GOMANDIR (TEMPLE THAT HOUSES THE COWS), IS VITAL TO REVIVAL OF KAILAASA
In Vedic Tradition, the Cow is worshipped as Gaumatha. Gau — Cow; Matha — Mother. In the ancient enlightenment ecosystem of “Kailaasa” that was established by Paramasiva, Gaumatha was the foremost form of worship. As per the Hindu scriptures, all the 33 crore Hindu Gods reside inside the cow and worshipping the cow is considered equivalent to worshipping all the Hindu Gods. The sacred bull called Nandi is the sacred vehicle of Paramasiva that carries him.
His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam spoke thus on 7 July 2017 during the everyday Nithya Satsang (everyday morning discourse) on the subject of Gomatha:
“I tell you, decorating deities physically and taking care of the cows physically, is one of the best vatavarana (ambience), for your muscle memory and bio-memory. Anybody feels stuck in your life, feeling confused, don’t know what to do, no inspiration, and you want to hold onto your outer identity, you want to continue to keep up your makeup and arrogance, you become cunning. Now you will have to make up for all your failures by lying. That is the worst way of building muscle memory. But I tell you, the best way of building muscle memory and bio-memory, when you take care of the cows. The very bio-memory, muscle memory, DNA of the cow awakens certain energy in you: joy, peace, completion, sacrifice.
In our Sangha (community), we should not use the word, “Goshala” (cow shelter); you should use the word, “Gomandir” (Go-Cow; Mandir — Temple). It is a temple.
Following is a sharing from Manikandan from Tiruvannamalai, who describes how His Divine Holiness as a child would relate with cows in the Arunachaleshwara in Tiruvannamalai:
Manikandan, aged 41 is a native of Tiruvannamalai, the birthplace of Swamiji, Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. Manikandan carries his Lord Annamalayar (presiding deity of Tiruvannamalai) not just in his heart but also on his shoulders. From age 18, he is one in the spirited team that carries Lord Annamalayar in procession on its very shoulders to the loud beating of the temple drums, inside the Arunachaleshwara temple and the streets, on festive occasions. Not even a specific friend of Bhagavan, and barely a year older to Him in age, Manikandan melts in distant memories of seeing Bhagavan and his alluring body language inside the temple, specifically in the Goshala, the cow shelter inside the temple. Through enchanting details never heard before, he conveys the feeling of divinity he experienced in merely watching him even at that young age:
“He would sit under the tree in the Goshala (cow shelter). He loved the goshala a lot, the cows. As he enters, he would stroke the cows and enter! The scene of him stroking the cow will be so nice to see. He would stroke the calf on its neck where it would be hanging. The calf would life its face ad show its neck for him to stroke. Even to see it, it would be so nice!
(In response to a question: ‘How come you have observed so closely?’)
It is the pull, right? We can say this is all the Lord’s leela. We can say it is the Lord’s grace. You can’t change Nature or the way Creation happens.
(In response to a question, ‘What else have you seen like this?’)
I don’t remember but there is a lot. There is a lot that has happened in the goshala like this. As Swami stroked, the calf would keep lifting its face upwards towards him wanting him to stroke more. At that time he would say, ‘The bull vehicle is what is appropriate for Shiva. I would ask, ‘How come you are going on stroking it?’ He would reply, ‘It is Shiva’s devotee pa!’ I would then think to myself, ‘So, Swami is like a Siddhar or mystic to the devotee of the Lord!’”
His Divine Holiness nurtures Gomandirs in all the enlightenment ecosystems He establishes. It is an important part of “Kailaasa”, the enlightenment ecosystem that originally existed and which He is reviving. On 24 June 2019, HDH launched the Nandi Sarvajnapeetham (NSJP. Nandi — Name of the Bull of Paramasiva; Sarvajnapeetham — The spiritual All-Knowing Seat) with the following words, thus taking it worldwide:
LAZY MAN’S ABODE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT WELCOMES YOU
*DO YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE A STRESS-FREE, LEISURE AND RELAXED LIFESTYLE AND GET ENLIGHTENED?
*THE DOORS OF KAILAASA IS NOW OPEN FOR YOU TOO.
*NO EARLY MORNING WAKE-UP, NO COLD WATER BATH, NO EARLY MORNING YOGA, NO EARLY MORNING PUJA, NO SATSANG, NO MEDITATION — ABSOLUTELY LEISURE AND STRESS-FREE LIFESTYLE IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT ECO SYSTEM OF KAILAASA
*JUST LIVE WITH THE ANIMALS AND GET ENLIGHTENMENT — YES! THE VERY LIFESTYLE THAT ENLIGHTENED SVETAKETU (UPANISHADIC TIMES ENLIGHTENED BEING) IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL OF YOU! (STORY IS AVAILABLE BELOW)
*I AM ESTABLISHING THE NANDI SARVAJNAPEETAM (NSJP) TO REVIVE THE ENTIRE TRADITION OF GOMATHA WORSHIP & GOSEVA AS PER THE VEDA AGAMIC TRADITIONS.
