Indigenous Knowledge Library🔗

Nobel Peace Laureate Nelson Mandela has said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Vedic Rishis (seers) have said that education is the most powerful weapon that can be used for peace or violence – a view shared by experts at UNICEF especially given the pattern of the weaponization of education in recent times.¹⁶³ It is therefore extremely crucial for human civilization to focus on peace education. For more than the last ten thousand years, peace education has been a primary focal point for indigenous Hindu literature. This is precisely why all primary indigenous Hindu scriptures start and end with powerful peace declarations such as the Upanishads.

Om Sahanaa Vavatu Sahanau Bhunaktu | Saha Veeryam Karavaavahai | Tejasvi Naavadheetamastu Maa Vidvishaavahai | Om Shantih Shantih Shantih Aum, May we both together be protected, may we both be nourished and enriched. May we both bring our hands together and work with great strength, energy, and enthusiasm. May our study and learning together illuminate both of us with the sharp absolute light of higher intelligence. So be it. May we both not mutually dispute, have enmity or hate each other. Let there be peace, peace, peace. (Let there be peace in my inner space, peace in nature, peace in divine forces)

~ Shanti Mantra (the peace invocation) for the second primary Upanishad – Kathopanishad ~

During the past ten thousand years, the larger South Asian sub-continent, has been a source of a phenomenal volume¹⁶⁴ of such peace literature with more than 100 million scriptures being in active use, of which only 20 million remain today with us. Several copies of these indigenous peace scriptures were destroyed by terrorists and tyrant invaders.

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“Centuries of history of discrimination, exploitation, dispossession, and colonization have led to the loss of traditional knowledge. Traditional knowledge is under threat and is being misused and misappropriated ... ”

“Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge has been developed over generations through daily life practices and a close understanding of local environments. It can offer valuable responses to climate change, food insecurity, reducing inequalities and other challenges that we are trying to resolve ... ”

[18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)](https://www.un.org)

KAILASA’s Nithyananda Hindu Library is one of the most important libraries and institutions of indigenous scriptures in the world. The library contains important indigenous Hindu manuscripts and archives related to the history of 56¹⁶⁵ indigenous Hindu nations of South Asia their politics, culture, art, literature, medicine, sciences, etc. It possesses over 70,000 titles in printed, soft, and palm-leaf manuscript forms.

These 56 Hindu nations have an important story to tell – the story of the Hindu Holocaust – the massacre of 400 million people¹⁶⁶ over the last few thousand years. The story of the suffering of the Hindus has an important message for mankind today – it helps us realize the tremendous progress we have made in front of human rights, and it awakens us to the tremendous opportunity we have towards achieving global peace. Nithyananda Hindu Library (Jnanalaya) is a very critical part of KAILASA’s mission towards realizing inner peace, societal peace, and global peace.

The two world wars taught us an important lesson – war, especially one of aggression is not a solution to any human problem. This realization encouraged the creation of a united European Union where erstwhile countries at war are today cooperating for peace and shared prosperity. The Mahabharata war that ended around 3200BCE¹⁶⁷ reminded the 56 indigenous Hindu nations of Asia of the important lesson of peaceful multilateralism – ‘वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्’ (Vasudeva Kutumbakam) – “Entire world is my family”.

https://archive.org/details/SaktisangamaTantraVolIIIGaekwadOrientalSeries/page/n83/mode/2up (ii) List of 56 nations https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H7OJADdrFjrdl8nR5KMuc7sJkG6zXOob0K6X5wbmBno/view

8194321301 (ii) Nilesh Oak estimates the period as 5561BCE, “When Did The Mahabharata War Happen?: The Mystery of Arundhati”, ISBN 0983034400

Only the denigrated small-minded with a very pathetic outlook of life discriminate between kin and a stranger; while for the magnanimous, the entire world is a family. (Maha Upanishad Ch. 6, verse 71-73.)

The Jewish Holocaust shook the world and reminded us that the entire world is indeed one family. Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel shares this wisdom, “What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled, we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs ... Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”¹⁶⁸

The message of indigenous people of the erstwhile 56 indigenous Hindu nations of South Asia is no different, it is this very same peace message of Elie Wiesel, Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane), Alfred Hermann Fried, and many others that KAILASA’s Nithyananda Hindu Library is preserving as it gives hope and strength to persevere, especially to the weakest and most vulnerable sections of the society that are disproportionately impacted during these difficult times of terrorism and conflict in South Asia.

