We were threatened and attacked with weapons while police looked the other way🔗

2015: During my time in Thanjavur (South India), one morning, myself and some other female Sanyasis were sitting in our temple. All of a sudden, we saw that many police officers were entering our premises. They barged in and began yelling in a loud voice, telling us to vacate the premises. Before we could even comprehend what was going on, or why such demands were being made of us, more than 50 attackers came and started assaulting all the sanyasis. They came with metal rods, huge knives, wooden logs, and other crude looking weapons. The police did nothing as these attackers started beating us. They didn't save or protect any of us.

During this attack, one of the attackers was a tall, broad man with a cruel smile on his face wielding a huge knife. He saw me and began threatening me with his knife. He said,

“I have already murdered 10 people in my life, an 11th murder is not a big deal for me, should I do it?”

He began laughing and came towards me with his knife. I ran for my life before he could come near me, and ran out of the temple gates.

Outside, many police officers were gathered, witnessing the situation and doing nothing about it. Instead of arresting the attackers, they were trying to arrest us! We kept demanding for an explanation from them, but they were unwilling to have any conversations. They arrested myself and Ma Nithya Dheerananda Swami, instead of arresting the attackers. At the police station, they treated us as if we were

terrorists. Two police women forced us to remove our clothes, despite us saying that we were sanyasis. We begged them and told them that it is not safe for us, especially seeing that police was not on or side. She threatened us, and said, “We all know how you people are”, questioning our character as women. They were behaving as if we were terrorists that were carrying bombs and explosives.

As per law, the police cannot hold women at the police station beyond 6:00 pm. Completely ignoring this, we were illegally held at the station till 9:00 pm that day. With the male sanyasis, they were threatening to put false rape cases on them, and for us female Sanyasi, they said that they would accuse us of being prostitutes.

2017: “Pavazha Kundru is a sacred hillock by the Arunachala Hill in Tiruvannamalai. This is an especially sacred spot for us, as this is not only the place where Devi Adishakti herself got enlightened, but also where our Swamiji had his first experience of enlightenment! We offer puja to this sacred hillock six times a day.

One afternoon, a few sanyasis were preparing for the daily puja ritual. I was inside the hut to do my puja when I heard a lot of noise. I could see the police sub-collector and a mob had gathered outside the hut. Veerabhadran, a communist leader and local kingpin, was also there.

One of our sanyasis, Sri Nithya Pranananda Swami, was outside showing our ownership documents to the sub-collector, proving that we were the legal owners of that property. We had the tax paper receipts and papers showing that the land was in the name of Swamiji. Two other female Sanyasis, Ma Preeta Swami and Ma Satyajnana Swami, were with me inside the hut. A man came in shouting and demanding that we vacate the place immediately. Even the sub-collector started saying that we had to vacate, that we could not do puja there and that they had come upon the collector's order. Prana Swami and the rest of us tried to explain but they were not interested at all.

We were inside the hut, protecting the deities that we worship at the Sacred Sadashiva Shila. Some of the mobsters started removing the thatch of the roof of our hut, while others tried to remove the deities from inside. Sri Nithya Parabrahmananda and Sri Nithya Shivananada, two Brahmacharis, were holding on to the deities. While I was still inside, they started dismantling the hut, and the roof almost caved in on me. Only because of Ma Satyagnana Swami, I was saved. She managed, just in time, to catch a piece of a wooden log which was falling on me.

The mob started to make a scene outside. They were very brutal and hurt us and the temple property: they were dismantling the roof while we were still inside, and were simultaneously trying to snatch the deities in our hands.

Then, a policewoman came and started manhandling and dragging all of us to a police van. The whole time, they were verbally abusing Swamiji and us, insulting our character, calling us rapists and prostitutes. They were trying to get us into the police vehicle, but before we could even get in, Sun TV began to air that we were being arrested. We were held at the police station for nearly 6 hours, from 2:00 pm to 7:40 pm, and the entire time, we were not given any reason for our arrest.

We were arrested a second time for no reason

The following are a few news reports of the above incident giving COMPLETELY FALSE news to the innocent public:

Video: Polimer News - Nithyananda's Disciples Arrested for land encroachment

The police ripped the women off of the ground from where they were doing their puja. You can see them clutching the deities which the police and mob were trying to abuse and destroy. [https://youtu.be/4Mwwec3cvmE]

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Pavazha Kundru is there with a Murugan temple on Arunachala. This place is under the control of HR&CE. Here Nithyananda's disciples have applied turmeric on the rock and step by step, they built a hut and inside the hut they started worshipping the Pancha loka deity of Swami Nithyananda along with Murugan deity and Valli deity. Knowing this, the local people have given a complaint to the Sub-collector Uma Maheshwari. On 16 June, the Sub-Collector Uma Maheshwari visited Pavazha Kundru and warned Nithyananda's disciples not to be there. For that, Nithyananda's disciples showed the documents which say that the place is under their name. But Uma Maheshwari told Nithyananda's disciples to move out of that place and remove the deities from there. But the disciples sat around and started cursing the officers. But not disturbed by the curses, the officers dragged Nithyananda's disciples out with the help of the police. The women disciples who refused coming down from there have been forcefully dragged out from that place. They kept quiet for five days and after that, again last June 22nd they started offering puja and meditation there. Knowing these things, the officers came and brought them down with the help of police, warned them and sent them out. Then Nithyananda's disciples wondered what to do, and brought some workers in the name of devotees to Pavazha Kundru. There, they applied turmeric to the rock and started offering puja, offering garland and ringing the bell. The public had given a complaint to the police about this, and so the police arrested 2 women and 4 men this time and took them for investigation. Nithyananda was born and brought up in Tiruvannamalai. His headquarters are also in Tiruvannamalai. But after the fake video, Nithyananda has been left without a house in Tiruvannamalai. That is why Nithyananda's disciples are trying to occupy the place.

