# Category: Definitions

> Nithyananda Kosh - This is a Compilation of Terms Used during Satsang - So the Reader can get a deeper understanding of the amazing truths shared by Swamiji

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## Subcategories

- [Nithya Kriyas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/llms/Nithya_Kriyas.txt): 20 pages

## Pages

- [11 Dimensions of Universe](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/11_Dimensions_of_Universe.md): You need to know and experience that there are more than four dimensions of the Universe, the four being length, breadth, depth and time.
- [Aadheenam](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Aadheenam.md): Etymology “Aadhee” means ancient and “inam” means community or settlement.
- [Aanava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Aanava.md): Etymology “Aanava” means, “feeling lower than what you are”.
- [Agamas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Agamas.md): Scriptural References आचारकथना द यग त ाि त नदानतः । महा मत वकथनादागमः क थतः ये ॥ ४३ ॥ ācārakathanāddivyagati prāptinidānataḥ । mahātmatattvakathanād-āgamaḥ kathitaḥ priye ॥ 43 ॥ Because it narrates…
- [Aghori](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Aghori.md): Aghoris are simple beings - beings who live with complete simplicity.
- [Akashic Readings on Death](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Akashic_Readings_on_Death.md): Part One Date: 27 September 2012 Death is liberation and celebration.
- [Akashic Records](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Akashic_Records.md): Akashic Records are the mystical ‘energy records’ of all the events that have ever happened, are happening and will happen in the Cosmos.
- [Alchemy](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Alchemy.md): ‘Alchemy’ is the science of preparing the chemistry to hold the higher frequencies of consciousness that occur through initiation.
- [Aloneness](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Aloneness.md): Aloneness - The Ability to Live With Yourself You are not just living inside your body as you imagine.
- [Amalotpava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Amalotpava.md): Etymology Amalotpava, means, without any male component it’ll be born - means the plant which grows in another one plant, without a seed.
- [Ananda Tapas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Tapas.md): There is a very intense meditation technique called the “Ananda Tapas”.
- [Anna](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Anna.md): Anna is usually translated as food.
- [Anubhava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Anubhava.md): Anubhava is experience.
- [Anubhuti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Anubhuti.md): Anubhuti is your being coming to conclusion, cognitive shift because of experience.
- [Apa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Apa.md): Apa means unnecessary suffering.
- [Aparigraha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Aparigraha.md): Aparigraha is a consciously chosen minimalistic simple living - as a spiritual lifestyle I tell you the lifestyle of aparigraha, means living with minimal things, is the most luxurious thing you can…
- [Asana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Asana.md): Aasana is roughly translated as Posture.
- [Asura](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Asura.md): Asura means Demon.
- [Authenticity](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Authenticity.md): Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your energy, the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for you.
- [Avatar](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Avatar.md): "Avatar is the Vyakta, manifest component of the unmanifest form, Avyakta.
- [Ayurveda](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda.md): Ayurveda is a natural healing system which originated out of India over 5000 years ago.
- [Baul Mystics](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Baul_Mystics.md): Vedic tradition has seen many streams of living enlightened masters, out of which many streams have dried up.
- [Bhaga Shastra](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Bhaga_Shastra.md): About early 2015, the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Adheenam in Bengaluru, South India, made a surprising discovery – the existence of a Vedic age cookbook, revealed by Mahadeva himself – the Bhaga…
- [Bhakti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Bhakti.md): Bhakti, the Ultimate Gift Let me define exactly what I mean by the word “bhakti”.
- [Bhasha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Bhasha.md): Bhasha means which expresses personified Bhavas through verbalization - is Bhasha.
- [Bhuvana Brahmanda Yoni](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Bhuvana_Brahmanda_Yoni.md): Etymology Bhuvanai means the Goddess of the whole Universe - Devi Bhuvaneshwari is called Bhuvanai.
- [Bidadi Banyan Tree](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Bidadi_Banyan_Tree.md): The Rudraksha came from his blissful tears; Banyan Tree came from his own body.
- [Blindspot](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Blindspot.md): The gap between WHY and HOW, is blind spot.
- [Brahmamuhurta](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Brahmamuhurta.md): Brahma muhurta is a period of two muhurtas (two time units of forty-eight minutes) about one and a half hours before dawn.
