One day I told him, “Please come to My house.”
He laughed and said, “You come to the house, the place where I am staying; the house where I am staying.” The moment he said it, I knew: ‘wow, it is such an opportunity!’ I said, “Come on, take Me.”

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

He said, “Come on, let’s go.” Bending, he entered that cave. I remember that he just held My hand and pressed it. Please understand: now I want to put this on record… for the first time when he pressed My hand, I lost body consciousness. So from this moment onwards, whatever I am describing, I do not know whether physically I was part of that scene or I was taken out of My body and this experience happened. I am not able to clearly tell, because the moment he pressed My hand to pull Me inside the cave along with him, I lost body consciousness, and even the scenes I remember after that were not like this world.

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

He just walked into the cave and I also walked with him. Suddenly the cave opened and we came out and I saw a huge banyan tree, a little bigger than our Bidadi banyan tree. The place itself can be seen by the eyes but your body cannot enter it. It is a metaphysical plane. Physically the eyes can see but body cannot enter into that place.
That time I entered along with Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara. Even now I can enter, but I have to leave this body behind and enter – not using this body. Still the banyan tree can be seen. It is seen even in Google Earth.

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

It was on Arunācala hill that much I can very clearly say – the huge banyan tree, and maybe some twenty or thirty Sādhus were sitting around the seat of the guru. The seat of the guru was empty. They were all sitting down meditating. The moment he walked in, all of them stood up and did namaskar. The way they bowed down, I understood he was the Guru of that group.
The way he went and sat, literally he sat like Dakshinamurti.

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Maybe after some time, their attention turned to Me. One person said, “Who is this person? He is the only person without kavi (saffron robes) here, who is not a swami, not a Sanyasi.” When I heard what he said, immediately My kundalini stood up! I said, “I may not be wearing kavi but I am also a Sanyāsi only.” And I saw Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara laugh. Then he asked, “Why are you not wearing kavi?” I told him, “You give me; you give me kavi.” He laughed and he looked towards someone. Immediately I saw one Sādhu bring kavi cloth! I did not even have a second thought to remove and throw My dress. I just removed My entire dress. Naked, I walked near him without even having a second thought. And he himself tied that kavi cloth around My waist like a dhoti. He himself tied it. And I still remember; he just tied the cloth and hugged Me. He gave energy darśan by putting his hand on My head. Naturally, the experience was just out of the world! And I came and sat in the group. Now I felt one with that group and the group also felt one with Me. They did not feel then that I was an outsider.
One good thing: I still have the cloth given by him! Because the cloth is there, I feel that the experience has either happened in the physical plane or a metaphysical plane which can get converted to the physical plane. There are some metaphysical experiences which disappear when the conversion into the physical plane happens. But there are some solid metaphysical experiences that become physicality when they come down to the physical plane.
Sri Ramakrishna once had an experience of (Lord) Rama giving him a pot full of porridge, a mud pot full of porridge. When he came down from that experience, he had the pot in his hand! The pot was there. It did not disappear. Only Rama’s form disappeared. So I can say that this experience was in the metaphysical plane, but the items given remained when it settled down into the physical plane. That is why I feel the experience has become a physical bio-memory in Me. It remains as a physical bio-energy. 

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Once it became a little dark, late evening, he said, “Come on, let’s go back to the temple.” I said, “Okay.” He brought Me back. When we entered the cave again, he was holding My hand. When we came out of the cave to the exact place where we entered, only there he left My hand. I saw that only when he left My hand I came to physical awareness.
All these references to this banyan tree under which this young Guru taught older disciples, as Arunagiri Yogiswara or Dakshinamurthy, are to Shambhala, the abode of the Saptarishis (seven sages), the cosmic energy center.
You can reach Shambhala from Tapovan, which is over 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas, beyond Gangotri and Gomukh. With the Guru’s help you can reach Shambhala from anywhere. Guru can act as an airstrip to take you to that space at any time. The banyan tree that Ramana Maharshi refers to and the banyan tree at Bidadi are like airstrips or helipads. These are locations to take off and reach the spiritual plane where Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara resides in pure consciousness as Dakshinamurthy, Shiva Himself.

