Who is the real 'Godman?'

The Supreme Court yet again brushed aside jailed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu's request to restrain the electronic media from vilifying him as a villain in the alleged sexual assault cases. Every year, the media has a field day whenever there's a fake Baba on the loose. With the rise in the self-proclaimed god-mans, the people don't really blame exaggerating the issue a tad too much.

In August 2013, Asaram was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at his ashram in Jodhpur on the pretext of exorcising her from evil spirits. Two days after the alleged assault the girl's parents, they filed a complaint with the police in Delhi and a medical examination confirmed that she had been assaulted.

There are incidents, across the country with these so called holy men performing miracles on the weak minded, like the recent one in Hyderabad where a man claimed to ward off evil on your family. All with the help of an earthen bowl with certain inscriptions, a few nails, an egg and a handful of grains. This is a new trend being adopted by many fake babas operating in the city. Despite frequent drives by police to check their activities, they continue to cheat the public by promising to solve their problems using some 'dubious tactics'.

People always look for something to believe in. And these godmen take advantage of it with their tricks. When a person seeks solace in babas, he transfers his entire mental burden upon them. He is deluded into believing that a supernatural power is taking care of his responsibilities and helping him. If any good happens in his life, he takes it as a blessing from the baba and becomes devoted to him for life.

In the latest trend, the fake babas are now selling an earthen bowl for anywhere between Rs. 1,100 and Rs. 21,000. They sell it claiming that disposing of the bowl at some place on a specific day would help in getting rid of the particular problem, it is said. A chunk of the clients are women who throng the so-called faith healing dens to get their issues resolved. But most of them end up getting cheated, it is said.

All right, money could always make its way back, but these Babas seem to have something else on mind when they lure these innocent followers. Some get them addicted to narcotics, while some others get them to do sexual favours for them without their knowledge. The news of Bangalore's 'Sex Swami' is certainly not new to any of us. Nithyananda who was arrested by the Bangalore Police way back in 2010 for rape, criminal conspiracy and cheating among others, still doesn't fail to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. And the cases of unusual happenings at the camps of various self-style godmen has become such blasé these days that no one really pays much attention anymore.

The law enforcement fails at major levels in the country, with these godmen carving a special for themselves in the minds of people with each passing day despite the many shocking incidents that continue to shock the common man. Where does the problem lie? Why do these men get a free run despite the heinousness of their crimes? Is moral conscience and ethical behaviour so much on the decline that people resort to such stooping levels to earn money? Or is it so difficult to get employed by decent means that cheating and deception seem far too easy?

What we really need at the moment is for people to come forward and report the incidents, take a stand and fight these fraudsters. Apparently afraid of getting exposed, most of the victims do not come forward to lodge complaints with the police. And as a result the phony babas enjoy a free run. This alone might not be the solution, because, for one, people need to learn put their faith and trust in something more legitimate and credible than some roadside phony.

Better laws, better enforcement, better regard to conscience and a tad bit of common sense is what the society needs to combat the existing moral rampage that is prevalent. While people involved in the act should never go unpunished, it is of the common notion that the society also owes quite a bit in terms of responsibility.

http://www.coolage.in/2013/11/08/who-is-the-real-godman/

Nithyananda ashram under scanner for child rights violation

Bangalore, Nov 5, 2013, DHNS:

Action against controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda for alleged child rights’ violation may be initiated after November 7, after a complete inquiry in the matter has been carried out.
“We have planned a course of action in association with the police to rescue the children at the ashram. This will be done after we obtain permission from the head office which will most probably be after November 7,” said an official at the district child protection unit, Ramanagara.

A study to find the origin of 89 children at the ashram is being conducted by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Following a notice issued by the Department of Women and Child Welfare, the Deputy Commissioner’s office and District Child Welfare Committee in October, children from the ashram had attended a counselling session by CWC with their parents.

“We doubt if those who attended the counselling session were actually the parents of the children. In addition to this, we need to verify the authenticity of various information, including their places of residences. We have asked the district child protection units (DCPU) from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh to help us out,” said another official from the DCPU, Ramanagara.