The profound impact of these indigenous scriptures on indigenous people who are victims of cultural genocide is not limited to South Asia. Canadian First nation citizens share similar experiences. Many Survivors told the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission that reconnecting with traditional Indigenous spiritual teachings and practices has been essential to their healing, with some going so far as to say “it saved my life.”¹⁶⁹

KAILASA’s Nithyananda Hindu Library is one of the most important libraries and institutions of indigenous scriptures in the world. Nithyananda Hindu Library (NHL) is the largest collection of ancient texts on religion, human rights, spirituality, and knowledge sciences of several extinct indigenous Hindu tribes and sects. NHL has organized, preserved, time-capsuled, decoded, and finally made several of these texts freely available and accessible through the internet.

NHL has the world’s largest archival record of indigenous genocide studies; this includes the largest archival records of Hinduphobic ‘hate literature’ which are evidence of systematic state-sponsored persecution of minority indigenous religious sects. The purpose of this collection is to inspire millions to stand for human rights, learn from our past mistakes and protect humanity from the recurrence of similar genocides.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/26054-elie-wiesel-acceptance-speech-1986/

Hamilton, Federal Indian Day Schools, 4–5; Fingard, “New England Company,” 30–32.

The 56 Hindu nations of South Asia had several grand libraries and Universities that offered education as per indigenous Hindu and Buddhist traditions.

The picture above shows a map of Southern India, indicating the number of indigenous universities and colleges that were present in respective districts as per a report on the status of education in the Indian sub-continent in the 18ᵗʰ century that was commissioned by the state revenue department of the colonial government of the time.¹⁷⁰ All these universities were shut down as a result of government education policies of that time. Over the last millennia, all Hindu Universities such as Nalanda, Taxashila, Vikramashila, and their libraries have been destroyed.

One such grand library in Nalanda¹⁷¹ was destroyed in 1193 CE.¹⁷² The Nalanda library alone had been revived several times¹⁷³ and set on fire several times.¹⁷⁴ Other great libraries such as Vikramshila, Jagaddala, etc. were also destroyed in a similar way and at around the same

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time.¹⁷⁵ Hindu scholars and Buddhist monks were beheaded while trying to protect these precious books that contain some of the most life-positive thought currents available to mankind.¹⁷⁶

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam describes the sacrifice of our human ancestors – “Even when we were cut into pieces, we continued to stand for peace. The strength we demonstrated even in the face of the sword – the peace we demonstrated even in the face of the violence – is the pride of Vedic civilization.”¹⁷⁷

The manuscripts that survived these invasions and fires were taken by Hindu scholars and Buddhist monks that fled to Tibet¹⁷⁸. Several Hindu and Buddhist scholars and masters such as Sugataśrī, (an expert in Madhyamaka and Prajñāpāramitā); Jayadatta (Vinaya); Vibhūticandra (grammar and Abhidharma), Dānaśīla (logic), Saṅghaśrī (Candavyākaraṇa), Jīvagupta (books of Maitreya), Mahābodhi,(Bodhicaryāvatāra); and Kālacandra (Kālacakra) went along to Tibet and imparted education on these scriptures to the next generation Tibetan Buddhist monks.¹⁷⁹ Tibetan Buddhist tradition is regarded to be a continuation of the rich Hindu indigenous tradition of Nalanda. The 14ᵗʰ Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a Nobel peace laureate, refers to Himself as a disciple of this lineage¹⁸⁰ and has stated, “Tibetan Buddhism is not an invention of the Tibetans. Rather, it is quite clear that it derives from the pure lineage of the tradition of the Nalanda Monastery. The master Nagarjuna hailed from this institution, as did many other important philosophers and logicians...”.¹⁸¹

The Dalai Lama is not the only one who has been deeply moved and enriched by these indigenous peace scriptures, every single practicing Hindu and Buddhist in South Asia has tasted their nectar in one way or the other. However, during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, these manuscripts were under threat of complete destruction. Thanks to the efforts of the Tibetan community led by the Dalai Lama - The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) that was founded on 11 June 1970¹⁸² preserved some of these most endangered manuscripts. However unfortunately the same effort could never be realized by their Hindu counterparts,

Gyaltshen Rinpoche, Milarepa, Jigten Sumgon, Editor Khenmo Trinlay Chodron, Shambhala Publications, 2013 (ii) Jinah Kim, “Receptacle of the sacred – Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia” p. 49-52 (iii) Buddhist Arts of the Himalayas, Asia Society (Archived)

c?dzin-rgya-mtsho, Jose Ignacio Cabezon, Simon and Schuster, 2011 p. 15

until recently when this gap was filled by the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam by creating Nithyananda Hindu Library (NHL).

