What is Nithya Yoga ?
Nithya Yoga is a complete system of yoga leading the practitioner to living in the space of the highest possibilities in life. Developed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM from his direct experiences, Nithya Yoga is based on the authentic, ancient Vedic scriptures of yoga.
Nithya Yoga brings to life the system of yoga as Patanjali expressed in his revelations to the world in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Nithya Yoga also brings to life the sacred teachings of yoga from the Shiva Sutras and Bhagavad Gita updated by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and expressed in twenty-first century English for easy understanding and practice.
Nithya Yoga practice brings more than just physical and mental health. "Nithya Yoga is not just a body-building workout. It is muscle-memory and bio-memory building workout!" (THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM). All the patterns of thinking, responses to life and emotions that you accumulate and continue to accumulate, are "muscle-memory". Memories that stay in you and make you continuously respond in the same pattern unconsciously, again and again, are "bio-memory". If you function on just bio-memories, you are living in bondage. It is important to build the right muscle memories and bio-memories. Nithya Yoga helps with that process.
The practice of Nithya Yoga encompasses not only the traditional practices of asana and pranayama, but also the practice of Saptanga yoga, developed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM based on the authentic Vedic scriptures. Saptanga Yoga emphasizes "intranalyzing" or manana, looking inwards to uncover the inadequate cognitions and unconscious thought patterns, feelings and responses from the past that one still carries about the self, life and others. These thought patterns and emotions cause powerlessness, conflicts and feelings of being stuck in life. They are called incompletions. Through intranalyzing or manana, incompletions are brought to awareness, completion and discarded, which builds the right muscle and bio-memories.
Nithya Yoga is a profound transformation tool to create a yogic body and a Vedic mind. The practice shows you a new way of thinking and living life. A yogic body is one that is well built, healthy, flexible, graceful and joyful. It is a body awakened to its peak capacity. A Vedic mind is one that practices liberated thinking, analyzing, finding solutions and expressing itself from the space of ultimate possibility.
Nithya Yoga incorporates all five of the main paths of yoga - Hatha Yoga, Jnana yoga, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga and Bhakti Yoga. Daily practice of asana and pranayama techniques from Hatha Yoga builds build strong, flexible yogic bodies that do not tire easily. The practice harmonizes the body and mind bringing enhanced clarity and intelligence. Listening to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's discourses and daily practice of completion bring a clarity about self and life that removes the layers of delusion and fantasy separating us from Advaitha. Saptanga yoga emphasizes the importance of enriching people and helping to cause their reality. The expansion, which comes from continuously enriching self and others to the highest possibility, leads to the space of living Advaitha where you will effortlessly and spontaneously live and radiate the qualities espoused in Ashtanga yoga. Nithya Yoga starts and ends with the chant of gratitude and acknowledgement of the divine bringing the component. of devotion and sacredness into the practice.
Cosmic truths
The Founder of Nithya Yoga
In mid-2005, in a small hut called the Laughing Temple in Bidadi, Bharat, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM revealed some of the deepest truths and secrets of yoga to a small group of devotees. This was the birth of Nithya Yoga, which has evolved until the present time and is still evolving. Nithya Yoga is not a new yoga system. It is a rebirth of the traditional system that has its roots in the tradition of Patanjali, the Father of Yoga.
Paramahamsa was born on January 1st 1978 in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, Bharat. From the age of 3 up to 14 years, he studied and practiced under the care of a great yogi, Yogiraj Yogananda Puri, also lovingly called Raghupathi Yogi. He was the teacher responsible for preparing the young THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's body and mind for the experience of enlightenment through time tested yoga techniques and the practice of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
While sitting at the feet of the holy Arunachala Hill in Tiruvannamalai, the 12 year old THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM had a profound spiritual experience - a glimpse of enlightenment. After this experience, his longing to pursue the spiritual path greatly intensified. For years, he practiced intense meditation, wandered all over Bharat during his parivrajaka (spiritual wanderings), and finally became stabilized in the state of enlightenment or eternal bliss - THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.
