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Devotees in the USA share their thoughts with Swamiji on email

(These mails have been screened and used with Swamiji's guidance and permission for printing. In the rare cases where a devotee has specifically requested anonymity, his/her identity has been protected.)

"I can't seem to get over Swami... I feel like I need to imprint his energy into my body before he goes away... How amazing to be in such an energy field! He is truly enlightened and I can tell it."

- Dr. Barbara S. Boyd Head of Religious Studies, Oklahoma University, USA

Meenakshii Nallappan {r} 27/01/04

Dear Swami,

My humble pranams to your LOTUS FEET, I surrender to THEE.

Anandam, Anandam, Nithyanandam. Oh! thank you Swami! If I have ever doubted your divinity, it is the shortcomings of my limited understanding. I apologize sincerely. I am so grateful, I cannot express in words what Swami has given me on this birthday. Thank you so much Swami for teaching the true meaning of SAI (See Always Inside). I do not know if I am making much progress in meditation but I am very joyful.

Thank you Swami for spending time to read this mail.

Ever surrendering to your lotus feet,

Meenakshii Nallappan

Renu Raman {r} 06/02/04

Dear Swamiji,

This is Renu...

I came last Sunday evening past 10 p.m. to be seen by you, to receive your blessings for which I feel so fortunate. I am the one who was born with no hearing and whom our close family friend, Swarna, arranged with my mother for me to meet you.

I still have been unable to find the right words to express my deep heartfelt gratitude that you made the time to see me, especially when you are so tired, have thousands wanting to see you, and you've already given so much of yourself with consideration only for others. I felt so honored and so privileged to be in your presence, to have received your blessings.

Even as I write this, I just can't find the right words to really relay how much your presence meant to me.

One thing I've always wanted is to be able to hear my children's voices. I really hated being born deaf and having to constantly face insurmountable challenges and frustrations because of my hearing loss and constantly dealing with people who just couldn't understand.

I grew to accept my hearing loss as an integral part of who I am... however, the frustrations, dealing with insensitive people, and trying to handle situations made more challenging because of my hearing loss remain constant.

Since the birth of my daughter and later my infant son, I really feel my deafness even more. I cannot hear my daughter call my name or how lovely her voice must sound when she sings... I cannot hear the babbling of my son and it really pains me when other people tell me he calls for me, "Ma ma" and I cannot hear him calling me. For that, I truly wish there was some way I could hear, only for my children who are the most precious things to me.

I also have some other thoughts I'd like to ask you, but I don't know if it is my place to do so or if you have the time.

I felt your energy when you placed your thumb on my forehead and it was a sensation I cannot find words to describe.

I hope I see you again. Your presence was so reassuring and immediately put me at peace.

With utmost respect,

Renu Raghuraman

Swamiji responds:

Dear Renu,

You will be healed.

My love and blessings.

Swamiji

Ma Anand Samarpan [Nacha] 18/02/04

Vanakkam Dearest Swami,

Humble pranams at your divine lotus feet.

Swami, I don’t know where to start.

You came into my life and I am no longer the same person. Each time I see you and spend time with you, a transformation happens and I love you even more than before.

I feel immensely blessed beyond words to even think that we are worthy of having such a great soul stay in our humble abode. Swami, in my anxiety to do everything right and take care of you to the best of my ability, if I have done or said anything wrong, or not done anything I should have, please, please forgive me. I have nothing in my heart but you and that’s why I am so oblivious to anything and everything else when I am around you. You touched me in so many ways that I cannot even explain

Swami, more and more, I feel that I want to come and spend the rest of my life with you. You keep telling me that I have issues and need to finish my responsibilities. Please give me the strength to do so and then take me. I have already surrendered to you as my new name suggests.

Swami, the house is so empty and the walls are echoing your laughter and wherever I go, I see your face. I know you are with me always, but I miss your physical presence. I don't know what we did to even meet you Swami. Why is it that my heart is aching for you??? I can't stop crying Swami....

Swami, Gertrude is also feeling so bad and missing you so much. I talked to her for a long time last night and went to her house this morning to console her again. I was there for over an hour. What have you done to all of us Swami???!

The NSP experience was beyond words. You touched the very core of each of our beings and brought out all the dirt and cleansed our souls. Hope we can all follow your teachings and be nice to each other and grow more spiritually. You showed us that each person in this world has good in them and that we must look at that instead of the so-called bad. I am going to see Nithyananda in each person I meet.

Swami, I don't even feel like going home! As long as you were here, I was like an energizer bunny, now I am so tired, sleepy, and sad. Swami, thank you again for all the lovely moments and memories you gave us. That is the greatest gift and I will hold on to them forever.

I know you probably want to read, rest etc, so don't want to take up more of your precious time.

I love you Swami and miss you...

Yours humbly,

Ma Anand Samarpan

My dearest Swami,

My humble pranams at Your Lotus Feet!

Thank you so much for replying to my email. Swami, we are all missing you so much :(

Nacha, Subadra and I have been exchanging emails and all of us are feeling depressed at your physical absence from here. Swami, really what an impact a Guru can make on His disciples! Everything else in life looks dull and boring after tasting the nectar of spiritual bliss that you’ve given us. Every moment my mind goes back to your small stories, your spiritual experiences and the moments spent in your presence in the last 2 weeks. I just can’t seem to stop talking about them to others.

I was listening to your bhajans VCD this morning and Swami, it’s a feast to the ears to hear you talk in Tamil. So beautiful it felt to hear your voice in Tamil, and the bhajans are simply excellent. At least this I will treasure as a fond reminder of you till I see you in Bangalore this year.

With lots of love and pranams at Your Divine Lotus Feet,

Ma Nithya Karuna

Ma Nithya Karuna 20/02/04

Dearest Swami,

My humble pranams at Your Divine Lotus Feet!

Swami, Sharmilla (Ma Anand Prabha) is really suffering from high fever, head and body ache. She is not taking any medications or seeing a doctor as she has full faith that you will cure her. Swami, I pray to you to please grace her health back to normal. Swami, everyone including you fell sick after the NSP - what was the reason for that Swami? Was it because our negativities such as guilt, pain and karmas were leaving us? Or because the meditation techniques were too powerful for our bodies to withstand? Why did you fall sick Swami? - did you take on the illness of someone else? Swami, I really hope you are not in pain! I know you mentioned once that enlightened souls may have pain but no suffering, but still I pray to you to please cure yourself completely, at least for the sake of your disciples.

Swami, you mahatmas are so great, always thinking about the welfare of others selflessly, living solely for others, imparting the greatest knowledge and gift of enlightenment for others, so you should never be in pain or suffer for the sake of others.

With lots of love and pranams at Your Lotus Feet.

Ma Nithya Karuna

Ma Nithya Seva [Shaila]

20/02/04

My dear loving Swamiji,

This is Nithya Seva (Shaila). Swamiji, I am blessed to have had an opportunity to spend so much time with you. I am always remembering the memorable days I spent with you and every day I am so happy, and I am dancing with joy listening to your beautiful songs. You are my FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHER AND YOU ARE MY LIFE.

