January 02 1978 - Birth
The Descent of His Divine Holiness
In 1977, the parama-amśa bhāga1, plenipotentiary portion of Paramashiva, entered the atmosphere of Earth, as an unseen yet powerful nuclear explosion upon the Arunachaleshwara Linga which acted as a strong atomic pile. This nuclear energy was absorbed by the deity of Maha Kalabhairava in the Arunachaleshwara Temple. It was then that Mathaji Vibhutananda Puri took Paramashiva’s nuclear form from the Maha Kalabhairava deity and cooled it in the Brahma Theertham2. This very Brahma Theertham is the emergence of all the great rivers, Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Narmada, Sindhu and Kaveri all of which are the unseen, underground rivers goddesses who flow around Arunachala. This is the theertham where Vishnu Himself took bath as well as Surya, Chandra and all the nine planets before they assumed their almighty planetary forms.3
Upon cooling down in the Brahma Theertham, this invisible strong force was brought to the enlightened being, Poondi Mahan in the months before he attained mahasamadhi in 1978. At this same time, upon Mathaji Vibhutananda Puri’s instruction Anusuyammal brought Ma Lokanayaki to this great enlightened being before conceiving her second child. As Ma Lokanayaki bowed to Poondi Mahan, he showered her with flowers and akshata, the turmeric rice, and declared to her heartily, “Ammaiyappan pirappen!”, blessing her that he will be born to her as the Divine mother and father of the whole cosmos4. With his joyous initiation, the paramashivam dhaama5 thus entered into the womb of Ma Lokanayaki and resided there until Paramashiva Himself assumed the form in the time of the Chitra Nakshatra, Krishna Paksha and Ashtami tithi6.
A short time after this auspicious initiation, Sri Arunachalam and Ma Lokanayaki embarked on a pilgrimage to the land of Tirumala, Tirupati, the sacred abode of Lord Venkateshwara. As Ma Lokanayaki performed the angapradakshina, Lord Venkateshwara blessed her with the knowledge of the presence of Paramashiva within her womb. As she devotedly offered all her angas, all of her body parts, she was graced with awareness that the supreme being Paramashiva Himself had become a part of her.
On the night of 2nd of January 1978, Paramashiva landed within the atmosphere and at the time which would be considered as parama śobhanaḥ7, radiating the ultimate auspiciousness in all aspects. As Ma Lokanayaki’s body alerted her of the arrival of the embodiment of the Cosmos itself in the form of her son, even in the tight contractions of birth where one would normally experience pain, she instead experienced bliss. Thus, Paramashiva, who due to her penance and devotion across births, resided for tens of thousands of years in her soul, manifested outside of her in the city hospital of Thiruvannamalai which will forever be known as the Nithyananda janmasthāna, the place of The Avatar’s advent onto Planet Earth.
At the exact moment of His supreme manifestation, in a flash of brilliant light the whole town of Thiruvannamalai lit up such that it appeared to be as bright as daytime even though it was almost midnight.
Upon the moment of Paramashiva’s birth, Ma Lokanayaki became Lokanayaki devarupini, as her soul merged in Oneness with Paramashiva and she momentarily took the form of Parashakti, the supreme goddess and experienced satori.8
In the moments after His happening, the nurses of the hospital ward were waiting for the cries of a human baby but instead were graced with the gentle coos and capturing smile of Paramashiva Himself in the child form. He was weighing ten pounds, as huge as Devi Parashakti when she emerged from the agni, fire, in a three-year old body as Devi Meenakshi9. The doctors of Ma Lokanayaki joyfully commented on how mature the newborn body of His Divine Holiness appeared, by remarking, “Did you only drink Horlicks10 while you were pregnant?” completely unaware that in front of them was the embodiment of Arunachala who is described as yacca dṛṣṭvā kṛtārthaḥ syāt11 , a sight so supreme it simply fulfills the ultimate aim of life.
The resplendent face of the newly born Avatar was round and moon-shaped12. His nose and ears were characteristically large and His eyes unveiled the ferocious intensity of Paramashiva Himself. On the lower back of His Divine Holiness, appeared an enchanting large dark-skinned patch that spanned the entire right side of his lower back, a birth-mark that would reveal its meaning upon the acquisition of the land of Adi Kailasa Sarvajnapeetham in Bidadi, South India twenty three years into the future. The endearing infant-sized index finger and thumb of His Divine Holiness on both hands were poised tranquilly in the cin mudrā' even as He first appeared in infant form12. All of His fingers and toes were each perfectly sized and symmetrical to their counterparts, with a small black colored mole on the left hand, ring finger. Above all, His Divine Holiness radiated the tapta camīkara prabham, the refulgence of heated gold, just as when the Lord Muruga13 was born from the essence of Paramashiva and Parashakti on the banks of the river Ganga.
As Paramasiva manifested on Earth, so too did all the saptarishi, the seven rishis, the eighteen siddhas and the nine crore rishis who live with him in Kailash, as declared by Agasthya Muni himself in the jeeva nadi of His Divine Holiness thousands of years ago and revealed only in 2010. All of them who were devatāprāyah14 , who were devatas before they descended, manifested on Planet Earth as residents of the nation KAILASA, the great enlightened civilization, which His Divine Holiness would revive once again. Mahamunivar Agasthya himself reveals for those who are ignorant of the happening on Paramashiva on Planet Earth that, “ He is the light of Jnana - he is Adi Shiva. Shiva himself took birth as Nithyananda.”
As the body of the Avatar was delicately maturing to accommodate the supreme superconsciousness into the physical form, the eleven bhairavas who guard Vishwanatha in the Kashi Vishwanatha temple in Varanasi, India - Asitanga Bhairava, Ruru Bhairava, Chanda Bhairava, Krodha Bhairava, Unmatta Bhairava, Kapala Bhairava, Bheeshana Bhairava, Samhara Bhairava, Swarnakarshana Bhairava, Akasha Bhairava and Maha Kalabhairava himself15, manifested around Him invisibly in order to protect the incarnation from any accidental harm or demonic forces who sought to vanquish His Divine Holiness while He was still in the child-form. Though they were not seen by anyone else, His Divine Holiness himself could see them and interacted with them playfully throughout His childhood leelas. 16
Tiruvoodal street in Tiruvannamalai, the childhood home of The Avatar where He carried out His childhood leelas
Glancing at this perfect photograph, The Avatar excitedly recalls, "Where I used to live... If you come out of My house, you will see this exact view!