering. At times, people even enjoy this suffering because they feel it is a challenge to face, justifying their worthiness. People may create a foolish difficulty and call it “adventure”, to show that they are brave or clever.

Complete the Pattern to Reclaim Energy

When a water pond becomes covered with plants, the plants grow so thickly that the water cannot be seen. That is how the root thought pattern covers the consciousness. Once the pattern is cleared, the consciousness can be discovered! Even basic behaviours such as attention need are actually root thought patterns. Every effort in life – to earn money, to form relationship – are driven only by root thought patterns. This is like being driven by an enemy. Enemies will not drive each other to success! Any pseudo-success that is gained by striving from a root thought pattern cannot bring any fulfilment to the person. Whether the driving emotion is lust, anger or some other emotion, it controls its host and gives a sense of powerlessness. Only enlightened beings have no experience of powerlessness. The best way to help any human being is to assist them to identify their root pattern and complete with it. Once completion has happened, so much energy is released that all powerlessness disappears.

Reclaim Your Life!

The first responsibility of every human being is finding their root thought pattern and completing it. This completion itself allows the flowering of the four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching to happen in the person.

Completing the pattern is necessary to awaken the Kundalini Shakti and to activate the latent strands of DNA. With completion of one’s pattern one becomes a blessing to the world. Without completing, nothing attempted is of any benefit even if it is intended to enrich others.

Either one enriches or encroaches: one is either a blessing or a burden. To enrich and bless, each human being must find their root thought pattern and complete with it. Only then, life really begins.

Adapted from the teachings of Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Change the Blueprint of Your Life!

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By Dr. Srilekha Karthik

A direct correlation exists between the early experiences in life and the subconscious behavioral and emotional patterns in the adult lives of people. At a very early age in life, starting from gestation till about five years of age, when a child is faced with a situation where he experiences powerlessness, anger, hurt or some such emotion, the ideas he forms about himself and the world from his immature thinking remain embedded in him forever and continue to dictate his life. These are called as root patterns. Root patterns are the blueprints of life.

The science behind root patterns has been proven beyond doubt by extensive research in the field of prenatal psychology. The mechanism by which the root patterns get formed is known as “limbic imprinting”. The imprints, i.e. the sensations, emotions and feelings experienced at the time of trauma get recorded in the part of the nervous system called the Limbic system.

Limbic system is a set of brain structures that forms the innermost cortex, which is responsible for emotions, behavior, motivation, long term memory and sense of smell. The limbic lobe develops much earlier than the outer layers of the cortex referred to as the neocortex, which is responsible for higher mental functions like logical analysis, conscious thought, spatial reasoning, calculations, planning, language etc. Interestingly, this means that emotions are getting recorded at a stage when even language/logic have not developed in the child!

By definition, an experience is traumatic when a particular event, or series of events, comes to define the way people organize their subsequent perceptions. The imprint of any trauma happens in this part of the brain, which is actually subcortical in nature. During gestation, birth and early childhood, the limbic system registers all of our sensations and feelings. These memories live in the body through the rest of our lives whether we know it as root patterns or not. The experience of an identity is nothing but the root patterns formed in early childhood, which lead to a skewed cognition and understanding of life and one’s own self.

These early experiences of life get so deeply etched in the limbic system, that in the future, as adults, people unconsciously recreate the conditions that were imprinted at birth and through early childhood. Later on in life, even if the rational mind (neocortex) recognizes this as a pattern, since the imprinting had occurred in the part of the brain (limbic lobe) which doesn’t have the skill to stop the pattern, people continue to act out of root patterns.

The phenomenon of limbic imprinting is not unique to humans. It has been used for years to train animals to serve people. For example, a baby elephant staked to a small wooden pole pulls with all his might to release himself, but when he repeatedly fails in his efforts, he stops. Even when he grows up and has enough strength to free himself – it doesn’t happen because he never tries! As a baby, when he failed in his attempts, he formed the cognition that “I am a failure”, “This task is impossible for me!” As mammals, human beings also have the same design in their nervous systems.

These imprints or root patterns continue to dictate the lives of people, until such time that they are able to identify them and complete with them. The process of completion with oneself is called *svapoornatva kriya, and consists of intensely reliving the past incidents and releasing the pain and suffering. By remembering the incident vividly and going through every emotion once again, the same part of the brain gets activated where the limbic imprint had occurred and this allows the healing to take place. Various cathartic techniques can also be used to help the process of healing. As more and more healing happens, even suppressed memories can be recalled and healed. Once the pain associated with the memories is released, the wrong cognition which happened at that time also becomes apparent and one is able to identify his or her root patterns. The blueprint with which the person has been living his or her life so far becomes apparent and can then be changed.

Say NO to Powerlessness!

