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Paramhansa Nityananda was born in India in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The year of his birth is not known, but we do know that he was a young adult by 1900. In his early teens Nityananda (called Ram at that time) began to travel around India, spending quite some time in the Himalayas and in various holy places in the north of India. It is said that he even travelled to Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan. Around 1910, in northern Kerala he became known for his miraculous ways, but his major “revealing” was in the sacred city of Udipi in 1918. Not staying for long in any one place he wandered mostly in the south of India. In the 1920’s he began speaking from a exalted state of consciousness as devotees sat around him. These words were eventually collected and published in several languages, including English, under the title The Chidakasha Gita. In the mid-1930’s Nityananda settled in a jungle near Bombay called Ganeshpuri. There he remained for almost thirty years, until his mahasamadhi in 1961, becoming one of the most renowned spiritual figures of modern India.

The following are quotations from The Chidakasha Gita. The numbers refer to the sections where the quotations are found. I am including them in this book so you can see that Om Yoga is not just my idea, that it was taught by one of the greatest masters in the spiritual history of India.

The Chidakasha in the Head

The head is the ocean of ananda (joy). In it is situated the Prana Linga [the Chidakasha], the seat of liberation (mukti). (41)

Paramananda [the bliss of the Supreme] is experienced in the head. This state is eternal joy. This state is jivanmukti. (53)

The prana should enter the holy Brahmarandhra [the Chidakasha area]. Here the light of lights becomes visible to the divine eye. This is mukti. This is eternally supreme joy. This is the place where the manas [mind] ought to dwell; this is the eternal being whence the Vedas have sprung. This is seeing Paramatman in all; this is the real place of jivatman. (59)

Prana should be raised to Brahmarandhra, the highest point in the brain.…You should sit in the upper story and look around downwards. The buddhi’s place is above.…Just as we rock a child in a cradle, we should fix our attention in the head and examine what takes place there. Paramananda, Sadananda [the bliss of the Real] are there in the head. Shiva Linga is also in the head. (69)

If by the internal exercise of the sadhana which is with us, we lead the prana to the Brahmarandhra, and there if prana and Shiva are united, then we do not require anything. (85)

The climbing of the tree of peace which is in the head and being one with that “peace tree” is the real imperishable desirelessness.… Desirelessness is liberation from bondage in this very life. (89)

Our head is like a coconut fruit. In the coconut there is water and kernel. Likewise…

Read more of Nityananda’s Instructions on Om Meditation.