A couple of friendly interviews with friendly interviewers, and a couple of boilerplate statements, emerged from the self-proclaimed paramahamsa, Swami Nithyananda, after his videos rocketed to the top of YouTube for not quite the reasons he would have liked, before his final lawyer-dictated confession announcing “retirement”.
But what of the disciples, who had pledged their lives (and families and careers) in his service? What do they think of their guru being caught in such a compromising position? How do they face the ignominy of betrayal by one who was supposed to show them the path to true bliss but was himself tripped on the way to a lesser one?
This letter, written by a Nithyananda’s biographer, who was part of the inner circle, to other disciples with the invitation that it be disseminated to a wider audience, captures a hitherto unseen side of the story.
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Dear xxx
Nithyananda spoke to me some days after the March 2 exposure. He did not deny that what was portrayed in the so-called sex tapes was untrue.
He said he did not act out of lust and that he was passive.
He likened himself to Shiva drinking the hala hala, destroying the collective unconscious through tantric practices.
He said that other masters have done similar things.
What had I done wrong, he asked?
He did ask me to convey this to devotees. He apologised profusely and asked me if I had questions. At least at this point he was honest. The ashram is still in denial mode.
I had no questions though.
I had no questions because by then I had completely disengaged from Nithyananda as a master. But, I had no anger, hatred or vengence against the person who till a few days ago I considered my master and for whom I would have given my life willingly had the need arisen.
I felt liberated when I discarded the mala, bracelet and pictures. What, then, changed?
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The first qualification of a guru is satya, truth and honesty. I do not know about others, but Nithyananda had always told me and a close group in the early days how he was not a man or a woman, how he had no chakras below the anahata; how he was beyond sensory pleasures and that he was the quintessential brahmachari and sanyasi.
We believed him implicitly. I was 56 then, not a child. Of course, he also said at times that facts were not truth!
It turned out that he too was a man, given to sensory pleasures like the rest of us. Many of us put him on a pedestal and found him wanting. That was not his fault but ours. We were fools. But if he has indeed damaged the life of young men and women, then it is a different matter.
There is visual evidence that the sex acts were with sensory pleasure and with lust, evidence that these acts were not limited to Ranjitha alone but extending beyond to other men and women, and proof that ashramites/ brahmacharis/ brahmacharinis were expected to be part of tantric sex practises based on documents that they signed. These are facts and the truth shall sooner or later will come out, now that the CID chief has given his contact numbers inviting people to contact him.
Even with an ordinary man these would be serious charges meriting criminal investigation. In the case of a spiritual master these are unforgivable.
Someone [articulating similar views] has been accused of guru droha. Who is committing droha against whom? What is droha? Is not misleading thousands of innocent people seeking spiritual truth into a web of lies and sex not droha? Is responding to such immoral practises by disengaging from the so-called guru droha?
Some people seem to have perverted ideas of right and wrong, and karma. Can’t we stop to think that it is existential justice that these lies were exposed before it was too late. The sapta rishis from tapovan were watching for sure, but not smiling. If that is not karma, I don’t know what is.
For those not knowledgable, do understand that tantra was never part of the sanyasic parampara. It was called the vama marga or the left-hand path followed by aghoris who were antisocial homophobes. It is a crime to term oneself as a sanyasi and brahmachari and indulge in such acts calling them conveniently tantric practices.
There are 64 tantras and only one is on sex.
Shiva taught 112 sutras and only six are on sex. Those six were meant for grihastas not brahmacharis, as Nithyananda himself told me. So, even if one had to practise tantra why focus on sex? Especially when one claims he is impotent.
The biggest droha was committed by asmad acharya to the guru parampara starting from Sadashiva to Shankara. To say that Shankara, Ramana, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda also indulged in such acts is the biggest droha against gurus.
Who is committing guru droha?
If you want to bury your head like an ostrich and call someone who has committed both guru droha and shishya droha as your master, the karma will affect you, not others.
For those who revel in experiences of the ‘non-normal reality ‘ kind, Osho says in his book, “Don’t be fooled by experiences. All experiences are tricks of the mind. All experiences are mere escapes.”
Since 50% of what Nithyananda spoke is from Osho, he will surely agree with these words. In any case let peace and bliss be upon the world.
Nithyananda certainly had siddhis. He could do many seemingly miraculous things. But, so can thousands of others with siddhis. It is now known that he spent four years till 2000 in the Ramakrishna Ashram and not in parivrajaka as claimed.
