Hindu Guru Nithyananda Sri Paramahamsa And Actress, Ranjitha, Rock India With Oral Sex Video
When a celebrity sex tape breaks in the West, it’s usually the swan song of a dying D-list career. People hem and haw, pop-culture blogs post some video stills, and a few of the celebrity’s fans get moist. But when a sex tape breaks in India, and one of the celebrities is a famous Hindu holy man with over 2 million followers, people start rioting and breaking shit.
Sun TV, a private Indian channel based in Chennai, recently featured video footage of famous, self-proclaimed spiritual guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda, getting a handjob and a blowjob from Tamil actress, Ranjitha. The video’s pretty tame by Western standards—it features no full blown peen, drug use, or cum facials. In it, the guru basically kicks back and watches TV while his mistress massages his leg, rubs his groin and starts giving him head. For most of it, the guru actually seems more interested in TV than in the blowjob from his comely lass. However, in the last minute of the video, he throws his leg around her for some affectionate post-coital cuddling.
The second video shows him having sexual intercourse in a darkened room, but it’s so dark and unclear that we didn’t bother taking stills (though you can watch and download the videos for yourself here). But even though the videos are softcore by Western standards, what happened next is pretty hardcore!
The following Wednesday after the broadcast, angry followers of the disgraced guru began attacking parts of his ashram (a religious commune) near Bangalore in Karnataka state. Nine people got arrested for throwing stones, ransacking the place, and setting fire to huts inside the ashram.
The guru’s group, the Life Bliss Foundation, said, “we feel that a mix of conspiracy, graphics and rumors are at play in these recent events that have unfolded. We are working on a legal course of action.” At first, everyone wondered who set up the hidden camera sting operation and whether Ranjitha was involved. But finally they discovered, Nityananda’s disciple revealed that he had made the video tape. Swami Dharmananda alias Lenin Karuppan had videographed Swami Nithyananda with Tamil Actress Ranjitha. He had filed a complaint against him that he used to sexually assault the women visiting the ashram. it was one of the guru’s disciples:
Nityananda’s disciple revealed that he had made the video tape. Swami Dharmananda alias Lenin Karuppan had videographed Swami Nithyananda with Tamil Actress Ranjitha. He had filed a complaint against him that he used to sexually assault the women visiting the ashram.
The guru had already been panned in the press for charging high amounts for his retreats and camps, but as a result of this scandal, he has But in the meanwhile, the guru has disappeared! Only recently did a spokesperson on Nityananda’s behalf say that he was not hiding but merely left to attend the Kumbh Mela (a mass Hindu pilgrimage) and that would come back and meet the press on March 18.
Meanwhile, the actress in question eventually broke her silence and said she is merely the guru’s “devotee” and that their time together was merely “an offering”:
Speaking in an interview to a Tamil website, Ranjitha admitted she was a devotee of Nityananda and used to offer her services like ‘feeding’ and ‘massaging’ to him.
“The media has unnecessarily blown the issue out of proportion. I know swamiji for the past few years and my association with him is quite transparent…As a true devotee, I offered my services like feeding and massaging him regularly in his room. I used to stay with him till late and the ashram inmates knew about it,” Ranjitha is quoted as saying.
However, in the video, Ranjitha is shown not just feeding and massaging the swami, but also lying on top of him and indulging in a sexual foreplay. The video is learnt to be secretly shot by Nityananda’s onetime associate Lenin Karuppan, who has accused the swami of “misbehaving” with beautiful women and “forcing” them into performing sexual acts with him.
The entire thing’s going under investigation by Indian courts and police. Since the video aired on March 2nd, several of the guru’s organizational outposts have stopped rendering services “until the truth is known.” Gurus aren’t always expected to be celibate, unlike Catholic priests. So the idea of the swami having sex is only scandalous because it may reveal abuses that go against the traditional image of a pure, ascetic holy man, and also because his partner was a famous actress.
Sex tape scandals typically pass over in a week in America, but we have a feeling the trouble brewing in India over this scandal may go on for months!
