Wise men never wait expecting for good things to happen nor feel sad thinking about bad luck.🔗

Wise men will use their brains in all aspects of life and come out always with energy and enthusiasm.

Let's approach life with all enthusiasm! Very ordinary things in life will become lucky ones for us. All will begin to praise us with wonder that we are very lucky. The magic formula for 'GOOD-LUCK' is just this.

Become a lucky man by becoming the proud owner of all lucky things lying strewn around you, waiting to be picked up by you.

Nithyananda Swami is a trim, healthy-looking young man with dark, shoulder-length hair. Handsome and polite, possessing an open manner and a wealth of curiosity, he could be any ordinary American college student.

The difference is that ordinary American college students do not wear saffron robes and turbans, have not experienced spiritual enlightenment and are not regarded as a teacher, healer and mystic by millions of people in all corners of the world.

A mystic? The term is not a bad fit for the Master, as he is known. Mystics, popular culture tells us, have direct communion with God. Through means not understood or measurable, mystics are thought to have access to ultimate realities or truths. Picture a mystic and you will probably picture someone full of bliss, someone gifted with lofty thoughts and insights that the rest of us do not possess. The very presence of a mystic is thought to bring peace and healing to others.

That's an ant description of the Master, a 27 year-old from south Bharat. He is approached by thousands of people every year seeking relief from diseases and ailments that conventional medical approaches have not cured. His background also lends him the air of a mystic. He left his home as a teen, visited ashrams across Bharat, immersed himself in philosophy, read extensively and Mastered the art of meditation.

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MATTERS

When Master passed through Oklahoma City recently as one stop in his world travels. I asked him if he would let me use some of modern medicine's newest technology to peer into his brain while he meditated. My goal: to understand, measure and demystify what happens during the mystic phenomena. Master, who believes that meditation has a scientific basis, happily agreed.

The procedures the Master went through were administered by some of Oklahoma City's finest and most experienced physicians, neuropsychologists and researchers: Drs. Fordyce, Ruwe and Higgins of the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Neuropsychology Department and Dr. Chacko of the PET Center of Oklahoma. These doctors were using technology they use with patients on a routine basis. When they look at images obtained by their technology, they know what is and is not normal.

The results from testing Master? Decidedly not normal!

Annexure V

Imaging Brain Activity

Our first look into Master's brain was achieved with the help of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) device. Unlike traditional diagnostic techniques that produce images of the body's structure or anatomy such as X-rays, CT scans or MRI, PET produces images of the brain through the metabolic activity of the cells. An analog of glucose is attached to a radioactive PET tracer. The PET scanner then images the metabolically active brain areas at any given time.

In the case of the Master, the drug was intended to identify highly active areas of the brain in an alert and conscious state, in the early stages of meditation and during deep meditation.

The results of the PET scan tests were stunning. To begin with, the activity in the frontal lobes of Master's brain was sigmificantly heightened, even in early meditation stages. The level of activity was several times higher than would be seen in the average human brain under any conditions. The frontal lobes are associated with the functions of intelligence, attention, wisdom and judgment.

When we then asked the Master to go into the deepest meditation state, there were two more remarkable findings.

First, the dominant hemisphere of Master's brain was more than 90 per cent shut down. It was as if His brain had packed up and gone on vacation. It was quiet and still, completely at peace… and the Master had made it so at will.

A second amazing aspect of Master's deep meditation was that the lower portion of his mesial frontal areas lit up in a very significant way. This area roughly corresponds to the reputed location of the mystical 'third eye'.

When we later asked Master what he was doing when the mesial frontal areas lighted up, he said he was opening his third eye.

Associated with both cosmic and inner knowledge, and thought to be a place of clarity and peace, the Third Eye is considered by many to be the seat of the soul. Were we seeing an indication that deep meditation can open an area of the brain responsible for communicating with the divine. Iooking deep into the mysteries of Self or creation? I believe the PET scan revealed what I call the brain's 'D-spot'. Whether you consider the 'D' in D-spot to stand for delight, the Divine or even dopamine (the chemical through which our bodies experience pleasure), initial indications are that meditation can stimulate it.

Measuring Brainwaves

The second procedure we used to look into the Master's brain is known as Quantitative Electroencephalography or QEEG. QEEG measures electrical patterns in the brain, patterns commonly referred to as brainwaves.