So, the so-called ‘enlightenment’ experience perhaps was a tantric initiation from the aghori babas. Certainly not one that would allow anyone to declare himself a paramahamsa and initiate unsuspecting innocents into sanyas and brahmacharya.
As his biographer, people have accused me of lying on all these facts including the birth-date. I have to accept those accusations as I was foolish to believe, as I was equally foolish to teach over a thousand people in turn to believe.
I grew up with masters with ashta maha siddhis far more powerful than Nithyananda exhibited. They were grahastas and never claimed enlightenment. In fact Nithyananda accepted my previous master as an ashta maha siddha saying that he wasn’t sure if he was enlightened.
What an irony that his own enlightenment was so shortlived!
Making others believe in one to be enlightened is one of the ashta maha siddhis, not a sign of enlightenment. An enlightened master like Ramana never cared!
For many of us, it is time to turn inwards rather than depend on another person to guide us. The one thing I shall be grateful to Nithyananda always would be for turning me towards the atma guru and away from the form. This made the disengagement easier.
I do not care for the experinces I had with him. The teachings in any case were from the scriptures.
One eminent inner-circle man had told me a year ago that I could not be depended on and that is why I was not an insider and not invited to inner-circle meetings. My honesty, in their mind my foolishness, was unacceptable to the inner circle. I was truly blessed by Existence in keeping me away from such corrupting influence.
All of us who have now disengaged and left Nithyananda and his mission did so because we are honest. It is enough that we had thus far believed foolishly. We do not wish to lie to others as many others are still doing. That to my mind is atma guru droha, the worst crime of all, which some are engaging in still.
If anyone in the ashram disputes any of these points, evidence is at hand.
Those who wish to, may circulate this to a wider audience.
Cheers
RRA
Also read: Another good swami in the service of mankind
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Just one question I’m dying to ask Nithyananda
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More truth, according to little Nithyananda
Now a major video: My experiments with truth
‘Initiator’ Nithyananda seeks spiritual seclusion
I had no questions because by then i had completely disengaged from nithyananda as a master. But, I had no anger, hatred or vengence against the person who till a few days ago i considered my master and for whom i would have given my life willingly had the need arisen. I felt liberated when i discarded the mala, bracelet and pictures. What then changed?
The first qualification of a guru is satya, truth and honesty. i do not know about others, but nithyananda had always told me and a close group in the early days how he was not a man or a woman, how he had no chakras below the anahata, how he was beyond sensory pleasures and that he was the quintessential brahmachari and sanyasi. We believed him implicitly. I was 56 then, not a child. Of course, he also said at times that facts were not truth!
It turned out that he too was a man, given to sensory pleasures like the rest of us. Many of us put him on a pedestel and found him wanting. That was not his fault but ours. We were fools. But if he has indeed damaged the life of young men and women, then it is a different matter.
There is visual evidence that the sex acts were with sensory pleasure and with lust, evidence that these acts were not limited to ranjitha alone but extending beyond to other men and women, and proof that ashramites/ brahmacharis/ brahmacharinis were expected to be part of tantric sex practises based on documents that they signed. These are facts and the truth shall sooner or later will come out, now that the CID Chief has his given his contact numbers inviting people to contact him.
Even with an ordinary man these would be serious charges meriting criminal investigation. In the case of a spiritual master these are unforgivable.
Someone accused Veena of guru droha. Who is committing droha against whom? What is droha? Is not misleading thousands of innocent people seeking spiritual truth into a web of lies and sex not droha? is responding to such immoral practises by disengaging from the so called ‘guru’ droha?
Some people seem to have perverted ideas of right and wrong and karma. Can’t we stop to think that it is Existential justice that these lies were exposed before it was too late. The sapta rishis from Tapovan were watching for sure, but not smiling. If that is not karma , i don’t know what is.
For those not knowledgable, do understand that tantra was never part of the sanyasic parampara. It was called the vama marga or the left hand path followed by aghoris who were antisocial homophobes. It is a crime to term oneself as a sanyasi and brahmachari and indulge in such acts calling them conveniently tantric practices. There are 64 tantras and only one is on sex. Shiva taught 112 sutras and only 6 are on sex. Those six were meant for grihastas not brahmacharis, as nithyannada himslef told me. So, even if one had to practise tantra why focus on sex? Especially when one claims he is impotent.
the biggest droha was committed by asmad acharya to the guru parampara starting from sadashiva to shankara.
