Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s Resurrection is not only essential to the great Being’s message of love, compassion and deep sense of gratitude, but it is equally essential to the repair and rehabilitation of the shattered souls like us, His disciples. Nithyananda has come to our succour time and again, whenever we cried and beseeched him for his help, “…… like a bridge over troubled waters……. when friends just can’t be found…..”, etc. as in the famous lines of Simon & Garfunkel. So this is the way we pay back a Being, who until one day was your answer to every problem, real and imagined; and, the next day you trample upon the fallen, without even waiting to hear the other side of the story!

The media feeds on people’s taste for prurience. Godless politicians are ready top pounce on titillating tidbits – after all, they own and therefore manipulate the public taste and the craving for relentless sleaze and key-hole morality. It serves the godless, self-serving politicians’ purpose of selling their newspapers or TV channels better. They stoop to such levels and take the flock of mindless sheep, the public, with them. Isn’t there a law somewhere that says, no man is guilty until proved? No, not in India, the “great” land of tolerance and patience. In our country, your are guilty until proven innocent – because that’s what the media and the salivating politician waiting for vendetta would have you believe! Tomorrow it could be anybody, it could be your picture in the news channels – in this age of high- tech morphing, cut-and-paste.

Having Swamiji in our midst again is as essential to man’s faith in spirituality as Jesus' resurrection was to the Christian faith. St. Paul writes in his first letter to the Corinthians "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Paul emphasizes the importance of the Resurrection with his statement "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not"

(I Corinthians 15:14-15).

Let’s not forget Swamiji’s core message – follow my teachings, don’t hold on to my being. I don’t believe that his message taught us to be judgmental - to pre-judge and to bury the man that still breathes. We have learned nothing from the great Being! We are writing the epitaph of a Being that cannot die. We are demonstrating true gratitude, aren’t we? Aren’t we, who are now ready to run away and seek yet another ashram or abode, the truly ungrateful? Let us all, for God’s sake, stand behind the great Being and show our solidarity when He is in need.

Nithyanandam!

Dr. N. Ramchandran (a disciple) (posted on 6th Mar., 2010)