His name is

Nithyananda...'I am not here to prove I am GodI am here to prove you are God!'

928 Huntington Dr,Duarte,Los AngelesCA 91010

Ph.: 626-205-3286Email: la.ashram@nithyananda.orgWebsite: www.nithyananda.org

USA

NithyanandapuriKallugopahalliMysore RoadBidadi, Bangalore District - 562 109

Office: (+91) +80 56691844 / 7202085Fax: (+91) +80 7288207

For healing:Email: healing@nithyananda.orgFor enquiries or blessings:Email: mail@nithyananda.orgWebsite: www.nithyananda.org

Sri Ananda Rajarajeshwari TempleNithyananda GiriPashambanda Sathamrai VillageShamshabad MandalRangareddy District -

Office: (+91) 93470 65288

Dhyanapeetam

Karnataka, INDIA.

Dhyanapeetam

Andhra PradeshINDIA

501 218

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Life is for transformation;not for knowledge

-Nithyananda

The meditation technique(s) included in this book are meant to be practiced

only after personal instructions by an ordained teacher of Nithyananda

Foundation, through any of the meditation programs. It is not advised that a

person who has not yet attended one of these programs, try these techniques.

If some one does try these techniques without prior participation in the

meditation programs of the Foundation, they shall be doing so entirely at

their own risk; neither the author nor Nithyananda Foundation shall be

responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Published by Nithyananda Foundation, Bangalore, India

Copyright© 2006First Edition: May 2006

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by anymechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of aphonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system,transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use withoutpermission in writing from Nithyananda Foundation. In the event that youuse any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and thepublisher assume no responsibility for your actions.All proceeds from the sales of this book go towards supporting NithyanandaFoundation's charitable activities.

Printed in India by W. Q. Judge Press, Bangalore, India

A Vision that has come to beA Mission that is the Master key

To take one from mind to no-mindTo bring bliss to all of mankind

Be blissful !

The sacred banyan tree - Ashram, Bangalore, India

The meditation technique(s) included in this book are meant to be practiced

only after personal instructions by an ordained teacher of Nithyananda

Foundation, through any of the meditation programs. It is not advised that a

person who has not yet attended one of these programs, try these techniques.

If some one does try these techniques without prior participation in the

meditation programs of the Foundation, they shall be doing so entirely at

their own risk; neither the author nor Nithyananda Foundation shall be

responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Published by Nithyananda Foundation, Bangalore, India

Copyright© 2006First Edition: May 2006

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by anymechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of aphonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system,transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use withoutpermission in writing from Nithyananda Foundation. In the event that youuse any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and thepublisher assume no responsibility for your actions.All proceeds from the sales of this book go towards supporting NithyanandaFoundation's charitable activities.

Printed in India by W. Q. Judge Press, Bangalore, India

A Vision that has come to beA Mission that is the Master key

To take one from mind to no-mindTo bring bliss to all of mankind

Be blissful !

The sacred banyan tree - Ashram, Bangalore, India

An introduction to the vision and the mission...

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Nithyananda is an enlightened Master andmodern mystic amidst us today. He is on amission to re-establish the science of innerbliss on planet Earth.

Born in Thiruvannamalai, South India, andenduring years of intense penance,through single-minded pursuit, heexperienced inner bliss.

Nithyananda’s spiritual quest started seamlessly at a young age. Atthe age of 12, he had his first deep spiritual experience. At 17,he left home on a journey of self-realization and wandered thelength and breadth of India and Nepal. He studied Yoga, Tantraand other Eastern metaphysical Sciences and had many profoundspiritual experiences. Of the 30,000 km that he covered visitinggreat shrines and practicing intense meditation, over 2,000 km hecovered by foot.

By intense study and deep meditation, he has emerged as aninspiring personality for millions of people worldwide. As a resultof deep spiritual experiences, he has formulated a Technology ofBliss to explode the Individual Consciousness, to awaken man tothe divinity and bliss within.

Through powerful words and simple meditation techniques, heprovides life solutions to individuals. Scores of people around the worldhave experienced radical transformation in short periods of time.

