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Indian Godmen and their involvement in sex scandal

From Asaram Bapu to Swami Nithyananda: Indian godmen in sex scandals

He is a Tamil Nadu seer with a big following in several states and abroad.

 

The swami set up his headquarters — Nithyananda Dhyanapeedam — at Bidadi on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway and ashrams across Tamil Nadu. He has ashrams in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) and Puri (Odisha) as well. He runs meditation centres in a dozen of countries.

 

He landed in a storm after a news channel telecast video footage purportedly showing him in a sex romp with an actress. The video was of Nithyananda and a South Indian actress, 

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TV9 News : Nithyananda Brother Married

சிஷ்யையை அண்ணியாக்கினார் நித்தி! நித்தியானந்தாவுடன் பிறந்தவர்கள் இருவர். ஒரு அண்ணன், ஒரு தம்பி. நித்தியானந்தாவின் அப்பா சில ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் இறந்துவிட்டார். இதனால் திருவண்ணாமலையில் இருந்த தனது தாயார், தம்பியை தன்னுடன் அழைத்துக்கொண்டார். அவர்கள் பெங்களுரூ பீடதி ஆஸ்ரமத்தில் தன்னுடன் தங்க வைத்துக்கொண்டார். அவரது அண்ணன் மட்டும் திருவண்ணாமலையில் தனிமையில் இருந்து வந்தார். 40 வயதை நெருங்கும் அவரது அண்ணனும் திருமணம் செய்துக்கொள்ளாமல் இருந்தார். தற்போது திடீரென அவருக்கு திருமண ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. நித்தியானந்தாவின் அண்ணன் செந்தில்குமாருக்கு, மலேசியாவை சேர்ந்த நித்தியானந்தாவின் பக்தையுமான சுபத்ரா (எ) நித்ய கீதானந்தாவுடன் வருகிற 16ந்தேதி பெங்களுரூவில் உள்ள பீடதி ஆஸ்ரமத்திலேயே திருமணம் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. திருமணத்துக்கான அழைப்பிதழ்கள் புதுக்கோட்டையில் டிசைன் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. திருமண அழைப்பிதழில் நித்தியானந்தர் ஆண்டு 36ஆம் வருடம் ஆவணி மாதம் 31ந்தேதி திருமணம் என்றும் அவதார புருஷர் ஜகத்குரு பகவான் ஸ்ரீ ல ஸ்ரீ பரமஹம்ச நித்யானந்த ஞானசம்மந்த தேசிக பரமாச்சாரிய ஸ்வாமிகள் திருவருளால் நடைபெறவுள்ளது என குறிப்பிட்டு உறவினர்கள், நண்பர்களுக்கு அழைப்பிதழ்கள் திருவண்ணாமலையில் தரப்பட்டு வருகின்றன. அழைப்பிதழில் அண்ணனுக்கும், அண்ணிக்கும் தம்பி நித்தியானந்தா ஆசிர்வாதம் செய்வது போல வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. http://www.nakkheeran.in/users/frmNews.aspx?N=107140

என்ன செய்கிறார் மதுரை ஆதீனம்? -மினி தொடர்: பாகம் 3

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ஆசையே அழிவுக்குக் காரணம் என்ற வாசகம் சாமியார்களுக்கும் பொருந்தும். 27.3.12 ஆம் தேதி - ஆப்பசைத்த குரங்கு போல, மதுரை ஆதீனம் வசமாகச் சிக்கிய நாள். பணம், புகழ், தங்கம் என்று நித்தி காட்டிய ஆசைகளுக்கு மயங்கிய பின்னர் அருணகிரிநாதரின் பெயர் கெட்டு குட்டிச்சுவராகப் போனது.


