Supreme Soul, Satguru Rampalji Maharaj Arrested

“There are seven vital places in your body, of which five are significant. Ganeshji sits on the small of your back; Vishnu and Lakshmi sit on your genital area, Brahma somewhere in between, Shiva and Parvati over your heart, and Durga on your nape.”

“Two chants  are important for you. Previously only one, as taught by Guru Nanak was important, but now two are vital. If you have faith, even if the doctor had given you up, you will be totally cured, cancer or Cancer ka baap (father of cancer), cure is Guaranteed.”

If this Supreme Soul chants the first one within your earshot and you repeat the chant after him, He guarantees that you would not die, and supposing you die, despite the divine guarantee, then He guarantees that you would take human form in the next birth, nothing less. If you learn both chants and repeat them, He guarantees that all your sins will be forgiven and you would take human form, birth after rebirth and live blissfully until you attain moksh, salivation. That is also guaranteed. Thousands of people in the audience can bear witness to this serial guarantee.

“The Supreme Soul commands that you must not go to temple or on pilgrimages, or worship Shiva, Vishnu or the Brahma. Do not hold funeral rites. Anyone can light the funeral pyre. No need to throw the ashes in the Ganges or running water. Just let it lie there. (Makes sense to me). Smoking, drinking and adultery are prohibited.

“Do you think the trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma are the Supreme Souls? You are mistaken. They are perishable gods. Their father is Kaal, and mother Durga. It is no use worshipping them. Obtain gyan (true knowledge) from the Supreme Soul..”

Now, who is this Supreme Soul? It is Satguru (True Teacher) Shri Rampal Ji Maharaj; He is the eleventh in line of the true Supreme Soul. He is the Destroyer of All Sufferings’. The Incarnation of God for whom everyone has been waiting for ages has descended to Haryana. The Prophecies of all the Foretellers of the World e.g. Prahlad Bhagat in Janm Sakhi Bhai Bale Wali, Jaigurudev of Mathura, Nostradamus, Lady Florence of New Jersey America, Prof. Cheiro of England, Hungary’s astrologer Boriska Silvigar, Dr. Zulvoron of France, American Charles Clark, Mr. Gerard Crise of Holland, American futurist Anderson, Jean Dixon of America, G. Vegilatin, talk about a “Greatman” (Mahapurush) who has taken birth in a Rural area in Northern Part of India

So you have white men’s prophesies to ratify the above truth. White men’s prophesies and certificates establish (‘guarantee’) the truthfulness of any Indian god’s claim to godhood. Recall Bhagwan Sathya Sai Baba who always had a few whities accompanying him to convince the brownies of his godhood.

Satguru Rampal Ji Maharaj, the current Supreme Soul has Indian witnesses as well on record, too many to name here. Among those who eulogize his powers, on the verge of devotional tears, is an ex-policeman who was assigned to guard the God when He was previously lodged in jail, his former jail warden (both probably thrown out of their jobs in the cause of their devotion), an IAS Officer and  woman of the Arya Samaj  are among the video-taped witnesses. You would also come across the testimony in parrot-like narration of a, six-year old girl who tells you the wonders of the heaven, Satlok, that the Supreme Soul took her to and showed her around. She had a glimpse of hell as she was being led to the heaven, but Rampal JI Maharaj instructed her not to look.

Incidentally, it has not occurred to anyone yet to look into the angle where gods take little girls and boys to see heaven. We have heard of Sathya Sai Baba who took little (mostly white) boys to arouse their kundalini and showed them heaven as well. Some children complained that only Baba’s kundalini was aroused.

How do you know that Satguru Rampal Ji Maharaj is the true Supreme Soul? The original Supreme Soul, the creator of all three worlds, was god Kabir (also known as Allah Kabir, because  “Ved, Gita, Quran, Bible and Guru Granth Sahib all these are nearly same“ –  who lived as a weaver in Benares in the sixteenth century. God Kabir, you heard right. The first Supreme Soul with his first name in English, and his surname in Arabic ( short for Al-Kabir, the Great). Alternatively, in full Arabic, Allah Kabir. He is the master of the universe.

