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- He is better known as Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
- He is also the founder of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
headquartered in Bengaluru, India.
- His organization spans 50 countries with 10 million
followers worldwide.
- Swami Nithyananda is allegedly involved in rape cases.
- In 2007, he was elected chairman of the Hindu University
of America, also known as the International Vedic Hindu
University, an institution in the US state of Florida.
- The University is accredited by the National Public
Schools Alliance, which is not recognised as an accrediting
agency by the US Department of Education.
- In 2012, Paramahamsa Nithyananda featured in the
Watkins' list of the top 100 most spiritually influential
living people in the world.
- In February 2013 during the Maha Kumbh Mela, Nithyananda
was bestowed the title of Mahamandaleshwar by the head of
Panchayati Akhara Mahanirvani.
- He has been surrounded by various controversies.
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