The Endless One. An Offering and Tribute to Sri Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. A Collaboration Between Sri GopalKrishna Shenoy and Acharya Kedar.

This section of our site is dedicated to the experience shares of people from diverse spiritual paths, each of whom has had a direct experience of Bhagawan Nityananda's Grace and Blessings. Below is the first installment of these experience shares.

These are experience shares from students and disciples of Acharya Kedar who have experienced Bhagawan Nityananda in his presence and in the Supreme Meditation intensives.

During the miracle intensive in honor of Bhagawan Nityananda, I had the best experience in the whole entire world. In this Intensive I felt and saw Bhagawan Nityananda. At first I saw a huge pair of golden feet. They were enormous and below me, facing me, as if standing right before me. Then I saw a being move to the left side of me and I realized it was Bhagawan Nityananda and that these feet were His. When he moved there, I felt myself split in two. Slowly from one side, I was changing. All the dirt that I felt on the right side was moving into Bhagawan’s light to my left. Slowly I was changing from the right side of me to the left side. I could see that my hand on the right side was Bhagawan’s hand and then, so was that whole side of me. He continued to come over me in this way until he washed over my whole body. Then I fell into meditation. Now, I feel better than if I had spent one month at a spa doing nothing but getting massaged and relaxing. I feel wonderful.

This whole Miracle Intensive I had so many experiences. It is hard to choose just one. Overall, I felt Bhagawan Nityananda's presence very intensely. During all the practices, at every moment in this Intensive I felt his presence. And, during one of the Supreme Yoga sessions when we were instructed to contemplate a void, I experienced the entire Universe inside my being. It was right here in my chest. I saw it, felt it and experienced it as myself. It was incredible.

In the first meditation we had, I saw a huge pair of gold feet. They were above me, as if someone was stepping on me. That is the only thing I remember before slipping into the void. Then I heard a short series of buzzes, pulses and hums as I transcended the fogginess of the void and experienced the upper tattvas. My experience was completely serene. I was engaged in deep meditation. My heart and breath were stopped. My body lay in a rejuvenating energy pool as I experienced full awareness. This awareness heightened all my senses and, although I was aware of my surroundings and aware that I was meditating, I experienced no thoughts in my mind. Through the whole weekend, each meditation yielded this profound experience. I am most grateful to Acharya Kedar.

I was skeptical after Acharya Kedar touched me for a mere fraction of a moment. I wondered if I had received Shaktipat. My mind raced with many notions and questions before surrendering with gratitude and trust that whatever experience I am here to have is absolutely perfect for me. In that moment, I saw the image of Bhagawan Nityananda and Acharya Kedar flash before me. My head swelled with such intensity of pressure that I felt as if my head was in a vice and about to burst. Suddenly and swiftly I felt a piercing at the crown and all of the Shakti in my head rising and dispersing into the chakras above my head. I saw a very bright platinum gold light and I fell into meditation.

My mind was jumping around and I could not easily steady it. I remembered the Acharya's words to take hold of the mantra Om Bhagawan Nityananda Bhagawan. By the end of one repetition I felt very warm and fell into a meditative state where that mantra dissolved into Hamsa mantra. I felt complete serenity. I then saw a pair of golden hands, the left one wearing a gold band. These hands were holding golden reins. The background was very bright and a pale gold in color. This is the last I remember before the bell rang bringing us out of meditation.

I saw Bhagawan Nityananda during my meditation and then I went very deep into meditation while repeating the mantra given in the program.

This is a sharing from a woman from Brazil.

You know, sometimes I feel weak in my sadhana, I feel everything is getting difficult and I can’t see the way to move forward. But then, I pray to Bhagawan Nityananda asking Him to give me a little more strength, to be merciful once again with me....and He comes to guide me...always.

I don’t know if I can express my feelings about Him in English because my English is very poor, as my mother language is Portuguese.

I met Baba for the first time around 10 years back. I was already practicing meditation in some different places trying to find my own path. Since I was around 12 years old I started yearning for my true my spiritual path. You know, we live in a Catholic country. My parents were not Catholic, actually they use to have a very nice point of view about spirituality. They used to say all religions have something good and really they taught me that the most important thing for me was to find my own path. So, they allowed me to experience and choose my own path.

Concepts like Guru-shishya Parampara are something strange and do not belong to our culture but since that time, when I heard about India, deep in my heart, I was sure that my happiness was there. I didn’t know, at that time, that my happiness was my beloved Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda. I didn’t know what exactly a Guru was either. So I was trying all the paths I could find in my country. Thank God, my parents were very open about religion and I could try whatever I wanted to, they taught me about Karma law and to love anyone.