This epic story, narrated by the Satguru himself, would explain how it happened. Guru Garib Dass who died in 1778 AD wanted to acquire gyan, divine knowledge. He went to god Kabir who died two hundred years earlier in 1518 AD and placed his query before him. In answer, god Kabir took him to heaven called Satlok. (I suppose that since gurus are also gods, so they are able to time-travel).

There Garib Das found a haloed Supreme Soul sitting on a throne. As soon as the Supreme Soul saw god Kabir, he arose respectfully and offered his throne to god Kabir. God Kabir sat down on that throne without hesitation, and the Supreme Soul merged with him. Now Garib Das realized that the weaver who lived in Varanasi (more than two hundred years before) was not just god Kabir, but was God Kabir (with Capital G), or the Supreme Soul himself.

Do all these stories appear weird to you? They shouldn’t. Not if you believe in the seven-headed beasts and seven-eyed lamb and a God who does justice by shedding blood of cities and the blessed men washing their feet as revealed in Revelations, or of monkeys with huge extendable non-flammable tails and super-superman powers who could speak Sanskrit , of god-heroes who destroyed 14,000 forest dwellers in one day to make it easy for bearded interlopers to do their weird rites to pollute the forests as in Ramayanam, or of a sun that rises in a swamp in the East and sets in another swamp in the West, or of the visible miracle of sky-dome being held up without a single pillar as in Quran, or of a god who could materialize Rolex watches with original label and emblem and all by his divine powers without breaking patent laws as in Sathya Sai Baba claims, you being an educated professional or whatever, why would the suffering villagers of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar or Nepal think that the epic I cite above is weird?

Supreme Soul Rampal Ji Maharaj was born in a humble Haryana family like any other rustic child (just as Krishna was born in jail and  brought up by cowherds). He, having acquired a diploma in engineering, joined Haryana agricultural department as a Junior Engineer. While serving the department, he spent time practising forty odes to Hanuman (Hanuman Chalisa) until he met a guru who enlightened him that he was wasting his time, that gods like Vishnu, Shiv and Brahma were perishable gods, that the real God was god Kabir.

Thus enlightened, Rampal Ji realized his responsibility and spent his time going from house to house and spreading this true knowledge. When the knowledge reached the ears of his superiors, who obviously were not pious enough, and had noticed that he was never at work, they told him to resign or else… Having realized that he was indeed the incarnation of the Supreme Soul, he resigned the mundane job he was supposed to be doing while proselytizing for god Kabir. If you argue that he was thrown out, the Supreme Soul can give you the file number and letter number of his resignation.

By then sufficiently enriched spiritually and financially (remember that he was a J.E. in the irrigation department where farmers worship you even if you were not god) Rampal started an Ashram – a resort for Gurus of the kind – in Rohtak in Haryana., A certain sect of Arya Samaj took umbrage when he spoke ill of their founder. Now Arya Samaj is a break-off sect from Hinduism, with a strong foothold in the area. Riots ensued. According to Rampal Ji’s own website, rounds were being fired in air from the ashram as well in self-defence, and a woman, women being always the expendable victim, died in the Ashram. Rampal was arrested and put in jail on a two-and-a-half year tenure. The website goes to show that the jail warden and a jail guard worshipped him.

While He had time in his Ashram, Satguru (True Teacher), also self-styled JagatGuru (World Teacher) Rampal Ji Maharaj challenged all the saints of the world. His facebook page sent out this “open challenge” :’

Satguru Rampal Ji Maharaj shared a link.
December 17, 2013
All the Saints of the world are respectfully invited for a Spiritual Knowledge Discussion with Jagatguru Rampal Ji Maharaj. The Spiritual Knowledge Discussion will be organised by and aired on Sadhna Channel. If anyone is incapable of affording the expenses, then all the expenses will be borne by Satlok Ashram, Barwala. If you do not come forward for the Spiritual Knowledge Discussion, then we will believe that you accept your defeat and that you do not have complete knowledge about God and His way of worship. http://www.jagatgururampalji.org/

Quite expectedly, neither the Pope, nor the Ayatollah of Iran, Archbishop of Canterbury, anyone among the several Shankaracharyas of India, Nirmal Baba, Asaram Bapu or his son, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar who was once game for Zakir Naik’s challenge, and not even DR. Zakir Naik, the perpetual one-side debater and a challenger by his own right, accepted the challenge, thereby accepting their defeat.

