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About Nitya
Nitya has been awake for as long as he can remember. From the age of two, when he recognized that others did not know the eternal Self, he wanted to help people recognize their true eternal Self and thereby alleviate the suffering and fear that arise from exclusive identification with the body—as male or female, and as nothing more than a physical being.
Nitya has been awake and has known himself as the Eternal Self for as long as he can remember. This recognition of the ever-present, everlasting Self did not arise through a later event, practice, teacher, or tradition.
Never known otherwise.
From the age of two, when he recognized that others did not know the eternal Self, he wanted to help people recognize their true eternal Self and thereby alleviate the suffering and fear that arise from exclusive identification with the body—as male or female, and as nothing more than a physical being.
Nitya later sought out well-known teachers to learn how best to help others recognize the Self. These encounters gave language, context, and practical forms of meeting to what was already known. They were not the source of awakening.
The teaching
Nitya speaks from the direct recognition of the eternal Self as Source and as Expression. The teaching does not ask the mind to disappear, thoughts to stop, feelings to be suppressed, or life to be left behind. It points to the confusion of identification: taking a thought, feeling, role, or story to be the whole of what you are.
The eternal Self is not absent during ordinary life. It is present as the source of life and as life itself in expression.
Encounters and background
Encounters with Zen, Daskalos, Papaji, Ranjit Maharaj, Lilian Silburn, and teachers and traditions from different paths provided language, context, and forms of meeting. They are not presented as the source of the Self.
Nitya gave the live English translation in the Ranjit Maharaj recording featured on the Videos page.
How the work is shared
Through public satsang, individual meetings, work with children and families, videos, written reflections, and the developing vision of Garden of Freedom.
Satsang & Sessions →Hear the teaching directly.
The videos are the main place to encounter the teaching in Nitya's own voice.
Watch the Videos