Kalki Bhagavan

Kalki Bhagawan
Born
Vijay Kumar Naidu

(1949-03-07) 7 March 1949 (age 74)
Natham, Madras State, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
NationalityIndian
Other namesSri Bhagavan, Amma Bhagwan (as a couple)
Alma materDG Vaishnav College, Chennai
Known forSpiritual teacher from India
Spouse
'Padmavathi'
​
(m. 1977)​

Kalki Bhagawan (born 7 March 1949 as Vijay Kumar Naidu), also known as Sri Bhagavan, is a spiritual teacher from India.[1][a]. He is the founder of 'Oneness' / 'Ekam' and White Lotus Conglomerate.[8]. He is a former clerk in the LIC.

Kalki Bhagavan claims to be an incarnation of God (Kalki Avatar) capable of performing miracles. In 1989, he launched a spiritual organization called Oneness, and prophesied to inaugurate a spiritual golden age in the world in the year 2012.[b] When after 2012 the Golden Age was not clearly perceivable in people’s lives 21st December 2012, many Western followers left in disappointment. It was handed over to his son NKV Krishna (“Krishnaji”) and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna (“Preethaji”). They have rebranded it under different names like 'Ekam', 'pkconsciousness', and 'O&O Academy'.[c]

Kalki Bhagavan founded the White Lotus Conglomerate [18] which is now owned by his son N.K.V. Krishna[19][20]. It is a multimillion dollar group of companies with interests in real estate, mining, entertainment, sport, agriculture, education, finance and manufacturing. Prominent Acharyas in the former Oneness organization like Anandagiri and Samadarshini sit on the boards of these companies.[21]

In 2019, Indian law enforcement agencies raided Kalki Bhagavan's properties and confiscated unaccounted assets worth US$67 Million. The Enforcement Directorate attached 900 acres of land belonging to his ashram and registered a case against him under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.[d]

Early life

Kalki Bhagavan (front row center) with his son NKV Krishna (back row left) and wife Padmavathi (back row center). Circa 1990

Kalki Bhagavan was born as Vijay Kumar Naidu on 7 March 1949 in Natham Village, Gudiyatham Town, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, to Smt. Vaidarbhi Amma and Sri Varadarajulu. His father was the head of the accounts department of Indian Railways. In 1955, when he was six years of age, his family moved to Chennai. There, he attended Don Bosco School in Chennai. He graduated from DG Vaishnav College in Chennai, majoring in Mathematics.[28] After completing college, he began working as an office clerk for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).[29]

He married Smt. Padmavathi on 9 June 1977 in an arranged marriage following the prevalent customary practice in India for marriages decided by elders in the family.[30] Padmavathi, who is addressed as Amma by their students, takes an interest and participation in building the spiritual organization Oneness.[30]

According to an article on thefederal.com [29] "at an early age, he was introduced to the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti by his childhood friend R. Sankar". The article also states "he was a frequent visitor to the Theosophical Society in Chennai."

According to an article [31] in India Today in 1983, he was expelled from the Rishi Valley School by the Krishnamurthy foundation "for undisclosed reasons" where he used to work as an administrator with R. Sankar.

Family

Kalki Bhagavan's immediate family includes his wife Padmavati, his son NKV Krishna, and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna.

Alternative names

Kalki Bhagavan (born Vijay Kumar Naidu) is referred to by his followers as Sri Bhagavan, and popularly known as Kalki Bhagavan.[32] He has also been called Kalki, and other names including Bhagavan Ishwara and Mukteshwar.[33][34] In Sanskrit, Mukteshwar means 'Lord of Salvation'.[35]

Kalki Bhagavan's wife has been known by many names including Bujjamma, 'Padmavathi' and 'Amma'.[36] Kalki Bhagavan and his wife together are known by their followers as Amma Bhagavan.[37]

Oneness / Ekam Organization

Over the years, Sri Bhagavan's Oneness movement has had various names including the Foundation for World Awakening, Golden Age Foundation, Bhagavad Dharma, Kalki Dharma, Oneness University and Oneness Organization.[37][38] Its stated mission is to "create oneness for all for lasting spiritual transformation". The headquarters is in Varadaiahpalem, Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh.[38]

In 2017, the Oneness organization was handed over to Kalki Bhagavan's son, NKV Krishna and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna.[39] They have renamed the organization to 'Ekam'.[39]

Claims and predictions

Tenth avatar of Vishnu

A depiction of Kalki, the prophesied tenth avatar of Vishnu
Kalki Avatar Punjab Hills, Guler, c. 1765.

