Re-design your life!

Out of habit, sometimes people ask Swami to tell them what will happen to them in the future.

'Dont ask me to predict your life. Ask me to Re-design your life!'

A promise of a Paramhamsa.

Here is a lifetime opportunity.

After a gap of two years, Paramahamsa Nithyananda himself conducts..

Life Bliss Program level -2 or Nithyananda Spurana Program. A 4-day experiential meditation program.

Re-design your life!

Here is the link to an short intro on NSP.. Watch on.. Don't miss!

http://www.youtube.com/lifeblissfoundation#p/search/0/eRCoB8uyahQ

And this is the link to the post which I wrote after doing my first NSP, almost an year ago. Its titled, Days and nights with the master.

Come, spend four magical days in the Master's presence Take this life-altering step in your personal transformation. Imbibe the intense energy field of the Ashram.

Dates: Friday 19 to Monday 22 February, 2010

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More about the Nithyananda Spurana Program:

Transform your life into an eternal celebration!

Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP)

also known as Life Bliss Program Level 2

The revolutionary 7 step system

designed to cleanse your 7 energy sheaths

You exist in multiple dimensions. It is vital for you to explore each dimension in order to live a balanced life and grow spiritually.

You encounter challenges on a daily basis which affect your ‘being’ at three levels: the conscious, the unconscious and the subconscious. These challenges get stored in your bio-memory as engrams - deeply embedded memories - manifesting in chronic physical, mental and emotional disorders.

What is the Nithyananda Spurana Program? Created by Paramahamsa Nithyananda with deep insight, this 4-day transformational program is a powerful healing system incorporating 7 scientifically devised meditation techniques designed to restore life-sustaining energy to your 7 energy sheaths.

What are energy sheaths? Energy sheaths are metaphysical layers within you. Your energy sheaths are: the Physical, the Pranic, the Etheric, the Spiritual, the Causal, the Cosmic and the Nirvanic. You have been provided these energy sheaths in order to live this human existence.

Questions often asked

· Why am I dissatisfied with life despite material success?

· How can I strengthen my relationships?

· Is there more to me than my mind and my body?

· What is there for me beyond life and death?

· Can enlightenment possibly be within my reach?

In this program you will

· Get answers to all your burning questions on life, living and dying.

· Learn how to overcome your fears, your insecurities, your anxieties, your pain, your anguish.

· Be healed of all your emotional imbalances through compassionate guidance.

· Dispel your doubts: spiritual subjects and scientific data relating to them will be discussed.

· Understand primordial wisdom - Great Truths drawn from ancient scriptures of world faiths will be revealed to you

· Receive tools to sustain this new awareness in you

The results: These transformational techniques will bring about immense intellectual clarity within you. NSP is a gateway to a new life that is driven by natural intelligence and spontaneous enthusiasm. You will take a quantum leap spiritually. Your life will become a joyous celebration!

Says participant Sanjay Sharma, Singapore: “NSP is an amazing program. My instant transformation after experiencing the Nithyananda Spurana Program was simply astounding. Tradition shows the path of spirituality and liberation to be fraught with great hardship, deprivation and stupendous effort. I am overwhelmed by the fact that my ‘journey’ has progressed so rapidly and effortlessly ever since I first experienced the Master. I am yet to hear about or encounter such a generous, compassionate and loving Guru who continues to make the journey to enlightenment so incredibly joyous.”

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Life has taken on a beautiful new meaning for thousands after experiencing the Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP). This is a heaven sent opportunity for you to experience it yourself!

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Please inform all you know about this wonderful opportunity to be in the Master's energy field ... forward this circular ... call your family, friends and colleagues at work... go around and speak to people...

For more information, or to get in touch with the ashram, please call:

• Ma Poornima: 99808 17235
• Ma Nithya Ramani (Annapoorni): 99005 84132
  

For advanced registration, please call:

• Ma Nithya Akila: 9880203654

You may confirm participation at the numbers above.

healing the educational trauma,

was what attracted me to attend a programme called QMP. Quantum memory programme. Quantum memory is the spontaneous memory that arises with the awakening of the Innate Intelligence, thereby making studies a celebration.

Surprisingly, although this course told us that the memory improving techniques were meant for eighth plus students, I have been trying them out on my class 4 and 5 kids and the kids are loving it. Yes, I know I am supposed to be an English teacher, but...