மதுரை ஆதீனமாக நித்தி

27.3.12 ஆம் தேதி கர்நாடகாவின் பிடதி ஆசிரமத்தில்,மதுரையின் 293 ஆவது ஆதீனமாக நித்தியானந்தாவை அறிவித்தார் அருணகிரிநாதர்.தங்க சிம்மாசனத்தில் உட்கார்ந்திருந்த மதுரை ஆதீனம்,மற்றொரு சிம்மாசனத்தில் இருந்த நித்திக்கு தங்க கிரீடம் அணிவித்து,6 அடி உயர தங்கச் செங்கோலை வழங்கி 'பதவிப்பிரமாணம்' செய்து வைத்தார்.பதிலுக்கு ஒரு கோடி ரூபாய்க்கான செக்கை அருணகிரியிடம் கொடுத்தார் நித்தி.

அப்போது பேசிய அருணகிரி, ''மதுரை ஆதீனத்தை, எமக்குப் பிறகு யார் கட்டிக்காக்கப் போகிறார்கள் என்ற கவலையில் யாம் பல நாட்கள் தூக்கமின்றித் தவித்தோம்.அப்படி சிந்தனையுடன் ஒரு நாள் இரவு தூங்கியபோது, சிவபெருமானும்,பார்வதியும் எமது கனவில் தோன்றி, 'நித்தியானந்தாதான் உனக்கு சரியான வாரிசு' என்று சொன்னார்கள்.அதன்பிறகு, பெங்களூரு ஆசிரமத்துக்கு வந்து நித்தியானந்தாவோடு பழகிப்பார்த்தேன்.அவரும் என்னை மதுரையில் வந்து பார்த்தார். அவரின் செயல்பாடுகள் எமக்கு மிகவும் பிடித்திருக்கின்றன.

பார்த்தவுடன் கவரும் தோற்றமும், கம்பீர உருவமும், இளமையும் கொண்டவர் நித்தியானந்தா. என்னைவிட அவரால் நன்றாக ஆன்மிகப் பணியில் ஈடுபட முடியும். எனவே, மதுரை ஆதீனத்துக்குச் சொந்தமான சொத்துக்களையும், 1250 ஏக்கர் நிலத்தையும், கோயில்களையும் நித்தியானந்தாவே நிர்வகிப்பார். எனவே நீங்கள் அனைவரும் 293-வது மதுரை ஆதீனமான நித்தியானந்தாவை, 'ஸ்ரீலஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ பரஹம்ச நித்தியானந்த ஞானசம்பந்த தேசிக பரமாச்சாரிய ஸ்வாமிகள்' என்று அழைக்க வேண்டும்" என்று சொன்னார்.

வாய் நிறைய பல்லோடு பேசிய நித்தியானந்தா,"மதுரை ஆதீனத்தின் புகழை சர்வதேச அளவுக்கு உயர்த்துவேன்.அதேபோன்று மதுரை ஆதீனத்தின் ஆளுகைக்கு உட்பட்ட அனைத்துக் கோயில்களும் கைப்பற்றப்பட்டு,புனரமைக்கப்பட்டு ஓர் ஆண்டுக்குள் கும்பாபிஷேகம் நடத்தப்படும்.ஏற்கெனவே மதுரை ஆதீனத்துக்குச் சொந்தமாக இருந்த மதுரை மீனாட்சி அம்மன் கோயிலை மீண்டும் ஆதீனத்தின் ஆளுகைக்கே கொண்டு வருவேன்.இதற்காக எத்தனை தடைகள் வந்தாலும் தகர்த்தெறிவேன்.ஆதீனம் சார்பாக மதுரையில் மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியும்,24 மணி நேர அன்னதானச் சேவையும் உடனே தொடங்கப்படும்" என்று சொல்லி அதிரவைத்தார்.


கொதித்தெழுந்த மதுரைவாசிகள் 

இந்த அறிவிப்பு மதுரைவாசிகளை கொதித்தெழ வைத்தது.சின்னச் சின்ன அமைப்புகள் கூட, நித்திக்கு எதிராக ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடத்த ஆரம்பித்தன.மதுரை ஆதீனம் பதட்டப்பகுதியானது.அங்கே 24 மணி நேரமும் போலீஸார் குவிக்கப்பட்டனர்.

