When the physical body is used actively and intensely, it becomes healthy. When the internal organs are kept in a state of intense activity, they gain longevity. The mind that is sincere is kept focused and aligned to the ultimate purpose of life. Consciousness then spontaneously and simultaneously manifests itself through all three of these layers — body, organ, and mind.

Here is a simple illustration of this principle: the more you engage and use the body, the more energetic you become. This is not a paradox — it is the law of intensity. The more your internal organs are actively engaged, especially through fasting, the more capable and alive they become. Every time you fast for a continuous 24 hours, the entire biological system is activated and becomes vibrantly alive. This is why I always insist: fast at least twice a week. Fasting is a profound act of self-care. Whoever truly wants to live a royal life should fast two days a week. Eating voraciously and indiscriminately — consuming whatever is available whenever you feel like it — is the cheapest and most disrespectful way you can treat yourself. It is no different from treating yourself like a garbage bin.

If you are a beginning-level seeker, I highly recommend fasting at least once a week. This is how you truly treat yourself royally — stop eating for 24 hours. Absolutely no food. If you are deeply sincere about enlightenment, fast twice a week with the same commitment: 24 hours, no food whatsoever. That is the highest pampering you can offer your own body. Do dry fasting if you can manage; if not, water fasting is perfectly acceptable. When you fast, all your internal organs awaken! The best nutrition your body can receive is what is already stored within it. Allow the body to consume its own reserves without demanding anything from the outside.

I have observed two very contrasting types of people who do not eat. First, those who go without food because of poverty — scarcity forces them. Second, those who consciously choose not to eat because of what I call “power-ty.” I am coining this word right now. Use it! “Power-ty” is the deliberate choice not to eat — not from lack, but from a higher purpose and a superior cognition.

Consider the great Mouna Swami who lived in Tiruvannamalai. I have seen him over many years — he never ate or drank anything. He used to sit in the southern tower of the Tiruvannamalai temple, called the Tirumanjana Gopuram, near where my own pre-monastic house stood. Even now, there is a small memorial at that exact spot where he would sit in samadhi. It was not that food was unavailable to him. Devotees would bring him an abundance of offerings. Yet he would not touch anything. He would use his stick to push those offerings back out to the devotees who came to him, returning them as prasadam.

Here is a crucial difference you will observe: people who do not eat because of poverty — their skin does not shine. People who do not eat because of “power-ty” — conscious choice from a higher purpose — their skin glows brilliantly, radiating unmistakable luminosity. The entire skin shines because cognition and purpose add sincerity, which the tradition calls Shraddha. Shraddha has the extraordinary capacity to generate ojas and tejas. Ojas means “pure energy.” Tejas means “shining power.” I am giving you the secret science of kayakalpa right here.

Mouna Swami remained in silence. On rare occasions, he would write out his responses to our questions. Once, I asked him, “Swamiji, why did you choose this specific place?” He showed me through hand gestures the breathing pranayama. I asked, “Breathing, pranayama — you can do those anywhere. Why specifically here?” He then wrote and showed me that adjacent to that tower there was an iluppai tree — the mahua tree, the Indian butter tree. There is an old Tamil proverb about this tree: illaatha kaattukku ilappa poo chakkarai — “Where there is no sugar mill, the iluppai flowers serve as the sweetener.” The temple goshala also used to be located nearby in those days. That iluppai tree would emanate an extraordinarily intense fragrance. Mouna Swami explained to me that the very air from the iluppai tree’s breathing space supplies sufficient organic sugar energy to sustain his internal organs — that fragrance-filled air was his food.

I want all of you to deeply understand this principle of kayakalpa: when your intake becomes subtler and subtler, the availability of life-supporting energy becomes eternal. When food is in solid form, it is not always available, and the processes of digestion and excretion are a significant burden on the system — too much labor, too many side effects, too many after-effects. But when the intake becomes pure energy — pure prana — the internal organs are kept alive and active without the enormous effort of filtering, processing, and eliminating gross matter.

Modern human beings have largely lost the ability to attend to anything sincerely. There is simply too much distraction. One of my disciples who works in the field of advertising and commercial communications told me, “Swamiji, no human being has an attention span of more than 30 seconds. You have to convey what you want within those 30 seconds. After that, anything you say is lost. If you need to hold their attention beyond 30 seconds for something serious, you have to use something sexually provocative to re-capture attention — and even then you have only another 30 seconds.” Modern human beings have entirely lost the attention span — the very capacity to be truly intense.

Additionally, I am constantly in the space beyond words and mind — the active chitta, in the absolute “not this, not this” zone. Even for me, it requires significant effort to verbalize what I need to convey to all of you. This is the reality of operating from a state beyond language itself.

Consider the progression of food types and their relationship to health and longevity: when your food is physical and gross, your longevity and health diminish. When it becomes liquid, your longevity and health increase. When it becomes pure prana — air-based — your health and longevity increase dramatically beyond anything ordinarily possible.

This Mouna Swami used to sit within the breathing space of the iluppai tree. It was a tall tree, and like all trees, it has its own breathing space — the circumference within which it spreads its flowers, fruits, and fragrance. The temple tower where Mouna Swami sat fell squarely within this breathing space. So when he would sit there and perform pranayama, the iluppai tree’s fragrant breathing space — intensely sugar-saturated — would flow into his body. His internal organs would receive glucose and sugar energy directly from that prana, without needing any white or brown sugar from an external source.

This is the very same principle as havis, the sacred offering in a homa. When you offer everything into the fire, the devas descend and receive those offerings into their own breathing space. The havis becomes prana and nourishment for them, and in return they bless you. The exact same mechanism operates with the iluppai tree. The tree maintained its breathing space filled with an intensely sweet fragrance. Anyone who sits beneath the iluppai tree and performs pranayama within that breathing space can sustain life without any external source of glucose — without consuming white sugar, brown sugar, or any conventional fuel source. Your internal organs become so refined and active that they directly absorb glucose energy through the pranayama itself.

I witnessed this firsthand, over a number of years. When Mouna Swami gave me that explanation, I was struck with awe: “O God! What a powerful method of existing!” I immediately ran to Raghupathi Yogi — the next level of Yogi. I am not comparing Mouna Swami and Raghupathi Yogi; they are each extraordinary in their own distinct way. Raghupathi Yogi said, “I will prove it.” He asked me to get plain rice cooked without any sweetener and placed it near the iluppai tree. He put his hand on that tree, performed pranayama, and before my eyes, the plain rice became chakkarai pongal — sweetened rice! The colour of the rice did not change. But when I ate it, it was genuinely, unmistakably sweetened. He had drawn the prana energy of the tree into himself, transformed it into glucose, and passed it through his hands into the rice — demonstrating precisely how the breathing space of this tree can infuse glucose for the internal organs, and how that energy can be converted and transmitted through the human system into food.

Our backbone must be very powerful for the kundalini to rise. You can charge yourself with ojas shakti — the energy required by the backbone — by sitting under a banyan tree and performing pranayama. Our Bidadi Banyan Tree, the Kalpavriksha, holds this unique power. Remarkably, even if you are not physically present at the Bidadi Ashram, if you watch the live webcam relay of that tree and perform pranayama before the screen, you will experience the same energy transmission. (https://nithyananda.tv/kalpataru/) Each tree’s breathing space carries a specific energy signature; when you perform pranayama beneath a given tree, that specific energy fills your system.

This is exactly what I mean when I say: without dumping heavy food into yourself, you can make your internal organs highly active and vibrantly alive. To summarise the progression: Yoga makes your physical body active. Reduce the quantity of your food, simultaneously increasing its quality — transitioning from solid food to liquid, and from liquid to air and prana-based food. Mouna Swami had reached the stage of air-based food. Similarly, if you burn pure rice and pure cow ghee with proper mantras — performing Agnihotram using pure organic desi cow-dung cakes — that smoke, that air, that prana can keep you hunger-free while fully charged, with all internal organs actively functioning, for at least 8 hours. One Agnihotra session can make you food-free for 8 hours while remaining completely energized and alive. Agnihotris are bound to live long, healthy lives because the quality of their prana-food is absolutely pure, powerful, and of the highest order.

In Tiruvannamalai, in our aadheenam, we have the Vaidya Shakti Sthalam — a meticulously designed sacred garden. All the trees of the Navagrahas, the 12 Rasis, the 27 Nakshatras, and the Ashta Dik Balakas are planted in precise layers and still beautifully maintained. If you sit in that Vaidya Shakti Sthalam and perform pranayama, your entire body will be rejuvenated. Even doing this just twice a month is sufficient; the power of kayakalpa will simply happen to you. You will live long and healthy.

I sincerely recommend to all my devotees and disciples: come and study the Tiruvannamalai Ashram’s Vaidya Shakti Sthalam and replicate it in your own aadheenams — in Rajapalayam, Madurai, everywhere. In Madurai we have a large property in Tirupparankundram where we can create this. In Bidadi, the entire 100 acres can incorporate it. In Ichapuram Palace we have many acres — the whole area is called Kailasagiri. Hyderabad Aadheenam spans many acres. Salem Aadheenam, Erode Aadheenam — all are expansive spaces. Replicate this Vaidya Shakti Sthalam and perform pranayama there daily. Even in apartment settings, you can plant the necessary trees in large andas (pots) and place them on the terrace, as is done in the Shyamala Peetha Sarvajnapeetham. All the cosmic energies needed for kayakalpa are present in the Vaidya Shakti Sthalam. Long before, we established this in Tiruvannamalai, and today it has grown into a magnificent, thriving garden. We can replicate this kayakalpa infrastructure across all our aadheenams — Rajapalayam, Kashi, Madurai, Salem, Seeragapadi, Arani, Navalukuttapaatu, Tiruchengode, Adi Kailash-Bidadi, Hyderabad, Ichapuram Palace. In Kashi we have a significant property on the banks of the Ganga. Anyone who performs pranayama in the Vaidya Shakti Sthalam will find their entire physical, mental, prana, breathing, cognitive, and conscious structure empowered for a long and healthy life.

To bring it all together: The intense activity for the body is yoga. The intense activity for the internal organs is fasting. The intense, life-infusing activity for the mind is sincerity.

In my life I have observed all kinds of minds and mental setups. I am never frightened by people who attempt to deceive or betray me — the traitors. I understand exactly how their minds operate. In fact, before they can tap my devices, I can already tap their minds! I simply play with them — it is my timepass. However, the people who cheat themselves are far more dangerous; they function at the level of demons. They feel deeply: “I truly want to be a sanyasi. I truly want to live with integrity.” Yet they will never sincerely do what is genuinely required to bring that into reality. They perpetually cheat themselves, gaslight themselves. They need no one from outside to destroy them — they will accomplish it entirely on their own.

I have a special name for such people: “aapakkadai aayaahs.” They will actively search for the aappu — the wedge, the exact pressure point in their own armour — and then deliberately sit upon it. They are dangerous, primarily to themselves. Do you know why people cheat themselves? Because they do not work on removing the parasites from their system, and so they perpetually fall for their own mood swings.

When you decide to become a sanyasi, daily consumption of neem juice is compulsory, because it systematically removes all parasites from the bio-memory and muscle-memory that trigger lustful and fantasy-driven visualization. When you drink neem juice every single day, all the parasites residing in your muscle memory and bio-memory are progressively cleansed. Even when sex hormones are naturally released into your body, instead of triggering violent, uncontrollable, agitating, or self-destructive visualizations, that same energy simply manifests as an intense devotion — the sweetest, most sacred spiritual sentiment.

Any powerful cognition or higher conclusion you arrive at must be supported by an equally sincere preparation of the body. You cannot hold a powerful cognition in the mind while allowing the body to remain unprepared and unclean. You must work for it. You must bring sincerity to your body, not just your intellect. Life is sincere work — not merely hard work or serious work. But when you lack sincerity, you cheat yourself, fall for your mood swings, gaslight yourself, and over time lose even your own self-respect. The moment you gaslight yourself and collapse two or three times — only to return again to your higher cognitions — you begin to lose trust in your own word and commitment.

This is why I say: start sincerely working on embodying and living the powerful cognitions you have received as actual reality — not merely as intellectual beliefs. If you have decided to live as a sanyasi or a celibate, take neem juice every single day without fail: 200 ml if diluted, or 100 ml if concentrated. You may split it — half in the morning, half in the evening. If you have decided to remain active, alive, and energetic throughout the day without tiredness or boredom, take a handful of yellu and vellam — sesame seeds and jaggery balls — every morning without exception.

Sesame and jaggery will remove all parasites and microbes that trigger tiredness, boredom, and irritation in you. Your muscle memory and bio-memory will become pure and clean. You will no longer fall prey to tiredness, boredom, or irritation manufactured by inner parasites. You can take 5 to 6 sesame-jaggery balls, and that is perfectly fine — even 10 is not a problem. There are no harmful side effects whatsoever. Treat it like a morning snack you genuinely enjoy. Use good quality, organic sesame and organic jaggery. It will only keep you energetic, alert, and vitally alive throughout the day.

This is also why, when someone leaves the body and becomes a ghost, we offer sesame seeds and water to them — the irritation, stress, and fearful agitation that define the ghost state will settle with these offerings. When a living person becomes highly irritated, they essentially behave like a ghost — screaming, disoriented, consumed by inner turbulence. All they need is sesame and jaggery, and they will return to their natural human composure. Whenever someone tells me that an adheenavasi is “screaming like a ghost,” I tell them: give her some sesame and jaggery. She will settle on her own and apologise within a short time!

These parasites in the stomach, when triggered, produce intensely agitated and irritated states. The person becomes like a bhoota — a ghost — and they themselves have no awareness of how they are behaving or why. They simply feel suffocated and scream. If you perform proper detox and cleanse all the parasites and microbes from your system, your entire inner ecology will become healthy, and kayakalpa will simply happen — effortlessly and naturally.

If you hold powerful cognitions and commit to a higher lifestyle yet fail to be sincere in daily practice, you are “gaslighting yourself.” I am always more cautious around insincere people than around enemies and traitors. Enemies and traitors cannot ultimately harm me — I understand how their minds work, and I can engage them playfully, just as Krishna danced on Kalinga, the great serpent. Kalinga could not harm Krishna, and Krishna always wins. Insincere people, who fall for their own mood swings the moment inner parasites are triggered, are far more dangerous than any external enemy.

I handle insincere people with far more care and attention than I give to enemies and traitors. They are, in a real sense, demons — not because they are malicious by nature, but because they are not sincere to themselves. When someone stops attending morning yoga and the daily spiritual routine, I immediately understand: this person is likely an enemy or a traitor sitting here and waiting for the right moment. I know these patterns, and I handle such individuals in precisely the way they need to be handled. All the criminals and traitors within the Sangha consistently avoid the spiritual routine — this is a universal quality among all of them.

As for enemies and traitors generally, we have nothing significant to do with them, and they cannot truly harm us. They harm only themselves in the end. They can be released from our concern. But for those among us who genuinely aspire to enlightenment — who want to be with Paramashiva and manifest Paramashivatva — if such people fail to become sincere, they become our deepest concern. These are the ones who need support, care, inspiration, the infusion of sincerity, and sustained energy. That is what I do, and that is what I continue doing even now.

I could give you a long list of people who carry genuine intention yet lack sincerity in their day-to-day effort to detox themselves, to cleanse the parasites and microbes from their system. If they would become sincere — truly, practically sincere in the necessary daily actions — they would simply become Paramashiva. Almost everyone inside our Sangha wants to manifest Paramashiva. But they are not sincere to their decision. So they gaslight themselves, fall for their mood swings when inner parasites trigger, become like demons, and do not even recognise what they are doing in those moments.

I have seen both Raghupathi Yogi and Yogi Ramsuratkumar — also known as Visiri Swami — use neem flowers ground finely into powder, rolled into a beedi leaf for smoking. When I asked why they did this, Yogi Ramsuratkumar explained that the smoke of the neem flower cleanses all the internal organs thoroughly. He would take very small quantities, roll them carefully in the beedi leaf, and smoke. I have absolutely no idea how that feels or whether it is practical for ordinary human beings to manage that level of intense smoke. Please do not attempt this. I mention it only because I am sincerely trying to recollect everything I received from my Guru Parampara — every teaching, every practice, every living example — and make it available to the world.

My entire life is simply the act of keeping my whole Guru Parampara alive. Kailasa’s singular purpose is to preserve, transmit, and revive the entire Guru Parampara — from Arunagiri Yogishwara through all the master lineages — and make it available for the whole world to use, to enjoy, to experience, and to celebrate.

With this, I bless you all.

Source: Feb 26th Nithyananda Satsang — fb.com/ParamahamsaNithyananda