The ashram came under the scanner when a team from the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) and Department of Women and Child (DWCD) were refused entry. It was later discovered that as many as 109 children from Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and foreign countries like Singapore, Malaysia and USA were studying in the ashram, despite the ashram not being recognised by the Education department or the DWCD.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/367261/nithyananda-ashram-scanner-child-rights.html

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For the lay, Nithyananda's transcendental lies

It took A Rajasekharan, alias Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the man masquerading as a spiritual leader and healer of mental and physical afflictions, nearly two weeks to come out and claim that he was in a ‘trance’ when he was filmed having sex with a Tamil actress. Obviously, Nithyananda, who claims to have experienced ‘truth’ and ‘enlightenment’, is not anywhere near speaking the truth.

The ‘paramahamsa’ does not even have the courage to own up to the fact that he gave in to a moment of human weakness (it is another matter that it was not simply a momentary lapse of ascetic strength; that was his wont and the sine qua non of his so-called spiritual movement). How do we describe such a man? A fraud? A confidence trickster? A villainous manipulator? A sociopath on the loose?

The common dictionary definition of trance is “a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended”. If Nithyananda is trying to tell the world at large, and especially his disciples, that he was in fact violated by Ranjitha, the Tamil actress he is shown to have sex with, he is lying. For, nobody who has seen the video clips would be fooled about his claim. It is pretty much obvious that Nithyananda was not in a state of trance, or as he put it, ‘in deep samadhi’. He was, to use his own cultic language, in a state of extreme ecstatic bliss.

What Nithyananda has attempted to do through his statements aired via his own website or a couple of television news channels is to sway the flagging support among his youthful followers. The efforts to clear himself by replying to inspired questions put by a researcher of little academic recognition, the use of spurious cultic language (‘deep silent meditation’) and other forms of half-baked comments exposed an essentially flawed and devious mind incapable of taking on the truth. But these, according to sociological studies of the 1950s, also indicated that as a cult leader Nithyananda tried to change his devotees’ and television viewers’ belief systems via ‘sensory overload’ and subverting their ability to reason.

Even if it is assumed that some of the studies used over-generalised stereotypes of deception on the part of cult leaders, there is no denying the fact that Nithyananda is now employing a stratagem to trick people into believing that he committed no wrong. He has persuasion techniques, but part-admitting to have been ‘served’ by Ranjitha and lying on his state of consciousness will not go a long way to establish his credibility among the people at large. In many ways, Nithyananda has been found out. The videos ensured that first and then his statements left no doubt in the minds of the people that the man they watched on the television screen was an inveterate liar.

Credibility
Duping people by half-baked tantric concepts like being in a state of trance will only alienate his cultic order from those who are more rational in judging and concluding the moral worth of a man who claims to be, and is projected by some of his associates, as an ‘enlightened Master’.

Nithyananda was mistaken to be a charismatic leader by members of his cult. A deviant and perverse impersonation of malignity, Nithyananda tried to use the sublime ideals of Hinduism and Brahminism to achieve a rather base objective — wealth accumulation the easy way.

There is a large and established body of scholarly literature, far more credible and grounded in rationality than the mish-mash of Brahmanical and occult practices that Nithyananda bandied about through his teachings and sermons, but which are, to say the least, a perverse attack on the ideals of Brahmanism, Sanatana Dharma and Vedanta philosophy. He tried to hijack all of these in one go without even adequately comprehending them in their fullest depth. He tried to sell them expensive, the cost of which he is now paying by way of social revile.

It is best left to scholars of theology, religion and cults to ascertain what Nithyananda’s organisation, which sociologists would agree was formed to satisfy the personal interests of its leader and a few others, attempted to propagate was impairing and destructive. Nithyananda is no Moses trying to deliver his fringe flock to freedom. His seven-year movement, if it can be described as one at all, is an experiment with a self-deceiving, illusory conception of an alternative way of life that was not altruistic in the sense that it was not directed at ameliorating the lot of the poor, the marginalised, the disempowered and the wretched of society.