Of his trial and incarceration due to a previous murder case involving his followers within the Ashram, the Supreme Soul said:

“It is God’s rule that “Pure gold does not fear the flame”. Such injustice and oppression is being done by some contemporary politicians and corrupt officials. Some corrupt judges are even tarnishing the image of the court of justice. Even in Supreme Court and High Court some selfish judges are doing injustice for their self-interest. Even they, instead of justice, have only done injustice”.

Rampal came out of jail, and shifted his abode from Rohtak, together with his fleet of Mercedes Benz and BMW cars to a 12-acre Ashram in Hissar, fitted with massage beds, gymnasium, private swimming pools, spa et al for himself and lesser housings for lesser beings, somewhat like, I guess, the Sri Sri Ravishankar Ashram in Bangalore that I once stayed in disguise for a week.

Here, in this Ashram, the Supreme Soul takes bath in pure cow milk, which is collected in large cauldrons for preparing kheer (a sweet made of milk, sugar and a cereal such as rice) as Prasad (blessing) for the devotees. Thousands – educated and uneducated, professionals and jobless, young attired in goggles and jeans, old in their dhotis and pyjama and women with babes in arms throng to get a palmful of this Prasad for eating. Who wouldn’t want to wash away his sins after strangling his or her girl babies at birth by eating any Prasad, even the thing that contains the sweat and filth of a Supreme Soul such as Satguru Rampal?

State Election came, and it seemed like heyday for the Supreme Soul. The two main rival political parties – the Congress and the BJP – went to Him for not just blessings, but also for campaigning by way of satsanghs (Holy meetings) on their respective behalf. They appealed to him just as Arjun and Duryodhan went to the other Supreme God (Supreme Godhead, as per ISKON founder). Here this Supreme Soul made a holy error. Thinking this was an opportunity for Him to expand His billions-worth universe of the faithful, He put up his price way too high. Even Gods make mistakes. (Remember how another Supreme Soul thought it was safe enough to accept burnt and piece offerings of Abel and to reject Cain’s vegetables and thereby got his favourite Abel killed?) In this case, this Supreme Soul offended both Cain and Abel, forgetting that no God is above an infuriated government supported by the (relatively unarmed) Hindu militia known as the RSS.

However the Indian judicial system kept grinding at its steady, albeit slow pace. The courts ordered Rampal ji to appear before them to answer questions on the death of a woman. Expectedly, being the Supreme Soul with a following of a hundred thousand lesser souls, Rampal Ji rejected the summons with the contempt they deserved not once, but some forty-three times. Unfortunately, the courts interpreted it as contempt of the court and issued a non-bailable warrant.

Unlike Ravi Shankar’s more modest Ashram, Rampal Ji’s Ashram (also called Satlok, True world or heaven) had a wall twenty-foot high with 2-foot wide brickwork to protect the Supreme Soul from interfering sinners like the police and judges, not to mention tax collectors, the tribe cursed by another Supreme Soul, Jesus Christ, and gun-license inspectors cursed by one and all.

This Supreme Soul Rampal Ji keeps a militia of over two hundred armed men to guard him; and thousands of devotees are always on the alert to keep him away from interfering courts and arms of the law. However, just as every dog has his day, every god has his bad days. The High Court gave an ultimatum to the police : Get that man before this court in the next couple of weeks.

The police of Haryana, some of them possibly with divided devotion, got into action. The Satlok Ashram was surrounded. Warnings were poured into the ears of the Supreme Soul to surrender. The God had men, women and children shielding him. Those who were not willing to do the shielding were forced to do it.