I am planning to apply for my CANADA VISITOR VISA ON MONDAY (23rd), so I am begging you to bless me and help me in getting that visa.

Physically I am missing you but the thought that you are in my HEART keeps my life going. I hope you are enjoying your stay in Seattle. Have a good time. I AM WAITING TO SEE YOU SOON.

WITH TONS OF LOVE,

Nithya Seva

Sri Anand Roop 21/02/04

Dear Swami,

My humble pranams to your lotus feet!

After the Healers' Initiation yesterday (Monday) in Holiday Inn, Newark, CA, myself and Maa Nithya Roop (Jyothi) were bubbling with enthusiasm and bliss. But as soon as the day passed, we found ourselves in a kind of depression. Swami, we know we cannot stay doing what we are doing and still be where we want to be. Swami, please allow me to be one of your hands.

My wife and I have talked about our options, considering our son's life and our responsibilities as parents and our desire to be your children.

We have come to the US in 1997 and worked sincerely hard, and got the green card only two months back. Amongst many of our dreams, we also dreamt of being able to have our son live in the US and study here. In your ecstatic presence and under your compassionate divine guidance during the last two weekends, our desires have changed and worries have been thrown away. But the lingering attachments are still in us. We need to live in the US 50% of the time to maintain our green card status, which is required to support our son's education and take care of him.

I seek your compassion. Please bless us to be your sevaks. Swami, please bless me with the opportunity to become one of your hands and cherish life as an ashramite for five to six months every year.

With your blessings, I want to use my software/ computers knowledge or anything you feel fit, to do something for Dhyanapeetam. I am eager to work hard and rise up to your expectations. Maa Nithya Roop and I would take turns to cherish our time in your service and take care of our son. These are our humble prayers. Swami, please guide us and make us instruments of your Compassion.

Swami, as per your divine guidance I turned down the Dallas offer, which was 25% higher monetarily for me. I already knew it is because you see more dimensions than I can imagine. But to my utter surprise, I just got a call from a friend that he is getting me an independent contract, which is like 60% higher than my current pay, and this is without moving from where I am!!! What this means to me is that I can stop measuring with my matchstick, and I should be aware that when you bless, I need to be ready to receive in all forms.

In Nithyananda,

Sri Anand Roop

Ma Anand Samarpan [Nacha]

22/02/04

Vanakkam Dearest Swami,

Swami, I miss u sooo much!! All the ladies here are missing you and feel empty without you! Everyone is calling me and saying they don't know what to do. I am telling them all to listen to your tapes, CDs, discourses etc. You have attracted us all like a magnet and now we don't know what to do without you!!!

I cannot concentrate on my work Swami! I really want to hear your voice, so will call you today. I love you Swami.

Humble pranams at your lotus feet.

Ma Anand Samarpan

_Ma Anand Shri [Aruna Reddy]_ _23/02/04_

My dearest Swamiji,

Ever since I have seen you in LA, You are in my heart all the time. You have touched me deep inside my heart. I am trying to see you in everyone, as you said. It has made great changes in my perception. It is like seeing others with love eyeglasses! Just thinking of you gives me immense joy and I am simply lost while listening to your kirtans.

It has been so hard to fast all these years, but after your ASP and NSP, I was able to fast on Shivratri with no problem. I could not believe it myself. No trace of hunger on that day! Moreover Swamiji, I had a problem of oversleeping. Now I am just fine with 6 and a half hours' sleep. I know you are with me and guiding me in my sadhanas.

Swamiji, I want to grow fast spiritually, and my goal is not to have another janma. I don't think it is that easy to reach that stage. But definitely with your blessings, I feel I can attain anything. It just seems so easy!

Ever grateful to you ...

Ma Anand Shri

Ma Nithya Seva [Shaila]

24/02/04

My dear loving Swamiji,

This is your Nithya Seva. Swamiji I GOT MY CANADA VISA. Thank you so much, you really did a miracle. The Visa people did NOT ask me a single question, and they gave me Visitor Visa for 2 years, that's great...

I am missing your physical presence but I know that ur love and blessings are there for me. Thank you so much again!

Thank you and Love you,

With a heartful of love,

Nithya Seva

_Ma Anand Samarpan [Nacha]_ _25/02/04_

Vanakkam Swami,

Humble pranams at your lotus feet.

Swami, I want to tell you something that just happened to me.

I was driving to an appointment and was using the navigation system in the car to find the route. (Whenever I am not using the navigation, I always listen to Nithya Kirtan). Once I found the way, I decided to switch the CD to the Nithya Kirtan which I am hooked onto.

The CD got stuck and wouldn't come out, and in the process of trying to take it out while driving, I got onto the wrong freeway. Swami, for 10 minutes I kept trying to take out the navigation CD. It just wouldn't come out and got stuck.

Immediately, the inner chattering started and I was saying to myself:

"The car warranty is over and it's going to be so expensive to replace the Navigation system - and moreover, I won't be able to listen to the Kirtans. What am I going to do? I have to be able to listen to the kirtans. I should have sold the car after the warranty finished, but then, this is Swami's car, so I shouldn't sell it. I just wish Swami was here with me. He would have clapped his hands or done something and this thing would work. Too bad Swami isn't here with me now."

By then, 10 minutes had passed. (So much inner chattering!)

That same instant, Swami, I heard a click and I knew that the CD would come out. I tried it again - and of course, it popped out immediately! What a fool I am to not know that you are always with me, even if you aren't physically here! It was a good lesson for me. I will tell this "small story" at the satsang this Saturday. Swami, you are incredible.

Just wanted to share that with you.

You must be so busy in Oklahoma. I am thinking about you all the time.

Please take good care of yourself Swami.

I MISS YOU SWAMI, SO MUCH.

Humbly,

Ma Anand Samarpan

_Trisha Howell_

_25/02/04_

Dearest Swamiji,

Thank you so much for the love and blessings that you showered on me and on Addie (the small white dog) when we took your ASP program and the Ananda Healing initiation in Bellevue! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate what you have done for us and what you are doing for all people in the world. I look forward to a lifelong relationship with you.

I am excited to start doing Ananda Healing and also to study with you further both here and in India.

With love and gratitude always,

Trisha

_Yamini Gourishankar_

_26/02/04_

Dear Swamiji Friend :-)

I know you are busy, but I felt like writing to you to say hello.

After speaking with you on Monday after the Healers' Initiation, and reaffirming the blissful experience (which seems to come and go) as Ananda Gandha chakra, I am beginning to realize the value of the initiation.

Now your physical presence is not here... I know however that your energy is everywhere and when this mind drops its conditionings/habits more, it will open still more to receive that energy.

I wait for that day when the mind merges with the Universal energy and when this body/mind becomes a perfect instrument to serve that Universal Energy/God.

Hope you will write.

Love,

Yamini

_Yamini Gourishankar_ _27/02/04_

Dear Swamiji and Friend,

It is so nice to hear from you. Your words keep echoing to me - "Drop all the conditionings of the mind" - and it is having its effect since then. There is an underlying current of happiness that seems to always exist, as the mind is just beginning to let go of memories and prejudices, and live in the Now.

