ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRAUDS- ASARAM BAPU (THE KING OF ALL BABAS)

Hello friends,

First of all wish you all a very very happy and Prosperous New year 2015, hope this year goes much more healthy and happy and may our country become more beautiful and prosperous than earlier and we achieve our goal of actual freedom.

Now friends today I would like to discuss about the king of all babas, the one and only "Mr. Asaram Bapu", whose works are as famous as that of our celebrities. When you'll read about him, his background from beginning till now, then you'll be shocked.

Asaram Bapu, born: Sirumalani on 17 April 1941 is a godman from India. He preaches the existence of One Supreme Conscious and claims Bhakti yoga, Gnana yoga and Karma yoga as influences. But reality is something different friends!In early 1970, Asaram built his first ashram on 10 acres of land in Gujarat and began using the name Asaram Bapu. There are over 400 major and minor ashrams in India and abroad and numerous followers.Asaram has been involved in several controversies including his remarks on the 2012 Delhi gang rape, criminal cases filed against him involving land encroachment by his ashrams and a 2013 charge of sexual assault of a minor, he was arrested.

At one time (1958–1959) he sold tea in front of the Magistrate's office. After the death of his father, he learned meditation and spirituality from his mother. Over a period of years he acquired 10 acres of land in Gujarat, and he set up a small ashram. At that time he dropped his surname and began calling himself Asaram Bapu. He finally left his family and travelled the country, until he went to Vrindavan to the ashram of Saint Lila shah.He is married to Lakshmi Devi with whom he has a son, Narayan “Prem" Sai Harpalani and Bharti Devi, a daughter.Sant Shri Asaram is an organization of ashrams devoted to Asaram Bapu. The ashrams and its subsidiaries offer prayer services, yoga, and various other services. The first such ashram was established in 1971 at Ahmedabad, in Gujarat. This main Ashram also acts as the managing office for various other organizations formed by Asaram Bapu.Globally, there are more than 200 Asaram Bapu Ashrams, in addition to more than 1,500 meditation centresEven In 2012, Asaram requested people to celebrate Valentine's Day as Parents' Worship Day. 

Asaram was widely criticised after his remark that the 2012 Delhi gang rape victim was equally guilty along with those responsible for the sexual assault on her. He is reported to have said: "Only five or six people are not the culprits. The victim is as guilty as her rapists… She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop… This could have saved her dignity and life. Can one hand clap? I don't think so; He is also reported to have said that he was against harsher punishments for the accused in the Delhi rape victim case, as the law could be misused. To support his point, he is said to have stated that, "Dowry law in India is the biggest example of law being misused.

Asaram denied giving any statement in which he blamed the girl for the gang rape. According to him, his statement was distorted and misrepresented. He announced a reward of 50,000 rupees for anyone who can prove he blamed the victim for the gang rape.

In August 2013, Asaram was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at his ashram in Jodhpur on the pretext of exorcising her from evil spirits. Two days after the alleged assault the girl's parents filed a complaint with the police in Delhi and a medical examination confirmed that she had been assaulted. When Asaram did not appear for interrogation by 31 August, Delhi police booked him under Indian Penal Code sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), and sections of the Juvenile Justice Act, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Asaram remained inside his other ashram in Indore and avoided arrest while his devotees clashed with journalists and policemen outside. Eventually, the Jodhpur police arrested him on 1 September 2013 from his Asaram. He has dismissed the girl's allegations and said accusations were a conspiracy orchestrated by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi of the then-ruling Congress Party.