tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85484747260988283402024-03-07T14:29:39.219+05:30Standup For DharmaEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Those were the golden words of Mahatma Gandhi! TRUTH is what this blog is about... truth about Nithyananda and his cult. Don't fall prey to his charming lies... before you learn more about his real intent from the ex-members of his cult.
SATYAMEVA JAYATE (Let truth alone triumph!)Dharma is Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920047150031562335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1012125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-37967947647641582232018-09-02T22:46:00.000+05:302018-09-02T22:48:58.501+05:30Brainwashing and abuse: one woman reveals what it’s really like to be in a cult<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are estimated to be at least 1,000 cults operating in the UK. Here, a former cult member shares her story, and shines a light on the horrifying psychology of cults around the world</div>
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I became involved in a supposedly “left-wing” <a href="http://www.alexandrastein.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">political cult</a> known somewhat mysteriously as “The O.” (short for “The Organization”) back when I was a young woman of 26, living in San Francisco in the Eighties. I learned about The O. through two good friends, one of whom had been a member. It was, he told me, a progressive group focusing on issues I was passionate about: women in the workplace, women’s healthcare (a big problem for poor people in the US), affordable childcare, and union organising, among other things. Although I was an independent, feisty and feminist woman at the time, I nonetheless got sucked into this group that ended up controlling the most personal aspects of my life for the next decade.</div>
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My entry into the group was slow - it took about two years, at which point I moved to its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Soon after my move I was encouraged (or looking back, ordered) to marry a fellow member, and then, rather quickly, to have children. By this time I was totally immersed in the world of The O. This meant cutting off outsiders, keeping my involvement secret from them (for “security” reasons), working up to 18 hours a day, and sleeping for only four to five hours a night.</div>
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I became cemented into a world that, it turned out, did none of the things for which I had originally signed up. We ran a couple of small businesses, but seemed mostly to be turned in on ourselves. When I questioned this I was told to “struggle with the practice and it will become clear”. I also learned that asking questions reflected my “bourgeois” side and was really not to be done. Once I had a husband and family within the group, and had cut off all my other ties, it became increasingly difficult to trust my own feelings or to find a way out. </div>
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After 10 years, while fearing for my young children’s wellbeing, I finally managed to drag myself out of the group with the help of two other disgruntled members. Unbeknown to us, the leader of The O. had been imprisoned for manslaughter for a year, so there was a let-up in the exhausting, mind-numbing schedule. In this breathing space these two other members slowly began confiding their doubts with me – even though it was hard to establish trust between us, for fear that we would turn each other in to “leadership”. At this point I could not even share my doubts about the group with my husband.</div>
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With great trepidation we began to plan our way out, and three months later we left together. As I began the long road to recovery and tried to clear my head, I was left with this question – how on earth could this have happened to me? </div>
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I first wrote a memoir – <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Out-Entering-Minneapolis-Political/dp/0878391878" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Inside Out</a></i> – about this experience, and then I set out to study this question in depth ending up with a Ph.D. in social psychology and recently, a second book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terror-Love-Brainwashing-Attachment-Totalitarian/dp/1138677973/ref=pd_sim_14_1?" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Terror, Love and Brainwashing</i></a>. The popularity of shows such as Netflix’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/netflix-wild-wild-country-cult-cultists-documentary-bhagwan-shree-rajneesh-anthelope-oregon-free-love-controversial-guru-osho-rajneeshpuram-poison/199788" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Wild Wild Country</a></i> prove that cults are still of huge interest.</div>
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Now, 27 years after I left The O., cults continue to entrap, abuse, and sometimes kill people around the world. Although both women and men experience cultic abuse, women remain some of the victims most harmed by cultic control and exploitation. Below I detail more of my experiences, and explore the psychological impact of living in a cult.</div>
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“There at least 1,000 cults operating in the UK… Numbers are hard to come by, as many remain secret”</blockquote>
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Perhaps the most infamous cult of modern times was <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; font-size: 18px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Reverend Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.8); font-size: 18px;">. </span>In 1978 over 900 people, including many women and over 300 children, lost their lives in the Guyanese jungle. A suicidal Jones forced them to drink poison-laced flavour-aid (this tragedy has entered the language as “drinking the kool-aid”) so that he could take his followers with him as he died. These followers did not do so voluntarily, as was popularly believed at the time. Rather, they were surrounded by armed guards, deep in the jungle with no transport out and no passports, weakened by Jones’ physical and psychological abuse.</div>
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In Waco, Texas, in 1993, a fire started during a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidian cult and the FBI <a href="http://time.com/5115201/waco-siege-standoff-fbi-david-koresh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">killed at least 75 followers</a> of the fringe preacher David Koresh, including about 25 children who he had held hostage in his compound and allegedly sexually and physically abused. Koresh had claimed the women in the group and some of the <a href="http://time.com/5115201/waco-siege-standoff-fbi-david-koresh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">girls as young as 10</a> as his “wives”.</div>
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In the year 2000, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/uganda-cult-death-count-to-top-1000-282189.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">nearly 1,000 members</a> of Joseph Kibwetere’s Ugandan cult, The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, died – <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/uganda-cult-death-count-to-top-1000-282189.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">many in a fire</a> in a purposely-locked church, and others through poisoning and other means. Most of these victims were women and children. The motives are unknown, although it has been proven to have been a purposeful mass murder.</div>
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These particularly murderous cults are merely the tip of a very large iceberg. But beyond these groups exists a vast array of other highly controlling groups which, although they may not engage in murder, do share many of the same attributes of extreme control of people’s lives and an assortment of abusive behaviours and exploitation. While my time in The O. was not defined by murder, the group controlled every aspect of my life for the decade that I was a member. I was chronically sleep deprived, told who to live with, and even who I could marry.</div>
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Ian Haworth of the <a href="https://cultinformation.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Cult Information Centre</a> estimates that at least 1,000 cults are operating here in the UK. Numbers are hard to come by, however, as many, like The O., remain secret. The UK also currently lacks a legal definition of such groups. </div>
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Now I receive enquiries from women concerned about cults in the UK on a weekly basis. They are either former members trying to get help, or women with friends or family who are at risk of joining cults, or are already in cults. The cults in question include organisations based on a variety of religions but also so-called wellness programmes, such as yoga, as well as personal growth, educational, political, therapy, philosophy, sales or workplace-based groups. A South Korean cult – <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3595764/Cult-luring-Australian-girls-brides-South-Korean-rapist.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Jesus Morning Star/Providence</a> – has even been accused of allegedly recruiting young women off the streets, promising (but not delivering) modelling careers.</div>
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A wannabe cult leader can use anything they think will work in a given time and place as a means to draw people in, isolate them and begin the process of gaining control of their lives.</div>
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Cults are started and led by charismatic and authoritarian leaders, just like the leader of The O. These leaders share traits with psychopaths: a combination of being charming with a grandiose sense of self and an incapacity for love, along with being cruel, having a lack of empathy, remorse or guilt, and being skilled at manipulation and lying. Although most cult leaders are men, cultic abuse has been alleged to occur in many women-led groups such as <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/australias-underage-yoga-sex-cult-the-survivors-speak-out" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Siddha Yoga</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/shri-who-must-be-obeyed-9263416.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Sahaja Yoga</a> or the Australian group <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">The Family</a>. </div>
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The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">NXIVM cult</a> <a href="https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/allison-mack-brand-initials-women-cult-nxivm-keith-raniere/209987" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">currently making headlines</a> due to the horrific branding of women members is led by Keith Raniere, but his top-ranking lieutenants are women, all recently arrested and charged with sex-trafficking, extortion and other crimes. Allison Mack, a former child actress and star of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Smallville</i>, was one of these co-leaders, while also being one of Raniere’s “slaves”. She has been accused of recruiting other women as sex slaves and has been indicted on charges of sex slavery and forced labour conspiracy. </div>
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Cult leaders (or sometimes leadership groups) rule over closed group structures that are emotionally, socially and psychologically isolating. They do not, however, have to be geographically isolating. In my group, we lived together in flat shares in the Minneapolis and also had jobs in the outside world. But our interactions with outsiders were strictly limited. People in cults are often taught that they are the elite (although only the leader is perfect), and that those outside of the cult are lacking at best, and evil at worst. Within the cult one is taught not to speak freely to other members – communication has to be strictly within the cultic language and boundaries, which was the case in The O. Doubts must certainly not be shared and eventually, followers learn to repress their own critical thoughts.</div>
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The leader controls the belief system. No other beliefs are needed, or allowed. One belief, one “truth” fits all. When I became a member of The O., I thought I was joining a Marxist-Leninist political organisation that aligned with my own beliefs. It soon became apparent, however, that this was not the case – the leader seemed more focused on running the group’s small businesses than anything political. He communicated with us mainly through memos, and frequently used the acronym P.O.O – although none of us were allowed to know what this meant. </div>
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Similarly, in NXIVM, all knowledge came from Raniere – supposedly a genius – and inner circle followers allegedly had to recite his <a href="https://frankreport.com/2015/12/05/raniere-wants-to-control-wealth-for-humankinds-sake-claims-to-have-people-killed-for-their-beliefs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">12 Commandments daily</a>. Commandment 11 states that followers “pledge to ethically control as much of the money, wealth, and resources of the world as possible”, since “it is essential for the survival of humankind for these things to be controlled by successful, ethical people”. And commandment 12 (tragic irony alert) states that a world made up of Raniere’s followers will “be a better world …. (where) People will no longer try to destroy each other… or rejoice at another’s demise”.</div>
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“Our meetings were often held with the radio blaring in the background, in case anyone from the outside was attempting to listen in”</blockquote>
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Processes of coercive control or brainwashing operate within cults. Once a person is isolated from any differing points of view, it becomes very difficult to stand up and object. During my decade in The O. I was isolated from most of the other members of the group, which was one of the cult’s ‘security’ measures. In a cult, even if one knows all the other members, one can’t share doubts – this is the biggest “crime” and people sharing doubts will be criticised or punished. This keeps cult members from talking about and understanding the control mechanisms and reality of the group. </div>
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But more than that, cults engulf followers within their own world almost entirely, and then claim it, and the leader, are the only source of goodness and truth, and the only ones who care about you. But at the same time, the cult creates stress and feelings of threat through constant, alarming messages about oncoming disasters and what will happen if followers are not loyal enough. A cult might also humiliate followers, and make them feel guilty and ashamed for not doing enough. Rewards and punishments are wielded to remind followers just who has the power. I later learned from other members of The O., that boxing matches were set up to pit members against each other and “heighten struggle”. The paranoid nature of the group was also evident in the fact that our meetings were often held with the radio blaring in the background, in case anyone from the outside was attempting to listen in.</div>
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“Cult followers become unable to think about their own feelings and their own experience, meaning the group can begin to do their thinking for them”</blockquote>
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Human beings have evolved to seek comfort from a trusted other when anxious or stressed. Cult leaders abuse this normally healthy instinct by setting themselves up as the only supposed trusted other – even as they are creating the stress. This method of alternating “terror” with “love” can result in a trauma bond where the follower becomes too afraid to do anything but cling to the group. Without being able to fight or flee from the group-created threat, followers freeze in both their thoughts and their feelings about the group. They become unable to think about their own feelings and their own experience, meaning the group can begin to do their thinking for them. Followers can end up becoming totally dominated by the cult, and unable to protect themselves or their children.</div>
