FOUNDER

Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Founder of Dhyanapeetam and the spiritual mission, developed the principles of Nithya Yoga based on the original intentions and body language of Patanjali.

Paramahamsa was born in Thiruvannamalai in Tamilnadu, South India on 1st January 1978. He had his first spiritual experience when he was barely 12. Throughout his childhood and adolescence Paramahamsa was focused on spirituality and spent much of his time in the temple and the hills of this holy center.

From the age of 3 till about 13, Paramahamsa was coached in Patanjali's Yoga by Raghupati Yogi, who Paramahamsa considers to be a reincarnated form of Patanjali. Paramahamsa left home when seventeen after he completed a diploma course in Mechanical Engineering. He wandered in the fashion of great masters before him, such as Sankara, through the length and breadth of India in what is called parivrajaka, to understand the problems that common people of the country faced. This knowledge along with the tapas or penance that he went through the next five years, helped him define and execute his mission.

When he was 22 on 1 January 2000, Paramahamsa realized himself in the forests of Omkareshwar, as Sankara did more than 1000 years earlier, on the banks of the river Narmada. He assumed the name of Paramahamsa Nithyananda the name given to him by Mahavatar Baba when they met near Kedarnath during the parivrajaka.

Enlightened Masters live by the command of the Universe, to whom they have surrendered completely. Paramahamsa was directed to travel back to South India, which he had not planned to do before his enlightenment. He was directed to establish Dhyanapeetam as a spiritual center to teach meditation as the key to personal transformation. Paramahamsa says personal transformation of people with the objective of their overall well being through dhyana or meditation is his mission. Healing is his calling card. Paramahamsa has healed hundreds of thousands of people all over the world from all kinds of illnesses ranging from cancer to migraine. He has ordained ten thousand healers operating from a thousand world wide centers to heal free of cost to who ever seeks help. In addition, he has ordained a few hundred teachers to teach various courses in meditation, yoga, and self improvement as a means to their personal transformation.

The mission today reaches out through the many centers spread out over several countries to millions of troubled people who are desperately in need of help to improve their physical, mental, emotional, relational and material lives. This is the mission of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. To read more about Paramahamsa and his mission visit: www.nithyananda.org