Journey through Sadhana to Akula

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Adityahridayam Foundation ashrams brings different paths to spiritual evolution such as Raja Yoga, Kriya Yoga, n Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and more including Sanyasa under one roof. 

Adityahridayam Foundation follows principles of Srividyaupasana and Shaivism as present by our gurumandala in conjunction with Sahasradalayatakshee Lalitha Shaktipeetham under Srilalithadvaita Yoga Vedanta Charitable Trust (Pvt).

Adityahridayam will specialize in researching ancient yogic techniques to make it available to genuine Sadhakas of current times.  

Adityahridayam Foundation will tutor Vedaagama to young boys and girls in a Gurukulam ambience.

Some sadhakas will be chosen to take sanyas n be stationed at our ashrams and our Chaturamnaya Srilalithadvaitamathas to be established at four locations in various continents by Shivaniji under "Shaktipatha - The Digvijaya Yatra" project, to serve Sanatanadharma n humanity, the first of which will be the Sahasradalayatakshee Lalitha Shaktipeetham in Tamilnadu under the guidance of Adishankaracharya Mandiram & Sadgurushridatta Peetham.

Adityahridayam Foundation offers yogic courses such as Hatha Yoga courses (regular classes at various centres, TTC & ATTC courses for those interested to invest their lives into Hatha Yoga with our Kechari -  The Hatha Yoga Studios across the continents), meditation courses thru pathas of Rajayoga, Kriyayoga, Layayoga, Naadayoga, Kundalini Yoga, specialised advance courses such as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Swarayoga, Samayama. 

We offer deekshas to inhouse resident volunteer sadhakas into Bhakti, Gyana, Rajayoga, Karmayoga paths and Shakti upasanas and also into sanyasa, who will dedicate their lives to researching n documenting various facets of yoga sadhanas and Vedanta for public knowledge and these documentations will be published as books through Seshan Publications and will be available for sale.

Our signature event will be annual Panchagni Sadhana by peetadhipati n their wife who, after their duties in grahasthashram have taken sanyasdeeksha. This tradition will be carried forward by all our future peetadhipati couples.

Acharya Manikanthan Annan was from Nedumangnaadu near Trivandrum, Kerala. 

A man of few words and extreme compassion, a melodious singer of bhajans n devotional songs who guided his disciples through a silent and mischievous smile like Guruvaturappan Krishna.

A proficient Yogi in Rajayoga, Kundalini Yoga and many more. 

His influence on Shivaniji - Parvathi Haritsa, such that she was transformed by him just by his grace and look. 

Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) was a 20th-century Indian yogi, spiritual luminary, and physician who emphasized the integration of yoga and Vedanta into a daily "Divine Life" for all, regardless of their background. After a career as a doctor in Malaysia, he founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh to spread his teachings, wrote over 300 books on spiritual topics, and inspired many students, including those who went on to establish modern yoga in the West. 

His core teachings promoted selfless service, love, and the pursuit of self-realization through the practice of yoga and meditation.

Gold Medalist from the Indian Institute of Finance - a Bureaucrat, Entrepreneur, Yogi, Vedanta Scholar, Zen Master, Priest, Astrologer. Walks his talk. No drama and fooling people, just plain emodiement of self knowledge. You want to meet a living saint who practices every word he says?

A Loving father, grandfather and husband. Lived life to the fullest. One of the coolest people anyone could come across.

A hidden treasure.

He combines Vedic teachings with the mystic ways of Zen and says that both lead to each other. 

Prof. P. A. Seshan, master of the Vedas, Kundalini yoga which he learnt from Vedadri Maharishi in Chennai, a Zen master, also a Srividya upasaka (sri chakra anustan). "In these troubled times, leadership should not lose heart. We need effective leaders and zen will show the way," he reiterates. 

Seshan had the rare honour of training under German born Zen master, Enomiya Lassalle. A gold medallist in English literature at the post graduation level from Kerala University and a student of Physics, he has worked as General Manager of BHEL, Vice President of the Bhilwara group and as Executive Director of Keltron. He has been a professor of management as well. "Areas of interest where Zen will help tremendously are leadership and financial management. Stress management will lead to prosperity. You have to evolve into Zen and make it a way of life. Zen encompasses all philosophies and is a vast fathomless ocean, hence the need for a master. He will select what you need to practise. 

