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Shiva Linga - Form in which Paramashiva is Worshipped

As per tradition, the Sarvajnapeetha at Kancheepuram was established during the previous "ice age". The "ice age" happened when Goddess Parasakthi in a playful mood closed both eyes of Paramashiva. With the eyes of Paramashiva - which power the Sun and the Moon respectively - being closed, the Earth was pushed into a period of deluge and extinction.

Paramashiva out of his compassion, then opened his Third eye through which life was restored on planet earth. As a penance (prayaschitta) for this act, Goddess Parashakti took a Human form and did intense Tapas in this very city of Kancheepuram as Goddess Kamakshi who is still worshiped there in a big way. Pleased by the penance,

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Paramashiva raising Kamakshi to Her Original State of Oneness

Paramashiva also took birth in Kancheepuram and taught the Kamikagama (the applied science of enlightenment through integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching) and raised her back to her original state of Enlightenment. This formed the origin of the Sarvajna Peeta of Kancheepuram and the Thondaimandala Adheenam.

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Kamakshi Amman Temple in

The knowledge of the Kamikaagama has spread all over the world around establishing many more centers of learning including the Adheenam, Thiruvannamalai and others.

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Kathopanishad, , Grantha script, Whish Manuscript Collection acquired 1836 CE

Bhagwan Sri La Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam currently is the 233rd Pontiff in this ancient line of Pontiffs of the Kancheepuram Thondaimandala Adheenam.

In 1988 Bhagawan Sri La Sri Nithyananda Paramashiva Gnanasambanda Desika Paramacharya Swami, then known as A. Rajashekar was, at the age of 10, recognized as an incarnation, initiated, proclaimed, declared and coronated as the future Maha Sannidhanam (Pontiff) of the Thondaimandala Aadheenam by the 230th Pontiff of the same sarvajnapeetha. The declaration being that He would takeover the administration and full responsibility When He turned 21. In the year 2000, when He turned 21, He assumed responsibility as the Guru Maha Sannidhanam (233rd Pontiff).

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Revival of the Sarvajnapeetha by Bhagwan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

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Temple in Kanchipuram

To further the goals of and the Peetam, from that time forward, His divine Holiness Bhagwan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam established the Nithyananda Peeta Mahasamsthana (Great Seat of Learning or University) with Adheenams (Residential Monastery Campuses) and Kailaasas (Complete integrated communities learning and living the science of Living Enlightenment) in various places including Bidadi near Bengaluru and Thiruvannamalai in and in Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, New York and other places in the United States.

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Statements such as "Sanatana Hindu Dharma is eternal" have been used by the anti Hindu forces to put to sleep. Hinduism maybe eternal but it can disappear from a geography. Not long ago Hinduism was the state religion of 56 Nations. Countries like Kandahar (Afghanistan), Sindh (Pakistan), Burma, Cambodia, Malaysia, Kerala, , Kashmir, Bangladesh and Indonesia which were all Hindu countries not so long ago are now completely lost to it. From the glorious time when 56 nations and 200 states 17000 provinces and 10000 sampradayas which consisted of 85% of the population, we came to a situation in 2017 where there was not even a single state practicing Hinduism as the state religion leave alone protecting the interests of the Hindus. Less than 15% of the population today identify themselves as Hindus and even fewer practice it.

Without political legitimacy, slowly Hinduism will fade away into history. Hindus need to become Kshatriyas and must stand up to

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support Hindu Dharma with great urgency. We have to come together or perish. Either we stand up and protect Sanatana Hindu Dharma or you will be talking to your grandson about some religion called Hinduism which gave us so much but is now extinct.

In Sanatana Hindu Dharma, losing of physical land is not just equivalent to the loss of some property. As the land is lost, along with it go all the scriptures, all the traditions, all the priests, the whole ecosystem for enlightenment associated with that place. When the lands of the Multani Madi (current day Pakistan) were lost, the headquarters of Atal Akhada - the oldest recorded Hindu organisation - itself was lost and along with it, the Ganapati Sampradaya. The Sharada Peetha established by Shankaracharya in Kashmir was the original Sarvajnapeetha (all-knowing seat of Sanatana Hindu Dharma) and the center of the Shankaracharya Mutts. Today, this Moolamnaya Peetha is lost and only its branches in India remain, the very memory of the Moolamnaya Peetha having been erased. For Sanatana Hindu Dharma, the size of the lands lost is equivalent to the number of Sampradayaas lost. We have been reduced from over 10,000 thriving Sampradayas to less than 200 surviving Sampradayas now.

His Divine Holiness Bhagwan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam has incarnated at this crucial moment in time to revive the ancient Hindu civilization, and along with it the science of enlightenment.

Kailaasa is bringing spiritual legitimacy, religious legitimacy, social legitimacy, cultural legitimacy, historic legitimacy, economical legitimacy and political legitimacy to Sanatana Hindu Dharma.

Reviver's Vision His Divine Holiness Bhagwan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam is establishing the Kailaasa Nation representing 2 billion living Hindus all around the world to revive Sanatana Hindu Dharma in its pristine purity as ordained by Paramashiva. To preserve and share all of its contributions and achievements in the fields of spirituality, religion, arts, culture, economy, technology, agriculture, medicine, lifestyle. For

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