Toppi Amma
Toppi Amma means mother who wears a hat which she used to wear all the time. While living in Tiruvannamalai, I saw Toppi Amma walking the streets, on Girivalam Road around the Arunachala Mountain, and at Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram. She never talks to anyone but at times mumbles something. People say its some kind of […]
Arunachala Hridaya: The Heart of Arunachala
This is an account of an affair of the Heart but not in the usual sense. My very first connection with Arunachala was when I was fifteen years of age and I borrowed a book from the library on the subject. To this day I have no idea what caused me to pick up that […]
Arunachala Shiva – A Mountain with the Power to Grant Boons and Final Liberation
“In the Dravidian region of South India, there is the greatest place called Arunachala, dearest to Chandrasekara (Shiva as moon-crested). It is the abode of Shiva and yogis. Arunachala is to this world what the heart is to the whole body. It is everything for Shiva. For the benefit of the world, Shiva took the […]
Darshan with Siva Sakthi Ammayair – The Silent One
Whenever Amma is at her ashram I go and sit for 45 minutes for meditation in the morning. During this time Amma comes downstairs to the meditation hall which by then is often filled with up to 150+ meditators and devotees during the tourist season. Many line up outside the hall looking through the windows […]
How to Experience Oneness?
Many seekers talk about Oneness but how many actually know how to be able to experience it? My guru, the Avatar HDH Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, initiates his disciples into Shaktis, loosely translated as powers. Shaktis are initiations to experience Oneness with your being, your inner Self. According to the Agama scriptures there are several shaktis […]
How to Read Akashic Records
Akashic Records are records in the ether or space that hold all happenings of our life from all times, past, present, and future. The Akashic Records are accessible through the power of the third eye and read by enlightened masters. How can we develop the capability to read Akashic Records (AR) ourselves? And how will […]
Mouku Podi Swami at Arunachala
‘Hey!’ he was shouting wildly gesturing with his left arm to chase some devotees away who had gathered around him with folded hands in prayer ‘Namaskar’ position. Two of them got scared, grown men who are used to shouting and ran away. About a month ago I went to the back meditation hall at Sheshadri […]
101 Definitions of Living Enlightenment
Living Incarnation, Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, has given humanity his 101 Definitions of Living Enlightenment. Each of these revelations can serve as an instant click, as a technique for contemplation or a teaching to remember. 1 – Changing whatever you need to change, and accepting whatever you don’t need to change, is living enlightenment.2 – […]