There are four bandwidths of brainwaves, each different in speed, and each associated with a different state of mind. For instance, beta brainwaves are small and fast and linked with an awake, alert state of mind. Alpha brainwaves are slower and larger and are connected with feelings of well-being. Theta waves represent a state of consciousness that is close to sleep, a stage in which there is a sense of calmness and serenity without active thought.

In a day's time, most people will experience all four types of brainwaves. The progression from one bandwidth to another, though, is not so easily within their control.

From the Master's QEEG though, we can see that he has complete control over his brainwaves. When in deep meditation, his brain smoothly shifted from one state to another like a talented pianist playing the scales. There was no hesitation and no retreating, just continuous, fluid shifts from one type of brainwave to the next. Because the QEEG represents the five brainwave bandwidths as colors, it was as if we were watching the Master float from color to color within a rainbow!

Conclusions

The brain is the body's most complex organ, containing more than 100 billion neurons, each of them in chemical and electrical conversation with up to 10,000 other neurons. Its sheer capacity to process information is astonishing.

Remarkable, that complexity presents little difficulty for Master in managing his brain activity. Master's mind (his thoughts, emotions and intellect) control his brain. He can, in a very fluid, easy way, shift his brain function and alter his brainwaves.

More than answering questions, the voyage we took into the mystic brings intriguing questions for study:

Are there techniques we can learn and teach that will bring balance and peace into people's lives?

Can we invoke a healing response or accelerate healing through specific training? Can we learn techniques that will allow us to control pain or alter the course of a disease?

Can we learn to activate what I call our D-spot, thus putting us in instant connection to delight or the divine?

The results from our study of the Master are new pages in our world's growing book of research on the brain. There continue to be indications that the human mind may be able to choose to heal the body. We are now looking at the possibility of people learning and acquiring these healing capabilities, an event of immense benefit for humankind. The potential for altering the rates and progression of many diseases heart disease, cancer, arthritis, alcoholism and many others - is beginning to look achievable.

The Master is a bridge between the invisible, ancient world of mysticism and the modern, visible world of science and discovery. As brain research continues on a widespread basis, and as we appropriately bring the phenomena of mysticism into the realm of science for further study, we are taking strides on a path of hope and health.

Annexure II

Oh! Those Two Blissful Days!

Ananda Spurana Programme (ASP) was conducted by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM on 3ª and 4th of May, in Chennai. Kothai Achi, wife of S.A.P., founder, editor of Kumudam weekly, and Parvathi Nachiappan Achi, who attended the program, share their views here.

If we wish to be happy and joyful, leaving behind our worries due to various kinds of problems, we have to participate in the ASP program conducted by Master. He is conducting this program in places such as Bangalore, Tamilnadu and Mumbai.

It is one important condition that those who wish to learn from this program must stay at the location where it is conducted for the two days. If we accept this condition and go there, then it is bliss and bliss only all the way.

In the beginning of the classes. Master taught us to learn various things by integrating ourselves with our beings. It was written at the entrance to the class where we leave our footwear. 'Keep your mind and footwear outside.' That was surprising to us.

We could not understand at first why the Master was saying this. A new awakening came to us when He explained thus, 'We say a lot of useless Vedantha to our people. When there is already a lot of information in our brains, how are we to learn new things? We have to forget whatever we have learned wrongly, and then learn things afresh. That's why I have asked you to keep your minds outside. '

Soon after the Master entered, he said, 'All of you get introduced to one another, even if it be motherdaughter, husband-wife or relatives; introduction is a must."

On both the days when ASP classes were conducted, as Master went on talking, we were able to understand a lot of things very easily. We were surprised to see that whatever we were not able to understand. Master made us understand easily.

Whatever truths and messages had to be explained to us, the Master did it by means of telling us some small stories, incidents and some proverbs. On both days, as He was telling a lot of stories, we listened to Him like small children.

The Master explained wonderfully in the ASP classes about the functioning of the seven chakras in our bodies. 'Man is joyful when these seven chakras open up and when total energy is released from them. But, due to the presence of some negative qualities, these chakras get blocked and the energy flow gets obstructed and we suffer and struggle," said Master.

How to open up these chakras and what are the meditation techniques for that – these were taught by Master. The meditation techniques taught by Sri Nithyananda Swamiji are quite different from the ones taught by others.