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In the O., I had to work incredibly long hours in the group’s various organisations, which included a wholemeal bakery. This left time for only four to five hours of sleep every night, meaning I was so exhausted I barely had time to realise how deeply the group dominated my life. </div>
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This is a psychological process that has been illegal in the UK since 2015 – but only if it occurs within an intimate or family relationship. It’s called <a href="https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/coercive-control" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">coercive control</a> and it operates in many situations of domestic abuse. Like the controlling boyfriend who starts out charming and full of loving gestures, but ends up isolating and threatening his victim, controlling her communications with others, her movements, her money and her very sense of self, cult leaders use these exact same methods to control their followers. Yet no law exists in the UK to protect us from these psychologically abusive methods within groups.</div>
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People often think that it is weak, needy individuals who “join” cults. But no-one joins a cult – people join groups they think will be positive in some way.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"> </span>In my case, it was to help fight for social justice, and when I initially joined The O. I was assessed on my “ideological form”. As a feminist, I was stunned to be told that I had the ideological form of a “male chauvinist”, but at that point I was already so confused that I reluctantly accepted this absurd label.</div>
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For other women, unintentional entry into a cult<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"> </span>may be to do yoga, to develop their professional network, to improve their health, or any number of other reasons. Often it is intelligent, productive and perhaps somewhat idealistic people who are recruited.</div>
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A person’s vulnerability to cult recruitment is more likely to be a situational one: for example, if they’ve gone through some kind of transition that means they may be open to new friendships, networks or experiences. Have you recently moved? Started or just left university? Broken up with a partner? Changed jobs? Experienced a bereavement? These kinds of normal life transitions can be a time when an approach from a group may appeal. If you’re lucky that will be a healthy group. If not, and you don’t know the <a href="http://www.alexandrastein.com/warning-signs.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">warning signs of cults</a>, you may find yourself targeted by a dangerous cult initially appearing as a benevolent group offering something attractive or interesting. The women in NXIVM thought they were gaining influence, a “sisterhood” and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">self-fulfillment</a> “by eliminating psychological and emotional barriers”. They didn’t imagine this would end in sexual abuse and the painful, humiliating branding of their bodies.</div>
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There are many recruitment techniques that cults use in the early stages (much like that abusive boyfriend scenario), such as love-bombing, promising the world, flattery and so on. But it is the control of other close relationships within socially isolated environments that is the key to how cults maintain their grip, once the initial recruitment has taken place. We can predict that cults will have high rates of sexual and physical abuse given this need to interfere with normal family life, as well as the lack of exposure to any oversight from outside authorities or concerned others who could intervene.</div>
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For women, the entry points into cults are not that different than for men. But what happens to women in cults can differ. Many religious cults put women in extremely subservient roles – such as the polygamous <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/warren-jeffs-child-bride-horrors-mormon-sect-leader-elissa-wall-a8219246.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints</a>, where an elderly man may have up to 60 wives including underage girls. Women may be put into arranged marriages or relationships quite quickly, while hardly knowing their future spouse, as happens with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/06/05/at-age-20-i-was-married-by-the-unification-church-heres-how-i-broke-away/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4e8a366e9954" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">mass weddings of the Unification Church</a>. This, of course, helps trap a woman into the group. Other cults insist on celibacy, such as in the late <a href="https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/14/jayanti-tamm-carwheels-sari-opinions-book-reviews-cults-sri-chinmoy.html#4cd289c272b1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Sri Chinmoy’s fitness and spirituality cult</a>. He allegedly <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/05/09/the_medias_love_affair_with_accused_sex_criminal_sri_chinmoy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">forbade sex</a> even for most of those he had arranged marriages for – except for sex with himself that he coerced from inner circle women, some of whom were born into the cult and knew little of social norms outside. Yet others have been alleged to enforce polygamy and sexual abuse of children as in the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44613932" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Children Of God cult</a>, which both Rose McGowan and Joaquin Phoenix were <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44613932" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">born into</a>.</div>
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Bikram Choudhury of the popular hot Bikram Yoga empire is now <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/bikram-choudhury-yoga-inc-files-bankruptcy-wake-sexual-harassment/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">on the run from an arrest warrant</a> following a court judgement against him, as well as numerous <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/bikram-choudhury-yoga-inc-files-bankruptcy-wake-sexual-harassment/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">sexual assault and rape accusations</a>. The <a href="https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/metoo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">#MeToo</a> movement has encouraged some women to come forward with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/11/shambhala-buddhist-group-leader-steps-down-over-sexual-assault-claims" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">allegations of sexual assault and misconduct</a> against Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche of the Shambala Buddhist community. These abuses have occurred as the result of the likely cultic nature of these organisations, which encourage followers to leave critical thinking at the door. </div>
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“Some cults forbid contraception and women may become ‘breeders’ for the next generation of loyal followers”</blockquote>
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Along with sexual abuse, cults usually control if and when female followers can have children, sometimes as a way to punish or reward them. Some may even dictate abortions, as former members of Scientology have alleged. <a href="http://cultresearch.org/bounded-choice/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Heaven’s Gate</a> allegedly forbade followers from having children, and those who already had children were encouraged to abandon them. Other cults forbid contraception and women may become “breeders” for the next generation of loyal followers.</div>
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If there are children, this relationship is likely to be <a href="http://www.icsahome.com/articles/mothers-in-cults--stein-csj-14-1-1997" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">closely managed</a> by the cult. Often children and parents are separated for long periods of time. After I left The O., the leader attempted to separate me from my two children by ordering my husband, who had not yet left, to try to gain full custody – luckily, The O. was not successful in this attempt.</div>
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In Koresh’s Waco compound, however, the concept of family didn’t exist and children often barely knew who their mothers were. In other groups, mothers are kept so busy that they have little time to spend with their children, or that time may be taken up with cult duties, meaning mothers are unable to give their children appropriate attention. Parents can be forced to brutally “discipline” their children. In the <a href="http://www.twelvetribes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Twelve Tribes group</a> - supposedly the “Sons of God” – young children are <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twelve-tribes-community-nspcc-demands-police-inquiry-into-christian-sect-that-canes-children-8847622.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">allegedly beaten with rods</a> and forced to engage in many hours of child labour doing farmwork, in order to supply the hippy-ish cafes they run. From the outside, this group may seem benign and quaint, but there are now many former members speaking out with allegations. One mother <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twelve-tribes-community-nspcc-demands-police-inquiry-into-christian-sect-that-canes-children-8847622.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">said</a>: “There wasn’t a day that went by while I was there that children weren’t beaten with the rod. I beat my own son because that is what the group taught me to do.”</div>
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“It can be exceptionally difficult for young women (and men) who grew up in cults to find a way to leave: their families may shun them or at least greatly limit contact”</blockquote>
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Numerous cases of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/25/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-silencing-victims-of-child-abuse-uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">alleged child sexual abuse</a> within the Jehovah’s Witnesses are currently being investigated. The Governing Body had allegedly covered these up using their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/25/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-silencing-victims-of-child-abuse-uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">two-witness rule</a> – a rule that states abuse can’t be taken seriously unless two people witnessed it, which is obviously designed to prevent exposure of these crimes. In these types of cases, mothers are unlikely to be able to protect their children when trapped within the stifling and punitive cult system.</div>
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It can be exceptionally difficult for young women (and men) who grew up in cults to find a way to leave: their families may shun them or at least greatly limit contact. They may often have very little understanding of how to operate in the outside world, and there are very few resources to support them. The practical and psychological barriers to building a life outside can be overwhelming. When I finally left The O., I learned to embrace my new freedom. It was spring at the time and I felt ready for a fresh start; I was returned to the land of the living at last.</div>
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And there are many other strong and resilient women who have done as I did, and who are now leading efforts to expose the alleged abuses within these closed groups. These include survivors of the Children of God cult, of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, of the Twelve Tribes, and many other groups. The US TV star Leah Remini spent much of her childhood in Scientology but, having left, she has gone on to make an <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/5-things-we-learned-from-leah-reminis-scientology-expose-tv-show-113731/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">award-winning series</a> about the true nature of life inside. </div>
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If cults didn’t tightly control followers’ close relationships, then these followers would be able to share doubts, and have true safe spaces in which to critique the group and to resist. If cults were more open, followers would have access to other information, beliefs, and criticisms of the group. The psychological control of the trauma bond would then fail. </div>
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That’s exactly what happened in my case: in addition to a growing concern for my children, having two others in the cult with whom to share doubts and fears about the group allowed us to begin thinking critically again. Almost as soon as we did this, we were able to plan our way out. For others, having just one confidante can be enough to break the chains.</div>
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So when embarking on a new involvement, it pays to do a bit of research – find out if there have been complaints or critiques about any group that exhibits <a href="http://www.alexandrastein.com/warning-signs.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3dd2be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 75ms ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">cult warning signs</a>, or that seems too good to be true. Watch out for anyone who suggests you drop your friends and family for a greater good, who tries to totally engulf you within a new environment and set of beliefs, who claims they are the only safe place, and who puts you under constant stress “for your own good”. These are signs of a potentially highly controlling situation. And knowing these warning signs could save you a whole lot of grief and heartache.</div>
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Eight long years after self-styled godman
Nithyananda was booked in 2010 for allegedly raping his former disciple,
an in-camera trial proceeding finally began on Wednesday after many
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Informed sources told TNM that witness statements were recorded by
the Third Additional District and Session Court Judge in Ramanagara
throughout Wednesday, after framing of charges was done in June at the
insistence of the apex court. The recording of witness statements will
continue on August 16.</div>
<strong>Read: <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-trial-court-frames-charges-against-nithyananda-rape-case-82595">Karnataka trial court frames charges against Nithyananda in </a></strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-trial-court-frames-charges-against-nithyananda-rape-case-82595"><strong>rape</strong></a><strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-trial-court-frames-charges-against-nithyananda-rape-case-82595"> case</a></strong><br />
Other than recording of witness statements, an important facet of the
proceedings was the Special Public Prosecutor asking for the presence
of prime accused Nithyananda in court.<br />
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“The Special Public Prosecutor has taken strong exception
and objected to his absence in court. He asked the court to make it
mandatory for all the accused to be present from the next hearing or
else he will make an appeal to the court to issue non-bailable
warrants,” a source said.</div>
The Supreme Court in December 2017 directed the trial court to dispose of the matter expeditiously.<br />
“Therefore, in view of the directions of the Apex Court, it is
incumbent upon the court to proceed with the trial. However, it is for
the accused No.1 to be present by next date of hearing,” the trial court
observed.<br />
44-year-old Nithyananda has not appeared in court on Wednesdayon the
pretext of religious ritual—Chathurmasa Parikrama. He had last appeared
in court on the day, the charges were framed against him,<br />
Nithyananda is accused of raping a woman disciple for close to five
years during her stay in the ashram under the garb of spirituality.