- [Brahmotsavam](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Brahmotsavam.md): All temple festivals are ‘Utsavams’ and the most important one is called ‘Brahmotsavam’.
- [Causing](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Causing.md): Cause Everyone’s Highest Reality Causing others’ reality is the highest frequency of Existence.
- [Celebrity](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Celebrity.md): Own and let others own!
- [Chandi Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Chandi_Homa.md): Chandi homa is a Vedic-tantric fire ritual invoking the grace of the Cosmic feminine.
- [Charya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Charya.md): Agamas have four padhas (parts): Charya padha, lifestyle.
- [Childlikeness](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Childlikeness.md): A responsible childishness is ‘childlikeness’.
- [Chitta Shuddi](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Chitta_Shuddi.md): Chitta Shuddi means complete inner-space, the space which has achieved Complete Completion is Shuddha Chittha.
- [Confusion](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Confusion.md): Sleep is the base material out of which the dreams can be dreamt.
- [Conscious Pregnancy](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Conscious_Pregnancy.md): The essence of the Conscious Pregnancy program is to create the perfect receptacle for the ultimate landing of the intelligent soul.
- [Corruption](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Corruption.md): Climbing the power ladder and still struggling hard to keep the personal interests is “Corruption.
- [Darshan](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Darshan.md): Darshan is traditionally used to describe the moment when we behold a deity, a saint or an enlightened being.
- [Decision Fatigue](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Decision_Fatigue.md): Decision Fatigue is the fatigue which happens to you by making decisions.
- [Deeksha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Deeksha.md): Deeksha means ‘initiation’ or the direct transfer of spiritual energy by an avatar through a touch, a word or a look.
- [Depression](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Depression.md): Depression is nothing but the mood of the mind which does not flow with life.
- [Depth](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Depth.md): What you perceive as You, which is the source of your experience of your world, your experience of your God, your experience of your Life, is called Depth.
- [Divya Sareera](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Divya_Sareera.md): Etymology Divya means “Divine”, and Sareera means “Body.
- [Drishti-Srishti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Drishti-Srishti.md): In Sanskrit there are two beautiful phrases – “srishti-drishti” and “drishti-srishti”– either you cognize that you are ‘seeing what exists’ or you cognize that you are ‘creating what you want to see’.
- [Dvandva Vighna](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Dvandva_Vighna.md): Dvandva vighna: You will be surprised Mahadeva talks about this.
- [Education](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Education.md): Who is Educated?
- [Ego](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Ego.md): Easy Way to Catch the Ego Here is an easy way to catch the ego; to know when the ego is coming up.
- [En-Kriya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/En-Kriya.md): About En-Kriya eN KRIYA is the gift given to the world by Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath through me.
- [Enlightened Being](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_Being.md): Scriptural References andhaṁ tamaḥ praviśanti ye’avidyām upāsate | tato bhūya iva te tamo yau vidyāyāṁ ratāḥ || 9 || Enlightened being is a person whose mind has disappeared so he constantly goes…
- [Enlightenment](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment.md): Description Enlightenment very simply defined: Discovering and celebrating that you are unique is living enlightenment Please understand the very purpose of human existence is to live enlightenment.
- [Enriching](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enriching.md): Enriching (Aapyayanam) is you taking responsibility with Integrity and Authenticity that you are committed to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.
- [Fear](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Fear.md): Everything in your inner space, which does not allow you to manifest Sadāshivoham is fear.
- [Fluoride Detoxification](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_Detoxification.md): Technique to Detoxify the Third-Eye In 1990’s, coupled with the protection of a fake scientific experiment, governments around the world introduced fluoride to drinking water reservoirs in an…
- [Freedom](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Freedom.md): “Thinking within the box is bondage.
- [GODDL](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/GODDL.md): The word Brahman used in the Upanishads, the word Bhagavān used in Puranas, or the word Sadāshiva used in Agamas, cannot be translated as G-O-D used in western theologies.
- [Ganga Aarati](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Aarati.md): Ganga aarti is performed daily in the evening by a group of priests at the Dashashwamedh ghat in Varanasi.
- [Google Confidence](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Google_Confidence.md): The moment calculator comes, the memorization of arithmetic tables becomes redundant.
