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Date: March 16, 2023 06:00AM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NithyanandaNithyananda (born Arunachalam Rajasekaran;[a] 1 January 1978), known among followers as Nithyananda Paramashivam or Paramahamsa Nithyananda, is an Indian Hindu guru, godman and cult leader.[2] He is the founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a trust that owns temples, gurukulas, and ashrams in many countries.
Following the charges of rape and abduction filed in Indian courts, he fled India and has remained in hiding since 2019. He is subject of a court-issued non-bailable warrant relating to the allegations.[3][4][5]
In 2020, he announced the founding of his own self-proclaimed island nation called Kailaasa.[6][7]
Nithyananda was born Arunachalam Rajasekaran[8][9] in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki. He belongs to the Saiva Vellala community.[10][9] Sources conflict as to his birth date – a 2003 United States visa gave a date of 13 March 1977, while a sworn affidavit in a 2010 Karnataka High Court case mentioned 1 January 1978.[9]
He was first noticed at the age of three by Yogiraj Yogananda Puri.[10][11] He claims to have had powerful spiritual experiences from age 12 and to have experienced full enlightenment at 22.[12]
In 2002 (age 24), he began his public life under the name Nithyananda.[13] He says that this name was given to him by Mahavatar Babaji in a mystical experience during his monastic wandering days in the Himalayas.[13][14] In 2003, he started his ashram Dhyanapeetam in Bidadi near Bangalore, Karnataka, India.[10]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/16/newark-officials-duped-kailasa-nithyanandaNewark officials hoodwinked by delegates of fictional country of Kailasa
Mayor and city council agreed to partnership with nonexistent nation invented by Indian fugitive Swami Nithyananda
The city of Newark, New Jersey, has confirmed that it was duped over five days in January when Mayor Ras Baraka invited what he believed to be a delegation from the Hindu nation of Kailasa to join into a sister city partnership.
A signing ceremony was held at which Baraka told a Kailasa delegate: “I pray that our relationship helps us to understand cultural, social and political development and improves the lives of everybody in both places.”
But it turned out that Baraka, who was once featured on singer Lauryn Hill’s 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Newark’s city council were all being taken for a ride. Kailasa doesn’t exist.
Last week, the Newark city hall acknowledged that it had been scammed by notorious Indian fugitive Swami Nithyananda. The agreement to twin with Kailasa had lasted but six days, Newark officials said, before being dissolved as “baseless and void”.
“Although this was a regrettable incident, the city of Newark remains committed to partnering with people from diverse cultures in order to enrich each other with connectivity, support and mutual respect,” a city spokesperson said, adding that no money had changed hands.
Shakee Merritt, a resident of Newark, later told CBS he was surprised that “no one in City Hall, not one person did a Google search, so maybe we need a transformation of City Hall ’cause not one person said, let me go and Google and figure out this was a fake city”.
A search for “Kailasa” on Google Maps reveals some Hindu temples in the southern half of India and a link to a website promoting the nation as an “ancient enlightened civilization, the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation” and a reference to Nithyananda as “the Reviver”.
But Nithyananda is a notorious scam artist who has been a fugitive from justice since 2019 when he was charged with rape and child abduction charges, according to reports from Indian news outlets. Nithyananda has denied the accusations.
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