Nithya Yoga Teacher Training

The 200-hour Nithya Yoga Teacher Training curriculum includes:

Daily Nithya Yoga practice including the traditional asanas revealed by Shiva
eN Fitness – whole body fitness training
Nithya Kriyas – 108 yogic techniques to sustain and restore health
Anatomy & physiology of yoga practice
Ayurveda – Principles of 3 doshas, vata, pita & kapha.
Yogic Nutrition – optimal health
Saptanga Yoga – The 7-fold Path of Yoga revealed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Pancha Kriyas – 5 Yogic cleanse to purify the body
Nirahara Samyama – Live food free technique (optional)
Pranayama, Bandhas, Mudras – Traditional methods to awaken inner potential energy
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – deeper understanding of the sacred secrets
Devotion and Mantra Chanting
Energy Systems (chakras, nadis, koshas, kundalini, etc)
Study of sacred Scriptures: Bhagavad Gita, Shiva Sutras, etc
After completing the training, you will be empowered with the capacity to teach:
11 Nithya Yoga Vinyasa Kramas for all levels
eN-Fitness – powerful workout to build a yogic body
108 Nithya Kriyas to sustain and restore health
Yogic Living Program – 1 day practical introduction to the yogic lifestyle

Is your yoga routine is getting a bit stale? Do you desire to express your passion for yoga while enriching yourself and others? If you are ready to make yoga a lifestyle choice rather than merely a practice, then the Nithya Yoga teacher training is for you! Our unique program is designed provide a venue for teachers and aspiring teachers to take their practice to the next level by fostering the tools required to share the gift of yoga with the world. Regardless of your level of advancement, Nithya Yoga is structured to meet you wherever you are, expanding your vision while addressing any personal challenges.

Based out of the international headquarters of world renowned Enlightened Master and Guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the Nithya Yoga teacher training promises to offer a unique yogic experience and remains unparalleled in authenticity and adherence to the sacred teachings of Patanjali. Nithya Yoga continues to pioneer this ancient traditional art form with its dual focus on both form and context.

Nithya Yoga is a practice that focuses internally rather than externally; it is a discipline of balancing mind-body with Being. The regenerative powers of our sequences awaken the kundalini, unleashing the power to transform yourself and the world by de-mystifying the path to living in the space of eternal bliss. Through re-programming the muscle memory, our holistic and unifying approach assists in discovering any negative thought patterns, so that you can radiate health and live in sync with your higher purpose. Nithya Yoga offers the quantum possibility to re-build your body and mind through facilitating and maintaining enlightened consciousness through heightened awareness. It offers the possibility to reverse the aging process so that you can achieve the yogic body, vedic mind, and zen living.

This ability to create and manifest your reality is made possible through understanding life from the proper context: through the experience of living advaita (unity with all). Nithya Yoga offers a powerful venue for facilitating the experience of advaita through the understanding and application of our four powers: the power of words, power of thinking, power of feeling, and power of living. Only with this fundamental understanding can you rewrite your future, going from self-doubt to self expression, from self-hatred to self-love, from self-denial to unlimited potential, from impossible to I’m possible! In this way, Nithya Yoga provides the framework required to become a spiritual activist and to inspire others through doing what inspires you. The Nithya Yoga experience includes a variety of traditional yoga techniques including asanas, kriyas, meditation, philosophy, and so much more. It’s time for you to open up to your higher self. Stop postponing. Live it!

 

Watch Your Breath

In his first Sutra, Shiva gives this most simple meditation. Buddha used this technique and called it ‘Vipassana’ which means sitting with the Self, or sitting with God. Indeed, this method is the essence of Buddhism. No other technique has brought so many millions to enlightenment. When asked if he had to pick one of the millions of meditation techniques, Nithyananda says that this is the one he would choose because if all spiritual knowledge on the planet were lost, this is the one that could keep enlightenment alive.

The secret lies in the simple observance and bringing awareness and presence to the breath. The process of breathing in and out is not a parallel movement as one might think, but rather a circular movement. Between the in breath (down) and the out breath (up) and again between the out and in breaths there are gaps.

When reaching the gap the mind stops. Fear of losing identity causes a jump over the gap because identity doesn’t exist there. There is avoidance of maintaining awareness in this gap because the fear of losing identity is stronger than the fear of death. What may happen to “me” after “I” dies is a less terrifying thought than “I” won’t exist. This creates the impulse to protect the unreal or comparative reality (identity) from the real existential reality (pure consciousness).

Here Shiva is creating the subtlest possible technique. A human being as such cannot work directly on the ether or mind. It can only be touched through the breath and this is the bridge between the individual and the Universe. It is the bridge between the body and the mind. Humans are composed of 5 elements, but it is only when the breath happens that mind happens. The body is matter. The mind is ether. The breath is the bridge.

The breath and the mind are very closely related. The length, breadth, and depth of the breath correspond directly to the number of thoughts experienced. With long slow deep breaths, the number of thoughts is reduced. Being aware of the unconscious fear and slowing the thoughts enhances the ability to drop into the neutral zone, just as when driving a car it is necessary to go into neutral before changing gears.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Quiet the mind with long, slow, deep breaths
2. Bring awareness to the gap just at the end of the in (down) breath, and just before it turns up into the out breath, and again between the out (up) and in (down) breaths.
3. Relax. Allow the breath to carry you into your inner space, the zone where neither breath nor mind exist.
4. Surrender. Allow yourself to become more and more comfortable with this neutral zone. If you are able to relax into this zone with awareness, an explosion of consciousness can happen.
5. Be patient. You cannot bully yourself into a sense of security.
6. In every breath God is knocking at your door.