With a special love for Temples and Sacred Arts, Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated a global mission to revive the Great Vedic Tradition and share the inner science of enlightenment with the world. He established the headquarters of his international mission, near Bangalore, Bharat.
The role of the Guru
Guru in Sanskrit means, remover of darkness and ignorance. Guru removes the mental blocks and obstacles that stand in the way of your awareness and realization of your true Self. The shastra pramana (sacred scriptures) repeatedly mention the need for a guru.
Gurus use different ways to remove the mental blocks from disciples. These ways include personal guidance, instructions, teaching and scolding. Regardless of the method used, the goal is to raise the disciple to a state of higher awareness. The guru resides in the highest state of awareness and consciousness, so he is able to see where the disciple is stuck. It is essential that the guru be a true guru, one who is fully enlightened and with the highest vision. It is said that the guru appears in your life when the time is right.
There is a great need for an authentic, living master who can impart and most importantly, transmit the knowledge and experience of superconsciousness. All of the ancient scriptures such as the Brahma Sutras, Shiva Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika and including the more recent masters like Paramahamsa Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi and Paramahansa Yogananda, all stress the importance of the guru's guidance as a vital component of any spiritual path.
Your nature is Bliss; you are Complete. What blocks you from experiencing it?
Your true nature is one of bliss, sat-chit-ananda (being-consciousness-bliss). But you forget this truth as you grow up and start searching for happiness or bliss outside, thinking material possessions, money, gourmet food and new relationships will bring back this bliss. They do bring a short-lived happiness, but do not bring lasting happiness. The only way out of this vicious cycle of chasing after bliss on the outside is to start looking inwards, and questioning your understanding of the self, and your beliefs about others and life.
With whatever intention, thought, or emotion you move your body, that experience gets deeply recorded into your muscle memory.
When you consciously bring awareness to your thoughts, feelings and inner space, and consciously create the space of positivity and possibility through visualization, that space becomes your muscle memory. When it happens continuously, it becomes your bio-memory and your very life. By this process, the body holds the highest energy frequency of positivity and possibility.
The mind creates the body
This truth which was known by the ancient yogis is becoming more widely accepted by today's scientists. Try this simple experiment - think about a sour orange or something sour you have tasted. Spontaneously, you will see that you salivate in response to the thought. This is just a simple example of how the mind affects the body.
Emotions that are experienced repeatedly and intensely have a strong impact on the body. Different glands in the body release different chemicals in response to particular emotions. Over time, the constant release of these hormones creates an imbalance in the body leading to what is called disease. Negative emotions like anger and frustration trigger particularly toxic hormonal cascades in the body which show up at the cellular level and also becomes physically visible. What is the facial expression of someone who is constantly angry? What is the physical posture of someone who feels the burden of life? In comparison, what is the body language of someone who has full confidence and feels joy in life?
Every cell of our body is constantly replaced by new cells
This is a well-known fact in the scientific community. Over the course of a few years, every organ in your body is practically a new one! This has been proven in modern day allopathic medical science and described in Ayurveda, the ancient holistic system of medicine from the Vedic Tradition.
If new cells are being created, but you carry the same mind, you will carry the same disease in the new cells and in the new body!
You are responsible for carrying the old diseases. By its very nature, your whole being wants to experience fulfilment, joy and bliss. But unconsciously, you keep bringing back the same pain and suffering by connecting your past memories with future projections to the present moment. You never live in the present moment. Some part of the past or future is always with you, affecting how you think, feel and move.
An example is that if you think that you have had headaches continuously for the last 10 years, you will expect to have the same headache tomorrow as well. This is how your bio memory takes shape. This is how the mind creates the body. It remembers negative events and makes them into a chain or sequence that it continually re-writes into the future.
Nithya Yoga is for everyone
This is irrespective of age, culture, religion, fitness level and flexibility.
Yoga is now - Atha Yoganusaasanam
In one of his sutras, Patanjali says, "Atha Yoganusaasanam" - "now starts yoga". Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains: "Yoga is now. Come to now, this moment, and yoga will happen in you. Come down from your dreams and fantasies and enter into reality."