The destruction of the library of Nalanda is one of the most famous examples of the destruction of indigenous literature – unfortunately, it is not an isolated incidence neither in geography nor in time. On the night of 1 June 1981, the Jaffna Public Library was set on fire by an organized extremist mob¹⁸³; it was known as one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century.¹⁸⁴ At the time of its destruction, the Jaffna Public Library housed one of Asia’s biggest collections, containing over 97,000 rare books and manuscripts¹⁸⁵, including rare Tamil manuscripts on Shaivism and several Hindu sects.

The situation of preservation and protection of ancient indigenous literature is alarming. During the last millennia, millions of indigenous scriptures from South Asia, particularly India have been stolen. Some of these have been archived in distant lands that are completely inaccessible to the indigenous people whose ancestors once wrote these. There are more than two million indigenous Hindu temples in India that once had a library, but today not even one of them has any ancient manuscripts or any library. The extent of this cultural genocide is such that most indigenous people are completely unaware that as per tradition, temples are supposed to have libraries.

“prāsādau caturdikṣu tadvidikṣvantarālake|bhaktoktasthānake vāpi vidyāsthānaṁ prakalpayet ||” Center for the scriptural (Veda-Agama) studies (libraries) should be constructed in all the four main directions of the temple, in the corner directions of the temple, in its inner enclosure, or the locations recommended for the installation of the images of Śaiva-devotees.

There are about a thousand mutts (Hindu monasteries) that have their ancient libraries destroyed or poorly maintained. India has more than 5 million manuscripts in various libraries, mutts, and personal collections of various individuals. Most of these, however, are either getting destroyed or almost inaccessible to Hindu Scholars. Several institutes have done a phenomenal amount of work in protecting and preserving ancient knowledge – however, challenges are plenty. Some of these institutes have been attacked and vandalized by neo-Hindutva extremists¹⁸⁶ with impunity. Others have witnessed a shortage of funds and a lack of public awareness in protecting and preserving these scriptures.

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The oriental library Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was vandalized by neo-Hindutva extremist militants in 2004, which they justified as a reaction to “objectionable content published in the book” which who’s author was using references from this library. They were acquitted by the courts citing lack of evidence.¹⁸⁷

18 August 2019, centuries-old ancient manuscripts were destroyed in a 150-year-old library during a flood in Sangli. Local volunteers tried to protect them by drying them using hair dryers.¹⁸⁸

The two pictures above show the extremely vulnerable condition of original manuscripts in public and private libraries of India that complain of a shortage of funds and neglect of state officials. NHL has been working with several of these to fund and collaborate on the preservation work of these extremely valuable manuscripts.

The general apathy towards the protection of these scriptures is not a coincidence. Several knowledge communities (Brahmin Hindu scholars and monks) that have traditionally been protecting these manuscripts have been prime targets of persecution and cultural genocide. In the last few decades over 300,000, Adi Shaiva knowledge communities of Kashmir (Kashmiri Pandits) were forcibly displaced in seven exoduses¹⁸⁹ because of terrorism and

genocidal attacks.¹⁹⁰ Physical genocide is one in which people are killed; a cultural genocide is where people are annihilated by destroying their culture – their distinct cultural identity. Adi Shaiva knowledge communities of Kashmir are not the only ones who have faced genocides. The Adi Shaiva communities of Agama scholars and priests (Shivacharyas) in Tamil Nadu have endured a cultural genocide for the past one century under various anti-Hindu governments of Tamil Nadu.¹⁹¹

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Volunteers of KAILASA’S NHL doing preservation work of rare books and palm-leaf manuscripts