He says, ‘Meditation is the master key that can bring success inthe material world and deep fulfillment in your space within’.

He devises numerous meditation techniques for every conceivabletype of man to experience inner silence and outer peace. Tohelp touch base with oneself is the core of his mission.

An Introduction

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Nithyananda Foundation is his worldwide movement formeditation. Nithyananda Meditation Academy (NMA) is the namegiven to the Foundation’s institutions worldwide. First establishedin Bangalore, India, and second in Los Angeles, USA, these twoacademies serve as the Eastern and Western hemisphereheadquarters worldwide.

The NMA Bangalore, India…

Enlightened Masters radiate and instillthe Existential energy around them.This is why radical transformationhappens by their mere presence.

Nestling among low hills and spreadover several acres of land, the ashram(as it is referred to in India), is

resonant withthe energyradiated by the Master. Exuding mysticism andequipped with modern amenities, this is aspace where mere existence is meditation!

Thousands have experienced healing at thephysical and mental levels by just being inthis energy field.

The energy hub of the ashram is a sacredbanyan tree. Revealed to the Master in hisvision and worshipped as the guiding spirit ofthe ashram, this sacred banyan encloses aspace resonant with the Existential energy.Nithyananda says, ‘This space is like an

airstrip for the spirit to soar and experience the profundity ofExistence itself’.

The NMA - Los Angeles, USA…

The Western Hemisphere headquarters in Los Angeles, inauguratedin Sep 2005, organizes and conducts the Master’s world tours and

Ananda Sabha - meditationhall, NMA - Bangalore, India

Lord Anandeshwar -The primeval Guruunder the sacredbanyan - NMA -Bangalore, India

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carries forth his message to the restof the world.

• A Nithyananda International Yogaand Meditation University (NIYMU)

• A grand Meditation hall pulsatingwith the cosmic energy

• A Temple of Sanathana Dharma(Hinduism) where Existence iscelebrated through worship

are some of the planned activities for the upcoming phase here.

The future…

With time-tested Vedic inputs and modern technology, theNithyananda Meditation Academies are spiritual laboratories whereinner growth is profound and outer growth, incidental. Fromsmall beginnings, these academies are envisioned to be a placeand space to explore and explode, through a host of activities,from meditation to science. They offer Quantum Spirituality wherematerial and spiritual worlds merge and create blissful living;where creative intelligence stems from deep Consciousness.

In the pipeline are a host of projects at the various academiesworldwide, as well as new academies coming up, to provideservices in varied fields to humanity at large.

Established in the year 2003 and now spanning 21 countries, theNithyananda Foundation continues to transform humanity throughtransformation of the individual.

Nithya spiritual healing and meditation

Healing is restoring physical and mental health. There are sevenenergy centres in our body called chakras. They have a deeprelationship with our physical, mental and emotional well-being.Due to our emotions or internal disturbances, if any one of thesechakras gets disturbed, disease prevails. Different diseases are

NMA - Los Angeles, USA

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associated with different emotions and therefore with differentchakras. If you can activate or energise the chakras by ameditation technique, you can free yourself from disease.

Nithyananda says, ‘The attitude of meditating creates positivevibrations, which heals.’

Nithya spiritual healing is a method of chakra-based healing prayerthrough meditation. Nithya spiritual healers are those initiated intothis science of healing, who offer this free healing service tohumanity at large.

Meditation programs

Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) / Life Bliss Program (LBP)- Energize yourself!

The ASP or LBP is a chakra meditation camp.

It introduces us to the 7 vital energycenters in our body called thechakras, whose functioning has adirect bearing upon our physical andmental well-being.

It explains the direct relationshipbetween our emotions and theseenergy centers.

This meditation camp promises:

• Effective handling of emotions

• Better clarity and a positive mental setup

• Better interpersonal relationships

• Renewed and inspired attitude towards work

• A blissful life

There is a similar such program designed for students, referred toas student ASP or student LBP.