Article published on Nithyananda Times on August 20, 2013

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Completion

Swapoornatva

What is an incompletion?

Any action that remains unfulfilled as per our fantasy, either due to hindrance from the outside world or from within can be termed as an incompletion. This can be either with ourselves or with another person. If we want a friend to live up to certain expectations that he or she can not honour, then it leads to incompletion.

“ Because of your self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial, we forgot that our life is nothing but possibilities, we started thinking that our life is nothing but impossibilities”

~Paramahamsa Nithyananda

About the technique:

The process of completion starts with (swapoornatva) completing with yourself. When you start learning to listen to yourself. Listen to your heart's complaints about yourself and about others. Don’t sweep anything under the carpet. Talk to your reflection, your chaaya. You will be surprised, listen to you and relieve yourself from many of your fears, many of your lust patterns, many of your attention need patterns, many of your guilt patterns.

·        - Sit in a comfortable position facing the mirror

·       -  Connect with the person in the mirror

·      -   Look directly into the eyes of the person in the mirror

·     -    See the 1 year old or 2 year old or the 3 year old or the 4 year old or the 10 year old in the mirror which is the incomplete half of you

·      -   Go back to earliest memories of your life and relive incidents/situations in your life where you have experienced low level energy emotions such as anger, guilt, frustration and agitation with yourself (incompletion in some form) from those incidents/situations

·      -   Now take responsibility for liberating yourself from this incompletion you are carrying within you which you have kept alive all this time

·       - Re-live those incidents/situations completely. Then, talk aloud with the person in the mirror till you experience completion happening both for you and for the person in the mirror.

Causing

Become the kalpataru tree, the boon giving tree. Create and cause your reality and be the cause of other’s causing their reality. When you become a catalyst to help others create their reality, you will experience expanded energy, intelligence, and others actually will cause your reality. The Cosmos will shower you with so many blessings! From sharing a meal to donating money, or time to teaching others the spiritual truths, or building a temple, there are many ways you can be the cause for other’s reality. Let us be a sincere catalyst, experiencing Cosmic energy and joy flowing in our lives!

Many times, whenever you want to cause your reality, manifest your desires, you will hear self sabotaging thoughts like - this is too good, it will not happen to me, it is too much for me, I will not have the energy for it. These thoughts will prevent you from causing your reality - they are incompletions. These thoughts are called SDHD - self doubt, self denial and self hatred cognitions from your past. Complete with them, drop these inadequate cognitions.

When you realize the gap between your inner and outer image (how you see yourself and how you project yourself), you create self-doubt. After that, because you still continue to play this drama, you start hating yourself. Soon after your desire to retire, your desire to withdraw from people is born, that is the denial in you. This is how SDHD is born.

When you have self-doubt, you will constantly be doubting your husband/wife. When you have self-hatred, you will constantly be hating others. Whatever is inside you, that only is outside you, and whatever is outside of you, the same only is inside. All relationships are just extensions of you. Relationships, not only mean other people, but also money, wealth, health...everything.

Listening

Listening is an independent, intelligent technique which can directly lead you to the higher space and higher reality. Hearing and listening are different. In hearing, sound enters the ears, gets processed and creates different emotions. Right listening means that when sound enters your system, it gets absorbed into your system and leads you from sound to silence. The possibility for right listening happens greater in the presence of an enlightened master.

Listening is always connected with your ability to handle reality as it is, without creating your own unconscious ideas and conclusions. When you don’t have listening, you always come to a conclusion even before the information is cognized in you. That is why the very first step in Hindu spiritual practice is integrated listening – Shravana

When was the last time you really listened to your own words? We never really listen either to ourselves or others. When you start listening to yourself, you will naturally become more aware of the words you give yourself and others. You will also have the ability to listen to others’ words with integrity.

Listening brings integrity to your words. Listening to yourself brings awareness to your words to you and others. You will also have the ability to listen to others words with integrity.

The right words start with YOU. Who is the first person to hear the words you utter? YOU

Listen authentically to yourself. In the beginning, do not believe what your mind tells you but listen authentically. First thing the mind does is, throw tantrums. It will cry, then it will make you feel bored, then tired. Listen to all the three. Only after that, you will know what are the incompletions you are carrying. Listen authentically to everything that your mind sings. Don’t pass any judgement to say if it is right or wrong. I’m not asking you to believe and same way I’m not saying don’t believe. Just listen!

Catch what are your incompletions by providing authentic listening to yourself. Go on listening .. even when you are talking, driving, sitting. However much you try to practice, only by listening, you will achieve it. Only when you listen, practising starts. You will also learn all the wonderful good things in you. You will also learn how to cause enlightenment in others when you practice authentic listening.

Enriching

Enriching and the Power of Living

Living is a power

Everyday, you are walking, talking, thinking, feeling and so on. All this put together is living. Living itself is a power. You can harness the power of living in you when you adopt the lifestyle of enriching.

What is enriching

Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, committing to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.

When you are committed to enriching yourself and all around you, Life showers you with the best of everything. You not only experience Life within you, but also outside of you with others. When you enrich, the Power of Living is awakened in you.

Everything is part of you

All your struggles in life begins the moment you start thinking that others are separate from you. Understand, there is no one called “other” in your life. The “other” is only the forgotten and disowned parts of you. Your struggles with others are nothing but your struggle with the forgotten side of you. When you enrich others, you are naturally enriching the neglected side of your own being. So, the more you enrich others, the more you enrich yourself. Above all, you wake up to the truth that everyone and everything is part of you.