- [Grand Narrative](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Grand_Narrative.md): Every civilization has a collective identity.
- [Grihasta](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Grihasta.md): Etymology A married person; from the word griha meaning house From Swamiji Blessed are those who don’t have anybody in their life who need to change when they change.
- [Gurukul](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Gurukul.md): Etymology Gurukul means, the literal meaning of the Gurukul is, Guru’s home.
- [Hamsa Mantra](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Hamsa_Mantra.md): Meditation Techniques to Face Your Fears Physiologically and psychologically, this meditation will transform your life.
- [Hard Power](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Hard_Power.md): Hard power is based on disciplining using either fear or greed, using either punishment or reward.
- [Haritaki](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Haritaki.md): Haritaki or Kadukaai (Terminalia chebula) is a wonder drug, finding its place in a wide range of therapeutic usage in the Ayurveda system of medicine.
- [Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Homa.md): Homa is a Vedic ritual which helps us connect to the fire element, one of the five major elements in Nature.
- [Humbleness](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Humbleness.md): Humbleness is not thinking yourself as a less.
- [Incompletion](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Incompletion.md): Any action that is unfulfilled as per your imagination, either because of an outer hindrance or an inner hindrance, is incompletion!
- [Inferior Ego](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Inferior_Ego.md): The inferior ego that is trying to show humbleness is also ego.
- [Innocence](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Innocence.md): What is Innocence You cannot be intense in anything you do unless you are innocent of other agenda.
- [Integrity](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Integrity.md): Integrity is you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others and experiencing a state of Poornatva – completion with yourself and with life.
- [Jnananjana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Jnananjana.md): Jnanānjana is an enlightenment eye-liner prepared by an Enlightened Master.
- [Jyothirlinga](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Jyothirlinga.md): The Jyotirlingas are sacred sites of worship of Lord Shiva where Shiva Himself appeared as a shaft of light and gave blessings to his devotees, and where His divine presence is alive eternally.
- [Kalaa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kalaa.md): Etymology In the definition Sadāshiva says - Kalaa means infusing your prana into anything is called Kalaa.
- [Kalabhairava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kalabhairava.md): Etymology Maha Kalabhairava, the Lord of Time and Space “Kala” means black or time.
- [Kalabhairava Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kalabhairava_Homa.md): Kalabhairava Homa, where Lord Kalabhairava blesses for conquering fear and powerful completion.
- [Kamika Agama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kamika_Agama.md): Kamika Agama is the foremost scripture that came out of the Sadyojata face of Sadashiva, and was directly uttered by Lord Shiva to Devi and a Sadhaka / Sapta Rishi (sage) called Pranava on Mount…
- [Karana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Karana.md): Time lapse version of 1008 Asanas, is 108 Karana.
- [Karma](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Karma.md): Karma is a collection of unfulfilled experiences that stay in us and which constantly pull us to fulfill them.
- [Karna Parampara](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Karna_Parampara.md): In Hinduism, there is a oral tradition, where the most ancient sacred secrets are transferred only from Guru to disciple, Guru to disciple.
- [Karthigai Deepam](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Karthigai_Deepam.md): Karthigai Bharani Deepam’, is a beautiful Hindu festival of lights.
- [Kashi Vishwanath Temple](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kashi_Vishwanath_Temple.md): Etymology The Sanskrit words ‘Kashi’ mean “shining” in English and ‘Vishwanath’ translates to “Lord of the Universe,” denoting Shiva.
- [Kena Upanishad](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kena_Upanishad.md): Etymology The word ‘kena ‘means ‘whom’.
- [Kirtans](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kirtans.md): In the Nithyananda Sangha, we participate in Kirtans by singing, dancing and celebrating the divine everyday.
- [Krishna](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Krishna.md): The greatest happening that happened, is happening, will happen, in the cosmos is Krishna!
- [Kumkum](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kumkum.md): Kumkum is red processed turmeric.
- [Kundalini](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Kundalini.md): Kundalini is known by many names – the universal energy, the great cosmic mother, the creative force of the universe.
- [Leela](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Leela.md): Etymology Leela means play.
- [Leela Alankara](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Leela_Alankara.md): Leela Alankara is the ritual offing of adorning the deity with the riches of clothing, jewellery, and flower garlands.