Meditation in progress- Ashram, Bangalore, India

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Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP)- Death demystified!

Death is the mystery of all mysteries.Our idea and fear of death pervadesevery moment of our lives andcreates conflicting emotions in us. Wesimply miss out on the art of realliving because of this.

This program clearly explains whathappens at the time of death. It draws the relation between ourcreated emotions of desire, fear, guilt, pain and pleasure with theseven energy bodies in us. It explains how each of theseemotions arises from one of these seven bodies and how theywork upon the departing soul as it crosses each of them.

It brings to surface all our conscious and unconscious emotionsthat have been accumulated over the past lives, so we may befree from their clutches.

It is like a complete spiritual bath to be reborn, equipped withthe technique to live and leave joyously with astoundingawareness.

Shakti Spurana Program (SSP)- Cleanse yourself!

This meditation program gives us aninsight into the 3 energy bodies in usthat are the physical, subtle andcausal bodies.

Suppressed emotions, unfulfilleddesires, restlessness, nervousness,lethargy and similar such emotionsassociated with these 3 energy bodiesare dealt with.

It offers solutions and techniques to kindle the inner intelligenceto liberate ourselves from these emotions.

Meditation in progress- Guadeloupe, FWI

Enlightenment intensivemeditation program -

Ashram Bangalore, India

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Atma Spurana Program (ATSP)- Connect with your Self

Man is an integral part of Existence. When he realizes thisexperientially, he is enlightened.

This meditation program describes the five body sheaths calledkoshas that stand in the way of man realising this truth. It offerstechniques that pull our awareness through these sheaths toreach the Self.

Bhakti Spurana Program (BSP)- Enrich your emotional Being

Over passing years, the mind hastaken over the being. Humanity hasfallen victim to the futility of theintellect. The emotional being suffersas a result of this.

Bhakti or devotion is the language ofthe being. It is supreme love towardsExistence or God. It frees us frombase emotions, bringing equanimity of the mind and deepfulfillment. It fulfills our wants and takes us beyond them. Manyhave attained enlightenment through the ways of bhakti.

The Bhakti Spurana Program is a 4-day program that unfolds thepath of devotion to the modern man. It steers us from intellect tothe being, from mundane worship to sheer intimacy - with theDivine.

Nithyanandam- Enlightenment intensive

This is a 15-day intense meditation camp; a unique and first everoffering of the technology of Bliss or Nithyanandam. All keys tothe ‘Experience of Enlightenment’, are handed over in totality. Thisis an opportunity to go beyond body and mind and experiencepure Consciousness.

Meditation program- St.Louis, USA

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Dhyana Spurana Program- Mind is a myth; realize and

liberate!

Your mind is nothing but a collectionof your thoughts. By nature, yourthoughts are unconnected,independent and illogical. But you tryto connect all these thoughts andcreate suffering for yourself. Themoment you realize that yourthoughts are unconnected and

independent, you drop your mind and become un-clutched. Themoment you drop your mind, you are liberated.

The Dhyana Spurana Program is a meditation program, that helpsyou drop your mind and remain centered in pure Consciousness.

Arogya Spurana Program and meditation therapy- be healthy!

Arogya or Good Health is not just an absence of disease, it is apositive well-beingness.

The Arogya Spurana Program is an intense meditation camp, on theintegrated science of body, mind and spirit. It is an opportunity tounderstand that our body is not just a bio-mechanism but one thathas its roots in deep Consciousness and Intelligence.

The Arogya Spurana Meditation therapy is a health and healingprogram that takes you through meditation and healing besidescreating a new mental setup attuned towards a positive well-beingness.

Nithya Spiritual healing initiation- become a healer!

The Nithya Spiritual healing initiation is a scientific process bywhich you are initiated in the Ananda Gandha chakra to become

A session under the sacredbanyan - Ashram,Bangalore, India

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a channel for the Divine Energy toflow through you to heal others. Itworks on the principle that Energy isIntelligence. The uniqueness of this isthat, it not only stimulates healing inthe patient but also helps in yourown spiritual growth. Outwardly it ishealing and inwardly it is meditation.

