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nityAnanda/ nithyAnanda

  • Bad examples for followers:
    • Numerous sex scandals,
    • dancing on father’s corpse.
    • entrapment of whistle-blowers
  • Hilariously wrong claims
    • “abhinavagupta inspired shankarAchArya”
    • “sun delayed his rising for me.”

sadhguru jaggi vAsudev

  • Wrong claims about science, scientists and scientific facts. NM12
  • Sanskrit etymology mistakes
    • Confusing: ‘kala’ (‘kāla’, “time” or “dark”), ‘kali’ (‘kālī’, the goddess), and ‘khali’ (khālī/ख़ाली/خالي, “empty”) - NM, YT.
    • “Shiva ’literally’ means ’that which is not’”. JM_FB, IMG.
  • ““When a woman delivers twins, one male and one female, one breast will produce one type of milk and the other breast will produce another type of milk.” TW

Kanchi periyava

Kanchi MahasvamI produced foolishness that claimed crazy stuff such as “all religions are the same”, “ramses and rama are related”, “aztec is probably a corrpution of Astika” etc.. (1).

  • But, a mitigating factor: “the AchArya was not a svayaM-devatA-vAdin & upheld the deva-dharma sincerely despite certain serious idiosyncratic misapprehensions”.

करपात्री

१९८० में भी करपात्री स्वामी जी का मत था पृथ्वी घूमती नहीं है। भौतिकी और विज्ञान से अपरिचित होते हुए भी वे आर्यभट, केप्लर, न्यूटन और आधुनिक वैज्ञानिकों सहित सभी भूभ्रमणवादियों को ‘भ्रान्त’ कहते थे, यद्यपि इस विषय में वे स्वयं भ्रान्त थे।

  • Nityanand Mishra YT