பதிலுக்கு நித்தியின் பெண் சீடர்கள்,மதுரை கலெக்டர் அலுவலகத்தில் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடத்தினார்கள்.ஒரு தொலைக்காட்சிக்கு எதிராகவும்,இந்து மக்கள் கட்சி அர்ஜூன் சம்பத்தையும் கண்டித்து,உலகம் முழுக்க உள்ள நித்தியின் தியான மையங்களில் இருந்தபடியே, வீடியோ கான்பரன்ஸிங் முறையில் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடத்தினார்கள் அவரது வெளிநாட்டு சீடர்கள்.

இதற்கிடையே, "ஆதீன மடத்தில் 16,18 வயதுப் பெண்கள் துப்பட்டாவும், பேண்ட்டும் அணியாமல் கவர்ச்சியாக நடமாடுகிறார்கள்.ஆங்காங்கே படுக்கைகள் எல்லாம் கிடக்கிறது.தவறான செயல்கள் நடக்கிற இடம் மாதிரி இருக்கிறது"என்று கலெக்டர் சகாயத்திடம் புகார் கொடுத்தார் மக்கள் முன்னேற்றக் கட்சி என்ற லட்டர் பேடு இயக்கத் தலைவர் முத்துராஜ்.

மே மாத இறுதியில்,கிரானைட் விவகாரத்தால் கலெக்டர் சகாயம் மாற்றம் செய்யப்பட,அது தன்னால் தான் நிகழ்ந்தது என்பது போல் பந்தா காட்டினார் நித்தியானந்தா."எல்லாம் இறைவன் செயல்" என்றார் அருணகிரிநாதர்."புதிய கலெக்டர் அன்சுல் மிஸ்ரா என் நண்பர் தான்"என்றார் நித்தி.

மடாதிபதிகளின் எச்சரிக்கை

இதற்கிடையே,மதுரை ஆதீனத்தில் நடந்த இந்த கிறுக்குத்தனமான முடிவு குறித்து விவாதிப்பதற்காக, தமிழகத்தின் பிரதான மடதிபதிகள் எல்லாம் மே 1-ம் தேதி மயிலாடுதுறையில் அவசரக் கூட்டம் நடத்தினார்கள்.திருப்பனந்தாள் காசி திருமடத்து அதிபர் முத்துக்குமார சுவாமி தம்பிரான் முன்னிலையில் நடந்த இந்த கூட்டத்தில், தருமபுரம்,குன்றக்குடி,திருவாவடுதுறை உள்ளிட்ட ஆதீனங்கள் மற்றும் திருமடங்களைச் சேர்ந்த ஆதீனங்கள் உட்பட பலர் இந்தக் கூட்டத்தில் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.

"செக்ஸ் புகாரில் சிக்கிய நித்தியானந்தாவை மதுரை ஆதீனமாக அறிவித்ததை,10 நாட்களில் திரும்பப் பெறவேண்டும் இல்லை என்றால் சட்ட நடவடிக்கைகளை மேற்கொள்வோம்"என்று அந்த கூட்டத்தில் எச்சரிக்கை விடுக்கப்பட்டது.


நித்தியின் மிரட்டல்

இதற்குப் பதிலடி கொடுக்கும் வகையில் மதுரை ஆதீனத்தில் அருணகிரிநாதரும்,

நித்தியானந்தாவும் ஒரு பிரஸ் மீட் வைத்தனர்.அதில் முழங்கிய நித்தியானந்தா, "என்னை ஆதீனமாக நியமித்தது சரில்லை என்றால், சந்நிதானத்திடம் தானே பேசியிருக்க வேண்டும்? ஆனால், காரணம் இல்லாமல் என்னை இழுத்ததனால், உலகம் முழுக்க இருக்கிற என்னுடைய பக்தர்கள் கொதித்துப்போயிருக்கிறார்கள். இப்போது நான் பின்வாங்கினால்,அசிங்கம். எனக்கு எதிராக தீர்மானம் போட்ட மடாதிபதிகளுக்கு, 10 நாட்கள் நான் கெடு கொடுக்கிறேன். அதற்குள், என்னைப் பற்றிய தீர்மானத்தைத் திரும்பப் பெற்றுக் கொண்டால் விட்டுவிடுவேன்.இல்லை என்றால் தருமை ஆதீனத்தின் முன், என்னுடைய பக்தர்கள் தொடர் காலவரையற்ற போராட்டம் நடத்துவார்கள்.என்னால் அதைத் தடுக்க முடியாது.

