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Bhagavan Nityananda’s Teachings

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Satsang with Baba: Volume 4 (Ganeshpuri, India: Shri Gurudev Ashram, 1987), p.11.

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I am grateful to Bade Baba for teaching me just how powerful the mantra Om Namah Shivaya is. I feel blessed to have been given this divine instrument that has granted the goal of liberation to so many!

St. Laurent, Canada

The first time I visited Shree Muktananda Ashram, the welcome host directed me to the Bhagavan Nityananda Temple. I sat down to meditate and began to hear Bade Baba talking to me from within. He showed me a vast landscape and said, “I’ve laid out this foundation for you.” He called me “daughter,” and as a fatherless child, I experienced great meaning in that. I understood that Bade Baba would be my support going forward.

In the next few years, life became turbulent with teenagers to raise. Yet I felt the foundation beneath our feet, and we weathered the storms of adolescence. Recently my two-year-old granddaughter was staying with me. She walked up to Bade Baba’s picture and said, “Dada.” Then she took his neck mala and, with a smile, put it on.

My recognition of God is on a firm foundation.

Connecticut, United States

Last night, as I lay half asleep repeating the mantra Om Namah Shivaya with each inhalation and exhalation, I felt that the mantra I have been repeating for so many years had a new quality, a greater expansion in my mind and body. I felt that Om Namah Shivaya was now inborn in my breath, and with it was the awareness of the Guru’s presence in my life.

I felt grateful and amazed. I told myself that this was the result of participating in a satsang celebrating Bhagavan Nityananda’s punyatithi after traveling to the Siddha Yoga meditation center 180 miles from home. This morning I discovered how true this was when I read Bade Baba’s teaching on Om Namah Shivaya!

Florence, Italy

When I first began following the Siddha Yoga path, I had a meditation experience where I was holding Baba’s feet, and he was flipping me like “the daring young man on the flying trapeze.” I would always come back and catch his feet no matter how high I flew. Then a question arose—what is supporting Baba? I looked up, and Baba was holding the feet of Bade Baba, and as I looked further, there was a whole chain of great beings holding onto one another’s feet. At the pinnacle of this chain was the radiant blue being, the primordial Guru, Lord Shiva. Om Namah Shivaya.

Waterville, Canada

I recently had a dream where I was sitting next to Bhagavan Nityananda. We were chanting the mantra and he was teaching me how to pronounce Om Namah Shivaya. As this was happening, I was acutely aware of my difficulty with processing syllables. Yet, Bade Baba remained so patient and compassionate as he continued to instruct me. This beautiful experience went on until I was able to hear and experience the vastness of sound contained within Om Namah Shivaya, which I recognized as eternal love.

New York, United States

I love all the teachings of Bade Baba very much. I experience that the simplicity of his words leads me directly to the core of the Truth, without embellishments and without detours. For me, the straightforwardness of Bade Baba’s teachings shows me the greatness of his state and gives me great confidence that I will be able to fully absorb them into my own being.

Unterlangenegg, Switzerland

I experienced that Bade Baba and the mantra Om Namah Shivaya saved my life. Many years ago I was very ill in the hospital. My vital signs were dropping. I had Play of Consciousness at my bedside opened to the picture of Bade Baba. I brought my bed up to a sitting position and repeated the mantra all night long. I experienced Bade Baba’s presence enter my body and fill me. His light was so tangible. The next morning the doctors were amazed. My vital signs had remarkably improved.

California, United States

Seeing this teaching reminded me of my first experience of seeing how “charged with power” this sacred mantra is.

My journey on the Siddha Yoga path began in 1998, and I remember being mesmerized by the power of repeating the mantra Om Namah Shivaya during my first Shaktipat Intensive. It was the Gurupurnima Intensive of 1998.

As I repeated the mantra with my eyes closed, I dove deeper and deeper into a realm of utter silence, peace, and contentment. It was as if time had stood still. All sensation of body consciousness evaporated and I felt at one with the universe.

St. Laurent, Canada

Bade Baba’s teaching on the mantra Om Namah Shivaya is so potent! I read it and decided I would keep it in mind during a late afternoon walk. As I did this, I realized I had been spending more time focused on the happenings in my outer world than my inner world.

Then I started to recall an experience of divine contentment I had at the conclusion of a Sadhana Retreat several years ago. That feeling arose anew within me, and I realized that this is what I truly want in this life—divine contentment!

I feel so blessed to rekindle this understanding and this longing. I bow to the lotus feet of Shri Guru.

Colorado, United States

On reading this teaching of Bade Baba’s, I recalled an experience I had once at Gurudev Siddha Peeth. After singing the Arati to Bade Baba, everyone sat down in the hall for a few minutes of meditation. As I sat there, I felt my attention go deep inside, and I experienced very powerfully that Bade Baba continually showers blessings upon the universe. I felt that the spiritual power—the Guru’s grace that Bade Baba embodies—is the mantra Om Namah Shivaya. The mantra and he were one and the same. The power of Bade Baba was the power of the mantra.

This experience radically changed how I perceive Bade Baba by deepening my understanding of who he is and why we worship his form.

London, United Kingdom

As I read these words, I became aware of receiving Bade Baba’s darshan. I was taken into a very deep state. It was as if his hand was on my head. I felt my body being cleansed, repaired, and restored. I received advice regarding my mental disposition. It was an amazing experience for which I am deeply grateful.

Hounslow, United Kingdom

Some years ago I had a dream. I was in heaven with Gurumayi. She was climbing up a ladder, surrounded by angels and cherubs, all of whom were chanting Om Namah Shivaya with the sweetest voices I have ever heard on earth. The ladder had no end; Gurumayi went up and up until I couldn’t see her anymore.

From this experience, I realized how sacred this mantra is and how blessed we are to have the chance to receive it as a divine gift from the Siddhas.

Milan, Italy

Hearing Bade Baba attributing the mantra Om Namah Shivaya to the primal Guru fills me with a sense of profound connection to the universe. I see an unbroken lineage of Gurus, with Om Namah Shivaya radiating outward from them into the world like a powerful river, always flowing and readily available at all times, in all places, and to all beings.

I experience this at times when I begin to repeat the mantra in my ordinary life, and it feels as if I’ve joined a chorus that is already singing all around me. At such times, I realize that Om Namah Shivaya is always being recited and that all I need to do is notice and join in.

Massachusetts, United States