Gurumurthy blackmails His Divine Holiness to step down🔗

March 23, 2010 : When the planned attack on His Divine Holiness happened in 2010, Gurumurthy forced His Divine Holiness to give up His spiritual head position, His peetha - Ruling Seat. His peetha was not that of a traditional inherited mutt, but one that was established by Him upon years of untiring service to humanity.

Below is the exchange of mails between Gurumurthy and His Divine Holiness’s secretary.

From: S Gurumurthy [email protected] Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM Subject: Re: OK. will copy the 2 also. To: Gopal Sheelum [email protected], Rajiv Malhotra [email protected], [email protected], Guru Landlines Res/Off [email protected]

Sorry there is a typo in my mail. It must read In my view the idea of retirement is to appeal to the government to take a lenient view. The idea of litigation is to force the government to take a strict view. In my mail instead of strict it reads lenient.

Regds SG Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -------------------------------------------------- From: Gopal Sheelum [email protected] Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:14:24 -0700 To: [email protected]; Rajiv [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: OK. will copy the 2 also.

Surely Gurumurthy ji, I will copy Rajiv ji and Shinde ji. The hearing is scheduled for 11 am, in couple of hours. I will share the observations from there as soon as I get them.

Thank you. Nithya Bhaktananda -------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:10:52 +0530 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re:

With respect I differ from the legal advice. This force the Karnataka government which is dormant today to take active position. This will bring in the strict police view, and exclude the flexible political view. Mahesh Jethmalani is stunned t his advice being ignored. It is a great risk. But .... now that it has been taken, one needs to see how it can match with retirement idea. In my view the idea of retirement is to appeal to the government to take a lenient view. The idea of litigation is to force the government to take a lenient view. If someone were to talk to the government, it will now say that the matters are in court and it can do nothing on its own. What is going to be your answer? Bhaktananda please copy these messages to Manoharji and Rajivji and not to me only. It is they who sought my help.

SG

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:01:56 +0530 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

I saw a news item in TV that Nithyananda has moved the HC of Karnataka to quash all cases against him. If it were true, I see a huge risk in this. It is a very wrong move, strategically and even legally. It is impossible some court would grant relief. Even if some favourable order is obtained by hook or crook, the SC will quash the order as the law is clear that the police cannot refuse to investigate an offence of which complaint has been made. Strategically, this is an ill advised move as it invites the Karnataka government to take a stand against Nithyananda which they have to under the law to say that they have a right to investigate which no court can deny. So a neutral Karnataka Government may be forced into taking a hostile stand as the government cannot take one stand in this case, namely that, complaint need not be investigated by police and other cases take the very opposite of that stand! Surprised as to who could have advised so casually, I checked up with Mahesh Jethmalani, who told me that he has categorically ruled out moving the court. I think with this the possibility of the Karnataka government taking reasonable stand is almost lost. I cannot think of a more ill-advised move. I have also not heard since morning about the statement of retirement. The quash petition and the retirement into seclusion do not match. Is anyone thinking comprehensively about all this? Or are decisions being taken on adhoc basis?

SG

Statement of Nithyananda

In view of the developments in the last three weeks following the media reports on me as the head of Dhyanapeetam, I had met some of the leading Acharyas of Hindu Dharma at Hardwar.

Briefing them about what is fact and what is fiction and candidly disclosing what had happened, I had sought their spiritual and moral guidance for me, and their views on the future course of Dhyanapeetam. I had also undertaken that I would act entirely in accordance with their counsel.

I have decided to live a life of Spiritual seclusion, for some indefinite time, to which the acharyas have agreed in principle.

In view of this, and to enable the Dhyanapeetam to function with such amended agenda as may be necessary, I am resigning as the head of the Dhyanapeetam and from all the trusts associated with it. A board of trustees consisting from sadhakas of the Dhyanapeetam who are non-controversial, will henceforth manage the Dhyanapeetam. I have also requested the Acharyas to help the newly constituted trust reorient the activities of the Dhyanapeetam increasingly to undertake spiritually oriented service activities and to guide the trustees. I have also directed the new trustees of Dhyanapeetam to seek the counsel and go by the advice of the Acharyas.

I sincerely thank all those who I had the good fortune of being associated with and guiding in the last decade and more. I request them to pursue the Sadhana they had been initiated into, for, the Sadhana is more important than the Initiator. The recent media reports do not in any way affect the validity or the success of one's Sadhana. I do not know whether I will ever return to meet them. But if I ever did that, I will talk about all that had happened as an independent witness to my conduct with a clean heart and pure soul and also in a less prejudiced atmosphere.

The Step down letter that Gurumurthy forced His Divine Holiness to release

Gurumurthy forced His Divine Holiness to attest and release a step-down letter, to meet the malicious vested interests of the Hindu extremist forces. It was shocking to see the true face of Gurumurthy. His Divine Holiness' assistant was still recovering from seeing his guru almost killed, especially when He had been warned of Gurumurthy's real face by renowned spiritual head Dayananda Saraswati.