அதேபோல,கூட்டுச் சதி 120(பி),மான நஷ்டம்,அவதூறு ஏற்படுத்துதல் 100, 101,சாதி பற்றி சரியான தவல்களைத் தெரிந்து கொள்ளாமல் தவறான தகவல்களைப் பரப்புவது 153(ஏ), என்னுடைய பக்தர்களின் மன உணர்வுகளைப் புண்படுத்தியது 295(ஏ) ஆகிய சட்டப் பிரிவுகளின் கீழ் உலகம் முழுவதும் உள்ள என்னுடைய மடங்களைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் அந்த மடாதிபதிகள் மீது தனித்தனியாக வழக்குத் தொடர்வார்கள்" என்று மிரட்டல் விடுத்தார் நித்தி. "இதுக்கு மேலும், இந்து அமைப்புகள் என்ற பெயரில் லோக்கல் ரௌடிகள் வயலன்ஸில் ஈடுபட்டால், அதற்கும் திருப்பனந்தாள் ஆதீனமே பொறுப்பு" என்றும் எச்சரித்தார் நித்தியானந்தா.


வைஸ்ணவி மீது தாக்குதல்

நித்தி மடத்திற்குள் நுழைந்ததும்,அருணகிரிநாதரின் காரியதரசியான வைஸ்ணவியின் முக்கியத்துவம்குறைக்கப்பட்டது.ஒரு கட்டத்தில் வைஸ்ணவிக்கும், நித்தியின் சீடரின் மனைவிக்கும் சண்டை வந்தது.உடனே, நித்தியின் ஆட்கள் அவரைத் தாக்கினார்கள்.அதைத் தடுக்கவில்லை என்ற ஆத்திரத்தில்,ஆதீனத்துடன் கோபித்துக் கொண்டு மடத்தில் இருந்து காணாமல் போனார் வைஸ்ணவி.

பின்பு,வைஸ்ணவி தாக்குதல் பற்றி விளக்கம் கொடுத்த நித்தி,"ஆதீனத்தில் இருந்த யாரையும் நாங்கள் வெளியேற்றவில்லை.அத்தனை பேரும் பணியில் இருக்கிறார்கள். தினமும் 20 மணி நேரம் உழைக்கின்ற 33 வயதுக்கு உட்பட்ட 1,800 இளைஞர்களைக்கொண்ட ஒரு மிகப் பெரிய 'ஒர்க்கஹாலிக் குரூப்' நாங்கள். பழைய ஆட்கள் வேறு மாதிரி செட்-அப்பில் பணி செய்திருப்பார்கள். அவர்களால் எங்களது வேகத்துக்கு ஈடுகொடுக்க முடியாததால், சிறுசிறு சச்சரவுகள். வைஷ்ணவிக்கும் எங்களது சீடர்களுக்கும் இடையே சிறு பிரச்னை ஏற்பட்டு, வாக்குவாதம் மட்டுமே நடந்திருக்கு.யாரும் அவரை அடிக்கவில்லை'' என்றார்.


நித்திக்கு வந்த சிக்கல்

நித்தி மதுரையில் இருந்த நாள் முழுக்க தினம் தினம் 'பிரஸ் மீட்' வைத்து யாரையாவது வசை பாடிக் கொண்டே இருந்தார்.மருத்துவ முகாம்,அன்னதானத் திட்டம் போன்றவற்றைத் தொடங்கி வைத்த அவர்,அடுத்து மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியும், பெரிய பெரிய கல்வி நிறுவனங்களையும் அமைக்கப் போவதாகவும் 'பீலா' விட்டார்.

ரஞ்சிதா விவகாரத்தில் அழிந்து போன தன்னுடைய இமேஜை ஆதீனப் பதவி மூலம் உயர்த்திவிட்டதாக அவர் கருதிய நேரத்தில், ஆர்த்தி ராவ் சொன்ன செக்ஸ் புகார்கள் விஸ்வமூபம் எடுத்தன.தப்பியோடி தலைமறைவாகும் சூழ்நிலைக்கு ஆளானார் நித்தி.