Enriching gives rise to all the powers

With integrity, you experience the space of positivity; with authenticity, you experience the space of possibility, and with responsibility, you experience the space of leadership. With enriching, you experience the space of enlightenment itself. Enlightened living is nothing but harnessing all your inner powers and using them to enrich yourself and others. So the Power of Living includes all the other powers in itself.

So, if you have integrated listening(shravana), authentic thinking(manana), and make a responsible declaration(nidhidhyasana), you are living an enriching lifestyle. Enriching alone can burn any lack of integrity, inauthenticity, or irresponsibility in you. It is taking responsibility for everyone and everything, including others inauthenticity and lack of integrity – because they are a part of you.

Why should I enrich others

You do not live in a desolate cave or forest. You live with people. So, naturally when your life is involved with so many people. For any transformation that you want in your life, you have to work and transform other lives as well. Otherwise, you may raise yourself to a very high level of joy and bliss, but the moment you come back to your house, your spouse can bring you down in less than ten minutes. Only when you enrich others, can your life go through any transformation.

Taking responsibility for others does not mean that you will accept everyone’s non-integrity or inauthenticity, and take the blame for it. NO! It means that you will commit to inspire and empower everyone to experience the four inner powers of life.

Empowering others

Having makes you naturally responsible for sharing. A person with power is responsible for making powerless people become powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible for making the poor wealthy. I am not saying distribute your wealth. NO!. If you pick up ten poor people and distribute your wealth, we will have eleven poor people. I am asking you to take responsibility for educating them and making them wealthy. You become responsible for sharing anything you own and making it grow.

Some truths about enriching

· Enriching is your very nature. Whatever you do is enriching others. Even your very breath is enriching the plants on planet Earth.

· Enriching others enriches you as everyone is part of you.

· The moment you convince your heart that life is for others, all the suffering in your heart leaves you.

· Enriching others to live at their peak possibility is the ultimate way you can enrich them.

Don’t give up on you and people

Do not give up on yourself and people. If we turn your back on people, we are not living dharma because when we give up on others, we have also given up on ourselves. When you are frustrated with others’ failure, understand that it is nothing but your own frustration towards your own failures. If we turn our back on people,we are not living dharma because we have also given up on ourselves.

Exercise to unlock your Power of Living

· Write down the first time you felt that you were exploited by life and only you had to take care of yourself.

· Complete powerfully with that root thought pattern which is making you feel separate from others.

· For the next 48 hours, see everything and everybody you meet as extensions of yourself and serve them joyfully out of a space of completion

Responsibility

Responsibility and the Power of Feeling

What is responsibility

Responsibility means living and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of, and therefore, responsible for all happenings in and around you. The Power of Feeling is nothing but your ability to realize yourself as the source of all the happenings in your life. This understanding gives you tremendous control over your own life and gives you the power to be a positive influence in the life of others.

A person who does not feel responsible for even his own actions lives like an animal – he lives a very low level of consciousness. A person who feels responsible only for his own actions, is a human being – he lives in middle –level consciousness. A person who takes responsibility for others’ actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness.

Reason vs Responsibility

So, how can I be responsible for everything happening around me? How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? If an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible? Everybody asks this question.

There is an important difference between being the cause of something and being responsible for it! Sometimes, you may not be the reason for a certain happening, but if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for that happening. For example, you may not be the cause of political corruption in your country, but as a citizen of the country, you ARE responsible for it. You may not be the reason, as per your logic, but that doesn’t mean that you are not responsible in truth.

You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor are you going to expand your inner space. “I am responsible for myself, other people, the world, Life”.

Your bigness frightens you

You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. NO! you are suffocated by your bigness. Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being forced to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Your tiredness, weakness, powerlessness – all these are nothing but the resistance you have to seeing your own bigness.

That is why, when someone tells you that you are weak, poor and a sinner, it is so easy to accept it. But, if someone tells you that you are divine, powerful, you are complete, your whole identity starts trembling with fear !

But, life always demands expansion, because, expansion is the natural law of life. That is why you carry such a deep fear of life, especially life in the form of other people – because people are the most living expression of Life. The more you engage with Life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you.

Whenever you are feeling weak, tired, powerlessness, the first thing you should do is this: immediately take on ten responsibilities and commit to fulfill them within a certain time. Shake your inner space so powerfully with that commitment that there will be no way for weakness and tiredness to grow inside you.

What does it mean to feel you are responsible

The moment you hear that you are responsible for everything happening around you, you think, “But if I feel responsible for all the garbage in the streets, I will be stuck cleaning it up the whole day! I will not be able to do anything else”. Please listen: I am not saying that if you feel responsible for the streets, you will need to clean them yourself. I am also not saying that you will not clean them yourself. Anything may happen – but don’t be afraid to dive into the feeling of responsibility just because of your imaginary complications. Don’t stop yourself from feeling it at all. Complete with those imaginary complications. Take a little time to let this feeling sink inside you and sync with your actions. It has to sink inside you and sync with your actions. Then, responsibility will become energy.

Responsibility makes you powerful

We always feel responsibility is a burden. NO! It is a power. Responsibility directly leads you into leadership consciousness. As long as you feel responsible only for your family, you are head of just your family. When you feel responsible for the community, you become leader of the community. As your feeling of responsibility expands, your leadership quality also expands. The decision to feel responsible for the whole of Cosmos is enlightenment.

Feeling responsible for the Whole, and declaring to live by your feeling is responsible declaration, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nidhidhyasana. Responsible declaration unlocks the Power of Feeling in you.

The science of feeling

You can feel anything as joy or anything as pain – it is your freedom. Even the greatest achievement can bring pain to you and even the worst experience can be a joyful learning. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel.

Whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your sufferings- pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration – is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways. When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful – because nothing can make you powerless. So empower yourself with responsibility and unlock the Power of Feeling.

By unlocking the Power of Feeling, you will -

Always act from a space of power and completion.

Start focussing on the solution and not the problem.

Expand your inner space and open up new possibilities.

Gain a high degree of control over your life and raise yourself to the next level of success.

Evolve into a new being.

An Exercise to unlock your Power of Feeling

· Write down all the areas of your life where you shrink from expressing yourself fully, for example, at work, in relationships. For each of these areas of your life, write down the thoughts you have, the words you utter, and the actions you take.

· Identify where you are not taking responsibility for that aspect of your life, where you are waiting for the eternal situation to change instead.

· Choose any one area and declare responsibility for creating that new situation. Identify what has to change for that to happen.

· For one week, follow up with yourself and record your progress.

Authenticity

Authenticity and The Power of Thinking

What is authenticity

Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them. Authenticity is tuning your thinking to your peak possibility.

Tune your thinking to your peak possibility

Whether you know it or not, believe it or not, you can control your mind in the same way you control your body movements. You can decide and declare who you want to be. It is possible to train your mind to encourage only the thoughts that align with your highest possibility and discourage and complete with low consciousness ideas.

Your thinking makes you or breaks you. Thinking is not accidental. It happens with your voluntary involvement. Your thinking process is encouraged, entertained and enriched by you. But unfortunately, you believe that thinking is accidental and you cannot control your mind.

When you unlock the power of your thinking, you will be able to spontaneously focus your thoughts to achieve your highest potential. Constantly functioning at your peak possibility is authenticity. Authenticity is the key that unlocks the power of thinking.

The Four dimensions of authenticity

You have four dimensions. You don’t have just one identity as you imagine. You have four identities. At all times, you carry these four identities inside you. All these four dimensions put together is your personality. You are responsible for all these identities.

The first identity is mamakara or inner image. It is the inner image and experience you carry about yourself. I am healthy, I am ugly, I am intelligent, I cannot tolerate hard work, I love people, etc. We carry many such inner ideas about ourselves. Unfortunately, the idea you carry about you is always less than what you project yourself to be for others.

The second identity is ahamkara or outer image. This is how you project yourself to others. You try to project yourself as powerful, talented, honest, helpful, or whatever. Unfortunately, what you project is always far more than what you believe yourself to be.

The third identity you carry is the image or expectations that others have about you. This is called anyakara or others image about you. How others perceive you may be different from how you project yourself to them, because people create their opinion about you from the subtle signals you give them, rather than what you openly project. Human beings are intelligent enough to catch even what you don’t say, or especially what you don’t say.

The fourth identity is very subtle, because you will feel it is not directly related to you. It is called swa-anyakara or Life Image. Life image is what you experience Life to be for you. You may feel Life is lonely, Life is complicated, Life is sacred, Life is scary, or Life is always showering me with everything I need. This is also your identity because it defines the exact experience you will be receiving from the people and situations in your life.

Authenticity means living at your peak in each of these dimensions.

Root Thought Patterns - source of your conflicts

A thought pattern is a pre-defined way of responding to any situation based on a powerful past experience like failure, rejection, being punished, being subjected to abuse or witnessing the death of a loved one. During these moments of crisis, you create an idea about yourself and life – like, I am weak, or I am a failure, or nobody loves me, or life is dangerous, so I have to be very careful. Almost all root thought patterns are negative, even the ones which may lead to success in your life, because they are born out of your feeling of powerlessness.

Some common root thought patterns are –

I am a failure

Nobody loves me

I am alone

I am ugly

Life is out there to cheat me

I am weak and unhealthy

I am powerless so I have to please everybody

Life is hard, so I have to be extra smart

Life is too big for me to understand.

All these thought patterns are based on inadequate cognitions, because life is different every moment, and you need to respond to it spontaneously. Right now, you are nothing but a bunch of programmed actions and patterns that never let you contact life and respond as it happens. Rather, you respond based on your past thought patterns.

You may have many thought patterns, but a root thought pattern is one of the few defining thought patterns that continuously run your life without your knowledge.

Even the conflicts among your identities is nothing but the result of your root thought patterns. If you have a certain idea about yourself inside, but you project a different personality outside, that is inauthenticity.

Anything is Possible

All your impossibilities are the projections of your past into the future. You keep saying, ‘Nothing new is possible! It is all going to be the repetition of the old.’ What does this mean? You just denied yourself the possibility of life! For every decision you make for your future from the past pattern, you deny that component of life for yourself once for all. If you think creating wealth is difficult based on some of your past failure, you have denied the possibility of wealth for you once for all. If you think health is not possible for you in the future due to your past diseases, you have denied the greatest possibility of health in your life once for all.

How does authenticity unlock the Power of Thinking

If you look deep, all your problems arise from conflicts among your four identities. When any of your dimensions is out of alignment with the others, it causes disease, suffering and incompletion in your life.

All these identities you carry are actually thought patterns that you carry about you. Even, others image about you is an idea that you have created in them. So, you are the creator of all your identities. Understand?

Now when one identity is fighting with another, how can your thinking be focussed? All your energy is going to be used in reconciling your fighting identities. When all your identities or images are in tune, all your thinking will be aligned in one direction. Your thinking becomes clear and sharp like a laser beam. You will awaken the power of thinking. There will be no more space for unconscious living, thinking and living, because you will always be aware of the causes and effects that are playing in your life.