The intellect wants "Atman Spurana experience", the intuition says that is another conditioning of the mind, just let go. So the mind is going to surrender and let go.

I wrote this piece after I read your mail and am sharing it with you.

Dropping the conditionings of the mind Seeing through the Form into the Formless Surrendering to the Now Seeking no more Waiting no more Just being in the present Embracing/Being the Energy And just Living That is all that seems to matter now.

Love,

Yamini

_Monica Sydner_ _27/02/04_

Dear Swamiji,

It is quite different using this 'aircraft' body instead of a 'bullock cart'! I believed you when you said that one could move in the world with this 'better' body, but am still surprised to find myself so changed. I don't allow my mind to think too much about the difference, because it is so startling that the mind gets nervous and wants to pull back.

The effortlessness of it all is so delightful that I feel like I did as a child... open and tender with every living thing.

I have changed my diet completely - and that includes a great attachment to coffee and coca cola - all in one week and with no effort whatsoever. I have energy 24 hours and am completely mystified how different everything looks, yet is as it was, all the same. (The mountains are still mountains, yet totally new).

I am still experiencing lots of motion outside my body that I assume is the energy body, and it is uncomfortable (very) at times. But I keep your mala with me and hold on for the ride and trust you. It is the hardest thing I have ever done, but also the sweetest. Thank you from the top, bottom, and all sides of my heart!

Trisha Howell | 27/02/04

Dearest Swamiji,

Thank you very much for your reply! I look forward to staying with you at the ashram. My husband and I are in the process of selling our house and once we get rid of most of our possessions, we will be able to spend extended periods of time with you.

In my last Mahamantra meditation, after I had been humming about a half hour, I felt my root chakra growing very warm, and then it felt like it exploded and a great energy rose up my spine all the way to my crown chakra. I was in bliss for hours afterwards. I had heard about the kundalini rising, but this was the first time I'd experienced it. Wonderful!

Other happy news: There are a growing number of people in New York who want to see you. While I was doing the ASP last weekend, I talked on the phone every evening with my husband Dean while he was treating patients in New York. He was impressed by the experiences I was having and told his patients about them. Now they are calling his office asking for more information. My husband is, of course, also very eager to meet you. He's been looking at your photo and remarking about how wonderful your energy is. He can see and feel energy more easily than most people as he has developed that skill extensively through his work. In closing, allow me to tell you something really funny: On Monday night, when I bought a complete set of your work, I also got your large, lovely biography, The Formless in Form. As I had already read a sample copy all during the ASP (I spent most breaks reading it), I didn't think to open my own copy until Tuesday.

When I did open it, all the pages were blank! I laughed and laughed because it was so unexpected and yet strangely appropriate: it is impossible to really capture a person's life in text and photos, and somehow the blank pages conveyed to me the blank slate a person's life is - the freedom and possibility to become one with God by dropping all hindrances to that union. Then one shines forth as the formless (the blank pages) in form (the book).

The appropriateness of this metaphor for the blank book I received seemed like a special gift to me. I have not been a person who laughs a lot, but I notice that I've been finding more things funny and laughing a good deal more since I've been with you.

Anyway, be well and I look forward to all that is ahead.

Lots of love,

Trisha

Ma Krishnananda [Priya] 27/02/04

Dearest Swami,

Thank you for your inspiring presence.

I miss you tremendously Swami. I cannot think about anything but you.

My entire being wants to be with you constantly. I want to do the ASP as I know its benefits for my spiritual progress.

Love,

Priya

Sri Ananda Jyoti

28/02/04

Pranam Dearest Swamiji:

You have only been gone a few days and I am already feeling lost. Thank you for everything you did for me when you were in San Francisco, CA. In a few days you have transformed my life. I have become a complete vegetarian and my outlook on life and death is changing significantly. I consider you my guru and my master and I thank Shirdi Sai Baba for directing me to your feet.

My love and prayers to you always.

Please write a few words if time permits. Please keep your love and blessings in my life always.

Your loving disciple,

Sri Ananda Jyoti

Ma Nithya Seva [Shaila]

01/03/04

Dear loving Swamiji,

Tons of roses to ur feet. I am fine here by your blessings.

I hope you all are fine. Swamiji, I am happy to inform you that your Nithya Seva has started to heal in the name of Nithyananda Swami from last Friday. Four of them came to me to be healed and they are all happy. Swamiji I am sorry to bother you all the time with my email, please DON'T mind ok. Whenever you are free, you can send me the reply ok. I will NOT feel bad bcoz i know that my Swami is busy and there are lots of people like me who are also wanting some suggestions from you. Swami I would love to come there and spend time with you all, but the situation here is not so good, just in a matter of time when you bless me, then totally I shall be at ur feet, I will do Seva for you and others.

With tons of love,

Ma Nithya Seva

Sivagami 02/03/04

Dearest Swamiji

I don't know how to start.

I’m one who is looking for a job and very very unlucky in getting a job. Many times I ask God, why did you give me a desire that’s not going to happen? But I try everyday for a job, hoping one day I’ll get it. When I met you I wanted to ask you this, but I was not able to ask you at that time.

Will I ever get a job? Is it because of my karma? What should I do?

Please help me and show me a way. Sometimes I even feel, why should I live, and I cry and cry whenever I think I’m so unlucky with acquiring a job. I know that you know everything and will show me some way and give me an answer.

Unable to express my feelings by writing.

Thanks for your answer in advance.

Sivagami

Swamiji responds:

My dear Sivagami,

Before April you will have a job, don’t worry.

My love and blessings.

Swamiji

Kay Burtness

02/03/04

Dear Swamiji,

Please come to my travel business and fill it with your healing light. Please infuse everyone that interacts with my business with your healing. Fill my partner with light so he makes sound decisions.

And last but not least, fill my heart with your inner light so I can share it with others and find the best possible solutions in these times of crisis.

Thank you again and again and again.

Kay Burtness

Ma Anand Samarpan [Nacha]

02/03/04

Vanakkam Swami,

Humble pranams at your lotus feet.

Swami, I don't know what is happening to me. I am thinking about you every minute and want to be with you! Swami, I have never felt like this before about anyone or anything, but I am always longing to be with you.

Swami, if you cancel your trip to Dallas, why don't you come back here???? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. I know I am being selfish, but if you have a few days, you can come here and I will pay for your ticket.

I miss you Swami and love you.

Humbly,

Your pest, Ma Anand Samarpan

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Dearest Swamiji,

I just wanted to share this unusual experience with you.

Last Sunday mid-afternoon Naomi, Konane (our daughter) and I drove up the coast from Santa Cruz to a place called Big Basin. It is a beach where the forest comes all the way to the ocean.

We walked out to the beach and there was a really strong wind. I started to feel lightheaded and strange. I tried to play with Konane but I was very much distracted. I knew something was going on with Naomi as well. After a short time she said that she would go back to the car, she needed space.

I played some more with Konane and then asked her to come along for a walk into the forest. She didn't want to go, but wanted to stay with Naomi in the car.

