Biography:Nithyananda

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Mahamandaleshwar

Nithyananda

Swami
Paramhamsa Nithyananda.jpg
TitleSupreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagat Guru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Bhagwan (as described on the subject's social media accounts)
Personal
Born
Arunachalam Rajasekaran

(1978-01-01) 1 January 1978 (age 46)[1]
Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India
ReligionHinduism
Founder ofNithyananda Dhyanapeetam
PhilosophyAdvaita Vedanta
Religious career
Literary worksLiving Enlightenment, Guaranteed Solutions, Bhagavad Gita Demystified

Nithyananda Paramashivam (or Paramahamsa Nithyananda; born Arunachalam Rajasekaran, 1 January 1978) is an Indian Hindu guru and "godman". He is the founder of the trust Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, which has temples, gurukulas, and ashrams in many countries.

Following accusations and charges of rape and abduction in Indian courts, Nithyananda absconded from India , citing threats of assassination and mob lynching, and sought refuge from the United Nations . He subsequently announced the founding of his own self-proclaimed island nation Kailaasa.

Early life

Nithyananda was born A. Rajasekaran,[2][3] in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki. He belongs to the Saiva Vellala community.[4][3]

Sources conflict as to his birth date – a 2003 United States visa gave a date of 13 March 1977, while a sworn affidavit in a 2010 Karnataka High Court case mentioned 1 January 1978.[3]

Nithyananda at various ages

He was first noticed at the age of three by Yogiraj Yogananda Puri.[4][5]

He claims to have had powerful spiritual experiences from the age of 12 and experienced full enlightenment from the age of 22.[6]

In 2002, he began his public life and started to use the name Nithyananda.[7] He says that this name was given to him by Mahavatar Babaji in a mystical experience during his monastic wandering days in the Himalayas.[7][8]

In 2003, he started his ashram Dhyanapeetam in Bidadi near Bangalore, Karnataka, India.[4]

Recognition

In 2007, Nithyananda was elected as Chairman of Florida-based Hindu University of America.[9]

Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a religious organisation founded by Nithyananda, hosts cultural events in United States as well as India.[10][1][11] They hold two Guinness world records, one for the largest rope yoga class[12] and one for the largest pole yoga (mallakhamba) class.[13]

In 2012, Nithyananda was recognized as one of the '100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People' by Watkins' Mind Body Spirit Magazine.[14]

In 2012, Nithyananda was appointed the 293rd pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam.[15][16][17]

In February 2013, the title of Mahamandaleshwar was conferred on Nithyananda in a closed ceremony by the Panchayati Mahanirvani Akhara.[18][19]

Teachings

Quotation
"I am not here to prove I am God. I am here to prove you are God. I am not here to prove my divinity. I am here to prove your divinity."
(more in Wikiquote)

Nithyananda's teachings are predominantly rooted in Vedas and Agamas. He says, "Vedas are like a pure science, where the ultimate truths are explained, but Agamas are the scriptures where the applied technology, the applied science is expanded."[20]

Pseudoscience and claims of paranormal abilities

Nithyananda has made several pseudoscientific claims, including that he delayed the sunrise for 40 minutes, that he could make cattle speak in Tamil and Sanskrit, and that he could disprove the correctness of the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2.[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]

He has claimed to have discovered over 400 siddhis, or paranormal abilities, expressible by humans and alleges having initiated his disciples into 60 such powers[28] including kundalini and third-eye awakening.[29][30][31] He has since asserted he would open the third eye, for anyone, free of charge by 2021, claiming that the person would be able to see through smog and walls.[32] Disciples of Nithyananda claim that he gave initiations through 'third eye' to a class of 82 blind children,[33] thus curing them of blindness. Professor and activist Narendra Nayak challenged Nithyananda to prove his claims.[34]

Nithyananda has also claimed that he and his followers were able to perform activities like extrasensory perception,[35][36][37] materialisation, body scanning,[30] increasing height[38] and remote viewing, and that they had the ability to find lost objects.[39]

Controversies and allegations

SunTV tape

In 2010, Sun TV telecast video recordings that claimed to show Nithyananda and an actress Ranjitha (who was one of his followers) in a bedroom. The story became viral among news media in Tamil Nadu.[40]

Nithyananda and Ranjitha claimed the video to be fabricated and accused Sun TV of extortion.[41] A Forensic Sciences Laboratory in Bengaluru confirmed that the video appeared to be that of Nithyananda and Ranjitha but did not discuss whether the tape was morphed.[42] Sun TV and other media channels since then were subject to various lawsuits and criminal investigations for blackmail using morphed content.[43][42][44][45]

Ranjitha filed a complaint with High Court of Karnataka against news channels.[46][47] Channels were ordered to apologize to Ranjitha upon acknowledging the content was morphed.[48][49][50][51][52][53]

Alleged rape

In 2010, a United States citizen who was a disciple of Nithyananda accused him of raping her in the US and in India for close to five years.[54] She filed a complaint with Ann Arbor, Michigan Police, and police didn't commence any formal investigation.[55] In turn Nithyananda sued her in US for defamation caused by her false rape accusation, for which she was penalized US$463,211.25 by a default judgement in 2014.[55][56] She also filed a complaint with the Karnataka Police in India.