Nithyananda is facing trial under Sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural
sex), 420 (cheating), 114 (criminal abetment), 201 (disappearance of
evidence, giving false information), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and
other charges under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<br />
<strong>The delay</strong><br />
The Bidadi Police Station in Ramanagara in early 2010 had promptly
registered a first information report under the mentioned sections based
on a complaint filed by a former disciple against the godman with
Chennai Police.<br />
The case was soon after transferred to the Central Investigation Department after the Bidadi Police started investigations.<br />
Nithyananda had courted arrest twice in relation to the case but
managed to delay the trial by approaching higher courts and changing his
stance from time to time. He had also filed a fabricated impotency
report. He had also allegedly filed false cases against the victim and
witnesses. He had approached the Karnataka High Court four times
regarding this case and recently.<br />
In 2014, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition by Nithyananda
seeking to quash the chargesheet against him. But in 2017, in a relief
for the victim, the apex court asked the Ramanagara sessions court in
Karnataka to frame charges against him and conduct a speedy trial.<br />
However, in March 2018, Nithyananda changed his stance on his
impotence at the Karnataka High Court, claiming to have had “consensual
sex” with the victim – a big U-turn from earlier.<br />
Nithyananda has been in the news for wrong reasons since then, and
multiple regional channels had broadcasted a clip of the godman in a
compromising position with an actor.<br />
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<strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sexual-crimes-committed-name-god-look-back-swami-nithyanandas-sex-contract-67511">Also </a></strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sexual-crimes-committed-name-god-look-back-swami-nithyanandas-sex-contract-67511"><strong>read:</strong></a><strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sexual-crimes-committed-name-god-look-back-swami-nithyanandas-sex-contract-67511"> Sexual crimes committed in the name of God: A look back at 'Swami' Nithyananda's 'sex contract'</a></strong><br />
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<strong>The other accused</strong></div>
Other than Nithayanada, the CID has named five of his aides as the co-accused in the case.<br />
Gopala Reddy (A2), Shiva Vallabhaneni alias Nithya Sachidananda (A3),
Danasekaran alias Nithya Sadananda (A4), Ragini alias Maa Nithya
Sachidananda (A5) and Jamuna Rani alias Maa Nithyananda (A6) will also
be tried in the same case.<br />
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<strong>Read:</strong><strong> <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/rape-case-against-nithyananda-cid-asked-prepare-two-chargesheets-83847">Rape case against Nithyananda: CID asked to prepare two </a></strong><strong><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/rape-case-against-nithyananda-cid-asked-prepare-two-chargesheets-83847">chargesheets</a></strong><br />
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While all the other accused have presented themselves at the time of
framing of charges, Gopala Reddy (A2) has remained absconding during the
whole process.<br />
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A non-bailable warrant (NBW) was issued against him for
failing to appear despite repeated summons on the last date of hearing
in June.</div>
On Wednesday, Danasekaran alias Nithya Sadananda (A4) and Jamuna Rani alias Maa Nithyananda (A6) were present.<br />
The controversial godman is also involved in other legal proceedings,
including a case where he is contesting his sacking as a pontiff at
Madurai Adheenam Mutt. The Madras High Court had recently warned
Nithyananda that it will issue an arrest warrant if he does not rectify
his “misleading” affidavits.<br />
The police have been criticised by the Karnataka High Court for not investigating two suspicious deaths in his ashram.<br />
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<b>Source:</b> https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/rape-case-against-nithyananda-trial-finally-begins-after-8-years-legal-hurdles-86233</div>
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Today Hon'ble Supreme Court of India finally has decided the Nithyananda case and restored faith of common person in the judiciary system. The Apex Court has directed a speedy trial and told courts below to follow the law laid down in Debendranath Padhi case.
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<li>the accused (Nithyananda) cannot compel trial court to look into self serving documents (such as his private/self-obtained impotency reports, etc), however court is free to look into any document beyond the charge sheet provided it is not disputed by prosecution or victim.</li>
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This is a much needed and overdue victory for the victims of Nithyananda.
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Once the Supreme Court Order is published, it will be posted here.
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-17253983417253027522017-11-22T14:36:00.001+05:302017-11-22T14:36:19.776+05:30CONFIRMED! It was 'Swami Nithyananda' in the 2010 sex videoNew Delhi: In a major setback for Swami Nithyananda, a forensic lab test has confirmed the presence of the self-styled godman in a sex video.
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In 2010, a sex video had surfaced which allegedly showed the godman in a compromising position with a Tamil actress.
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Now, the Forensic Science Laboratory, Delhi, has confirmed that that tape was genuine and it was the godman who featured in the sex video.
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Apart from the sex video, Nithyananda has been accused in cases of sexual exploitation and rape.
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In fact, reports had stated that his ashram had made the godman's followers to sign non-disclosure agreements and they were later sexually exploited by him.
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Source: Times Now News
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-23822124218829026402017-11-22T14:28:00.000+05:302017-11-22T14:28:13.991+05:30Delhi Forensic Science Lab (FSL) Confirms Sex Swami Nithyananda Case: Authenticity of Sex VideoMore bad news for Sex Swami Nithyananda.
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Madurai, Oct 30 (PTI) The Madras High Court today came down heavily on self-styled godman Nithyananda for giving "false" information to the court and asked why action should not be taken against him.
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Justice Mahadevan wondered how could Nithyananda claim he was the 293rd pontiff of the Madurai Adheenam mutt, a 2,500- year-old Saivite mutt here, when the incumbent 292nd pontiff was alive.
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"It does not look proper," the court said and asked "why action should not be taken against Nithyananda for giving false information to the court."
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The court was hearing a petition from one Jagadalapradhaban who sought a direction to ban Nithyananda from entering the mutt.
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The self-sytled godman was attempting to capture Saivite mutts at several places across India, including in Karnataka, the petitioner alleged.
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The petitioner submitted that Arunagirinathan was now heading the Mutt as the 292nd head.
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Counsel for Nithyananda claimed he had been anointed as the 293rd pontiff and there was no way it could be cancelled.
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Nithyananda, who was caught in a sex tape scandal in 2010 and facing rape charges, had said he should be allowed to perform certain rituals as per the mutt tradition and alleged that some "illegal elements" were threatening him and his disciples with dire consequences whenever they visited it.
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The court posted the case for hearing on November 13.
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source: Press Trust of India - 30 October 2017
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http://www.ptinews.com/news/9193301_HC-slams---godman---Nithyananda-for-giving-false-informationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-74243964811569070472017-11-07T12:42:00.001+05:302017-11-07T12:42:34.345+05:30Swami Nithyananda Leaks More Lies to Cover His Rape ChargesA shocking false news is published today by Malai Murasu News regarding Vinay Bharadwaj, a witness in Nithyananda case.<br />
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ACTUAL FACTS ARE: Vinay had filed a case against Nithyananda in USA in 2011. He could not continue fighting the case due to financial reasons. Nithyananda took advantage of situation and got ex-parte order (same day order) from US court for lawyer fees!<br />
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The Mysore Court has only repeated US order for lawyer fees.<br />
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This deceit has NOTHING to do with rape case against Nithyananda. No court has ever declared that Vinay, Lenin, or Aarthi Rao are false witnesses in Nithyananda case. These are lies spread by Nithyananda and his criminal-minded ashram.<br />
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It is absolutely irresponsible and defamatory for any media to spread such false information against witnesses, without knowing or verifying the facts!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-26993654174748339002017-09-06T13:12:00.000+05:302017-09-06T13:12:56.032+05:30Tantric Rites In The Bed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A boy from a pilgrim town went on to become a master in making his followers sex objects</h1>
Say “Sex and the Swamiji” in Tamil Nadu and the first name that pops up is that of Nithyananda. A video footage of Nithi (nickname given by the Tamil media) gallivanting on the bed with a Tamil actress continues to be one of the most watched footages on YouTube even six years after it was first aired on television.<br />
This tall, dusky young man—originally A. Rajasekharan, from the pilgrim town of Thiruvannamalai—could spellbind audiences with his fluent oratory on Hindu spirituality. It stayed, till he got undone by a hidden video camera. That plot by two of his own disillusioned followers stripped him of his halo and exposed him as a sexual pervert.<br />
There were others too fed up with Nithyananda’s wayward and pretentious ways. Like, a mechanical engineer who used to work in the US and surrendered at the feet of Nithyananda in search of spiritual awakening. Now 42, she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by the swami. The godman brainwashed her into believing that she was only doing “guru seva” by subjecting herself to his carnal pleasures.<br />
“He would sweet-talk me into submitting myself to him, saying that he was like Shiva and I his Parvati and that our union would do the world a lot of good,” recalls the victim. “If he could do this to an educated woman who has seen the outside world, imagine the way he would have exploited others.” In her deposition to the Karnataka police, the woman lists exact dates and places from 2005 to 2009 when Nithyananda compelled her to have sex with him.<br />
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<span class="slig_ins_lft ftleft rtmrg20">Nithyananda allegedly forced a devotee to abort after she had become pregnant from her husband, saying motherhood would check her ‘enlightenment’.<br /><span class="source"></span> </span></div>
Getting whiff of the video recording with the actress, Nithyananda, in 2009, had the other victim and rest of the ashram inmates to sign pre-dated non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) under which the disciples are expected to have tantric sex. Page ten of the NDA states that as part of the “Learning from the Masterprogram volunteer understands that the Program may involve the learning and practice of ancient tantric secrets associated with male and female ecstasy, including the use of sexual energy for increased intimacy/spiritual connection, pleasure, harmony, and freedom”. It further states these activities “could be physically and mentally challenging, and may involve nudity, access to visual images...and descriptions of nudity and sexual activity, close physical proximity and intimacy, verbal and written descriptions and audio sounds of a sexually oriented, and erotic nature, etc.”<br />
The disciple also gets to absolve the teacher or the ashram of any wrongdoing they may be accused of with the following clause in the NDA: “By reading and signing this addendum, Volunteer irrevocably acknowledges that he/she is voluntarily giving his <em>(sic)</em> unconditional acceptance of such activities and discharges the Leader (Nithyananda) and the Foundation, and anyone else not specifically mentioned here but directly or indirectly involved in the organisation, management, or conduct of any such programs from any liability, direct or indirect, arising from such activities.”<br />
“None of us was given an opportunity to read through the agreement,” recalls the engineer woman. Her deposition as a witness adds meat to the chargesheet based on the complaint by K. Lenin, a key disciple of Nithi, who sent the video recording to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka police (and also the media) with a complaint on how the swami had misused his image and the ashram’s reach to cheat people in the name of religion.<br />
