FAQ
Nirā is not a belief system, cult, tradition, Dogma, ritual, philosophy, religion or course on morality, ethics or anything of the sort.
It is a method for life, way of Living, a technology for wellbeing, an inner science, based on ancient Universal Laws and natural sciences—for Self-Enlightenment, Empowerment, inner Peace, Bliss, Contentment, Love, wisdom, freedom, and joy.It is a method for understanding how to be a conscious creator, and hence create the life you desire on every level. There are no theories or teachings to learn, believe or memorize. There is only the aspect of experiencing the method for oneself and feeling the benefits in one’s life.It is a Mystic School for inner transformation, consciousness expansion and liberation. It helps us live with purpose and meaning, and be masters of our own destiny. It is a panacea which identifies the root causes of human suffering and by expanding our awareness.
NIRA is a NEUTRAL state of mind. It is not about renouncing the world. It’s not about abandoning your possessions, becoming a hermit and practicing austerities in the jungle to attain something. It is a state of mind where you do not force yourself to get free from bad addictions, dogmas, unwanted sanskaras (old conditioning), ill will, beliefs, mind patterns, etc. You become established in a state of mind where everything you don’t want just automatically falls away. You do not make any special efforts to leave them. You remain calm, centered and relaxed. In other methods you practice discipline and push yourself hard to get rid of bad habits and addictions. Here you don’t apply any effort, don’t push yourself, don’t apply any acquired information and yet suddenly one day you find that all those things you are struggling with, have left you. This is the state of NIRA – to be in the world, but not of it. It is like a lotus which remains pure and pristine even in the mud in which it grows and lives. That white lotus is the NIRA state of mind.
*Nirā Living* is the way of Life,to Live Life with wisdom and with a broad vision. It is a very powerful way of living. Power, not over somebody else; it’s all about power to access universal Life.A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being._*Nirā Living*_is to create a violence-free society, disease-free body, confusion-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, trauma-free memory and sorrow-free soul.
*Nirā Living* is an opportunity to engineer an inner transformation that deepens your perception, bringing about a dimensional shift in the very way you look at your life, your work, and the world that you inhabit. It is offered as an intensive program for personal growth and establishes the possibility of exploring the higher dimensions of life, in addition to optimizing health and success. *Nirā Living* is a technology for wellbeing derived from the ancient esoteric science of consciousness and universal wisdom.
For those seeking professional and personal excellence, _*NirāSpirituality*_offers inner sciences, keys, tools and programs for meaningful Life, Living and wellbeing, also fulfilling relationships at work, at home, in the community, and most importantly, within your own self. By fostering an understanding of your interiority, these self transformation programs empowers you to handle the hectic pace of modern life with ease, experience life to the fullest and fulfill your potential – a potential modern physicists and psychologists say is almost unlimited. Nirā Living brings your entire system into alignment so that your body, mind, emotions and energies function in harmony.
The human mechanism is the most sophisticated machine on the planet. The problem is you have not even read the user’s manual of this super computer. Yoga is that user’s manual. It will help you become balanced internally, it will make you joyful by your own nature, help you do your best. In doing your best, there is success. You may not be better than someone else, but you will be the best you can. And then, you can handle anything that life throws at you with grace. You’ve read all about your phones, cars and all sorts of gadgets, have you read your own user’s manual?, it can’t be found in any bookstore. However, if you pay enough attention to the fundamental life that you are, everything you want to know about life can be found right here.
As there is a science and technology to create external wellbeing, there is a whole dimension of science and technology for inner wellbeing._*Nirā Living*_is neither a religion, nor a philosophy or dogma. It is a technology for wellness& wellbeing. One does not have to believe or disbelieve, just have to learn to use. NirāTechnology will produce results irrespective of who you are.*Nirā Spirituality* provides tools and solutions to empower yourself to create your life the way you want it. It gives you the opportunity to intellectually explore the basics of life using methods from the distilled essence of vaidic sciences and Universal Laws. These courses designed to impart practical wisdom to manage your body, mind, emotions, and the fundamental life energy within. Thus these courses offer a comprehensive process to align your body, mind, emotions and energy with the Cosmic energy.If you learn to create the right climate in your body, mind, and emotion, your health, wellbeing, and joy – everything will be taken care of.