Whatever you can imagine is real

Your thinking goes hand-in-hand with the way you want to build yourself. These four parts of your thinking need to be completely purified and aligned. Look inside and identify the images that you carry about yourself. You can then re-write what you feel will be the peak possibility, the best qualities you can posses, of these four images. Let your thinking be aligned to your peak Inner image, peak Outer image, peak Others image and peak Life image.

Usually your inner image will be lower than the image you project to others. It means that the higher identity is already there in your visualization space, in your thinking space. Whatever you can think of as yourself, you already have the capacity to make that into reality.

An exercise to align your inner and outer image

· Take a piece of paper and make 3 columns – inner image, outer image and chosen image. Make a list of your top ten inner and outer images in the appropriate column.

· Then, compare what you have noted down. If the belief in both inner and outer image is the same, ignore that point and move on to the next. If there is a conflict, start tuning your inner image and outer image by always choosing the higher idea. If you perceive yourself as weak, friendly in your inner image but strong and friendly in outer image, choose and write strong and friendly under the chosen column. Don’t reduce what you project to others but increase what you perceive yourself to be for you.

· Repeat for each of the 10 points and then compare both identities. Whatever qualities are best in both, choose those. If there are some great qualities in your inner image, you need to raise your outer image to match that. If there are some great qualities in your outer image, you need to raise your inner image to match what you project. Use this exercise continuously to tune yourself to your peak possibility.

Bring authenticity to your thinking

Authenticity in thinking has two steps. First, find out what you REALLY want in your life by sincerely contemplating on what you want your four dimensions to be. Make a list of your best inner image, outer image, others image, and life image and place it by your bedside, office desk or any place where you can see it as soon as you wake up and all day. Then, find out what are the obstacles that stop you or distract you from achieving what you want to be, who you want to be, how you want to be.

One of the biggest obstacles for most people is self doubt, which is a negative thought pattern that happens because of the memory of past failures. Drop your fantasies about failure. Write down all the self doubts and consciously and decisively, complete with the self doubts. The other two obstacles are self hatred and denial. All three are know as SDHD in short. Complete with them.

Whatever the thought trend is in alignment with your peak possibility, encourage it, enrich it and entertain it. Whatever the thought trend is not in alignment, complete with it. Consciously, decisively, complete with that pattern. Go on completing every day with those patterns which are stopping you from achieving your peak possibility.

Power of Thinking

When you start living in authenticity, you know the right way of thinking and will use the right way of thinking to achieve what you want in Life. In Hindu spiritual practice, this is called manana, authentic thinking. When you have a powerful clarity in your thoughts that makes whatever you think into a success, you have unlocked the Power of Thinking. Let your thinking be established in authenticity, continuously expanding you towards your peak possibility.

Integrity

Integrity and Power of Words

Whether you realize it or not, your life is built on your words and commitments. The strength of your life is based on the words you give to you and to others. If your words are conscious, your life will be conscious. If your words are unconscious, your life will be unconscious. That is why integrity forms the basis of your life. It is part of your very life energy.

What is Integrity

Integrity is a spiritual truth, a tattva; it is not an ethic or value. Integrity has two dimensions – honouring the word you give yourself and honouring the words you give to others. Integrity is you fulfilling the words and thoughts you give to yourself and others. Honoring the words as your life is real integrity. Integrity is not just about the big commitments we make in life. It can be something as simple as telling yourself “I am going to get up every morning at 5am to practice yoga”, or telling a friend “ I will meet you at 5 pm”.

Your unkept words create a hangover

Many times, you don’t even remember the commitments you make to yourself or to others, because you use your words so unconsciously, without thinking. When you do not keep a commitment, it will create a “hangover” in you or in the other person, which can destroy your self confidence and the other person’s confidence in you.

Integrity brings power to your words

When you honor the words you give to yourself, your confidence in yourself grows. Your self doubts start to melt away. When you honor the words you give to others, their confidence in you grows. Your relationship with that person becomes strengthened, powerful.

Use words consciously, with awareness. This will help you understand the impact of your words on yourself and others. The right words can immediately change the way you think about yourself and others. The right words also keep your inner space conflict free and peaceful. By creating and expressing the right words, you can actually shape the reality as you choose. You can make or break your life with your words. The words you utter are YOU.

What happens if I cannot keep my words

Do your very best to keep your commitment to yourself and others. If you find that you still cannot keep it, you can complete with yourself and the other person by telling him that you cannot keep the commitment. Either fulfill or complete! Completion is also integrity.

Integrity is practising Dharma

Taking responsibility for your words is practicing right dharma, right living. Do not do onto others, that which would cause pain if done onto you. (from Hindu epic Mahabharata). This is dharma. Remember dharma and ask yourself, will these words cause pain to me or the other person? Always be aware of the power and impact of the words you utter to yourself and to others.

Integrity and reduction of thoughts

Patanjali says, “The first step of yoga is reduction of speech”. Swami Nithyananda explains - to achieve the reduction of speech, reduction of thoughts needs to happen. For reduction of thoughts to happen, integrity must be lived. This will naturally lead to a reduction in thoughts, not just to oneself, but in speech to others. For Integrity to become part of you, you must go on sharing this truth with others. You will be find yourself practising and living what you share and teach to others.

Power of Declaration

To strengthen your decision to be integrated and complete, declare the decision to do so.

Whenever you declare a decision, it helps gather your scattered energies and focus them towards making your declaration into reality through responsible actions.

Power of words

When you continuously, consciously, align your words to the appropriate actions, your words become powerful. You will have the spontaneous intelligence to use the right words and the most effective words towards yourself and others. You unlock the Power of Words. You achieve Vak Shakti or Vak Siddhi, the power to make anything you say into a reality. This is the ultimate experience of the Power of Words.