“Though the chargesheet based on my complaint was filed in November 2010, Nithyananda used every trick to delay the trial,” notes Lenin. Eventually, following a Supreme Court directive, Nithi underwent a test. A Bangalore hospital certified that he was not impotent and mentioned in its report that he did not cooperate when more tests were required, he adds.<br />
Similarly, his voice sample was given only after the SC’s intervention and it was found to be “matching” with the phone conversation the godman had with Lenin. “In that phone call, he had pleaded with me to withdraw the complaint and had even justified his sexual escapades saying that late spiritualists like Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Aurobindo and even Ramanar had female companions. The final chargesheet filed in 2015 said the two voices were a match. The trial has not progressed beyond the initial stages,” says Lenin.<br />
To stop Lenin and the engineer woman from pursuing their cases, Nithi and his cohorts have filed at least 18 false cases against them across India and seven lawsuits in the US. They are forced to hop from court to court, seeking bail. Even as the rape and abduction case against him was pending in Karnataka, Nithyananda got himself appointed as 293rd pontiff of the Madurai Adheenam, a 1,500-year-old math, in April 2012. After protests from the public and the state’s own HR and CE department, he was removed from the post after five months.<br />
Today, Nithyananda’s devotees and math disciples face resistance in various parts of Tamil Nadu whenever they try to expand their activities there. “He expects Hindu outfits and other Hindu religious leaders to rally behind him, forgetting that he had single-handedly brought disrepute to our religion,” points out a leader of the Hindu Munnani.<br />
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<li>If he is innocent, why is he delaying the trial?</li>
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<li>Why reluctant to give voice sample or undergo medical test (at a government hospital) to prove he is impotent?</li>
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<li>He claimed that the video of him and a young actress was morphed. But the Forensic Science Laboratory later confirmed the authenticity of the visuals in the clip.</li>
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<li>Did he get his disciples to sign non-disclosure agreements?</li>
<li>Did he sign a million-dollar settlement with Manohar Shinde of California to escape prosecution from deceit and racketeering?</li>
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<em>By G.C. Shekhar in Chennai</em></li>
<li><em>credit :outlook india <a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/tantric-rites-in-the-bed/299261">https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/tantric-rites-in-the-bed/299261</a></em></li>
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BENGALURU: As the chapter finally closed on the long-drawn-out case of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda with his conviction and incarceration, Karnataka’s self-styled godman Nithyananda’s trial shows similar signs of being a lengthy legal process.The case against Nithyananda pending in the trial court in Ramanagara has not moved even an inch as several petitions related to the case are pending before the Supreme Court which has stayed the trial court proceedings. Interestingly, the SC is likely to take up the hearing in 10 days time after the hearing on the Cauvery water dispute concludes.</div>
<figure class="image" style="float: left;"><img alt="" src="http://images.newindianexpress.com/uploads/user/ckeditor_images/article/2017/9/1/Nityananda.jpg" height="195" width="200" /> <figcaption>Nithyananda</figcaption></figure> Advocate for Karnataka in the Supreme Court, V N Raghupathy, told Express that the bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar which is hearing all matters related to Nithyananda, has indicated to the counsel that they should wait till the hearing on the Cauvery dispute is over. Justice Misra heads the three-judge bench along with Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar on the Cauvery dispute. The bench is hearing the matter daily, leaving them no time to deal with other matters. “All the cases related to Nithyananda are tied to these hearings and we expect them to resume after next Thursday since the Cauvery dispute hearing will be over then,” he said.<br />
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had filed a chargesheet in November 2010 charging Nithayananda alias Rajasekaran with rape, cheating, criminal intimidation and unnatural sex. The case has seen its fair share of twists and turns. Nithyananda made news when a video of him in a compromising position with an actress found its way to Tamil TV channels.<br />
Later, his driver Lenin Karuppan and another disciple Vishwanath filed a complaint based on which police had registered a complaint of rape and cheating. The case was quickly transferred to CID, which also filed additional charges. As he started facing heat, Nithyananda, who lived in his ashram near Bidadi, made a run for it but was arrested from Himachal Pradesh. He spent more than a month in jail before he was granted bail. Later, a former woman disciple also lodged a complaint of rape against the godman with theCID. In turn, Nityananda also filed several cases against her, one of them in the US. Counter-complaints were filed against Lenin Karuppan as well and at one time, Lenin went into hiding, fearing for his life.<br />
Nithyananda also underwent potency tests of his own accord and tried to prove that he did not have the testosterone levels required to classify him as a man and hence he was not capable of having sexual intercourse. However, the Supreme Court directed him to undergo a potency test in 2014 as well as give blood and voice samples.<br />
Nithyananda had also filed a petition seeking access to the statements of 32 people, who were members from his ashram including the actress. While the High Court allowed it, the state government challenged it and filed a Special Leave Petition saying those statements cannot not be handed over to him as they were not part of the chargesheet. This issue too is pending before the Supreme Court.<br />
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Non-disclosure agreement<br />
The CID chargesheet mentioned the now famous 10-page non disclosure agreements that disciples of Nithyananda had to sign. Excerpts of the agreements included parts like the volunteer could “not disclose the existence of the agreement, the nature of any relationship between the volunteer and leader.” The agreement read: “...Volunteer also affirms that he/she does not find sexual or adult oriented material associated with the practice of any Tantric rituals or any other adult oriented material to be offensive or objectionable. Volunteer understands the Program may involve the learning and practice of ancient tantric secrets associated with male and female ecstasy including those of sexual energy for increased intimacy/spiritual connection, pleasure, harmony and freedom. Volunteer understands that these activities could be physically and mentally challenging and may involve nudity and access to visual images, graphic visual depictions and descriptions of nudity and sexual activity, close physical proximity and intimacy, etc.”<br />
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Last week I posted the<strong> <a href="https://rehmat1.com/2017/08/27/india-gurus-rape-trail-cost-100-lives/">rape trail</a></strong> of Guru Singh Ji-Insan in Panchkula (Haryana, India) which ended in 100 people dead and another 200 injured.<br />
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If you think that’s sickening – Sawmi Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda aka Nithi in Ta<span style="font-family: Arial;">mil </span>Nadu state in South India got hundreds of his female disciples signed a <span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><a href="http://www.nithyananda-fraud.com/docs/evidence-Swami-Nithyananda-sex-contract-with-victims.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sex Contract</a></b> </span>where they agreed to provide sexual enlightenment<a href="http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sexual-crimes-committed-name-god-look-back-swami-nithyanandas-sex-contract-67511"> </a>to the Swami. The contract was similar to Zionist entity’s <strong><a href="http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publication/state-vs-press-rise-gag-orders-israel">Gag Order</a></strong>.<br />
The survivors of sexual assaults in Nithyananda’s ashram have spoken out about non-disclosure agreements and sex contracts. The police charge-sheet of the rape case against Nithyananda reveals that sexual exploitation was masked in the guise of a <em>Learning from the Master</em> program.<br />
Swami Nithi’s sex with Tamil actresses Ranjitha and Yuvarani were posted on You Tube in 2010 which have not taken down as yet.<br />
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Nithi’s sexual victims were not just ordinary Hindu illiterate girls and woman but he was able to sweet-talk some highly foreign educated Hindu girls to have sex with him to gain spirituality. For example an Hindu mechanical engineer from United States was repeatedly assaulted by the Swami making her believe that she was doing <em>guru seva</em> (service to godman to please Hindu gods).<br />
“<em>He would sweet talk me into submitting myself to him, saying that he was like god Shiva and I his Parvati (<strong><a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/10-controversial-stories-of-lord-shiva">here</a></strong>) and that our union would do good to the world</em>,” she said. Read more <strong><a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/tantric-rites-in-the-bed/299261">here</a></strong>.<br />
The other famous godmen in adultery and rape include Baba Parmanand, Asaram Bapu, Sant Rampal and Swami Bhimanand (<strong><a href="http://www.dailyo.in/politics/baba-parmanand-asaram-bapu-sant-rampal-sexual-harassment-swami-nithyananda-narayan-sai-rape/story/1/10816.html">here</a></strong>).<br />
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While Gurmeet Ram Rahim gave ‘maafi’ to devotees, Nityananda followers were allegedly made to sign a contract where they agreed to ‘sexual enlightenment’. <br />
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Self-proclaimed godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of two saadhvis at the Dera Sacha Sauda ashram. But the crime this rapist has been convicted for, is merely the tip of an iceberg shrouded in a dark web of lies and deceit practiced by the 'Guru'.<br />
More horrors in his premises allegedly took place with the consent of followers - castration of male devotees, being the most gruesome of them.<br />
From 2000, over 400 followers were reportedly <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/castration-and-murder-other-cases-against-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh/articleshow/60222244.cms">brought under the scalpel in Dera Sacha Sauda hospital</a> for bringing them closer to God.<br />
But it isn’t just Gurmeet Singh who extracted sexual favours under ‘divine’ pretexts, cloaking them in secrecy. The survivors of sexual assaults in 'Swami' Nithyananda's ashram have spoken out about non-disclosure agreements and sex contracts. The chargesheet of the rape case against Nithyananda reveals that sexual exploitation was masked in the guise of a 'Learning from the Master' programme.<br />
<strong>The mental conditioning</strong><br />
The chargesheet filed by the police in the Ramanagara court in November 2010 on a case of rape allegedly committed by Nityananda, speaks of five non-disclosure agreements signed by various victims.<br />
In 2009, a 'special' group of men and women gathered in a room at the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, which is led by the 'godman' in Bidadi.<br />
They were not just the regular followers of 'swamiji'. In fact they were a chosen few, who would take care of him and help in the running of his foundation.<br />
On that particular day, they were given two sets of "non-disclosure agreement" contracts to sign in the presence of their leader.<br />
Signing these would make them eligible for the "Learning from the Master" programme. Such was their blind trust in the self-proclaimed godman that most of them signed the papers without even reading the clauses, says the chargesheet.<br />
<strong>The 'Sex Contract'</strong><br />
The most appalling section of the 10 page contract included in the chargesheet reads -<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>"Volunteer understands that the Program may involve the learning and practice of ancient tantric secrets associated with male and female ecstasy, including the use of sexual energy for increased intimacy/spiritual connection, pleasure, harmony, and freedom. Volunteer understands that these activities could be physically and mentally challenging, and may involve nudity, access to visual images, graphic visual depictions, and descriptions of nudity and sexual activity, close physical proximity and intimacy, verbal and written descriptions and audio sounds of a sexually oriented, and erotic nature, etc."</strong></span></blockquote>
The contract further functioned as a gag order, threatening devotees with consequences if they were to reveal to outsiders.<br />
"By reading and signing this addendum, Volunteer irrevocably. acknowledges that he/she is voluntarily giving his unconditional acceptance of such activities and discharges the Leader and the Foundation, and anyone else not specifically mentioned here but directly or indirectly involved in the organization, management, or conduct of any such programs from any liability, direct or indirect, arising from such activities," read the document.<br />