அந்த பரபர நாட்கள் பற்றிய தகவல்கள் நாளை....


http://news.vikatan.com/article.php?module=news&aid=15626

Pro-Kannada activists protest aginst Nithyananda

Nithyananda Ranjitha Video sleaze CD genuine: CID

நித்தியானந்தா சீடர்களால் தொடர்ந்து அச்சுறுத்தல்- மதுரை ஆதீனம்

ஆரணி: சர்ச்சைக்குரிய நித்தியானந்தாவின் சீடர்களால் தமக்கு தொடர்ந்து மிரட்டல் விடுக்கப்பட்டு வருவதாக மதுரை ஆதீனம் அருணகிரிநாதர் புகார் கூறியுள்ளார்.
ஆரணியில் செய்தியாளர்களிடம் பேசிய அருணகிரிநாதர், நித்தியானந்தாவை நியமித்து நீக்கி பிரச்சனைகளை சமாளிக்க வேண்டும் என்பது இறைவனின் கட்டளை. நித்தியானந்தாவால் பிரச்சனை . அவரது சீடர்களால் அச்சுறுத்தல் இருக்கிறது.
மீண்டும் இளைய ஆதீனமாக இப்போது யாரையும் நியமிக்கப் போவது இல்லை. மதுரை ஆதீன மடத்தை அரசு கையகப்படுத்தலாம். தமிழக முதல்வரைப் பொறுத்தவரை சிறப்பான ஆட்சி நடத்துகிறார். 

 http://tamil.oneindia.in/news/2012/11/19/tamilnadu-threaten-from-nithyananda-disciples-madurai-aadheenam-164859.html

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

For the lay, Nithyananda’s transcendental lies

By Chandan Nandy

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

Nithyananda may have forged birth documents

There is now emerging evidence suggesting that self-styled godman Nithyananda may have forged his birth documents. He has certainly misrepresented his date of birth.

Documents available with Deccan Herald show that in at least two official documents Nithyananda provided different dates of birth, bringing into question not only his age.
There are already question marks over the mechanical engineering diploma that he had supposedly earned from a Vellore polytechnic college.

A copy of the US visa issued to him from the US Consulate in Chennai in 2003 shows his date of birth to be March 13, 1977. This means that at the time of applying for the US visa, he had provided the Consulate authorities with document(s) that showed his date of birth as reflected in the travel paper stamped on his passport (No E xxxxx).

But in two other documents –– petitions filed along with sworn affidavits –– in the Karnataka High Court last week he has stated that his date of birth is January 1, 1978. In the petitions, praying for “quashing the entire proceedings including the investigation” pending against him at Bidadi police station near here, Nithyananda’s lawyer claims: “The petitioner was born on January 1, 1978, in Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu.”

There is more about his age in a Nithyananda biography, relevant sections of which are available with Deccan Herald. The author writes: “Nithyananda was born on January 1, 1978, at 32 minutes past midnight in the holy town of Tiruvannamalai in South India.” The same author writes that Nithyananda was born in the Tamil month of “Margazhi” (December-January) and likens his birth to that of Krishna.

A city-based advocate Siji Malayil said furnishing two different dates of birth for official purposes could invite criminal action for cheating and forgery. Malayil added that in the case of Nithyananda, the Indian Penal Code’s Section 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purposes of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) could be evoked.

In view of suspected forgery of birth documents and misrepresentation of his date of birth, the American authorities are believed to have begun to look into the manner in which Nithyananda obtained US visa. This enquiry could form the basis of a wider probe into the activities of his cult organisations that operate out of several American cities.

Incidentally, the US visa (B1/B2 type) Nithyananda obtained in 2003 was “cancelled pursuant to with prejudice” by American border officials on February 4, 2007, while he was trying to cross over from Canada to the US.

HC petition
The brief introduction of the petitioner becomes relevant and necessary herein, as follows: The petitioner was born on 1st January 1978 in Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, India and named A Rajasekaran. He is the second son of his parents (late) Sri Arunachalam and Smt Lokanayaki.