On 19 February 2018, the Third Additional District and Sessions Court in Ramanagara ordered the framing of charges against Nithyananda and five others in relation to the case. Criminal revision petitions by the accused were dismissed in the Karnataka High Court on 16 May 2018.[57] An appeal against the High Court decision in the Supreme Court of India, in which all of the accused pleaded not guilty (except for one who was absent from court), was dismissed on 1 June 2018, following which charges were framed in the Ramanagara court on 4 June.[58][59]

Alleged abduction

In 2019, a couple from Tamil Nadu approached the High Court of Gujarat claiming that three of their four children were taken to Nithyananda's ashram in Ahmedabad from Bangalore without their knowledge, and sought custody of their children. A First Investigation Report for alleged abduction was filed by the Gujarat Police in relation to the case on 17 November 2019.[60][61][62] In affidavits filed in the Gujarat High Court from various locations in the Americas, two of the missing children, who were adults, rejected their father's claim that they have been detained forcibly.[63][64] In a joint live video statement, the two girls further claimed that their father had plotted the abduction controversy after his name cropped up in an embezzlement case.[65]

Flight from India

On 20 November 2019, the Gujarat Police claimed that Nithyananda fled India after choosing not to appear at several court hearings.[66] Some senior police officials did not discount the possibility of him still being in India.[67] In December 2019, Republic TV published a 742-page document, which it claimed was a petition by Nithyananda to the United Nations seeking refugee status on grounds of his persecution in India for spreading the Adi Shaivite tradition.[68][69] Nithyananda claimed attempts of mob lynching and assassination as reasons he was forced to withdraw himself from the Indian society in order to protect himself.[70][71][72]

The Gujarat Police alleged that he could be shuffling between Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago, while news reports said that he may have gone to Ecuador because the country does not have an extradition treaty with India.[73] The same month, the Embassy of Ecuador said that it “categorically denies the statement wherever published that Nithyananda was given asylum by Ecuador or has been helped by the Government of Ecuador in purchasing any land or island in South America” but has confirmed Nithyananda had reached Ecuador after he left India, then left soon after his request for international personal protection (refuge) was denied.[74]

Kailaasa island nation

In December 2019, Nithyananda declared that he had created a new "Hindu nation" called Kailaasa and claimed to issue passports, currency, and other documents.[75][76][77] In his announcement he said, "Kailaasa is a nation without borders created by dispossessed Hindus around the world who lost the right to practice Hinduism authentically in their own countries". Nithyananda claims that Kailasa is the world's only sovereign Hindu nation.[78] Kailaasa has also been described as a network of non-governmental organizations spanning three continents.[79][80]

In August 2020, Nithyananda launched the Reserve Bank of Kailaasa on Ganesha Chaturthi, and released its official gold currency, Kailashian dollars.[76] He said the design of the coins was inspired by the currency of "the ancient 56 Hindu nations".[81] He said that the bank would be structured on the lines of the Vatican Bank.[71][82][83][84][85][86]

In December 2020, Nithyananda announced that Kailaasa has now begun issuing special three-day visas for tourists.[87] According to his announcement, visa-holders will have to travel from Australia aboard a newly launched private chartered-flight service, Garuda, and all visitors will be provided with food and accommodation during the course of their stay.[87][88]

On 19 April 2021, in a presidential mandate, citing COVID-19 cases across the world, Nithyananda banned travel to Kailaasa from India, Brazil , the European Union, and Malaysia.[89][90][91]

On 3 June 2021, a bio terror attack complaint on Kailasa was reported.[92][clarification needed]

On 7 June 2021, media reported, while answering a disciple during a Amman reading, Nithyananda said that COVID would end when he is received in India with respect and performs pilgrimage to all Shakti Pitha. This led to wide speculation[weasel words] when he would come to destroy COVID from India.[93][94][95][96]

In June 2021, The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in its 79th session published a report by disciples of Nithyananda alleging persecution of his women disciples and nuns by state and non-state actors.[97][98][99]

Publications

  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2017). Nithyananda Yoga: Evolution of the New Species. Nithyananda University Press. ISBN 978-1-60607-194-6. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2014). Bhagavad Gita Decoded. Nithyananda University. ISBN 9781606071625. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2011). Guaranteed Solutions: Spirituality, Meditation & Self-Help. Life Bliss Foundation. ISBN 9781606070314. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2011). Bhagavad Gita Demystified. Nithyananda University. ISBN 978-1606071328. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2010). Inner Awakening. Nithyananda Yoga & Meditation University. ISBN 978-1606071298. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2009). Arunachala! The Giver of Nithyananda. Nithyananda Yoga & Meditation University. ISBN 978-1606070581. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2008). Living enlightenment. Life Bliss Foundation. ISBN 978-1606070482. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2008). Guaranteed Solutions for Lust, Fear, Worry .... Life Bliss Foundation. ISBN 978-1606070314. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2004). Meditation is for You: An Introduction to the Science and Art of Meditation. Life Bliss Foundation. ISBN 978-8190243742. 
  • Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2004). Open the door... let the breeze in!. Life Bliss Foundation. ISBN 978-8190243711. 