Who fired first is a divine mystery. Police forced the issue initially by using tear gas grenades and such mundane weapons as lathis (bamboo sticks invented by the British for Indian police) . Supreme Soul’s men, fully armed fired as well.   Bullet-proof jackets were found; detectives are trying to solve the mystery how and why military bullet-proof jackets were acquired by God. Two policemen were injured. Five women and an infant  lay dead inside the compound of the Ashram. Not shot, no bullet marks on body, as per the postmortem report, but beaten to death by a blunt instrument.

After days of stand-off, the Supreme Soul was captured. The police have charged him with what appears to be unassailable but what are actually hard-to-prove charges – sedition, murder and a couple of other crimes.

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Red light ahead — legalising prostitution imposes cataclysmic social costs

NCW chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam has declared NCW’s intent to endorse legalisation of prostitution at the forthcoming consultation of the Supreme Court appointed committee reviewing government schemes, in order to achieve more effective rehabilitation and basic citizen rights for ‘sex workers’.
This committee’s task had earlier been clarified as one geared to ensure livelihoods through technical skills acquisition enabling life with dignity and basic citizen rights, not to be construed as SC approval of ‘sex work’. The NCW chairperson has cited the ‘Sonagachi model’ of unionising ‘sex workers’, which i have extensively documented for its flawed research, false health claims and dubious impact.
National interest demands a fuller debate on the legalisation of prostitution. Germany’s number of women in prostitution has doubled since legalisation, yet 90% plus are still illegal, mostly trafficked from less prosperous countries. Now known as the ‘bordello of Europe’ with a sex tourism business built on the backs of mostly migrant women supposedly exercising choice, Germany has luxurious multi-storeyed mega brothels in several cities, making pimps and procurers res-pectable businessmen. Political forces want to backtrack but are helpless before enormous vested interests.
Netherlands, which preceded Germany with the ‘individual choice, human rights’ paradigm, has its deputy prime minister calling it ‘a national mistake’. The Dutch justice minister and police concede lack of improvement in the condition of prostituted women, still poorer health, and increased numbers in ‘not voluntary’ drug addiction. Significant links with organised crime have led to many brothel closures.
The European Parliament passed this year by overwhelming majority a detailed resolution to tackle sexual exploitation and prostitution, and their impact on gender equality. It noted two models in Europe – the German/Netherlands ‘individual choice, legalised sex work’ model vs the ‘Nordic model’ positioning prostitution within the spectrum of violence against women as sexual exploitation and marker of gender inequality. Sweden decriminalises the exploited seller, offers support and exit programmes but criminalises the purchasers and procurers.
Ironically, since 1999 many activists urged India to follow a similar ‘demand reduction’ strategy, explicitly penalising the buyer. Demand reduction is also enjoined by the 2000
Palermo Protocol supplementing the
UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime to which
India is a signatory. Today, the Swedish model stands vindicated – adopted by Norway, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, Russia, Philippines and Korea.
But in India this attempt was obstructed, as powerful foreign donors backed pro-prostitution and condom centric HIV/AIDS programmes that helped (a) sexualise the media and (b) seeded high risk sexual networks to form privileged communities in the name of HIV/AIDS prevention.
Better laws, implementation, policing, support systems for women’s safety and sexual abuse prevention are required – as is, above all, a change in the male mindset. If respect for bodily integrity is interpreted to include the right to barter it in commercial transactions, this tears all intimacy out of socially legitimate relationships. The current battle to secure bodily integrity, including the battle against marital rape, can scarcely succeed if we sanction the wilful sale of the body. Legalisation of prostitution benefits an already discredited business model and imposes cataclysmic social costs.

By: Rami Chhabra (The writer is a feminist, columnist and activist.)
Courtesy: The Times of India
Dated : November 6, 2014

Rape Case Against Raghaveshwara Bharathi : Let The Guilty Be Punished

Raghaveshwara Bharathi (officially, Shree Shree Jagadguru Sri Shankaracharya Srimad Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji), is the present pontiff (Guru) of Shri Ramachandrapura Mutt, Hosanagara in Shimoga district in the Indian state of Karnataka. He is the 36th pontiff of the mutt. He took sannyasa from Raghavendra Bharati, the previous pontiff, in April 1994. He is a follower of Advaita Vedanta.
Bharathi in his early days before taking initiation was known by the name Hareesha Sharma. He was born in the village called Chaduravalli in Sagara, Karnataka.
He studied Vedantha, Yoga, Astrology and Sanskrit in Mysore.
On 28 April 1999, Bharathi was made seer following the death of Raghavendra Bharathi.