Of course!! It does. Superficially “NIRA” is an abbreviation of Neo Independent Reiki Alliance and has a special, subtle and silent meaning according to Hindu theology which signifies the highest state of consciousness, meaning “To live in the world but not of it.” It is a new concept designed neither to give up nor to identify with anything. This state of mind is known as Nira.
According to Nira psychology nothing can be destroyed in this universe e.g. if we try to destroy a piece of paper, we cannot. It will still remain in its subtler form. Similarly we cannot expect a life without any impurity if we have chosen to live. But we can live the same life with a new vision.
Nira is a new concept of living the same life with a new vision i.e. Nirbhār, Nirvikāra, Nirvichāra, etc. So there could be a life full of tension or Bhār but we train people to be Nirbhār, it may be full of thoughts or vichāra but we can train to live Nirvichāra i.e. beyond thoughts. It is the Neutral State beyond the two poles of energy i.e. active and passive.
The term Nira was known as “Neti-Neti” meaning neither this nor that in ancient Upanishads. Thus it is a state of living beyond Sânsara and Sānyas. It is the middle path without being extremist or leaning to Bhog or Tyāg.
The word Nira can also be understood as a state beyond duality or polarity e.g. The middle, indifferent, detached, neutral, transcendental, the Equinox, Entire, Pure, The whole, The absolute, The ultimate, Unidentified, Untouched, unalloyed, etc.
NIRA education is based on the education of Universal Laws, which no one teaches in any university or college. All worldy education is about earning name, fame, money, power, prestige etc. It’s all about survival and success in the social world. It teaches you to live just an advanced animal life. Human is a vehicle to achieve Moksha (final liberation, enlightenment). It is to know yourself as a Divine Being, so that your soul which has turned into ego finally dissolves and merges into eternity. The soul which has hardened into Ego through a series of lifetimes by way of evolution, wants to reach its final destination. Only then its journey is complete. Evolution is the purpose of the Soul and dissolving is its destiny. Resolution is the destiny of evolution. Every Soul seeks Anand (Ultimate Joy) and mukti (Liberation) by freeing itself from Ahankar (false egoic self).
Out worldly education teaches you to accumulate information and possessions to use later on in life when it is required. So we are initiated in an accumulation mindset. You feel that I will accumulate everything and Live it later when I have the time. But that is the problem. The “I” is the problem. That is why we do not teach any techniques in NIRA. All techniques belong to “I”. The “I” will record and save everything. It will start accumulating these techniques. All the accumulation then turns into videos and books. Your mind is also a recorder. Hence, we do not provide anything that you can record or memorize. Recording is not living life. It looks like you are living, but you are just existing.
We do not approve of all these practices.
To give an analogy, if you are blind, we treat your eyes so you can see for yourself. We do not give an audio discourse about how to see the world and teach you Braille so you can survive with your challenges. It’s all about treating yourself and treatment takes time. It does not happen overnight. It is not about hypnosis. You are already hypnotized in the absence of the right sight. We don’t provide the ideal automatic wheelchair for a paralytic person. We treat and cure paralysis so there is no need for a wheelchair at all. Thus selling, demonstrating and marketing products may take a few hours. But for you to realize and understand that you don’t need any products, you are capable on your own, it takes much longer. We teach you to live life independently. That is why our organization is named NIRA (Neo Independent Reiki Alliance). Just like the process of giving birth requires 9 months whether it is in India or any other place in the world, similarly in our workshops we do not just teach you techniques quickly, but we take you through processes whereby you give birth to a new YOU, and that takes time. It cannot be done in a few hours.
Meditation in its most basic, natural, and authentic form does not involve any concentration technique, suppression, struggle, controlling, fighting, or wrestling with the mind!