QMP is a one of a kind breakthrough approach to studies and education. It includes meditation, Yoga, I mean how far can these two be from Swami Nithyananda?

QMP also goes into the right and left brain imbalance caused by social conditioning (eat with right hand, and left hand is for that job only), and how all of us become left brainers because we hardly use our left hand.( The left brain controls the right hand, etc). The solution? Very simple. Start eating with left hand, writing with left hand. Use the left hand to comb your hair, to stir the sugar, to put the kumkum on the forehead.

Verbalization and Visualization are also two aspects of right and left brain potentialities. Both can co-exist. IQ, EQ and SQ can and should, all live together happily.

(The other day, one boy I was giving healing to had something on his t-shirt that made me giggle: My IQ test came back, negative.)

How come some students score well and others just don't? Knowingly or unknowingly, the toppers are using some tricks to memorize, to internalize. One of them is being aware in class. Concentration is not the same as Awareness. Interest in the subject is what spurs the quantum leap into information going straight into the permanent memory tank.

Interest is nothing but a heightened sense of awareness. Causeless excitement. I have never ever imagined, in my wildest fantasies, that excitement and studies can go together. That I can study with my whole body. That I can be alive in each cell, because thats where our Intelligence is. I learn t how to study.

Some of us have had a tough time with certain subjects. In fact, I have had a tough time with school itself.

'Healing the educational trauma' was one meditation in the programme where we forgive all our teachers, parents and relatives for forcing us to go to a prison for children called the school.

I am not exaggerating. Watch how kids burst out of classrooms as soon as the bell rings. Civilization is all about taming the wild instincts of men. 'Dont run! Dont shout! Dont talk!'

Strictness about the uniform is one thing I still cant stand. 'Why have you applied henna? It is against the rules. Your shoes are not white enough.'

All these and more facts make studies a burden. This meditation separates the two associations and really, my childhood changed its hues and shades.

On my way back from QMP, I asked the teacher if he used the techniques on his son.
'My boy is quite unclutched from his studies, so I don't bother him. The day he asks me how to memorize, I will tell him. Till then, let him be.'

And boy, this was such a releif to me. I used to worry that Pavan does not answer my 'what did you learn in school today ?' question because he does not pay attention in class. Not so. In fact, it is a very positive, very blissfull attitude. As Swami would say, he is uncluched. Let him be. Let him play. Let him be blissfull.'

Is a star a rock?

Tring tring!

'Hello Papa. How are you?'

(I call my hubby Papa, after the Indian tradition :) )

'I need a singing teacher. ASAP!' he says, from Delhi.

'For whom?' I ask.

'For me. I want to learn to sing. Properly. Find me a teacher. Someone who can teach me Indian Classical Music. I don't want to learn South Indian singing. I want Hindustani Classical Music teacher.'

'Ok, ok, I will find someone. I am happy you want to do something other than work. This is indeed an auspicious sign. May I ask why, suddenly?'

'Because I want to become a rock star!'

Edited to add: I got permission to reveal this on the blog because I assured him that this way we will surely find the singing teacher. So if anyone has heard a harmonium around Sanjay Nagar, or somewhere in Bangalore, please tell. Fast. A rock is to become a Star!

Synchronicity

How tempted I am to write that I took this picture. The deeper truth beneath the lie would be that I would love to have the courage to hold a camera when a cobra is worshiping the lingam.

This post is a salaam to the cobra who had the courage to continue its love affair in spite of a camera. This can happen only in India. :)

(Click on the picture and then increase your viwing size to see the snakes hood clearly.)

Below is the story:

Miracle on January 15, 2010 – Solar Eclipse day:

This Naga Serpent has been regularly visiting the Siva Idol for the last three Sooriya Grahanams. (Solar eclipses). The priest and some locals had arranged for a photographer a few months back during Sooriya Grahanam. In fact, they had kept milk offering also for the Naga. But the snake did not appear on the day. On this particular Grahanam day when the priest opened the Sanctum Sanctorum he saw the snake on the top of the Siva Linga idol. He immediately called Mr. Thenappan the photographer who lives in Thrunagesvaram a kilo meter from this village. Meantime a dozen or more people including my house caretaker had assembled to witness this miracle. In front of their eyes the Naga went back to the "Vilwa tree" plucked the leaves and came back all the way to drop it on the Siva Linga. All these have been photographed by Mr. Thenappan.

