Hindu religious figure
Nithyananda
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Born
| Arunachalam Rajasekaran
(
1978-01-01
)
1 January 1978
(age 46)
[1]
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Religion
| Hinduism
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Founder of
| Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
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Philosophy
| Advaita Vedanta
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Nithyananda
(born
Arunachalam Rajasekaran
;
[a]
1 January 1978), known among followers as
Nithyananda Paramashivam
or
Paramahamsa Nithyananda
, is an Indian
Hindu
guru
and often called a "
godman
"
[2]
(a charismatic religious figure who claims to perform the miraculous). He is the founder of
Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
, a
trust
that owns
temples
,
gurukulas
, and
ashrams
in many countries. A number of mainstream news outlets, inside and outside India,
[3]
[2]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
and a
TV documentary
series on
Disney+
[10]
have referred to the organisation as a
cult
, its leader as a
conman
,
[11]
[4]
[12]
and his
micronation
of Kailaasa a
scam
;
[3]
[12]
his organization has denied any wrongdoing.
[12]
Following charges of rape and abduction filed in Indian courts, Nithyananda fled India and has remained in hiding since 2019, and his whereabout are unknown as of 2023
[update]
[13]
He is the subject of a court-issued non-
bailable
warrant
relating to the allegations.
[14]
[15]
Nithyanada also wanted since 2019 for unrelated
fraud
charges in France.
[16]
In 2020, he announced the founding of his own self-proclaimed island nation called Kailaasa,
[17]
[18]
though some evidence suggests he had been promoting the idea for around 20 years.
[3]
Early life
Nithyananda was born Arunachalam Rajasekaran
[19]
[20]
in
Tiruvannamalai
,
Tamil Nadu
, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki. He belongs to the
Saiva Vellala
community.
[21]
[20]
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.
[20]
Nithyananda at various ages
He was first noticed at the age of three by Yogiraj Yogananda Puri.
[21]
[22]
He claims to have had powerful spiritual experiences from age 12 and to have experienced full enlightenment at 22.
[23]
In 2002 (age 24), he began his public life under the name Nithyananda.
[24]
He says that this name was given to him by
Mahavatar Babaji
in a mystical experience during his monastic wandering days in the Himalayas.
[24]
[25]
In 2003, he started his ashram Dhyanapeetam in
Bidadi
near
Bangalore, Karnataka
.
[21]
Recognition
Nithyananda was formerly a chairman of Florida-based
Hindu University of America
.
[26]
In 2012, Nithyananda was recognized as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People" by
Watkins' Mind Body Spirit
magazine.
[27]
Also in 2012, Nithyananda was appointed the 293rd
pontiff
of
Madurai Adheenam
.
[28]
[29]
[
disputed
–
discuss
]
In February 2013, the title of
Mahamandaleshwar
was conferred on Nithyananda in a closed ceremony by the
Panchayati Mahanirvani Akhara
.
[30]
[31]
Conferred as Mahamandaleshwar at
Kumbh Mela
, 2013
Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a religious organisation founded by Nithyananda, hosts cultural events in United States as well as India.
[19]
[32]
[1]
[33]
They hold two
Guinness World Records
: one for the largest rope yoga class,
[34]
and one for the largest pole yoga (
mallakhamba
) class.
[35]
[19]
Teachings
Nithyananda has given discourses on various scriptures like
Brahma Sutras
,
Patanjali
’s
Yoga Sutras
,
Shiva Sutras
and the
Bhagavad Gita
.
[36]
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 = mc
2
.
[37]
[38]
[39]
[40]
[41]
[42]
[43]
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
[44]
including
kundalini
and
third-eye
awakening.
[45]
[46]
[47]
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.
[48]
Disciples of Nithyananda claim that he gave
initiations
through "third eye" to a class of 82 blind children,
[49]
thus curing them of blindness. Skeptic
Narendra Nayak
challenged Nithyananda to prove his claims.