I then started walking. I looked up at the mountain that is covered by forest and I saw a gigantic face of Hanuman looking over the mountain in the clouds. I had a very wobbly feeling in my stomach. Then the image was gone and a moment later it was part of the forest/mountain, then it faded. I started walking again and I could hear everything magnified, I could see the most vibrant green in the plants and I knew that if I asked the plants anything they would answer me. Everything was very very intense and my vision was enhanced (can't really describe in words).

This lasted for a short while and subsided somewhat. I picked 2 purple flowers and took them back to the car for Naomi and Konane. Then we all went for a walk...

I have never worshipped Hanuman or really known anything about him... I think about him a lot now... you know my question...

With the deepest love and devotion,

Anand Bharathi

Swamiji responds:

Dear Sri Anand Bharathi,

Hanuman was the messenger of Rama, you are my Hanuman, be ready to spread my message and plan to start living with me in the ashram.

My love and blessings

Swamiji

[P.S.M. - A devotee] | 02/03/04

Namaskarams!

Whoever reads this mail, I have a prayer for Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamigal. My brother is suffering from lung cancer. At the age of thirty he became depressed and became mentally ill and was treated by some doctors. Nobody was able to find out the real cause of his suffering. He came to the United States for his higher studies and returned with severe depression. Nobody could diagnose his condition. He suffered, as well as his family. Finally we were forced to send him to a place where they take care of all patients of this nature. Now he has been diagnosed as having lung cancer. IT IS VERY SAD THAT MY BROTHER, WHO WAS VERY SENSITIVE AND GOD-FEARING IS FACING THIS KIND OF SITUATION IN LIFE. IT IS UNBEARABLE.

I had the opportunity to attend Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamigal's discourse in Fremont, USA. It was total bliss!!!! I am told that Swamigal and his healers can heal any kind of ailment upon request. I call upon you to visit and heal my brother with your prayers. Can you please do this for me, for our family?

With lots of thanks and regards,

[Name]

Swamiji responds:

I am Sri Nithyananda Swami, reading your mail myself. I will meditate and help your brother in whatever way is best. Don't worry, I will take care. If possible send his photograph.

My love and blessings

[P.S.M.] 03/03/04

Dear Swamiji,

Oh! God! I just couldn't believe my eyes, nor can I control my tears of joy! What a blessing to a soul to feel and experience the Love of God! You are the embodiment of love, Swamiji. I am just out of control today, with all emotions, as I believe God is amidst us all the time if only we look for Him. I feel very much blessed by your kindness and love. My heartfelt thanks Swamiji.

Regarding the photo, I have only one, which was taken in '93. Hope this will help.

Thanks a lot.

With lots of Love and Pranams,

[Name]

_Fredonna Carthen_ _04/03/04_

Hello Swamiji,

I am the African American woman that was at the retreat in Oklahoma City this past weekend. It was a wonderful, awesome experience and I want to THANK YOU again for the opportunity. You are such a BLESSING!!! However, I needed to email you with something that I'm dealing with that seems to persist. I feel like I can't maintain that state of inner peace. I tend to be so dissatisfied with myself. I do acknowledge today that I do not really know myself, who I am or what I want (or what God desires for me to do with my life) or even really trust myself. It is so frustrating. Up two days down three, on and on and on. I feel like I keep repeating so many of the same life-lessons. And like you spoke this weekend - we can have 'head knowledge' but if we don't experience it - it will not work. Maybe I'm not patient with myself??? Not really sure, so your guidance will be so appreciated.

You Are The BLESSING!

Fredonna

_Dara Fogel_

_05/03/04_

Dear Swamiji,

I was one of the University of Oklahoma students that attended your talk last night. I want to thank you for coming to our little corner of the planet. We definitely need more visitors like you here!

Last night, I asked you if enlightenment was really as easy as you made it sound. You were able to communicate the simplicity of it in a way that cut through all my ego games and allowed me to taste the bliss of which you spoke. I am eternally grateful to you for that gift. I wanted to talk to you personally afterwards, but I was so blown away that I could not formulate anything to ask, so I left. But today, Dr Barbara Boyd of the OU Religious Studies Program and I spent hours talking about your message & the profound impact you had upon the both of us (I am Dr. Boyd’s graduate assistant in the RELS program).

I am wondering if there will be any more opportunities to see you while you are still in Oklahoma?

I have often read about & a few times experienced powerful spiritual presences that have cut through the ego’s defenses and allowed one to See. I am coming to realize that my soul is hungry for this food. I intend to come to your ashram and take you up on your generous offer to conduct research, but it will be some time before I can manage the arrangements. In the meantime, I want to know how I can continue what was begun last night (aside from continuing the meditation technique you taught us). I feel like you gave us all a tremendous jump-start that broke down the ego barriers of those open to it, and I want to continue and augment this process, but am unsure how to proceed.

Thank you so much for coming & sharing with us!

In gratitude,

Dara Fogel

_Ma Nithya Premi [Gertrude]_ _06/03/04_

Dear Swamiji,

How can we live without you - we miss you so much!

Please, if you can, come to Fremont before you go back to India. I will take care of your trip as soon as you let me know. If you cannot, then, please come back in 6 months. I would be happy to sponsor the event in Fremont. I am aware of the importance of your mission, and hence would be delighted to help you somehow, some way. Just let me know. I just want you to know I am here for you. If you need something, anything... I am here for you.

Love,

Gertrude (Ma Nithya Premi)

_Ma Krishnananda [Priya]_

_07/03/04_

My Loving Master,

How can I thank you enough for everything you have done for me?

I am not going to try. I am blessed and extremely lucky to have gotten You for my growth. I know I am born anew.

I henceforth give my good, bad thoughts, actions, words to thee. I have nothing which is mine... everything is yours. My love for you is much inferior to the love I saw in the eyes of the beautiful Nithyananda today. Still, however poor quality it is... I do love you. I love you with all my being.

Thanks for my new and real name... you have told me my path and I will remain your gopi forever. I give myself to thee... do whatever you want with me... I do not question or doubt anymore... You are my Guru and I follow you... however I am, I belong to you. I love you Swamiji...

Many times during the meditation I felt your presence just next to me. I am grateful for everything Lord. I am sorry that my love for you, although it is 100%, has been masked by my worldliness and doubt.

Thanks for the chance to love you.

Your loving

Ma Krishnananda

Dr. Murali Krishna, President COO, Integris | 12/03/04

Dear Swamiji,

Namasthe.

I sincerely thank you for spending time in Oklahoma, especially for being so open to share with us your inspiring healing. You have been kind and patient with the research projects.

I will be compiling the article with the exciting new findings in the next two weeks and will send it to you before you leave USA on April 1st.

Meanwhile the news about your visit to Integris Jim Thorpe has been added to the website that can be seen by anyone by logging on to integrisjimthorpe.com.

There are two web pages with your photographs and the type of studies done.

With Warm Regards,

R.Murali Krishna, M.D.