 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/59977/nithyananda-may-have-forged-birth.html

The cult of preying and feeding on anxieties

By Chandan Nandy

The man who passed himself off as Paramahamsa Nithyananda for seven years, promised instant spirituality to hundreds, perhaps even thousands, across India and abroad.

It might be too early to brand Nithyananda as a conman, but what is emerging is that he is a psychopath who exploited people’s credulity and played on the minds of youthful devotees who, before joining his cultic order, might have demonstrated symptoms of psychic distress, anxiety, depression, apathy, disinterest, meaninglessness, isolation, social alienation and confusion. As a normative social system, Nithyananda’s cultic order is an alternative healing mechanism for the existential crises of contemporary youth.

Nithyananda, of course, is no paramahamsa. He is an ordinary man who was intelligent enough to capitalise on his youthful disciples’ loss of faith in the “rationalistic western cosmology and loss of the extended family system,” as sociologist Mansell Pattison has pointed out. But Nithyananda also tapped into the dissatisfaction caused by the impact of the prevailing economic paradigm which has created stress and anxiety, especially among those in the 30-40 age group whose members may have deliberately turned away from traditional psychotherapies toward his religious cult as the ultimate remedy for their anxieties.

These young men and women found in him and his cult — which is a strange and often frightening mix of the Vedic and tantric with an attractive and appealing focus on phallus worship — the path to physical and spiritual healing. What might also have appealed to the devotees was the stress on mental seduction and enslavement or mind control, so much so that they were prepared to abandon family, loved ones and well-wishers.

Some psychologists and sociologists agree that intensive conditioning (or brainwashing) is designed to compromise the devotees’ psychological integrity and indoctrinate them in a world view in which the ends (salvation, bliss and even personal health and wealth) justify the means (deceptive recruitment, fraudulent fund-raising and psycho-sexual practices).

The rest of Nithyananda’s so-called spiritual and healing prowess was built by aggressive and purposeful public relations directed not at the poor from our urban ghettos or despoiled rural backwaters. Rather, these are middle class, affluent, educated, and sophisticated youth. A network of branch heads in some southern Indian cities and those in the United States, mostly non-resident Indians with deep pockets helped Nithyananda catapult to spiritual stardom. It would not be out of place to point out here that the website of one of Nithyananda’s subsidiary organisations in US suggests that more than a spiritual enterprise the Nithyananda mission is commercial enterprise.

Brief interviews with some of Nithyananda’s disciples at his ashram near Bangalore and over telephone, with the primary question “what drew you to his order?,” elicited confused response. Emails from followers in support of Nithyananda were also important sources to understand what attracted the youth to his alternative spiritual system that offered a radical world view in distinction from the common culture, with explicit sanctions in regard to one’s behaviour, with a strong emphasis on separatism from the ‘world at large’ that is reflected in some degree of small group communality ranging from total communal living to frequent communal gatherings.

Beliefs

The standard replies typically comprised two strains of belief: a) he helped heal their physical ailments and psychological distress and b) we experienced truth and enlightenment, two very abstract concepts that souls far greater and intellectual than ‘Nithyananda, our Master’ have not been able to fathom within the context of Indian philosophy.

The likes of sundry other self-proclaimed television-propelled godmen have, in their own distinctive styles, tried to peddle Indian spirituality, with their base and esoteric twists, to a gullible audience within India and abroad.

They have met with varied levels of successes and then faded away as the spiritual ferment, shaped in large part by globalisation and television, spawned other unconventional, secretive and deviant cult movements. They were sought to be given legitimacy and acceptability within society by obtaining the crucial backing of political parties and enlisting the support of the rich and the powerful, an approach that has almost always benefited the organisations in more ways than one.

But such groups have often elicited extreme hostility and distrust and have, moreover, been perceived as fundamentally subversive of civil order and the ideals of Hinduism. To some extent, part of the popular uproar about cult groups such as Nithyananda’s comes from bewildered, frightened and angry parents and other elders who cannot comprehend why the youth, otherwise socialised into the mainstream of society with many seeming advantages, should abandon their cultural and religious heritage to enter such ‘separate reality.’