[50]
Nithyananda has also claimed that he and his followers were able to perform activities like
extrasensory perception
,
[51]
[52]
[53]
materialisation
,
body scanning
,
[46]
increasing height,
[54]
and
remote viewing
, and that they had the ability to find lost objects.
[55]
Nithananda has also claimed to be a human
avatar
of the Hindu divinity
Paramashiva
[7]
(the meaning of his epithet
Nithyananda Paramashivam
).
Controversies
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.
[56]
Nithyananda and Ranjitha claimed the video to be fabricated and accused Sun TV of extortion.
[57]
A forensic sciences laboratory in Bengaluru confirmed that the video appeared to be that of Nithyananda and Ranjitha.
[58]
Sun TV and other media channels since then were subject to various lawsuits.
[59]
[58]
[60]
[61]
Ranjitha filed a complaint with the High Court of Karnataka against news channels.
[62]
[63]
Channels were ordered to apologize to Ranjitha for violating the complainant’s privacy and dignity.
[64]
[65]
[66]
[67]
[68]
[69]
In 2010, a
United States
citizen who was a disciple of Nithyananda accused him of raping her in the US and in India repeatedly over the course of five years.
[70]
She filed a complaint with the police department of
Ann Arbor, Michigan
, who did not commence any formal investigation.
[71]
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.
[72]
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.
[73]
[74]
In August 2022, the Third Additional District and Sessions Court in Ramanagara issued a non-bailable warrant against Nithyananda following multiple orders to appear in court.
[14]
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; the couple sought return of their children to their custody. A
first information report
(FIR) for alleged abduction was filed by the
Gujarat Police
in relation to the case on 17 November 2019.
[75]
[76]
[77]
In affidavits filed in the Gujarat High Court from various locations in
the Americas
, two of the missing children, who were by that time adults, rejected their father's claim that they have been detained forcibly.
[78]
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.
[79]
[
better source needed
]
On 2 February, 2024, the High Court of Gujrat dismissed the
habeas corpus
filed by the daughter's father. The court reached this conclusion after interviewing the daughters via video conference. The court noted that the daughters are adults and mature and are consciously residing at a place (
Jamaica
) and following a spiritual path.
[80]
[81]
Nithyananda was the subject of the 2022
Discovery+
docu-series
My Daughter Joined a Cult
, streamed internationally.
[10]
[82]
Flight from India
On 20 November 2019, the
Gujarat Police
issued a statement that Nithyananda fled India after choosing not to appear at several court hearings.
[17]
Some senior police officials did not discount the possibility that he was still in India.
[83]
Nithyananda wrote to the
United Nations
in 2021, claiming
persecution
and seeking recogition of his new "Hindu nation" Kailaasa.
[84]
He also claimed attempts at mob lynching and assassination as reasons he was forced to withdraw himself from Indian society.
[85]
[86]
[87]
The Gujarat Police suspected 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.
[88]
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.
[89]
The French government also has been seeking Nithyananda's whereabouts since 2019, to answer for fraud charges brought by a former devotee in France who claimed he was cheated by the guru out of an amount around
US$
400,000.
[16]
Kailaasa nation
In December 2019, Nithyananda claimed that he had created a new "Hindu nation"
microstate
called
Kailaasa
(also known as Shrikailasa, Kailasa, and United States of Kailaasa
[13]
or USK
[90]
) and claimed to issue passports, currency, and other documents.
[91]
[92]
[93]
[94]
Nithyananda claims that Kailaasa is the world's only
sovereign
Hindu nation.
[95]
Kailaasa has also been described as a network of
non-governmental organisations
spanning three continents.
[96]
[97]
The general consensus among the mainstream press is that Kailaasa is a fictional "fake country" and even a scam or con.
[13]
[90]
[12]
[11]
[98]
[6]
[9]
[99]
Publications
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2004).
Open the door... let the breeze in!
. Life Bliss Foundation.
ISBN
978-8190243711
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2004).
Meditation is for You: An Introduction to the Science and Art of Meditation
. Life Bliss Foundation.
ISBN
978-8190243742
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2008).
Guaranteed Solutions for Lust, Fear, Worry ..