One such agreement copy signed by the devotee had the date September 3, 2005. The document accessed by TNM clearly carries the name and address of the devotee and of an ashram trustee as well. So, did these followers willingly agree to sexual exploitation under the garb of a 'learning' programme?<br />
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"No, we did not," says a survivor, who signed one such document, to TNM.<br />
Speaking to TNM, the survivor says that at the time of signing the documents they were unaware of what it said.<br />
"We were given two copies. One had to be signed along with the date on the that day and the other had to be backdated to the day when we had first met him. So he was pretty much covered legally from the day we met him to any point in the future. Because the contract states that the agreement does not end even if the relationship does. It is like a perpetual binding agreement," the former devotee says.<br />
The survivor further alleges that they were not given time to read the clauses and were told that it was "regular, routine stuff to do with confidentiality".<br />
A few who tried to read the document were accused of wavering devotion. They were asked, "Don't you trust swamiji?"<br />
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“We had extreme trust in him and looked at him as someone who was beyond being an ordinary human being. We never even doubted that there could be anything in these documents that could have these kinds of implications,” a survivor said.<br />
Those who tried to question the 'Swami' or his decisions were allegedly dealt with force, threat or intimidation.<br />
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<strong>Raped for enlightenment?</strong><br />
A chargesheet filed by the Bidadi police in November 2010, narrates how Nityananda 'convinced' one such devotee into having sexual relations with him. The survivor, named Amala* in the chargesheet, was a housewife and pregnant when he first decided to satisfy his 'illicit sexual desire' by using her.<br />
She was brought to his room under the pretext of cleaning it and was asked to massage Nityananda's legs. This was when he allegedly embraced and kissed her on the lips. When she withdrew shocked, he told her that the act was for her enlightenment.<br />
Amala argued that a physical relationship with a saint was wrong but Nityananda allegedly claimed that 'feeling love was a path to enlightenment' and that 'he was God'. The only way to attain spiritual enlightenment was to 'listen and obey his words'.<br />
'Thus he attacked her mind and took control of it and made her go into a state of total surrender' says the chargesheet. It further claims that Amala lost her ability to think clearly and was overcome by blind faith. Following this she was raped multiple times in various hotels and the Bidadi Ashram.<br />
According to the chargesheet, between February and March 2009, the victim "was made to sign, along with others, non-disclosure agreement documents".<br />
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<strong>The conditioning continues?</strong><br />
Now, with media attention back on self-proclaimed godmen and the exploitation they met out to devotees, several have come out to question the case pending against Nithyanandha.<br />
What is shocking is that despite testimonies of the 'godman' forcing women into sexual activities being made public, a large number of people continue to root for him. When social activist and environmentalist Piyush Manush took to social media to ask about what action has been taken, he was at the receiving end of severe abuse.<br />
Most of the abuse (unsurprisingly) was directed at Piyush’s mother, wife and daughter.<br />
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<strong>The case now</strong><br />
The case against Nithyananda is currently pending for trial at the Ramanagara sessions court, the trial has not even started. The accused has filed a discharge petition, where they have claimed that there is no prima facie case. Nityananda's counsel has requested that he be discharged without the hardship of trial. The Court's order on the petition is still awaited.<br />
The judge can either order a discharge in which case the self-proclaimed godman will be acquitted without trial or he can order a trial saying there is enough material.<br />
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has stayed the trial court proceedings based on yet another petition filed by him in 2014 to consider his self-generated medical reports of impotency. Next hearing in the Apex court is scheduled for September 2017.<br />
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Nithyananda had earlier sought to be discharged as he was 'impotent' and had test results from an examination conducted in a private hospital to prove the same. However, tests ordered by the Supreme Court proved that the excuse was yet another lie.<br />
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In yet another attempt to allegedly evade the law, Nityananda claimed that statement recorded by the CID from 32 witnesses at his ashram must be included in the chargesheet. These were reportedly generic statements glorifying 'swamiji'. While the trial court rejected them as defense documents, the High Court of Karnataka ruled in favour of the 'godman'.<br />
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Affidavits and counter affidavits have been filed to delay the case. Though the complaint of rape was registered in 2009, the victim has been pushed from pillar to post, with justice delayed for eight long years. The only hope is that, at least now, justice is not denied.<br />
<strong>Also read:<a href="http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/trapped-religious-cult-one-woman-s-story-sexual-exploitation-hands-guru-64524"> Trapped in a religious cult: One woman’s story of sexual exploitation at the hands of a 'guru'</a></strong></div>
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A former aide of Swami Nithyanand spoke exclusively to Republic TV’s Pooja Prasanna where she narrated the harassment she has been put through for the past seven years and filed complaints of rape against the self-styled Godman. She also revealed the techniques used by him to harass his followers inside the ashram physically, psychologically and sexually. The victim also went on to appeal that his properties be treated in a similar manner as rapist Ram Rahim’s Dera Sacha Sauda so that financial might is taken away and no longer used to harass his detractors.<br /><br />
On being questioned about the kind of techniques being used by Swami Nithyananda to intimidate her, the victim said that Nithyanand has been very smart in implicating her with "all kinds of tactics." She said that all these incidents only began after she filed the chargesheet against Nithyananda. She said, "for a person like Nithyananda if he reads the chargesheet statement,(inaudible) he can very clearly make out who is the person who has made the statement. So after the chargesheet was filed in November 2010, just a month later in December 2010, they filed a retaliatory case against me in Ramnagar."<br /><br />
The victim claimed that she was being wrongly accused of crimes she did not commit. She said, 'I have been running from pillar to post just to prove that I have not committed anything wrong. The person who has actually committed crimes (Nithyananda) is happy sitting in his ashram conducting programmes and carrying on his business of cheating and fooling more and more people."<br /><br />
She also spoke of how Nithyananda allegedly hired people to intimidate her and her family, not only in Bengaluru but other parts of the country as well. She said, "When I say Nithyananda, I include his followers because they don't really have a mind of their own. They act as his apostles and do whatever he says. This is the real challenge that we are facing legally. If a person is really harassing all the witnesses against him, we should get his bail cancelled."</div>
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The godman told Veena that she was a special soul, and their sexual relation was an attempt to 'elevate' her. <br />
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She was inside the 'guru's' room. The privilege of cleaning his room and touching his belongings had been bestowed upon her yet again, and she was delighted...<br />
Until, the guru who was in the room, suddenly hugged her. As he held her close, she panicked and ran out.<br />
But she was told that the guru was not sexually harassing her, it was his exalted soul reaching out to her soul that deserved to be elevated.<br />
The guru’s first 'blessings' to her were the start of her long nightmare.<br />
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As a 25-year-old working in a multinational in 2007, Veena<strong>*</strong> had everything going for her. She had a flourishing career where the money was good, and a loving husband.<br />
And yet, she felt there was something amiss.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>"On the surface, I had everything. I had all the reasons to be happy. But at some point, I realised that just looking after myself was not enough. I had grown up believing that life has a higher purpose. So, I thought, 'Can I do more with my degree? Can I use my knowledge to help people?'," she says.</strong></span></blockquote>
Little did she know then that this yearning would drag her down a dark path, one from which she is still struggling to recover.<br />
<strong>How I joined a cult</strong><br />
During a trip home in a state in south India the same year, Veena first came across 'guruji' on a spiritual channel her parents were watching. He was a Hindu godman, touted as a brahmachari.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>"He was talking about dealing with challenges in life. What struck me most was the way he spoke. It was very clear, sensible and funny," she recalls.</strong></span></blockquote>
Since guruji's ashram was nearby, she decided to pay a visit.<br />
"It seemed like a nice place. Very peaceful and spiritual, bereft of any grandeur. He was travelling abroad then, and I couldn't personally meet him. I picked up some books on meditation from the ashram," she says.<br />
The books were in essence similar to most spiritual books — they revolved around expressing love, finding happiness and contentment.<br />
"It appealed to me because it was not close minded or too religious. Perhaps anyone who practices these may find peace," she now thinks.<br />
To top that, guruji's disciples would make anyone around him think that the energy they felt was merely because of their leader's presence. And yet it was never in-your-face. "As I understood later, the technique used was a very subtle psychological influence."<br />
And it worked, because a year later, the educated, independent woman quit her job to work full-time for guruji.<br />
Though the common misconception is that only 'crazy, unstable, or weird people' join cults, a paper <a href="http://cultresearch.org/dominance-and-submission-the-psychosexual-exploitation-of-women-in-cults/" target="_blank">published</a> in the Cultic Studies Journal by Janja Lalich, has shown that most cult members are of above-average intelligence, come from stable backgrounds, and do not have a history of psychological illness.<br />
"Cult leaders and cult recruiters tend to capture the hearts, minds, and souls of the best and brightest in our society," the research says.<br />
<strong>"A marketing guy"</strong><br />
India has no dearth of self-styled godmen, and there have been a string of incidents involving gurus, and their alleged role in sexual assault, extortion and cheating.<br />
"Our family too had gurus but all of them were revered long after their death. So, it took some time to believe that a living person could also attain the same status. He made us believe he was one of those rare living gurus of our generation. He told us that if we prayed to him, all our wishes would come true," Veena says.<br />
She also calls him a great marketing guy. "He just sells himself so well. If you attend one of his programmes, you'll be dying to attend the next one as well."<br />
The ambience would only add to the aura.<br />
<strong>Sucked into a vortex</strong><br />
"Why do you want to quit your job? You are so young. You can do this on the side," Veena's concerned family told her when she informed them of her plans to embark on her spiritual journey.<br />
"But I was so sure," she says. "I felt so strongly about joining a spiritual group to spread happiness and peace through meditation and spirituality.”<br />
Soon, she became part of a select group of people who worked closely with the godman and looked after the running of his empire.<br />
"It was a big privilege to touch his belongings. One day, I was told that I could clean his room. From then on, I would clean his room every day. During one such occasion, he was there in the room. He hugged me. Not in a way a guru would, but just as a man would hug a woman he was interested in," she says.<br />
A terrified Veena ran out. But she was summoned again, and the guru 'explained' to her that mere mortals like her saw 'human bodies', while he only saw the soul.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>"He told me that every avatar of god would find another soul who needed to be elevated. Like Krishna found Radha and blessed her soul. I was his Radha, he said. Normally, after a session, he would hug a few chosen disciples. This included children, young, middle aged and old people. We were constantly told that he was only touching our soul," she said.</strong></span></blockquote>
For months, what Veena went through was mental conditioning. She was told that the guru’s touch was only for a select lucky few who were very spiritual souls.<br />
