You guys familiar with him? if not, look him up on youtube, nithyananda.org and especially google news. Some short threads are all I found on this forum search.

I've posted on reddit, too.. there's barely any interest..

so, I'm a shaivite hindu.. Most of my peers don't seem to realize he's stealing the religion and twisting it to suit his agenda.And that he's almost certainly guilty of what he's accused of. The man has elevated himself to an actual avatar of shiva, the god of the entire cosmos. He's a classic cult. Easily the most western-style cult to ever come up in this country. Layered like Scientology. Brainwashing thru psychology rather than violence or anything else. drives me nuts what this guy is doing, and he's been avoiding the court for 7 fucking years.

There's a new site out there about him that I'm shilling to anyone who's interested. :-D It's much newer and way more incomplete compared to the veteran ones like nithyananda-cult on blogspot. But it's topics tone and analysis are much better and more pointed imo.

check it out --> www.nithyanandatruth.com

it's clearly a cheeky response to the sangha's defensive propaganda site: www.nithyanandatruth.org

read that too for fairness' sake, though most here are already familiar with other rich cults are not going to be very impressed by the same basic misdirects and nitpicking that usually makes up such defenses. :-D

Yeah, that's a brilliant site, I've linked it to people before. Pretty hard to find on google search. And glad to hear there are Hindus like you.

But you'd be better off helping these guys right now if you're interested at all in doing something:

[www.facebook.com]

There used to be a lot of discussion of Nithyananda on a pre Facebook
discussion group called Guruphiliac.

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