In the 1990s, Kalki Bhagavan claimed to be Kalki, the tenth Avatar of Vishnu.[40] Kalki Bhagavan's wife, otherwise known as 'Amma', is considered the incarnation of Vishnu's consort, Padmavati.[41]

According to Hindu Puranic tradition, Kalki rides a white horse and carries a sword.Prophesies written in the Vishnu Purana describe Kalki as marrying princess Padmavati of Simhala.[42]

Kalki Bhagavan and Padmavati give darshan or a 'divine glimpse' for the public, and charge money to followers for the privilege.[33] It costs around $60 for a 'divine glimpse' of the couple in a crowded room, and $700 for a one-on-one meeting with Kalki Bhagavan.[43]

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements says that Kalki Bhagavan is currently the most famous of the spiritual leaders laying claim to being the final and future avatar of Kalki.[44] Other individuals who have claimed to be Kalki include Agastya Joshi, who also claimed to be Mahdi; and Samael Aun Weor, founder of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement.[45] Another claimant is Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi of the Kalki Avatar Foundation, founded in 2000 by Younus AlGohar.[46][47] Yet another claimant was the American writer Adi Da (also known as 'Da Kalki').

The moola mantra (main chant of the organization) celebrates Kalki Bhagavan as "the embodiment of truth-consciousness-bliss", referring to Kalki Bhagavan as the "Supreme Godhead, Perfect Person and the Transcendent Self" (Satchidananda para brahman, Purushottam Paramatma).[33]

Mahavakyas (Commandments) of Kalki Bhagavan

Makarand Paranjape notes[33] when declaring himself to be the Kalki avatar, Kalki Bhagavan issued a collection of Mahavakyas, or 'commandments', examples:

Formless as I am, I the Antaryamin shall awaken formless inside you, or it the form you desire, or the form I choose...for every form is my form.[33]

I am...the Supreme Creator, the Supremely Sacred, the Supreme immanent inner Controller of all that is, the immortal – I am Ishvara...With my coming, it is the dawn of the Golden Age of ten thousand years of a new cycle; for I incarnate to inaugurate every new cycle, every twenty-four thousand years.[33]

Your nature has become sinful as you no longer relate to me...I transcend your understanding because you comprehend me only partially.[33]

Paranjape questions the first Mahavakya[33] asking: "If Kalki is formless, or if all forms are his, why should one form, that embodied in the Srimurti (Kalki Bhagavan's photograph), be preferred to all other forms?". An article from Outlook India quotes Kalki Bhagavan in directing his followers to:

Purify and cleanse yourselves of your sinful nature so that you could be saved by Me from the natural calamities and...varied sufferings that would issue forth from March 1998.[48]

Claims as a godman

As a godman, Kalki Bhagavan has made a number of claims and predictions. In a 2005 video interview with Mitchel Jay Rabin for A Better World TV, he claimed to have supernatural powers like the ability to:[49]

  • Revive dead people back to life
  • Materialize honey from his photograph (also called Srimurti)
  • Bring rains to drought prone villages
  • Transfer these supernatural powers to his devotees and monks[49]

In a 2002 interview to the India Today magazine, he called himself 'spiritual supermarket', and claimed to have the ability to make people experience God:

"You can be a Christian and I will make you see Christ. You can be a Hindu and I can make you see Rama. I am a spiritual supermarket" – Kalki Bhagavan, 2002[50]

In the same interview, he claimed to have clairvoyant powers –

"If you ask me whether you will own an Opel Astra, I will shut my eyes and try to see you in one. If I see the image, I'll tell you that you will own it within a given period" – Kalki Bhagavan, 2002[50]

He also claimed to be an incarnation of God –

"I believe I can function like God and rid people of their miseries." – Kalki Bhagavan, 2002[50]

Rebuttal of godman claims

In 2002, Bhagavan claimed that miracle of honey flowing from his picture was witnessed by Indian Rationalist Hosur Narasimhaiah, who in turn claims not to have witnessed the said miracle.[50]

The Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association, a rationalist group based in Mangalore, Karnataka has claimed to have debunked his various claims of miracles over the years.[51]

Death of organised religions

According to an article in India Today[52] "Vijayakumar believes, for instance, that the Kalki cult he heads will survive even though "organised religions will die between 2005 and 2012"". In 2019 writer DP Satish observed that "he has been proved wrong" and that "the opposite is now happening".[53]

As of 2010, Christianity had an estimated 2.2 billion followers worldwide, while Islam had 1.6 billion. Hinduism had around 1 billion.[54]

Scientific claims for deeksha

Kalki Bhagavan claims that when enough people have received 'deeksha', a type of Oneness 'blessing', a critical mass will be reached, affecting the collective DNA of humanity.[55] He also claims that enlightenment is a neurobiological process, and that overactive parietal lobes are the "biological seat of the ego".[56] Another of his claims is that many psychochosomatic ailments are healed by deeksha.[57] However, after initially supporting these claims in 2006, author Arjuna Ardagh later wrote that pilot studies in India and the USA had found little indication that deeksha has any effect on the brain that was different from meditation or other kinds of relaxation.[58]

