The Declaration of Sannyas🔗

Yogananda Puri was one of the greatest yogacharyas from Paramahamsa Nithyananda's life. The Avatar remembers him as the "The yogi who made me a yogi." From the age of four years old, Yogananda Puri trained The Avatar's body. He was the one who witnessed the first declaration of Sannyas made by Paramahamsa Nithyananda well before any other child has even given a thought about his future. Yogananda Puri once asked him, "Which do you want to be? Sannyas? Or grihasta?"

Rolling his shoulders back and puffing his small chest out, he responded, "Sannyas!"

Yogananda Puri put a hand on his head for a few seconds.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda described his reaction, "After two-three days, I asked, 'Did you purify my brain to give a sannyas life?'

He said, 'I just increased the frequency to seeking, that's all.' He said, 'Just the seeking becomes powerful, all good would become your bio memory.'

The Avatar with his brothers at a young age. He is on the far left.

For the hundreds of Sannyasis that Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated and the lakhs that he will in the future, he prescribed the same. He said, "Anyone struggling with any vow of Sannyas - brahmacharya, and aparigraha, or asteya- you're seeking is not intense! Or, if you're struggling with integrity, or inauthenticity, irresponsibility, selfishness, it just boils down to only one: not having enough seeking. Just increase the intensity of seeking. Yogananda Puri just put his left hand on my head and touched some of the points on my brain, like he was playing with the head. The ecstasy and pleasure increased in the system..." Paramahamsa Nithyananda looked up at the ceiling of the hall as he recalled this with a wide smile on his face, shaking his head slightly as if he was speaking about an incredible love affair. He finished with "just unimaginable"

At one of Yogi Ramsuratkumar's satsangs, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is seated in the back intently listening.