The story became viral among news media in Tamil Nadu. 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. Nithyananda has also claimed that he and his followers were able to perform activities like extrasensory perception, materialisation, body scanning, increasing height, and remote viewing, and that they had the ability to find lost objects. Skeptic Narendra Nayak challenged Nithyananda to prove his claims. Disciples of Nithyananda claim that he gave initiations through "third eye" to a class of 82 blind children, thus curing them of blindness. 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. 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 including kundalini and third-eye awakening. 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. Nithyananda has given discourses on various scriptures like Brahma Sutras, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Shiva Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. They hold two Guinness World Records: one for the largest rope yoga class, and one for the largest pole yoga ( mallakhamba) class. Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a religious organisation founded by Nithyananda, hosts cultural events in United States as well as India. Conferred as Mahamandaleshwar at Kumbh Mela 2013 In February 2013, the title of Mahamandaleshwar was conferred on Nithyananda in a closed ceremony by the Panchayati Mahanirvani Akhara. Also in 2012, Nithyananda was appointed the 293rd pontiff of Madurai Adheenam. In 2012, Nithyananda was recognized as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People" by Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine. Nithyananda was formerly a chairman of Florida-based Hindu University of America. In 2003, he started his ashram Dhyanapeetam in Bidadi near Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He says that this name was given to him by Mahavatar Babaji in a mystical experience during his monastic wandering days in the Himalayas. In 2002 (age 24), he began his public life under the name Nithyananda. He claims to have had powerful spiritual experiences from age 12 and to have experienced full enlightenment at 22. He was first noticed at the age of three by Yogiraj Yogananda Puri. 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. He belongs to the Saiva Vellala community. Nithyananda was born Arunachalam Rajasekaran in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki. In 2020, he announced the founding of his own self-proclaimed island nation called Kailaasa. He is subject of a court-issued non-bailable warrant relating to the allegations. He is the founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a trust that owns temples, gurukulas, and ashrams in many countries.įollowing the charges of rape and abduction filed in Indian courts, he fled India and has remained in hiding since 2019. Nithyananda (born Arunachalam Rajasekaran 1 January 1978), known among followers as Nithyananda Paramashivam or Paramahamsa Nithyananda, is an Indian Hindu guru, " godman", and cult leader.
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