INNER AWAKENING, Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam’s flagship yoga and meditation retreat, culminated in a spiritual tour to South India’s ancient temple towns of Madurai and Tiruvannamalai.
Bidadi ashram, 07 June 2012: Hours after 20 individuals from the Kannada channel Suvarna led by chief Ajit entered a press meet addressed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda and tried to serve a summons illegally to Nithyananda, Suvarna channel’s hired hands committed multiple acts of violence on men and women ashramites inside the Bidadi ashram campus. They then pushed the ashram administrator Sri Atmaprabhananda to the ground and assaulted him with a huge stone, causing severe head injuries and profuse bleeding. The other ashramites who rushed to their aid were also manhandled and abused, including women ashramites.
18 May 2012: 'We express our strong condemnation of the Central Government’s decision to reclassify Baba Ramdev’s three charitable trusts as commercial ventures, and levy income taxes to the tune of Rs.58 crore (580 million) on their ayurvedic medicine sales for the year 2009-10.'
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