To say that Shankara, Ramana, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda also indulged in such acts is the biggest droha against gurus. Who is committing guru droha? If you want to bury your head like an ostrich and call someone who has committed both guru droha and shishya droha as your master, the karma will affect you not others. Veena, Rahi and i have more respect for Existence than all Bidadi ashramites put together.
For those who revel in experinces of the ‘non normal reality ‘ kind, Osho says in his book Meditation, ‘Don’t be fooled by experinces. All experiences are tricks of the mind. All experinces are mere escapes.’ Since 50% of what Nithyananda spoke is from Osho, he will surely agree with these words. In any case let peace and bliss be upon the world.
Nithyananda certainly had siddhis. He could do many seemingly miraculous things. But, so can thousands of others with siddhis. It is now known that he spent 4 years till 2000 in the Ramakrishna Ashram and not in parivrajaka as claimed. So, the so called ‘enlightenment’ experince perhaps was a tantric initiation from the aghori babas. Certainly not one that would allow anyone to declare himself a paramahamsa and initiate unsuspecting innocents into sanyas and brahmacharya.
As his biographer, people have accused me of lying on all these facts including the birth date. I have to accept those accusations as i was foolish to believe, as i was equally foolish to teach over a thousand people in turn to believe.
I grew up with masters with ashta maha siddhis far more powerful than nithyananda exhibited. They were grahastas and never claimed enlightenment. In fact nithyananda accepted my previous master as an ashta maha siddha saying that he wasn’t sure if he was enlightened. What an irony that his own enlightenment was so shortlived! Making others believe in one to be enlightened is one of the ashta maha siddhis, not a sign of enlightenment. An enlightened master like Ramana never cared!
For many of us it is time to turn inwards rather than depend on another person to guide us. The one thing i shall be grateful to nithyananda always would be for turning me towards the atma guru and away from the form. This made the disengagement easier. i do not care for the experinces i had with him. The teachings in any case were from the scriptures.
One eminent inner circle man had told me a year ago that i could not be depended on and that is why i was not an insider and not invited to inner circle meetings. My honesty, in their mind my foolishness, was unacceptable to the inner circle. I was truly blessed by Existence in keeping me away from such corrupting influence.
All of us who have now disengaged and left nithyananda and his mission did so because we are honest. It is enough that we had thus far believed foolishly. We do not wish to lie to others as many others are still doing. That to my mind is atma guru droha, the worst crime of all, which some are engaging in still. I would have normally kept silent but was proked by unwise responses to Veena.
If anyone in the ashram disputes any of these points in the mail, evidence is at hand.
Those who wish to, may circulate this to a wider audinece.
cheers ram
Hilarious stuff. This one is a gem:
“It was called the vama marga or the left-hand path followed by aghoris who were antisocial homophobes.”
Aghoris hated homosexuals?
This man may have turned away from his guru but he sure hasn’t stopped using mumbo-jumbo to create fantasy.
These sisyans would serve their cause better by keeping their mouths shut than opening it and making bigger asses of themselves.
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Nithyananda, it appears, was not even properly aware of ‘Tantra’ and tantric practices. The Aghories (followers of Shiva) have a set principle in their tantric practice. They shun those who violate those rigid principles as worthless human beings. Looks, Nithyananda wanted to imitate Osho on sex matters discarding spiritual aspects.
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Why are you folks hunting that park swamiji. He had sex with consent and he does not represent entire Hindu dharma ( in fact no body does )
What abt the bishop who molested 200 BLIND KIDS and is now in Vatican?? he represents entire Christianity he is no ‘park’ swamiji
Comparing ‘park’ swamiji to Great Shankara??? the karma will haunt you for such dirty thoughts crossed your mind
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hmmm.. interesting post but what are those evidence? The claims look just unsubstantiated claims by just one more person.. (in this case happens to be a the biographer, so what?)
i think there are thousands of rumors going around on this subject and now many of us have stopped believing news channels, blogs, internet and such so-called “inner-circle” emails also. Earlier there were rumors about some murder, which was proved to be wrong with medical reports. Then some rape charges, to which the victim is still not known..
i am neither a supporter of nithyananda nor do i hate him. it is his personal life.. but as responsible media, we should know our facts first and report. already the news and print media has done enough .. now it is turning out to be too boring and repetitive to even tell who is right and who is wrong.
i guess we just have to wait and watch but as a responsible blogger, we should not be posting unsubstantiated accounts like this. thanks anyways.