True meditation is not concentration. Meditation produces concentration as a byproduct. Concentration comes from meditation. Meditation can help you develop all of your mental abilities, including concentration. Concentration techniques, on the other hand, will not help you master your mind. They only provide temporary relief and do not result in significant changes in your attitude, behaviour, or mindset. The most famous example is the warrior ‘Arjuna’ in the Mahabharatha, who was at the pinnacle of concentration. When it came to the final test, however, his concentration failed him miserably. Even he succumbed to the dualities of his mind and became a victim of fear, escapism, and deep depression. Concentration is scarce. Concentration is merely a distraction. Meditation is the real answer.
Concentration is a mental exercise that must be practised. Meditation is a method of approaching the mind directly.
Concentration
Concentration is about staying focused, not allowing the mind to wander. It is not thinking or contemplation. In ordinary thought, the mind moves like a madman. The madman is led, directed, and unable to escape anywhere while contemplating. The mind is not allowed to move during concentration, but it is allowed to move somewhere during ordinary thinking. It is not permitted to move during concentration. It is only permitted at one point. The entire movement, the entire energy, is focused on one point.
Meditation
In ordinary thought, the mind can move in any direction; in contemplation, it can only move in one direction; all other directions are cut off. It is not permitted to move in any direction while concentrating, and it is only permitted to focus on one point. Then there’s meditation. The mind is not permitted in meditation.
Meditation is a ‘no-mind’ experience; no concentration is permitted. Because the mind is not permitted to exist, meditation cannot be grasped by the mind.
Mind has reach, an approachable reach, up to concentration. Concentration is understood by the mind, but meditation is not. In meditation, the mind is not permitted at all. All directions are open in ordinary thinking; in concentration, only one point is open—no directions. Even in meditation, that point is closed, that point is removed. The mind is not permitted to exist. Thinking is a natural state of mind, and meditation is the highest level of possibility. The lowest is ordinary thinking-association, and the highest, the pinnacle, is meditation, which is no-mind.
You are running away from thoughts while concentrating. You attempt to focus on some point, object, image, breath, or mantra in order to temporarily escape your thoughts. You are relaxed as long as you remain focused on your object of attention. However, as soon as you return to the outside world, your thoughts surround and engulf you, exerting their influence over you—good, bad, and ugly. As before, the mental game continues.
Meditation, on the other hand, teaches you to confront your thoughts head on. You cannot escape your thoughts while meditating. Because there isn’t any way out! Instead, you observe your thoughts as a witness. You do not run after or chase any vehicle, just as you observe all moving traffic as a bystander. Likewise, you do not pursue any thought. You don’t even try to stop thinking.
You make no attempt to control or concentrate the mind. There are no mental battles. Instead, simply observe your mind as a non-doer, a non-judge, and a non-participant. As the watching progresses, all thoughts dissolve automatically, and the mind naturally surrenders, resulting in amazing balance!
Concentration is a task that requires effort. Meditation is complete rest and relaxation.
Concentration is difficult, difficult, complicated, and requires a lot of energy. It is only temporary. Why? Because concentration is contrary to the nature of the mind! It is against the nature of the mind to focus or concentrate on one point, object, image, word, or location for an extended period of time. The mind is nothing more than a collection of thoughts. The monkey-like mind jumps from one branch to the next, from one idea to the next As a result, concentration techniques lead to mental wrestles and struggles.
Meditation, on the other hand, is complete relaxation and rest. Meditation is not a technique. Meditation is an ongoing process. It is a non-doing process in which you do not try to control, suppress, or focus your mind in any way. Instead, you simply observe all of its actions, acts, pranks, and play as an observer, without judging, analysing, or condemning it. As you continue to observe neutrally, your mind begins to relax on its own.
Concentration is a solace. Meditation is the Solution!
Yes, we do teach religion, but Universal Religion. We do not follow any sect like, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. We do not follow any Guru and do not have any political affiliations or agenda. NIRA is a Multiversity like any other University. The only difference is that here the curriculum is about life education, soul education, Universal education and mind education. By getting this education your brain works to better capacity, you use your full potential and make better relations with people. This education helps you to unlock your latent powers and hidden potential. Once you understand this basic life education you can apply it anywhere.
