Response to the false claims by bloggers🔗

Nithyanandam

We are a group of devotees of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. He is our Guru. We would like all the devotees of Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda to know the truth. Please circulate it to all your friends who want to know the truth.

Without wasting more time let us move into the details of claims related to this timeline.

1. CLAIM: The bloggers state, “We have sincere doubt to all of other Nithyananda stories, which include but not limited to...graduating from a polytechnic school ... we really would like to believe Sri Nithyananda, but sadly, none of these stories make logical sense, and Sri Nithyananda's validity of being grounded in SATHYA (truthfulness) is deeply in question.”

TRUTH: Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda successfully graduated from College with ‘DISTINCTION’.

2. CLAIM: There is a reference to an Indian website online where the bloggers have taken dates of Swamiji’s college years. The college website says that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda was their alumni and that he attended their college from 1990 to 1993. So the bloggers conclude that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda would only be 12 years old when he joined college. Hence they conclude that Swamiji’s has NOT gone to college and that he DID NOT graduate. If at all he had graduated, it is a MIRACLE.

TRUTH: a. The diploma ceritificate that clearly indicates Swamiji went to college from 1992 to 1995 is likely in the ashram archives which can probably be requested and made available.

b. The web site informs us about Swamiji’s donation to the school along with the wrong dates of his attendance at the college. For people from India the dates Swamiji attended the college are inconsequential. It is the generous donation that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda made to the poor kids that they value and wanted to show gratitude for. With that in mind, it easy to see why a chronological mistake like this occurred on the college web site.

3. CLAIM: “One of your living participants in the 2008 program of “Living Enlightenment” broke her oath of secrecy regarding this program in India. She told us how you took your followers to a graveyard, did a fire ritual, and then had all the participants runaround the graveyard in a chaotic way.” – blogger

TRUTH: a. There was no Living Enlightenment program in 2008. b. There were no sessions in any graveyard.

4. CLAIM: The bloggers claim that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is not correct to claim 9 years of ‘Parivraajaka’.

TRUTH:

a. We need to first see this letter written by Mataji Vibhudananda Puri (alias Mataji Kuppammal). The letter is in Tamil language. She says some beautiful things in this letter. Thanks to our Tamil devotees for helping us with the beautiful meanings. She mentions ‘Naan petra petrai en sishyanaaga erka enniyum’. It means ‘because I had the great yearning to have all my punya/merit in the form of my student I’m having this opportunity to have Swamiji as my student’. View Diksha letter given by Mataji Vibhudananda Puri to Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (http://dhyanapeetam.org/web/swamiji_oldpics/Kuppammal_Initiation.jpg) b. Returning to the main point, there is a date mentioned in this letter that she wrote. The year on it reads ‘94’ meaning ‘1994’. According to the lineage in which she comes it is essential that the trainee has to undergo ‘Parivraajaka’ as well as spiritual training for atleast a few years. For this initiation Mataji Vibhudananda Puri trained Swamiji from his young age. Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda makes special mention about her many times and has said that she took care of him and trained him. c. She sent Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda several times on Parivraajaka. d. We have both the letter as well as a photo of Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda standing next to her. And, Swamiji is wearing a ‘Kaavi dress’ – not white dress. Click to view the picture of Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda standing with Mataji Vibhudananda Puri on www.dhyanapeetam.org website. (http://dhyanapeetam.org/web/swamiji_oldpics/swami_and_kuppammal.jpg ) e. Mataji Vibhudananda Puri herself declared that Swamiji is a Paramahamsa and liberated him from all the rules of Sannyas. She told him that he could wear different clothes since he is a Paramahamsa. It was she who made Swamiji attends College and guided him to stay and learn in different monasteries during his Parivraajaka so that it would help Swamiji with his Avataric Mission. f. She gave the initiation in the presence of two Swamis of the "Puri" parampara in order that nobody would question the lineage at a later date. g. Swamiji has always told us again and again that during his Parivraajaka he stayed in many monasteries including Ramakrishna Mutt as part of spiritual learning. The stay at Ramakrishna Mutt was also part of his Parivraajaka. h. All rules of Parivraajaka were followed even during days spent in Ramakrishna Mutt. i. Whenever Swamiji stayed at these places, the time period of stay was not planned. Hence Swamiji observed the rules of those monasteries during his stay there. If you are not a Sannyasi of that monastery, you need to adhere to their rules and wear white dress. j. Swamiji has mentioned in many discourses that he spent more than a week in many places as long as he felt like staying. k. It was Mataji Vibhudananda Puri who encouraged Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda to go to college. l. So calculating the number of years that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda spent life as a Parivraajaka from 1990 to 2003 (when Swamiji started Dhyanapeetam) is around 12.5 years! m. In the entire period from age 12 to 25 (except the time when he attended school and college) Mataji Vibhudananda Puri would send Swamiji on Parivraajaka. In India, the time spent in school/college excluding government holidays, vacations and weekends is only 6 to 7 months per year. Even during this time, Swamiji was not present on all days since he was on Parivraajaka. n. Mataji Vibhudananda Puri used to send Swamiji on Parivraajaka during all these days, many times with a group of other sadhus. Sometimes she would also accompany him herself and sometimes she would send him alone. o. It comes to atleast 9 years of wandering in the villages, forests, mountains, plains, ‘kshetras’, ‘teerthas’ and monastaries including Ramakrishna Mutt.