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Responsibility means living, thinking, speaking, acting and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of everything that is happening inside you and around you. Therefore you are responsible for all the happenings inside and outside you.

We are Responsible for Everything

The biggest question we now have in our minds is “How can I be responsible for everything happening around me? I can be held responsible for what is happening inside me, but how can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me?” Let me answer this question. Sometimes, you may not be the reason for some happening, but if it is affecting your life you are responsible for that happening. You are responsible for dealing with that situation. Unless you take the responsibility, neither you will improve the situation nor you will expand in the inner space. So whether it is consciously caused by you or not, you are responsible for everything.

Your Body Responds to Responsibility

Vivekananda says very beautifully – “Take more and more responsibility, your shoulders will become stronger and stronger”. The number of responsibilities you take from the young age, decides even the growth of your bone structure. Recently I was studying the physical growth ratio in different parts of India and all over the world and the lifestyles of those areas. I can see the direct correlation between the lifestyle of responsibility and the physical growth of the people of different societies. Where people have the freedom that they can cross the sky if they take responsibility, in those kind of communities, their bone structure has grown and evolved to the 100% possibility. In societies where there is a lifestyle of responsibility, people are well-built and tall. In some places, the growth is even 120%, which means much better growth than your parents and elders.

Responsibility is Freedom

In any field, freedom is the basic condition for growth. Responsibility brings the experience of freedom to you. Only with responsibility your consciousness expands. It is so irresponsible that society does not teach people to be responsible! I tell you, responsibility is the greatest key. Responsibility is how kings are made, saints are made, leaders are made, stars are made, celebrities are made; responsibility is the material out of which the elite society is made. Countries may be capitalist or communist, but the law of life is responsibilism. The cosmos functions on responsibilism.

Become Life-Oriented

For most of us, the very word ‘responsibility’ creates a heavy feeling, as if a load has been put on our shoulders. But I tell you, thinking or feeling responsibility as a weight is just one of the basic root patterns of human beings. From childhood, human beings unconsciously program themselves with the root pattern of shrinking, limiting themselves, and not taking responsibility, which is the antithesis of life. Most of our lives are actually very death-oriented. If the moment the word “responsibility” is uttered you feel a load, suffocation, heaviness, weight, then your whole pattern is functioning towards death; your root pattern is shrinking, suffocation. You have neither trust over life, nor passion, nor interest towards life. If you are conscious of life, if you are interested in expansion, if you are really living, more responsibility will be like more sweets put in front of you; because if you have tasted responsibility consciously, you will know it opens the doors to so many different possibilities.

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Responsibility Brings Extraordinary Powers

I tell you, responsibility is the word for consciousness, conscious expansion. More the responsibility you take on your shoulders, more the life oozes into your being. Responsibility is actually the greatest possibility, the way of expansion towards life! This is the touchstone with which you can find out whether you are living a death-oriented life or life-oriented life.

Responsibility even brings out the extraordinary powers hidden inside you. The power of healing has happened in me just because I took the responsibility for all the sickness of the world. If anybody is sick, in my consciousness I feel that I am responsible. Like this, simply the power of healing came to me. If anybody is ignorant, I feel in my space that I am responsible – and like this the power to initiate people came to me.

Responsibility Transforms your Life

Take responsibility not as a pain or suffocation but as a great possibility. When you take more and more responsibility, even your muscles start responding to the world in a different way. Your being starts responding to the world in a different way. The people you attract around you will be of a completely different quality. The life you create around you will have a completely different quality.

Life is not Measured by Profit and Loss

What is it that stops you from taking responsibility? It is your constant mental calculation, ‘What will I gain if I take up responsibility?’, which puts you off from taking responsibility. Unfortunately, you never know how to measure your expansion other than with the number of your cars and houses and bank balance. If you measure yourself based on your net worth, you are in the ‘unworthy net’; you are caught in the ‘unworthy net’! Only when you start measuring yourself based on the expansion of your possibilities, real life will start happening in you.

Responsibility Brings You Out of Disease

Whenever you take more and more responsibility, you find ways to handle more and more things, your whole nervous system becomes such a possibility for life and joy. Decide to take more and more responsibilities in your life, you will walk out of even cancer. Taking more responsibility can be a powerful method to heal yourself from cancer. Cancer is nothing but death-oriented thinking, the pattern of shrinking from life itself.

When you decide to take responsibility for anything which comes in your breathing space, your possibility of health, mental wellness, above all psychic powers, spiritual strength, everything expands more and more. Feel responsible for everything, whether it is your blood pressure or diabetes or cough – when you feel responsible, your body will heal itself. Take the responsibility for all your communication; you will simply start expressing the power of telepathy!

