2015-08-11 Media Tyrant from TV9 Threatens the Life of Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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11 August 2015
A Hindu Sanyasi of the Nithyananda Sanyas Sampradaya received an alarming phone call from a media person, who threatened the very life of his Guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Read how the mainstream extremist Hindu terrorist militant groups operate with single targeted mission to decimate Sanatana Hindu Dharma (Hinduism) and completely destroy the Guru-Shishya parampara (Guru-Disciple heritage) and all who work to revive and promote it, by directly executing the Guru Himself.

A Sanyasi of the Nithyananda Sampradaya, Sri Nithya Shantimayananda Swami, was a regular speaker on Nakshatra TV, where he took calls from the public, answering their questions about spirituality, solving their life problems, giving them daily solutions. On 11th August 2015, he received a phone call from someone claiming to be from TV9, another Kannada news channel. This individual began questioning Shantimayananda Swami on whether he does regular TV shows. He then warned the Sanyasi (Hindu monk) not to do so, and that if he continued to do so, then it would have bad consequences.
Threateningly, this person said in a menacing and aggressive tone, that he would come to the ashram and "take care of his guru, and then him", if he continued to talk on TV shows. This kind of death threat prompted Shantimayananda Swami to immediately file a complaint at the local police station. The police did not file a FIR based on that complaint, and the blackmailer got away with making threats to a Sanyasi, clearly showing the strong nexus up between the police and the mainstream Hindu extremist militant groups.
Here is the conversation between Shantimayananda Swami and the life-attacker :
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:
Shantimaya Swami – Hello, yes tell me
Caller- is this Nithyananda ashram?
Shantimaya Swami- Yes it is.
Caller – Who are you speaking?
Shantimaya Swami – this is Shantimaya swami
Caller – what is your caste?
Shantimaya Swami – here we do not have any caste
Caller – we have iyengars, brahmins. So what is your caste?
Shantimaya Swami – we have Sanyasis
Caller – do you eat non- veg? You have done it to Ranjitha...Shall i come to Bidadi? Who do you think i am! You gandu (curse word)
Shantimaya Swami– hey who are you and what do you want?
Caller- I am TV9 you gandu! (curse word) i am coming to Bidadi now
To publish it to these channels – Nakshatra and tv9.
- END OF TRANSCRIPT *
2015-12-09
International Attack
9 December 2015
The saga of persecution against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda continued as He continued reaching out to humanity through multifarious socio-spiritual services. The Hindu extremist terrorist groups, the atheist groups and the anti-Universalist groups were working meticulously to eliminate Him and His worldwide organization. They used relentless persecution, both in person and by media, to degrade His Holiness’s credibility and name. Along with gross violations of basic human rights, this is the way they formulated the attack against Him.
The intensity of the targeted attacks on His Divine Holiness and His followers took a surprise turn in Dec 2015. The continued selective abuse and constant spiteful attack by Indian media and Hindu extremist militant forces towards His Divine Holiness pushed the organisation to hold their spiritual programs internationally to avoid the inevitable persecution in their home country. After thoughtful research, Phuket Province, Thailand, was selected as the venue for the year-end spiritual program called NITHYANANDOHAM, which happened in December of 2015. To provide His followers and worldwide seekers an ambience of security and peace during His breakthrough program, He decided to change His program venue to outside India.
A hotel called Duangjit was chosen as the main venue in the area of Patong beach, Phuket along with two other hotels, Deevana Plaza and Ramada Hotel. More than 1100 people from 60 countries enrolled for this 21-day mega program, that also included up to 100 volunteers from all over the world.
The conspirators join forces in Phuket – the program kitchen closes Little did the disciples of Paramahamsa Nithyananda know that the negative powerful forces would hound His Divine Holiness even outside the soil of the Indian nation. They formed an unholy alliance with assassins in Thailand to attack, extort and attempt to imprison His Divine Holiness on false charges so that He could be killed eventually in the prison.
On the 4th day of the program, it became evident to all concerned that the extremist militant forces in India had created an alliance with their connections in Phuket to continue the systematic attack against Paramahamsa Nithyananda. The conspiracy in conjunction with the Duangjit hotel aimed to extort money from the organization and put an inglorious end to the program. The further nefarious agenda was to strike fear in the hearts of participants and further discredit the already highly attacked character of Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
“They didn’t care if we starved, as long as they held us hostage,” recalls Ma Nithya Bhairavikananda Swami about the horrifying events. “The program went on well for 4 days until the hotel caterer, named Faizal, went on strike and refused to cook for the participants. We could not understand the sudden twist in his whole behavior. When we tried to cook the food ourselves, he barred our efforts by locking the kitchen, and rallying hotel security to hold us back. We had an international group of people to feed in a foreign country and they closed the kitchen on us!”
In spite of the legal contract and advance payment, Faizal tortured the participants and volunteers with a forced famine, blocking even beverage preparation. Due to this, participants already sick with severe medical conditions were getting much worse - a matter of grave concern to us.
Alternate options are desperately searched