- [Levitation](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Levitation.md): The word ‘levitation’ is derived from Latin word ‘levitas’ meaning lightness.
- [Listening](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Listening.md): According to Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the definition of right listening is allowing the words to enter in your inner space automatically, cognizing them without you constantly interfering with your…
- [Long Breath](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Long_Breath.md): The daily practice of the one-thousand-two-hundred-long breaths supports our development of Samana, the energy that lifts our consciousness to its highest frequency.
- [Maatrika](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Maatrika.md): The word ‘mantra’ is a derivative of the word ‘maatrika’, sounds which carry a specific conscious vibrational energy.
- [Maatru Bhava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Maatru_Bhava.md): Etymology Maatru means “Mother” and Bhava means “Feeling Connection”.
- [Mahadeva Leelarnava](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Mahadeva_Leelarnava.md): Mahadeva Leelarnava - Shiva Leelarnava, there is a beautiful compilation of Shiva’s leelas - Shiva Leelarnava.
- [Maheshwara Puja](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Maheshwara_Puja.md): Maheshwara Puja is one of Hinduism’s most ancient rituals.
- [Manana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Manana.md): Manana is intranalyzing.
- [Manikarnika Ghat](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Manikarnika_Ghat.md): A “ghat” is literally a flight of steps that descends down to a body of water.
- [Matured Conversation](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Matured_Conversation.md): Understanding the principles and deciding to live with it is matured conversation.
- [Maya Matrix](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Maya_Matrix.md): The Maya Matrix is the network of illusions that makes us believe that what we perceive with our senses and cognise with our mind is all there is to life.
- [Meenakshi](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Meenakshi.md): Devi Meenakshi is an Avatar of Goddess Parvati – who incarnated in the human body as the daughter of the Pandya king Malayadhvaja and his wife Kanchanamala who ruled the Panya Kingdom from Madurai…
- [Meenakshi Sundareshwara Temple](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Meenakshi_Sundareshwara_Temple.md): The Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple is dedicated to the worship of Goddess Meenakshi & Lord Sundareshwarar, who were the incarnations of Goddess Shakti and Lord Shiva themselves.
- [Morning Routine](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Morning_Routine.md): Activities Yoga When you do yoga, you experience your entire body becoming Amrita Sharira (body filled with nectar).
- [Nachiketa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Nachiketa.md): Nachiketa is a child who is an embodiment of authenticity.
- [Naga Sadhu](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Naga_Sadhu.md): Naga Sadhu is an ascetic that belongs to a group that wears no clothes.
- [Navadhi Kriya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Navadhi_Kriya.md): Navadhi kriya is a small and simple exercise to balance the three doshas of our body.
- [Navagraha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Navagraha.md): As per Vedic Astrology, there are nine planets that influence our lives.
- [Neem Juice](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Neem_Juice.md): Neem tree is a medicinal ayurvedic tree indigenous to India, which has been of great benefit to humanity for thousands of years.
- [NewGen Kriya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/NewGen_Kriya.md): The NewgeN Kriya is for bringing clarity and emotional stability to the youth.
- [Nirahara Samyama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Nirahara_Samyama.md): Nirahara Samyama is a technique from the Vedic Tradition to explore and discover your body’s possibilities to live without any external input like food or water.
- [Nithya Dhyaan](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Nithya_Dhyaan.md): Nithya Dhyaan is a 35-minute meditation designed by H.H Paramahamsa Nithyananda to unclutch from the mind and move beyond it.
- [Nithya Kriyas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Nithya_Kriyas.md): Nithya Kriya is a series of healing yogic processes revealed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
- [Nyasa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Nyasa.md): Etymology Nyasa means purifying.
- [Pada Puja](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pada_Puja.md): Pada Puja is a unique celebration of expressing overflowing deep gratitude to the Guru.
- [Pain](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pain.md): Technique Pain is actually the absence of attention, so the solution is ‘giving your presence’.
- [Pancha Kriyas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pancha_Kriyas.md): Pancha Kriya involves five powerful cleansing processes to remove toxins and impurities from the system.
- [Pancha Tapas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pancha_Tapas.md): Pancha Tapas is an ancient process where one sits inside a ring of fire.