*Religions* by definition have some kind of dogma or belief system. Nirā has no belief system someone needs to follow, it is more concerned with you having experiences on your own. So instead of just telling you to believe something Nirā gives you tools to experience things for your self. Nirā is not interested in teaching, Preachingany scriptures or sutras because they are just words, and without having the right guidance and tools words cannot transform a person on any level deeper than the intellect. _*NirāThe Mystic School Of Spiritualism*_ has designed &compiled certain powerful life changing programs and processes, availible to anyone inspite of any religion, cast or creed who wants the benefit of it.
NIRA does not propagate or promote any religion and we do not ask you to renounce anything including your religion. Whichever religion you belong to – Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc., you will understand your religion better, because in NIRA we teach the Universal Laws of life and living. We are not concerned with what logic you are using to understand these Universal Laws. Every religion has a logic to acquaint with the fundamental Universal Laws. But here we teach you the pure science of consciousness. We do not talk about any religion. What we teach in NIRA is the basic fundamental laws governing the Universe from which all religions were born. If you understand these laws you will understand your religion better. Religion is a vehicle that you were given at birth. We do not discuss the vehicle that you use to practice spirituality. The vehicle may have any name. NIRA has not given these teachings any title or a name.
You may think of it like water. Some people make tea out of it, some add lemon to it while some add ginger, but the basic element is water. Similarly in NIRA we teach the science of consciousness, science of life and the correlation between mind, matter and Universe. These fundamental teachings have been interpreted, explained and applied differently by different religions. You can apply these Universal Laws anywhere, in any aspect of life – to become a sanyasi, a businesswoman, a mother or anything else. You have been given a mind, so it is important to understand this mind, so you can understand your life better. This will never disturb your religion or your rituals in any way.
NIRA inculcates in you certain “Sanskars” (mind technology or programs) and technology does not make any distinction as to what you believe in and what you do not believe in. What you may believe in or not is purely a psychological process – it has got nothing to do with making use of a technology.
For example _*Yoga*_ is Hindu just the way _*Gravity*_ is Christian. Just because the _*Law Of Gravity*_ was propounded by Isaac Newton, who lived in a Christian culture, does it make gravity Christian? Yoga is a technology. Anybody who is willing to make use of it can make use of it. It is ridiculous to even think that there could be a religious tinge to yoga.The spiritual process and the technology of yoga predates all religion. Before human beings started thinking of forming religious groups to fracture humanity in a way that you can’t fix them, the idea that a human being can evolve himself came from Hindu God Shiva.
No, we do not believe or follow any Guru or God. We are our own guiding light. We are scientists seeing and taking things hypothetically and neutrally. Never in a hurry to take any conclusions. We are disciples of life and LIFE is our guru. That is why we do not believe in the concept of LIVING and not BELIEVING in God. We are interested in living God. We are not theists. Our question is if you can live God why should one like to believe in God. To believe is to mean that you can’t live or experience anything, you are helpless and you cannot do anything. To believe is to live in a fantasy, to live in fascination or illusion and something you cannot achieve.
E.g. You know that you feel the sun you live the ‘Sun’ daily, you feel it, you see it, you obtain all the benefits provided by him, then why do you need to believe it. Similarly our sensing capacity of living Godliness is disappearing. God never exists, as we perceive in our imagination like one with thousand hands and a huge human body with number of faces. This symbolic picture only exists in our memory. God is not a person like we think. It is a living phenomenon, a state of clear, integrated and mature mind. It is a stage of higher capacity of processing memories. It is a pole of confidence. It is a pure light in all multicolor. It is a state of levitation. It is a state of complete relaxation, emptiness and vast voidness.