Seer accused of sexually abusing woman. Shri Ramachandrapur Mutt files a police complaint of blackmail against her and her husband.

On August 28, Administrators of the Shri Ramachandrapur Mutt in Hosanagar of Shimoga district have filed a police complaint of blackmail against a singer and her husband. In retaliation, the couple’s daughter filed a counter-complaint that the seer of the mutt had sexually abused her mother.

Honnavar police on Tuesday arrested singer Premalatha and her husband Divakar Shastry in Bangalore, for allegedly blackmailing Raghaveshwara Bharati Swami. This led to Premalatha’s daughter lodging a complaint against the seer in Banashankari police station in the city.

The seer has been performing Chaturmasa at Raghottam mutt in Kekkar village in Honnavar taluk for the past month. On August 15, the mutt administrator filed a criminal complaint against Premalatha and Divakar Shastry with Honnavar police, alleging the couple was blackmailing the seer and also threatening artists slated to perform at the Ramakatha function during the Chaturmasa.

The complaint said the Shastrys were pushing the seer to abdicate his Gurupeetha, threatening to defame him if he failed to do so.

Hours after Honnavar police arrested Premalatha and Divakar, their daughter lodged a sexual abuse complaint against the seer. She said the swami’s followers had threatened her mother with dire consequences if the abuse was revealed.

In her two-page written complaint, Premalatha’s daughter said, “My mother was complaining that she has been sexually abused against her will by the swamiji. As my parents have been arrested, only I and my sister are living in the house and we fear the swamiji’s followers will harm us. We received some threatening phone calls.”

Premlatha, on the allegation that they had blackmailed the seer and the math, gave a detailed statement to the police accusing the seer of raping her for more than 90 times at 40 places across the country between 2010 and 2014.

Police said they’ve registered the case under IPC 353A (sexual harassment) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

The JMFC court in Honnavar on Wednesday remanded Divakar to one day in police custody, while Premalatha was sent to judicial custody.

Dogged By Controversies

Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji of Shri Ramachandrapur Mutt in Hosanagar of Shimoga district was at the centre of a controversy after the then Yeddyurappa government handed over the Mahabaleshwara temple of Gokarna to the mutt.

Some priests launched an agitation against this under the banner of Gokarna Hita Rakshana Samithi. Two years ago, some Samithi members were arrested for allegedly trying to implicate the seer in a sex scandal. A few months ago, two men were arrested in Bangalore for allegedly blackmailing the swami and demanding Rs 10 crore from him.

CID Visits Honnavar To Investigate

Two police teams arrived at Honnavar on Thursday September 11 to investigate the two cases involving Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji of Sri Ramachandrapur Math, one relating to blackmail by Premalata Shastri couple, and other, sexual atrocity. One of these teams is headed deputy superintendent of police, Simon, while the other is led by deputy superintendent of police, Ashok Kumar. CID superintendent of police, Siri Gowri, is guiding both these teams.

The personnel met B R Chandrashekhar, who has filed a complaint of blackmail against Shastri couple, and recorded his statements. In the meanwhile, the CID team has also been permitted by the Honnavar court of judicial magistrate (first class), to obtain statements from Premalata couple.

Bangalore HC Restrains Police From Arresting, Interrogating Raghaveshwara Swamiji

The state high court has adjourned hearing in a petition filed by Sri Raghaveshwara Swamiji of Ramachandrapur Math seeking to quash the first information report filed against him relating to complaint of sexual harassment allegations made against him, to September 23. It has also ordered the government and police to maintain status quo in the issue and not to arrest the Swamiji or subject him to questioning till then.

At the same time, the judge asked the advocate representing the Swamiji to file counter to objections which the government proposes to file against the said petition. Advocate for the government has sought time to file applications against the application moved by the Swamiji.