There are numerous other meditationprograms being continuously worked out for the mind, body andspirit for youth and adults alike.

Ananda Yogam

Ananda Yogam is a free one-yearresidential program for youth between18 and 30 years of age. With its rootsin the Eastern system of Mysticism andVedic learning, this program is toempower the modern youth with

• Vocational skills

• Success Formulae and deeper Truths for life

• Healing, meditation and yoga for overall well-being

• The capacity to actualize one’s entire potential

• Creative intelligence and spontaneity

This program creates a clear and sound mental makeup in everyindividual. It unleashes the untapped and infinite capacity within,to excel in the outer world while remaining centered within. Itinstills in one, the essence of the ancient Vedic principles and themodern system of Logic. It creates individuals with a capacity tobe economically and spiritually stable.

Healing initiation -Houston, USA

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Above all, it is a lifetime opportunityto live and learn under the tutelageof an enlightened Master. TheFoundation invites youth to be a partof this transforming experience.

Nithyananda Gurukul

Nithyananda Gurukul is the loving space for children to learn andgrow, and become wonderful energies of love and compassion.

It creates a space for self-transformationwhere education is transmission of wisdom,not just knowledge. It protects and developsthe innate intelligence of the child. It createsa fearless approach to life and learning.

Life at the Gurukul is as challenging as isjoyful. The children here grow to beresponsible individuals, well learned andcapable of facing the toughest challenges oflife, centered deeply within.

Little Anandas

Nithyananda says, ‘Every child is like aflower waiting to bloom and radiate itsunique beauty and fragrance.Facilitating this is the sole work ofeducation.’

Little Anandas is a program designedfor children. It offers exposure to awide range of activities like music, dance, art, meditation and more,to open out the creativity, spontaneity and sensitivity in children.The children are facilitated to be well centered, while participatingwholly in any activity outside.

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Science and Spirituality

Nithyananda works with doctors andscientists world-over to record andanalyze the mystic phenomenathrough modern technology. He iscontinuing to intrigue the world ofmedical science with results from thestudy of his own neurological system.From the results recorded, scientistsare compelled to declare that thehuman mind can choose to heal thehuman body…

Following is a brief summary of a research report from scientistsand doctors in USA.

Feb 2004 – Research by Oklahoma City’s finest and mostexperienced physicians, neuropsychologists and researchers of theJim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Neuropsychology Department andthe PET Center of Oklahoma.

Key observations:

• The activity in the frontal lobes ofhis brain, which are associated withthe functions of intelligence,attention, wisdom and judgment, werefound to be six over times higher thanany average individual.

• While in deep meditation, themesial frontal areas lighted up, causingsuggestive medical proof of thepresence of the Third eye, as is spoken of in the ancient Vedas.

• Through measurement of his brain waves, it was evident that hehad complete control of his mind at all times, unlike ordinaryhumans.

With the research team atthe Jim Thorpe

Rehabilitation Center -Oklahoma, USA

Research in progress

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• The state of no-mind was tangible through the administered tests.

• The state of permanent and heightened bliss was evident throughreleased chemicals in the body.

The team concluded: For the first time in our century, science hashopefully found a key to supernormal and paranormal phenomena,with sound medical evidence that explains why the spiritually super-evolved are blessed with ‘powers’ that the rest of us can onlydream about.

The Mahamantra Meditation Technique

The Mahamantra meditation is an ancientTibetan Buddhist technique to awaken theAnahata chakra, located at the heart center.This meditation makes your mind firm andstable. It creates a good energy flow in you.

While doing this meditation you may wearyour mala around your neck. It will serve tostore the energy that you create duringmeditation.

It should be done on an empty stomach,preferably early morning, or two hours after any meal. It can bedone either alone or as a group. When done as a group, iteffectively energizes the place where it is done.

Part ISit cross-legged in a comfortable position on the floor, or in achair, with the head, neck and spine in a straight line.

Close your eyes, and harden the eyeballs with mental pressureand try to be with no thoughts.