Zen meditation needs no prior qualifications and your ability to solve problems improves, life becomes effortless and you experience peace in the midst of intense activity. Prof. Seshan comes from a family of reputed vedic scholars and possesses some rare manuscripts. He has taught zen-vedic practises to more than 10,000. 

He uses a rare attunement process by which he empowers people to find answers themselves. He is also a vedic astrologer, psychic n palmist. Some internationally reputed astrologers in Kerala have been taught by him. He is founder-president of the Zen Foundation.

Prof.PA Seshan - He is a retired IAS officer, master of Yoga, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Astrology and Zen and was a management consultant before retiring. Epitome of humility & love, he looks like Indianized Gandalf of Lord of the Rings or Dumbledore of Harry Potter, with a long white beard, Indian Dhoti and shirt. He would always teach us something new every time – leadership tips, coping skills, some chants from Buddhism, breathe control techniques, Srividya upasana and Unconditional love as a way of living. One would always leave his home in bliss, energized and transformed to take on the professional world with rigor, passion and humility.

Professor Seshan learnt Yoga from Sri Krishnamacharya and was a classmate of BKS Iyengar. He also trained in the ancient art of Kundalini Yoga and Vedanta with the renowned Vedadri Maharishi for more than 3 decades. He had steady friendship with Swami Dayananda Saraswati, K. Pattabhi Jois.

He was the biggest exponent and Lineage holder of Kundalini (Sri Vidya) in India and has students who come to him from all around the world. He was a spiritual mentor to many and practiced the yogic way of life since he was 5. He was an ordained Zen monk (Roshi), a Reiki grandmaster, a Sri Vidya lineage holder, certified Ayurvedic doctor, and knew all esoteric sciences ranging from palmistry, astrology, homeopathy, naturopathy etc. Even at 86, he was still a thirsty student forever learning newer things.

A kind, wise and gentle soul. We know he will always be with us in spirit.

Sri Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (born Dr. N. Prahalada Sastry in 1934) was an Indian nuclear physicist turned spiritual master and Tantric authority. He was born in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and had spiritual experiences from a young age, though he initially pursued science, earning a PhD in quantum physics. After a life-altering divine experience, he dedicated his life to goddess worship and the ancient Sri Vidya tradition, founding the Devipuram center to teach the sacred feminine to all, especially women.  

Dr. N. Prahalada Sastry (1934-2015), a former university professor and nuclear physicist who left a successful 23-year career with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai to begin work on the Devipuram temple in 1983. Now a noted spiritual guru, better known as Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (and generally addressed as "Guruji"), Sastry reports that his creation of Devipuram was based on several visions of the Divine Mother, which specified both the design and mission of the temple complex. Each of the many murthis within the Sahasrakshi Meru Temple was individually sculpted to Sastry's specifications, physically manifesting his meditative visions of these deities.

Formally titled Swami Swaprakasananda Tirtha Hamsa Avadhuta, Anakapalle Gurugaru was born Narasimha Kodukula (Narasimha enters Guruji’s life yet again) on July 31, 1915, to Mahalakshmi and Suribabu Kodukula, members of a “pious family known for its religiosity” in the village of Veduruparthi, Andhra Pradesh.

“Even as a child, he made his presence felt by all alike,” A. Ramalinga Sastry, a longtime acquaintance, recalled years later. “Not because of his total disinterest in formal education, which he discontinued at the elementary level, or his obstinate mischief, but because of his habit of being in a deeply contemplative mood in opted solitude, going routinely into deep meditation most of the time, without any concern for the mundane.”

Over the years, Gurugaru encountered many of the greatest spiritual teachers of his time and took initiation into any number of spiritual lineages. A hagiography circulated for years among his devotees recounts the rather jaw-dropping details:

During his 20th year, Sri Gurugaru received initiation from Sri Poornananda Yogi, a disciple of the Tibetan guru Maru Maharishi. He was introduced to Śrī Vidyā upasana by Sri Kesari Kameswara Rao of the Madhvacharya lineage. “In his 32nd year, he received initiation into [the goddess forms known as] the 10 Mahavidyas, Sri Rajarajeswari and Vanadurga, and [into the] Saptasathi Chandi. He attained purna diksha [the highest initiation in Śrī Vidyā] from Sri Gnanananda Saraswathi of Anakapalle.