Once you experience NIRA you will know for yourself, much like the famous tagline “Melody khaokhudjaanjao”. The basic difference is that in NIRA we do not teach any philosophy and neither do we sell or preach from any books. We believe that life itself is a book and here we provide you with the vision so you can read your life as a book. Other organizations are based on books, philosophy, sect, guru, religion, etc. But in NIRA we do not promote any of these things. We simply give you the vision to read yourself, your life and not others’ experiences.
Dhyana is a process, it is a technology like an automobile. Other people are making different models of this automobile. The basic technology is automobile and its purpose is to quickly take you from point A to B. We don’t give much importance to the technique (the model of the automobile). We just take you from point A to B.
Below are some more differences between other Spiritual Organizations and NIRA’s approach to Spirituality.
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We can’t tell you about anybody else, of what they think about us. Rather we can tell about ourselves. For us no one is ahead and no one is behind. No one is higher and no one is lower. Everything is neutral and equally important. There is no measurement with which you can measure who is higher because it is “Relative”. If a Guru or tradition has a “Quantity” of followers they lag by “quality” and vice versa. Similarly whatever is right for one may be it becomes wrong for the other.
They are all different approaches to the same destination, so at one superficial level we might seem different but from within we are one. There is a universal phenomenon that no one alone can become a Guru of the whole world. It has not been possible till today and it can’t happen even in the future. Everyone has his own group, sect and amongst them they are Gurus or God. We all are extended hands of the truth working in different areas with different groups according to their capacity of learning and their maturity. In fact no one can handle or manage the whole world at a time.
You don’t have to leave or renounce anything. It is not about making a deal that if you leave something you will receive something in return. Rather we suggest you renounce this state of mind, which is about bargaining and making deals to get something. You are not going to drop this and get this. It is not a bumper lottery offer nor is it a scheme to let go of such and such hell to get into heaven. We believe that heaven and hell is right here in your vision and not in the world. If you change your vision you will find heaven right here on earth. If you learn the art of living you will find a new freedom & yet find that you are fulfilling all your worldly duties and responsibilities. You will be living your normal life, but such that you will be in the world but not of it.
The state of mind you achieve is a powerful state of mind where you are not attached to anything. Everything is around you, but you are not attached to it. So you do not need to renounce anything. You are as you are. Everything is moving around you, but you do not move with them. Before learning NIRA art of living you were also moving around them. Now you have come to your center and everything moves around you. We don’t ask you to drop or leave or renounce anything you are doing – religion, family, business, etc. We simply teach you how to tackle your mind and how to work with your mind. Once you know how to drive a car well, you do not get into accidents. Thus if you know how to control the mind, drive the mind, you can live life easily.
When you pre-register with NIRA you will be informed of the location and timings few days prior to the workshop. If you wish to hold a seminar in your neighborhood, you will need to take the initiative. You will need to inform NIRA management about it and get required details about what arrangements need to be made. You will have to take responsibility to promote the event in your neighborhood and get enough registrations and take care of all the logistics including making arrangements for transportation of the NIRA Acharyas and management.
If you can eat 3 months worth of food at one time, then yes you can do several workshops at once. But you can’t. You can only eat as much as you can digest. If you overeat you will get indigestion. Similarly we do allow you to just accumulate information here. It is important to apply the teachings in your life. It’s like sowing a seed and nurturing the sapling to make it a tree. You can’t plant too many seeds. It’s a step by step process. Just like you eat food in small quantities at a time, digest it and then eat more. Similarly here also you imbibe the knowledge, apply it in your life, live it and then take some more. NIRA advocates a 3-fold path for spiritual growth – theory, practical and application.
We don’t believe in convincing anyone or marketing anything. We don’t impose our judgment on others or influence people to attend our seminars. You can, of course, invite people. When they see the positive transformation that has occurred in you, the positive changes in your health, personality, behavior, thinking etc. they will be inspired automatically, will take interest and find time to attend. Once you have sparked their interest you may invite them to participate in an Online Pre-Introductory Talk about Happy Living, so they can get to know more about NIRA and the Happy Living Workshop.This will give them an understanding of Nira’smission and vision. They canthen determine if this is the right avenue for them to progress on the path of Self-development and Self-realization.