Dearest Swami,

I need your help and guidance... For the last week and a half I have been having a lot of amazing experiences, but now I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the things I feel and see around me. I am finding it harder and harder to find solace with the people around me. Sebastian has been really wonderful in trying to understand, but I knew he didn't really know the extent of it. So I did the Mahamantra with him one morning where we held each other's hands. I knew that I could not convey with words what I am feeling, only by feeling it himself could I explain more accurately... and it seemed to work. I have no doubt in my mind that you know what I have experienced. I know now that I do not want to and cannot go on alone and I would like to have your presence as a guiding light as I enter into this new life and journey. I would be overjoyed if you would be my teacher and guide...

With All my Love and Deepest Respect,

Ma Abhayananda Bharathi

_Ramchander – A Healing Miracle_ _12/03/04_

Dear All,

I am the father of Shailender, who was brought to Swamiji under conditions of severe physical and mental illness. The power of prayer and the healing of Swamiji has had the desired effect on Shailender - the WBC count which was 600 at the time of admission into the Hospital, gradually increased to 900 to 1200 to 3000 to 7000 and he was discharged from the hospital.

The recovery has been miraculous and he has been found fit to take the arduous flight to India, for recuperation and convalescence.

In your own way, each one of you has contributed your share, for the miracle that has happened.

God Bless you all.

In the Service of Swamiji,

Affectionate regards,

Dyumani and Ramachander

_Ma Vivekananda Bharathi [Shanti Pai]_ _14/03/04_

My dear Swamiji,

Thank you so much for coming into my life. I am indeed blessed to have had such wonderful opportunities with you. I had never felt this kind of pure love that you showed me. It is so pure, so true, so sweet - really a Nithyananda true to the word!!!!!!! I thank you for the lovely hug that you gave me and for calling me 'Mom'. I am at loss for words but you know that I have you in my heart forever!!!!! Thank you Swami from the bottom of my heart. I seek your blessings always on my family. Thank you for touching my daughters with your presence. They feel they missed so much and wished they had attended the ASP. Sunil, of course cannot wipe the smile from his face, and my husband is truly happy to have been with you. Part of me misses you but part of me is in the bliss of having been with you. Please be with me always, my dear son.

Love you lots,

Shanti - Mom

Ma Vivekananda Bharathi

Dear Swamiji,

Thank you so much for your advice. As per your advice, Anand Kamal is continuing with his online courses.

I have learnt not to worry since you said, "Don't worry ma, now, he is my worry. He will be fine."

I am still helping him with all his assignments - I feel like I am a fulltime student and a fulltime doctor and a fulltime homekeeper!

But just even thinking about you and meditating gives me all the energy. I have become more patient. At times when I get tired, bringing your blissful form into my mind and slipping into Ananda Gandha meditation and thinking, 'Swami, help Anand' calms me down and his work automatically improves!

With love and respects,

Ma Anand Swabav

Ma Krishnananda [Priya]

16/03/04

Dearest Master,

Krishnananda

_Sri Nithya Praba [Douglas MacKallor]_ _16/03/04_

Namaste Swamiji,

This is Nithya Praba (Douglas MacKallor - the red headed devotee.)

Once again, many thanks for helping Ma Nithya Shanta (Tam Truong). Her position seems more secure. That is a relief! And she is very grateful for everyone's help (especially yours).

All is well with us. When my wife, Ma Anand Praba (Sharmila MacKallor) does the Shakti Dharana meditation, it is very easy to see that you have entered into her! She sways back and forth with energy and bliss. So we know (with physical proof) that you are always with us. (I feel your blissful energy too, but not like she does.)

Swamiji, I know that you are with us, but being of human form, we would also like to ask you directly for help. Several times, during your visit to the Bay Area (we wanted to ask you about Anand Praba's job situation, but we were too ashamed to ask you about worldly matters.

Ma Anand Praba works at the same place as Ma Nithya Shanta, and it is a very political (difficult) place.

For the past three months, Ma Anand Praba was supposed to be promoted, yet there have been many political obstacles.

Could we please ask for your help? Could you please help Ma Anand Praba so that she gets the best situation possible and all goes smoothly?

Swamiji, please forgive us. I know that we need to approach God with namaskaram and not in begging form... but this means so much for both of us, that I must take the risk and ask for help in worldly matters. Please forgive me and accept my humble request.

Thanks again for all...

We have been keeping to at least one meditation a night (sometimes more) and feel blissful just knowing that you are with us.

Nithya & Anand Praba

Kay Burtness 18/03/04

Good Evening Swamiji,

I am in the midst of many miracles, blessings and bliss, thank you!

Am working on coming to Columbus to experience the ASP program again. Also am talking to others about it. Am using the healing technique more and more and have wonderful experiences with healing others, myself and animals.

Am looking at some business ventures .. please help me figure out which directions to go.

Thank you for your smile, your bliss and your wonderful light in the world. I cannot begin to tell you how deeply touched I am with the fact that you have shared this incredible gift of bliss with me and the world.

Kay Burtness, California

_L. - a devotee_ _19/03/04_

Dear Swamiji,

How are you? Everything is just ok here actually the truth is it has gotten worst. We went out to texas yesterday and oh my gosh. All my father could say was lies. He was telling all his friends that he had spent time with me so much as a little kid that i was very lucky and still am. He says to people my mom has the easiest life, if she does then why is she always sad and cries all the time.

This is just an update of how it is going here at our house. Now for my life and how it's going. Woow i feel great, i'm not as worried about things as i used to be and i'm more relaxed. I have a big college exam coming and i'm really nervous. This is going to determine where i go. I really want to go to this one university but i don't think my dad can afford it unless i get a 1600 on that test. So please give me some advice on what to do

I just wanted to say thank you for being there and guiding me. Suddenly it seems you are the only one i can trust with my thoughts. I have always wanted a big brother or sister as i was growing and i’m glad i found someone. You make me feel very secured and happy any time i think of you. For some reason i have tears running down from my eyes as i am writing this email. You make me free and alive with love. Much love and happiness! love from your little sister, L.

_Syam Sundar Mannava, OKC_ | _19/03/04_

Sri Nithyananda Swamiji:

We feel blessed by your visit to Oklahoma City. I attended both the ASP and NSP programs and here is what I feel. I feel that ASP encouraged me to start living normally and NSP took me even beyond, it has given me a second chance at life.

When I mentioned to you that I still am getting unnecessary thoughts you said, ‘Relax, I will take care of you’. I am already seeing the effects of your taking care of me. For more than two months, our accounts receivables were locked up, putting my partner and me in a very tight financial position. Immediately following the NSP program week, we started getting checks, and as I type this email things have eased up financially and the future is looking bright. It goes to prove beyond doubt that you are taking care of me.

My only question Swamiji is, how am I supposed to react when a thought considered socially or religiously wrong crosses my mind? Should I not feel guilty for any of my actions, whether or not they are socially or religiously wrong? Or does it mean that I am still not liberated from all my past guilts and sins (I am sorry to use these words but I don't know how else to describe them), by the simple fact that I am asking these questions?

Jai Gurudev!