The single judge bench presided over by Justice K N Phaneendra, which had earlier stayed arrest and questioning of the spiritual head of Ramchandrapur Math till September 19, extended the operation of this order till September 23 when the case came up for hearing on Friday September 19.

Rationalists’ And Humanists’ Forum Of India Demands A Fair Investigation

Debashis, the General Secretary of Rationalists’ and Humanists’ Forum of India has urged the state government to file an appeal against the high court directive that has stayed arrest of Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji. Members of Rationalists’ and Humanists’ Forum of India met deputy commissioner, Vipul Bansal, on 11th September and handed over a petition. The organization has termed the high court order barring police from arresting or interrogating Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji till September 19 as unfortunate. Even if the Swamiji is innocent, he has to come clean through due legal process. The police department, which arrested Premalata and Diwakar Shastri immediately after complaint of blackmail was registered against the couple, functioned against the principle of equality before law by not arresting the accused Swamiji even after a woman complained that she had been raped by him,’ RHFI pointed out.

The Honnavar court has reserved its order on the bail petition moved by Premalata Shastri couple in the case of blackmail registered against them, to September 16. Presiding officer of the court, M S Harini, who had extended judicial custody of the couple till September 23.

CID Grills Raghaveshwara Bharati For Five Hours

Raghaveshwara Bharati, the pontiff of Hosanagar-based Ramachandrapura Math, was questioned for almost five hours at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office on Tuesday October 14.

The pontiff, who appeared before the investigating officer (IO) at around 2 pm, reportedly co-operated well with the investigation. Meanwhile, the CID served him another notice to appear before the IO on Wednesday October 15.

The State High Court Issued Interim Stay On The Medical Tests

The state high court, on Monday October 20, issued interim stay on the medical tests proposed to be conducted on Sri Raghaveshwara Swamiji on Tuesday October 21. A single judge bench of the high court, which considered a petition filed by the Swamiji against subjecting him to medical tests, duly questioning the notice served by CID police on him to be present at Victoria Hospital for the test on Tuesday, issued this order.

Placing arguments before the bench, advocate for the Swamiji argued that conducting medical tests immediately after charges of rape are filed can alone be considered as meaningful exercise. He pointed out that in this case, complaint was filed with much delay, and subjecting people to medical tests without backed by strong evidence violates fundamental rights of the concerned and right to privacy. He also averred that the policemen are not right in conducting medical tests of people accused in every case.

RHFI Continues To protest

Debashis said that the cases filed against and by the Swamiji are becoming complicated with each passing week, as the Swamiji has so far succeeded in getting his requests for injunctions against issuing statements to media by Premalata Shastri and others against him, anticipatory bail, order not to arrest him, etc, granted by the courts. If the sheer is not guilty, he should coperate with the investigation and would readily agree for the medical test as it would only help him to prove his innocence.

RHFI demands a fair investigation. Let us not think that the hindu seers are above law under BJP rule.

HC Refuses To Quash Criminal Case Against Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swami

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday gave freedom for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to interrogate Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swami of Sri Ramachandrapura Math in a criminal case registered against him.

Justice K.N. Phaneendra, while dismissing the seer’s petition questioning the first information report (FIR) registered against him, said the FIR cannot be quashed at this early stage as the status and reputation of not only the seer but also the woman were at stake. He said that only a “fair and efficient” investigation could ascertain whether the allegations levelled against the seer were false or true.
Though the High Court vacated its interim order of restraining the police from interrogating or arresting the seer, in its Thursday’s order it reminded the police that the discretionary power of investigating officers to arrest an accused should be used “with all care and caution.

Anticipatory Bail

On October 9, a City Civil and Sessions Court granted an interim anticipatory bail to the seer for a period of 30 days on the condition that the police should release him on bail in the event of his arrest. The trial court directed the seer not to tamper with or threaten witnesses while imposing other conditions.

RHFI Continues To Fight

RHFI hopes that the CID would conduct a fair, impartial, meticulous and efficient investigation. Both the accused and the complainants should be given equal opportunity to support their claims. RHFI would continue to fight for that right.