This is not a business organization or a commercial manufacturing establishment. We have not set up any infrastructure which would be like a manufacturing plant that produces similar products on a mass-scale from a die or a mould. This system is for a chosen few awakened people for whom enlightenment is the goal of life. We are not trying to reach the masses, for which, we would definitely require media, publicity, space, and finances. For this, we would need to divert our attention outside. But it is not our system of working. We believe in focusing on the inside, and quietly doing our work while keeping a low profile. We are focused on conquering the SELF and on “inner” achievements. If we set up an infrastructure a lot of our time, attention, energy and resources would be diverted in maintaining and promoting that facility. We do not wish to waste so much time in hospitality. We would rather focus our resources on imparting our genuine teachings to genuine people who are interested in living a better life. Whenever we want to organize a workshop we always find kind benefactors who make their space available to us on donation basis. So we have never felt the need to have an infrastructure of our own.
The seminars are offered mostly in Hindi, but few of them like the VIP Happy Living and Desktop Yoga for corporates are offered in English
When sadhaks (spiritual aspirants/ devotees) first come to us, it is our primary goal to bypass all logical formalities and connect with them from a deeper level i.e from the heart center. Hindi is the best medium to do that, given that it is a language derived from the Divine Language of Sanskrit, which is called “Dev-Vani” (language of the Gods). English is a very technical language and good to pass on information. Hindi is the best medium to inculcate sanskars (values/ impressions) in the human mind.
Every person in every age group requires this knowledge of living – right from a young child to an old person. Everyone wants to live their life, but one must understand life to live a life of balance, harmony, joy and peace. One must understand what is health, what is right diet and what is spirituality, and what are the Universal Laws governing him at his present age and life situation. Hence we have designed courses for every age group. For the basic 2-day course the minimum age limit is 15 years. For younger children we have a specially designed Balsanskarshibir, for adolscents the Yuvasanskar and JeevanSanskarshibir.
NIRA’s general introductory public seminars are organized for the public, by the public, through the public and with the Public. We have a list of registrants who have expressed a desire to attend our entry level course.
Our programs are held in small groups (30-50 participants) in a closed environment and not in a large outdoor venue. (Due the COVID situation, groups are even smaller now). If a batch is full, then we declare the next date. That way we can give individual attention, service, guidance and counseling to each person. We do not offer discourses or lecture programs for large crowds. This workshop is all about the Inner journey. Every participant needs individual attention for that to happen successfully. Therefore we need to make sure that each participant understands the instructions and follows them properly. Our acharyas and DharmSevaks constantly check on the participants and guide and them until they do it properly. This workshop is about learning life skills, learning the art of connecting with, knowing and realizing your true SELF and about SELF-study. Hence it is important for each person to get introverted and go within themselves. If a person has not understood the instructions and does not get proper guidance, if he/she is not comfortable, if he cannot interact with the Acharya, then he won’t open up and won’t get results. Our focus is on results. Hence we do not hold our workshops in large groups. If a batch is full, then we will add your name to the next batch. In this style of working, NIRA cannot pre-decide a schedule for the workshops, because it is subject to registrations.
In our fast-paced modern world the corporate environment is filled with cut-throat competition, sales pressure, work pressure and deadlines. All this if not handled properly creates a disharmony in the individual, which in turn creates an imbalance in the work and family life and reduces efficiency. This course provides valuable mind tools with which one can cope with work pressure and work stress. One becomes stronger in mind and body and capable of handling and managing stress. It improves stability, equanimity and resistance to stress. It reprograms the mind with meditation to stay centered and grounded in the midst of stressful situations, which enables the individual to work calmly and peacefully. This builds his efficiency which in turn benefits the business by improving sales and expanding business.