It may be pertinent to note that many of the residents of this Agaraharm are named Nagarajan or Nagalingam for a few generations as I know. In fact my original / Sarman is Nagarajan because of this tradition. Interestingly, the ruling deity of
the temple in Thirunagesvaram (Raghu Sthalam - 1 Km from this village) is named Naganatha Swamy and that temple has a separate big Raghu Sanadhi with His two Consorts. Perhaps there is a divine link between all these facts and
happenings.

Nithya Spiritual healing

In the last post, I wrote the effect, but here I write the cause.

The kids in my class seem crazy, don't they? Something is happening to them. They are falling in love.

Half of them come home everyday for a few minutes of healing. Right after school is over, I hear a thunder as some twenty pairs of shoes tumble up the steps to my place.

A few of them attend the thirty five minutes of Nithya Dhyaan (a guided meditation designed by Swami Nithyananda) that is done at home during the satsang every Wednesday. Their mothers are shocked that they can sit in one place that long. Frankly speaking, so am I. I sometimes have to swallow Vicks cough drops, as I get hoarse from shouting at them to keep quiet in the classroom. But sit they do, in the semi dark, and the energy in the home is so beautiful those days. I am in the zone for hours after words.

Here is a video which has a scientific explanation of healing. Do watch it, it will blow your mind.

Swami and English grammar

Ever since I took five of my class five students to meet Paramhamsa Nithyananda, they have infused the entire class with Swami fervor.

'Good morning, children!'

'Nithyanandam, Miss!'

'Oh, ok, Nithyanandam. Please sit down. Today...'

'Today can you tell us one more story from Swami's life, Miss?'

'No, kids, I cannot tell you stories everyday. Today, we will write a letter.'

'Can we write a letter to Swami, Miss?'

'Well, sure, why not? You all have to write a letter to your Mother, or Father or Grandparent or Swami or God.'

'Ok, Miss. What shall we write Miss?'

'Write about your deepest desire. Write with the firm conviction that your desires will be fulfilled.'

'Miss, Can I write to God to give me the power to fight with my brother?'

'As long as its grammatically correct, you can write anything you want. Its between you and Him.'

'Thank you, Miss. Miss, you are too good, Miss.'

'Thank you for the compliment, darling. You are a cute little thing yourself. Ok, lets start writing. I hope you guys know the difference between a letter and an essay? A letter is direct speech, a long one sided dialogue in which you address the subject. You are not to write a lecture, for that would be an essay. Is that clear?'

'Yes, Miss. Miss, if I write a nice letter, and if it is grammatically correct, will you show it to Swami Nithyananda Miss?'

(next post: the letters to Swami)

Creative writing workshop on 13th and 14th February

Soulpen: Writing for happiness

How do I define creative writing? All our lives, we write for others, because writing is a means of communication. However, writing can also be used to communicate with ourselves, to find out who we are. Before it becomes an art, writing is intrinsically a therapeutic process. It can heal our uncertainties.

Creative writing, therefore, is that writing in which the writer is more important than the reader. It is a beautiful process of turning within.

The next creative writing workshop is scheduled in February.

Timing:

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th February, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm (both days).

Fees: Rs. 1,000/

Venue: Times of India, MG road, Bangalore

Eligibility: Preferably over 18yrs old and a love for writing or reading or both.

Focus: The aim of the workshop is to fuel the love of writing towards an intense and natural discipline. It will help the beginner as well as the writer who is stuck in the middle of a book.

Call : 9945192862

Here is the feedback of the last batch at TOI.

Flow chart:

Why do we write? Because we need to tell the story.
As toddlers, we were all creative with the use of words. The neighbor who had a dog was bowwow. The little boy who played cricket was katakata. The kite which flew in the sky was whoosh.
When we started pre-school, our talents grew to huge proportions. We came back home and told granny, 'Today I climbed a duck. Tomorrow our teacher is going to die. So school will be closed.'
And then the devil struck. We were given a pencil and a rubber and asked to memorize spellings and all the love for words and thoughts was lost with the wind.

This workshop will erase whatever scars our education inflicted on our imagination.
We will write and read out and no one will laugh.

We shall begin with an exercise, a ritual for overcoming the writers block, or to get started. Participants will be given blank papers, with a manageable word limit. Lap tops will not be needed.

We shall do more exercises to stretch the mind and work the writing muscle.

The class will read out a couple of their favorite short stories and we will analyze the story-line and compare it to the structure. Then we will work on a short story structure. To begin with, we will write a short story with a straight narrative, and then we will play with the structure.

