Tag: Yoga
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Understanding Yogaha Chitta Vritti Nirodhaha – Patanjali Yoga Sutras
What is Mind? When one reads the sutra yogaha chitta vritti nirodhah, it is commonly interpreted as “yoga is stopping the mind work”. A teacher might then provide techniques to stop the mind, leading to a lifelong struggle, often ending in frustration and a loss of confidence. However, a master is a person who straight…
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Do not learn Great Truths from a person who has not experienced Consciousness
Patanjali’s Scientific Approach to Enlightenment Patanjali is one of the rare happenings, the first master who quantified the unquantifiable, who made Enlightenment as a science. Till Patanjali, Enlightenment was taken more as a miracle or as an accident. It is Patanjali who made that more as a science and defined it along with the yoga…
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Beyond Enlightenment: Why Intensity is Your Ultimate Spiritual Secret – 21st and 22nd Patanjali Yoga Sutras
Enlightenment: A Continuous Happening, Not a Destination Many people mistakenly perceive Enlightenment as a singular event, a final destination. However, as Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam reveals, Enlightenment is not a noun; it is a verb. It is a continuous, intense happening, better understood as “enlightening”. While ultimate, it is not final, unfolding moment by moment…
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Unlocking Your Infinite Potential: 19th Sutra of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
Two Paths of Civilization: Sameness vs. Uniqueness Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam explains that historically, civilizations have arisen from two core proposals: either “all are same” or “all are unique”. The profound truth, as articulated by the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism, is that as an existence or consciousness, everyone may be the same, but as an…
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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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If your inner space says that there is nothing more to listen, if only silence is there, you have achieved integrity.

People ask me, ‘Swamiji, why is nature so cruel? Why are there natural disasters? Why do young children die?’ The answer is what Kṛṣṇa gives here. Nature goes about its job without any thought about what the end result will be. What happens will happen. It is bound to happen. Nature follows its dharma, its…
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Restful Awareness Technique to manifest Will Persistence through Third Eye

A restful awareness is the vātāvarana, atmosphere for Third Eye to flower. Listen, listen carefully, today I am going to reveal some of the important sacred secrets about Third Eye. The first, you need to know about Third Eye, I’ll be talking, like a series, so that all over the world, people who are interested…
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What is Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha ?

Understand, all the Sampradayas of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, I call it ‘Omkara Parivara’; means, all the Sampradayas which accept ‘OM.’ Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Shakta, Shaiva, Vaishnava, all the Sampradayas, which accept ‘Omkara’, the Omkara Parivara, accept this three things. Understand, Hinduism is a open architecture, that is our strength; because the future is going to be only…
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Nithyananda Yoga is the science, the formula, that will give others the same experience of enlightenment which happened in me.

Until the age of thirteen, Raghupati Yogi prepared my body and mind to enter into and stay in the experience of enlightenment. Entering into the experience, having a glimpse of the no-mind state, having that experience of satori and unclutching is actually not very difficult. But to remain in the experience and more importantly, to…
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For whatever purpose you bend your body or move your body, that memory and idea will become completely inserted or completely recorded in your body and mind!

On some days, Raghupati Yogi would ask me to sit still and be very peaceful, to meditate on stillness, peace and tranquility. Then after ten minutes, he would suddenly tell me to stand up and run around the entire temple as fast as I could! He would make me bend this way and that way.…
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Raghupati Yogi, the master who had experienced that consciousness or the inner space of Patanjali

Yoga is a state of being. When the mind ceases to exist, you reside in the state of yoga, the state of no-mind, the state of ultimate consciousness or enlightenment. When the state of no-mind and pure consciousness is experienced, you undergo a complete psychological revolution related to the understanding and experience of the self…
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What is yoga ?

Yoga is not about physical fitness alone. It is also to help prepare the body for realizing the aim of uniting body, mind and spirit. Nithya Yoga is the technique designed in the body language of Patanjali for this uniting. In the same manner as we spoke about Nithya Dhyaan amongst meditations, Nithya Yoga is…