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Dear RRA
hiding behind the screen, writing the biography of someonelse is the easy task than bcoming osho & nithyananda.cofidentiality is the ethics that every doctor(a french word for someone who teaches how to heal & cure=guru) has to follow.doctors duty is to fulfill the need of his individual seekers if it is possible.seekers or patients come from the pool of general public which includes from wise to fools. wise to fools have various types of needs to be fulfilled.giving the medicine or boon bcomes the obligation of a position as a doctor or a guru or god.nithyananda has been trapped by his inner circle & external circle like u, lenin, & Mc Kerrle.Something like bheeshma & lord shiva experienced, same has happened with nithyananda.Neither jesus nor gauthama, nor shankaraacharya, nor vedavyasa or parashara could ever satisfy the athma guru drohies like u. the same athma is ranjitha, the same athma nithyananda, the same athma is Lord Krishna.whatever u have written is applicable to Lord shiva & akkamaha devi, lord krishna & meerabai as well.
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Yes, Swami Nithyananda has fallen badly as skeleton after skeleton tumbles out. He was not the enlightened master he pretended to be.
We have given a lot of print and media space to the Swami’s antics and clearly there are vested interests who are dropping news bytes to keep the interest alive. Which is fine. So long as the truth comes out !!!
This proactive approach is visible while targetting Hindu monks, what of the indifferent silence vis a vis the allegations against Christian priests of child abuse/sexual misdemeanour. The latter has been a burning issue for quite a while, with critics alleging the present Pope also to be part of the Vatican cover up. Double Standards ? or secularism ?
The question is the balance is news coverage. Its easy to get agitated and morally tough while dealing with Hindu monks, (possibly comes naturally to us) whereas the same yardstick is never applied while dealing with muslim or christian religious figures. Maybe they are above mortal scrutiny.
Usha
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Just awesome, best thing you could do to redeem yourself.
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@Usha
You are absolutely right. Forget about vatican (http://trueslant.com/davidknowles/2010/03/28/should-the-pope-be-arrested/) or for that matter, kerala, I did not see coverage of rai barailey (sp?) and hyderabad riots except as a side item in most 24*7 news channels and blogs. I live in Kanpur and yet was totally unaware of the rai bareily thing. In fact, sania’s marriage news got more coverage than hyde riots !
The point is to be balanced. No doubt Nityananda types should be exposed… but at the same time, crooks and criminals of other religion should also be exposed..
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Dear Biographer,
Your English is as bad as mine! It lacks flow, proper vocabularies and punctuations. If Nithyananda has appointed you as his biographer, then I agree he has done a Big mistake! Plz dont make up stories!
I know you will say….” I wrote his biography in Tamil”
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One eminent inner-circle man had told me a year ago that I could not be depended on and that is why I was not an insider and not invited to inner-circle meetings. My honesty, in their mind my foolishness, was unacceptable to the inner circle. I was truly blessed by Existence in keeping me away from such corrupting influence.
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If you are not part of inner circle and if they felt you are not worth to be depended upon, then why did nithyananda called you and told you this? Plz dont make up stories!
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Dear RRA,
You need to come out and tell about this in media about the fake man in view of the benefit of the people. It will not reach many just thro the blog. I am also concerned that you may in trouble if you come and say openly. But you can approach the CID department. Please do this for the well being of many of our people fallen into this.
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What Aghoris find homosexuals unpalatable? :D
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Please understand it is not possible to judge an enlightened being. See how Parasurama, Balarama , Rama , Sreekrishna differs. Vyasa, Viswamthra and Durvasavu differs. By judging anything we are confining ourselves. Possibilities are many. So be silent
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Seems like another hoax. Where is the proof that you are Nithyananda’s biographer? Just because you say so? What if you are an enemy of Hindu culture or particularly Nithyananda’s? (May be his old jealous friend??)
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All I have to say about this cheat is that, why did not anybody suspect or doubt his credentials when he called himself ” Paramhansa ” ?
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The latest in the scandal…Nits has decided to marry Ranjitha and make it official…so all those people who are breast beating about this issue can rest for a while now…and after that concentrate on exposing Ratzy and his Catholic church padres for violating the altar boys for so many years
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@ Rajesh, “Please understand it is not possible to judge an enlightened being”
Yes, this is true. But since in this case we are NOT dealing with an enlightened being, we will do best to follow our common sense and extricate ourselves from situations that could become harmful. In any case, anyone who urges me to put their image or their presence above the intelligence of my own higher self is not to be trusted.