Media houses like Sun TV were spreading false news. They projected it as an issue of illegal land occupancy.

Interview with Ma Nithya Deepikananda Swami and Ma Nithya Satyajnana Swami who describe the brutal attack they endured on Pavala Kundru, Corel Rock.

[https://www.facebook.com/499911590466582/videos/508173442973730/]

Transcript

Very recently, we went through a particular attack - an abusive attack in our own property. The first Aadheenam run by Swamiji is Pavazha kundru, Tiruvannamalai. Tiruvannamalai is the birthplace of Swamiji. He incarnated in Tiruvannamalai and he offers so many services to the community, society and people. See, Pavazha kundru is the place where Swamiji had his first enlightenment experience and we still worship this place as one of our Shaktipeeth, one of our power temples.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: And in our Nithyananda Sangha, the Pavazha kundru rock - Sadashiva shila (rock) - is tremendously auspicious and of great significance and importance to us. It is the very rock on which His Divine Holiness had His first enlightenment experience. Swamiji has had multiple miraculous experiences from the age of three. The rock and the area surrounding it were donated to Swamiji by his Guru, Mataji Vibhu Anandapuri Kuppamal. She gave a written testimonial to this effect. Swamiji is the heir of this spiritual land and of the hut (mutt) Swamiji’s guru had built there. All this had also been given to her disciple who is none other than our Swamiji.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: Despite us showing our documents from our side, there were only a couple of us - fifteen in all, but the people who came were so many and they were not even listening. It was like a pre-planned, premeditated attack. They wanted to destroy our puja place and seva service. They wanted to chase us from that place. They were very clear. The words they were using were so abusive and against hindu practices. Like they didn’t want any puja, any ritual to happen there and they were saying that it was not because they wanted the land for themselves to carry on with their nefarious activities.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: Illegal activities are continuously happening around that area. When we are doing rituals, they feel offended because they are not able to do as they see fit. See, we started making gardens, beautifying that area, we see it as holy. Mostly, they are from other religions or communist parties and they don’t want that - Hindu Rituals - to happen.

Ma Nithya Deepikananda Swami So what they did is - they made a false case against us saying that we were “grabbing the land”. We don’t need to grab the land because the land belongs to us - we have enough documents and evidence for that. We have the proper evidence for that which we got through the proper government officials.

Actually they started dismantling the hut while we were sitting under it and the hut was about to fall on our heads.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: See, it was pre-planned because a day earlier itself, some of the rowdies came and saw us getting ready for puja because everyday we do puja there. It was so evident. They were just grabbing our dresses, not even realizing we are female sannyasis, and abusing our deities so much - pulling them from our hands, wanting to throw them on the ground, and using abusive words.

Not only that, see, they were hindu extremist elements. They don't respect deities, they don't respect God, they don't respect any of our rituals. So, they were wearing slippers and walking around, touching the deities. Wearing shoes is deemed disrespectful.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: They were walking around with slippers, using abusive language. They just wanted to show their anger and dominance towards us. The words they used were very clear, "how can a hindu ritual happen here? How do you do this, etc" They were abusing us, pushing us, pulling our sarees, even when we wanted to talk with them so politely, to explain the situation, what was going on, what we were standing for. They were not all local people, they were all paid rowdies. We know the local people: they are so supportive of us because we do daily puja, healing, counseling, yoga, annadaan.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: One more situation you can see is that the local people wanted to come there and offer garlands. That day, these rowdies mishandled everybody even threatening the local people to leave, arresting two female sannyasis and male sanyasis who were helping them to do puja and treating us as if some illegal activities were happening. Even Ma Nithya Deepikananda was arrested that day.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: It is very clear that these criminals don't want this place to be a ritual. If we see the Pavazha kundru and the Arunachala hill, there are so many occupants - more than 3000 houses occupied for several years. Only when we want to do our spiritual activity and serve society, we are all being mishandled and made to look like we are doing some illegal activities.

Ma Nithya Satyanjana Swami: The media are portraying us as if we have only been going there only for the last 20 days. For 25 years we have been worshipping - all of our devotees, followers have also. Everyday puja is happening. Whenever devotees from all over the world come to Tiruvannamalai, they don't miss doing puja and receiving blessings from there; then only will they leave. We, as sannyasis, have taken up the responsibility to maintain

the sanctity of that Sadashiva shila, doing puja everyday. Local people know we don't do anything harmful, they are very close to us, helping us with all the rituals and participating in the rituals also. But the media is portraying us as grabbing the land, which is not true.