About The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (SPH)🔗

His Divine Holiness Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam is Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (SPH) and the reviver of KAILASA – the ancient enlightened civilization, the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. HDH is an Avatar as per Hinduism and is the Supreme Pontiff (Jagadguru Mahasannidhanam) of Hinduism.

His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam represents the last lamp of a Hindu civilization nearly exterminated over the course of a thousand years of invasion, occupation, persecution, and genocide. He is single-handedly reviving the authentic teachings, rituals, culture

01 Authentic Hinduism

A Comprehensive Science of Enlightenment: Hinduism as revealed in the Vedas and Agamas offers mankind a perfected science for attaining the state, space, being, superconsciousness and powers of Paramashiva, the Adi Guru of humanity. By rediscovering and revealing orthodox Hinduism as described in its source scriptures, SPH is demonstrating its relevance to the world and its potential to transform humans into divine beings capable of achieving superconsciousness and manifesting extraordinary powers.

SPH initiating a disciple

02 Gurukul Education

Indigenous Hindu Education System: The gurukul, or traditional Hindu residential school, was the very backbone of Hindu civilization. Open to all members of Indian society, it offered a nurturing, nature-based environment where the guru could guide and train his students in both worldly arts (e.g., mathematics, literature, and martial arts) and spiritual arts (e.g., yoga, meditation, and power manifestation). The gurukul system was the key mechanism for knowledge transmission and preservation in Hindu civilization. SPH has established the world's only gurukul that is completely aligned to the original teachings of the Vedas and Agamas.

SPH conducting a class at the Nithyananda Gurukul in Bengaluru Adheenam

03 Preserving Scriptures

Collecting and Preserving Hinduism's Sacred Scriptures: Of the 10 million sacred scriptures produced over 5000 years of Hindu civilization, 80% have been lost to Muslim invaders and European colonial forces bent on wiping out the 'heathen', 'infidel' Hindu religion. SPH has established the Nithyananda Jnanalaya, the world's largest Hindu library where Hindu religious books and palm leaves have been collected from all across India to be translated, copied, digitized, distributed, and preserved for future generations.

Palm leaf scriptures undergoing restoration at the Nithyananda Jnanalaya in Bengaluru Adheenam

04 Sacred Arts

Preserving Hindu Temple Art and Architecture: Hindu temples and the deities, sculptures, paintings, and jewelry contained therein are unsurpassed marvels of art and engineering. Unfortunately, much of the skills and know-how to produce traditional Hindu art per the Agamas has been lost due to temple destruction, heavy temple taxation and economic and legal restrictions that have ravaged indigenous artisan communities. SPH has established a large scale sacred arts facility in Bengaluru Adheenam where Hindu arts and artifacts are collected and preserved from all over India, artisans are trained, and deities and other artwork are produced for distribution to Hindu temples in 33 countries.

Sacred Arts facility at Bengaluru Adheenam

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05 Temple Rituals

Reviving Hindu Temple Rituals as a Lifestyle: Modern Hindus tend to dismiss ancient traditions such as pujas, homas, and abhishekhams as mere rituals. SPH has explained that Vedic worship or rituals are a collection of powerful transformative meditation techniques designed to connect the participant with the divine and experience intense bliss. Vedic rituals, when performed with the proper context and devotion, are outwardly beautiful and can directly put you in-tune with the universal energy or God. One of SPH's core missions is to reestablish the importance of rituals as a daily lifestyle for Hindus.

Sanyaasi performing Rudrabhishekham

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06 Authentic Yoga

Restoring Yoga's Spiritual and Cultural Heritage: Authentic Yoga was revealed by Sadashiva himself in order to give humanity the techniques to develop the physique and physiology to manifest the superconscious state and express extraordinary powers. Modern Yoga is merely a diluted form of physical exercise with little connection to its Hindu roots beyond a few Sanksrit terms for asanas. SPH has rediscovered the original Yoga taught by Sadashiva grounded in the Shastra Pramana, or Agamic scriptural references, and designed to give the practitioner the experience of superconsciousness.

Yoga acharya performing Shivastambha (pole yoga) in Bengaluru Adheenam

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07 Rudrakanyas

Sacred Women of Hinduism: Rudrakanyas were trained dancers who dedicated their lives to cultivating the 64 indigenous Hindu arts and devotedly serving the Gods residing in their local temple. Forsaking a traditional family life, they were the ultimate embodiment of beauty and chastity. Heavy taxation of temples as well as scandalous colonial narratives by British authorities destroyed the rudrakanya community and they are now remembered as little more than salacious court dancers. SPH has reestablished the rudrakanya sampradaya and its members have dedicated their lives to preserving and cultivating traditional Hindu arts.

Rudrakanyas performing traditional dance in Bengaluru Adheenam

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08 Female Empowerment

Elevating the Role of Women: The Sanyaas Sampradaya (monastic order) established by SPH is unique in that it freely ordains women and allows women to perform temple rituals. Moreover, women constitute the majority of the senior leadership in SPH's mission, thereby establishing his vision of Hinduism as not just orthodox, but also highly progressive and committed to gender equality.

Female monks performing dance as ritual in temple

09 LGBTQ Rights

A Culture of LGBTQ Inclusiveness: SPH has revealed that the Agama scriptures recognize eleven genders and prescribe specific temple rituals to solemnize gay marriage, which is otherwise considered taboo in mainstream Hinduism. Moreover, he has declared that he himself transcends gender and consequently suffered vicious persecution for his bold progressive stance on LGBTQ issues. By rooting the legitimacy of gays, lesbians and transgendered people in ancient Hindu scriptures, he is single-handedly changing the LGBTQ discourse in India.

SPH in traditional Hindu female clothing

“I want the whole world to know, Hindus have something great to contribute to the world. We have something great to contribute to the world...let us do That.” -The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (SPH) Jagat Guru Mahasannidhanam (JGM) His Divine Holiness (HDH) Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (SPH), Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam has been trained since birth by the Enlightened Masters of Thiruvannamalai (one of the last remaining indigenous Hindu ecosystems) for the sake of reviving the indigenous knowledge-based tradition called Hinduism.

Alongside this - recovering the lost knowledge, literatures, and lifestyles which are being destroyed over centuries of relentless persecution and genocide.

Through the revival of KAILASA, the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam aims not only to revive this Ancient Civilization, but also through this to serve all kinds of people, from every walk of life

16771 kailasas around the world (de facto spiritual embassies of kailasa)

120 temples

25 e-kailasas