Keep your lips together and produce the sound ‘Mmmm…’ frominside.

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This humming should be as lengthy as possible before taking thenext breath. It should also be as deep as possible, from the navelcenter, and as loud as possible.

Don’t make an effort to take in a deep breath after every‘Mmmm’; the body itself will take breaths when needed. Don’tbecome tense.

Put in your whole Being and energy into creating this vibration.Just become the humming. Let your whole body be filled with thevibration of the humming.

At the end of 20 minutes, stop the humming. If you are playingthe cassette, you will hear ‘Stop!’ and you stop as you are,abruptly.

Part IIAfter stopping the humming, keep your eyes closed and remainsilent and inactive for 10 minutes with a smiling face and blissfulmood.

If any thought comes to you, let it come. Simply watch your mindas if you are watching the television, without resisting yourthoughts or passing any judgment on them.

Remain silent and blissful. During this time, the energy created bythe 20 minutes of humming will enter all the corners of yourBeing and cleanse it deeply.

Be blissful!

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The Master’s words…

Be un-clutched, be blissful!

Man by his very nature is an un-clutched andblissful Being. What do we mean by the termun-clutched?

Let me explain:

Every thought that arises in us is like abubble that forms, rises and dies. Everythought independently rises and dies beforethe next thought comes up. For example, ifyou are sitting in a chair and suddenly get

up, the moment you have decided to get up, that moment thethought of sitting has left you. So every thought is unconnectedand happens in series, one after the other. One thought has todie before the next one comes up. This is our true nature.

Our true nature is to renounce thoughts every passing moment. Bythe word renounce, I mean simply allowing each thought to riselike a bubble and burst and allowing the next thought to rise.Our thoughts have only a vertical existence, like rising bubbles.

This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without tryingto connect them is what we mean by being un-clutched. As longas this natural process is allowed to happen, things are alright.

But what we do is, we start connecting these thoughts randomlyand forming a shaft. By doing this, we convert the vertical and un-clutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity.Here starts the whole problem. As long as each thought is allowedto rise and die, our Consciousness remains light and blissful.Once we start connecting the thoughts, our Consciousness suffersand we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our Being.

All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, egoand attention-need are purely because we find a connectionbetween independent incidents, between independent thoughts,

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and create a concept for ourselves and start relating with thatconcept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts and wesuffer because of this.

It is these emotions that create all forms of violence be itreligious wars, social conflicts or political unrest.

We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go,there is nothing else to hold on to. We have never experiencedan un-clutched state of mind where there is no shaft, there areonly bubble-like thoughts.

I tell you: Connecting thoughts is the Original Sin.

Living in an un-clutched fashion is the only way to a blissful living.Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that youwill not pass any judgment on any thought or any incident. Themoment you find yourself connecting, simply un-clutch from it;your mental setup will automatically be transformed.

When you work in an un-clutched fashion, you will find yourcapacity expanding; you will not experience mood swings betweenpain and pleasure; you will not experience ego clashes becauseego itself is a product of connecting thoughts and formingopinions about yourself and others; you will be blissful all thetime.

By the term un-clutched, I do not mean that you should be aloofand cold to people and situations around you. Try to understand:Just don’t connect your thoughts and start the process ofcreating shafts, that’s all.

Remember that you are a beautiful and un-clutched Being bynature; that is enough. You will stop creating misery for yourselfand for others.

Be Blissful!

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• Scores of people touchedthrough numerous meditationcamps world over

• Free discourses andspiritual gatherings organizedcontinuously world wide

• Free meditation campsorganized in rural areas forbetter living

• Lakhs of youth touchedand transformed throughmeditation, discourses,volunteership and one-yearfree residential programs.Building blocks donated toschools for learning in ruralareas

• Discourses and meditationcamps conducted in prisonsto transform extremistattitudes

Addressing the members ofthe Unitarian Church, Tulsa,

Oklahoma, USA - Apr '05

Discourse at MicrosoftCorporation, Seattle, USA -

April’ 05

Lord AnandaVenkateshwar -

Los Angeles, USA

Glimpses…

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• Revival of the ancientGurukul system of childrenlearning at the feet of theMaster, adapted to modernday technology

