Introduction
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Cultural heritage of India is an extraordinary legacy of temple and temple monastery traditions – from which flourished several thousands of distinct and unique cultures, communities and rich city settlements that make it the most ancient, most alive and celebrating “living” tradition on the planet. Upholders of the temple traditions are the Hindu temple monastery complexes called ‘Aadheenams”, which have been led and administered by the spiritual inheritors named “Muttadhipati - the pontiffs” in lineage succession.
In the last few centuries, systematic barbarous acts of cultural genocide were executed by foreign invaders and by native extremist forces to exterminate the temple-based traditions and its religious communities, along with destruction of the great Hindu education system called “Gurukul (literally meaning the school lineage of spiritual master”.
- Cultural heritages were being encroached, plundered, and destroyed.
- Spiritual lineages and traditions were being mutilated or diluted only to survive as the spiritual leaders (pontiffs) faced the frontline of Hindu extremist forces.
An uncompromising spiritual leader, rooted in and standing for the original source of pure spiritual traditions was the real need for protecting and upholding the true Hindu culture and heritage. His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda, as the monastically trained spiritual successor of the Hindu minority sect “Adi Shaiva” was making significant contributions in reviving and preserving the temple traditions and the communities (Aadheenams). In addition, He has been preserving, reviving, spreading and teaching the ancient knowledge systems from the source Hindu scriptures (the Vedagamas) and rapidly growing the lineage of trained life-dedicated disciples and child saints.