Our typical schedule for the Corporate workshop, which is called DESKTOP YOGA is from 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM on 2 days. So the course curriculum is spread over a total of 24 hours. However, if a corporate cannot invest 24 hours at a stretch, we do offer corporate zip packages (CorpZip) of 3 hours each. Here the course syllabus is split into smaller modules, wherein the participants learn how to manage and relieve stress, how to be disease free, free from vices, and how to keep calm in the midst of day-to-day challenges. A Customized program for your company, to fit within your time constraints can be chalked out by discussing with the NIRA Management.
If you wish to plan 6 months in advance, we suggest you plan to stay here for at least a month. Within that month we will most probably have at least one beginner’s workshop that you can attend.
NIRA does not believe in marketing, influencing, pressurizing or coercing anyone to do our courses. Each participant is enrolled after a personal interview. The purpose of the interview is to understand his/her purpose of doing the workshop and his/her expectations from it. We also explain to the potential registrant, who we are, what are the course benefits, curriculum and vision. This is done so that one does not get disillusioned or disappointed after the course, if he/she has unrealistic or wrong expectations. If we find that the individual’s expectations match with our vision for the workshop, the registration process is carried forward. A list of registrants is created. Once the capacity for the intended venue is full, then the batch is closed and about a week or 10 days before the workshop all the registrants are notified of the workshop date and location. If the registrant successfully completes the beginner’s course, practices and applies the teachings in his/her daily life, he/she becomes eligible to attend the advanced courses.
This workshop cannot be done in a private one-on-one session. We also do not recommend doing it with a group of people who know each other such as family members or friends. These workshops involve an etheric surgery of your inner psyche which releases all the suppressed emotions and energies.
It has been our experience that with a group of known individuals one hesitates to open up for fear of what his loved ones might think. So one tends to just take the information and theory without really getting involved in the processes. Best results are achieved when the individual opens up completely and gets into the process. This happens best in a group of unknown people. Participating in these processes with other people who are like you and listening to the sharing of other participants is also a big part of healing, which provides much better results and makes the process easier. When you advance in your sadhana you can then take counseling or “Sparsh” sessions individually. But in the initial stages it is best to participate with a group.
To do an advanced course you will need to keep continuity of sadhana and keep regularly in touch with an Acharya. If over the last 2 years you have not been regular in your sadhana, you will not be able to get any results from the advanced course. It is not important how much you remember of what was taught in the basic course. It is important how much you have been applying, how much you have lived it and what results you have produced in your life. If we find that the seed that we had sown in the basic workshop has not take root and come to fruition we will need to sow the seed again. The seed can only sprout and grow with regularity of sadhana. If you have discontinued sadhana since the basic workshop, then the connection is broken and will have to be re-established in the basic course.
You may inform the management well in advance. We will do our best arrange for child-care and inform you of the costs. However if the management is busy and unable to fulfill your request you will be asked to make your own arrangements.
Happy Living workshop curriculum entails such deep mind engineering processes that it requires a highly intense energy field which is created only in a live session in the presence of a live Acharya and in a group dynamic. In an online seminar we can provide basic information about the course, but experience and realization will happen ONLY when you go through these cleansing meditations in that Energy Field. Only then will you see the results and benefits in your life. Hence we do not recommend doing the actual processes online since they will not give 100% results. Only about 20% results may be expected. This course is best done in person.
However, the basic Prayer Healing sessions can be done online, not advanced spiritual programs.
We do not conduct any certificate courses nor do we award any govt approved degrees. This is a path of self-attainment. Your life becomes your certificate. The results you see in your life are your degree. We do not have anything to show the world and we do not anything for sale. You award your own degree to yourself if you are seeing results in your life. Results like – Self-transformation, better health, spiritual evolution, maturity, clarity in life, better mind control, purified consciousness – these are the degrees. Apart from this we no degrees no levels of mastery etc. In fact, NIRA is a spiritual school where we ask people with degrees to let go of their degrees. It is a process of unlearning. Only when the cup is empty can it be filled.