Thank you, “Churumuri”, for your candid post.
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Video of a monk once caught bonking
Went up soon on YouTube ranking
Wtf, It’s my piddle in the middle,
He said: can’t I solve a tantrik riddle.
The nation soon learned spiritual wanking.
More on Guru tantra here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktananda
http://www.leavingsiddhayoga.net/secret.htm
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“dear xxx”… hilarious.
“He did not deny that what was portrayed in the so-called sex tapes was untrue.” huh??
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Nithyananda had a consensual sex which is not a crime. The Pope who is responsible for all allowing paedopihiles in Catholic Church is a criminal. You are better off fighting for those innocent kids rather than putting exotic stories in your blog.
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New video by Nithy here:
Now he comes clean about his days at Ramakrishna mission and other monasteries.
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I got healed by ur EX-guru for my lifelong disease and talking on behalf of him as a gratitude towards his healing.
Mr biographer, i dont know if you are an Idiot or an intellectual guy.
Dont u think that u r a loser in any case, What are u getting by giving such of kind comments, do u think u r serving the society ??Instead of wasting ur time here, better go to kasi and enjoy ur retirement period peacefully.
Seems u r such an arrogant and egoistic person, otherwise u wont be to come to the situation to judge ur own guru.
Whatever i know abt ur Ex-guru is that, he has contributed so much to society and so much of people have been healed by him, that is true and no one can deny that, even by you..
Just becoz of ur own arrogance u started to frame him in his own view and spreading ur own disinterest to the people to believe and its really guru droha. U WILL SURELY FEEL FOR IT ONE DAY!!!
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People, use your intelligence. No matter what is claimed, Nithy is still a man, with a physical body. If you worship him as a god and believe every word he utters is the gospel truth, you deserve what you get. Where is your intelligence and critical reasoning?
You can even learn from a thief, a criminal or mass murderer, with viveka (discrimination) and vairagya (detachment). I’ve seen a few of his videos and those little tidbits have helped me now and then. For that I am thankful, but I move on and don’t cling to him or his personality or his cult of followers.
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“I felt liberated when I discarded the mala, bracelet and pictures.”
“……… for turning me towards the atma guru and away from the form.”
the only Truth for You – stay with the second statement and throw away the rest!
With love
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Trust your own conscience and experience. Nithyananda was in California and I had chance to meet him. I am not a devotee but in 40 years of my life, having attended hundreds of spiritual lectures, I have rarely met someone as radiant and peaceful as him. I have personally heard the same from at least a dozen other people who have transformed their lives because of his message.
So whether the media campaign has fact or not does not matter to me since it’s as insiginificant like him hurting an ant by mistake and media projecting it that he kills animals regularly which is against the books of Hindu relgions.. What a joke!
For people who say he gave to sensual experiences even when he was sanyasi or brahmachari are people who follow religion by the book and not by their own thinking and concience. Infact, they go home and pray to Krisha who had Raasa with thousand of wives!!! These people will get nowhere for many ages to come.
Sitting outside India, this whole drama proves me only one thing. That Indian Media has become like a wild elephant on the loose.
Interestingly, I found some support to my thinking here:
http://nithyananda-satya.org/index.php
In a land blessed by the birth of greatest people humanity has ever known (Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Gandhi,……), these reporters and TV channels seem to have lost view of their enormous history and their moral obligations to the society in trying to boost their viewer ratings, entertainment, sensationalism and pure business.
These tactics have been part of the culture of the West, now in India. What a joke. Welcome to the new world order. No wonder you don’t see any World famous spiritual leaders coming out of the West. Because they all are ready to pull each other down by proving them wrong somehow and by highlighting their “human” qualities!! Even Buddha himself had flaws for most part of his lfe. But most modern people don’t know that and put him in highest of regards.
What you have to really understand here is to just CONNECT THE DOTS of timeline and look BEHIND the news at the massive pre-planned attack by other larger established religions who see him as a huge threat and by people who don’t understand his message.
To add to this, we are among topmost corrupt coutries in the world. So you can easily understand how “free” our press is.
Look behind the news and hype. Looks at his youtube discourses and lectures all over the world. Trust your own experiences only.
I wish good luck and peace to you all.
April 25, 2010
PeaceForever
California, USA
(PS: I have withheld my real name to avoid further sensationalism the media can get out of me. Treat this post as an anonymous donation. )
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