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Swami Nithyananda Wiki, Biography, Age, Images, Videos, News
Nithyananda (Paramahamsa Nithyananda) is a self-styled Hindu Swami from Tamil Nadu. He is a south Indian sage born in a middle-class agricultural family in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. He founded a commercial meditation center in Bengaluru named Nithyanandha Peetham. He has a lot of devotees worldwide with temples, gurukuls, and ashrams in many countries. Nithyananda has a lot of ongoing accusations in several courts in India and in abroad. Despite this, he has organizations in 50 countries with over 10 million followers. Nithyananda Swamy once again became famous after a rumor of him being dead spread on Facebook.
Nithyananda’s organization claims that he has superpowers like the kundalini awakening and the third-eye awakening. He says that he has initiated 60 extraordinary spiritual powers into his disciples. Apart from this, his disciples say that can perform paranormal phenomena like extrasensory perception and materialization, body scanning, distance vision, and the ability to find lost objects.
On 23 January 2019, one of the child disciples of Nithyananda claimed that he has initiated vision for 82 students who are affected by varying stages of blindness at a blind school in the Vastrapur area of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
On 04 December 2019, Nithyanand reported that he owned a private island near Trinidad & Tobago and created his own “Hindu Nation” called ‘Kailaasa‘.
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Biography
Name | Nithyananda |
Real Name | A Rajashekaran |
Nickname | Nithyananda |
Profession | God Man, Spiritual Guru |
Date of Birth | 1 January 1978 (according to Karnataka High Court) 13 March 1977 (according to a 2003 US visitor visa) |
Age | 44 (As of 2022) |
Zodiac sign | Yet to be updated |
Family | Father: Arunachalam Mother: Lokanayaki |
Marital Status | Unmarried |
Affairs/Girlfriends | Yet to be updated |
Wife | Yet to be updated |
Children | Yet to be updated |
Religion | Hindu |
Educational Qualification | School: Yet to be updated College: Yet to be updated |
Hobbies | Reading holy books |
Birth Place | Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Hometown | Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Current City | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
Nationality | Indian |
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Interesting Facts
- Ragubthi yogi and Matthaji Kuppamal is the holy guru for Swami Nithyananda.
- His meditation center Nithyananda Peetham has more than 1000 branches in 33 countries.
- Sage Arunagirinadhar recognized him as a 293rd Madurai Aadhinam
- He considers himself an avatar of Lord Shiva.
- On 25th November 2017, he visited the education and training Centre established by Infosys at Mysore along with Sri Mohandas Pai, former CFO of Infosys.
- Nithyananda Peetham has set two Guinness world records, one in rope yoga and one in pole yoga.
Swami Nithyananda Controversies & Claims
- He said that he was involved in spiritual-scientific research to provide the speaking ability to monkeys and cows through his meditation power. And he claims that he tested it with software where cows can speak in Tamil and Sanskrit.
- “E ≠ mc^2 because the intensity is different for a non-vegetarian crooked brain which has only seen ups and downs”.
- Sun Tv released a video in 2010, which showed Nithyananda along with his close disciple actress Ranjitha. This drew huge negative criticism on him.
- In June 2018, he was again accused of raping a disciple for a period of five years. Karnataka trial court framed charges against Nithyananda and a few ashram associates in this case.
Swami Nithyananda Funny Sayings
- “A ghost cannot harm you, it can only be seen by you. At
the most , it can ask you for help.” - “If you feel the ghost of your family member is present in your house, don’t be afraid. They may be just begging you for help.”
- “Fermi Paradox is stupidity. I would call it stupidity paradox.” FYI: Fermi paradox is the contradiction between lack of evidence and the high probability that aliens exist.
- “There are millions of planets where life exists and they are regularly visiting the planet earth for educational tours.”
- “When you shower fluoride enters your body through the skin and initiates a fight within yourself, and you don’t become a powerful person.”
- “Alien is an abusive word. The universe is family for us.”
- “Even if I am removed from this planet, I know how to take on more bodies and do what I need to do.”
- “Haritaki does much more good to you than your mother.”
- “Fear of looking at your balance sheet gets you under debt.”
- Every night, sleep after seeing your bank balance as a religious duty, you will get out of debt within one year. I will use my extraordinary powers to help you.”
- “The third eye can be opened, for the sake of God please open it.”
- “I want Oprah Winfrey to know that her roots and roots of India are one and the same.”
- “Whether you are a kid or an adult, opening your third eye will take only seconds for me.”
- “I can’t teach you spirituality, but you can learn!”
Awards And Honors
- In 2007, he was nominated as the chairman of the Hindu University of America, also known as the International Vedic Hindu University, an institution in the US state of Florida.
- In 2012, Nithyananda was featured in the Watkins’ list of the top 100 most spiritually influential living people in the world.
- In April 2012 he was appointed as the 293rd head of Madurai Adheenam. In October 2012, he was removed from the post due to sexual-abuse allegations.
- In February 2013, during the Maha Kumbh Mela, Nithyananda was bestowed the title of Mahamandaleshwar by the head of Panchayati Akhara Mahanirvani.
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