“We had already sourced the entire island of Phuket in search of pure vegetarian, organic caterers familiar with South Indian cuisine,” recalls Ma Nithya Swarupapriyananda, who was taking care of the program participants. “We knew nobody else could cook for 1200 people. I’ll never forget how many people came to me crying during the breaks, begging for a snack or a drink. I knew we had piles of coconuts just sitting there in the kitchen, going for a waste, because we couldn’t get to them in time. We had brought so much provisions with us from India, but were unable to distribute them.”
The harassment steps up
The magnitude of harassment grew exceedingly over the next few days. Desperate to feed the participants and volunteers, truckloads of fresh groceries were bought, but Duangjitt hotel security barred the vehicles carrying them from entering the premises. In the hot sun, volunteers were humiliatingly forced to carry armloads of fruits, vegetables and grains, and even then, once they reached the hall, the security personnel sent them back to the gate. So much food was wasted; so many people starved.
As their efforts to bring groceries and cook was continuously thwarted, the disciples and volunteers somehow managed to secure and cook vegetarian food for all the participants, but to their shock and horror, the cooked food was also stopped at the gate by the hotel authorities. Volunteers and Sanyasis (the Hindu monk disciples) had to fight with the security personnel and hotel administration authorities, and finally, after several hours of conflict, the food that came in the morning was allowed inside. Breakfast was served at 4:00 pm in the evening.
Inhuman torture

Sri Nithya Sadashivananda Maharaj, a Sanyasi who was present says, "It was a nightmare. We didn't know if our dear Master (His Divine Holiness) would be able to leave this place alive. They started with extortion attempts, then they exploited the fact that we were responsible for over 1000 people from 60 countries. They started physically attacking us. I am also a member of the security team of His Divine Holiness. On 13th December, in the morning, as His Divine Holiness was getting ready for the meditation-yoga program that day, the hotel "authorities" flung open the door to His room and we saw 3 armed men standing at the door. I was shocked at this daylight assassination-attempt in a supposedly high class hotel in a tourist destination like Thailand. I immediately alerted my fellow monks in the room. The extremist elements had probably expected to find His Divine Holiness and had dared this daylight attempt to assassinate. They rushed forward directly towards His Divine Holiness. They had weapons in their hands - sickles, knives, rods. The hefty men looked like seasoned thugs. My fellow monks and I rushed forward to save the life of our beloved Guru. We screamed for help, and had a physical encounter with the thugs. Without a choice, we requested His Divine Holiness to move to the restroom and lock it from inside, for safety from this murderous attack. As we screamed and shouted, the thugs backed off fearing raising alarm in the hotel and attracting attention."
On the 14th of December, 2015, we wanted to immediately move out of Duangjit and move to another hotel. They did not want to release His Divine Holiness from being their hostage. The hotel security stopped our last van and took hostage of 19 terrified participants, who were taken back and kept locked in the hotel.
They demanded $100,000 to release or people whom they held as hostages. When we returned to free our people, the hotel management had the security guards beat us up, and they called the police and tried to file a false case against us, saying we were moving out of the hotel without paying dues owed to them.
One police officer cornered me and started harassing me with questions. The corrupt officers threatened to debar my visa and put me in jail! I stood strong against them even though I was already dehydrated due to a lack of proper food or water for the last four days, only because of the atrocities of the hotel authorities. After hours of this attack, I finally fainted. I fell unconscious in the hotel lobby. When I was taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment, they tried to stop my father from joining me. My father was hit with a deep fear: his own teenage son being taken unconscious by unknown men who were beating him moments earlier, in a foreign country that was obviously hostile towards His Divine Holiness and His group and wanted to eliminate them en masse. Later that evening, after a harrowing day of police brutality and verbal abuse from hotel staff; we enlisted the help of the local Mayor to rescue the 19 guests from the Duangjit Hotel.”
Continuous attempt to stop the program
Sri Nithya Atmapujananda Swami, a Sanyasi who was part of the organizing team, recalls the further attacks:

“When we initially visited the Duangjit Hotel on behalf of the organization, they were very supportive of the program. When our funds were received by the hotel and caterer, their behavior changed and this unfolded the conspiracy already planned by this international group of extremist militant forces with the Indian Hindu extremist terrorist groups.

The Duangjitt Hotel, Phuket
Their plan was to hijack the event and take Paramahamsa Nithyananda hostage and assassinate Him. After learning about this, our first intent was to ensure every participant was safely out of the hotel, as their lives were in danger. When they learned our intention to leave the hotel, they started spreading rumors about us and about our Hindu spiritual practices, claiming we were performing black magic and cursing people, in an effort to force us out of Phuket.
We were trying as quickly as we could to find a new hotel location, which was difficult, because December is peak tourist season. It is extremely difficult to arrange accommodation for such a large group in such a short span of time under any circumstances, but this time was even harder, because the life-threatening forces were calling all the resorts and actively telling them not to allow us. We finally found a hotel ready to let us in, although we were charged double our original program price. This was a huge financial loss to us, but we continued to deal with the situation as best we could.
The shifting of such a large group of people from one hotel to multiple locations brought a lot of discomfort and stress on the participants, and we faced many difficulties in the new locations. Keeping His Divine Holiness safe, at the same time not starting a panic psychosis in the participants was quite a challenge.
His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is continuously targeted by Hindu extremist militant forces, and now we know, even if we move out of the country of India, they will conspire against us with assassins wherever we go. The way we were treated in Phuket was a clear case of religious persecution and extortion propelled by the Indian Hindu extremist forces. Paramahamsa Nithyananda, undeterred continues His work in giving people the Superconscious breakthrough.

(Above and below) His Divine Holiness in a session with the participants of the program


The program finished successfully despite the relentless attack by spiteful forces, though at the cost of His own life and health and that of His devotees. Our beloved guru gave the last day energy darshan (individual energy touch for each participant) when He was running a fever of 105 degrees fahrenheit; it wasn't until we returned to Bengaluru Aadheenam, our spiritual headquarters in India, that we discovered that He had been inflicted with Dengue Fever.