Samadhi - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 109

Becoming one with the origin

When the distance and difference in the name, form and substance between the mind and the object on which the mind was meditating, not only dissolve, it disappears into the highest frequency the space experienced is Samadhi.

In Dhyana mind and the object loses its name and form into a certain frequency which is beyond the mind and the object meditated upon.

In Samadhi not only the mind and the object loses its form even the stuff out of which the mind is made or the stuff out of which the object is made, even that’s stuff loses its form, name, frequency and dissolves into its highest space, reaches the point of no return. In Samadhi, the possibility for returning does not exist. Samadhi is not the end of your spiritual life; it is the beginning of your spiritual life.

Having the purpose alone shining forth and the form or the essence becomes empty into the final highest space never to return to its form before Samadhi, is Samadhi. It is so secret, so sacred for anyone to even think they know the meaning. There are 2 paths to reach that space, you either catch some objects outside of you (deity, guru) and go on doing authentically listening, sometimes even a concept, a sacred truth is enough. The second way is going on unclutching in your inner space and dropping into the deepest space of you until you disappear.

Not only the experience of Samadhi, but even the very path to Samadhi is blissful.


Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Dhyana - Patanjali Yoga Sutra 108

Dhyana is the ability to raise the frequency to a certain level, a frequency where the object on which the meditation is happening and the object which is meditating are both losing their boundary and become one with each other. Dhyana is not being intensely concentrated on an object, unlike what people normally think, it should be very clear that concentration won’t lead you to enlightenment. See even a small misunderstanding will lead to misery for you and a lot of people, because this misunderstanding will be the ground on which you will build your life.

It is very important to fully understand the laws in order to apply them, this goes for countries laws as well as cosmos laws or any laws. If the ground on which we interact with the world isn't correct, you will develop the wrong strategy which will not only be dangerous for you, but for everybody around you as well.

So it is very important to fully understand Dhyana in order to get the results that we seek.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Dharana - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 104

After the veiled that covers the inner light is removed, your mind becomes capable, fit to express all that it carries inside; e.g.: ability to absorb Prana without breathing.

 Dharana means the capacity to express what it carries in seed form. If you understand the science a little deeper you can express whatever you want through Dharana. This science allows you to create everything you want and enjoy it. Your mind is everything, you do not know the powers of your mind, your mind can create just like that, the causal body where all possibilities of mind is stored is available to you, when you fall asleep or when you raise to higher state of consciousness. 

When you fall asleep because of your unconscious some useless engrams comes out and you project something and see it doesn't have a big impact on this plane but when you raise your awareness the same causal body comes under your control, but everything that you take out of this causal body consciously becomes reality even in its plane.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Pratyahara - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 105

Renounce the Mind

Pratyahara means not taking anything through the five senses. Please understand-when the kundalini is awakened, the sense are shifting, they are no more ordinary, actually when the kundalini awakens, when you experience levitation, you will automatically experience shifting of senses.

Your senses are matter used by your inner space, your mind works through your senses and experiences the world through sensual pleasures or pain. Now, the stuff out of which your mind is made, if it withdraws from sensory activities and returns to the source, (restoration), that is what I call Pratyahara.

Withdrawing the senses, restoring them to the space where constant joy is happening without any happening! If you see anything new, your senses will come alive. How cunning your senses are. How it gets attachment or excitement.

Some how our mind, catches things to get excited. Excitement has nothing to do with the object, its something to do with your ideas. Your being attached is important, whether to a steel plate or silver plate or mud plate. The attachment is to be renounced.

So decide not to go through the useless sensory distractions, get into the space where the ultimate joy, peace and bliss is happening, without anything happening.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Niyama - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 84

Then comes Niyama, Niyama is being explained as raising your life to a highest coherence by keeping the internal and external purity.

If you have the ability to keep yourself always blissful you will be able to raise your family into the highest coherence, if you have the ability to accept and bear the suffering without causing it, you will inspire the whole community, you will raise the community into the highest possible coherence.

Reading, understanding and raising your intellectual capability to grasp the truth to be in the highest possibility, the highest possible coherence is obtained. If just one person relaxes into the cosmos, the whole cosmic consciousness raises to the next level.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Yama - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 81- 82

Yama and Niyama are two of the 8 limbs of the ashtanga yoga of Patanjali. Many people interpret this as “Do’s and Don’ts” or Rules. Is it so? Let’s understand Yama and Niyama in a deeper way.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains, Yama as the law and the power which executes the law. Both are same from the superconscious state point of view. Both express simultaneously and spontaneously. As long as you think the law and execution power are two different, you are in an ignorant society. You’ll be creating an ignorant system.

Laws are made when more than 1 person started living together and started to think “What! You have. Why not me also?” When humans started to realize the comfort and the positive points that living together brings (e.g. protection), life becomes more sophisticated. So then they started to realize that living together was bringing a lot of good things. Then the problem came “Why not me also?” So to come to an understanding, the system of law happened.

When Patanjali presents Yama, he does not refer to the laws that apply to society. On a cosmic level, the power that follows these principles is the same power that creates them! When the deeper understanding of Yama happens in your life, you will never feel pressured to follow the rules. It will simply be a natural expression of who you are.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Aparigraha (Non Possessiveness)

Constant struggle to hold stuff is an indication of the greed that one carries. Always remembering the things that are under your control inside your locker, being afraid that somebody will take it away or wondering if it’ll be there when you come back. Constant greed creates fear, when a person is non possessive he/she is willing to take risks. One who is too possessive of its life will not do anything to expand its life, it will never do anything risky, it will simply vegetate (sleeping and eating only). A life lived without risk isn’t worth living; because you are not living you are just waiting for death.