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

He left Me in the temple, saying, “You can go now,” and he went away inside his cave. My ecstasy was too much with that new kavi, oh God! I was running around here and there shouting, “I got the kavi, I got the kavi, I got the kavi!” The first person I ran to was My guru Mātā Vibhutānanda Puri, Kuppammal. I ran to her and showed, “See, I have kavi! I got kavi!”
But I did not get a joyful response from her. She became too serious. She became very serious and asked, “Who gave you this kavi?” I asked, “Why?” She said, “Giving kavi means they gave you Sanyās.” According to our tradition, if the kavi (saffron cloth) is given, it is equal to giving Sanyās. Actually, she was waiting to give Me Sanyās. She asked, “And how did they give Sanyās without asking your father and mother? Now your parents will ask only Me about it! Who gave you the kavi?”
I got a little frightened. I told her, “There is a Sādhu in the temple. He gave me the kavi.” She said, “Take me to him,” and she started telling, “No! No one will give you kavi just like that! You have stolen it from some shop. I said, “Alright, I will take you to that Swami, come. He only gave Me. I have not stolen it from any shop.”

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

I took her directly to that cave and started calling, “Swami, Swami, Swami!” But he did not come out! I had to prove to her that I had not stolen. He was not coming out! That was too much for me…
She just held My ear and started twisting it. “Tell the truth, where you have stolen, which shop you have stolen.” That’s the way they would treat kids in the Indian villages! She was My guru, that is why I allowed her. I said, “But – from this cave only that Swami came out!”
She dragged Me and took Me near that cave and showed Me, “Whom are you trying to cheat? Is this a cave?” She pushed that stone and showed Me. Only then I realized it was not a cave! It was a sealed solid stone. Please understand: only then I realized for the first time in those nine months that it was a solid stone construction. It was not a cave! That is why I doubt whether Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara taking Me inside was physical or metaphysical; because I realized it was a stone construction, not a cave; it was a shock for Me! 

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

I said, “It was a cave, but it is not a cave now anymore.” I just stood there, and she was just twisting My ear. She said, “Now you have no justification.”
I told her, “Stop, stop!” and I pulled her right hand. I told her in Tamil, “உன் மேல ஆணை, என் மேல ஆணை, அண்ணாமலையார் மேல ஆணை, மூணு பேரு மேலயும் ஆணை, அவர் வந்தார், என்னை அழைச்சிட்டு போனார், அவருதான் துணி கொடுத்தார்”, meaning, “I promise on you, I promise on me, I promise on Annamalayar, he came, he took me and went, he only gave me the cloth.”
With that, I slapped my palm on her head. That was the usual way the kids would tell that ‘I swear’.
When I put My hand and did that satya (promise) – I can say maybe this was the first energy darśan I gave! The power of that experience was so alive that maybe for the first time, My neuron activity mirrored in her brain; the mirroring happened. Suddenly, all her doubt and everything disappeared! All her doubt, skepticism, everything disappeared. She started getting fear. Till then she was treating me like how one would treat a small boy who has stolen something and come. 

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Suddenly her ears, and her whole being, were completely listening to Me. She asked, “Are you telling the truth?” I said, “Yes.” Now she had come to the space of listening to Me. She was no more that doubting old lady. She asked in Tamil, “How did he look?” I described to her, “He would probably 30 to 35 years of age. He had long hair. He had vibhooti and kumkum on his forehead. His eyes were shining. His body was glowing like light. He wore rudraksh.”
She asked, “For how many days are you seeing him?” “I am coming everyday for maybe six to seven months. It could be even seven to eight months. Whenever I come and call him, he would come out. We would sit and talk.” “From where did he come out?” she asked. I replied, “From this cave only he would come out whenever I called, and he would go in.”
She asked, “Did you ask his name?” I said, “Yes, I asked.” She asked, “What was the name he said?” It suddenly became my zone! With all My confidence I said, “He said his name is Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara.”
That’s all! She fell at My feet and prostrated! I was shaken, because she was My guru. She was weeping profusely. Till then I was crying! 

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

She said, “We are all meditating for years and doing tapas just to see him once. You really saw him! He gave you the kavi. You spoke to him!” Now she was a complete theist. She was completely able to receive the experience I was telling.

– HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Even now I use this technique if some of the disciples are arguing, not listening. I will just touch them, that’s all. After that they will listen! They will come to the space of listening. Their energy will change; they will become positive.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Kuppammal cried and cried and could not handle herself. She just left Me and went away to the place where she was staying, to her house, which was actually like an ashram.
Now, I had a big issue: He was not coming out!
I felt that I breached the word he told Me. He had told Me never to tell anybody about him. I felt that because I told Kuppammal the secret that was not meant to be told, he was not coming out; he was maybe angry. So I shouted, shouted and screamed, “Swami, please come, don’t leave me like this. I will not make this mistake again. I will not tell anybody. Please don’t be like this.” But I could not see him coming out.
On one side, when I remembered how she told Me, “He is directly Mahādeva, Shiva, living here in Arunācala. Ramana Maharshi talks about him, great siddhas have seen him…” it was making My body just explode in joy, bliss. He himself came and gave kavi to Me! On the other side, now he was not coming out – that was just squeezing My heart!
The relationship I had with him was that of MahāBhāva – the bhāva or relationship that was beyond the five relationships of servant, friend, son, lover and mother. In just nine months the relationship had become very deep. So to me, it was loss of such a relationship.
The Avatār went on to explain how he was torn between intense bliss and pain like the Gopika who was blissed out by Krishna’s flute music one night but fell into deep pain simultaneously when she couldn’t reach him, thanks to her mother-in-law and sister-in-law who were at the doorway. Because of that pain, she burnt away all her incompletions, and because of that joy she exhausted all her good karmas. Because she exhausted both, she just became enlightened and fell on the ground, liberated herself. She got liberated.
I just dropped. I can say, by crying, crying, crying, I just slept off there itself. I should not even use the word ‘slept’; I fell into some state, I was lost. 

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

The temple watchman would come and wash the temple at that time. So that watchman woke Me up, saying, “Ehh, saamiar payya! (Swami boy).” That is the way he would call Me. “Wake up, wake up; hold the pipe for me, I have to clean. And they are going to put the deity to bed. Go and have the garbha mandir darśan (darśan at the sanctum sanctorum) and come back.”

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

I was in that same space and state. I ran to the garbha mandir (sanctum sanctorum). I saw that no priest was there but the garbha mandir was open.
The moment I entered the ardha mantapa, the hall next to the garbha mandir, to have darśan of the deity, I looked up, and I saw Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara sitting on the Śivaliṅga, seated in Dakshinamurti posture. He was just sitting on the Śivaliṅga! I could not control myself. I screamed, “Swami, are you here?! Why you did not come when I called?” I was talking all this and I was running, rushing near to touch him. We were not supposed to enter the garbha mandir. I don’t think I entered the garbha mandir but I rushed towards him. I don’t remember whether I entered or not. I was not in the mood at all to follow the rule that I should not enter the garbha mandir and all that. I just wanted to touch him.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

I ran and stretched My hand to touch him. Since his form was so big, my hand fell on his body. He also stretched his hand. The moment My hand touched his hand, exactly at that moment, I experienced, I saw clearly: He is Me, I am Him.
It was just pure Oneness, pure Oneness!
That unclutching had happened exactly at that moment. After that I neither missed him nor I saw him separately. That is the exact moment the unclutching, the pure Advaita, happened experientially. Whatever words you may use – Advaita, Aham Brahmasmi, Tatvamasi, Shivoham – the experience of that pure Oneness happened as it wais to stay, once and for all.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Please understand: You cannot make jewelry out of pure 24-carat gold; you need to add a little copper. But once you make a jewel of it, you can put it in chemicals and make it 24-carat gold. In the same way, pure enlightenment cannot take up human form; you need to add a little of the attributes of rajas and tamas. After taking birth, you need to be put into the fire of tapas and once again made into pure gold, pure energy. That was what happened the moment I touched him. I entered back into the poornatva or complete enlightenment.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Only with Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara, I had tears of gratitude in My eyes! It was actually Me remembering Myself from the dream and waking up! Exactly like that only. See, in the dream, you dream as if you are going here, going there, doing this, doing that. Suddenly if you remember that the dream identity is not that much you, there is a higher identity of you which is you, the moment you remember that, slowly you slip from that and enter into your original identity and wake up. That is exactly what happened! When I received initiation from Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara, it was like I slipped from My small ‘i’ to the capital ‘I’, big ‘I’, from small ‘i’ to big ‘I’. I just woke up to Me, the big ‘I’ entering into the small ‘i’ and reminding the smallness of the small ‘i’ and absorbing itself into its big ‘I’.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

If your thought current to run your life is ‘This is the way my past was, and because of that, this is the way my future is going to be,’ it is called life of logic. That thought current is gravitation.
There is one more energy current: it is the possibility of the future which is not a logical continuity of your past, because of some conscious intervention which you call Guru’s grace or God’s grace, or Paramaśiva’s grace. That conscious intervention is what I call ‘Śaktipāta’. Blessed are those guys in whose life Śaktipāta has happened. Before Śaktipāta, life is logical; after Śaktipāta, life will be magical! 