- [Pattern](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pattern.md): Any cognition you make out of unawareness, which comes back to you again and again in some form or the other, is a pattern or samskara.
- [Phobia](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Phobia.md): Phobias are Frozen Mood Swings Q: Are phobias the result of some evil happening in a past life?
- [Poornatva](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Poornatva.md): Scriptural References From Shiva Agamas Mahadeva Himself, Shiva Himself gives this technique to Parvati in Shiva Agama.
- [Praana Pratishta](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Praana_Pratishta.md): Prana pratishtha is the science of directly infusing life-force into matter.
- [Prana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Prana.md): The word ‘prana’ has a deeper meaning in Sanskrit; it means the source of life, the life force or the energy which is the basis for existence.
- [Pranayama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Pranayama.md): Pranayama is the science of breathing.
- [Puja](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Puja.md): Introduction There are many kinds of pujas for specific situations and occasions, but the fundamental elements remain the same.
- [Responsibility](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Responsibility.md): Responsibility means living and responding to life from the truth that you are the Source of, and therefore responsible for, all happenings in and around you.
- [Ritu](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Ritu.md): Etymology Ritu means “season”.
- [Rituals](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Rituals.md): Benefits Need for Physical Way to connect with the Divine “God is formless, why the need for rituals?” Ramakrishna beautifully says “As long as you think you have body, you will be able to relate to…
- [Rudra Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Rudra_Homa.md): Rudra Homa is the fire worship of Rudra, Sadashiva.
- [Rudrabhishekam](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Rudrabhishekam.md): In Hinduism, we perform a Vedic ritual known as Rudrabhishekam.
- [Sacred Arts](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Arts.md): "Invoking the sacred sentiments just by its existence is Sacred Arts.
- [Sadashiva Garbha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sadashiva_Garbha.md): Sadashiva garbha is an alchemy product that literally contains Sadashiva in the powder form!
- [Sadhu](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sadhu.md): Scriptural References 6th chapter Dhyana yoga 8th verse Jnana Vijnaana Truptaatmaa Kootastho vijitendriyaha Yukta ityuchyate yogi sama-losh-taashma-kaanchanaha 'The one who is fulfilled with the…
- [Samskara Dahana Kriya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Samskara_Dahana_Kriya.md): Samskara Dahana Kriya is a powerful completion technique to burn the emotional, mental, and physical pains you have experienced and stored in your body, bringing peace to yourself and to the world.
- [Samyama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Samyama.md): ‘Samyama’ means exploring and expressing the possibilities of extraordinary experiences and powers which are available to all of us.
- [Sanchita Karma](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sanchita_Karma.md): Types of Karma You have three layers of karma – Sanchita karma, Agamya karma and Prarabdha karma.
- [Sangha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sangha.md): Description Nithyananda Sangha refers to the community of seekers following Swamiji and helping others follow the 4 tattwas of Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility and Enriching.
- [Sankalpa Mantra](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sankalpa_Mantra.md): When you perform a ritual, or if a priest performs a ritual on your behalf, a special sankalpa mantra will be chanted in your name along with your specific prayer.
- [Saptapati](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Saptapati.md): Saptapadi or ‘seven steps’ is a very important rite in a Vedic marriage ceremony.
- [Sarvajnanatwa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sarvajnanatwa.md): Not having incompletions to know anything is what we call “Sarvajnana.” Having the clarity that anything is possible, and everything is possible, no blind spot is our inability, it is only our…
- [Sarvajnapeeta](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sarvajnapeeta.md): Sarvajnapeetha literally means the Seat of Enlightenment.
- [Satsang](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Satsang.md): Etymology Sat means ‘Truth’ and Sanga means ‘Company’.
- [Sattvic Ananda](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sattvic_Ananda.md): Definition Sattvik Ananda is the joy which comes to you by non-violent activities like puja, kirtans and unclutching and puts you in Bhava Samadi.
- [Sattvic Food](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sattvic_Food.md): According to Ayurveda, the Vedic science of holistic living, the way you cook your food will decide what it does for you.
- [Satyakama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Satyakama.md): Satyakama was a boy who lived in the dense forests of India with his mother Jabala.
- [Seeking](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Seeking.md): Seeking is your innermost core’s pain that it has not yet expressed its full potential.