*ACCORDING TO SANATANA HINDUISM — COW IS THE EMBODIMENT OF ALL GODS AND GODDESSES. BY LIVING AND SERVING THE COWS, ONE ATTAINS THE PUNYA (GOOD KARMA) OF SERVING ALL THE GODS AND GODDESSES.
*THE NANDI SARVAJNAPEETAM IS GOING TO OPEN IN VARIOUS KAILAASAS ALL AROUND THE WORLD .
*UNDERSTAND, JUST LIVING WITH THE COWS, TOUCHING THEM AND SERVING THEM , ALL YOUR VIOLENCE, ANGER ETC JUST MELTS DOWN. YOU WILL BECOME A COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING BEING.
*NANDI SARVAJNA PEETHAM INVITES YOU TO BE PART OF IT BY SHARING TIME, TREASURE AND TALENT AND ANY ONE CAN BE COME KAILAASAVAASI (resident) TO EXCLUSIVELY BE IN NANDI SARVAJNA PEETHAM S.
*THOUSANDS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN DAY STUDIES AND RESEARCHES AND OBSERVATIONS PROVE LIVING, CARING AND WORKING WITH ANIMALS IS THE BEST CURE AND HEALING FOR MANY MENTAL SICKNESSES, DISORDERS AND ILLNESSES.
*ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO LIVE THIS PEACEFUL LIFESTYLE — JUST TAKING CARE OF THE COWS, LIVING WITH THEM AND EXPERIENCING ENLIGHTENMENT CAN MAIL US ( contact@kailaasa.org )
*JUST THE POWER OF INITIATION AND LISTENING TO GURU VAAK (the word uttered by the Guru) SWETHA KETHU BECAME ENLIGHTENED; JUST BY TAKING CARE OF GURU’S COWS.
*THIS NANDI SARVAJNAPEETHAM WILL BE HEAD QUARTERED IN ADHI KAILAASA (monastery in Bengaluru) ON NANDI’S JEEVA SAMADHI (where the body of the sacred Bull of Paramasiva that took birth in Adi Kailash in 2007 is rested after it passed on) AND MANY KAILAASAS WILL HAVE DEDICATED ITS OWN SPACE FOR NANDI SARVAJNA PEETHAM.
* NANDI SARVAJNA PEETHAM WILL BE HOSTING ALL THE BEINGS OF THE WORLD AND ALL GENDERS WILL CO-EXIST INCLUDING HUMAN BEINGS.
*THIS EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE “DO WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO BUT ACHIEVE THE GREATEST THING IN THE LIFE” OPPORTUNITY IS AN OPENING FOR ALL.
*WE WILL BE NOT JUST BE CARING FOR ANIMALS, WE WILL BE REVERING AND WORSHIPPING THEM AS PER PARAMASHIVAS OWN WORDS AND THESE ANIMALS DUE TO THE POWER OF THE SPACE THEY LIVE, THEY WILL BE MANIFESTING POWERS MORE THAN HUMAN BEINGS.
*GOSEVA IS NOT JUST A GOOD ACT OR DONE JUST FOR SOME PUNYA (spiritual merit based on one’s actions) OR SOCIAL SERVICE GO SEVA IS DIRECT PATH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT
*GOSHALAS ARE ONE OF THE IMPORTANT PILLARS OF KAILAASA ECO SYSTEM.
*I FEEL GOSHALAS ARE GOING TO MAKE MORE PEOPLE ENLIGHTENED IN THE MODERN ERA.
*AS ON NOW ADHIKAILAASA, SALEM, THIRUVANNAMALAI, MADURAI, RAJAPALAYAM, AHMEDABAD, ALANGULAM, TIRUCHENGODE, SEERAGAPPADI, ARE SOME KAILAASAS HAVING THEIR OWN NANDI SARVAJNAPEETHAMS (NSJP), AND WE WILL HAVE ATLEAST 1008 SOON.
*SVETAKETU, A YOUNG BOY, CAME BACK FROM HIS MASTER TO HIS HOME. HE HAD PASSED ALL HIS EXAMINATIONS, AND HE HAD PASSED WELL. ALL THAT THE MASTER COULD GIVE HIM, HE HAD COLLECTED. HE HAD BECOME VERY EGOISTIC.
WHEN HE REACHED HIS FATHER’S HOUSE, THE FIRST THING THE FATHER ASKED SVETAKETU WAS THIS: `YOU SEEM TO BE TOO FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE, AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS MAKING YOU VERY EGOISTIC — THE WAY YOU WALK, THE WAY YOU HAVE ENTERED THE HOUSE. I HAVE ONLY ONE QUESTION TO ASK YOU. HAVE YOU KNOWN THAT WHO KNOWS ALL? HAVE YOU KNOWN THAT BY KNOWING WHICH EVERYTHING IS KNOWN? HAVE YOU KNOWN YOURSELF?’