The hug had soon progressed to sex and Veena was coerced to believe that it was a path to salvation. She was given the guru’s special blessing whenever he desired it.<br />
"Though he would hug a few of us, he told me not to tell others about our relationship. I was the special one, the only one who was blessed to be his soul mate (have intercourse with him)," she says.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>The state of affairs went on for several years. As a young educated woman, why did Veena not walk away from there? Can this be considered sexual assault or rape? Over the years, many have asked her this.</strong></span></blockquote>
"This is how a cult works; this is how power structures work. It was ingrained into us that the guru was supreme and worldly pleasures meant nothing to him. Every time the abuse happened, he would tell me that my soul had become a bit more elevated and I was almost at the next level," she said.<br />
The Bhagavatham and other revered Hindu scriptures were constantly quoted to her. "I was told that though I was a special soul, I was not discovered by a guru in my previous births."<br />
<strong>Wiping out evidence</strong><br />
The guru, however, was a clever man, who ensured that there was no trace of evidence.<br />
In many cases in India and throughout the world, it has been well documented how such gurus wipe out evidence.<br />
Premananda Swamy convicted in 2005 would facilitate abortions. Aravindan Balakrishnan (a Maoist cult leader) established himself as someone who could control nature and it was proved in a court in UK that he would first isolate victims from families, so that they never betrayed his secrets. He was convicted of six counts of indecent assaults and four counts of rape in 2015.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="color: dimgrey;">Swami Premananda: </span><a href="http://www.himavanti.org/public/resources/images/swami_020.jpg">Source</a></strong></span><br />
Another guru in India, (according to a victim’s statement to court), used to tell the victim that he would dispose of the condom as his semen was special and no mere mortal should get hold of it. He convinced the victim that his semen should be poured into the ocean.<br />
In Veena’s case too, the guru was careful to keep his assault a secret, and to be discreet.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>As Veena narrates this, she adds as an afterthought. "All this sounds ridiculous to me now. But when I was in the situation, I was constantly made to believe and accept it as right without questioning."</strong></span></blockquote>
Janja Lalich says in her research that cults that exploit people, especially women, project the assault as a matter of honor. "The woman is told that a sexual encounter with the leader is an honor, a special gift, a way of achieving further growth. Sexual activities with the leader are interpreted and rationalized as spiritually beneficial."<br />
<strong>The guru and disciples</strong><br />
Every disciple shared a unique relationship with the guru and all of them were strictly prohibited from discussing it among each other. Veena says, "To some he was a mother figure, for some it was a master-sevak relationship. And it was up to him to decide which relationship was ‘right’ for which person."<br />
People from all walks of life would throng to see him. Some were just like her, wanting to make the world a better place, and a few quite like him, manipulating people for their gain.<br />
<strong>Exploitation</strong><br />
Going against the guru is the greatest of sins, they were told. They would repent, not just in their current life but also in their coming lives, if they did so. They would suffer, suffer horribly.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>And the best way to prevent a revolt is never give it a breeding ground in the first place.</strong></span></blockquote>
Cult members were always overworked with assignments and had strict deadlines to follow. "We hardly had time for anything else. We were extremely exhausted and sleep deprived as we slept for not more than four hours a day. No one had the mind to question anything," she says.<br />
If someone did question him, they would immediately be outcast. Threats and intimidation were also used to shut victims up when needed.<br />
<strong>The realisation</strong><br />
As the years passed, Veena also realised how the cult was fueled solely by its greed. "Only the rich were allowed to personally meet him. If you weren't bringing him business, you were of no use to him," she says.<br />
There were murmurs of others who were given the guru’s blessings and were forced to become his sexual partners.<br />
When the truth finally hit her, and with the intensity that it did, it pushed her into depression.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong>"I was in a state of shock. I kind of just wanted to forget that I had lived this life," she says. “But then I realised that many more innocent victims were getting sucked into the cult everyday. I felt I must tell what happened to me, so that it can save others."</strong></span></blockquote>
Seven years after she joined the group, she finally left it. She also filed a complaint with the police and the case in underway in court.<br />
<strong>Why not quit?</strong><br />
<em>Cults in Our Midst</em>, a book by Margaret Thaler Singer, a clinical psychologist and an expert on brainwashing, and Janja Lalich, an author and researcher, explains how cult groups resort to thought-reform processes and persuasion to control people’s minds.<br />
This book was an eye-opener for Veena as it helped her to understand why a rational person like her would join a cult.<br />
It is simple to ask why someone would not leave a cult immediately when they realise they are in a wrong place.<br />
But as Singer and Lalich state, the answer is not that simple. Even though cults mostly don’t use physical restraint on their members, there are several psychological barriers stopping them from walking away. This includes their beliefs, peer pressure, fear or even confusion.<br />
The last few years have been punishing for Veena. The fight has been emotionally, physically and financially draining.<br />
Looking back, she says, "Life has taught me many, many lessons and I am very grateful for that. But I still believe I have a bigger purpose in life."<br />
<em><strong>*</strong>Names and places have been changed to protect the identity of the victim.</em><br />
<strong>credit : <a href="http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/trapped-religious-cult-one-woman-s-story-sexual-exploitation-hands-guru-64524">http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/trapped-religious-cult-one-woman-s-story-sexual-exploitation-hands-guru-64524</a></strong><br />
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Dharma is Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920047150031562335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-30926358973218623252017-08-27T14:46:00.000+05:302017-08-28T13:33:00.523+05:30Truth Will Prevail - Judgment in Ram Rahim Criminal CaseSatyameva Jeyate! Today the judgment in Ram Rahim case has proved again to us that truth and justice will win ultimately. I am very happy that the victims can finally find peace and closure. They were strong and bold and they finally got justice!
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This judgment today has once again proved that all are equal before the law, even if he, the perpetrator, is a godman with lakhs of followers.
I only feel sad that the victims had to wait 15 years for this judgment. I wish that in all such cases, government and judiciary can take steps to ensure that the trial happens fast.
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Also, it is very important that victims and witnesses should get protection from intimidation by fake godman's followers. They still need protection even through the trial is over. I appeal to the government to protect the whistleblowers, victims, and witnesses in such cases.
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I praise the judiciary for upholding the truth. I have full faith that just like this case, truth will win in our case, and the fake godman Nithyananda will also be convicted soon.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ixmZokDxFM/WaKNfxhLTCI/AAAAAAAAAB8/PICSjFrXIuUZZ1WnKmAoiw9y1im75MNwwCLcBGAs/s1600/justice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1023" height="283" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ixmZokDxFM/WaKNfxhLTCI/AAAAAAAAAB8/PICSjFrXIuUZZ1WnKmAoiw9y1im75MNwwCLcBGAs/s400/justice.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Justice soon will come to Nithyananda just as it did to Ram Rahim.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-25770357150606083452017-08-27T14:17:00.000+05:302017-09-06T13:06:36.498+05:30Are the Charges Against Nithyananda Like Ram Rahim Singh Rape Verdict?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Similar to Nithyananda? Ram Rahim Singh rape verdict: It all started with an anonymous letter in 2002</h3>
(as published in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/2002-anonymous-letter-that-opened-pandoras-box-for-baba-ram-rahim-singh/articleshow/60229213.cms" target="_blank">The Times of India</a> on 25 August 2017 and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DailySikhUpdate/posts/1551803774879606" target="_blank">Daily Sikh Updates Post on Facebook</a> August 25, 2017:
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Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee,<br />
Prime Minister<br />
New Delhi
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I am a girl hailing from Punjab State. I have been serving as a 'Sadhwi' in 'Dera Sacha Sauda', Sirsa (Haryana) for the last five years. Beside me, there are hundreds of others girl here, who serve for 18 hours daily.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ram Rahim Singh showing the ladies that he has style,<br />
just like Sex Swami Nithyananda.</td></tr>
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But we are sexually exploited here. The 'Dera Maharaj' Gurmeet Singh rapes the girls in the 'dera'. I am a graduate. My family has blind faith in the 'Maharaj' (Gurmeet Singh). It was at my family's bidding that I became a 'Sadhwi'. Two years after I became a 'Sadhwi', a special woman-disciple of Maharaj Gurmeet Singh came to me one night at 10' o' clock and said that the Maharaj had summoned me to his room. I felt elated that Maharaj himself sent for me. I was going to him for the first time. After climbing the stairs, when I went into his room, I saw that he was holding a remote in his hand and was watching a blue film on the TV. Beside his pillow on the bed, lay a revolver. Seeing all this, I was frightened and became nervous. I had never imagined that Maharaj was a man of this type. Maharaj switched off the TV and seated me beside him. He offered me water and said that he had called me because he considered me very close to him. This was my first experience.
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Maharaj took me in his embrace and said that he loved me from the core of his heart. He also said that he wanted to make love with me. He told me that at the time of becoming his disciple, I had dedicated my wealth, body and soul to him and he had accepted my offering. When I objected, he said, "There is no doubt that I am God." When I asked if God also indulges in such acts, he shot back:
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1. Sri Krishna too was God and he had 360 'gopis' (milkmaids) with whom he enacted 'Prem lila' (love drama). Even then people regarded him as God. So, there is nothing to be surprised at it.
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2. I can kill you with this revolver and bury you here. The members of your family are my devoted followers and they have blind faith in me. You know it very well that members of your family cannot go against me.
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3. I have considerable influence with governments also. Chief Ministers of Punjab and Haryana and central Ministers come to pay obeisance to me. Politicians take help from us. They cannot take any action against me. We will get the members of your family dismissed from govt. jobs and I will get them killed by my 'Sewadars' (servants). We will leave no evidence of their murder. You know that earlier also we got the 'dera' Manager Fakir Chand killed by goondas. His murder remains untraced till this day. The 'dera' has a daily income of one crore rupees with which we can buy leaders, police and the judges.
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After this, the Maharaj raped me. The Maharaj has been doing this with me for the last three years. My turn comes after every 25-30 days. Now I have learnt that before me too, the Maharaj had been raping the girls he had summoned. Most of these women are now 35 to 40 years old and they are past the age of marriage. They have no other option but to remain in the 'dera'.
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Most of the girls are educated --- B.A., M.A., B.Ed, etc. But they are living a life of hell in the 'dera', simply because the members of their families have blind faith in the Maharaj. We wear white clothes, tie a scarf on the head, cannot even look at men and as per Maharaj's commands, and talk with men from a distance of 5-10 feet. To the people we look like 'devis' (goddesses), but we are living like harlots. This time I tried to tell my family that all was not well at the 'dera'. But they rebuked me saying that there was no better place than the 'dera' for here they were in the company of God (Maharaj). They said that I had formed a bad notion about the 'dera' and that I should recite the name of 'Satguru'. I am helpless here because I have to obey every command of the Maharaj. No girl is permitted to talk with another, according to the commands of the Maharaj.