2012 Phenomenon

Kalki Bhagavan had claimed that by 2012, he would enlighten 64,000 people to a state of extremely high consciousness who will in turn 'enlighten' the rest of humanity.[15] In 2002, he announced that in the coming decade, humanity would be entering a new Golden Age, and he was going facilitate the transition.[44]

In 2004, Mayanist Carl Johan Calleman based on interpretations of the Mayan calendar, collaborated with Sri Bhagavan to initiate a worldwide festival called Oneness Celebration on the occasion of the Venus Transit of June 3, 2004.[59] During that period, Kalki Bhagavan claimed that by the year 2012, inside the Oneness Temple, there would be between 5,000 and 8,000 people meditating at all times.[60]

Most western spiritual seekers lost interest in the Oneness Movement when they did not experience any 'spiritual awakening' and 'enlightenment' promised to them by Kalki Bhagavan. There was further disappointment when, after 2012, the Golden Age was not clearly perceivable in people’s lives; it was reinterpreted by those who remained in the movement as a gradual process unfolding over a period of time. [61]

Cause of human suffering

Kalki Bhagavan claims that the only cause for human suffering is the strong sense of a separate self that each individual experiences that gives each the feeling of "me and a not-me". According to him, this is what causes problems in the home, in relationships between people, and in wars between nations.[62]

Business activities and real estate development

White Lotus conglomerate

Kalki Bhagavan founded the White Lotus Conglomerate [63]. It is now owned by his son N.K.V. Krishna[64][65]

The White Lotus is a conglomerate of businesses in various sectors like real estate, property development, energy, media and sport having names like White Lotus Group, Kosmik/Kosmic, Sacredbanyan, Transend, KPL, Bluewater, Golden Lotus, Goldenage, Chatrachaya, Yogi and Enlite.[66] Senior members of the former Oneness organization also sit on the boards of these companies.[21] These include two acharyas originally in charge of the order of the monks, Ananda Giri and Jyothirmayee Chundi, also known as Samadarshini.[21] Samadarshini was previously head of the Kalki order of nuns in Bangalore.[67]

In an article on Open (Indian magazine) it was alleged that many of these are shell companies and exist only as mailing addresses.[68]

In 2020, the White Lotus group joined a consortium which is bid upwards of $200 Million USD to buy Reliance Communications from Indian Businessman Anil Ambani.[69]

The Dubai-based White Lotus Investment Group was co-founded by Raju Poosapati (PSR Raju), an associate of N.K.V Krishna.[70] The group has invested in The Pinnacle tower in Nairobi, the tallest in Africa, which is currently construction as of 2016 [71] as a co-development with the Hass Petroleum group.[66] Between them, White Lotus Group and Hass Petroleum have invested $200 million in the Pinnacle Project.[72]

The White Lotus property development group also has offices in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska.[73]The White Lotus Group owns the 1930s Redick Tower building in Lincoln, Nebraska. After a $7 million re-development, it was re-opened in 2010 as the Hotel Deco XV.[74]

Music, media and sport

Kosmik Music,[75] is a music label with more than 1,200 titles ranging from Classical, Spiritual, Fusion, New Age, Devotional and Film. Its most successful brand is "Sacred Chants" that was from traditional Vedic hymns.[76]

The Kalki trust is reported to have purchased "Studio N" in 2014 from Narne Srinivas Rao, father-in-law of film actor N. T. Rama Rao Jr.[77]

Criticisms

Early criticisms of the Kalki organization

Professor Makarand Paranjape, a former Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, described his experience in 1997 when attending a 'darshan' ceremony at Kalki Bhagavan's colony in Andhra Pradesh.[33] After his visit, Makarand Paranjape described the movement as a new 'religion', or at least a new 'cult'; with Kalki Bhagavan as a 'living god' served by his own monastic order; and with tales of miracles being performed.[33] Paranjape quotes one of the followers who says that "No one can suppress our movement"; and that Kalki devotees are fanatical "...and will lay down their lives for Kalki, but never waver from their faith."[33]

Paranjape is critical, saying that a follower's personal discovery of Kalki does not result in freedom from external authority. Rather, he says, it is in conforming to the official tenets of the cult, which is how it maintains tight control over its followers.[33]