SVETAKETU SAID, `BUT THERE WAS NO COURSE FOR IT IN THE SCHOOL, AND THE MASTER NEVER DISCUSSED IT. I HAVE KNOWN EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE KNOWN. YOU ASK ME ANYTHING AND I WILL ANSWER YOU. BUT WHAT TYPE OF QUESTION ARE YOU RAISING? IT WAS NEVER DISCUSSED.’
THE FATHER SAID, `THEN YOU GO BACK, AND UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT BY KNOWING WHICH EVERYTHING IS KNOWN, AND WITHOUT KNOWING WHICH NOTHING IS KNOWN, DON’T COME BACK. FIRST KNOW YOURSELF.’
SVETAKETU WENT BACK. HE ASKED THE MASTER, `MY FATHER SAYS I CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO GO BACK HOME, I CANNOT BE WELCOMED THERE, BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IN OUR FAMILY WE HAVE BEEN BRAHMINS NOT ONLY BY BIRTH. WE HAVE BEEN KNOWERS, KNOWERS OF BRAHMA, BRAHMINS, NOT ONLY BY BIRTH BUT BY REAL AUTHENTIC KNOWLEDGE. SO HE SAID, “UNLESS YOU BECOME A REAL BRAHMIN, NOT BY BIRTH, BUT BY KNOWING THE BRAHMA, BY KNOWING THE ULTIMATE, DON’T ENTER THE HOUSE. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF US.” SO NOW TEACH ME THAT.’
THE TEACHER SAID, `ALL THAT CAN BE TAUGHT I HAVE TAUGHT YOU. AND THAT IS SOMETHING WHICH CANNOT BE TAUGHT. SO YOU DO ONE THING: YOU SIMPLY BE AVAILABLE FOR IT. IT CANNOT BE DIRECTLY TAUGHT. YOU SIMPLY BE RECEPTIVE; SOME DAY IT WILL HAPPEN. YOU TAKE ALL THE COWS OF THE ASHRAM…’ THE ASHRAM HAD MANY COWS; THEY SAY FOUR HUNDRED. `YOU TAKE ALL THE COWS TO THE FOREST. REMAIN WITH THE COWS. STOP THINKING, STOP VERBALIZING, JUST BECOME A COW. REMAIN WITH THE COWS, LOVE THEM, AND BE SILENT AS COWS ARE SILENT. WHEN THE COWS BECOME ONE THOUSAND, COME BACK.’
SO SVETAKETU WENT WITH FOUR HUNDRED COWS TO THE FOREST. THERE WAS NO USE IN THINKING, THERE WAS NO ONE TO TALK TO. BY AND BY HIS MIND BECAME JUST LIKE A COW. HE SAT SILENTLY UNDER THE TREES, AND FOR MANY YEARS HE HAD TO WAIT, BECAUSE ONLY WHEN THE COWS BECAME ONE THOUSAND COULD HE COME BACK. BY AND BY LANGUAGE DISAPPEARED FROM HIS MIND. BY AND BY SOCIETY DISAPPEARED FROM HIS MIND. BY AND BY HE BECAME NOT A HUMAN BEING AT ALL. HIS EYES BECAME JUST LIKE COWS.
AND THE STORY IS VERY BEAUTIFUL. THE STORY SAYS HE FORGOT HOW TO COUNT — BECAUSE IF LANGUAGE DISAPPEARS AND VERBALIZATIONS DISAPPEARS…. HE FORGOT HOW TO COUNT, HE FORGOT WHEN HE HAD TO RETURN. THE STORY IS BEAUTIFUL. THE COWS SAID, `SVETAKETU, NOW WE ARE ONE THOUSAND. NOW LET US GO BACK TO THE MASTER’S HOUSE. HE MUST BE WAITING.’
SVETAKETU CAME BACK, AND THE MASTER SAID TO THE OTHER DISCIPLES, `COUNT THE COWS.’
THE COWS WERE COUNTED AND THE DISCIPLES SAID, `YES, THERE ARE ONE THOUSAND COWS.’
AND THE MASTER IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID, `NOT ONE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND AND ONE — THAT’S SVETAKETU!’
HE WAS STANDING AMIDST THE COWS, SILENT, JUST BEING THERE, WITH NO THOUGHT, WITH NO MIND. JUST LIKE A COW — PURE, SIMPLE, INNOCENT, AND THE MASTER SAID, `YOU NEED NOT ENTER. NOW GO BACK TO YOUR FATHER’S HOUSE. YOU HAVE KNOWN; IT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU. WHY HAVE YOU COME AGAIN TO ME? IT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU.’
His Divine Holiness has been the recipient of many awards for reviving all components of Sanatana Hindu Dharma. One such award is the Certificate of Recognition from The Federation of Indo-American Associations of Los Angeles, USA on 15 August 2015.
The pictures in this post depict 1) “Gau Matha”, the Cow as a Divine mother and embodiment of the 33 crore Hindu Gods, 2) the Goshala in the Arunachaleshwara temple in Tiruvannamalai, 3) Manikandan — the childhood witness of HDH, 4) the nurturing and worship of cows within the global community established by His Divine Holiness, and 5) the award that is mentioned herewith.
