Nithya Yoga is one of the great gifts to the world by the living enlightened master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Nithya Yoga is not a new yoga system it is the rebirth of the oldest system.
Taking roots in the Yoga of Patanjali, the ‘Father of Yoga’ who compiled the Yoga Sutras. Nithya Yoga is the direct experience and body language of a Supreme Yogi Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
Nithyananda practicing meditation and yoga from a young age
From the young age of 3 up to 14 years old, the young Nithyananda (Rajashakeran at the time) studied and practiced under the care of a great yogi from his birth town of Tiruvannamalai in South India. Yogiraj Yogananda Puri (lovingly known as Raghupathi Yogi) was the teacher responsible for preparing Nithyananda’s body and mind for enlightenment through the time-tested techniques of Hatha Yoga and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
Raghupathi Yogi mastered the whole science. Not only the physical aspects of yoga, the asana, apart from that he had mastered all other aspects of yoga. He worked with prana(the life energy), the mind, the power of sound and visualization. Patanjali had deep insights into the core truths of his Yoga Sutras, a complete treatise on yoga. He is one of the greatest inner scientists to have lived on this planet.
Raghupathi Yogi expressed extraordinary powers in a very casual way. For example, he had the strength of a superhuman with the ability to move huge boulders with one hand and even to break iron ropes wrapped around his chest by deeply inhaling. Although he was over 100 years old when he started teaching the young Nithyananda, he appeared like a healthy man in his fifties.
Raghupathi Yogi’s insights were revealing and sometimes shocking. Many times what he revealed even looked very contradictory to what Patanjali originally recorded in the Yoga Sutra.
Raghupati Yogi or Yogi Yogananadapuri found an able and dedicated yoga student in young Nithyananda
Paramahamsa would say to Raghupathi Yogi, “I am able to understand what Patanjali writes in the Yoga Sutra but I am unable to understand your commentary.” Raghupathi Yogi would reply to him in a beautiful way and say, “In all the books that you have seen and read, including the Yoga Sutras, only the verbal language of Patanjali is recorded but not Patanjali’s body language. What he originally wanted to convey is not recorded, therefore naturally much has been lost.” It was only after enlightenment that Nithyananda understood that he had received his training and initiation into the Science of Yoga and other spiritual matters from a yogi who had experienced the consciousness of Patanjali.
Nithyananda now shares:
‘I feel I have too much to talk about and too much to share because I myself am a yogi. From a very young age the first path I started travelling was the path of yoga. Now everything I do, the shadow, smell and presence of yoga is always there’.
Almost three decades after his early training and realizing his avataric mission, Paramahamsa Nithyananda continues to reveal more about Nithya Yoga to the world as an ongoing happening, that we call enlightened consciousness. Nithyananda continuously brings back the consciousness of Patanjali with updated words for the modern age and more importantly with his very body language.
Nithya Yoga as we know is only the tip of the iceberg. It is an evolving science that takes shape as history is being recorded. With the use of current technology Nithyananda’s dynamic teachings will reach hundreds of millions. By bringing the experience of enlightenment to humanity he is marking the onset of a new age of Eternal Bliss.