5. CLAIM: The blogger claims that there is inconsistency regarding the many thousand kilometers Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda travelled. They quote passages from books published by Dhyanapeetam.

TRUTH: a. ALL the incidents of Swamiji’s life are written by multiple devotees as how they understood it. Obviously there will be differences. Obviously there will be inconsistencies. The very inconsistency is a proof that these books are written by devotees. b. For example, once there was a devotee whose native to Tiruvannamalai. He has worked near the temple most of his life. He mentioned during one of the visits to Tiruvannamalai that he has literally seen both our Swamiji and Raghupati Yogi levitating, Swamiji told this nearby devotee ‘I don’t remember it but please note it down so that we can research this later’. In the same way there was one more person who has seen Swamiji getting trained under the guidance of Raghupati Yogi. Swamiji again told this person the same thing. c. From our experience walking with Swamiji we can clearly say that Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda can walk atleast 50-60 kms per day on an average. This means that in a matter of few months Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda can easily cover a few thousand kilometers, which is what Swamiji has told on several occasions. d. Not only that. Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has mentioned several times that he also travelled a lot in trains and other forms of transportation. He has also told us stories about how in Northern India people respect the Swamis and how they won't even ask you for a ticket on a train. e. Now we don't know if the reader know this. In India you can travel an average of 500 kms per day on a train or a bus. Even if Swamiji travelled on a bus/train for even 6 months in his entire Parivraajaka he could easily cover 91, 000 kms @ 500 kms/day. So 70, 000 kms or some number close to it is only an approximation.

6. CLAIM: The bloggers claim that the ashram land in Bidadi is swindled land.

TRUTH: The ashram land came to fruition because Sri Dakshinamoorti Himself came in the dream of the land-owner and directed him to give this land to Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

7. CLAIM: The bloggers state, "During one circumnavigation, you found yourself in a graveyard at 2:00 a.m. and it was raining. You then said that you came across a dog that was eating an unearthed corpse that no longer had its head attached....is there a possibility that you did not circumnavigate Arunachala Hill, but just went to the graveyard to do some practice? ...can you honestly admit that only tantric, dark arts, ghosts practitioners only use the graveyard as a holy place?"

TRUTH: a. Any practicing Hindu, who has been to Arunachala and knows the "Girivalam" path (circumbulation path around the hill), knows that you have to pass through the cremation grounds. b. Many people go there to do meditation at the cremation grounds because i. There is a 'Jiva Samadhi' of an Enlightened Master named 'Isaanya Gnaana Desika Swami'. ii. There is a Shiva temple built on top of this 'Jiva Samadhi' iii. There is also the temple of 'Isaanya Linga' in the same cremation ground along the 'Girivalam' path (circumbulation path) of Tiruvannamalai. iv. The Enlightened Master from Tiruvannamalai Yogi Ram Surat Kumar sits in and around that temple. v. It is to meet Yogi Ram Surat Kumar and meditate in the Shiva temple that Swamiji used to go to the cremation grounds. c. It is a practice in all eastern traditions including the Vedic tradition, Buddhism, Jainism etc. d. In fact there are numerous enlightened Masters who have practiced in cremation grounds. The list is too big, so we will include only a few. Some of the most notable ones include i. the great Seshadri Swamigal of Tiruvannamalai who was the Master from Arunachala before Sri Ramana Maharishi

e. To top it all, the deity of Arunachaleshwara Himself would come to the cremation ground every year to liberate all the souls as well as to do rituals for Vallaala Maharaja, the king who built the Arunachaleshwara temple. f. The science of ‘Samayaachaara’ practices calls for extreme purity and austerity.

8. CLAIM: The bloggers state “..that Lord Shiva only resides in the graveyard. But this is NOT true. Lord Shiva resides in his abode in Mount Kailash, in the Tibet portion of the Himalayas.”

