[Advaita-l] Swami Nithyananda - the main issue

[RAMESH RAMANAN]

To all boarders and moderators of the board,

I think the discussion on the so-called Swami Nithyananda does not do any justice to the adavitha board. He was not an proponent of advaita and hence, in my humble view, this board should not be used as a forum for irrelevant discussions, as the discussions have gone too far and I think the moderators may want to close this thread. Pranams to all the members, Ramesh

--- On Tue, 23/3/10, D.V.N. Sarma <dvnsarma at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: D.V.N. Sarma <dvnsarma at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Swami Nithyananda - the main issue
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 5:44
> The main issue is whether Swami
> Nityananda did the things which he has
> been accused of. It is immaterial who has pointed the
> finger. It does
> not make any difference at all. I hope the discussion will
> follow an
> objective approach.
> 
> regards,
> Sarma.
> 
> On 3/21/10, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Satish Arigela
> > <satisharigela at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> >> There was some major pamphleteering on this issue
> in my home town
> >>  and when people dug deep into this, it was
> found out that the one
> >> distributing these pamphlets were actually
> Christians.
> >>
> >> Similarly you might be familiar with the church
> lying about
> >> the St Thomas Mount in Chennai and how the Arch
> Bishop of Madras,
> >> Arulappa paid 15 lakhs to forge some manuscripts
> by inserting Christian
> >> elements into
> >> some Tamil-Hindu works.
> >>
> >
> > Namaste.
> >
> > In this connection I would like to bring to the notice
> of those interested
> > the following:
> >
> > // The Penguin Group has published a book titled, "The
> Hindus-An Alternative
> > History" by a professor of religions at Chicago
> University by name Wendy
> > Doniger. This book contains not only many factual
> errors in Indian history
> > but also misrepresents the beliefs, traditions and
> interpretations of a
> > whole people. //
> >
> > I received an email fwd from a friend containing a
> request to sign a
> > petition to the Publishers to withdraw the book. 
> The selected portions from
> > the Book shown in the petition are enough to convince
> one of the ulterior
> > motive of the author. There is a lot of explicit and
> embedded vulgarity in
> > the author's statements. Even the revered
> Shankaracharya has not been
> > spared.  The cover picture of the Book is a close
> cousin of M F Hussain's
> > depiction of Hindu Goddesses.
> >
> >  Om Tat Sat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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