Nithyanandam friends,
Yesterday I met my friend Dr Karen Jones MD for lunch.
Karen is a surgeon in women's health care and also has a private practice in energy healing. She is a Lutheran Christian, and studies as well with Sai Ma.
She learned about SwamiJi from me last summer 2009. When he came to Seattle in Nov 2009, Karen came attended the program.
The wife of Karen's church minister was very sick with liver failure. In July 2009 she had been placed into hospice program, which means her doctor gave her less than six months to live. Many treatments had been tried and all had failed. She was extremely swollen with fluids and in constant pain and nausea.
Karen asked SwamiJi during darshan to heal her friend. He agreed and promised it would happen.
A month later, the fluid swelling was noticeably reduced and the minister's wife was well enough that her husband took her to Hawaii for a "last trip".
When they returned, she continued to improve. Now, in May 2010, she is fully back to her regular life and only sees her doctor for occasional monitoring. Her liver tests have normalized.
I didn't know any of this until yesterday. Karen and I had both been traveling since Kalpataru and she never told me about her friend nor about her request.
Karen agreed that I could quote her story and use her name at this website. She looks forward to seeing SwamiJi again when he next tours the US.
I am very happy that Nithyananda is taking these negative forces head on. When he is out in public life nobody can stop him from winning people's heart. Now when he is in jail, all the inmates and officials are getting blessings from him and I am sure he is now working on the psyque of the people who r not in public life, he is intense energy who is active all the time and changing this world very fast. Now nobody can stop the Master. Wow I am so happy for all the poor, simple people who had lost faith in everything, now god is descending in so many forms and the brave Nithyananda has taken the toughest task. It will be a treat to watch this battle, How beautifully this statement of Vivekananda is coming true that a single YOGI is sufficient to erase 90 lakh negative people, It will be overwhelming victory for The Master Nithyananda. He is amazing/ Adbhut.
SanSha
From The New York Times: PONDICHERRY, INDIA — A businessman I know was approached by representatives of a leading Indian national newspaper and offered a deal: Give us a stake in your company, and we’ll give you advertising space and favorable editorial coverage. A publisher told me that she received a similar proposition: Pay us, and we’ll interview your authors and write features about them. Sushma Swaraj, the parliamentary leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has said that she was offered favorable media coverage during national elections last year in exchange for 10 million rupees, or $220,000. I wrote a few weeks ago about the commercialization of intellectual and cultural life in India. There is perhaps no example of this trend more egregious than the phenomenon of “paid content” or “paid news,” in which space for articles in newspapers, magazines and the electronic media is sold without it being labeled as such for readers. Rumors about shady practices — unethical, possibly illegal — in the Indian media have circulated for years. Over the past year or so, and especially since the 2009 parliamentary elections, when the sale of media space was reported to have reached new heights, the issue has drawn more attention. Questions have been raised in Parliament. Last July, the Press Council of India, a government-sanctioned monitoring group, formed a two-man committee to look into the allegations. The committee completed a draft report last week that was due to be released publicly, but that release is on hold after a strong show of opposition from media owners. Nonetheless, many of the report’s key findings have been leaked into the public domain, and they make for damning reading. Though publishers have complained that the evidence presented is weak, the report identifies several publications that are believed to have sold editorial space and it lists scores of instances in which the practice allegedly occurred. Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta, one of the authors of the report, told me that one of its most disturbing findings was that the practice of paid content had become “institutionalized.” He said that it goes beyond individual editors or publishers, and beyond the occasional paid junket. “What started out as an individual aberration has become an illness, an epidemic of sorts,” he said. “This makes the malpractice all the more troubling.” The commercialization of the Indian media takes many forms. It has been known for some time that a few of India’s leading media conglomerates — including Bennett, Coleman & Co., the publisher of The Times of India and The Economic Times — offer what that company calls “innovative” and “integrated” marketing strategies that blur the traditional line between advertising and article content. Bennett, Coleman’s Medianet division, for example, lets advertisers place