For example, in one meditation, you have go on scolding. Master told us to scold those persons with whom we are angry, in such a language neither known to us, nor understood by anybody, like a dumb man blabbering something. When we did so, all the anger in our minds melted like ice and our minds became calm and quiet. Ah! How easily Master has unloaded the horrible burden of anger from our minds!

During all these meditations Master ties a white ribbon of cloth over our eyes.

Hence, nobody knows what the man sitting next to him is doing. There is no need to know that. We later understood that Master is adopting this technique only to make us do the meditations with full concentration.

It is the Master's order that the men attending the classes should wear white dhotis and in the case of ladies, white saris and white blouses. Ladies can have kumkum (red powder) on their foreheads, but not stickers. The reason for this is that agna chakra gets closed by doing so.

On the first day, the classes which commenced at 9 in the morning, ended at 1 AM in the night. However, we felt relaxed when we got breaks of ten minutes each, every now and then. We never felt tired.

Even after we returned in the night after the classes were over, we would not sleep. We were talking about what Master taught us that day. We had only a few hours of sleep. Again we started fresh the next morning. It was also the same the next day.

Master spoke with us; laughed; sang; danced. All were surprised to see him dance so well during the Shakti Darshan. Nobody knew where from their strength came, even 84-year-old people had joined Master in dancing. Ladies also danced with kolattam, kummi, (South Hindu folk dances) etc.

When the classes came to an end, our minds were without any confusion or worries, like a nice, crystalclear stream. The stress and strain which were torturing the mind and body were gone and we felt light like a paper floating on the air, like the feather of a pigeon.

We were overwhelmed to see the Master, who has changed us to this extent and we wondered as to how at this young age, he has so much of wisdom! That joy and wonder has not reduced even now. We were very happy to think how Master also danced along with us in the same way Lord Krishna played with the Gopikas (milkmaids). We wish to convey our heartfelt thanks to the Master.

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Annexure III

Services rendered by Dhyanapeetam

(Some information from the web-site)

(A.S.P) Ananda Spurana Programme has been conducted many times all over the world

(SSP) Sakthi Spurana Programme has been conducted in several places around the world

(N.S.P) Nithyananda Spurana Programme has been conducted several times and new spiritual names given as per the being levels of each person.

Many people have been touched by Sri Paramahamsa through `Healing by meditation.

Serials in the weeklies are being published: varattum" in Kumudam and "Unnaippaar… Vaazhvu valamagum" in Vaanambadi weekly of Malaysia.

Annexure IV

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Meditation camps and meditation seva programs

1. Ananda Spurana Programme (ASP)

ASP consists of a two-day meditation camp. This camp is conducted by means of seven discourses and 7 meditation techniques, taken from 7 different religions, for the 7 chakras (energy centers) in the body. These chakras, in which the body, mind and soul merge, are cleansed and energized.

2. Ananda Dhyana (AYP)

Along with 2 discourses on spirituality and meditation techniques, which have been proven scientifically, will be taught. This meditation camp is being conducted throughout the world by 50 acharyas who have been personally trained by Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda. How to live the worldly life more happily and joyfully is being taught.

3. Shakthi Spurana Meditation programme (SSP)

Scientific explanation and spiritual meditation techniques about the three types of bodies in man, viz. physical body, pranic body and causal body are being taught by acharvas (teachers) in this one-day meditation camp. By this we can discover experientially the energies and peace lying hidden within us.

4. Gnana Spurana (Meditation) camp (GSP I & II)

This is a one-day program for students, both boys and girls. In GSP I, wonders of the intricacy of memory, enhancing of reading capacity, increasing the understanding quality and practical and motivating meditation techniques are being taught by the acharyas.

In the GSP II program, explanations about the knowledge of the body and about emotions as well as the basic life education for shaping up the students' future life in a joyful manner, are being taught by the acharvas.

5. Nithyananda Spurana Programme (NSP)

Who is an enlightened Master? Where am I? – It is a four-day program conducted by Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda himself concerning these great spiritual principles based on the five 'koshas'(sheaths) within us.

6. Healers' Initiation.

After attending 2 ASP camps, for those who wish wholeheartedly to do Ananda Seva (healing service) for people, healers' initiation is given free of cost in the ashram.

7. Spiritual discourses.

Free spiritual discourses as well as meditation camps are being conducted by acharyas personally to such schools, colleges and associations which obtain prior permissions from the ashram.