The volume of indigenous source scriptures of Sanatana Hindu Dharma – the Veda Agamas – is massive¹⁹² – there are more than 100 million scriptures, most of which are lost and merely 20 million of which remain with us today. The mastery over these magnanimous volumes of Veda-Agamic scriptures is achieved by specializing in every sect, or branch of scripture over multiple generations. For this reason, the targeted persecution and cultural genocide of indigenous knowledge communities such as Kashmiri Pandits are especially worrisome. Indigenous Hindu tribes and schools specialized and systematically practiced only singular or a select number of branches of these Veda-Agamic scriptures and kept them alive over thousands of years.¹⁹³ No single school of thought of scholars can master the Veda-Agamas (Hindu scriptures) in its entirety, let alone an individual. Each Hindu sect or school (Shakha or Sampradaya) is interdependent on other schools (Shakha) for the practice and application of the entirety of these indigenous peace scriptures of Hinduism. The loss of one lineage, or school (Shakha or Sampradaya) is not just a loss for the respective knowledge stream but a loss of the entire indigenous Hindu tradition. The destruction of the indigenous libraries destroys several thousands of years of scholarly research and practice of the indigenous Hindu scriptures. The indigenous Hindu scriptures are not just the repository of ancient spiritual and religious knowledge, they are a repository of a phenomenal volume of ancient Human knowledge and expertise, in various fields such as State Policies, Politics & Statecraft¹⁹⁴, Law¹⁹⁵, Banking & Accounting¹⁹⁶, Architecture & Civil Engineering¹⁹⁷, Performing Arts¹⁹⁸, Medicine¹⁹⁹, Surgery²⁰⁰, Botany²⁰¹, Chemistry and Metallurgy²⁰², Music²⁰³, Agriculture²⁰⁴,

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Astrology²⁰⁵, Shipbuilding²⁰⁶, Manufacturing²⁰⁷, Food sciences²⁰⁸, etc. The Hindu knowledge in various fields is unique, unlike their modern counterparts. The indigenous Hindu scriptures enable not just excellence in a particular profession but the attainment of spiritual liberation even through the mere practice of the profession²⁰⁹. This is why, for example, the indigenous science of archery in Hinduism (Dhanurvidya), does not just deal with archery alone but also with the attainment of liberation. The science of Dhanurvidya is comparable to Kyūdō a Japanese martial art (budō), which is a form of meditation in action for moral and spiritual development – which has the supreme goal of kyūdō – the state of shin-zen-bi - which loosely translated as – when archers shoot correctly (i.e. truthfully) with virtuous spirit and attitude toward all persons and all things which relate to kyūdō (i.e. with goodness), beautiful shooting is realized naturally.²¹⁰ There are primarily 32 such knowledge sciences (Vidya) and 64 such meditative arts (Kalaa) described in indigenous Hindu scriptures, most of which have lost their spiritual components in the contemporary era. The Acharyas (indigenous Hindu scholars and teachers) can transmit some portion of the domain expertise, but only the Guru guides into the science of liberation²¹¹ that is even realized while practicing a particular trade or profession²¹² without necessarily mandating additional spiritual practices. The destruction of indigenous Hindu libraries is an intellectual genocide, a cultural genocide of unprecedented scale and impact.

The following chart explains one of the structural organizations of scriptures done by the NHL (Nithyananda Hindu Library).

The magnanimity of the volume of written scriptures and the level of expertise required to master these seem almost impossible for a single generation of human beings. For instance, the Veda – the most ancient scriptures – comprise a total of 10,600 Verses²¹³, which take a minimum of 24 to 40 years to master as per an indigenous school from 1542 CE that is still running.²¹⁴ Compared to the Vedas, the Agama scriptures are far more voluminous. There are 28 main Agamas, and 202 Upa-Agama. The Kamika Agama alone is said to have more than one trillion verses.²¹⁵ Similarly, there are 18 Major Puranas, 18 Upa-Purana, and other Puranas with more than 400,000 verses in major Puranas.

