Nithyananda Case: Mutalik Blames Missionaries, Archbishop Retaliates
Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP/SB)
Bangalore, Jun 14: Archbishop Dr Bernard Moras, president of the Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights, together with the Christian community in state has expressed severe displeasure on the Mutalik's statement in media that Christian missionaries were behind defaming Nityananda Swamiji, who is mired in controversies for allegedly indulging in sexual romp.
Moras is displeased with such false and malicious propaganda made by Pramod Muthalik against the Christian community. "Such provocative, insinuating and derogatory statements against the Christian community are aimed at creating discord, communal disharmony and disunity in society and to malign the community. Such baseless allegations are intended to create communal distrust." said Archbishop in a statement released to the media.
Picture: Nithyananda Swami performs Panchatapas Yoga with his disciples at his Dhyanapeetam ashram in Bidadi on Sunday.
Founder of Sri Rama Sene, Pramod Mutalik had visited the ashram of Swamiji on Sunday June 13. He met the religious leader, who was released on bail on Saturday evening and held discussions with Nityananda for about 150 minutes.
Speaking to reporters thereafter, Mutalik said that Nityananda Swamiji had grown to a position of eminence at a young age because of the penance and austerities undertaken by him. He accused Christian missionaries of hatching a conspiracy to defame the religious leader.
“Missionaries have long been trying to sully Hindu temples and seer. Sri Rama Sene condemns such lobbies and will continue to fight for the survival and growth of Hindutva,” he said.
After his release, Swami Nityananda along with the disciples is engaged in ‘Panchagni Yajna’, wherein the seer is seated at the centre of a circle of fire that surrounds him at a distance of three feet. This procedure was reportedly undertaken as atonement for the sins or wrongs committed in the past. 21 men and women apart from disciples of the swami, who are reportedly practicing celibacy, took part in the penance.