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Known before birth. Uninterrupted. Not attained.
This teaching is not based on books, borrowed authority, or a tradition that was studied and then repeated. It arises from direct recognition of the Self — known before birth, uninterrupted, and not attained through practice.
The eternal Self is never absent. There is no final distance to cross, because what is being searched for is already the ground of the one who searches. Practice, satsang, devotion, stillness, sound, movement, and inquiry can all help the recognition become clear, but they do not create the Self.
Some traditions call this condition a Nitya Siddha: one whose true nature was never fundamentally forgotten, and for whom liberation is not an event that happened one day in time. In this sense, the traditions did not produce the recognition. They confirmed, named, and mapped what was already known directly.
The same ground is pointed to by Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Zen, the Sant tradition, Sufi mysticism, Christian mysticism, Taoism, and many other currents. Each gives a different doorway. Each carries part of the map. None of them owns the territory.
The teaching here therefore does not ask you to believe in a tradition, a philosophy, or a person. It asks you to look at what is already present before belief: the still ground of awareness, and the living energy through which the world appears.
The purpose is simple: to help the Self recognize itself more directly in those who are ready to look.
What is being pointed to is what you truly are.
The curriculum includes satsang, meditation, sound and kirtan, movement and martial arts, direct investigation of consciousness, open-senses practice in nature, sexuality and stillness as a path to recognition, and the training of teachers. Each is a different door into the same ground.
Nitya has known the Self as his own nature from before birth — uninterrupted, not as something achieved but as what simply is. When this is spoken from direct recognition, something in the listener may recognize it too. Not because something is given from the outside, but because the same truth was already present. The teaching does not require belief. It requires genuine readiness to look.
The recognition described here was not received from any teacher. It was present before birth and has never been otherwise. What was received from certain teachers and traditions was something different: the energetic transmission of their specific lineages — not as a student seeking realization, but as someone already established in the ground who could receive and carry what each tradition expressed.
Among the teachers encountered directly over many years: H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), in whose company Nitya spent years in Lucknow until his death. Lilian Silburn — scholar and practitioner of Kashmir Shaivism, who taught exclusively through shaktipat, and who invited Nitya to live with her after meeting for only one minute. Ranjit Maharaj, direct disciple of Siddharameshwar Maharaj and lineage-brother of Nisargadatta Maharaj — for whom Nitya served as translator. Brother David Steindl-Rast, whose presence carried what many familiar with genuine transmission would recognize immediately. And others.
None of these encounters produced realization. The realization was already there. What they contributed was the energetic imprint of their traditions — carried now as part of the range and depth of what this teaching can meet and transmit.
Nitya is also a certified yoga, meditation, and pranayama teacher in the Sivananda tradition, and holds a black belt in Judo.
Watch Nitya as translator for Ranjit Maharaj →