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

The whole of Hinduism is nothing but celebrating Śaktipāta! Understand: this is what is called ‘Descent of Grace,’ ‘The Principle of Avatārana’, ‘Doctrine of The Avatār.’
Whoever gives this breakthrough to the Universal Consciousness is an Incarnation!
Understand: When fish lived in the ocean for tons of millions of years and were stuck in the level of fish without further breakthrough, the first tortoise appeared and taught the fish that they could live on the beach also, outside the water. That first tortoise is the Kūrma Avatāra, who introduced the new possibility to the fish!
The tortoise lived for tons of years, and again came Varaha (boar), who gave a breakthrough and introduced the next possibility. He is the varaaha Avatāra.
Then came the next possibilities. Various incarnations happened, giving a breakthrough to Consciousness and opening them to the next level. In modern Hindu literature, you find ten such Avatārs, but original, authentic Purāṇas like Srimad Bhagavatam, record twenty-four incarnations.
The first man who started thinking is Kapila. The cohesive thought current, the idea of cohesive thought current, was introduced to humanity by him as Sankhya philosophy. He gave a breakthrough to humanity by teaching humanity how to think.
Then came Rama, who taught social integrity.
Then came Krishna, who taught integrity to love.
So each time, the being who introduces a breakthrough in the consciousness is an Incarnation (Avatār). 

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Understand: it is My responsibility to introduce power manifesting consciousness to humanity. The breakthrough I am going to give to human beings is a new consciousness which manifests the powers of Paramaśiva! You will see, before I leave the planet Earth, the third eye will be an everyday lifestyle for human beings. Just like how you use iPhone 6 and how you are waiting for the next iPhone 7 or 8 or whatever, you will see that simply, humanity will be waiting for Bidadi to declare the next power-release!

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Śaktipāta does not need your belief. It just needs your integrity, you being clear about what you want from you, and what you want from the Guru, that’s it. Nothing else. You are allowed to have doubts about yourself, about whether you can get what you want from yourself – this is called self-doubt. You are allowed to have doubts even about the Guru, about whether you can get what you want from your Guru – this is called Guru-doubt. Paramaśiva says, “Have Śaktipāta. Let the powers manifest; automatically, your doubts will disappear!”

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

People ask Me, “How to get the best Śaktipāta from You, Swamiji?” The best way to have Śaktipāta is to watch morning Satsaṅg, whether live or alive (recorded). Miss anything but not morning Satsaṅg. If you don’t have time, miss breakfast, nothing wrong, good for health; but not morning Satsaṅg. Morning Satsaṅg alone is enough to make you manifest powers. I am categorically declaring, it may be live or alive, morning Satsaṅgs alone are enough for you to manifest Paramaśiva’s powers and Paramaśiva’s Consciousness. 

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Let Me give you the precise solution. State is achieved by unclutching, completion, all the methodologies of putting you in Nirvikalpa Samādhi. The Śaktipāta puts you into the state of Nirvikalpa Samādhi, state of Sadāshivatva, Oneness with Sadāshiva. The space is created by more and more completion with others.
When I say ‘completion with others,’ I mean: Whatever you perceive or cognize as others, making them a part of your Oneness, is completion with others. Others are as complicated as you. Understanding that others are as complicated as you brings completion with others. You are not a bad person, you are a complicated person. Understanding the complications and realizing the Oneness, is completion with others. Taking responsibility for others and yourself and enriching yourself and others, is ‘creating the space.’
Listen: If you have heard My Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara story once, that’s enough – the ‘state’ is already transmitted to you. Even if you felt connected to that story, thinking, ‘Wow! I should be enjoying Swamiji like this’, then the ‘state’ is done. Next, if you do something to enjoy like that, then the space gets created! The amount of responsibility to enrich Myself and others, I have shown and demonstrated in My life – that was the reason Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara started manifesting Himself completely through this body.
Listen: Creating the state by bringing unclutching, complete completion or Oneness with the Guru or Sadāshiva, and creating the space through responsibility, enriching and completion with others, and manifesting your sankalpa, is power manifestation. This is the first principle for Śaktipāta

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Actually, these powers started manifesting in Me much before I even had darśan of Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara. Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara gave only the depth-related powers. Vibhutānanda Puri and Yogananda Puri themselves manifested the length-related powers in Me. When they first started manifesting, the first question I asked Vibhutānanda Puri was, “What is the use?” She got really annoyed because these powers usually come after twenty-five to thirty years of practice for people! She was screaming, “Even after forty years of tapas, only once in a while, when I am in Samādhi I can manifest these powers. You fellow, you are casually playing with all these powers and you are asking me, ‘What is the use?’” I said, “No, I am not disrespecting it, but what is the use?”
Whenever she felt that I was being very difficult to handle and she couldn’t handle Me, she would send Me to someone else! She would say, “Go and ask Visiri Swami (Yogi Ramsurat Kumār),” that’s all. And Visiri Swami, anything you asked him, he would be smoking his beedi (country cigar) only, that’s all!
I remember once very clearly, Visiri Swami was sitting and fanning. He used to have a hand fan made of palm leaf. Once I was asking some question like this and finally he got so fed up, he said, “My FATHER only has to directly come and answer all your questions and problems. We all can’t handle you. Only my FATHER has to come to handle you fellow, only He can solve and answer all your questions. He will come. Go!” In a few days, I had darśan of Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara!
(By ‘father’, he meant Paramaśiva Himself, whose embodiment is Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara…)

