“The word yoga means ‘uniting’ – uniting us with the whole cosmos, uniting us with nature,” says Paramahamsa Nithyananda. “One part of it is physical postures, helping us to keep our health and mental wellness. Somehow in many countries, yoga is understood just as postures. It is much more than that.”
Swami Nithyananda is just 31, but has two million followers around the world. He’s written several books, but most know him through his talks on YouTube. He was interviewed by a local TV station before giving a discourse on the Yoga Sutras.
Swami teaches meditation to achieve what he calls “no mind” – a superconscious state where all the world’s most creative thought, including scientific discoveries, come from. “All the great scientists who invented new things experienced that state of consciousness, knowingly or unknowingly,” he says. “Only from that state are all new things delivered to planet Earth.”
Nithyananda says most people don’t even know this consciousness is possible. “From a young age, we are taught how to develop the mind, but we are never taught how to relax or unclutch from it — even for a few moments. So if we know how to relax from it, we’ll know how to use it to its peak potential.”