An article in Outlook India in 1997 was also critical of what the author called the 'Kalki craze' – which had started spreading to America and Russia.[48] The author describes stories of miracles attributed to Kalki Bhagavan, and the garlands of flowers on his portrait, which was revered by the dasas and followers.[48] It also described how there were seven acharyas, 'chosen ones', which included Anandagiri, responsible for propagating in the USA the godman's prophesies of the "new light breaking upon the earth".[48]

Shankara Bhagawat (R. Sankar), Kalki Bhagavan's first disciple and close childhood friend, who co-founded the Oneness Organization, left him in 1998, after alleging that Oneness Movement was controlling and manipulative.[78] Freddy Nielsen, Kalki Bhagavan's close associate from Sweden and his long-time follower since 1989, left him in 2005 after directing criticism against Kalki Bhagavan and the Oneness Movement.[79]

In November 2009 there was a change, when 25 of the senior instructors, including NKV Krishna, Anandagiri and Vimalkirti, disaffiliated from Kalki and Amma Bhagavan to form a separate named 'One World Academy'.[58]

Arjuna Ardagh, author of the book Awakening into Oneness noted in 2010 that more than 70 percent of the people he interviewed for the book had ceased their association with Oneness Organization and Kalki Bhagavan due to disappointment, disillusionment, allegations and controversies.[58] He outlined this an afterword he added to his book Awakening into Oneness (Dutch edition).[58] In particular, he mentioned Erwin Laslow, who wrote the book's foreword, Rani Kumra, who ran the American movement, and scientist Christian Opitz who researched the effects of deeksha in the brain.[58] In addition, Ardagh wrote that the '100 Village Project' he referred to in Chapter 10 of Awakening into Oneness had been abandoned.[58]

Since 2013, many Westerners lost interest in the Oneness Movement when they did not experience 'spiritual awakening'. There was further disappointment when, after 2012, the much anticipated and supposed 'Golden Age' was not perceivable in people's lives.[61]

In 2000, the Tamil novelist, Indumathi, accused the Oneness organization of pressuring her to recruit well-known personalities within her personal circle, such as Latha Rajinikanth.[80]

In 2019, Taiwanese Actress Yi Nengjing removed her social media post promoting Kalki Bhagavan's teaching after the Chinese Communist Party through its Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and China Anti-Cult Association (CACA) issued a warning about the Oneness activities in the state run media Global Times. The Chinese Communist Party claimed that the Oneness Organization used '2012' philosophy to control its believers.[81][82]

During the 1990s, local village people near the Oneness ashram organised protests against Kalki Bhagavan and his organization for cheaply buying up hundreds of acres of land from local farmers. Subsequently, some of the farmers had their land returned to them.[83]

Legal cases

In 2002, a public interest litigation for income tax probe of the Kalki Trust was dismissed and rejected by the Madras High Court and then also by the Indian Supreme Court. [84]

Income tax raids in 2019

Unaccounted assets worth US$67 Million were confiscated from the Ashram of Kalki Bhagavan by Indian Law Enforcement agencies.

In October 2019, more than 300 Income Tax department officials and police personnel raided about 40 premises associated with various businesses owned by Kalki Bhagavan and his family. During the marathon raid which took place for 5 days, the department confiscated unaccounted assets including:[23]

  • Cash and gold worth US$12 Million
  • Cash receipts worth US$55 Million

Investigators said Kalki Bhagavan laundered money and purchased assets abroad through Hawala transactions.[22] His son N.K.V. Krishna and Krishna's wife, Preetha Krishna, were questioned by the income tax department.

The Enforcement Directorate registered a case against Bhagavan and Krishna under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.[22] In December 2019, 907 acres of land owned by Kalki Bhagavan and his family was attached by Indian Law Enforcement agencies.[24]

Reporters subsequently visiting Kalki Bhagavan's ashram near Chennai found it to be deserted, with all eleven cash counters closed.[85]

Kalki Bhagavan issued a statement denying that he had fled the country.[86]

Personal information

Health

During 2012–2013, Kalki Bhagavan was underwent an open heart surgery in Apollo Hospital in Chennai.[87] In October 2016, Kalki Bhagavan was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai due to a health ailment.[88] In November 2019, he was admitted to an Intensive care unit (ICU) of a private hospital at Vanagaram after a heart attack.[89]

Political affiliation

According to an article[90] in The Week Kalki Bhagavan has affiliation with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a regional political party in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The article further claims he belongs to the Kamma community and alleges that when "the TDP was in power, lawmakers used to frequent Kalki Bhagavan's ashram".

The same article states he "supported the TDP in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019."

The article[90] also alleges his son NKV Krishna "has links with the Telugu Desam Party" and is the co-owner of the news channel Studio N which "was founded and run by TDP party members".

See also

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  2. ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[9][10][11]
  3. ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[12][13][14][15][16][17]
  4. ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[22][23][24][25][26][27]

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