The Nithyananda cult operated as a surrogate extended family and provided novel, if questionable, therapeutic and spiritual alternatives that confer meaning on individual lives and experiences, even if the devotees were deluded into believing so because of their existential vacuum. In doing so, he and some of his close confidantes exploited the weaknesses of existing institutions like Hinduism, family and modern psychiatry.

This is not to say that cults necessarily threaten the social order. After all, people are at liberty to exercise their preference for one religious movement for another. But what may endanger society is the return to obscurantism, superstition and blind faith that once constituted the bane of India.

A study of Nithyananda’s cultic order — the reference to an ‘energised banyan tree’ and ‘energised puja items,’ besides a host of weird teaching practices that go toward deification of the occult — indicates that its devotees, drunk on their ‘sadguru,’ their ‘Enlightened Master’ of merely seven years’ experience, should exercise some caution in distinguishing between the truly pious and the charlatan.

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Mind Control and Religion

Coercive persuasion is secular conduct. Insofar as it is recognized as coercion and "undue influence," it is illegal conduct. Prohibition of this specific conduct will protect the State itself and the free exercise rights of all citizens without infringing on the free exercise rights of religious organizations.

Coercive persuasion is antithetical to the First Amendment. It achieves much of the harmful result of fraud, false imprisonment, coercion, undue influence, involuntary, servitude, intentional infliction of emotional distress, outrageous conduct, and other tortuous acts.

Coercive persuasion is unfair manipulation of the biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities of one's fellow men. It is an opposite to charity and kindness. It is a psychological modus operandi of a criminal or totalitarian society.

Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice. It is a covert control technology. It is not a belief or an ideology. It is a technological process that impairs rationality.

As a process it can be examined separately from any message content that may be associated with its practitioners. This is like examining the technical processes used in hypnotic induction separately from examining the meaning or value of any hypnotic suggestion given during hypnosis. Examining processes, never beliefs, will not violate anyone's First Amendment religious protections.

John Dewey believed that, "the human power to respond to reason and truth protects democracy." Any organization using coercive persuasion on its members that also claims to be a religion is turning the sacred trust and privileges of our democratic First Amendment sanctuary into a fortress for psychological assault. It is covertly twisting "religious freedom" to deny our more basic constitutional right to unfettered rationality in our freedom of thought and free will.

Freedom of religion cannot exist without first having an absolutely protected freedom of thought. Freedom of religion without freedom of thought is an absurdity.

"... [a] church cannot seek the protection of one constitutional amendment while it allegedly deprives citizens of the protection of other constitutional guarantees."
--Robin George v. International Society of Krishna Consciousness 473 F,
Supp. at 312, U.S. 89-1399.

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Danger of Cults is Growing - Part 3

Despite the human and societal damage caused by cults, few organizations exist to help prevent or lessen the damage. Until very recently, governments worldwide have not created systematic programs to respond to the problem. The work has been done by non-profit organizations and by people working on individual bases, studying the cult phenomenon, counseling cult members and ex-members, prosecuting those guilty of cult-related crimes and abuses, and educating others on the dangers of cults. The cult problem is growing quickly and is expected to accelerate as the millennium approaches.

Fortunately, for all its destructiveness, mind control can be diffused rather easily. Education is vital in helping cult members leave the destructive organizations they feel tied to. According to Dr. Singer, 90% of cult members, given the opportunity to take a few days away from the group to be given full information, consequently leave the destructive organization.

In recent months, other government organizations have also begun plans to address the cult problem. The European Parliament recently proposed solutions to the cult problem which focus on education and prevention. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights brought a Special Rapporteur to the United States in January to discuss dangers posed by cults. In April, the Belgian Parliament approved the establishment of a public Information and Advice Center on Harmful Cults. The center's purpose is to study cults, provide information and advice to the public, and set up a study center accessible by the general population.

FACTNet, as a nonprofit provider of solutions to cult and mind control problems, is extremely pleased that governments are taking initiative to actively address the cult problem, but is concerned that many people are still uninformed about the harms cults are capable are doing to their families and our societies. Please forward this notice to anyone you think might benefit from the information.