References

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  2. ↑ Raghunath, R. (22 November 2019). "All you want to know about Nithyananda". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/all-you-want-to-know-about-nithyananda/article30047542.ece. 
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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "'I am a virgin. I have no libido'". telegraphindia.com. https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/i-am-a-virgin-i-have-no-libido/cid/396940. 
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The Unexpurgated Nithyananda Interview". Outlook India Magazine. https://magazine.outlookindia.com/story/the-unexpurgated-nithyananda-interview/281409. 
  8. ↑ Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2006). His Name is Nithyananda (2nd ed.). Nithyananda Vedic Sciences University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-934364-30-7. 
  9. ↑ "Hindu University in US expands its Vedic base". rediff.com. https://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/20ia.htm. 
  10. ↑ "Mahaniravani akhara takes out grandest peshwai of all". Free Press Journal. 19 April 2016. http://www.freepressjournal.in/simhastha-kumbh-2016/mahaniravani-akhara-takes-out-grandest-peshwai-of-all/829254. "Followers of Swami Nithyananda from more than 25 countries including Russia, USA, China, Mexico, Germany, France and Spain were the crowd pullers" 
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  13. ↑ "Search: pole yoga". GuinnessWorldRecords.com. Jim Pattison Group. 2017. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fsearch%2fapplicationrecordsearch%3fterm%3dpole%2byoga%26contentType%3drecord&term=pole+yoga&contentType=record. "The largest mallakhamba lesson is of 263 participants and was achieved by H.H. Sri Nithyananda Swami (India) and Nithyananda University (USA) at Bengaluru, India, on 3 October 2017. Mallakhamba is a traditional Indian exercise form where yoga postures are done on a vertical wooden pole." 
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  21. ↑ "Swami Nithyananda: I can make cows speak in Tamil and Sanskrit". India Today. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/swami-nithyananda-says-can-make-cows-speak-tamil-1343545-2018-09-19. 
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  27. ↑ "Cows Will Talk in Tamil, Sanskrit, Self-styled Godman's Bizarre Claim". NDTV.com. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cows-will-talk-in-tamil-sanskrit-claims-self-styled-godman-nityananda-heres-how-1919137. 
  28. ↑ Saxena, Lalit (2016). "नित्यानंद बोले ड्रग, डिप्रेशन और डेथ से बचाएगा डिवाइन पॉवर" (in hi). Rajasthan Patrika / Patrika Ujjain. https://www.patrika.com/news/ujjain/kumbha-mela-nityananda-smiled-the-whole-time-utterly-unaffected-by-the-controversial-image-1280376. "मनुष्य में कोई 400 प्रकार की अद्भुत शक्तियां हैं। ध्यान, सिद्ध अद्वैत योग का अभ्यास उन शक्तियों को जाग्रत कर सकता है। यह वैदिक विज्ञान है। इसमें किसी तरह का जादू नहीं है। अभी हम यहां शिविर में 60 प्रकार की ऊर्जा के विकसित स्वरूप के दर्शन कर सकते हैं, शेष 340 भी कर सकते हैं [Humans have 400 extraordinary powers. By practice of Meditation (dhyan), Sidh Advaita Yoga these powers can be awakened. This is a vedic science. There is no kind of magic in this. Right now 60 kind of powers can be experienced here in an advanced stage, other 340 can also be experienced.]" 
  29. ↑ "नित्यानंद ने 70 लोगों को दी दीक्षा" (in hi). Dainik Jagran. https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/varanasi-city-14292578.html. "कल्पतरु दर्शन शिविर में शनिवार को योगाभ्यास, सत्संग व कीर्तन के साथ 70 लोगों को स्वामी नित्यानंद ने गुरुमंत्र की दीक्षा दी। इस दौरान स्वामी नित्यानंद गुरुकुल के बटुकों द्वारा त्रिनेत्र शक्ति का प्रदर्शन किया गया। [During Kalpataru darshan on saturday along with yoga practise, satsang and devotional songs, 70 people were initiated into Gurumantra by Nithyananda. At the same time, children of Swami Nithyananda's gurukul school demonstrated third eye powers.]" 
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 "कल्पतरु दर्शन शिविर में त्रिनेत्र शक्ति का प्रदर्शन" (in hi). Dainik Jagran. https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/varanasi-city-14287063.html. "नित्यानंद गुरुकुल के बच्चों द्वारा त्रिनेत्र शक्ति के तहत आखों पर पट्टी बाधकर पढ़ने और शरीर को स्कैन कर बीमारियों के बारे में बताते देख लोग आश्चर्यचकित रह गए [The children of the Nithyananda Gurukul with the power of the third eye read blindfolded and scanned the bodies of people and told about their diseases, experiencing this people were amazed.]" 
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