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Last week, I spent an extraordinary 8-day Teachers Training program for kids in the Bidadi ashram of my Master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji). This trip was originally planned for July but it got postponed to October due to some family events. It turned out to be the best decision for me because everything happened so beautifully as a result of the delayed gratification and completion with family!
The moment I entered into the gate of the ashram after midnight, there was a sense of home-coming after being away for 2 years. The smell of the air was so fresh and divine. The Kalabhairava (Lord of Time) deity greeted me at the guardhouse and I offered my respect to the Lord of Time. Everything made me feel so welcome by the Guru’s grace. It was easy for me to immediately assimilate into the spiritual routine in the ashram – starting with 4 am yoga practice followed by 6 am Paduka Puja/Nithya Kirtan (Offer of gratitude and Devotional dance) and then 7 am Nithya Satsang (discourse). Thanks to the days of training in Inner Awakening program which helped me to settle into the pulse of the ashram life.
I thought my sole purpose of this trip was to attend the teachers training called Nithya Dhyaan Yoga for kids but what I didn’t expect was the surprises that awaited me.
The first pleasant surprise was the opportunity to volunteer in the kids programme called Kalpataru for kids which was to assist the children in the practice of 3rd eye awakening and conduct a yoga practice. There were over 80 children from Tamil Nadu and some were from the villages. They were so fascinated by someone which is of a different race taking the class. Their space was so innocence and beautiful.
The second wonderful surprise was the amount of time I got to spend with Nithyananda Gurukul kids and experienced their powerful space of possibility. The Gurukul kids are literally a living enlightened master’s extension, they live and breathe the Guru’s teaching and bio memory. They radiate such extraordinary presence and confidence as well as a complete surrender to the Master. I was given a chance to teach them morning yoga for five days, had several interactive sessions with them to catch their space and find out life living around the Master.
All the Gurukul children had their Third Eye awakened i.e. the awakening of the inner intelligence by the living incarnation that enables them to open up new possibilities in their lives. The Third Eye is represented in the space between the two eyebrows. It is the portal through which one can connect to the rest of the Universe. This connection is the basis of all yogic powers that any human being can express.
One Gurukul child shared with us about her experience in reading the message in Swamiji’s inner space during Kumbha Mela (a spiritual gathering in September). At first, she didn’t know how this could be done. But just by her sheer trust and surrender to the Guru, the words appeared in her inner space. Her experience just gave me such a big click that it is only with deep trust and surrender to the Master that miracles can happen. This is such a precious direct experience, something I would like to transmit to the kids.
Another fascinating experience was their ability to scan the body for any disease or health problem using the Third Eye power. They happily did a body scan for our group and correctly identified the body issues and energy block of each participant. We were totally flabbergasted!
What struck me was their powerful space and trust in the master which can cause miracles in Nature such as an ability to make the rose plants drop its thorns, to get the mango trees to bear more mangoes which are low-hanging, an ability to manifest the turtles as their pet and to cause rain just by doing Rudra homa (a fire ritual). Fundamentally, these kids are living in a divine plane where their lives are designed for enriching the world. The Gurukul (Vedic school) is like an incubator for these extraordinary beings to flower into divine beings under the direct guidance of a living incarnation. I can’t imagine when these children grow up, the kind of conscious waves of transformation they will create on planet earth. Amazing! The more time I spent with them, the more joy and bliss I experienced in their presence.
One thought which came to me – If many more kids in the world can experience this powerful space and confidence, the collective consciousness of the world will experience a quantum shift to enlightened consciousness – Satya Yuga. One thing for sure – I am going to be part of this reality! How excited I am!
In essence, spending time in the Guru’s home is tantamount to entering into a totally different plane of existence – the Guru’s garbha (Cosmic womb). Many great things happen just by His divine’s grace! I look forward to the next trip when He calls again. Namaste 😀
Do you know how to go beyond negative emotions such as anger, depression, greed or fear?
I’ve learned a very powerful technique from a living enlightened master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda which enables me to liberate myself from negative emotions. He said that “There is a truth from Vedanta i.e. whenever some emotions happen within your system, it is like a shower of rain that happens in your being. There are particular cells that catch these emotions. For example, the first time anger is showered on us, if we are affected for 10 mins, then the next time it will become 20 mins. By the third time, it will be 30 mins. This is how the emotion becomes stronger and stronger when we cooperate with these negative emotions in our being and we create the same type of mood in us again and again. Not only will the emotion get recorded in us, we will express the same thing on others like our kids and people whom we work with.“
Why is this so?
Since the basic quality of life is reproduction and expansion, this is the survival instinct governed by the 2nd chakra (swadhisthana) – the fear energy center within our body. Reproduction is governed by the 1st chakra (mooladhara) – the sex energy center in our body. Both these energy centers are closely connected.
By the law of nature, the cells that catch the anger emotion will start reproducing and each cell creates another 5-6 more cells. Next time, when the anger shower happens in you, all these new cells will catch the same emotion and becomes the size of the original cells. Now, they will also start reproducing. By the 3rd time when the anger shower happens again, all these cells catch the emotion and start storing it. This is why every time when we are showered with the same emotion, it becomes stronger and we lose control of that emotion.
When a particular negative emotion rises in you, just don’t cooperate with it. Let your body not go behind that emotion whether it is anger, irritation or depression or lust or fear or anything. Within 3 or 4 times, you will be liberated from that emotion. You will have the key now in your hand – how not to be taken away but that emotion? How to be centered in your Self? Whether it is anger or fear or greed, it gets more power only if your body also cooperates with it. With whatever emotion your body moves, that emotion gets recorded inside your system. And that emotion will become much more intense.
People think that life runs on fear and greed. Mahavira, a great enlightened Jain master from India says that “When you come to planet earth, you bring enough energy to fulfil all your desires. You already have enough fuel. You always think – if I stop fuelling myself with fear and greed, I may stop working.”
The truth is we have enough potential energy to maintain ourselves and achieve what we want in life without fear and greed. We just need to trust that we don’t need fear or greed to run our life. There is already a reserve of fuel within us, we just need to learn how to tap into this endless energy source through spiritual knowledge and practices. Namaste 😀
Do you feel frustrated when your child does not listen to you? Are you having trouble understanding your child? Do you wish to have deep communion with your child?
Many parents and caretakers are not aware of the truth that children (age of 7 years old and below) respond to the space you hold for them. So the first thing that parents, teachers or caretakers need to know is that children live in the space of a child – a space of pure awareness and possibility without thinking, judgment and loads of the past. If you have the right understanding, you will begin to learn how to move into the child’s space and relate with them. It is only when both meet in the space of a child that communication can happen. When both child and parents are in the space of completion, a beautiful communion between both parties happens.
After the initiation of the Shivoham Inner Awakening in last December by my master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji), experientially I am able to work with children from the space of completion. From my personal experience after having worked with children for the last 4 years in Nithyananda Bala Vidyalaya and now in Nithyananda Weekend Gurukul, I discovered the miraculous power of space. As a teacher, when I hold a strong space of possibility for them, they simply respond to the space and start transforming.