2018-02-02 Terrorist Attack with Explosives🔗

2 February 2018

In the hours of the morning, His Divine Holiness was having a meeting with His disciples who were part of the team building the grand temple in the temple-monastery complex of Bengaluru Aadheenam.

To be able to give a hands-on training to the disciples, His Divine Holiness wanted to take his disciples to a living grand temple that was built as per the scriptures and science of temple architecture and building. So the group started in the morning and headed towards Madurai to visit the Madurai Meenakshi temple, traditionally under the Madurai Aadheenam of which His Divine Holiness is the successor pontiff. The temple is currently taken over by the State government and sadly under the atheistic political rule.

His Divine Holiness with His disciples reached Madurai in the evening and went to visit the temple and observed all its intricate architecture details late evening. They were near the east tower of the temple on the way to Main sanctum sanctorum, near the thousand-pillared hall. His Divine Holiness was at the Veera Vasantharaya Mandapam (hall) near the 1000-pillared hall showing them the intricately designed pillars of the mandapam.

Suddenly there was a huge explosion and fire all around. The disciples of His Divine Holiness rushed to take their Master to safety from the huge fire that was gutting the very portion of the temple in which they were in. The whole place was burning. Around 30 shops around were up in flames. The temple is a massive stone structure, but shockingly the stone slabs from the roof were collapsing.

It was a stark reality - the assassination attempts on His Divine Holiness had assumed gigantic proportions - terror attacks with explosive arson. The negative forces had smelt that His Divine Holiness was visiting the Madurai Meenakshi temple, and they had planned an almost foolproof unsuspecting assassination. His Divine Holiness had a really narrow escape from being burnt alive to death, which the media had already planned to project as an accident.

Madurai Meenakshi Temple complex set a flame

The media was already flashing the “breaking news” - they tried to project the whole attack as an accident. It was also a sinister attack on the Hindu tradition - as the atheist media pointed the cause of the fire to be from the camphor in the shops for devotees to purchase and offer to the deities.

The media-police nexus ensured the whole focus of attention moved with Him for over 10 years. Police “questioned” the shopkeeper, who had performed the ritual and left the camphor burning, even after all the shops and temple were closed for the day.

The Veera Vasantha Rayar mandapam is 7000 sq ft area, the mandapam is 70 ft in length and roughly 10 ft wide. The mandapam has large pillars supporting Uttarams (stone structures) placed on top. These Uttarams are 10 ft in length, about 1 ft wide and 1 ½ wide deep made of granite stones.

Granite materials are actually igneous rock, which form from a process of extreme heat and then cooling to create the hard and dense granite. Because of the way granite forms, it possesses a special resistance to damage from heat. Granite will not melt, even from direct flame applied to it. So, any amount of fire even directly under a granite stone can ONLY cause soot on the stone, but does not have the capacity to crack, especially the igneous rock like Granite.

Fire can be classified as a Benign Arson and Explosive Arson. Fire that rises from burning household items like plastic bucket, generator diesel, petrol, Camphor, Incense sticks falls under the category of Benign arson.

Fire that rises out of explosive materials such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, picric acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, black powder, blasting caps, and detonating primers fall under the category of Explosive Arson.

The disciples of His Holiness went the next day to the gutted place to which the Veera Vasantharaya mandapam was reduced. It was shocking but the uttarams had cracked in a SIMILAR straight line along the entire 70 ft length of the mandapam.

Straight line crack across multiple uttaram stone structures along the length of the mandapam shown above.

The shocking observation to note here is that benign arson that arise out of household materials do not have the capacity to create a crack or explode stone. So, how did all the 10 ft long uttaran crack along the entire 70 ft length of the mandapam? How did they break into pieces falling from just 10 ft height?

Uttaran exploding and falling from the roof

The only way granite can crack and break is only with explosive materials such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, picric acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, black powder, blasting caps, and detonating primers.

The planned conspiracy was not over. Next within 48 hours, fire "broke out all of a sudden" in the Temple CCTV control room on Feb 8, 2018. Electrical Short circuit is said to be the cause - because the CCTVs had to be destroyed so that this sinister attack can be manipulated in the media.

