AUMISM
FOUNDER
LORD
HAMSAH
MANARAH
1961
Sannyasin initiation
1969
Founding of the Mandarom
Lord Hamsah Manarah is the Founder of the Monastery of Mandarom Shambhasalem, of the Order of the Knights of the Triumphant Vajra and of Aumism, universal religion of the Unity of the Faces of God. A tireless artisan of Peace in the world, he devoted his whole life and his spiritual work to Unity between religions and between the Peoples of the Earth.
Biography
A spiritual quest
Read the biographyFrom his first research to the founding of the Mandarom, the stages of his life and of his teaching.
Initiatic titles
Encounters and initiations
See the titlesThe encounters, titles and initiations received in the spiritual traditions of the West and the East.
Mission and transmission
The Unity of the Faces of God
Discover the missionHis message of unity, the text of his mission and the transmission of his work and his teaching.
The Founder
Biography
The origins
A quest
for knowledge
His Holiness Lord Hamsah Manarah was born into a French Catholic family. While pursuing advanced university studies in law, philosophy, economics and medicine, he devoted the rest of his time to research into Yoga, naturopathy, spirituality and the esoteric sciences.
Lord Hamsah Manarah was initiated into the mysteries of the Kabbalah and of Alchemy, and knew from the inside many “philosophical” circles of the West, within which he held important responsibilities.
From the East to the retreat
A spiritual
journey
The stay in India
In 1960, after journeys to the Holy Land and the Middle East, His Holiness stayed for a long time in India, notably in Rishikesh at the ashram of Swami Sivananda Sarasvati.
Swami Sivananda Sarasvati conferred on him the initiation of Sannyasin and gave him the name Swami Hamsananda Sarasvati.
The retreat in the Vaucluse
On his return to France in 1962, Lord Hamsah Manarah settled in an isolated cave in the Vaucluse, where he pursued his spiritual practices as a yogi, devoting himself daily to rigorous asceticism, meditation and Hatha Yoga.
The extreme conditions and the exceptional cold of the winter of 1962-1963 only strengthened the determination and the work of prayer of this Man of God.
He developed spiritual techniques enabling those willing to make the required efforts to reach union with the Divine. In this way he renewed the tradition of the Christian Desert Fathers and of the great Tibetan yogis.
It was during this period that Lord Hamsah Manarah experienced mystical fusion in God on several occasions (or higher states of Consciousness, called “Nirvikalpa Samadhi” in India).
The creation of the monastery
The founding
of the Mandarom
Lord Hamsah Manarah gave up his life as a hermit and agreed to teach, to pass on his spiritual experience to the ever more numerous visitors who sought him out, even in his cave. He instructed his first disciples and created the first centres of prayer and Yoga.
He also began writing his work, the foundation of the future religion of Aumism. His first books, dealing with the different aspects of Yoga, were republished several times.
He created the initiatic Order of the Knights of the Golden Lotus (now known as the “Knights of the Triumphant Vajra”), whose main mission is the spiritual service of humanity, in particular through prayer and the conquest of spiritual realisation.
In 1969, Lord Hamsah Manarah founded the monastery of Mandarom Shambhasalem in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a holy place and the world headquarters of the Aumist religion. This monastery brings together temples of all religions, as well as symbols of different traditions. The religious festivals celebrated there gather several hundred believers of all faiths every year.
The Founder
Initiatic
titles
Spiritual recognition
The traditions
During his travels and his initiatic journey through the Traditions of the West and the East, His Holiness Lord Hamsah Manarah received many titles and initiations from great Sages who recognised his exceptional spiritual elevation. Having become a living Liberated One, a pure Channel of divine Compassion, Founder and Superior of the Mandarom monastery, He received the homage of eminent Masters who came to meet Him.
Hindu tradition
His Holiness Lord Hamsah Manarah received the initiation of SANNYASIN (“Renunciant consecrated to God”) on 13 February 1961 from Swami Sivananda Sarasvati, who gave him the name SWAMI HAMSANANDA SARASVATI (“Bliss in the Absolute”), thus linking him to the Sarasvati lineage, an order of ascetics founded by SHANKARACHARYA in the 7th century.
He also received from Swami Sivananda Sarasvati the title of GURU BHAKTI RATNA (“Jewel of Devotion to the Guru”), with the mission of spreading the teaching of Yoga.
He received the title of SHRI 108 MAHARAJA YOGA ACHARYA on 1 July 1971 from Swami YOGESHWARANANDA, then visiting the monastery of Mandarom Shambhasalem.