Aparigraha will give you such a space, being established in that space will allow you take risks, Aparigraha is the second greatest truth after Ahimsa. Ahimsa (non-violence) will make people around you happy, Aparigraha will make you happy. Possessiveness doesn’t allow you to do things differently, even the way you do things was/is and will always be the same, you get caught in a routine and you don’t even dare to use different paths to do what you always do. From the path you take to your car (same footsteps), the chair you take in the classroom, the place where you put your toothbrush and to a certain extend you might not even use some corners of your house. Because we control everything that we do, we do not leave place for god (spontaneity) to happen. 

Miracles do not happen in your life because you plan everything. Living life in a non-serious, playful way is the path to miracles, if life isn’t jam-packed, it leaves space for god to intervene. Integrity with your Bio-Intelligence by not destroying it with luxury (comfort), unnecessary things. Living with right amount of things you need. Not taking away your body’s abilities by giving unnecessary things to your Body. 

Authenticity is needed to slowly nail down the things that are truly necessary, starting in your outer world and heading towards your inner world, up to the point where you do not hold anything unnecessarily. Go through all the layers and everything that you think is not you, drop it, and decide to give it away. It is your responsibility to understand that you are the cause of the body and mind that you carry, because you constantly keep the body into a damage state, you experience pains and discomforts. Stop possessing the body and allow it to align itself with the cosmos. Be courageous and lift the blanket of possessiveness.

Bhramacharya (Living like a god)

Being established in Bhramacharya gives tremendous strength, energy, vitality, vigor, that is the definition. Live like God! OK, maybe this was something you weren’t taught at school! To live like God is to live your ultimate possibility. 

Brahmacharya is sometimes translated as celibacy, but celibacy is too poor a word to explain Brahmacharya. Celibacy is just a choice that becomes available when you live in brahmacharya. When you continuously strive to live life at your ultimate possibility, all that is superfluous simply falls away. That is why Aparigraha (Non Possessiveness) is the first step to Brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is to live with such a vast, fulfilled inner space that nothing at all is needed from the outside to complete you. Brahmacharya is not a vow or a discipline; it is a luxury that only very few can afford. When you no longer need anything from the other, or from the world, naturally you become a giver. Real giving can only happen as an overflowing of our own fulfillment. Tirelessly creating, constantly expanding, continuously showering on others – this is Brahmacharya, living like God. 

We can also say that being Brahmachari is being in complete integrity with your lust. Integrity towards your Greed, Lust is Celibacy. If you are integrated with your Desires Brahmachariya will simply happen. Only after understanding the non-violence (Ahimsa) can someone do the non-doing, if we do the opposite perversion and diversion happen and it becomes a big headache. When a disturbing thought which makes you want to break your celibacy arises few options are possible: suppression, perverted suppression or liberation. If one has the correct perception (I am not the body, it is only the vehicle I use) he/she will be liberated, will break that disturbing thought and will establish himself/herself in Brahmachariya. The purpose with which Bhramacharya is achieved is more important than the Bhramacharya itself. That is why the translation should be “living like god” only then can you acquire the energy.

Asteya (Non-Stealing)

Non-stealing is very important thing, especially when we live with others (e.g.: society). If we practice non-stealing all the wealth will come back to us. When we have the security that the wealth is always here with us we will stop stealing and storage will stop happening. If we stop storing and hiding, plenty of wealth will be available continuously, plenty will be growing continuously and plenty will be created continuously. The problem is we are caught in a vicious circle; insecurity happens so people start storing and when people start storing there is more 

and more insecurities so people keep storing more and more.

That’s why Patanjali says:

“only by non-stealing will people be actually enjoying the wealth.”

When people feel secure only then will creativity be released. This single understanding is powerful enough to liberate us from the karma cycle. Karma is nothing but the pressure of our unfulfilled desires, forcing us again and again into action. We always carry the energy and resources to fulfill our own true desires, but when we accumulate desires from others, we create a ‘desire hangover’ that is going to take us another lifetime to fulfill and so it continues. Trying to own others things is the pattern which is the most chaotic pattern on the planet earth. When an individual tries to own others things he commits the crime of robbing, stealing. When collective minds, countries trying to own others things they commit the crime of war. Wars are nothing but trying to own others things, what has been accepted as others, trying to own it.

Asteya is nothing but becoming aware of what our true needs are, and focusing our energies on fulfilling those desires. You don’t have to renounce whatever you have. Just renounce what you don’t have. Bringing integrity into ownership. Unfortunately you do not try to own what is your own which is your Body, your Mind and you try to own everything which others own. Bring integrity into ownership and dis-ownership. Own what is yours. Whenever you bring Integrity, Authenticity and Right clearance your life is a plan for miracles. When you carry right clearance in your heart miracles happen around you. Let your life be planed for miracles not planned for accidents and chaos. If you are constantly breaking the Integrity of ownership you are planning for chaos.

Satya (Truth)

Integrity in the words you utter to yourself and to others is Sathya. Live by the Truth, speaking the facts is just one dimension of truth, real Satya is aligning our thoughts, speech and action to the truth. The moment you decide to that you are going to express your thoughts and feelings without editing them, you are forced to purify your very thinking! 

The continuous practice of living by the truth can have a powerful impact on your subconscious. You are released from the burden of pretension and duplicity that have become part of our daily living. Satya gives you the unimaginable freedom to really be yourself. Being established in truth is enlightenment, one needs to align his/her beliefs to his/her words. You can either only talk about what you know as you or truly believe in what you tell to others as you. The second one believe the words you utter to others is harder than it seems, because people might believe but your mind will say “ Who do think you’re trying to fool, you can say whatever you want to people but not to me, I know who you are” and then it’s over you fall into self-doubt. 