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Danger of Cults is Growing - Part 2

Somber Statistics

While recent cult tragedies have received a great deal of media coverage, many facts regarding cults are rarely divulged to the general public.

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• Of the 912 People's Temple members who died in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978, 276 were children, and of more than 80 who died at Waco, Texas in 1993, 25 were children.

• An estimated 5,000 economic, political, and religious groups operate in the United States alone at any given time, with 2.5 million members. Over the last ten years, cults have used tactics of coercive mind control to negatively impact an estimated 20 million victims in the last ten years. Worldwide figures are even greater. [Cult expert Dr. Margaret Singer , Cults in Our Midst].

• The cult problem is so prevalent, the chances of a family member joining a cult are greater than a family member catching chicken pox, four times greater than contracting AIDS, 90 times greater than contracting measles, and 45,000 times greater than contracting polio. [Dr. Paul Martin, cult expert and director of Wellspring Retreat & Resource Center, Ohio, USA].

• 25% of the millions of cult members worldwide "will suffer enduring, irreversible harm that will affect their ability to function adequately in emotional, social, family, and occupational domains," according to Dr. Martin. For every person who becomes a cult member, many more are impacted; parents, children, other family, and friends suffer personal and often economic loss.

• Entire societies, numbed by coercive psychological influence, are more likely to allow large-scale tragedies. Perhaps the most devastating example is the Holocaust. Cult mind control is totalitarian, and as such is anathema to democracy. Democracy is founded on the principle that humanity is rational; for democracy to work, people must be capable of using their critical faculties. Mind control works by bypassing rationality and eliminating free will. Without free will, all other basic human freedoms, such as freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, become utterly meaningless. Eventually if left unchecked, mind control would destroy all basic human freedoms and ruin democracy.

• According to Dr. Martin, "Compared to other social or medical problems, the havoc created by destructive cultism is the most understudied, neglected, and ignored mental health and social problem in the world... If the symptoms exhibited in former cult members were attributed to a virus, it would be considered a worldwide epidemic."

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Danger of Cults is Growing - Part 1

[September 18, 1998]

As individuals and societies, we do not have a strong understanding of the phenomenon of cults, nor of the dangers cults pose. Thus, preventative action is rarely undertaken by appropriate establishments, such as our homes, cultural institutions, and governments. Lack of understanding or action persists despite highly publicized cult violence over the last four years, somber statistics of the cult problem, and the upcoming millennium which is predicted to spark more catastrophes. The following overview is provided to alert people to the growing danger of cults worldwide.

Recent Cult Tragedies in the News

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2. 1994. More than 60 members of Europe's Solar Temple cult were induced to mass suicide in France and Switzerland.

3. 1995. Japan's Aum Shin Rikyo cult released sarin nerve gas in Tokyo subway killing ten and injuring thousands. Only recently in June 1998, testimonies in recent trials of Aum Shin Rikyo members revealed that for years prior to the 1995 attack, the group released lethal germ warfare in Japan, targeting the Japanese Legislature, the Imperial Palace, and the US military base at Yokosuka. The poisons were not detected at the times of their releases, and apparently caused no deaths. The attacks were intended to spark the apocalypse Aum Shin Rikyo postulates is coming. Meanwhile, about 200 current members met for a fundraising conference in late April, 1998, paying up to $1,500 each to attend.

4. 1997. 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult including leader Marshall Applewhite ingested a combination of vodka and drugs at Applewhite's instruction, resulting in what the mother of victim called "one suicide and 38 murders." Members were convinced that the only way to survive Earth's being "recycled" in the year 2000 was to be picked up by a UFO flying in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet.

5. 1997. Teenage members of a Vampire cult murdered the parents of one of its members. Self-proclaimed lead vampire received the death sentence.

6. 1998. Scientology has faced allegations of member suicides, deaths, and psychotic breaks; when Germany refused to recognize Scientology as a bona fide religious organization, contending the cult is a threat to democracy, the United States accused Germany of "intolerance" and caused international diplomatic tensions.

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