On the way back to the monastery - Paparazzi Car Chase - 3
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Rishi Nithya Advaitananda recalls, "The drive back was a nightmare that we will never forget. The media-assassins hounded the ambulance right up to the monastery gates. We felt the murderous Paparazzi would even kill to film. Media vans and bikes tried to tightly tail and surround the ambulance from all sides. We were desperately trying to keep closely hooked to the ambulance." All traffic laws were broken. The cameras became intrusive weapons of assault. The media turned to mob assassins. The convoy of media vehicles were packed with OB (Outside broadcast) vans, cars and bikes flooding the highway.
The media bikers drove savagely, cutting in between the ambulance and us, as they vied with each other for better and better footage of the ambulance. They pushed themselves out of their moving vehicles, reached out to the moving ambulance windows, and filmed Swamiji inside of the moving ambulance! We were stunned at the desperation and vengefulness.
Somehow we reached the Aadheenam. We were so relieved to approach the Aadheenam gates. But the next scene we saw was a media war scene at the gates, with scores of media vehicles parked with flashing lights and a furious mob wanting to be let inside. Cameramen were blasting the residents. It was a nightmare challenge to safely roll the ambulance in. If the gates opened, the mob was threatening to enter. More residents reinforced the gates and managed to push back the mob and allow the ambulance in, locking the gates instantly.
The vehicles following were trapped outside the gates amidst the irate mob that took its fury on one of the disciples, Sri Nithya Mokshapriyananda. He was locked in his car, and the media-mob thrashed the car from all sides with big stones. He barely saved his life. And all this happened, as the police watched silently.
The 'Media Paparazzi' attacking the Aadheenam gates following the vehicle of His Divine Holiness and rapping all the vehicles. For them, just breaking the car from all sides and physically assaulting them was not enough. Some of them, tried to even enter the devotee-vehicles through the car windows and thrust their big cameras in, while the others hand held weapons for assassination.
Mob Lynching Caught on Camera - Amidst the attack by 'Media Paparazzi', a police officer is spotted in his obvious 'inaction' - doing nothing and silently watching the whole life-attack at the Aadheenam gates. Shockingly, a 600-policeman force was used during the illegal detainment of His Divine Holiness in 2012 and 100s of police officers were stationed at the Aadheenam to seal and curfew it then. But, when it came to basic security of His Divine Holiness and safety for His devotee (who are also human and citizens), only one or two lone police officers are seen 'playing the cop'!
[Figure: CCTV footage of media mob at Bengaluru Aadheenam gates]
Nothing came in the way of the blood-hungry Media mob - for they were out there to kill, not to film. Media Mob vehicles flooded the whole entry driveaway outside the gates of the Bengaluru Aadheenam. They are spotted here simultaneously attacking multiple cars of the devotees with iron rods and stone rocks.
Mob Lynching in action at the gates of the Aadheenam on 8th Sept 2014 : The violent media mob (who came as reporters) is seen in the CCTV camera footage running as maniacs and throwing big stones inside the gates at the passing ambulance of His Divine Holiness and then on the residents.
Sri Nithya Mokshapriyananda, the Media-Mafia Survivor, with his broken Toyota Car Vandalised by the Media reporters.
| CCTV camera visuals of the Media-mafia attack outside the gate of the Bengaluru Aadheenam on September 8th, 2014 | The violent mob-attack on all vehicles of the trapped devotees surrounded by the Media-Mafia from all sides |
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[Figure: A crowd gathered behind a metal gate with a car visible. A red arrow points to the driver.]
[Figure: A person visible through a car window, with red arrows pointing and a circle around the driver.]
Media mob smashed the devotee's car with huge stones, breaking the glass and hitting him sitting inside
Police remained an inactive spectator as a devotee is trapped by Media mafia inside his own car.
In spite of TRAUMATIC pain, He addressed the devotees from a wheelchair the very next day His Divine Holiness came for giving darshan (public appearance) to His devotees during the daily morning satsang (spiritual discourse) the very next day. He didn't say much. Devotees and disciples were in tears. Nobody knew what they could do. He only told them, “Do not cry.”
His Divine Holiness during daily morning satsang (spiritual discourse) after the inhumane State-sponsored tortuous traumatic medical potency tests
On a day after the medical potency tests, the media-mafia aired highly derogatory programmes ridiculing His Divine Holiness for being on a wheelchair. Cartoon noises and animations were used for this purpose.