articles on certain pages in the paper without clearly marking them as advertising. One of the company’s more aggressive offerings is a product known as a Private Treaty, which offers companies a certain amount of advertising space in exchange for equity stakes in those companies. According to the Private Treaties Web site, Bennett, Coleman now holds such equity stakes in more than 100 companies. Officially, the companies are only given advertising space. But at least one businessman confirmed to me that it was made clear that he could also expect favorable news coverage. At the very least, it seems evident that Private Treaties set up a very serious conflict of interest, a point highlighted last year when the Indian stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, wrote a letter to the chairman of the Press Council expressing concern about the business practice. Private Treaties are an example of the commodification of business news. But much of the recent attention in India has focused on paid political content. Over the past year or so, there have been a growing number of reports of politicians paying media houses for favorable coverage or to skirt restrictions on campaign financing. P. Sainath, the rural affairs editor of The Hindu, a national newspaper, has been instrumental in drawing attention to such practices. In a series of articles on elections in Maharashtra State last year, Mr. Sainath listed specific prices for different kinds of articles. For 400,000 rupees, he found, newspapers would publish the profile of a candidate as well as “four news items of your choice.” For 15 million rupees — ten times the amount a candidate in state assembly elections can legally spend on a campaign — politicians could buy a special supplement. Such practices come in for particular condemnation in the Press Council report, which argues that paid political content is not only unethical, but also illegal. Paying for political content involves three acts of deception, the report says, according to Mr. Guha-Thakurta. First, it deceives citizens and consumers, who are not aware that the “news” they are reading is in fact an advertisement. Second, it violates election spending laws. And finally, newspapers receiving payment from politicians are usually violating tax laws, given that the operations are clandestine. More generally, the report argues that paid content “undermines Indian democracy” and it calls on the government to protect India’s democratic values and institutions. Notably, it recommends adding the purchase of content to the list of acts — including corruption and incitement to communal violence — that are already defined as “electoral malpractice” under Indian law. Driving the prevalence of paid content are some of the forces to which I drew attention a few weeks ago: a growing infatuation in India with commerce and business, and the incursion of markets into virtually every aspect of private and public life. In many respects, the advent of competition has been good for the media. According to a recent study, the Indian newspaper market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 12.5 percent between 2009 and 2013, making it a rare bright spot in the otherwise dismal firmament of the global media industry. But with this growth come new pressures, too. India has almost 70,000 registered newspapers and more than 450 television channels. It is perhaps unsurprising that some of these publishers have been tempted to experiment with new business models and to take shortcuts to profits. Unsurprising — but for the country, and for the sake of its public life and democracy, deeply worrisome.
LETTER FROM INDIA: In India, Sometimes News Is Just a Product Placement
The country is grappling with reports that editorial space in newspapers and other media outlets is being sold to companies or politicians without it being labeled as such for readers. Read on....
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/world/asia/08iht-letter.html
TO THE AUTHORITIES WHO EVER .
I SUBMIT MYSELF AS WITNESS TO THE UNENDING
BENEFITS GIVEN TO ME FOR MY LIFE TIME BY NITYANANDA .
WILL YOU PLEASE ALLOW US TO UTILISE OUR PRECIOUS
LIFE TIME WITH THIS NEVER-GOING -TO BE- AVAILABLE
POWER, GRACE , COMPASSION MOST LIVING MAHAAN -- NITYANANDA? .
WILL YOU PL CLOSE THE MEDIA- MADE AND ... ...(WHO EVER WANTED
ANY MONETARY OR OTHER BENEFITS FROM THE CENTRE ) - MADE LITIGATIONS
ON NITYANANDA AND RETURN OUR PROPERTY ' NITYANANDA '
BACK TO US . ? I SAY THIS BECAUSE I MYSELF IS MY WITNESS TO THE
BENEFITS I DERIVED FROM NITYANANDA . THE SOURCES WHICH TALK
scandals NOW - HAVE NEITHER KNOWN HIM .. NOR HAVE GIVEN ANY CLEAR
PROOF OF ANY OF ITS PURPORTED ACTIVITY OF NITYANANDA .
PLEASE SAVE US BY RETURNING NITYANANDA BACK TO THE WORLD .
AVOID PAINFUL( IN OUR HEARTS ) RELIGIOUS WAR ( YES BECAUSE
A WRONG ATTACK OF OUR RELIGIOUS FEELINGS ARE DONE
ONLY BY THE MEDIA AND OTHER SOURCES , BECAUSE WE HAVE BENEFITED
FROM NITYAHDA .. SO ..YES ITS A TERRORIST LIKE ATTACK ON OUR HEARTS AND BELIEFS .
WHAT CASE COULD BE FILED FOR FEELINGS-HITTING TERRORISTS?? I WONDER ! )
WITHIN THE COUNTRY .
THANKS
J,.RUKMANI
CHENNAI