. Life Bliss Foundation.
ISBN
978-1606070314
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2008).
Living Enlightenment
. Life Bliss Foundation.
ISBN
978-1606070482
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2009).
Arunachala! The Giver of Nithyananda
. Nithyananda Yoga & Meditation University.
ISBN
978-1606070581
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2011).
Bhagavad Gita Demystified
. Nithyananda University.
ISBN
978-1606071328
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2011).
Guaranteed Solutions: Spirituality, Meditation & Self-Help
. Life Bliss Foundation.
ISBN
9781606070314
.
- Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2017).
Nithyananda Yoga: Evolution of the New Species
. Nithyananda University Press.
ISBN
978-1-60607-194-6
.
Notes
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a
b
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.
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. Retrieved
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2022
.
- ^
"Karnataka: Court issues non-bailable warrant against Nithyananda"
.
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. Retrieved
20 August
2022
.
- ^
a
b
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"Now, French govt launches fraud investigation against rape-accused Nithyananda"
.
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a
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.
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21 August
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.
- ^
Kumar, Ankit (21 August 2020).
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.
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a
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.
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a
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.
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Archived
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. Retrieved
18 July
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.
- ^
a
b
c
"
'I am a virgin. I have no libido'
"
.
The Telegraph
. West Bengal
. Retrieved
27 December
2020
.
- ^
"On the run, Swami Nityananda arrested near Shimla hill station"
.
India Today
. 21 April 2010.
- ^
Dale, Edward (2011).
"Evolutionary Developmental Biology, the Human Life Course, and Transpersonal Experience"
.
The Journal of Mind and Behavior
.
32
(4): 280.
ISSN
0271-0137
.
JSTOR
43854311
.
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a
b
"The Unexpurgated Nithyananda Interview"
.
Outlook
. New Delhi
. Retrieved
12 August
2021
.
(subscription required)
- ^
Nithyananda, Paramahamsa (2006).
His Name is Nithyananda
(2nd ed.). Nithyananda Vedic Sciences University Press. p. 6.
ISBN
978-1-934364-30-7
.
- ^
"Hindu University in US expands its Vedic base"
.
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. Retrieved
27 December
2020
.
- ^
"Watkins' Spiritual 100 List for 2012"
.
Watkins Magazine
. 12 February 2012
. Retrieved
16 July
2020
.
- ^
"Nithyananda declared 293rd pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam | Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam | Bidadi"
. 27 April 2012.
- ^
"Nithyananda 293rd pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam"
. 28 April 2012.
- ^
Pandey, Sanjay (13 February 2013).
"Nithyananda feted at Mahakumbh"
.
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. Retrieved
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2013
.
- ^
"Nithyananda conferred 'Mahamandaleshwar' title"
. Press Trust of India (PTI). 14 February 2013
. Retrieved
9 October
2017
– via Rediff.com.
- ^
"Mahaniravani akhara takes out grandest peshwai of all"
.
The Free Press Journal
. 19 April 2016. Archived from
the original
on 21 June 2018
. Retrieved
26 October
2017
.
Followers of Swami Nithyananda from more than 25 countries including Russia, USA, China, Mexico, Germany, France and Spain were the crowd pullers
- ^
Rohit, Parimal M.
"Temples Come Together to Celebrate 'Kumbh Mela USA'
"
.
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. Retrieved
18 July
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.
- ^
"Search: rope yoga"
.
GuinnessWorldRecords
.com
.
Jim Pattison Group
. 2017
. Retrieved
23 November
2017
.
The largest rope yoga lesson is of 272 participants and was organized by H.H. Sri Nithyananda Swami (India) and Nithyananda University (USA) in Bengaluru, India, on 30 September 2017. Rope yoga involves completing postures on a rope suspended from the ceiling. It was performed by disciples of Swami Nithyananda at their ashram outside Bengaluru, India.
- ^
"Search: pole yoga"
.
GuinnessWorldRecords
.com
. Jim Pattison Group. 2017
. Retrieved
11 November
2017
.
