I have always fancied having someone guide me in my Yoga studies. A lot of books say that great progress can be made when you have a guru, as a guru can show you the way. Sounds great, but I am pretty sure I am not going to find anyone who can fit this role. Of late, I do not want it either. I am afraid that the person will let me down. Last year, I was at an ashram in India. I thought I liked a teacher who could explain things very well. I also felt he practiced asanas and everything else that he was talking about. Integrity is super important for a role model. Then I got to know he was after a girl in my class. There is essentially nothing wrong with that. Just that he had claimed a completely different lifestyle in class. That was the last time I ever wanted a guide, teacher or a guru. Now I look for inspiration among my own friends, yogis or non yogis.
I am writing this as I read about this guru called Nithyananda. Normally I do not like to write about such people, they do not deserve my time and space on this blog. This guy has this ashram just outside of my home town, Bangalore. I heard about this guy the entire time I was in India last year. The youngest swami in India. One of the yogis that I had met was a follower of this man. She would meditate on this man and she had told me so much about him. I kept thinking to myself, what would happen if this guru is a fake. It would be such a waste of time and energy. I simply don’t trust anyone who lives in an ashram and claims he is a guru. True to that thought, I read there is so much confusion caused by this man.
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I don’t know why you call the man a “fake”. His name is Nithyananda – which, loosely translated, means perpetual orgasm. How can one fault him for trying to live up to his name? If he wasn’t preaching celibacy, he hasn’t let anyone down. He could even get himself a new name – Dwinaryananda, ie, ananda with two women. Perhaps even come up with a whole set of asanas with that theme, a la that other charlatan Bikram, and then patent it and style himself as the second coming of Patanjali so every dimwit in San Francisco can go beat a path to his “ashram”.
WAWAWEEWAHHH… very nice, i Like very much. I think same swammi Nityadanda come to Kazhakistan one time. He open center for sapporting teenage girls, and he personally sapport each and every one, you see what i means he he he… he always upward facing dog, hee hee
Guru gone Viral!
http://www.slate.com/id/2249853/
vary easy for this guru, he is virus no? i think he how you say congenital virus. con, genital, see? hee hee
Arrested!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Swami-Nityananda-arrested-in-Solan/articleshow/5841947.cms
I always knew there was something weird about Gandhi and his experiments. But was never sure what it was.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/thrill-of-the-chaste-the-truth-about-gandhis-sex-life-1937411.html
Well, no human is perfect. The lesson is not to elevate anyone to such great heights.