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Swami Resigns Over Sex Tape Scandal (VIDEO)

First Posted: 05/30/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:00 PM ET

Paramhamsa Nityananda, the popular Indian Swami who faced protests after a local television played a video that appeared to show him in bed with two women, has announced he's resigning as head of a religion organization.

"I have decided to live a life of spiritual seclusion, for some indefinite time...," he said in a statement on his website.

The 32-year-old Swami had been under siege due to the sexually suggestive tapes earlier this month. The Nithyananda Mission ashram released a statement calling the video "a mix of conspiracy, graphics and rumours", but followers attacked the building.

A Hindu holy man, Swami Nityananda was reported to have over 2 million followers and has over 11 ashrams in India and 26 in different countries around the world.

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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
11:23 AM on 04/22/2010
Awaken2010 is a prayer ministry group in the United States and I am sure the Hindu Religion and the Jesus Men are at odds as we can all see by the posts.

Paramahmsa Nithyananda is not Sai Baba! All the Sai Baba ranting has nothing to do with Nithyananda. Nithyananda is not a magician, he was just caught with 2 women his own age in the privacy of his own home.

Sai Baba is not the story, Swamiji is. Do not lump all Guru's as the same, please. Big Difference.
01:34 AM on 04/02/2010
swami niithyananda - in trouble this time in USA

Douglas McKellor, has filed criminal complaints in the US state of California. With this new complaint, Nithyananda faces serious charges such as sex, fraud, financial irregularities and physical abuse of devotees in the US.

McKellor has claimed that at least on one occasion he "was placed as a guard in front of the door to make sure that no one, repeat no one, disturbed him and his lady guest", the report published on Sunday, Mar 28 said.

http://www.mynews.in/News/Godman_Nityanand_in_trouble_again,_This_time_in_US_N42103.html
11:02 AM on 04/02/2010
Arabian Sex Tourism http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/news/arab-sex-trade.html
11:03 AM on 04/02/2010
Oppression and Exploitation: Sex Trafficking in Islam http://www.umassd.edu/eportfolio/wms/u_chawes/islam.htm
01:34 AM on 04/02/2010
Hindu sex gurus & crimes

Kripaluji Maharaj: Charged with rape

Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.

Bhimanand (Chitrakoot Wale): Running sex racket

Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687590&page=0
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
11:25 AM on 04/22/2010
Swamiji did not commit these atrocities. You my friend need to sit back and take a breath. Or do they not teach you to breath in the Christian Religion?
01:33 AM on 04/02/2010
Watch Hindu sxx baba - Icchadhari Bhimanand Swami Doing The Nagin Dance In Front Of A Portrait of Sai Baba on India TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUza8p1C1E&feature=channel

This is the Same Baba caught f*ing with prostitutes and doing brothel business at the same sai baba temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScri9j68PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgyJ1pPCM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvB2JxSY9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TmtQtqKHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMIjWah-rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5oLCIIF_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gmTbe_8IQ
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:18 PM on 04/22/2010
Different Guru. Should I lump all Priests in the same category?
05:00 PM on 04/01/2010
Watch Hindu sexx baba Icchadhari Bhimanand Swami Doing The Nagin Dance In Front Of A Portrait of Sai Baba on India TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUza8p1C1E&feature=channel

This is the Same Baba caught f*ing with prostitutes and doing brothel business at the same sai baba temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScri9j68PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgyJ1pPCM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvB2JxSY9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TmtQtqKHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMIjWah-rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5oLCIIF_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gmTbe_8IQ
05:20 PM on 04/01/2010
Sex Trafficking: Dubai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDatAhLzV8
05:22 PM on 04/01/2010
IRAQ-SYRIA-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Sex traffickers target women in war-torn Iraq http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/38db2e39d044b5618c8e973059c18ca9.htm
05:00 PM on 04/01/2010
Hindu sex gurus and crimes

Kripaluji Maharaj: Charged with rape

Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.

Bhimanand (Chitrakoot Wale): Running sex racket

Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687590&page=0
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:40 PM on 04/22/2010
Evangelical Proselytizing.
05:00 PM on 04/01/2010
swami niithya- in trouble this time in USA

Douglas McKellor, has filed criminal complaints in the US state of California. With this new complaint, Nithyananda faces serious charges such as sex, fraud, financial irregularities and physical abuse of devotees in the US.

McKellor has claimed that at least on one occasion he "was placed as a guard in front of the door to make sure that no one, repeat no one, disturbed him and his lady guest", the report published on Sunday, Mar 28 said.

http://www.mynews.in/News/Godman_Nityanand_in_trouble_again,_This_time_in_US_N42103.html
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:40 PM on 04/22/2010
blog comment, not a news source
04:53 PM on 04/01/2010
swami niithyananda in trouble this time in USA

Douglas McKellor, has filed criminal complaints in the US state of California. With this new complaint, Nithyananda faces serious charges such as sex, fraud, financial irregularities and physical abuse of devotees in the US.