Syam Sundar Mannava,OKC

Sri Abayananda Giri [P K Sharma] 22/03/04

Respected Swamiji,

We are fortunate that You have bestowed Your Blessings and grace upon us. I have always been a “bullock cart”, and now I know that I can be a tractor and even a helicopter!!

Due to my late arrival yesterday, I missed the opportunity of having Energy Darshan from You. I do not know if I will have an opportunity to be in Your presence until Your next visit, and therefore I am requesting Your Blessings and Energy Darshan and Healing for all of us in my family.

Thank You Swamiji for showing me what I am capable of, for healing my leg, for healing my thyroid, and above all, for truly helping me understand what the power of meditation is.

In Nithya Ananda

Sri Abayananda Giri

Sivagami 23/03/04

Dearest Swamiji,

With your blessings I got into a job and I’m starting work tomorrow. I need your blessings always.

Thanks a lot Swamiji. I would like to send my first paycheck to Dhyanapeetam. I would like to know the details of how & where to send it.

With love and respects,

Sivagami

_Monica Sydner_ 24/03/04

Dear Swamiji,

You might think I lack courage, since I want to be with you, yet at the same time want the experience to be gentle. My dilemma is always that I want to go forward, yet my body does go to extremes so easily and I have to live in the real world.

You will say it is all for the good and relax and don't be afraid. But I go OBE so easily (when we did the hum meditation for the heart chakra, I left my body, and I dislike it very much, it is terrifying) and have very much nausea and uncomfortable physical results. Or you might say just come when you are ready. But what does one do when one loves God and the bliss associated with him so much that you can't stay away? I have nowhere to speak these words where they will be understood - unless You can understand and advise. I am coming to Ohio to see you... perhaps you understand. Sincerely, Monica

Harsha Parekh 28/03/04

OM GURU OM Dear Swamiji, A very big thankyou for that most glorious experience! No words can describe the gratitude that I feel. I sure would like to go beyond this state of elation, enjoying the kriyas, to go beyond mind and into samadhi!!!! I guess I am asking for too much! My steps are pretty much dancing to the bathroom in the mornings. I wish to retain this state of energy!! Any further guidance you can give me on my sadhana will be a blessing. Thank you once again, Namaskar, Harsha Parekh

Dr. Murali Krishna, President COO, Integris 29/03/04

Dear Swamiji,

Namasthe.

I hope that you have received the detailed images of PET Scanning and Q-EEG that I have sent. I am herewith sending you 'TheMind Of The Mystic' article. I have thoroughly enjoyed your teachings and immensely respect your wisdom and your willingness to share your valuable insights. I truly believe that you are an important bridge between mysticism and modern science, most of which is yet to be discovered.

With the warmest regards,

R .Murali Krishna, M.D.

Sunil Pai 29/03/04

Dear Swami,

When I meditate and also when I pray, I find myself always worshipping your form. You said this is alright, but how do I go beyond form and worship the God in everyone and everything? You have said people should not become attached to your physical form, so is there a technique or method to see God not only in your form? I've noticed many changes in myself after becoming vegetarian, I feel lighter and even my friends have told me they see a change, they have said I have become a more optimistic and positive person. I feel I have gone through these changes because of you, and I want to worship your true form and not only the body which you have taken. Your disciple, Sunil Pai

_Dara Fogel_ | _29/03/04_

Dearest Swamiji,

How can I express how I feel?! You have given me my life back!! 9 years of studying philosophy had left me literally ready to die. As recently as 3 months ago, I was ready to kill myself. All I saw was blackness & ego. I had come to believe that enlightenment was not really possible - that it was just a cruel joke played upon us by a malicious god. My mantra had become 'Life is evil & God is evil for inflicting it upon us.' But a series of miracles, culminating in this past weekend, has totally turned me around & shown me that my highest aspirations are not only justified, but actually attainable!!! Words cannot express my eternal gratitude to you for breaking through my ego's iron cage and releasing me to the light & love of God!! If you had told me last year that I would be in this place, I would have thought you were deluded & a 'Pollyanna.' But now, I am beyond a believer - I am an experiencer! The whole world is new & beautiful beyond description!

What happened this last weekend goes beyond my plausibility structure - my hard-won logic & reasoning fails to account for what is happening to me & I couldn't be happier about it!! I would like to share a little bit of what happened to me over the last few days:

Friday night, after the 'Sex, Death & Meditation' talk you gave at Kamala's, I slept little, but had 3 dreams about you. In one of the dreams, I dreamt you healed my lower back. My back has been a problem for me for over 10 years & I had planned to ask you for healing. But you beat me to it!! My back did not bother me all weekend - even with sitting on the floor for hours!!! And it is still going good!!

In the second dream, I dreamt that I had asked you if I could take your picture, but while I was fumbling with the camera, you walked away. I misinterpreted this to mean 'move fast', instead of meaning 'don't bother with pictures'. Later, when I thought I had lost the camera with the 'illicit' pictures, all I could think was that I had ignored your warning, betrayed your trust & cast a shadow over the whole experience with my silly desire to capture the eternal in the ephemeral! I was so relieved & overjoyed when I finally found the camera stashed in a little pocket of my bag! I won't be making that mistake again!!

The third dream, I don't understand at all, but maybe time will reveal it. I dreamt I was in a van, travelling at night with you & many faceless others. I was crouching on the floor in the front seat, while you were reclining in the back. I was facing you as you told us all that we were to be the roots of your 'first church,' and that those who came after would be your ‘second church.’ I don’t understand what this means or why you would use Christian language, but I thought I should share it with you. Thank you for all the care & love you have shown for me! I feel I have been lifted by the grace of God to a whole new level of being that I had only dreamed of!! My fears are melting away...

By making it possible for me to attend ASP last weekend, you have changed my life! Already, people are noticing a change in my energy & orientation. You saved me!!! I would not have believed it was possible if I had not experienced it! You have reconnected me to my source!! I cannot thank you enough!!! If there is ever anything I can do for you, you have but to ask!!

I think I may have freaked out some of your followers, as some of the older women seemed to find my intense releases alarming. But as you had said to give everything & since I want to be like you, I took your advice to heart. I did not mean to offend or distract the others, but I could not hold all that awful nastiness inside me any more – it was killing me. I saw the chance you offered me to transform & I jumped at it! I am so glad I did!! You liberated me from the prison of my own mind. I could not do it myself - I know, because I spent 5 years trying, but to no avail.

Next week is the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' liberation from slavery to Egypt. I shall be celebrating my own release from ego-bondage when I gather with my family & friends, and will offer the ancient traditional prayers with new depth and meaning!

With the greatest love and gratitude from your redeemed philosopher,

Dara

Swamji responds:

Dear Dara,

My love and blessings, I read your mail totally.

The third dream means, you will be a member of my inner circle.

You have written that "If there is ever anything I can do for you, you have but to ask". Now I tell you to come to India to the ashram, as soon as possible, to explore the spiritual life and enlightenment.

All my love and blessings, you will grow spiritually.

Swamiji

Dara Fogel | 31/03/04 ---|---:

Dearest Swamiji,

WOW!!!!!

Yes! Yes! A million million times YES!!!

Now all I have to do is figure out how...