Those who have a story in mind will write their on their own. Others can follow a guideline.

Everyone has a novel inside. Lets write ours. How does one write a novel? The masala formula. Or, the nine rasas.

The kind of education we have had, the information overload, the media inputs, have made intellectual zombies out of us. We think with our brains, not with our minds.

Which is why, the first step is to become aware of what 'rasa' one goes through when writing something. Writing is a lonely job. Words have to become alive, they have to gain the power, a power more intense than a human ear, a sense of fulfillment more satisfying than an orgasm.

Where do novels come from? What is the essence of the novel?

Characterization: The back bone of story telling. Class will read out the characters and discuss their difficulties in creating an imaginary human being from words.

Exercises: Three different approaches to creating your character.

The purpose of all these exercises will be for all the participants to complete a short story.

And to fuel the love of writing towards a natural and intense discipline of sitting with a pen and paper.

Call me at 9945192862 for registering.


Author's profile :

I am a recently published novelist of A Grasshopper's Pilgrimage. This book should be available in most of the Crosswords and Landmarks. You can read reviews of this book on this blog. Just type the title in the search box.

I am also a film maker. I was trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune in Film Editing. I have made several documentary films, and taught the various aspects of film making at NID (National Institute of Design), Ahemedabad and also at the FTII. I have conducted a creative writing workshop at the Srishti School of Art and Design last year.

I write for the creative outlet, deep fulfillment and clarity of mind that sometimes comes as a gift with a good session of writing.

Five point someone and 3 idiots

Everyone from good friends to the kids in my class told me that I must watch 3 idiots. It has a message, they said.

What, I asked.

We should do what we love to do, success will follow, they said.

Now, any person who has spent time writing a novel does not need a movie to tell her this. In fact, she still does things she loves to, and doesn't care if success follows or will follow or lag behind and take a different turn.

But the hype was too much. The controversy too unnerving.

Chetan Bhagat is one of my favorite writers. And I don't think his writing is simplistic, I find a lot of depth in his books.

In his latest book, Two States, the conflict is resolved when the parents get together and accept their children's love for each other, across two states.

During the wedding ceremony, the father of the bride is questioned by a gossip monger, ' Youngsters these days, they make their own decisions, and we feel so left out from their lives, isn't it ?'

Dad replies, 'I don't see it that way. The love they give each other, that capacity to love another human being, is in fact an extension of our love for them, isn't it?'

I found this overflowing with healing, for it works both ways.

Coming back to 3 idiots, I could not enjoy the movie. I happen to be trained in film making, and the book is too alive within me, as a film and as a book. Comparisons are inevitable, the barefoot on car brake too unforgettable an image to be sacrificed.

Actually, the problem is not changing a few scenes here and there. Rajkumar Hirani took the soul-flow out of the book, and just used the carcass. If he has so much talent, why could he not furnish a new backbone for his story?

Why is integrity so out of fashion in the film industry?

I am so heartbroken that I dont have the words to console Chetan Bhagat.

Eat, pray, love

A big fat book. I realized, among other things, that I have stopped reading fiction. I wonder why? Is it because I spend too much time in meditation, etc? Am I guarding my mind from bad company? ;)

Or is it because I wrote fiction and know how truly fiction is basically a non-extant entity: everything is true, at different levels. And truth is one big endless blog. One can write it, in parts, but who on earth can read a blog that just goes on and on?

Eat pray love is a novel written by Elizabeth Gilbert. The cover is a nice white texture, almost like Khadi. The word 'eat' is written with grated cheese, 'pray' is made of rudraksha beads, and 'love' is of course flowers.

I was told to read this book, about six months ago, by someone who read mine. 'It is very similar,' he said. A few months later, I caught an article which mentioned that Julia Roberts has come to India to star in a movie based on the same book.

So, it was my duty to buy and to read this. And now, it is also my duty to review it. Ok, let me get the jealous bit out. Nope, I am not jealous because this book is a big hit.

My jealousy goes into deeper waters. The seeker in the book is a far more intense character than me. She taps into a higher self while she is crying her heart out, traumatized by a failed marriage. In other words, she meets God the hard way. I have had it so easy. My tears are mostly made of the same stuff as bliss.

Two, she wakes up every morning in an ashram I frequented, at 3:30 am (!) to meditate and to pray. And I am still struggling with two alarms on my mobile that my husband snaps shut without my awareness.

