In Gratitude🔗

This account of Nithyananda's life is a labor of love and gratitude. The words flowed from the Master. The writing work that went in was only to put these words down on paper, or as in this case, in Word documents in laptops.

It is said that the sage Vyasa narrated the great Hindu epic Mahabharata and that Lord Ganesha wrote it down without a pause. In the case of Nithyananda's biography, unlike the Mahabharata, there was no need really for a Ganesha to transcribe the Master's own Vyasa-like renderings. In this day and age, recording and transcribing gadgets with appropriate voice recognition software could have easily done the job. It was the Master's compassion and love that allowed us to be instruments and partners in this creative process. We feel deep gratitude for the boundless compassion of our dear Master. What we absorbed during this process was immeasurable and could not have been imbibed in any other way. The process was truly one of deep meditation.

This is a biographical account of a unique Master. His persona transcends all classifications of nationalities, cultures, religions, political affiliations or social status. Most importantly, He is a Master who transcends any attempt to frame Him, whether as a Master, or as a friend, or as a mother, or as a child, or as a beloved. He is mercurial, forever changing and keeps us flexible too. He lives with us in form and in his formless energy, sharing His love, joy, energy and laughter. His appeal is universal and his message timeless.

Throughout this introduction, the Master's name will appear as nithyananda – in lower case - when talking about him in his pre-enlightenment period. This is deliberate, not an error of proof reading! Referring to Him with a capital H is also not a typo! Nor is it a ploy to confuse the reader. A Master, the Master, according to Hindu scriptures is the same energy as the Divine; in fact He is greater than the Divine.

Hindu scriptures say that even whatever the Creator has determined for us can be erased and rewritten by the little toe of the Master. To Him, that Divine energy, we bow!

The entire purpose of Nithyananda's life is to lead people spiritually upwards and transform them into blissful beings, un-clutched from the play of the mind and centered in their core within. This volume, which offers glimpses of His biography, has many soul-stirring events, which have ignited and are continuing to ignite transformation and fulfillment in many. It is presented with the hope of inspiring one to pursue his teachings and techniques. These are really formulae to put one into the state of Nithyananda - which literally means Eternal Bliss!

A scientist is one who creates a formula to reproduce for others the same experience that he had in the outer world.

A Master is one who creates a formula to reproduce for others the same experience that he had in the inner world.

This volume, the first in a series, is written to present to the readers glimpses of the life of a revolutionary Master who continues to touch and transform millions of lives, who presents life solutions through formulae from His own experience of the Ultimate Truth.

In this first volume of Nithyananda's biography, His birth and childhood are covered. This book ends at the point when He leaves home for a life of sannyas. In later volumes that will be written in the months to come, details of His parivrajaka life (days of wandering), His enlightenment, and a few years after His enlightenment when the mission was born, will be covered.

As He says, 'Reading or listening to a Master's life story is an invaluable meditation that can simply put you into the deep experience behind the words.'

If you can keep an open and curious mind, as that of a child, neither accepting nor rejecting, but just letting the words flow into your Being, if you can open yourself to the exploration and experience as a curious child would, you will discover that the following pages are exciting discoveries of your own Self.

We intend that this book, an account of the life of an enlightened Master, serves as a source of inspiration for the readers to delve deep into the inner self and creates awareness about their own purpose in life.