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.
- ^
"
'I am a virgin. I have no libido'
"
.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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.
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"Nithyananda delivers a brain freeze"
.
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.
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'E ≠ mc^2': Controversial 'Godman' Tries to Explain How Albert Einstein Got His Science Wrong, Fails"
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"????????? ???? ????, ???????? ?? ??? ?? ?????? ?????? ????"
[Nityananda to Save from Drugs, Depression and Death with Divine Power].
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.
?????? ??? ??? 400 ?????? ?? ?????? ???????? ???? ?????, ????? ?????? ??? ?? ?????? ?? ???????? ?? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ?? ???? ???? ??? ??? ?? ???? ????? ??? 60 ?????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ?????? ?? ????? ?? ???? ???, ??? 340 ?? ?? ???? ???
[There are about 400 types of amazing powers in humans. Meditation, practice of Siddha Advaita Yoga can awaken those powers. This is Vedic science. There is no magic in this. Right now we can see the developed form of 60 types of energy here in the camp, the remaining 340 can also be seen]
- ^
"????????? ?? 70 ????? ?? ?? ??????"
[Nithyananda initiated 70 people].
Dainik Jagran
(in Hindi)
. Retrieved
7 April
2018
.
??????? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ?????????, ?????? ? ?????? ?? ??? 70 ????? ?? ?????? ????????? ?? ????????? ?? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ????????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????? ????????? ????? ?? ???????? ???? ????
[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.]
- ^
a
b
"??????? ????? ????? ??? ????????? ????? ?? ????????"
[Third Eye power demonstration during Kalpataru Darshan].
Dainik Jagran
(in Hindi)
. Retrieved
7 April
2018
.
????????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????? ????????? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?? ????? ????? ????? ?? ???? ?? ????? ?? ????????? ?? ???? ??? ????? ??? ??? ??????????? ?? ??
[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.]
- ^
"Nithyananda will do Kundalini Awakening and Third Eye Awakening"
. Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam. 20 April 2016
. Retrieved
6 October
2017
– via
Rajasthan Patrika
/ Patrika Ujjain.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda is believed to be accomplished in many extraordinary spiritual powers. Swami-ji is specialized in the science of kundalini awakening, and science of third eye awakening.
[
self-published source
]
- ^
"Swami Nithyananda will find you and open your third eye in 2021"
.
India Today
. IST
. Retrieved
21 August
2019
.
- ^
"Swami Nithyananda assures No More Blinds!"
.
Afternoon Voice
. 24 January 2019.
According to the disciples of the self-styled Godman HDH Nithyananda Paramashivam on January 23, he initiated into powers of the third eye to 82 students afflicted by varying stages of blindness at a blind school in Vastrapur area of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, claiming there will be No More Blind kids! As per the Nithyananda Hindu University, "Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam" initiated powers of the third eye to the blind children enabling them to read print material with consistency and stability while recognising shapes, pictures, objects, and colours for the first time in their lives.
- ^
"Nityananda's disciple 'curses' Narendra Nayak"
.
The New Indian Express
. 6 December 2017
. Retrieved
21 August
2019
.
- ^
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.
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6 October
2017
.
- ^
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.
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. Retrieved
6 October
2017
.
- ^
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.
India Herald
. Retrieved
1 October
2017
.
- ^
"?????? ??? ?? ???? ????- ????????? ?? ???????? ?? ??? ??? ??? ?? ?????"
[Amitabha Shah claimed - by the blessings of Nithyananda 3 inch height increased].
Navbharat Times
(in Hindi)
. Retrieved
10 July
2021
.
- ^
"???? ???? ?? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ???"
[After Gurupuja there were meetings].
Dainik Jagran
. 3 April 2018. Archived from
the original
on 8 April 2018
. Retrieved
7 April
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[Nithya Tatvananda and Premeshavrupananda who received extraordinary knowledge in Swami Nithyananda ashram in Bengaluru, along with their guru brother Vidveshvarananda and Aatmapujananda went to Gorakhnaath temple this Monday to meet with the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.]
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