Three, she does not grasshop. She stays put in one ashram in India for six complete months. Not only does she survive it, the reader doesn't get bored either. How this grasshopper wishes she could have been a turtle too.

And four, she has a contract, from a publisher, to seek, to eat, to pray, to love, to travel the world for two years and then to write a book about her travels!

Now that the green stuff is out, let me get to the review.

Eat is interesting, pray is beautiful, love is interesting.

She got to me, when she scrubbed the floors of a temple. A temple I recognized. A temple I prayed to, for devotion. I could kiss her hands for that.

How beautiful, that devotees meet each other in books, on temple floors and wipe each other's tears.

Paramhamsa Nithyananda in Mumbai on 26th Jan

'I will meet him but....' said my good friend to me when I met him in Tiru, 'I will meet your Swami, since he has had such a deep impact on you, but....

He has to touch my heart, something has to happen here (points to himself), only then will I accept him.

For you, I will only meet him...'

'By all means, ' I replied, overflowing with joy. 'Just meet him once. I will let you know when you can come to Bangalore.'

'I am not coming to Bangalore, ' said my friend. ' Send him to meet me in Mumbai,' he joked.

I was about to say get lost, but Swami intervened. 'I am going to Mumbai,' he told me. 'Just inform him, and remind him, to not forget his heart. I also like to meet the dilwalas.'

So here is my personal invitation to all you mumbaivaasis, don't miss this bus. Here is my personal experience of the same programme one and a half years ago.

Kalpataru on 26 Jan 2010

PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA, An Enlightened Master of 21^st century, In Mumbai on 26^th Jan, 2010, Conducting two sessions & individual blessing to all.

VENUE: Kalidas Natya Mandir, Mulund (W).

TIMINGS: 7.30am – 7.30pm

FOR REGISTRATION: 9920050336, 9321931798.

(Do Not miss the opportunity of being in the energy field of an Enlightened Master)

This program helps one to live a conflict free life by empowering from within through the vital energies of Shakti, Budhi, Mukti & Yukti.

Nithya Yoga at home

Add life to your movements. - Swami Nithyananda.

For so long I have been wanting to experience Swami Nithyanandas Patanjali style of Yoga. I did get a little taste of it during the FIMT classes, but how much can you learn with hundred others in the same space, and within an hour? But even that was so amazing, it got me on the zone, of living in the moment, for a couple of weeks.

So its with great pleasure that I announce that a qualified yoga acharya will be coming home (Sanjay Nagar, Bangalore) for eight days starting 27th Jan, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm (yup, I know the timing is strange, but it was the only one I got; she is one busy lady). This crash course in Nithya Yoga costs Rs.1000/.

Apart from Yoga, this will also teach us to remain hungry till 2:35 !

I am about to go put up this info on posters around the place, but in case anyone living close by is online, and interested do call: 9945192865.

Call quick, for, as they say, limited mats!

Here is the color of the carrot:

Nithya Yoga- Sculpting the body for jeevan mukthi… Living Enlightenment!

Nithya Yoga, a system cognized by Paramahamsa Nithyananda, throws new light on Patanjali’s Raja yoga.

Every technique employed in the classes is practiced with the strong understanding that we are totally in the body, completely physical.

The moment we start our practice with that understanding, we bring in intensity and awareness to whatever we do.

When we start with this intelligence, we start uniting the body and breath and simultaneously bring down our inner chatter or the number of unconscious thoughts per second.This has a tremendous effect on our unconscious zone.

Faulty perceptions are cleared, engraved memories or samskaras are melted and energy blocks are removed. There is a complete harmonious flow in what we think, perceive and do.

The purpose of Nithya yoga is to live the life of jeevan mukthi - to sculpt the body to experience, sustain and radiate the ultimate energy of consciousness- living enlightenment.

My boy is no 1

After all these years of 'learn for fun, and We don't care for your rank' ideology that I seriously believed in, when my son came first in the science exhibition at school, I had tears in my eyes.

He made a temple with thermo-col in which the Lord Ganesh has a light and a fan that can be switched on and off! It took us three days of experimentation, four lights, four batteries, five sheets of thermo-col, a switch and a motor to finally arrive at the temple.

The execution was done mostly by Thomas Uncle, but the idea and the force behind the endeavor was Pavdu's! I am so proud of him!