Although it might be ever impossible for humanity to comprehend this volume of scriptures that were written over time of several thousands of years, KAILASA’s Nithyananda Hindu Library (NHL), has attempted to provide a detailed structure and classification of these indigenous Hindu Source scriptures as ordained by Lord Paramashiva (Primordial Hindu Divinity). KAILASA’S NHL has developed the world’s first exclusive ‘Hindu library management system’ based on the ancient Vedic Scriptures classification tree. This classification system has more than 900 subject areas and more than 32 different levels of commentaries. NHL’s Indological knowledge classification system provides 30,000 different categories to catalog any book from Hinduism.

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The important thing to realize is that several of these scriptures are very much alive – in terms of the knowledge they offer, their stories, anecdotes, their poetry, their sciences, etc. are very much part of day-to-day indigenous life. The indigenous knowledge communities – the Shivacharyas, Kashmiri Pandits, and various practicing Brahmin scholar communities, have spent their entire life and of several generations to protect these scriptures. Thus, their bodies are literally like a repository of ancient wisdom - something which Tibetan Buddhists understood and greatly appreciated. It is, for this reason, the Buddhist monks who fled the Nalanda University after several invasions took several scholars with them to Tibet and offered them refuge. The 14ᵗʰ Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a Nobel peace laureate, had acknowledged the role of these knowledge communities in His personal life and refers to Himself as a disciple of this lineage²¹⁶. Today Tibetan Buddhists led by the Dalai Lama are seen as the most tolerant and peaceful people on the planet, such is the potential of creating some of the best people that these indigenous scriptures hold for us.

The life of several spiritual leaders of Asia has been similarly touched by these scriptures and these scholars. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has declared, "Book and Deities have made Nithyananda".²¹⁷

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam received one such manuscript – Atma Puranam²¹⁸ - at this age of 10²¹⁹ and was given training in these early years of His life. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam stood for this knowledge, and in a mere five years of His public life was able to spread this knowledge science to 33 countries by hard work, His sheer devotion to the lineage of masters, and the intrinsic clarity these scriptures offer to humanity. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has called these scriptures - New-Clear Bombs and credited great masters such Swami Vivekananda to have delivered these New-Clear Bombs to the world.²²⁰ Unlike nuclear bombs which take life and destroy several generations by radiation, these New-Clear bombs, these scriptures, give clarity about life and death, solve various problems of life contributing to several generations of people. During the last century, mankind has accumulated enough nuclear weapons to kill billions²²¹, the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has rather focused His energy and of His people in protecting indigenous peace literature which are New-Clear Bombs of power thoughts with the potential to lead to world peace.

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The Sanskrit Devanagri version of the same of 1000 pages can be found here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242346/page/n15/mode/2up

The impact of these scriptures has been felt by people throughout human history. Several Nobel laureates in the field of literature such as T. S. Eliot²²², Bernard Shaw²²³, Romain Rolland, V S Naipaul²²⁴, have been profoundly impacted by indigenous literature.

William Butler Yeats, a Nobel laureate in literature, was so inspired²²⁵ by the indigenous Hindu scriptures, in literature, that he wrote a commentary on the Upanishads as, "The Ten Principal Upanishads", which was published in 1938.²²⁶

However, it is not just in the field of literature that indigenous Hindu literature has contributed to the great minds. Several Nobel laureates in the field of physics, notable the quantum physicists such as Werner Heisenberg²²⁷, Erwin Schrödinger²²⁸, and Brian David Josephson²²⁹ have variously cited how they found spiritual wisdom in indigenous Hindu literature that even influenced their work in physics.

However, for indigenous scholars, these scriptures are not mere books or sources of knowledge – but living Deities – the manifestation of cosmic Divinity. Several indigenous sacred texts are worshipped daily as a lifestyle.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1399046

are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods.” https://citatis.com/a18035/269404/

way, which all men must follow, according to their natures - is an elastic concept.”

and seemed at once logical and boundless.”

seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.”, Pride of India (2006) by Samskrita Bharati. p. 56

consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction.... The only solution to this conflict in so far as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.”, (ii) “Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.”

co-related to the Quantum Field, i.e. the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels.”

The original manuscript of Ramcharitmanas written by Tulsidas is well preserved even after 427 years in Tulsi Manas Mandir, Varanasi. These scriptures were protected by scholars with great care guarding against the destruction of several intolerant terrorists.

A Grantha Samadhi – indigenous scriptures worshipped as a Deity – 28 Agama Deity (Paramashiva), 108 Upanishads (Lord Rama), Purana (Ved Vyasa) made of palm-leaf, gold-leaf, silver leaf, copper, and other metals.