TRUTH:

a. Every practicing Hindu knows that Shiva resides in the cremation grounds. Yet Shiva is the ‘Kalyaana Sundara’ the most auspicious one. The purpose is to liberate the beings. b. In Varanasi, Shiva liberates each and every individual ‘Jiva’ (closely translated as individual consciousness) from all their karma and gives them ‘Mukti’ (closely translated as liberation) when they die in Varanasi. This is just one example. c. Not only does Shiva liberate the people who die in Varanasi, Shiva liberates even those people whose bodies are burnt in Manikarnika Ghat by chanting the ‘Taraka mantra’. Sri Ramakrishna talks about his experience related to this. a. The great Adi Shankara in Soundarya Lahari explains ‘Smashaane shaseena kruthabha sita lepa pasupathi’ - it means ‘Shiva lives in the cremation grounds and wear the sacred ash all over his body’

9. CLAIM: The bloggers claim, “Sri Nithyananda seems to love gold and other indulgences.”

TRUTH: a. There is a huge difference between honoring the tradition and indulgence. b. ALL traditional Mutts and Peetas of India have golden thrones. In fact they are made completely from pure gold. c. Because our Swamiji is so humble he has only ‘gold painted’ the thrones. But he has made the jewels for the deity in pure gold! d. Examples of golden thrones in Vedic tradition. We will restrict the examples for lack of space. a. ‘Sringeri Sri Sarada Peetam’ throne - http://www.sringeri.net/gallery#Sringeri%20Acharyas%20in%20Durbar b. ‘Shakatapuram Shankaracharya’ - http://praggya.sulekha.com/mstore/Praggya/albums/default/garlanded%20ac harya.JPG c. ‘Datta Peetam’ - http://triyoga.org/wordpress152/images/SriChakra3.jpg d. ‘Ahobila Mutt’ i. The throne - http://ahobilamutt.org/us/acharya/bio/44jeer.asp

ii. The deity - http://ahobilamutt.org/us/acharya/bio/45jeer.asp e. 'Thiruvaaduthurai Aadheenam' throne.

10. CLAIM: The bloggers claim that, 'Chanting 'Nithyanandam Paramasukhadam' is wrong. The original version is 'Brahmanandam Paramasukhadam'. We have checked in Google. It doesn't say anything like 'Nithyanandam Paramasukhadam'.'

TRUTH: a. In many of the traditional Mutts all over India they chant 'Nithyanandam Paramasukhadam'. Many other Mutts, temples and lineages use 'Brahmanandam Paramasukhadam'. Both are right. b. In our lineage, we use 'Nithyanandam Paramasukhadam'. c. Google is a search engine. It gives results based on content that is on the Internet. It is not the authority on Hinduism d. References: I. Many Sanskrit chanting manuals/books authored by the famous 'Anna' - Ramakrishna Mutt. II. 'Puja Sangraham' by 'Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam', Kanchipuram. This book has the mantras in Devanagari. So you need to know how to read Devanagari script. You can also see references for Guru Puja in this book.

11. CLAIM: The Bloggers state, "Sri Nithyananda, what happens when you place all those chilies in the fire ritual? Is it true that some say you can capture departed souls and use them as part of your enlisted supernatural arsenal?"

TRUTH: a. The red chilli is an offering to all forms of Devi including but not limited to Sri Pratyangira Devi, Sri Durga Devi, and Sri Mahalakshmi etc. b. The red chili is an offering given during extremely positive Homas such as 'Sri Chandi Maha Yagna' c. We have references from the Vedic literature to give enough evidence of the existence of red chilies for traditional offerings for Devi. d. Other example, please see http://www.srividya.org/Srividya/Svtsweb/magazine/pdf/Blossom%2012%20Petal% 201.pdf .This link has the program as Pratyangira Homam where they have placed 50Kgs of red chili pepper for offerings. e. One more link http://sriprathiyangira.com/

12. CLAIM: The bloggers, their commentators etc. time and again claim that they were insiders who attended the FREE meditation program with Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyananda where Swamiji proclaimed that they were enlightened.

TRUTH: a. There was no 'MASS' enlightenment program b. The FREE meditation program (including food and accommodation) was to inspire participants to live enlightenment. c. From our research with participants of this program Swamiji never proclaimed that anyone from that program was enlightened. He only said “I’m putting the fire. It is up to you to now maintain it and live it”. e. When Swamiji said that around 50 of his disciples are living enlightenment he did not mean only people who attended the program. He meant many of those people associated with the sangha in various capacities from the very beginning.

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