McKellor has claimed that at least on one occasion he "was placed as a guard in front of the door to make sure that no one, repeat no one, disturbed him and his lady guest", the report published on Sunday, Mar 28 said.

http://www.mynews.in/News/Godman_Nityanand_in_trouble_again,_This_time_in_US_N42103.html
04:59 PM on 04/01/2010
1s1am was founded by a ped0ph1le; the self-proclaimed "prophet" Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old girl called Aisha. This from the 1slam1c text Hadith: "Narrated Hisham's father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old."
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.236

1slam1c terr0r1sm keeps piling up dead bodies of its victims:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

Latest counts of victims of 1s1am: week of Mar 20 - Mar 26 (124 killed), Feb'2010 (606 killed), 2009 (9000+ killed).
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:41 PM on 04/22/2010
blog comment, not a news source
04:53 PM on 04/01/2010
Hindu sex gurus and sex crimes

Kripaluji Maharaj: Charged with rape

Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.

Bhimanand (Chitrakoot Wale): Running sex racket

Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687590&page=0
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:41 PM on 04/22/2010
We get it, you have a problem with the Hindu Religion. Stop repeating yourself.
04:52 PM on 04/01/2010
Watch Hindu sxx baba Icchadhari Bhimanand Swami Doing The Nagin Dance In Front Of A Portrait of Sai Baba on India TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUza8p1C1E&feature=channel

This is the Same Baba caught f*ing with prostitutes and doing brothel business at the same sai baba temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScri9j68PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgyJ1pPCM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvB2JxSY9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TmtQtqKHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMIjWah-rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5oLCIIF_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gmTbe_8IQ
04:22 PM on 04/01/2010
Watch Hindu guru Icchadhari Bhimanand Swami Doing The Nagin Dance In Front Of A Portrait of Sai Baba on India TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUza8p1C1E&feature=channel

This is the Same Baba caught f*ing with prostitutes and doing brothel business at the same sai baba temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScri9j68PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgyJ1pPCM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvB2JxSY9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TmtQtqKHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMIjWah-rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5oLCIIF_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gmTbe_8IQ
04:28 PM on 04/01/2010
1s1am was founded by a ped0ph1le; the self-proclaimed "prophet" Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old girl called Aisha. This from the 1slam1c text Hadith: "Narrated Hisham's father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old."
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.236

1slam1c terr0r1sm keeps piling up dead bodies of its victims:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

Latest counts of victims of 1s1am: week of Mar 20 - Mar 26 (124 killed), Feb'2010 (606 killed), 2009 (9000+ killed).
04:21 PM on 04/01/2010
Hindu gurus and sex crimes

Kripaluji Maharaj: Charged with rape

Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.

Bhimanand (Chitrakoot Wale): Running sex racket

Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687590&page=0
03:56 PM on 04/01/2010
Watch Hindu swami Icchadhari Bhimanand Swami Doing The Nagin Dance In Front Of A Portrait of Sai Baba on India TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUza8p1C1E&feature=channel

This is the Same Baba caught f*ing with prostitutes and doing brothel business at the same sai baba temple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScri9j68PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgyJ1pPCM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvB2JxSY9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TmtQtqKHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMIjWah-rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5oLCIIF_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gmTbe_8IQ
03:58 PM on 04/01/2010
1slam (founded by a ped0ph1le; self-proclaimed "prophet" Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old girl called Aisha) keeps piling up dead bodies of its victims:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

Latest numbers of victims killed by 1slam : week of Mar 20 - Mar 26 (124 killed), Feb'2010 (606 killed), 2009 (9000+ killed).
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enlightenedgirl
the truth will set you free
12:46 PM on 04/22/2010
Evangelical Proselytizing
03:56 PM on 04/01/2010
Hindu sex abuse babas

Kripaluji Maharaj: Charged with rape

Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.

Bhimanand (Chitrakoot Wale): Running sex racket

Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687590&page=0
03:33 PM on 04/01/2010
swami niithya in trouble this time in USA

Douglas McKellor, has filed criminal complaints in the US state of California. With this new complaint, Nithyananda faces serious charges such as sex, fraud, financial irregularities and physical abuse of devotees in the US.

McKellor has claimed that at least on one occasion he "was placed as a guard in front of the door to make sure that no one, repeat no one, disturbed him and his lady guest", the report published on Sunday, Mar 28 said.

http://www.mynews.in/News/Godman_Nityanand_in_trouble_again,_This_time_in_US_N42103.html
03:50 PM on 04/01/2010
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a young man who once had a bright future, was brainwashed by 1slam and 1slam1c terr0r1sts into trying to blow up and k1ll hundreds of innocent people.

Nidal Malik Hasan, an 1slam1c "j1had1" terr0r1st, killed 13 members of the United Stated military in cold blood.

1slam1c terr0r1sts in Russia just killed 40 innocent people.

1slam1c terr0r1sts killed 3000+ Americans in a heinous manner on 9/11.

And 1slam (founded by a ped0ph1le; self-proclaimed "prophet" Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old girl called Aisha) keeps piling up dead bodies of its victims:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

Latest numbers of victims killed by 1slam : week of Mar 20 - Mar 26 (124 killed), Feb'2010 (606 killed), 2009 (9000+ killed).