8. Ananda Anubhav.

One year of free Gurukul education, Ananda education for those young men and women who are spiritually inclined and who have obtained their parent's permission also, are being conducted at Nithyanandapuri, Bangalore under the Gurukul education system along with free food, dress and residence.

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Dhyanapeetam

Dhyanapeetam is located at Bidadi on the Bangalore - Mysore Road in beautiful, natural and scenic surroundings.

In the ashram, services such as Dhyana healing, teaching of meditation and feeding the poor for free are being rendered.

Dhyana Healing.

The main reason for all sorts of diseases is that the energy contained in the seven chakras of our bodies does not properly reach our bodies.

Ananda Dhyana healers in Dhyanapeetam will find out and tell you which chakra out of the seven chakras is affected in you.

Based on the Vedas of the rishis, audio cassettes under the title 'Mantra Therapy' have been made, containing the healing vibrations specifically suited for each of the chakras.

Further, individually selected meditation techniques are taught freely in the Ashram.

The following have been formulated by Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda:

For the 7 chakras in our body - 7 separate meditations.

For the 7 subtle bodies within our body - 7 different meditations.

Specific meditations are taught to each of the patients depending upon the problems relating to his body. mind, and his qualities.

There are many, who, after undergoing the Dhyana healing properly and after becoming healed completely, exclaim with wonder, 'How is it that I have been healed so quickly!''

If you want to stay in the ashram and undergo the healing process, please register yourself a few days in advance, duly contacting Dhyanapeetam by telephone.

Because meditation corrects the energy deficiency, which is the root cause for all types of problems, whatever be the disease, meditation will give the relief from that.

Ananda Dhyana healing:

Ananda Dhyana healing is only that most modern healing method in which the deficiency of energy in the patient is corrected by giving the energy from within us.

This healing is being given at Dhyanapeetam on all the days around the year by the healers who have been personally taught by Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

The yogis do this holistic healing all through the year to all those who come with problems of body, mind and their qualities.

Those who stay in the ashram and take the healing, continuous healing is given by Ananda healers.

Healing energy environment.

It is rather sad that many are not at all aware of this spiritual truth.

The reason for the crowd of people being always present around rishis and enlightened Masters is only because of the Ananda energy field being released from and around them.

Ananda energy has the capacity to give peace. It has the healing capability.

In the same way as the magnetic field around a magnet attracts the iron by sending its magnetic attracting force to it, the Ananda energy field created by the enlightened Masters around them only attracts people around them. It heals people; it makes them joyful.

In the same way as an electric current can induce magnetism in a wrought iron piece and make it retain its magnetic powers, an enlightened Master can energize a specified area of land or a material. This is called 'PRANA PRATHISHTA'. It is possible for an enlightened Master to retain the Ananda energy continuously for a certain distance in an ordinary land. It is a subtle truth.

Nithyanandapuri, where Dhyanapeetam is located, is one such energized plot of land. This land is full of Ananda Energy. Staying for a few days in such land spaces which have been so energized is equivalent to remaining by the side of an enlightened Master. Staying for all the 24 hours in the midst of such energy flow will go beyond our minds and work inside our bodies.

Those who come as escorts along with patients ask me many times, 'I had a particular problem: I did not undergo any healing. But I have been cured. How is it possible?'

The answer is that there is no sort of magic or miracle in this. Whatever change occurs in you is entirely scientific. It can be easily understood.

Everybody has a deficiency of energy. When such a deficiency of energy remains in an energized area for 24 consecutive hours, it is totally filled up with energy.

Once the reason for a problem becomes all right, the problem is corrected. That is all.

Each one of you should experience such matters at least once in your life-time. You should enjoy the flow of energy atom by atom.

Meditations.

The following meditations are taught to the public in Dhyanapeetam. Those who want to learn meditations can do so after getting prior permission from the ashram:

• ❖ Mahamantra
• ❖ Dukha Haranaa
• や Glossolalia
• ゃ Death meditation
• ❖ Vishuddhi meditation
• ❖ Third-eye meditation
• Sahasrara meditation
• ಳ Sthoola sareera meditation
• Sukshma sareera meditation
• ಳಿ Kaarana sareera meditation
• ୍ଦି Sakthi Dharana
• ❖ Yanthra Dhyanam
• Dhyana seva.

Annadhana.

Feeding the poor, educational assistance for poor students and free medical aid are being done successfully by Dhyanapeetam.

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