Buddhist traditions
Tibetan Buddhism: he received the initiation of MILAREPA and the title of KARMA TENSING DORJE (Tensing = “He who teaches”) from His Holiness the 16th Karmapa during his visit to the monastery of Mandarom Shambhasalem on 7 October 1977.
He was honoured by great figures of Buddhism, including the Karmapa and the Lamas Pao Rinpoche and Kalu Rinpoche, who recognised in him a Mahasiddha (a perfectly accomplished Being) belonging to the High Lineage of the Lotus Masters.
Japanese esoteric Buddhism: he was initiated by the Doshi AOKI SENSEI, Superior of the Shingon Tradition.
Western traditions
A Knight of the Rose Cross, he was DEPUTY MASTER OF THE ROSICRUCIAN LODGE OF PARIS, a member of the GRANDE LOGE DE FRANCE in Freemasonry and a member of the THEOSOPHICAL LODGE of ADYAR near Madras.
In addition, Lord Hamsah Manarah is an UNKNOWN SUPERIOR, in direct filiation in the Tradition of Martinism, and also a KNIGHT OF THE HOLY GRAIL in the Tradition of esoteric Christianity.
Jain tradition
He received the title of ADINATH (First Patron, Patriarch) from Chitrabhanu, a master of the Jain religion.
In the Hindu and Jain Traditions, he received several times the title of ACHARYA and of MAHACHARYA (He who teaches what He Himself has realised).
Yoga and realisation
He is also a MASTER of KUNDALINI, a title received following his experiences of the states of Samadhi on 17, 19 and 22 August 1963.
He received the title of PURNA YOGI or “Complete Master”, conferring on him the ability to initiate on several paths and to guide each person from their religion of origin according to their tendencies and aspirations.
Other initiations
Sufi tradition: he was initiated by Pir Daskishan, a Master of Indian Sufism.
His Holiness Lord Hamsah Manarah was initiated into the Tradition of Javanese Yoga by Colonel Bennett.
He was also initiated into several African religions during his various travels.
The Unity of the Faces of God
Mission and
transmission
22 August 1990
The Revelation
The first Hierokarantine
His Holiness revealed himself to the Earth on 22 August 1990 as Cosmo-Planetary Messiah and Avatar of Synthesis. Beyond the recognition shown by dignitaries of the great religions who saw in him a Realised Being, this revelation crowned the work of prayer accomplished by Lord Hamsah Manarah.
It also gave concrete form to the Unity of the Faces of God and to the message of fraternity, respect and tolerance between religions that Lord Hamsah Manarah always addressed to humanity. In Aumism, the mission of the Messiah is to restore the Unity of the Faces of God on Earth and to give human beings the means to take charge of their future for a better world.
He is also the First Hierokarantine, founding for Aumism the Lineage of the Bodies of God on Earth, whose mission is to restore the Unity of the Faces of God and to help humanity on its way towards Peace.
In the sacred Texts of India, it is written:
“Whatever the Name by which I am called, I remain the same.”
Jesus said:
“In my Father’s house are many mansions.” (John 14-23)
According to Gandhi:
“He who has reached the very heart of his own religion has also reached the heart of the other religions.” (Letters to the Ashram)
Mission
“It is to renew the world and the universes spiritually.
It is to undo the wheels of karma and its whole hierarchy.
It is to restore the Unity of the Faces of God.
It is to form a spiritual elite able to bring the Golden Age to the whole planet.
It is to unite all Religions in a single Light of the OM.
It is to stimulate all souls to the inner combat.
It is to help all souls, at the death of the body, to be trained for the New Age in the six-branched Column of Light, crystallised in the astral around the Earth.
It is to bring about the revolution of planetary consciousness, the divine renewal, so that, after the pains of childbirth, a new and unblemished heaven may come.”
His Holiness Lord HAMSAH MANARAH
The Lineage
The spiritual
heritage
The written work and the teaching
Lord Hamsah Manarah wrote 22 holy books accessible to all, the priceless heritage of Aumism, evolutionary keys enabling the pilgrim to reach the highest levels of consciousness.
He taught thousands of human beings the truth of the Unity of the Faces of God and generously passed on the fruits of his research and his knowledge to his disciples.
The lineage of the Hierokarantines
His Holiness Lord Hamsah Manarah, 1st Hierokarantine, left this world on 19 March 1998.
As the Buddhists of the Karma Kagyu School do with regard to His Holiness the Karmapa, Aumists await the next Hierokarantine, who will be the 2nd of the initiatic Lineage of divine Incarnations for their religion.