Firstly to shout OUT aloud and advertise or publicize anything doesn’t make anything much more righteous or truer. In fact more the publicity and praise, the more it conveys a hidden message of inferiority. Also we do not want people to not think for themselves and blindly believe in the advertiser’s conclusion. To understand our vision or the latest approach to religion we want people who do not just believe but rather those who think on their own. They put in effort to contemplate what is right and wrong, those who are aware and are not in the influence of any media.
We do not want to offer a readymade religion. NIRA is not for people who are lazy, and want everything without any struggle or effort. It is not for those who seek everything that is instant, readymade and prefer home delivery services. Religion cannot be publicized or offered free as home delivery service. Otherwise it is not a religion at all it is just a marketing of a product by hypnotizing and convincing people. We are not for that. Religion has its own beauty. One cannot and should not compel others forcefully by any means and media. It’s one’s inner urge and feeling to learn and live religion. Therefore today people distrust religion due to those who are not religious but appear apparently to be practicing religion. Remember it is easy to publicize and make news but it is very hard to remain silent.
Time is our exchange of energy. We charge time. Otherwise monetarily speaking we run all our courses solely on donative basis. The reason is simple, as you know whatever is costly on money is cheaper on time and vice versa. Thus bigger the price, smaller the size and bigger the size smaller the price. So you can only buy, pay and possess smaller things and not the valuable ones because they are always shared or offered.
Remember you can use money to buy worldly things but you cannot buy living beings. As money is a media for energy exchange of the outer material world similarly, time is media for energy exchange of the inner world. Money is a tool with which you can have facility but not fulfillment. It is possible that you may accumulate all religious material e.g. books or audio-video cassettes of knowledge but you may not live a religious life. Can you see the point!!! That we are so habituated to get everything by means of money.
Dhamma is one of the precious and costliest jewels among them, which cannot be bargained at such simple means of energy exchange. Because if you are giving time indirectly you are giving your own self. You have to give up your laziness, you have to take effort and interest by involving fully into it. You have to put down your ideas, self concepts, beliefs, identities and ego, you have to surrender yourself, you have to put aside all your important work, programs, schedule, relations, luxuries, comforts and entertainment. Thus we can see that to give money is far easier than to give one’s time because you can offer Donation and not Devotion through the media of money. Devotion is the most important factor that matters while learning or acquiring this kind of higher knowledge.
Life is an on going process. You cannot measure it in terms of time. Life is a full time school and you are a student, so now there is no need to know how much time.
Actually there is no need of any teacher just awareness is enough, but today’s situation is such that a teacher is required and not just a teacher but a person who not only teaches but also applies in his life before teaching.
In today’s stressful and tension-filled world who does not want to be peaceful, tension-free, and relaxed? In our seminars relaxation is the first step. So the prime benefit is relaxation. After relaxation every thing follows one by one.
Life comes from a deeper part of the soul. It is a form of intelligence that is contextual, it takes everything into account, it is nurturing, it does not have a win-lose orientation, it is connected with the mind of the Universe.
Living is a format. Logic is a die or a mould. Logic or rationality are aspects of your mind. Living is an attribute of your soul. Life is a direction. Living is an art to live that direction. Logic is data of how others have lived up until now. Logic relies on reasoning, cause effect, relationships. It is linear. You may have Logic of everything but it does not guarantee that you will live those things in your life. To experience, to enjoy, to indulge is a part of logic – it is a matter of destiny. The experiences (happy or sad) you have, will be stored as a memory. That is not life. That is a format of living life in logic. Living logic is NOT life.
Living is karma, living is an art, living is an approach to life. Being born on this earth is logic, but how you are living your time on this earth, designing your time, planning time, directing your time, is living. If you have designed your time, you have direction in life. E.g. Say you accumulate all the parts of the computer, the motherboard, memory, keyboard, mouse, monitor etc, but you don’t know how to assemble the parts, then you cannot have or use all the potential abilities of the computer just by accumulating all the parts separately. It is when you put all the parts together that a whole new entity is born out of the ordinary. That is life. When you use all the parts individually, it is logic. It delivers very little. Life is not meant for living logic.
If you are not living life, logic will take over. Are you living life or logic? Check for yourself.