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Girls are not permitted to talk to their families even on the telephone. If any girl talks about the reality of the 'dera', she is punished according to Maharaj's commands. Sometimes ago, a Bhatinda girl revealed the wrong doings of the Maharaj. At this, all the women disciples gave her a sound thrashing. Because of a fracture in the backbone, she is now bed-ridden. Her father gave up the service in the 'dera' and went home. For fear of the Maharaj and his own disgrace, he is not revealing anything.
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Similarly, a Kurukshetra girl has also left the 'dera' and has gone home. When she narrated the events in the 'dera' to her family, her brother who worked in the 'dera' gave up his job. When a Sangrur girl left the 'dera', went home and narrated the wrong-doings in the 'dera' to the people, the dera's armed Sewadars/ hooligans reached the girl's house and threatened to kill her and warned her not to leak anything about the 'dera'.
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Similarly, girls from Mansa, Ferozepur, Patiala and Ludhiana districts are afraid of revealing anything about the 'dera'. Although they have left the 'dera', yet they do not say anything for fear of loosing their lives. Similarly, girls from Sirsa, Hissar, Fatehabad, Hanuman Garh and Meerutdisclose as to what happened to them in the 'dera'.
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If I reveal my name, I and my family will be killed. I want to reveal this truth for the benefit of the common man, because I cannot bear all this tension and harassment. My life is in danger. If a probe is conducted by the press or some government agency, 40 to 50 girls living in the 'dera' will come forward to reveal the truth. We can also be medically examined to find out whether we are still celibate disciples or not. If we are no longer virgins, the matter should be gone into to find out who has violated our chastity.
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The truth will then come out that Maharaj Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of 'Sacha Sauda' has ruined our lives.
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The GURU enjoyed 7 star life style and Bangkok type sex life All with the money donated by poor devotes
Sharma Narendra
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Yours faithfully
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An innocent forced to live life in a hell (Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa)
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Question?:</b></span> Does this look similar to the same tactics that Nithyananda has done against his victims?
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Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-57327338598828555872017-05-26T23:52:00.000+05:302017-05-26T23:52:55.667+05:30Nithyananda case: SC to hear final arguments on July 17<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
New Delhi, Apr 19 2017, 1:57 IST <br />
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed July 17 for final arguments in the case related to rape charges against Nithyananda of Dhyanapeetam at Bidadi, Ramanagaram district. <br /><br />When the case came up for hearing before a three-judge bench headed by Justice Deepak Mishra, Shekhar Naphade, the advocate representing Nithyananda, said a minimum of two hours was required for him to make the submission. The bench said the matter would be heard after the summer vacation and fixed July 17 for final arguments. <br /><br />The Supreme Court is hearing the Karnataka government’s petition challenging the order of the Karnataka High Court, wherein the prosecution was ordered to provide to the accused the statements of 32 witnesses, including that of a Tamil actress, the CD of whose purported video with the Swami had led to registration of criminal cases. <br /><br />The high court had also directed furnishing medical records of another victim and her email conversations. <br /><br />The Karnataka government, represented by additional advocate general Devadutt Kamat, said at this stage, the suspect was not entitled to documents which were not part of the charge sheet. <br /><br />Nithyananda, facing charges for offences of rape and indulging in unnatural sex, was arrested on April 22, 2010. <br /><br />He was granted bail on June 11 that year.He was directed by the apex court in 2014 to undergo potency test and give blood and voice samples required for investigation of the case registered on March 4, 2010.<br />
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<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/607100/nithyananda-case-sc-hear-final.html" target="_blank">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/607100/nithyananda-case-sc-hear-final.html</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-29949554275533968212016-12-16T21:43:00.000+05:302016-12-20T22:41:36.354+05:30SC refuses to stay trial court proceedings against Nithyananda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar did not suspend the trial court proceedings in view of a pending challenge to a high court order that had directed handing over certain documents, including “unauthenticated medical records” of the rape victim, to Nithyananda. In an earlier order on 7th November, the Court had directed the Trial Court to proceed with hearing the arguments on charge.<br />
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Nithyananda’s counsel opposed the Special Leave Petition filed by complainant Lenin, questioning the locus standi of the petitioner in the criminal case. Lenin, who acted as driver of Nithyananda, had filed a complaint with the police in 2010.<br />
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Meanwhile, advocate V N Raghupathy, appearing for Karnataka, submitted that the state has also filed a special leave petition against the July 21 order of the high court. The apex court, while refraining from passing any further order, put the matter for consideration on January 17.<br />
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In its petition, the state government contended that the high court ordered for providing statements of 32 witnesses, including that of actor Ranjitha Menon to the accused.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Ranjitha’s purported CD with Nithyananda had led to registration of criminal cases. The high court had also directed furnishing medical records of another victim and her email conversations to the accused.<br />
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The state government claimed the documents were not part of the charge sheet filed against Nithyananda and others in the rape and cheating case registered in March 2010 in the Bidadi police station in Ramanagaram district and, had not been relied upon by the prosecution.<br />
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Nithyananda and four other accused are seeking the “records virtually to set up a defence at the pre-trial stage which cannot be permitted”, advocate Joseph Aristotle, representing the state government submitted. He said the accused had misused the judicial process in order to delay the proceedings.<br />
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Nithyananda, who was booked for rape and indulging in unnatural sex, was arrested on April 22, 2010. Later, he was granted bail on June 11, 2010.<br />
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The 39-year-old, who founded an ashram with its headquarters on the outskirts of Bengaluru, was directed by the apex court in 2014 to undergo potency test and give blood and voice sample required for investigation of the case.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Trial proceedings in the Nithyananda Rape Case (Sessions case no.: <b>SC No. 86/2014</b>) is all set to continue in Ramanagar Sessions Court starting 29.8.2016. Nithyananda’s secretary & co-accused Bhaktananda @ Gopal Sheelum Reddy had managed to stay the Trial proceedings with a Stay order from the High Court in Criminal Petition no. 938/2016. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On 21.7.2016 <i>Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka disposed the criminal petition and Stay order and thereby <u>cleared the way for the Trial in the Nithyananda Rape Case to proceed</u>.</i>
Following the standard procedure, Rape Accused Nithyananda and his 5 secretaries/co-accused are expected to appear in Ramanagar Sessions Court since Trial proceedings in SC No. 86/2014 will resume after a short Stay order by the High Court in April this year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interestingly, <i>the Nithyananda Cult is at its deceptive best, spreading lies & false information by claiming that the rape case against Nithyananda has been quashed by the High Court recently. </i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the layman who is interested in knowing the facts and to help one see through <span style="font-family: inherit;">the </span>mountain of lies and false propaganda of Nithyananda cult, here are all the facts about the recent developments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <b>Rape Case against Nithyananda is NOT QUASHED. </b>Trial proceedings are continuing in Ramnagar Sessions Court in Sessions Case <b>SC No. 86/2014. Next hearing in Ramanagara is on 29.8.2016.</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a) Whistleblower** Lenin @ Dharmananda filed a complaint in Mar 2010 (<b>Crime No. 141/2010 at Bidadi Police Station</b>) against Nithyananda about his rape & other illegal activities inside the ashram. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">b) After thorough investigation and based on statements of 2 victims and several ex-devotees and several clinching crucial evidence such as sex-contracts (Non-Disclosure Agreements), phone confession of Nithyananda to Lenin, etc. Karnataka CID filed 1000 page <b>Chargesheet (CC No. 204/2010)</b> in Nov 2010. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">c) Subsequently, in Sep 2014 Supreme Court ordered Nithyananda to cooperate & appear for medical examination (potency test, as required by law) and also to give voice samples. Voice test was for Forensic validation of his extra-judicial confession over phone to Lenin about his sexual relations with many women. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d) Medical examination results proved conclusively that Nithyananda’s ridiculous claims of “6 year old child” were the biggest joke, as the doctors found him to be a NORMAL ADULT, i.e. like any other normal man, NOT like a 6 year old child!! Likewise forensic voice tests confirmed that it was indeed Nithyananda who confessed to Lenin about his sexual relations and begged Lenin to forgive him and to just remain silent about the whole thing! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e) In 2014 Supreme Court also ordered the accused to stop further delays in this case and for Trial Court to conclude the trial soon. After this, the case was transferred to the Sessions Judge Ramanagara (as per standard procedure/requirement) and got numbered as Sessions Case SC No. 86/2014.<br />
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f) Since then, Accused had been filing one petition or the other to delay the Trial proceedings. But High Court has cleared the way for the trial to resume now, after disposing of petition Crl.P 938/2016 on 21.7.2016, which was filed by Accused no. 2 Bhaktananda @ Gopal Sheelum Reddy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <b>Another (different) complaint about harassment & intimidation by Nithyananda disciples during Lenin’s press meet in Dec 2010 has been quashed recently by High Court. <span style="color: red;">This has NO EFFECT on the rape case trial. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• After Rape case charge sheet was filed by Karnataka CID against Nithyananda and is secretaries, in Dec 2010 Lenin came out in the public for the first time and gave a press meet in Bangalore Press Club to answer the many questions that media and public had about the case and about Lenin. Lenin also revealed during his press meet that Nithyananda and his followers were continuously threatening and harassing the victims and witnesses in the case, in<span style="font-family: inherit;">cluding himself.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• During Lenin’s Dec 2010 press meet, 20-30 fanatic disciples and ashram-mates of Nithyananda, on the instigation of the cult leader Nithyananda, suddenly landed up at the Press Club, tried to storm in and disrupt the press meet, and also to intimidate the whistleblower Lenin. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• Police protection had to be called in immediately for Lenin’s protection. Several policemen arrived immediately and brought the situation under control. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• The entire incident was widely reported by all the media since it happened during a press meet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• Subsequently, Lenin gave a complaint regarding intimidation and harassment during his press meet in <b>Crime No. 75/2010, at the Vidhan Soudha police station</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• As soon as the investigation started into Lenin’s Vidhan Soudha complaint the accused (Nithyananda and his fanatic brainwashed cult followers) ran to the high court with a petition to quash Lenin’s complaint. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• On 2nd Aug 2016, the High Court of Karnataka quashed this Dec 2010 complaint of Lenin </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">regarding the intimidation and harassment during his press meet </span></span>in Crime No. 75/2010, at the Vidhan Soudha police station by the cult. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>PLEASE NOTE:</u><b> ONLY the Complaint in Cr. No 75/2010 at Vidhan Soudha Police Station (which was regarding press meet disruption, harassment & intimidation by Nithyananda followers ) has been quashed by the High Court recently.</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NITHYANANDA RAPE CASE TRIAL. Quashing of this press meet complaint has no effect on the rape case against Nithyananda. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">RAPE CASE AGAINST NITHYANANDA FILED BY KARNATAKA CID IS NOT DISMISSED, TRIAL CONTINUES AND NEXT HEARING IN RAMANAGAR IS ON 29.8.2016. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THE CULT IS INTENTIONALLY SPREADING FALSE NEWS, RUMOURS AND DECEPTIVE HALF INFORMATION TO CONFUSE THE COMMON MAN AND MISLEAD THEM INTO WRONGLY BELIEVING THAT THE COURT HAS FOUND NITHYANANDA INNOCENT OF RAPE CHARGES /DISMISSED THE RAPE CASE AGAINST HIM. </span></span></span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE AND VERY FAR FROM THE TRUTH. Do not be fooled by the lies spread by the cult. Know the facts and use your god given intelligence to decide for yourself. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no doubt that Nithyananda will be found guilty of rape in a trial, because the truth cannot be silenced! </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Satyameva Jayate! </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Footnotes:</u> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Whistleblower Lenin was one of the closest inner circle disciples of Nithyananda & long time Brahmachari of his ashram before the 2010 scandal. After the scandal, in an attempt to discredit and defame him, Nithyananda conveniently called him a driver, said he was just a casual visitor to the ashram. Absolute lies, which is very typical of such cults.