- [Shakti Dharana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shakti_Dharana.md): Etymology Harnessing the energy of Existence is Shakti Dharana.
- [Shaktipada](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shaktipada.md): The word ‘Shaktipada’ is described in Agamas as transmission of energy to awaken your Kundalini Shakti and third eye.
- [Shastra Pramana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shastra_Pramana.md): Shāstra Pramāṇa is the scriptural evidence, the direct, ultimate authority on the Truth as it is, for it is directly from Sadashiva, the AdiGuru (original Guru), the Source of all that is.
- [Sheetoshna Sukha Dukha Samyama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sheetoshna_Sukha_Dukha_Samyama.md): A Samyama is a tool that allows a person to receive deeper knowledge, powers and perfections through the combined practice of concentration, meditation and yoga.
- [Shiva Stambha Yoga](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Stambha_Yoga.md): Mallakhamb is an ancient form of yoga performed on a wooden pole or on a rope.
- [Shivabodha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shivabodha.md): Shivabodha means, ‘intoxication of being Shiva’, the ‘trance of being Shiva’ or the ‘bliss of being Shiva’.
- [Shivaratri](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shivaratri.md): Maha Shivaratri is the most auspicious night, the most auspicious occasion in the whole year for human beings to realize “Paramashivoham,” to BE Paramashiva!
- [Shivoham](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shivoham.md): Shivoham is a mantra, meaning “I am Shiva”.
- [Shraaddha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shraaddha.md): Shraaddha is nothing but completing with people who are dead, deceased.
- [Shruti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Shruti.md): Era of Shruti VS Era of Smriti When there is no gap between listening and remembering, that era is called the Era of Shruti, listening.
- [Soft Power](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Soft_Power.md): Introduction In Hinduism, Whoever reaches the space of Enlightenment, they are God.
- [Soft Suffering](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Soft_Suffering.md): Soft suffering means actually without any problem, you will be suffering.
- [Sohamasmi](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sohamasmi.md): Etymology Sohamasmi is a mantra from the Upanishad, meaning : Even when I pray, I am You.
- [Sri Rama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sri_Rama.md): Lord Sri Rama who is the centre of Ramayana - the great epic of Hindu tradition - is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
- [Sura](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Sura.md): Sura means God.
- [Swarnakarshana Bhairava Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Swarnakarshana_Bhairava_Homa.md): Swaranakarshana Bhairava Homa is the homa performed to earn the grace of Sri Swarnakarshana Bhairava.
- [Swayam Prakasha](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Swayam_Prakasha.md): Etymology Swayam means “self” and Prakasha means “effulgent”, “shining” or “illuminated”.
- [Sāmeepya Mukti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/S%C4%81meepya_Mukti.md): Sāmeepya Mukti is Enlightenment of being around, near, literally the physical breathing space of the Master.
- [Tapas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Tapas.md): Tapa is the necessary process for ultimate flowering.
- [Teleportation](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Teleportation.md): The word teleportation is composed of the Greek root telos, meaning “at a distance”, and the Latin root portare, “to carry” or to move.
- [Temple](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Temple.md): A temple is a place where an intense Cosmic energy is available for everyone to experience.
- [Third Eye](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Third_Eye.md): The Third Eye is one of the most discussed, debated and yet misunderstood of the extraordinary powers available to man.
- [Thiru Jnanasambhandar](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Thiru_Jnanasambhandar.md): Jnana Paal, the Enlightening Milk of Cosmic Mother Thiru Jnanasambhandar, a great master, child incarnation appeared as the son of God, living the path of “sat-putra-margam”.
- [Thondaimandala Aadheenam](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Thondaimandala_Aadheenam.md): Thondaimandala Aadheenam Oldest Shaivite Mutt Thondaimandala Aadheenam is one of the oldest Shaivite Mutts (monasteries), established originally by Mahasadashiva Himself, in the form of Adi Nathar…
- [Thought Current](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Thought_Current.md): During the celebration of ‘Colors of Life’ festival or Holi, people throw colored powder on the River Ganges.
- [Thought Trend](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Thought_Trend.md): During the celebration of ‘Colors of Life’ festival or Holi, people throw colored powder on the River Ganges.
