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DEEKSHAS & CEREMONIES

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  • Initiations for better living
A group of people in orange robes sitting on a stage with a central figure in the middle.

“Initiation from a Master is allowing him to work in your inner space to cause that quantum transformation in you which tunes you to the higher frequencies of consciousness.”

  • Paramahamsa

For those wishing to be initiated into the different paths of life, Paramahamsa bestows upon them appropriate initiations that will put them on the right path in the inner and outer worlds.

Initiating different groups of people as acharyas, brahmacharis and gurukul students

Initiating different groups
of people as acharyas,
brahmacharis and gurukul
students

Brahmacharyam

Charya means 'living' and Brahma means 'Existence'. Brahmacharyam is living like Existence. The word Brahmacharyam is not synonymous with celibacy. Celibacy is a part of the vows of Brahmacharya.

Living like Existence means living with 'Truth, Consciousness and Bliss', with tremendous independence, clarity and high energy. Whenever you are caught in fear or greed, you do not see reality as it is. The moment you bring 'I' and 'mine' into the mind, you reduce people to mere matter. Brahmacharyam is living without fear and greed and any feeling of 'I' and 'mine'. - Paramahamsa

Ceremony with a throne and disciples

The Brahmacharyam program is an alchemy process at the end of which, one is initiated as a brahmachari of the Nithyananda Order. It creates a strong will in each individual to follow the path of Brahmacharyam, to the Ultimate Truth.

Group of people sitting in a hall

Maheshwara Puja

Maheshwara puja is an offering to Existence while remembering the departed ones. By offering food to the ordained brahmacharis and sannyasis, who are considered to be mediums of Existence by virtue of their initiation, a family offers food to its own ancestors. Periodically, devotees offer this puja to Paramahamsa and his order of monks.

Poorna Sannyas

Those whom the Master feels are ready to take an advanced step in the spiritual path, he initiates into poorna sannyas.

Vanaprastha Sannyas

Married couples who feel the need to take their next step in their spiritual path get initiated as Vanaprastha sannyasis of the Nithyananda Order. Through this initiation, they take a quantum leap towards the Master and the Ultimate Consciousness.

Ashramite initiation

Becoming an ashramite at any of
Paramahamsa's ashrams is like
taking a direct leap into his arms,
surrendering to his malleable
fingers that cause total
transformation. It is like taking a
rebirth without carrying through
any emotional baggage from the
past, with a renewed attitude
towards life and living. Families
and singles are initiated into this
loving community fostering
spirituality in every sphere of their
life. Out of sheer gratitude for the
Master, this community takes on
responsibilities of practicing and
spreading inner bliss through the
Master's teachings.

Ashramite initiation
Mukti Dham

Mukti Dham

At the ashram, Paramahamsa
ceremoniously cremates
departed souls at Mukti
Dham. Having the last rites
done by a Master himself is
indeed a rare gift in one's
cycle of life and death.

Nithya Spiritual Healing initiation

From time to time, many seekers voluntarily take initiation into the path of Nithya Spiritual Healing. They are ordained as healers and offer many hours of unconditional service to mankind, providing energy healing for various ailments.

Nithya Spiritual Healing initiation

Fire Walking as a Meditation

Fire Walking as a Meditation
Nithyananda order of monks

Nithyananda order of monks ordained at the Los Angeles ashram, USA. The group was later initiated into Kaashaya Sannyas.

Acharyas

After an intense training program, disciples are ordained as acharyas - teachers - who blissfully reach out to the world at large, Paramahamsa's words of profound and practical wisdom. Combining his knowledge and techniques, acharyas cause revolutionary growth in individuals around the globe.

Gurukul initiation

Paramahamsa himself initiates children into becoming students of the Nithyananda Gurukul. He takes them into his fold of joyful learning, as his own children. The children of Nithyananda Gurukul learn and grow together without the pressures of outer world schooling.

Gayatri Initiation and Upanayanam

Paramahamsa bestows the Gayatri initiation, the oldest method of initiation to children, through a prayer to the Cosmic Intelligence to kindle the inner intelligence to be their guiding Light. It is a reminder to the child to live a chaste life until he enters into marriage.

Upanayanam is putting on a sacred white thread on children before they attain physical maturity. The thread is a reminder to the individual that the purpose of their life is to realize the Ultimate Truth.

Gayatri initiation

Vidyarambham

This initiation is given to a child to formally start his education with the blessings and guidance of the Guru. Paramahamsa performs the Vidyarti homa and initiates children into this.

Marriages

Marriage ceremony

Paramahamsa brings back to life the underlying truths of marriage as defined in the Vedas. He explains that two people come together in marriage to help each other complete the cycle of life by exhausting each others' accumulated karmas. This is the basic essence of marriage as explained in the ancient scriptures. He reiterates this beautiful and sacred unity of man and woman through marriage by conducting marriage ceremonies in accordance with Vedic principles and understanding.

Marriage ceremony

Naamakaran

Paramahamsa says, ‘Your name is like a coat hanger on which you hang your personality. When you hold it consciously, it can show you your right path where your energy will expand and your being will blossom.’

For those wishing to be blessed with a new name from Paramahamsa, he bestows upon them a spiritual name based on the nature of their being. This will serve as a compass in their life.

Naming ceremony

Anna Prasanna

This is a significant initiation for an infant wherein he is given the first mouthful of solid food, cooked rice. Paramahamsa performs this initiation for babies of devotees from time to time.

Paramahamsa feeding an infant
Paramahamsa teaching about chakras

Explaining the chakras - vital energy centers in the body - at the Brahmacharya program, Bangalore ashram, India

Lighting the funeral pyre

Lighting the pyre cremation
of Sri Sri Sri Arunachalananda
Swami, Father of Nithyananda
in his birth place of
Tiruvannamalai.

Poornabhisheka initiation

Poornabhisheka - A powerful initiation where the Master pours holy water on the disciple, and initiating him into integrating the body, mind and spirit

Mediums

Paramahamsa periodically initiates disciples into being his own mediums. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the Master's channel of energy, this initiation steers the individual to profound experiences at the being level.

Portrait of Nithyananda

Formless in form, Intelligence infinite, Healing miracle, manifest Ecstasy, a rare Gem, we bow down with devotion at your lotus feet and seek to merge unto You.

In deep love and awe Blessed ones from Canada

Group photo in Canada