1 Jan - Night - Players of the drama 'Ramakatha'
which was enacted during the Jayanthi celerations.
1 Jan - Night - Swamiji
greeting the gathering at the start of the evening celebrations.
In His speech, Swamiji formally announced the birth of the
Nithyananda Commune - a commune made up of
people from all over the world beyond religion and creed.
He urged the devotees to become a closely knit family spreading
meditation and love to help transform individuals to a state
of Eternal Bliss or Nithyananda!
1 Jan - Night - Swamiji
blowing out the candles on the birthday cake offered by devotees!
1 Jan - Night - Swamiji conducting the Healers'
pooja. In the healers' pooja, Swamiji does pooja and offers
arathi to all the healers present. Energy Darshan
followed.
4 Jan - Swamiji visited
the Thiruvannamalai Temple of Lord Arunachaleshwara. Thiruvannamalai
is Swamiji's birth place and a spiritual nerve centre of India.
4 Jan - While in Thiruvannamalai,
Swamiji visited the school He studied in as a child! He inspired
the children and answered questions from their side. He urged
them to treat their studies and any activity that they do
as a meditation with utmost interest and concentration in
order to reap the full benefit from it. He emphasised to them
that spirituality is a way of life that needs to be imbibed
right from young age.