Responsibility – the Master Key

Look into your life in every level. Sit with yourself. Are you having health issues? Are you having conflicts internally? Are you having mental depression? Are you having incompletions? Are you feeling suffocated? Are you experiencing the moments of powerlessness? Are you feeling like a slave? Are you feeling unfulfilled? Are you feeling suffocated with relationships? Are you having poverty? Are you in spiritual poverty? Sit. Pen down everything one by one and meditate on every item individually, deciding, ‘I am responsible. Now how can I transform it?’ One part of your mind will tell you ‘Oh, you are responsible. Even if you take responsibility now and start altering it, it may take ten years!’ That is okay, just decide ‘Just because it is going to take ten years I can’t be keeping quiet without taking responsibility. I have to take the responsibility.’ If you feel you are not looking beautiful or handsome, take the responsibility even for that! Whenever you take the responsibility for anything, you will find the solution! You can complete with it.

Say NO to Powerlessness

Wherever you feel powerless, take responsibility in each of those areas. You will simply feel the solution is in front of you! You can solve it and life can be full of power. Life should not have even a single moment of powerlessness. Sit and contemplate on what are the moments of powerlessness you feel in your life, and decide to take the responsibility for them. When you do that, you will see that you regain your power, and the solution is simply there in front of you.

Responsibility enriches you, expands you, and adds so much of life to you. It just adds life to your life. Every moment when you take up responsibility, your muscles expand and become energetic, alive, living! Continuously taking more and more responsibility is actually a technique for you to realize your different possibilities. The door for you realizing your possibilities opens when you take up responsibility.

Taken from the recent Daily Discourses (Nithya Satsang) of Nithyananda on the subject of “Responsibility”

Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya: Dynamic Meditation

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Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya is a powerful dynamic meditation, which is especially useful as a process for completion. This technique is drawn from ancient Christianity. Known as glossolalia, the technique was further adapted by the Sufis as “gibberish”. It is a cathartic technique that bypasses mental processes and roots out worries and incompletions in their most elemental form, which is, just negative energy. It is a powerful technique to cleanse the manipuraka chakra or navel energy center, which is locked by stress, worry, powerlessness and other deeply engraved negative mental patterns. The technique works deeply in releasing all the negativities stored in the body and mind due to all the known and unknown incompletions we carry.

This technique is a superconscious process in which you retain awareness while cleansing yourself. It unblocks your unconscious and allows all the negativities stored inside to dissolve. In this technique, one speaks in a language one doesn’t know! When one starts using words, all the inner chatter begins to come up. During this meditation, don’t allow your inner chatter. Simply get to the core of your deepest suppressions and pluck them out of your system! Just vomit them out in sounds.

This technique should always be practiced on an empty stomach, and at least four hours before sleep.

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1 (20 minutes):

  • Stand with your feet apart and your eyes closed.
  • For a minute, concentrate on the manipuraka area which is around your navel
  • All your worries and suppressed negativity will start rising up into your conscious mind. Just experience all the tension and stress come up inside.
  • Now, bring up a conflict you have had in your mind. If you know your root pattern incident, you can bring up that memory. Go back to the conflict you had, and relive the incident where you experienced the conflict, allowing all your negative emotions to come up.
  • Visualise and talk to the people involved in the conflicting situation – in a language that you don’t know!
  • Just use nonsense sounds. If anyone is listening, it should not make any sense to them.
  • Try to convey your problem, your pain, to the other person. But the other person simply doesn’t agree with you!
  • How do you feel? Angry? Throw out your anger on him!
  • Anything that happens in you, any word that happens in you, express it as a sound.
  • Do not use words. If you use words, only familiar and recent emotions will surface. Also, words will give rise to only more words without actually working on the emotions beneath them. Shout absolute gibberish; only this will open up your unconscious; only this will bring up the deeply hidden emotions.
  • Recall all the painful and conflicting incidents of your life.
  • Visualize the persons involved and feel the emotions involved in those incidents. Bring out all the emotions. Become completely immersed in them.
  • Be aware of nothing else.
  • If tears come, let them! Don’t stop yourself.
  • Scream, wail, cry, throw your limbs about, roll on the ground if you feel like. Create as much violence as possible! Once you start, you will find that you really won’t be able to stop – so much will be coming out. You may feel like vomiting, so keep your sick bag ready! Nothing to worry, it is a sign that your system is getting cleansed and balanced, that’s all.

Do the technique sincerely – this is your chance to get rid of a lifetime’s suppressions and incompletions. Enter completely into the meditation.

Step 2 (10 minutes):

  • Stop!
  • Now, simply sit in silence and bring your awareness to your manipuraka chakra (navel center). You will feel a tremendous lightness in that area.
  • During this silence, just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not suppress them or chase them. Just let them flow before the deep silence of your being.

Repeat this meditation every day for 21 days minimum, or until you feel as if you have nothing left inside to throw out during the meditation. Right from the very first day onwards, you will find a change, a great peace blossoming in your being.

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