All the reasons told so far as cause of fire seem to be an eye wash to hide what might be the actual cause of fire in Madurai. Meenakshi Amman Temple, is one of the oldest and most important temples in India. It has both historic and cultural significance. Meenakshi Amman and the temple has been revered and worshipped by millions of Hindus around the world.

More important contextually, that was the time when His Divine Holiness was slated to visit the Madurai Meenakshi temple. This was meant to be the final lethal attack.

Previous attempts to set ablaze the temple In 2016, 3 petrol bombs were hurled near Madurai Meenakshi Temple along the north entrance Chithirai street by unknown hindu terrorist extremist groups. Out of the 3 bombs, one exploded.

Still many questions remain unanswered - how were the explosives smuggled into the highly secure temple? Where were they stored? Was this fire the extent of attack the terrorists had planned? Or was a major attack on the sanctum sanctorum prevented by Meenakshi's grace?

2012-2014 Accounts of the life-attacks on His Divine Holiness from Nithyananda Gurukul - resident Vedic school

Witness to a Life Attack on His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Rishi Nithya Advaitananda (Sairam), an Engineer who worked with several MNCs and who had lived in the USA for 17 years, was witness to a life attack on His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda in 2012. He was part of the Administration team of the Nithyananda Gurukul (Vedic School teaching 'Superconsciousness based education’ as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma, now called Hinduism.) At that time of the attack, he had to go through the trauma of seeing his spiritual Guru being attacked and feared for the safety of about 80 children whose safety and security was his responsibility.

Rishi Advait (Sairam)-Administration team of Nithyananda Gurukul - Vedic school

He says, “In 2012, we were attacked by the Hindu extremist-backed mob elements as part of the continued religious persecution that our guru, Bhagwan Paramahamsa Nithyananda was going through. The situation became out of control because a lot of assassins, anti-social elements, backed by Hindu extremist elements who were part of the religious persecution against Swamiji, had entered the ashram complex in the guise that they were from the media. They started abusing and misbehaving and causing bodily harm. On the other hand, my wife and I who are responsible for the children’s safety and answerable to all of their parents, underwent unimaginable anxiety and pressure till the attackers left the campus. We made frantic phone calls and took the help of some of the resident parents of Nithyananda Gurukul to secure the Gurukul area.”

He elaborated that it was clear that the mob had premeditated to physically attack and harm his spiritual guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. It was a miracle that His Divine Holiness was taken away from the mob before any grave injuries were inflicted on Him.

Fear and Panic to Secure the Nithyananda Gurukul Premises He went on to say that, “I was part of administration team. I called the Superintendent of Police, Sri Anupam Agrawal of Ramanagara to help us. Within minutes, he and his team was here. After that, things just went out of control and a lot of things happened in the Bengaluru Aadheenam (temple monastery complex) The whole ashram was illegally shut down.”

Parents being called for security of children

Post the attack, Advait narrates, “A lot of the areas, most of the areas of the Aadheenam were illegally sealed by the Government. I am part of the team that runs the Nithyananda Gurukul which is a religious spiritual education based on Sanatana Hindu Dharma (Hinduism) for children. We have 75 to 80 children there. All the children had been put through a lot of hardship. They were terrorized by the government department officials that came in and the way the children were handled; the way the children were spoken to, was completely unacceptable. But unfortunately, the children including my own two biological children, had to go through this.

Not only am I a parent to my own children, I am also a parent to all the other children that are part of the Nithyananda Gurukul. I take care of them and it was an unfortunate period in our lives, where we were subject to so much inhumane behavior, if I can use that term, and completely disrespected, terrorized. It is not easy for a child to live with so many police around them. The entire ashram was filled with policemen. They were stationed here and for them children had to forego their accommodation. They were put into one very small area. All these children had to adjust living in those conditions of lack of food, lack of proper sleep, lack of proper amenities, because of the effects of the religious persecution.

As always Dharma wins, righteousness wins. As Swamiji's integrity always wins, things came back to normal later, but during those years during 2012, 2013, and 2014, were very difficult for children because of the religious persecution.”

The incidents that happened on that eventful day in 2012 was a gross violation of United Nations Human rights Article 6, which says ‘no torture and inhumane treatment’ and Article 8 which provides for the right to life and security.