Nithyananda tried to engineer the beliefs of many young people that the freedom to lead wholly self-indulgent lives could provide them with the sense of purpose and direction in life they so ardently sought. Having taken the pendulum of freedom to its outermost limits, after throwing hundreds of young minds back into a regressive mode by inculcating in them the idea that he was their Master, the arbiter of their souls, and by telling them that their salvation lay at his ‘lotus feet’, Nithyananda has now found a barren vista.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/58758/for-lay-nithyanandas-transcendental-lies.html

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என் ஆசிரமத்தை மூடுவதற்கு திட்டமிட்ட சதானந்தா கவுடா, முதல்வர் பதவி இழந்ததை போல், என் குருகுல பள்ளியை பற்றி அவதூறாக பேசுபவர்களும் நாசமாக போவார்கள்,'' என்று நித்யானந்தா கூறியுள்ளார்.

கர்நாடக மாநிலம் பிடதியில், நிருபர்களுக்கு பேட்டியளித்த நித்யானந்தா கூறியதாவது:

பிடதியிலுள்ள, என் குருகுல பள்ளி பற்றி, சிலர் வதந்திகளை பரப்பி வருகின்றனர். கர்நாடக முதல்வராக சதானந்தகவுடா இருந்த போது, என் ஆசிரமத்தை மூடுவதற்கு திட்ட மிட்டார். அவருக்கு சாபம் கொடுத்தேன். இதனால், அவர் பதவியிழந்தார்.

எனக்கும், என் ஆசிரமத்துக்கும் எதிராக வேலை செய்பவர்கள், அனைவருக்கும் இந்த கதிதான் ஏற்படும். மாணவர்களுக்கு நல்வழி காண்பிக்கிறேன். அவர்களுக்கு, ஆன்மிக சொற்பொழிவை அளித்து, இறை பக்தியுள்ளவர்களாக ஆக்குகிறேன்.

இதை சிலர் திரித்துக் கூறி, ஆசிரமத்துக்கும், எனக்கும் கெட்ட பெயர் ஏற்படுத்த முயற்சி செய்கின்றனர், என்றார்.

மேலும் நித்யானந்தா, பிடதியில் நடத்தி வரும் குருகுல பள்ளியை, லண்டனில் நடத்த அனுமதி கேட்டுள்ளார். அங்கிருந்து சாதகமான பதில் கிடைக்கவில்லை.

இதையடுத்து, அமெரிக்காவில் பள்ளியை நடத்த முயற்சி மேற்கொண்டு வருகிறார்.

http://tamil.webdunia.com/newsworld/news/national/1310/21/1131021041_2.htm

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நித்யானந்தா பாதங்களை கழுவி பாத பூஜை செய்தனரா மாணவர்கள்?

அக்டோபர் 19,2013,23:55 IST

பெங்களூரு: 'பிடதி ஆசிரமம் சார்பில் நடத்தப்படும், குருக்கள் பள்ளியில், நித்யானந்தா பாதங்களை கழுவி, பாத பூஜை செய்ய வேண்டும்' என, மாணவர்கள் கட்டாயப்படுத்தப்பட்டதாக புகார் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதனால், "மாணவர்களை தன் முன், ஆஜர்படுத்த வேண்டும்' என, ராம் நகர் மாவட்ட கலெக்டர் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