• Millions of people offeredrelief through free NithyaSpiritual Healing serviceworldwide

• Continued support toscientists and researchers tobridge science andspirituality

• The Master’s talks, music,and other energized itemsavailable through mobile andpermanent Ananda Galleria(Divine shops) worldwide

• Organised tours to theHimalayas and other sacredand high-energy places withthe Master

At the laughing temple -Ashram Bangalore, India

Little Anandas Program -Ashram Bangalore, India

In Malaysia - a warmwelcome - July '05

At the Oklahoma Medical BaptistCenter, OK, USA - Mar '05

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• Periodic initiation given tothose wishing sannyas,brahmacharya or otherspiritual initiation

• Hundreds of teacherstrained continuously by theMaster himself to carry forthhis message of meditationand bliss

• Wisdom from the Masterreached to millions throughlive interviews on radio andtelevision, international andlocal magazines andnewspapers

• Nithyanandam monthlyTamil magazine launched andpublished by the ashram tokeep people abreast of theorganizational activities. AnEnglish magazine to belaunched soon.

• Thousands of homes,visited and energized by theMaster himself

Discourse at Petrobras, one ofthe largest chemical

companies in Brazil, SouthAmerica - Jul '05

Meeting with Dr.CharlesTownes, Nobel Laureate forhis research on principles

underlying LASER and MASER- Mar '05

An interview at the RadioCaribbean International (RCI)station, Guadeloupe, FWI -

Oct '05

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• Spiritual leaders worldwideembraced to work towardsglobal peace and harmony

• Thousands of AnandaSevaks (blissful volunteers)offer service for self-transformation and benefit tosociety

• Growing number ofNithyananda Meditationacademies worldwide

• Status of Non-profitorganization acquired fromthe Government of theUnited States of America

Teachers' training program- North of San Francisco,

USA May '05

Trip to the Himalayas- June ’05

Warm reception - Vancouver,Canada - April ’06

Ananda sevaks (blissfulvolunteers) at work...

Ananda Rajarajeshwari - themain deity at the ashram in

Hyderbad, India

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Ananda Sutras…- Techniques for bliss

Ananda Sutras are not just wordsfrom the Master. They are techniquesthat can directly reveal our inherent

blissful nature to us.

Morality…

Morality is never to be self-imposed;it should flower from pure inner

intelligence.

Service…

Do service for the joy that it gives!

Sympathy Vs. Empathy…

Sympathy is an expression of ego;empathy is an expression of pure love.

Defending or Offending?

Defending is what gives rise tooffending. If every country is

defending itself, then who is reallyoffending?

Violence starts with defence.

Reality…

Your partner can become yourbeloved if you are willing to seek

reality.

His name is

Nithyananda...'I am not here to prove I am GodI am here to prove you are God!'

928 Huntington Dr,Duarte,Los AngelesCA 91010

Ph.: 626-205-3286Email: la.ashram@nithyananda.orgWebsite: www.nithyananda.org

USA

NithyanandapuriKallugopahalliMysore RoadBidadi, Bangalore District - 562 109

Office: (+91) +80 56691844 / 7202085Fax: (+91) +80 7288207

For healing:Email: healing@nithyananda.orgFor enquiries or blessings:Email: mail@nithyananda.orgWebsite: www.nithyananda.org

Sri Ananda Rajarajeshwari TempleNithyananda GiriPashambanda Sathamrai VillageShamshabad MandalRangareddy District -

Office: (+91) 93470 65288

Dhyanapeetam

Karnataka, INDIA.

Dhyanapeetam

Andhra PradeshINDIA

501 218

Further Contacts:

Sydney, Australia:Vancouver, Canada:Singapore:Guadeloupe,(and also for France):

+612 0404082927+1 6046284479

+65 97383511

0590203697F.W.I.

Life is for transformation;not for knowledge

-Nithyananda