- [Tiredness](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Tiredness.md): Source of Tiredness and Boredom Source of all tiredness, boredom ideas, death is your biological clock not in tune with the nature.
- [Trinetra Kumbhaka](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Trinetra_Kumbhaka.md): Trinetra Kumbhaka is the breathing technique, as revealed by Paramashiva.
- [Trinetra Tilak](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Trinetra_Tilak.md): Trinetra Tilak is the tear-drop shaped mark which is the mark of an activated Third Eye.
- [Turmeric](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Turmeric.md): Turmeric is a leafy, aromatic plant in the ginger family with a unique spicy fragrance.
- [Tyaga](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Tyaga.md): Akashic Readings About Renunciation Renunciation is nothing but the ability to rejuvenate yourself continuously by dropping the different identities you create for certain purpose, but unfortunately…
- [Unclutching](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Unclutching.md): Description Unclutching - is a space of complete restful awareness - where you are not clutching on to any thought, emotion, Most of us are prisoners of our past: we repeat the behaviors we are…
- [Upanishad (Sitting with an Enlightened being)](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Upanishad_(Sitting_with_an_Enlightened_being).md): When we put ourselves in the space of receptive listening and learning, we are entering the zone of Upanishad.
- [Upanishad Samyama](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Upanishad_Samyama.md): Scriptural References “Yogi yunjeeta satatam aatmaanam rahasi sthitaha Ekaki yata cittaatmaa niraasheera-parigrahaha” – Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6 : Dhyana Yoga, Verse 10 “The jeevan mukta having…
- [Upasana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Upasana.md): Your individual existence becoming cosmic existence by devotion it is called Upāsanā.
- [Vaak](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vaak.md): “Vaak” is the organ which is there at the cross-section of body and mind.
- [Vaakyartha Sathas](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vaakyartha_Sathas.md): Vaakyartha Sadhas is the technical term which refers to debating on the great spiritual scriptures.
- [Vaidyeshwara Homa](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vaidyeshwara_Homa.md): Vaidyeshwara Homa is the Vedic ritual which restores our natural healthy state of being.
- [Vairagya](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vairagya.md): Allowing the others’ interests and enjoying it as personal interest is “Vairagya”.
- [Varanasi](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Varanasi.md): Varanasi, a city situated on the western banks of the Ganges River in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a cultural and spiritual hub for all of India.
- [Vedic Biology](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Biology.md): Biological rules developed from dead bodies cannot be Biology.
- [Vedic Physics](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Physics.md): Vedic physics is power can be converted into force.
- [Vegetarianism](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism.md): Vegetarianism as a Lifestyle The human body is naturally designed for vegetarian food.
- [Vibhuti](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vibhuti.md): Vibhuti is sacred ash.
- [Vikarma](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vikarma.md): According to Paramahamsa Nithyananda, blind spots are not inabilities; they are choices.
- [Violence-Based Joy](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Violence-Based_Joy.md): Violence based joy involves abusing, attacking or torturing somebody and causing them suffering, where violence becomes the source of your joy.
- [Vipāssanā](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Vip%C4%81ssan%C4%81.md): If your individual existence becomes nothing by allowing the cosmic existence, it is called Vipāssanā.
- [Wealth](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Wealth.md): What is Currency?
- [Yantra](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Yantra.md): An Yantra is a diametric representation of various Cosmic energies.
- [Yoga](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Yoga.md): The original yogic, agamic, definition of yoga: The science of exploring various powers The science of exploring various states of consciousness, The science of exploring various dimensions of the…
- [Youth](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Youth.md): Whoever thinks your future is more important than the weight of your past, then you are a youth.
- [Yuga](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Yuga.md): Yuga is a long period of time as defined in Hindu scriptures; there are four yugas: Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali.
- [Āpta Pramana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/%C4%80pta_Pramana.md): Āpta Pramaṇa are the the ancient great authentic, time-tested, fool-proof compilations of experiences of Enlightened Sages called the Rishis, Siddhas, Munis, Incarnations (Avatars), the direct…
- [Ātma Pramana](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tma_Pramana.md): In our Nithyananda Sangha, The Ātma Pramaṇa are the direct experiences of the Living Avatar, Paramahamsa Nithyananda, who is respected, revered as the living incarnations by millions of people…