பெங்களூரில் உள்ள, பிடதி, நித்யானந்தா ஆசிரமம் சார்பில், "ஸ்கூல் ஆப் தாட்ஸ்' என்ற குருக்கள் பள்ளி நடத்தப்படுகிறது. இந்த பள்ளியில், 80 மாணவர்கள் படிக்கின்றனர். கல்வித் துறையின், பாட முறைகள் இங்கு இல்லை. நித்யானந்தா எழுதிய, "உலக சரித்திரம்' என்ற நூலை மையமாகக் கொண்டு, பாடம் நடத்தப்படுகிறது. கடந்த, 2010ல், நித்யானந்தா மீது பாலியல் புகார் எழுந்த பின், இப்பள்ளியில் படித்த மாணவர்களுக்கு, மற்ற பள்ளிகளில், அட்மிஷன் கிடைக்கவில்லை. நித்யானந்தா ஆசிரமம் சார்பில், மலேசியாவில் நடத்தப்படும், குருக்கள் பள்ளியை, நல்ல முறையில் நிர்வகிக்க, பெண் சீடர் ஒருவரை, 2005ல், நித்யானந்தா அனுப்பினார். அந்தப் பெண் சீடரின் மகன், பிடதி ஆசிரம குருக்கள் பள்ளியில் படித்து வந்தான். அந்தச் சிறுவன், திடீரென விஷம் குடித்ததால், மருத்துவமனையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டான். அதனால், மலேசியாவிலிருந்து திரும்பும்படி, அவனின் தாயாருக்கு தகவல் அனுப்பப்பட்டது. அந்தப் பெண் சீடரும் பெங்களூரு திரும்பி, மருத்துவமனையில் விசாரித்த போது, மகன் விஷம் குடித்ததை அறிந்தார். இதையடுத்து, போலீசில் புகார் செய்தார். அந்தப் புகாரில், "பிடதி ஆசிரமத்தில், என் மகனை கொடுமை செய்துள்ளனர். அதனால் தான், அவன் விஷம் குடித்துள்ளான். இந்த விவகாரத்தை, ஆசிரம நிர்வாகிகள் மறைக்க முற்படுகின்றனர்' என, தெரிவித்திருந்தார்.

இந்நிலையில், இந்த விவகாரம் தொடர்பாக, கர்நாடகா, குழந்தைகள் நல ஆணைய அதிகாரிகள் கூறியதாவது: நித்யானந்தா ஆசிரம பள்ளியில் படிக்கும் மாணவர்களுக்கு, காவி உடை கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அனைத்து வேலைகளையும் அவர்களே செய்ய வேண்டும்; அடிமை போன்று நடத்தப்படுகின்றனர். நித்யானந்தாவின் காலைக் கழுவி, மாணவர்கள், அவ்வப்போது பாத பூஜை செய்ய வேண்டும். பள்ளியை நடத்த, கர்நாடகா அரசிடமோ, குழந்தைகள் நலத்துறையிடமோ, பிடதி ஆசிரமம் அனுமதி பெறவில்லை. அங்கு படிக்கும் பல மாணவர்கள், தற்கொலைக்கு முற்பட்டுள்ளனர். பள்ளியை நீண்ட நாள் நடத்த முடியாது என்று தெரிந்ததும், லண்டனில் நடத்த, நித்யானந்தா, அனுமதி கேட்டுள்ளார். ஜூனில், குழந்தைகள் நலத்துறையினர், பள்ளியை பார்வையிடச் சென்றபோது, தரக்குறைவான வார்த்தைகளால் திட்டி, பிடதி ஆசிரம ஊழியர்கள் உள்ளே அனுமதிக்கவில்லை. பள்ளி மீது நடவடிக்கை எடுப்பது பற்றி, அரசு ஆலோசித்து வருகிறது. இவ்வாறு குழந்தைகள் நல ஆணைய அதிகாரிகள் தெரிவித்தனர். இதற்கிடையில், சில மாணவர்களின் பெற்றோர், ராம் நகர் மாவட்ட கலெக்டரிடம், புகார் ஒன்றை அளித்துள்ளனர். அதில், "பிடதி ஆசிரமத்தில், எங்கள் குழந்தைகளை அடிமை போன்று நடத்துகின்றனர்; கொடுமைப்படுத்துகின்றனர். அவர்களை மீட்டுத் தர வேண்டும்' என, தெரிவித்துள்ளனர். இதையடுத்து, "குருக்கள் பள்ளி மாணவர்களை, தன் முன் ஆஜர்படுத்த வேண்டும்' என, பிடதி ஆசிரமத்துக்கு, ராம் நகர் மாவட்ட கலெக்டர் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

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