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

First thing: I understood the paradox – in his state he was all-encompassing, loving, never demanding. By his very state of appearing from Kailasa, he had already made a clear statement: ‘I am here for you to realize Oneness’ – and naturally, I had to be successful! He had come all the way from Kailasa; I had come just from the next street!
His Integrity is a million times more than My Integrity.
His Responsibility is a billion times more than My Responsibility.
His Authenticity is a trillion times more than My Authenticity.
His Enriching is a zillion times more than My Enriching.
That gave Me the restful awareness. That empowered My very core. That empowered Me to take the jump. This is the fundamental secret of making the Guru-Disciple relationship successful.
The fundamental principle of Sanātana Hindu Dharma is the Guru-disciple relationship. And the fundamental or primary secret to making it successful is you realizing the Oneness with Paramaśivatva, you realizing the Ultimate. That is the success of the Guru-disciple relationship; that is the purpose.
The third important reason why My Guru-disciple relationship became successful with Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara is, I had the patience for this intense happening to go on. I had tremendous will persistence to go through this high intense process. Even when it was overwhelming, I would decide on his side only.

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

Second important thing I have is the vātāvaraṇa – ambience.
Fortunately I had amazing people with whom I could crib, and they never diverted Me away from him. Understand: your destruction is not because of My high demanding, but because of the wrong person to whom you crib. The person to whom you crib should be highly integrated to the Guru, because those moments are the decision-making, deciding moments of your life.
I would have missed Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara hundreds of times if My mother was not around Me or Ragupathi Yogi was not around Me or Kuppammal was not around Me. I need to put even My grandfather on record here. My grandfather did not even know that I was sitting with Paramaśiva. He only knew that I went to some Sādhu, Sanyāsi. Even then he would support Me so much!
My mother – absolute innocence! Actually when she showed compassion, when she listened, she would be so absolutely innocent that I would not doubt that she had believed me. She is that absolute innocence and absolute understanding. But the next morning – “Kannu enthiripa polam” (Wake up dear, let’s go)! The very next morning she would be again trying to wake Me up and send Me along with My Guru (Ragupathi Yogi) for my training!
The next time when I came and cribbed, I would have the absolute trust that she was not going to send Me back to him again. Somehow she was able to give Me the courage with her absolute innocence. And by her absolute understanding, she never supported My powerlessness.
Hats off to all of them who provided the vātāvaraṇa, the ambience for me. I tell you, this Sangha will provide you the vātāvaraṇa. Fortunately I had the vātāvaraṇa, but in the modern world, unfortunately, it is almost impossible to have that same vātāvaraṇa. I am creating that vātāvaraṇa in a systematic, scientific way, in this Sangha. If you want to make it, be here in Bengaluru Aadheenam. This is the vātāvaraṇa. If your vātāvaraṇa, your ambience, is not missed, I guarantee you will make it, you will make it, you will make it!

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

In the grand history of the Universe, out of all the Purāṇas that have been written since the beginning of time, for the first time ever Paramaśiva came down to experience Himself as Guru and Himself as disciple, and manifested the best out of the entire relative frequency!
In response to a question, “How can Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara be your past life and give you darśan at the same time?” The Avatār revealed:
In the early morning, you are not yet out of bed and you are dreaming. Suddenly, for a few micro-milliseconds you remember your waking identity and dream identity, and from dream identity you jump to and fro, from dream to waking to dream. Then suddenly, this waking identity grows so intense, it just swallows your dream identity – and you wake up!
This is exactly what happened with Me and Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara
I’ll repeat: You have not completely woken up, but you are not in the space of dream, dreaming or dream-sleep. Slowly, you are remembering your waking state identity, and then just slipping into the dream identity. Then again, slowly you are emerging into waking state. After a few times, maybe within nine-and-a-half seconds, the waking identity overpowers the dream identity and it just sucks the dream identity into itself and says, ‘Mahasadashivoham’.
Understand, my Turīyatita identity was Aruṇagiri Yogīśvara. My Turīya identity was the boy, Me. When the Turīyatita identity overpowers, it just sucks the waking state identity. It just sucks that boy, wakes up and says, “Come on. Let’s start the work.”

         – HDH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM