with Sri Ananda Sarvasri & Ma Ananda Sadaajit
We've changed the name of our organization and our personal names as well.
Why would we do that?
New Friends, New Experiences
We're all on a path to discover higher spiritual experiences. That's our purpose for being here on Earth. Recently we met a new enlightened master who simply transformed us with his presence, knowledge, and love. His name is Paramahansa Sri Nithyananda Swami. He gave us new spiritual names -- Richard is now Sri Ananda Sarvasri and Debra is now Ma Ananda Sadaajit. These names are now our legal names as well.
Nithyananda teaches simple, really powerful ways to connect with Spirit... new meditation techniques which can break through the clutter and chaos of the Western mind. These methods are EASY and very effective. Although I, Sarvasri, have practiced classical meditation for years, I have never experience anything like these remarkable and powerful new methods.
There are so many people who have tried to meditate but given up, because the meditations they tried were simply not able to bring them into deep peace and connection with Spirit on a regular basis. We all have different makeups. No single meditation technique is best for everybody. We need methods that match our own makeup. The beauty of this new approach is that there are dozens of techniques to choose from. It's easy to find one or more that works for you. We've met many new friends who also are enjoying new levels of energy, intelligence, love, and bliss in their lives from these remarkable teachings and methods.
If you'd like to learn more about these teachings and methods, almost everything is online. There are hundreds of free videos you can watch, free techniques you can download, and books and CD's you can get for minimal costs that teach everything. Nothing is held back. If you're interested, here are some places to start.
Free Videos: Go to YouTube - Search: LifeBlissFoundation. There are over 300 videos; most are short and to the point, often just 2 or 3 minutes. The link brings up 20 videos per page. YouTube lets you view either a matrix or a list of videos. You can sort by date and watch from oldest to newest. If you watch 5 or 10 a day, you can see all of them in a month or two. If you use a tabbed browser such as Safari or Firefox, it's easy to keep track of the videos you've seen.
Web Site: http://LifeBliss.org has lots of information and a galleria to order books and CD's.
Books: "Guaranteed Solutions" - This is especially recommended, two other introductory books are "Uncommon Answers to Common Questions", "Bliss is the Path and the Goal".
CD's: If I could only recommend one thing, it would be to get the "Meditation Kit" which includes the book "Meditation is for You" and four CD's with meditations. The CD's have wonderful meditation sequences, and the book has over 30 meditation techniques for you. It can be found at Ananda Galleria, under meditation kits. Also, I highly recommend that you get the new Life Bliss Meditation (Nithya Dhyana) which you can get at the Meditation CD's section of the Ananda Galleria. There's a small booklet of explanation of the meditation, which would also be good to get. These two meditation offerings can transform your life into a blissful experience. I have never seen such powerful meditation techniques offered so openly and at such a modest cost.
Planet Earth has been in darkness for eons. Now is the time to turn on the light and allow the darkness to simply disappear. Humans have been under such stress simply because we did not know how to reach our full mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual potential. Now the path has been made so much easier and so blissfull. We encourage you to learn more.
Below is a review of the problems that exists today. We're not blind to these seemingly overwhelming problems. But it is possible through the transformation of each individual to simply wipe these problems away. They are all caused by greed and fear, which in turn lead to corruption, violence, and all the madness that we see on the evening news. Now, we can enjoy a transformation in ourselves first and watch the drama of transformation unfold for the planet. When people experience intense love and bliss within themselves, they no longer act out the old patterns. People in bliss never hurt other people.
Life on Planet Earth
If we honestly analyze what's going on in the world, even briefly, we cannot help but discover that many facets of our society are not healthy, or even functional. This applies to virtually all our institutions and social areas of concern like education, politics, government, religions, business, healthcare, and others. Let's look at these topics and then let's explore how bliss, love, energy, and intelligence can easily reverse these trends and help improve life on earth.
Healthcare
In healthcare, iatrogenic (doctor-caused) disease and errors kill about 750,000 people per year, according to recent estimates. This is the equivalent, in deaths, of 250 tragedies on the scale of the 9/11 attacks in New York. It is the equivalent of 1800 fully loaded Boeing 747's crashing, killing everyone... roughly equal to 5 planes crashing every day. This happens every year. To be fair, it's not all the doctors' fault. They are being asked to do the impossible. They have been given highly specialized training that cannot possibly cope with the degenerative conditions we see today. So they use the only tools they know in ways that are unfortunately misguided.
Unnecessary surgeries combined with over reliance on drugs are not making us healthier. All degenerative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and others have multiplied dramatically under our current healthcare system. The United States now ranks 37th in the world. For decades, the top levels of the medical profession have actively opposed alternative approaches to healthcare, which can reverse the imbalances responsible for disease. Still only lip service is paid to alternatives. Look at the number of drug advertisements on TV and you'll see that drugs are still highly promoted as the answer. Although the hearts of most doctors and nurses are in the right place, their limited and highly specialized training is not helping them or us cope with most current health conditions. Even when allopathic medicine is the appropriate choice, the insurance industry and government policy makes it prohibitively expensive. Every 30 seconds another family declares bankruptcy due to medical expenses. (See Michael Moore's documentary SiCKO). It's time for another approach. In addition to universal government-funded free health and dental care (the USA is the only developed country that doesn't have it), many alternative methods are available today that can reverse imbalances and degeneration and prevent extensive medical needs. For instance, meditation is one of the most powerful methods for restoring balance to mind and body. Love, bliss, and life-force energy actually heal very deeply. Connection with Spirit even takes one beyond death.
Politics
Whenever people are unhappy with the state of politics, they seek to overthrow the offending regime. For millennia we've had revolution after revolution... just like the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Whether oppressed or threatened, unhappy people destroy and then replace the bad government with their own people. Even if they had the best of intentions when replacing former regimes, soon they themselves become corrupted, just like the people they replaced. In the past 3000 years, there have been over 5000 wars. Nothing has gotten better. There is still no peace. It's time for another approach. Meditation eliminates ego. It infuses bliss, peace, and compassion into us. This is the only way the world will ever enjoy true peace.
Education
The reason for many of our problems is our educational system. It does not teach us how to love and to live. It just gives us head knowledge. It does so with ever increasing levels of stress. Children don't get to play much anymore, they have to achieve. They are pushed and prodded. Stress has built up so much that we see tragedies like Columbine and Virginia Tech. Nearly a third of children in some elementary schools are on drugs like Ritalin to make them compliant. We need a new focus in education that does not push everyone to be alike, but allows them to pursue their uniqueness and do it at a pace that makes learning a joy instead of a drudge. A study was conducted to show how valuable education is. Top honors students were assessed several years after graduation to see how their education had helped them. 70% of these honors graduates were in poverty, depression, and/or broken relationships. Needless to say, the results of the study were not widely circulated. Our educational system is a grand failure in social terms. It does not create happy, stress-free, loving people. It's time for another approach. Meditation unfolds new levels of intelligence and intuition in us. It allows our uniqueness to flourish and for us to know our own path clearly. It brings fulfillment to the aspirations of education.
Religion
Religions, as they were originally founded, were all based on the principle of love as the fundamental reality of Divine Spirit. They all originally taught how we could realize Divinity within ourselves. But it seems over time, the major religions have tried to find ways to make their religion the best or only religion. Many try to corner to market on divine revelation. Differences in religion have become the basis of wars. People kill in the name of their religion. Many Christian leaders even endorsed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, where we essentially bombed a whole civilization back into the stone age, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. It's a sobering fact that religions have not created peace on Earth, but in many cases have only caused more war. It's time for another approach. Meditation, without being a religion, connects us directly with Divine Spirit, universal consciousness, intelligence, bliss, existential energy, God or whatever you want to call it. It takes us beyond faith, belief, and prayer to directly experience the highest Reality. This brings fullfillment to all religions and seekers of God. They get to experience their oneness with God directly, just as the founders of their religion did. Meditation has been the missing element in all religious pursuits.
Business
Throughout world, economics has become the new religion. It's the primary focus and purpose of most people's lives. The primary goal is material wealth. The central focus of education is to get a better job. We must "compete in the marketplace", "maximize wealth". Who has time for life? To reach financial goals and high profits, products are often produced which are unhealthy or unsafe. For instance, most food is grown on depleted soils with massive pesticides to keep crops alive (drugs for plants!). Plants lack full nutrition to grow without weakness and disease. Food processing and packaging creates high-profit junk foods with little nutrition. Deceptive marketing misleads people. Look at the junk food in any gas station or food store. People are buying all that junk. Only the produce section (especially organic) has any real food value. Look at the junk emails you get. Schemes to take your money, steal your financial identity, promote more addictions. Obviously, it's time for another approach where profit, though necessary, is secondary to other values. Meditation takes people beyond ego. It helps them find the fulfillment that money can't buy. Many successful people, after having achieved wealth and status become depressed. They thought that success would lead to happiness. It didn't. Meditation takes you into the place of extreme fulfillment that you tried to find in the outer world. Fullfilled people never need to take advantage of others. This brings fullfillment to economics and business. It eliminates crime and the causes of crime.
An Ancient Civilization
There was once a civilization that maximized love and bliss, instead of competition and profit. This was the original Vedic civilization which no longer exists, but has a few remnants in the east, in India. There was a whole culture, created by mystics, who understood the purpose of life, and created a civilization to maximize the creative potential and uniqueness of every child born. Each child was educated to maximize their inherent skills and reach the mystic state of enlightenment, or self realization. This super conscious state is the state that the founders of all religions naturally lived... the state of immeasureable love and bliss, beyond ego. In the Vedic civilization, thousands of years ago, everyone achieved the state of Christ or Buddha or Krishna. Can you imagine a civilization where everyone is a Christ or Buddha? Now is the time to recreate that civilization.
The cause of all the problems on planet Earth is the high collective stress that keeps us in fear, greed, and violence. We must reduce the collective stress levels soon (within 10 years) or it will become difficult to prevent our own annihilation. This can only happen through a spiritual rennaisance, a return to the mystic state of God Realization for each person on the planet. We see the yearnings for peace and spiritual realization at the grass roots level in society now. More people are searching for self actualization, practicing meditation, and other methods for gaining inner peace. Once, religions taught the formulas that would allow anyone to gain God Realization and become a Christ or Krishna, but these methods have been kept secret and withheld from the public for long forgotten ages. Now these methods are becoming freely available.
We're not asking people to adopt OUR spiritual focus or follow our new discoveries. Just accelerate ANY spiritual focus. It's not about starting a new religion. It's about encouraging people to spend time and attention on spiritual matters and spend at least 1/2 hour every day in meditation. Certainly it would be useful to find a teacher who can help you, especially a teacher who has reached the enlightened state. More teachers are appearing on Earth to help us out. There is a growing spiritual awareness in the world which transcends the boundaries of religions and incorporates the highest teachings that the world has to offer. Most of the original teachings, such as the Vedic teachings, created thousands of years ago, originated in the East where civilization first began to explore spirituality. These methods are not related to any religion but are designed to dissolve stress and dissolve the ego. They are valid just as much today. They are being made available by many new enlightened teachers, but have their source in the original Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, the Sufi, Zen, and Early Christian teachings, all of which say we must "Be Still". There are hundreds of methods on "How to Be Still" in these teachings. The Bhairava Tantra lists 112 techniques alone. We suggest finding one or more methods that work for you to arrive at the stillness that directly connects you with Spirit.
The main thing is to spend some time in meditation every day to reduce your own stress levels and create a more harmonious and blissful state in yourself. That's the best thing any of us can do for the world as well.
We wish you great success on your spiritual quest.
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