Nirvana / Atma Shatakam..! Who is the Aadiyogi
The Adiyogi brought the possibility that a human being need not be
contained in the defined limitations of our species. There is a way to be
contained in physicality but not to belong to it. There is a way to inhabit the
body but never become the body. There is a way to use your mind in the highest
possible way but still never know the miseries of the mind. Whatever dimension
of existence you are in right now, you can go beyond that – there is another
way to live. He said, “You can evolve beyond your present limitations if you do
the necessary work upon yourself.” And he gave methods as to how to
evolve. That is the significance of the Adiyogi.
Before I fall dead, I want to make
sure that His contribution to humanity is recognized across the world. We are
in various stages of doing this. One thing is we are building Adiyogi shrines. It is a twenty-one
foot tall bronze Adiyogi with a
consecrated linga in front of Him. It
is a powerful space. The first one is coming up in an ashram in the United
States, in Tennessee.
Everybody on the planet should know
that He is the one who offered this science to the world. In the last five to
six years, four major books were published in Europe contesting that yoga did
not come from India, but is the evolution of European exercise systems. If they
write another ten to fifteen books like this, that will become the truth.
Whatever you read in your textbook as history, you believe is the truth. It is
not, I am telling you, it is just written by some vested interest largely. So
if they write twenty-five to fifty books like this in the next ten to fifteen
years, after some time everyone will say yoga came from United States or from
California, or that Madonna invented yoga. It is not a laughing matter, it can
easily be done. There are people who are willing to write anything. Some very
famous books are saying this. Dan Brown, in his book Angels and Demons,
says yoga is an ancient Buddhist art. Gautama is only twenty-five hundred
years, Adiyogi is fifteen thousand years. Now you say Gautama, tomorrow you
will say Madonna. If you write a few books that will become the truth. So I
want to make sure, before I am dead, that everybody should know yoga came from
Him, nobody else but Him.
Everybody on the planet
should know that He is the one who offered this science to the world.
We need to do this because the ethos
of India is that of seekers. We are not believers, we are seekers of
liberation. That is all that is holding us together. If you travel one hundred
kilometers, people look different, speak different, eat different, dress
different, everything about them is different. Though politically we were over
two hundred pieces at one time, outside people say this is “Hindustan” or this
is “Bharath” because the strangeness of this existence was that they were a
land of seekers, not believers.
It does not matter what Rama said,
what Krishna said, what the Vedas say, what the Upanishads say, it does not
matter who says what – still, every person born in this land is supposed to
seek his own truth. You are supposed to seek your own liberation. Because
they were a land of seekers, they were never conquerors. If you make the whole
humanity on this planet seekers, not believers, there will be no conquest. The
basic incentive for violence is gone. People may fight for small things, but
the big fight is over. Because I believe one thing, you believe another thing –
there is endless fight.
If you see you do not know the
nature of the universe – as scientists are admitting today – who are you going
to fight with? “No, my God created the universe, not yours.” That is the
problem. A seeker means one who has realized that he does not know. If this one
thing happens to humanity, ninety percent of the incentive for violence will be
gone.
So to bring this back, there is no
better inspiration than Adiyogi. And we want to manifest Him in many ways.
By- Sadguru.
Lord Shiva gives such simple solutions to achieve Truth-Consciousness-Bliss and complete fulfillment in life that anyone who is bit aware about himself can practice and achieve them.
2015 it is being celebrated as “Maha Pushkaram”, as such an event occurs
once in 144 years. It is called Maha Pushkaram as it is the 12th time
the 12 year Pushkaram cycle is being held starting with Ashadha month on
Chaturdashi (thithi) (14th day). 
The origin of Godavari is at Trayambak which is a Jyothirlinga Temple,
and then River flows around various temples like Basara Gnana Saraswati
temple where the goddess was made by Vyasa Maharshi, then comes the
Famous Badrachalam Sri Rama Temple and merges into sea at Antharvedi, a
place of Lord Narsimha.
Rajamundry City and Godavari Districts are expecting an estimated
visitors of 3 Crores during the pushkarams. The total estimate would be 7
crore pilgrims throughout the banks of Godavari.
The Maha Siva Lingam Built during the 2003 Godavari Pushkaralu at
Rajamundry is a special attraction. The water from River Godavari is
poured on the Shiva Lingam which come down through sprinklers
facilitating pilgrims to take bath with the holy water.
Koti Lingala Ghat at Rajamundry is the Lengthiest Ghat on River Godavari which is more than a Kilometer Long (1045 Mts).
Cant make it to Godavari Pushkaralu.? You can buy packaged Godavari Water at the nearest Post Offices or order online at www.appost.in/eshop.
Indian Railways is running Special Trains to Rajamundry and Spice Jet
and Jet Airways are introducing an additional flight from Hyderabad to
Rajamundry. A whole new Regional Air Lines is starting their First
Operations by a flight to Rajamundry.