Of course in my search for spirituality there was a sense of not being part of anyone...I felt "missing" something in each path I have tried. What was missing was my Guru!

I started reading everything about Indian culture and philosophy, about Hinduism and for me it was very easy to be devoted to all Gods and Goddesses and I was leading my life based on these principles.

When I was around 20, I got married, I had 3 wonderful kids and on top of that I was trying to live a very nice life, loving and respecting my husband, teaching my children about Hindu philosophy (the very few things I knew). Today, they had grown up and they are really good kids, with very nice behavior and a strong faith in God.

It was very difficult, as you may know; here we don’t have arranged marriages and people don’t make that effort to adjust because divorce is very common. I myself belong to a family with many divorces, my parents, uncles and so on. I had many difficulties in my marriage. And so, I turned myself to God, asking Him to guide me. I was practicing meditation every day.

So, one day, during my meditation I had a vision. I was in the banks of a river and a lady called me. That lady was Sri Parvati and she called me by another name, but I recognized it was me whom she was calling. It was very strong.

From that very day I started searching more and more. I felt that a true Guru was something I had to find. Otherwise my sadhana would not advance. But, how to find my Guru? I respect all but I never felt like I have reached my "home".

One day I went to a bookstore and found a book. It was a book about the Siddha Path. I started crying because that very day I knew I had found my true path; everything was perfect in those teachings saying to meditate in your own being, to honour God inside you and so on. I made a small pooja in my house with Ganapati and Shri Ram and started praying everyday.

After one year I found a centre in my city and saw Bhagawan Nityananda's face for the first time! In the beginning I was afraid of Him. I use to do my pranams, to pay my respects but I was really scared. I don’t know why. I guess from the very beginning I knew that after meeting Him, my life would change completely and I would never be the same. I think inside my heart I also knew that the path will not be easy and maybe that is why I had fear.

That same year, I amde a pilgrimage to Ganeshpuri. That time I was still afraid about Baba but I visited the city, the Temples and spent a week there. I stayed in a Hotel near Akloli.

I installed the Murti of Bhagawan Nityananda in my heart. As a result, my love for Him started increasing day by day. Every year I went to Ganeshpuri to see Bhagawan Nityananda. I also visited Udipi. I loved that place and I felt very comfortable in there. I also stopped in Mangalore and I didn’t know why I liked so much that place.

In 2000 when I went to Ganeshpuri, I was in Kailas Nivas and I got the Chidakasha Gita. I brought it back to Brazil with me. When I read it, I recognized all the places I had passed on my way to Kollur and realized that it was Bhagawan Nityananda bringing me back to those places. Immediately I called my Achan in India and asked him to try to find out about the Ashram in Kanhangad in his next travel to Mookambika´s Temple.

In 2001, my teacher passed through Kerala and went to the Kanhangad Ashram. He sent me photos by email. I was so happy!!!! He promised me that when I come back to Kerala he surely will bring me there.

I started being so connected to Bhagawan Nityananda that people used to say I could see Him in everyone. Actually I did. Even if a beggar came to me in the street I would stop and talk to him because, for me, that beggar was also Bhagawan.

In March, 2002 I had a very strong experience with Him. São Paulo, the city we live in, is a very dangerous and violent city. We went to a dance program that finished very late in the night. It was with a friend, my daughter and two other students the same age as my daughter (that time they were around 15 years old). We left to take one of the children to her grandmother’s house which was near a football stadium. We took her there and continued on our way home.

It was the same time the football game finished and lot of people (most of them men) were leaving the stadium. The police blocked the route we had taken and we had to take another way. Suddenly, the traffic stopped. There were a lot of people getting off of buses and fighting in the street. They were using pieces of wood and were beating the cars. We could not move right, left or back. Only our car had ladies and we became very frightened.

I thought this was the end. We used to listen and to read in the newspaper how many people died in this kind of fighting. We stopped talking and started chanting Om Namah Shivaya. Nothing was in my mind, only silence and the mantra, and, of course my Baba Nityananda in my heart. I thought, okay if it is my time to go and merge with my Baba, fine. And suddenly, His Holy Name came to my lips and I said: "Nityananda Baba wants us to move!"

I said to my friend, "Let’s go," and asked my daughter, who was in the back, to move her hand to push people to move. Somehow it worked. We got out of there and we were safe. That day I realized the power of Bhagawan Nityananda, not only with the many changes He was making inside me, but also in the simple things of life, it was not a subtle power but also a very tangible power.

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