Though the Acharyas (indigenous Hindu scholars and teachers) can transmit some portion of the domain expertise of indigenous knowledge, it is but only the Guru who guides into the science of liberation²³⁰ that is even realized while practicing a particular trade or profession²³¹ without necessarily mandating additional spiritual practices. In indigenous spiritual traditions lineages²³² can be passed to the next generation only through lifelong, multi-generational²³³ spiritual practice, mentoring, and initiation by the Guru²³⁴. Hindu spiritual practices involve

Transgenerational Epigenetic Changes in a Fish Model https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00471/full

docs.google.com/document/d/1UB40gY9qADTdH5VrjIeejIesaDqzdX5nXxHaaXZQe3U www.himalayanacademy.com/media/books/kamika-agama-uttara-pada-part-2/kamika-agama-uttara-pada-part-2.pdf (ii) Regarding ādiśaiva the Kāmikāgama says that they are born in the family of sages such as Kauśika who were initiated directly by Śiva immediately after the creation of the world. Therefore, they are qualified to undertake all the rites [as

yogic processes which cause a conscious mutation at a physical, physiological, psychological, and neurological level, allowing practitioners to maintain meditative states of consciousness (Samadhi²³⁵) for prolonged durations.²³⁶ Some short-duration experiences of these meditative states are studied by contemporary western scientists in various groups of meditators²³⁷, martial artists²³⁸, and athletes²³⁹. Hindu spiritual processes and initiation by the enlightened Guru make the attainment of these meditative states of consciousness accessible to every practitioner, and not just to an accomplished group of people. As per the Hindu religious laws prescribed in Veda-Agamas (scriptures), only the ordained Guru can initiate their native Hindu community members into the practice of these yogic sciences, lifestyle sciences, knowledge system sciences, and sciences of ritual²⁴⁰.

One of the prime goals of the entire corpus of indigenous Hindu literature is to make these meditative states of consciousness (Samadhi) accessible to as many people as possible. It is this prime role, which today, is possible only by the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam, who has dedicated His life to revive these scriptures as a living experience in the everyday lives of people throughout the world. One of the most read sacred indigenous texts, the Bhagavat Gita, cites the biggest challenge in this and how this knowledge has been lost time and again, "The supreme science was thus received through the chain of master-disciple succession and the saintly kings understood it in that way. In course of time, the succession was broken and therefore the science as it appears to have been lost."²⁴¹ It is therefore extremely crucial for the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam to be provided a safe place for Him to peacefully continue His mission of bringing these scriptures back to life in their complete form to their fullest.

Since 1988, starting with the book – Atma Puranam – the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has been collecting and protecting these sacred yet extremely vulnerable indigenous

(vyākhyāna). The Kāraṇāgama and the Santānāgama also state that only the ādiśaiva is qualified to do these rites and if the rites are done by others it will bring only calamity. www.wisdomlib.org/definition/adishaiva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

scientific-data

Business and Life. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ISBN 9781119285267.

(ii) ‘Do Top Athletes Experience the State of Pure Consciousness? Going Beyond Tiredness and Boredom’ - youtu.be/tNRUKLy0PMw

vidya-pada_v2. docs.google.com/document/d/1UB40gY9qADTDH5VrjIeejIesaDqzdX5nXxHaaXZQe3U

scriptures. Since 2003, through KAILASA – the only Hindu nation – the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has with His team of monks, nuns, and volunteers have taken unprecedented efforts in organizing, preserving, time-capsule, decoding, and finally making these texts freely available and accessible through the internet. NHL has one of the largest collections of the most ancient Yoga manuscripts, for research, digitization, and publications. NHL has also developed an Indological classification system for the scriptures.

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has declared that KAILASA’S Nithyananda Hindu Library (NHL) will be the epicenter for all Hindu scriptures, which will locate, acquire, collect, organize, publish, preserve, decode, and make relevant in daily life the indigenous Hindu scriptures. NHL will be housing 5 crores (50 million) books and manuscripts on Hinduism, Including Two Crores (20 million) sourcebooks on Hinduism.

