Uplifting and Centering Yantra Art

'Cosmic Energy', digital yantra art, 11" x 17", (C) 2010 by Ma Nithyananda Udaysree

Spiritual growth and evolution is one of two paths an individual can choose to go. Existence itself offers you a myriad of techniques to evolve to higher states of consciousness. One such technique to raise individual consciousness is intensely immersing yourself in the creation or viewing of sacred yantra art.

What is Yantra Art?

Yantras are of geometrical design and traditionally contain

Arunachala Shiva Digital Art

'Arunachala Shiva', digital art, (C)2009 Ben Drewry

Multi talented artist Ben Drewry is the producer of a number of spiritually influenced and highly inspirational films on Arunachala Shiva and enlightened masters. Ben is an abstract traditional/digital painter and experimental electronic musician. View a sampling of his talent below, you’ll be surprised!

Importance of Pradakshina

You may wonder what the greatness is of doing Pradakshina or Girivalam (circumambulating the Arunachala hill). Pradakshina is already described at length in the Arunachala Purana. Ramana Maharshi also spoke beneficially about it as have many more enlightened beings.

Pradakshina performed in clockwise manner and slow pace can be done in a number of ways:

Global Peace through Transformation of Individual

“Transformation of energy can happen only through meditation.
When this transformation happens in every individual, the whole of society gets transformed. There will be lesser violence and more global harmony. The most practical way to global peace is through transformation of the individual.” – Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Watch this DVD that explains why only

Nithyananda Tiruvannamalai Ashram

Ashram in Tiruvannamalai

Paramahamsa Nithyananda inaugurated his ashram in Tiruvannamalai along the Girivalam Road in April of 2008. The ashram has a magnificent view of Arunachala. On the ashram property is a unique energy field of 1008 lingams and deities personally energized by Nithyananda. He himself planted a banyan tree sapling behind the main deities.

Catch a Glimpse of Arati

Glimpse of Arati
Arati is an offering of lit camphor that burns itself completely out offering itself to the divine energy or Existence represented by a deity, the Guru, or a holy mountain like Arunachala. It symbolically means that if we take refuge at the feet of the Lord and surrender our ego, our unmanifested desires will get burnt out. The burning camphor emits a nice perfume. When we take up serving society, we burn our desires and spread the perfume of love and happiness to all.

Arati Celebration
Arati is routinely performed at

Life Bliss Program or Flowering of Bliss

Discover the Flowering of Bliss within Yourself
The Ananda Spurana Program or Flowering of Bliss (ASP), commonly referred to as Life Bliss Program (LBP) in the West, is an introductory level 2-day meditation program to cleanse, rejuvenate and energize your seven chakras (energy centers) in your body. The program unleashes the latent inner potential of every Being and is a first step towards uncovering the state of Eternal Bliss (Nithya Ananda) within us which is

Nithyananda Portrait

'Nithyananda Portrait', (C)2009 Adrienne Brown

Beautiful drawing of Paramahamsa Nithyananda by Adrienne Brown of Adrienne Brown Designs. Here Nithyananda is shown with the holy Arunachala Hill in the background and surrounded by saints from Tiruvannamalai, Nithyananda’s birthplace and childhood village, who plaid an important role in his life.

The saints are in clockwise manner: Annamalai Swami, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (from Dakshineshwara in Bengal), Ramana Maharshi, Arunagiri Yogeshwara (Samadhi shrine), Raghupati Yogi, Ganesha (elephant headed

Arunachala is the Self within

Paramahamsa Nithyananda and Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi both say the same: Arunachala is within, Arunachala is the Self.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda about Arunachala

A devotee connected with Paramahamsa Nithyananda got in touch with the Arunachala Grace Newsletter in November of 2006 and supplied them with information that is republished below.

“Nithyananda was born in Tiruvannamalai in 1978, and spent his childhood meditating in the energy field of

Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar – The Silent One

Are there still Living Enlightened Masters at Arunachala?
It was a couple of years back on my trip to Tiruvannamalai that I was wondering if there are still living enlightened masters at Arunachala today. I was told to look for Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar. One morning I went to her ashram for darshan. The ashram on the ground level is a big hall with a simple chair for Ammaiyar with the only paraphernalia of an animal print kerchief indicating that she is a Siva devotee. The hall has lots of floor space for devotees. I noticed a lot of yoga blocks, mats, etc. All kinds of support for Westerners to