Tag: ananda
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It is very difficult to connect with a Living Master, but very easy to relate with dead masters!
A person of knowledge becomes arrogant and refuses to acknowledge the limitations of knowledge. Sacrificing knowledge is far more difficult than sacrificing wealth. For a scholar to admit that he does not know is to commit suicide. He is losing his identity. Kṛṣṇa advises the seeker to sacrifice one’s knowledge and one’s intellect at His…
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When many people take the responsibility to bring integrity and authenticity to their thinking and actions, the individual consciousness aligns and expands to affect the collective consciousness
Our body-mind is highly influenced by our thoughts and words. The words you constantly repeat to yourself, have to be enriching you, inspiring you, exciting you and enlightening you. The words you give to you are āhara (food), what you consume to create life in you. Bliss attracts fortune. You may wonder, ‘Fortune can bring…
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What does have existence, what is truly real, exists now, has always existed and will exist forever!
We are all made of body, mind and spirit. The body is tangible; we can feel its boundaries. When a part of the body is sick, we can feel the discomfort. As long as we feel the body working smoothly, we say we are in good health. What is unclear or unknown to us is…
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The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga!
Living in bliss – The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga These are: 1. Blissful Laughter 2. Blissful Affirmation 3. Blissful Cleansing 4. Blissful Yoga 5. Blissful Meditation 6. Blissful Tools 7. Blissful Energy 8. Blissful Chant Ananda Ashtanga or Blissful Living is a simple eight-fold pathway to Living Enlightenment. These are simple…
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Nithya Dhyaan meditation technique
This is a five-step technique, each step being 7 minutes. 1. Chaotic breathing Duration: 7 minutes Sit in vajrasana (sitting with the knees folded and your feet tucked under, with the bottom resting on the heels). Normally in our body, the energy flows from the sahasrara chakra (crown center) to the muladhara chakra (root center).…
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The Birth of the Master Technique, Nithya Dhyaan
There are some meditation techniques that are specific for specific times and people, and there are a few that are universal. Nithya Dhyaan is the meditation for the seeker of today. It is the cyber age meditation. First I would like to tell about how this meditation technique Nithya Dhyaan happened. Up to the age…
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Western science has just started exploring the vast dimensions of the effects and benefits of meditation that the inner scientists of the East have researched and lived for thousands of years
Science is just now getting glimpses of the tremendous power of meditation to completely change the entire body-mind structure itself. The benefits of meditation are countless and across all planes – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Meditation can simply change the very quality of life. Until recently, it was believed that in the brain, the connections…
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A basic cognitive shift or a basic psychological revolution, with the simple understanding that what you are seeing may not be reality as you think, can bring tremendous inner healing inside you, can bring a great restful awareness inside you
You may wonder, ‘How is it that every day when I come back to the waking state, I see the same world but every night when I go back to the dream state, I don’t see the same world? This question forms the basis of your idea that the waking state is a permanent reality.…
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Benefits of Meditation
Meditation has the power to transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me explain what I mean by health in these four areas. Physical health means digesting whatever you eat and having that food become part of your body. Mental health means digesting all the ideas and problems that you encounter and forming a…
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The purpose of meditation itself is to bring the fourth state of turiya into our waking state and deep sleep state
The more we meditate, the more our awareness increases, and the closer we move to the consciousness of the fourth or turiya state. Turiya itself means fourth. You cannot give an exact name to this state. It is known by many other names: samadhi, enlightenment, atmagnana, brahmagnana, nirvana, satori, to name some of them. They…
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Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance
Meditation is falling in tune with nature, with Existence. This is your natural state, your true state of bliss. This is connecting with the Ultimate Consciousness. You see, the universe or the macrocosm is made up of the five elements – earth, water, fire, air and space. In the same way, the body, the microcosm,…
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The word ‘ananda’ itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced, which cannot be lost’
What is your ultimate aim in life? To earn more? To stay forever young, healthy, beautiful? To have better, longer-lasting relationships? To improve your personality? The list is endless. For each individual, there will be a specific goal or many goals. But every single goal, without exception, points to the same thing: a yearning to…
KAILASA's Words of Eternal Bliss, Nithyananda! 