Traveling the length and breadth of India to enhance his spiritual knowledge, Sri Gurugaru mastered the 64 Tantras by the time he was 40 years old. By 43, he had learned 70 million mantras from the teachings of the 18 pīṭhams and many gurus. He spent a few years in Kashi [Varanasi] contemplating and analyzing the source of the mantras he had learned, greatly aided by Sri Dakshinamurthi Paramahamsa (1872–1954) of the Lalithanagar [section of] Visakhapatnam.

At the age of 58, he became a Vedic scholar with the grace of [the deity] Chintamani Mahavidyeswari. By 1980, in his 65th year, Sri Gurugaru felt the urge to renounce the material world and take up sannyasa. To this end, he traveled to the Sri Bhadrakali Mahapeetam at Haridwar’s Saptarishi Sarovar. Sanyasa Diksha was showered on him by [Gurugaru’s final guru] Srilasri Kalyanananda Bharati Tirtha Maharaj. Years later, with his Guru’s blessings, Sri Gurugaru took up the Avadhuta ashram.

She's been a yoga practitioner since she was 5 years old. She specialises in Sivananda style of traditional hatha yoga.  She wishes to carve her own niche' in her teaching style n techniques that gives a better understanding of the body, mind, prana n soul connection. 

She is also exploring and passionately pursuing her other interests such as drawing/painting, classical singing and creative writing these days. She is a hobbyist photographer who started clicking family portraits and get-togethers as a child. She picked up her first point n shoot camera in 2007 and graduated to a DSLR in 2011. She is looking to specialize in analogue fine-arts black n white photography as a hobby. She is a self proclaimed freestyle poet who goes by the pen-name Gauri. She is also currently experimenting with her taste in Interior decoration.

Her hobbies are outdoor sports, traveling, gardening, running, biking and alternative healing methods such as aromatherapy, colour therapy, auras, chakras and meditation. Reading is her second nature; she mainly reads philosophical fictions, and a bit of ancient scriptures. 

She is initiated into Rajayoga in Siddhaparampara by Acharya Manikanthan Annan on karthika purnima of 2008 and has been given Shaktipatha and Gayatrimantra and amrita in her somachakra on chitrapurnima of 2010. 

She met her Srividya Guru late Prof. P. A. Seshan, Amritapadananda in phalguna of 2015 who initiated her jnto all necessary mantras and mediations of Srividyaupasana, various meditations such as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra of Neelabindu meditation, Hira meditation and more and graced her with purnadiksha and Gurupadukas on her Hindu calendar birthday in 2016 February. He even guided her through basics of Ayurveda, Astrology, Zen and other techniques and blessed her to build Chaturamnaya Srilalithadvaitamathas as per her horoscope. He blessed her with kapalamoksha at Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga on 4th July 2016, Somavati Amavasya on ardra nakshatra.

Her Paramguru Sri Sri Amritanandanatha Saraswati of Devipuram hax blessed her to build the Chaturamnaya Srilalithadvaitamathas in the form of Sriyantras like his life's work at magnificent Devipuram. 

She has since formed and is in the process of registering 

Srilalithadvaita - An advanced advaitic philosophy specific to Srichakra pujas & meditations 

Sahasradalayatakshee Lalitha Shaktipeethams (temple complex)

Ardreshwarar Shivan Koyil 

Sadgurushridatta Peetham 

Adishankaracharya Mandiram 

Adityahridayam Foundation 

Kechari - Tha Hatha Yoga Studios 

Prajaahriday National Party of India 

and many more asper her Gurumandala's instructions and wishes.

Dharma samsthapanarthaya Sambhavami Yuge Yuge

Lalitha Samrajyam Shaiva Kutumbam 

Sarvadevah Namaskaraha Lalithaam Pratigacchati 

Srilalithadvaitam Eeva Jayate 

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