Collection of Nithyananda Hindu Library as of 2021

• 1,000,000 digital books • 100,000 titles and physical books on Hinduism, which includes over 50,000 rare manuscripts on Hinduism, Performing Arts, Culture, Architecture, Hindu History, and Society. • More than 15TB digital Books and manuscripts, a special collection on Kashmir Shaivism, and various other rare manuscripts, books from ancient Mutts and Ashrams • It has an online repository²⁴² of more than 14500 palm-leaf manuscripts online for free downloads • The library has identified and located more than 4,00,000 titles on Spirituality, Veda-Agama, Hindu Art and Architecture, Hindu Performing Arts, Hindu Sciences, and various other branches of Sanatana Hindu Dharma.

A section of the Nithyananda Hindu Library for students of Gurukul (indigenous Hindu schools).

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has given magnanimous volumes of audio commentary on these scriptures which surpass 30,000 hours of playback time – a work realized over fifteen years. These commentaries and other video discourses total to more than a petabyte. The impact of even one hour of content delivered by the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has the potential to impact the world profoundly. One of these daily discourses²⁴³ of the SPH was edited and presented as a paper²⁴⁴ which was submitted to the United Nations to answer the questions²⁴⁵ and provide inputs to an independent UN expert for his report to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly about the COVID-19 crises and multilateralism. In this particular paper, the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam shared some wisdom of our ancestors on how multilateral treaties for common good were made amongst ancient indigenous nations based on a few Hindu principles. Yet these were just a few verses from the trillions of verses found in ancient indigenous scriptures. And these are not just ideas, they are backed with a history of experiences recording challenges, success, and failures seen along the way. This extremely crucial data containing the wisdom of our ancestors is made

accessible and available by the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam in various ways which are directly relevant and useful to mankind.

At the same time, the commentaries on these indigenous scriptures have not been made abstract or too difficult for common people to understand. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has chosen to simply several of these scriptures in the language of the common masses. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has provided more than 10,000 hours of video discourses on YouTube alone, which attracted almost 81 million views and more than 50 million watch hours, serving more than 300,000 subscribers.

Various manuscripts which were endangered have been reprinted after scanning. Printed Palm leaves are used for various religious purposes and making worshipped Grantha Samadhis (Deities made from books and manuscripts). As of 2018, the printing of 140,000 palm leaves was in progress.

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam (right) inspecting the palm leaves after the application of a coating of protective chemicals.

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has declared that millions of indigenous Hindu spiritual scriptures will be provided for download and kept for reference purposes, allowing people from all backgrounds can use these and refer. Even though the library is already providing digitized copies, NHL will be printing and providing hard copies. Traditional Grantha Samadhis (Deities made from books) will be made using traditional ancient and modern laser printed palm leaf manuscripts. The Grantha Samadhis would be of various indigenous scholars, masters, saints, and Avatars (incarnations) - honoring their contribution to Hinduism. All these books would be printed on non-tearing paper for long-term preservation with traditional rexine-grade binding of all books. For this, NHL has been setting up a large-scale digital printing unit at its library branch in Bengaluru.

“In those days, anybody has any kind of conflict, problems, questions, they will go to Naimisharanya where all the scriptures are stored, and the rishis who have read all the scriptures are available who will refer immediately to the scriptures and give the answer to them, to the visitors. This is the Naimisharanya Project, reviving the Naimisharanya, the SarvajnaPeetha. I was sitting and spending some time with various manuscripts. I thank, sincerely, the various organization and the Shivacharyas for their amazing contribution, collecting, scanning, preserving, all the manuscripts related to Agamas, collecting, scanning, preserving all the manuscripts related to agama and ancient scriptures. I am spending days and nights with these huge collections. These are one step towards preservation and revival of Sanatana Hindu Dharma.”

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam on May 25, 2014

The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam’s vision is to enable scholars and common people to easily access these scriptures and be able to apply the knowledge in their day-to-day life. For this, the library department has developed several software utilities, such as a search engine tool to phonetically search irrespective of the spelling of the text present in the content, a bi-lingual text recognition OCR (optical character recognition) that can simultaneously recognize more than one script from a document. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has also released Kailasa’s Hindu Compliance Systems which brings an innovative solution to global challenges as per the indigenous Hindu scriptures (Veda-Agamas), in form of technical documentation called Hindu Standards.²⁴⁶