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In a temporary relief to Nithyananda Swamy of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam of Bidadi, near Bengaluru, the High Court of Karnataka on Thursday directed the trial court in Ramangaram district to summon medical records, statements of 32 witnesses, and the statements of actress Ranjitha in an alleged rape case against him.</div>
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Justice H. Billappa passed the order while setting aside the January 28, 2016 order of the trial court, which had rejected the plea for summoning these statements as the prosecution has not made them part of the charge sheet.</div>
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In his petition, Nithyananda had contended that the trial court erred in not summoning the statements, certain medical records, his own statements given to the investigation officer, and also the emails of a former woman devotee of the ashram who had made allegation of rape against him.</div>
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The petitioner pointed out, "Though these documents were part of the investigation, they were not submitted to the court along with the charge sheet as the prosecutor had given an opinion stating that they would not support the prosecution’s case against him". Nithyananda, the petitioner and some other accused persons, who had filed an application before the trial court seeking their discharge from the case, had requested the court to summon the documents and statements that supports some of their claims.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/high-court-direction-to-trial-court-in-nithyanada-case/article8883739.ece" target="_blank">The Hindu</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/HC-relief-for-godman-Nithyananda/2016/07/22/article3541046.ece" target="_blank">The New Indian Express</a> </div>
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Swami Nityananda has escaped from the Kumbh mela without even paying dues for the arrangements (flower decorations, light and sound arrangements, etc) at his pandal (camp) in Simhash, Ujjain. <span style="font-size: small;">The cheques given to some of the suppliers bounced and they did not get any payment as promised by the ashram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">डीबी पोस्ट.</b>कभी<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>सेक्स स्कैंडल में आरोपी रहे और हालिया सिंहस्थ में चर्चा में रहे स्वामी नित्यानंद उज्जैन के डिफॉल्टर हो गए हैं। ऐसा इसलिए क्योंकि सोने का मुकुट पहनकर भक्तों को रिझाने वाले नित्यानंद सिंहस्थ के ठेकेदारों, कारोबारियों और मजदूरों का बिल चुकाए बिना वहां से जा चुके हैं। लाखों की चपत लगने पर लोगों ने मेला अफसरों से इसकी शिकायत की तो उन्होंने पुलिस में रिपोर्ट करने की सलाह दी है।<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">क्या है मामला...</b></span></div>
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Controversial godman Nithyananda displayed all pomp & grandeur at the recent Kumbh Mela in Simhasth, Ujjain. He wore gold crown, rode on a golden chariot and even had gold statues in his camp at the Simhasth Kumbh mela. But when it came time to pay the bills raised by the workers for various services rendered and suppliers for the goods delivered, Nithyananda ran away. </div>
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According to some suppliers, more that Rs 1 crore (Rs. 1,00,00,000) is due from Nithyananda and his ashram. But they have only got Rs. 30-35 lakhs (Rs. 30,00,000 - 35,00,000). When the workers and suppliers reached the ashram and asked for payment of dues, they were told to come back after 2 days, and after 2 days, they were given only 10-20% and sent away, when they went back for the 3rd time, Nithyananda's manager told them they will do all their audits and then only pay them. The suppliers were very upset and when they raised an issue over it, the manager told them they have not worked as per the terms so they will not be paid! These angry and disappointed suppliers have complained to the Fair officers and will be filing complaints with the police for being cheated by Nithyananda and his ashram. <br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.bhaskar.com/news-ht/c-8-1395371-id0505-NOR.html" target="_blank">Dainik Bhaskar</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">இந்நிலையில், </span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">மதுரை ஆதீனத்தின் இளைய ஆதீனத்தை நியமனம் செய்வது தொடர்பாக கடந்த சில நாட்களாக ஆலோசனை நடந்தது. இந்நிலையில்,</span> <span style="color: red;">இன்று காலை மதுரையில் நிருபர்களை சந்தித்த ஆதீனம் அருணகிரி, “மதுரை ஆதீனத்தின் இளைய ஆதீனமாக பிள்ளையார்பட்டியைச் சேர்ந்த திருநாவுக்கரசு என்பவர் பட்டம் சூட்டப்படுவதாக முறைப்படி அறிவித்தார். அருணகிரி மதுரை ஆதீனத்தின் 292வது குருமகா சன்னிதானமாக வந்த பின்னர், இப்போது நான்காவது முறையாக மதுரை ஆதீனத்துக்கு இளைய ஆதீனம் நியமிக்கப்படுகிறார் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.</span></span></strong></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548474726098828340.post-90310484866231907552016-04-24T02:36:00.000+05:302016-05-05T02:40:49.007+05:30ஜெயலலிதாவுடன் மதுரை ஆதீனம் சந்திப்பு; சட்டமன்ற தேர்தலில் அ.தி.மு.க.வுக்கு ஆதரவு தெரிவித்தார்<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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சென்னை,<br /><br />முதல்-அமைச்சர் ஜெயலலிதாவை மதுரை ஆதீனம் நேற்று சந்தித்தார். அப்போது நடைபெற உள்ள சட்டமன்ற தேர்தலில் அ.தி.மு.க.வுக்கு ஆதரவு அளிப்பதாக தெரிவித்தார்.<br /><br />ஜெயலலிதாவுடன் சந்திப்பு<br /><br /> இதுதொடர்பாக அ.தி.மு.க. தலைமைக்கழகம் வெளியிட்டுள்ள செய்திக்குறிப்பில் கூறப்பட்டு இருப்பதாவது:-<br /><br />தமிழ்நாடு சட்டமன்ற பேரவை பொதுத்தேர்தல் 16.5.2016 அன்று நடைபெற உள்ளதை முன்னிட்டு, அ.தி.மு.க. பொதுச்செயலாளரும், முதல்-அமைச்சருமான ஜெயலலிதாவை, மதுரை ஆதீனம் நேரில் சந்தித்து, அ.தி.மு.க.வுக்கு தமது மனப்பூர்வமான ஆதரவை தெரிவித்ததோடு, அ.தி.மு.க. வேட்பாளர்களை ஆதரித்து, தாம் தேர்தல் பிரசாரம் செய்ய இருப்பதாகவும் தெரிவித்தார். <br /><br />அதற்கு, அ.தி.மு.க. பொதுச் செயலாளரும், முதல்-அமைச்சருமான ஜெயலலிதா தமது நன்றியினைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொண்டார். இந்த சந்திப்பின் போது மதுரை ஆதீனத்துடன், இளைய ஆதீனம் மற்றும் ஆதீனத்தின் முதன்மை செயலாளர் எம்.ஆர்.எம்.பாலசுப்பிரமணியன் ஆகியோர் உடன் இருந்தனர்.<br /><br />இவ்வாறு அந்த செய்திக்குறிப்பில் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.<br /><br />அ.தி.மு.க.வுக்கு ஆதரவு<br /><br /> முதல்-அமைச்சர் ஜெயலலிதாவை சந்தித்தபின், மதுரை ஆதீனம் நிருபர்களுக்கு பேட்டியளித்தார். அப்போது நிருபர்கள் கேட்ட கேள்விகளும், அதற்கு அவர் அளித்த பதில்களும் வருமாறு:-<br /><br />கேள்வி:- அ.தி.மு.க.வுக்கு ஆதரவு தெரிவித்த நீங்கள், எப்போதில் இருந்து பிரசாரம் செய்ய இருக்கிறீர்கள்?<br /><br />பதில்:- அதற்கான தேதி பின்னர் அறிவிக்கப்படும். எங்களுடைய பிரசாரம் மேடை பிரசாரமாக இருக்கும். அ.தி.மு.க. பொதுச்செயலாளரும், முதல்-அமைச்சருமான ஜெயலலிதா சொல்வது படி நாங்கள் பிரசாரம் செய்வோம்.<br /><br />கேள்வி:- அ.தி.மு.க. பொதுச்செயலாளர் ஜெயலலிதாவின் வெற்றி வாய்ப்பு எப்படி இருக்கிறது?<br /><br />பதில்:- நிச்சயமாக அவர் வெற்றி பெற்று மீண்டும் முதல்-அமைச்சராக பதவி ஏற்பார். <br /><br />பூஜை, தியானம்...<br /><br />கேள்வி:- ஆதீனம் சார்பாக ஜெயலலிதா வெற்றி பெறுவதற்கு யாகங்கள் ஏதாவது நடத்தப்படுமா?<br /><br />பதில்:- சிறப்பு யாகம் என்ற திட்டம் எதுவுமில்லை. அ.தி.மு.க. பொதுச்செயலாளர் ஜெயலலிதாவுக்காக தினமும் பூஜை, தியானம் செய்து வருகிறோம்.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">கேள்வி:- நித்யானந்தாவை பற்றி ஒரு கேள்வி கேட்கலாமா?<br /><br />பதில்:- நித்யானந்தா முடிந்து போன கதை. அதை பற்றி பேச ஒன்றுமில்லை. <br /><br />இவ்வாறு அவர் பதிலளித்தார்</span></h3>
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NIthyananda confessed that he had sexual relations with women, in a phone call to whistleblower 'Dharma' (Dharmananda alias Lenin) and begged him to remain silent about it. Hear this audio confession to know the truth about Nithyananda, where he clearly states it is between 2 adults and there is nothing 'legally' wrong with it!!! So this is the kind of "Sanyasa" and "Brahmacharya" this so-called Swami teaches the world!! What is worse, he even dares to justify his unholy illegal activities by defaming Vivekananda, Ramakrishna pramahamsa, Ramana maharishi and many such genuine great saints, saying they had similar relationships with women, and he is also like all of them!! As you can hear in this audio, Nithyananda begs Dharma (@ Lenin) to forgive him, 'promises not to harm him in any way,' and pleads with Lenin to remain silent about this whole issue.
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A real seeker and any common man must ask themselves, if Nithyananda is really innocent as he claims, why did he ask for forgiveness and plead the whistleblower to remain silent? Why did he say that is it (sex) between 2 adults and there is nothing illegal about it? Is he fit to be compared with the glorious saints like Vivekananda & Ramakrishna?!!!!
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