This is an honor I never dared to dream of!! I think there may be a way to come in January, but it is going to take a lot of hard work on my part, tolerance on the part of the university & a couple of miracles to accomplish....

But this amazing opportunity you offer is my lifelong dream. Somehow, I will work it out & be with you & help you with your mission! There is nothing else I would rather do! That would truly be meaningful work that would benefit all humanity, just as the philosophy student in my joke was seeking!! I know the value of what you offer me & how rare & important this opportunity is. I will not squander it!! Somehow, it will happen!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

All my love, gratitude & effort,

Dara

Cynthia 02/04/04

Dear and Honorable Swamiji,

I am Cindy from Ohio, USA and recently attended Ohio ASP. I have no words to express my love for you.

I am a doctor of psychology. My life has been focused on healing the psychological pain of others. You, 1/2 man, 1/2 God have shown me true healing!

I desire to be of service to your Great Mission.

How may I serve you and God?

I saw the YOU.

I pray and meditate each day. I wear my MALA to my office when I am with my patients. It allows me to remain close to your healing power.

With Deep Respect,

Cindy

The following is an email exchange between Sri Nithya Bhasker (a devotee) and Dr. Barbara Boyd, Head of Religious Studies, Oklahoma University.

(This exchange was later mailed to Dhyanapeetam by Sri Nithya Bhasker)

Barbara Boyd 05/03/04

Dear Rama,

Thank you for inviting us to Swami's talk. It was wonderful. He has such a kind presence. We have talked about it all day!

I have friends who would like to see him. Is he talking publicly anywhere else this weekend?

I will work on the idea of students going to the ashram. I myself want to go but it would be a few years before I qualify for a sabbatical.

Thank you again for a wonderful, wonderful experience.

Dr. Barbara S. Boyd

Sri Nithya Bhasker [Rama] 08/03/04

Dear Barbara,

Thank you for your sincere recognition and appreciation of Divinity in Sri Nithyananda Swami.

He is conducting ASP in Ohio and New York during this month (21-22 and 27-28 March 2004).

If any of you or your students are interested in attending this meditation course, please feel free to ask for any help.

With love and regards,

Sri Nithya Bhasker (Rama)

Barbara Boyd 10/03/04

Dear Rama,

We will be there - there will be four of us. I would love to speak with Swami for just a few minutes again... I want my spouse to meet him, too. This young man is so effective... I can't seem to get over him... I feel like I need to imprint his energy into my body before he goes away... How amazing to be in such an energy field... he is truly enlightened and I can tell it... I read energy very well...

Thanks and see you this evening.

Barbara S. Boyd

Barbara Boyd 11/03/04

Dear Rama,

Several of us were VERY moved by Swami and want to see him when he comes again. I think this may be a new path for several of us. I have practised meditation for twenty years, and I am most interested in learning the healing tools. As a minister, I would like to know how to help others with healing.

I would LOVE to have a meditation group each week... though my life is so busy I don't know how that would be possible..! I do meditate every day, though, after my yoga practice. But I know Swami teaches a special kind of meditation.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for the pictures. I have him sitting on my mantle so that I can look at his lively and lovely face whenever I feel like. I have taken another picture to my office.

Thank you!

Namaste

Barbara Boyd

Dear Rama,

I just learned that Dara is going to Ohio for the retreat with Swami... I am SO excited for her... and wishing I could go, too. But the timing isn't right... I do want to start training with Swami when he comes back to OKC... but I am patient and willing to wait for the time to be right...

All things work for harmony...

Namaste

Barbara

Sri Nithya Bhasker [Rama] 16/03/04

Dear Barbara,

Swami is born with the purpose of uplifting all, especially the Westerners. Of course Swami is listening to you. I will keep you posted of Swami's visit in future.

In the meanwhile, may I invite you, your husband, friends, students to join us this coming Sunday for meditation at [address].

With love and regards,

Sri Nithya Bhasker [Rama]

Barbara Boyd 17/03/04

Dear Rama,

I am glad to hear what Swami's divine purpose is... this means that our paths will cross again and again... for this I am grateful... and I am also deeply aware that this path is where I am supposed to go. I have had many teachers. I have learned much. I have been waiting very patiently for the universe to send my next teacher to me. It has, and he is Swami... so now that I have found him I am in no hurry. I will continue to meditate and do my yoga. When he comes back to OKC, I will be prepared... for what he has to teach me.

Namaste

Barbara

Ma Vivekananda Bharathi

03/04/04

Namaste Swami,

These last few days have been worrying for us. My mother's brother is having a stomach operation today at Mallya Hospital in Bangalore. They are suspecting cancer. Please shower your blessings on him.

My brother called from South Carolina. He lost his Lord Venkateswara chain which his wife had given him several years back and so he was wondering if he should perform some particular puja. Please Swami tell me what he should do.

I think of you night and day, and though you say you are with me I still miss you very much! I can see you smile

Swamiji responds: Don't worry, I will take care of everything. My love and blessings.

Ma Vivekananda Bharathi 04/04/04

Namaste Swami, Many many thanks to you! I just heard that the tumor which was the size of a cricket ball looks benign!!!! The final report is still to come but this is really good news. We are ever so grateful for your Divine Grace. Also my brother called to say he found his Venkateswara pendant in his pocket!! It was not there before!! Thank you for all the miracles Swami. With lots and lots of love and hugs and kisses to you, Love, Shanthi (Mom)

_Nithya & Anand Praba_ _13/04/04_

Swamiji, last Saturday as usual we (the healers from the Bay Area) got together at Nacha’s for our regular biweekly gathering. In about five minutes after I entered their house, I went into meditation. I don’t think I was able to control my physical body (maybe I didn’t even try). Then we did the Mahamantra meditation. I did the humming and sat in silence, but my fingers kept snapping (I’m working on controlling the snapping of my fingers). Then they played one of your Kirtans. I truly melt into that Kirtan and start dancing. Dancing beyond my control. I have to say that it was not me who was dancing, it was Your divine energy. I moved and swirled (I didn’t fall), I was aware of my movements but surely the movements were not out of my own action. I truly enjoyed it. Can I say I was in ecstasy? People say I was in trance, and the best part is, I was in my Guru’s energy. Thank you Swamiji!

Then everyone sang bhajan & finally Nithya Kirtan for aarti. I was on my knees and again went into meditation. All I felt was, like You were pouring blessings on everyone. My hands were moving as if You were giving blessings to Your devotees. It's an experience that I do not know how to put in words.

Nithya Praba will be celebrating his birthday on April 15ᵗʰ. I am planning to celebrate his birthday with Your meditation, kirtan and the opening ceremony of the Healing Center in our home. Thank you for your GRACE Swamiji.

Sorry for the long message. Love you much.