Lao Tzu says “ If you are established in truth there is no need for spiritual practice.”

But, there is a tricky part about teaching Satya (truth), it can be received only by someone who is not bound to the one who speaks the truth, because in order to fully understand the truth one must have the opportunity of doubting, questioning or leaving, that is why the purest truth can only be transmitted in a situation where there is no attachment between the speaker and the listener.

Reprogram your brain

(Patanjali Yoga Sutras 99) 

Once you have conquered the posture, you have conquered duality, pain and pleasure,.

See when you conquer the posture you will not have pain, you will have a stable, steady posture, this will bring life into your muscles. When you keep the body balanced it brings life to your muscles, which creates an intense innate inside pleasure, this pleasure is so strong, so intense that you will go beyond the outer pleasures.

How to make your body balanced: sit in lotus / half lotus or legs crossed and then try to find out in which position the upper body feels weightless, erect your body slowly and you will see at one point it is weightless. Try this in all four directions and you will find the balanced posture for you, it should take 3-4 minutes. It’s called the psychological levitation, you will feel light.

All we need to do is aligning your body every day; it will make the Kundalini Awakening very easy.

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Asana - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 97

Tune Yourself to the Cosmos

In the yoga world nowadays, the word asana generally means body postures: holding a specific pose while bending the body. Asanas may be popular practice for a number of reasons, including their great physical and mental benefits, and of course for aesthetics. On one level, it is, but asanas have a much deeper meaning and purpose.

In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali states:

“sthira-sukham asanam” -Chapter II, v. 46

Paramahamsa Nithyananda translates:

“Asanas are steady and comfortable body postures to tune oneself with the Cosmos.”

If you look deeply, any body posture is associated with a state of being, with a particular state of consciousness. For example, can you sleep standing up? And how about lying down in a relaxed way and try to shout angrily at someone. You can’t! The body language changes according to your moods and attitudes. Subtle changes in your body posture will cause a major change in the way you feel.

A small exercise:

Sit straight with eyes closed and the hands in front of you, palms facing up. Just notice how your body feels. Notice the breath.

Slowly turn the palms down. Bring awareness to how you feel now.

Can you feel a subtle difference? This subtle difference is due to the change of body posture.

Sthiram-Sukham Asanam

So, asanas are specific body postures designed in a way so as to reflect the highest possible coherence with the Cosmos. The perfect asana for you depends on you. You will see, in some asanas you will suddenly feel natural, steady (sthira) and comfortable (sukham).

Actually, in a deeper way, sthira does not only mean steady, it means, “which cannot be lost, which has become part of your bio-memory”. It should be natural to be in that posture. If after a few weeks without practice you suddenly realize you cannot perform the posture anymore, then the true quality of sthirahas not been achieved.

Sukham, which is commonly translated as comfortable, is not about cushion luxury! You should be able to be in a posture and feel its effect in your body throughout the day. Every joint should be oozing with nectar, like a sweet feeling of lightness. You can achieve sukham by constant practice, and increasing your ability to stay in that asana.

Respect Your Body

But understand, the practice of asanas does not mean abusing or disrespecting your body. Our bodies are victims of our self-destructive lifestyle. We often overeat and over-stimulate our bodies. Asanas are conscious practices to make you fall in tune with the deepest you, so it can never be against your body.Asanas are about aligning yourself with the highest possible coherence, with the highest qualities of the cosmos. Aligning yourself is levitation, maligning yourself is gravitation!

There are two ways of finding which asanas are best for you:
1) By your own practice, until you find your own sequence, or
2) By the Master’s instruction

In these particular asanas you will align your body perfectly with the super-consciousness, just like a mirror aligned directly with the source of light. This will allow you to tune yourself to the ultimate state of consciousness, and be established in Yoga.

Extracted from P.Y.S. by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Ahimsa (Non-violence)

The first yogic vow is Ahimsa or non-violence. It is the basic truth of life; basic understanding for humans to live together, Ahimsa has to be there in order to support life. Ahimsa is the first and ultimate law of the cosmos (dharma), non-violence is the ultimate shield and strategy, the best example to illustrate that is; e.g.: Putting oil (oil being Ahimsa) on your hands before cutting open a jack fruit to make sure that the sticky milk of the jack fruit won’t stick to your hands.

Understanding the context is crucial and we have to always remember that the context is an independent intelligence. If you understand this truth you won’t enter the space of violence and whenever you face troublesome situations being able to respond to the situation with non violence will allow you to easily find the way send the enemy’s weapon back to them, you will have the simple intelligence to find the solution effortlessly without creating further problems.

This whole world is a mirror, the way you understand and respond to the context, in a similar way the context will respond to you. The context isn’t a dead word it is an independent living intelligence like you, feeling that you are separate and more powerful than the context is Ego. When you understand this concept you will not feel that the world is torturing you, harassing you or making you suffer. If you feel that the context is harassing you, be very clear it is you who is harassing the context with the violence that you carry inside you and because you do that you create violence and then you justify your violence by blaming the context.

To be in completely integrated with life is Ahimsa, when your inner chatting, the words you utter to yourself and others and your actions are aligned you are established in integrity, only then can you experience Ahimsa.

You are responsible for the violence that you live, the violence seen outside is nothing else than the materialized violence that you carry inside. But the good news is, since your are responsible for your inner violence that also means that you are empowered with the possibility of getting rid of this violence and then establishing yourself in Ahimsa.

Bringing non-violence to your inner space you will automatically enrich the people around you in many different ways.

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