22 Jul 2017
Paramahamsa Nithyananda gave a very strong public statement during his Satsang against Dravida Kazhagam for their Anti-poonal fest, and also gave the deeper understandings about the tradition, and how it was being misrepresented and then targetted by DK and other parties. He said, “Some Tamil Nadu atheist organizations are trying to put Yagnopavitam for pigs in a very derogatory, abusive way, and they’re trying to do this as a protest to disrespect the tradition of Yagnopavita. First of all, I wanted them to know Yagnopavita is not restricted to one community, Brahmins as you think. It belongs to all whole Hindus. That is the first thing. The second thing I want to tell. As a practitioner of Agama, who used Yagnopavita on himself, means I used Yagnopavita on Me, and I promote thousands of people – I’ve initiated in Yagnopavita, I and my Sangha strongly protest, oppose this kind of a disrespectful context act. Third, understand, for us even pig is sacred, but you are not doing from that sentiment. You are doing this act to abuse and disrespect us, which can not be accepted, which will not be welcome, and this is not the nineteen sixties. Understand, all these stupid things you can do, not after nineteen seventy-eight. For us even pig is a representation of Varaha (A Hindu incarnation) and we’ve already put Yagnopavita on him and we are worshipping him — but we will not equate that and what you are trying to do. What you are trying to do is from a totally abusive context. Hindus are no more fools to keep quiet and listen to whatever you guys are doing.” – http://www.nithyananda.org/video/why-do-hindus-offer-milk-ghee-shiva-linga