Jai Guru Dev,

Nithya & Anand Praba (The MacKallor Family)

Dearest Swamiji,

After my wonderful experiences at the Ohio ASP, I was in bliss for a week.... then I hit a brick wall! My ego reasserted itself with a vengeance! I have spent the last 2 weeks battling my body, my fears & doubts! It was like the universe was challenging me - Are you serious about this enlightenment stuff? In a sense, it was worse than if I had never done ASP, for I now know what is possible & how far I have fallen from it. After sitting & stewing in my own juices for a week, I finally remembered what you told me - that the ego is not satisfied unless it has a big problem to solve. All I know is that I have made more progress in the short time I have known you than I have in some 20 years of seeking on my own. But I still have some fears & concerns. Am I worthy of being in your inner circle? What will I have to give up & am I really ready to do it? Will I lose my free will & become a fanatic? What is it that you see in me that I cannot see? Maybe these questions are more ego nonsense & not worthy of a response... That is why I hesitated to bring it to you. In the West, this kind of existential angst is considered a matter of personal choice & responsibility

Swamiji responds: Dear Dara, Don't worry, Divine will take care. Allow this confusion to work on you. I will work out miracles from this confusion. Just once, if you put your whole energy and get totally confused, you will see that confusion never touches you again. My love & blessings.

Ma Vivekananda Bharathi 19/04/04

Dearest Swamiji, I have news for you.. I saw you yesterday! You were standing in the doorway while we were doing Aarathi at the Satsang, and smiling at everybody! I was wanting to see your physical form for a long time. Thank you for showing me that you are there for us! I am forever grateful to have you in my life and wish to be united with you for ever and ever. With lots of love, hugs and kisses, Ma Vivekananda Bharathi (Shanthi 'Mom')

Anjula Jackson 30/04/04

Pujya Swamiji, My pranaams to you. Swamiji, I am not able to control this roller coaster of feelings. So much has happened so suddenly, I'm still trying to digest it all. I was deep down in the dumps, could see no direction for my life. I used to just listen to everyone and get more confused. That was the state I was in when you came into my life and transformed it miraculously. I cannot tell you how blessed I feel to have your touch. I feel so right in my entire being, I've never felt like this before. Now I struggle to carry on with my daily chores! I am aware that I cannot shun my responsibilities and try hard to maintain the balance. If I could have it my way, I'd be at the aashram right now. I also know that you told me to wait. Give me the strength, please. Swamiji, I also wanted to ask you whether anything is required for the aashram from here. I'll be very happy to bring it. My love and regards, Anjula

Sri Anand Swaroop | 30/04/04

Dear Swamiji: I hope you are well. When I met you in San Jose in February you asked me to spend some time with you at the ashram when you returned. I want very much to do that, if you still want me to come. I know you have many devotees who are more devout in their faith than I, but I am trying. The time that you spent with me awoke something inside me that seems to have gone into hiding once more, yet those were moments that will be with me forever.

I think about you each day, and know that you are with me, even if you cannot be with me physically. I ask for your continued blessings so that I may continue to progress along the path that lies in front of me.

Peace.

Sri Anand Swaroop

Kavitha Rajeev | 30/05/04 -- | --:

Pranams Swamiji!

Thank you for appearing in my dream yesterday! I am so happy that I had a glimpse of you, Swamiji!

Swamiji, there is a remarkable change in my daughter and her health is improving. This is all due to your grace. Last weekend our family had been to NewYork. When we were returning in the middle of the night, there were some stray peices of debris in the middle of the road. We were travelling at high speed, but in spite of being tired and sleepy, Rajeev was able to spot the obstruction and avoided it. I knew immediately that Swamiji had saved us from danger. We are all protected by Your Divine Grace.

Swamiji, I'm hearing about many great 'Leelas' regarding You and am very happy. Sometimes You have to make us understand that You are God! Since You are so simple, we tend to take You for granted and sometimes do not realize Your greatness. Thank you for reminding us also.

Reverential Pranams to the Lotus feet of Swamiji, Kavitha

Trisha Howell (ASP participant, Seattle) : 24/02/04

Dear Friends,

I want to tell you about the wonderful weekend I just spent with Swamiji (Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda Swamigal), a fun, funny, joyful, compassionate, healing, and very high-energy enlightened master from India. He celebrates and embraces life fully, and I really felt this intense joy and sense of possibility in his presence. There is no drudgery, solemnity, nor stifling "shoulds" imposed on you. It is all fun, laughter, and awakening possibility. But this doesn't mean a lack of discipline or that anything goes. It's just that once you have a solid experience of the basic energy of the universe, you can trust that, follow the deep intelligence within you, and you'll do the right thing without needing external rules imposed on you. You just trust God/the Universe/Energy (however you want to call it), and it will guide you in your own growth and service to others.

I have gone to numerous events with spiritual teachers and healers, and many have had valuable advice and techniques, but I have never met anyone quite like Swamiji. This vigorous young master (he is only 26 years old) is so practical and in tune with the realities and challenges of life right now, and his teachings are so universal (not religious but spiritual), that everyone can benefit greatly. It doesn't matter what your religion or other beliefs are, the energy of total bliss (Nithyananda) that Swamiji embodies and shares will enhance your life.

Swamiji does not ask you to believe anything—in fact, he invites you to doubt everything, to verify anything he says, including the techniques he teaches, by how well they work in your life. Swamiji always tells you to put your total attention and effort into all you do, and then experience what thereby happens within. Your inner experience is your proof.

Swamiji respects everyone's freedom and invites you to learn from everyone and everything. He welcomes all questions, insights, and other contributions. He seems to be the living embodiment of his conviction that we should never have a closed mind and should learn from everyone. He is NOT forming a cult. His worldwide movement for meditation - Dhyanapeetam - is designed to awaken the divinity that lies within us, not to make converts to any one path or way of doing things.

I know talk of enlightenment sounds abstract, but if you meet Swamiji, you'll see that it's really the most practical and joyful way to be. I had always thought that it would be nice to be enlightened and that, of course, it would bring benefits, but I don't think I really understood in a very concrete way - until my time with Swamiji - that it's the way of being that's freest, happiest, and most useful to yourself and others. You can be free from all worries, fears, depressions, conflict, wasted effort, illusions, etc., and replace them with bliss. Even if, like me, you are not enlightened, you can get a lot of these benefits through practising the meditations.

I highly recommend that you arrange to meet Swamiji and take his Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) when he's in your area (his schedule is at www.swamisworld.com) or that you travel to his ashram in India to take this two-day course of study that energetically conveys to you the fundamental meditation techniques for each of the seven chakras (Ananda Spurana means Flowering of Bliss). I am planning to go to India to take his more advanced courses. You can find out more about him at www.dhyanapeetam.org

Beth Wegener (ASP participant, OKC)

(Beth Wegener is an American lady from Oklahoma City who has been very inclined towards spirituality for decades.)

By those who do not think they are “someone special,” Someone chosen by the Lord, Deemed superior to “the crowd.”

The simple soul Who holds Nithya in the depth of his being, Seeing all as the embodiment of the Almighty Is the one who easily glimpses the Divine grace Embodied in the sublime form of Nithyananda.

The simplicity of his wisdom, Blended with his acceptance and love, Helps people of all faiths and backgrounds See the folly of life’s delusions. Only through God’s grace Could we receive so easily The healing touch that flows continuously From the tender, outstretched hands of Nithyananda.