Swami Nityananda tries the Sathya Sai Baba defense ploy
Posted by robertpriddy on May 20, 2010
Swami Nithyananda applied for bail to the lower court but on May 6, 2010, the Ramanagara sessions court denied him bail because “Nithyananda and his disciples would tamper with the evidence.” The Public Prosecutor (Srirama Reddy) informed the court that Nithyananda’s victims were afraid to come forward as witnesses because the rich and influential followers of the godman were restraining them.
This is the technique of many Indian godmen who have been caught out, as seen to the extreme in the history of Sathya Sai Baba, whose rich and powerful supporters go to the highest level in government and the judiciary. He is totally protected from prosecution, despite 30 public testimonies by young men alleging sexual abuse by him, and not least as regards his presence to and undoubted involvement in the cold-blooded execution of four devotees in 1993, which he did his utmost to cover up. The government quashed the CBI investigation and got the petition of Hari Sampath thrown out of the Supreme Court (see here) and here)
Adding to the bawdy hilarity of the Nityananda case is this claim that he is “not a man” and that he asked the CBI to test his potency. How they might do such a sensitive examination is anyone’s guess. If he were proven to be impotent, or even a eunuch, it would not rub out the saucy video evidence as reportedly exists with four or five women, nor would it clear him of secret tantrick trickery of those who chose to invest heavily in his meditation courses!
Added to the confusion of true believers were the reports via Sify News as follows:-
So the Hindu Sangam in Malaysia evidently supports secret tantrick sexual exploits as this is not against Hinduism, for they could not have failed to note this aspect of Nityananda’s teaching. At least, it’s good to know where they really stand! One wonders if they support the practises of Sathya Sai Baba (which top Sai officials condone) such as the oiling of young male genitals. Or perhaps even also Sathya Sai Baba’s very widely testified sexual abuses from around the world, including pedophilia?
Even the bogus and simplistic Indian guru Ravi Shankar (who is not the wonderful musician!) claims that Swami Nityananda has “violated UNAIDS guidelines as well as the rules of tantra.”
Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and his Worldwide Organization
– View ex-follower signatures
Read of prominent petitioner, the origin and problems faced by the petition from saboteurs etc.
(Spanish version PETICIÓNPÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES)
Ganesan Sankarraman said
I remember it to be a fact that this bloke Nityananda initially joined as a brahmachari of Ramakrishnashram. I had seen him as an attendant of a senior monk. Nityananda uttered some nonsense regarding one being able to attain some miraculous powers by controlling the prana, but was snubbed by the monk. Subsequently, after many years, when I met this swamy in chennai Mutt, I asked him about Nityananda’s sexual forays, and his being hunted after by the Police. The monk told me that Nityananda visited him in Belur Ashram, wherein he made some vaunted claims about his having miraculous powers, and the fact of his being involved in Tantric sex experiments. The monk, after hearing this humbug severely warned him asking him to go out of the ashram, and Nityananda had to eat a humble pie.