Nirmal Baba

Nirmal Baba
Nirmal Baba
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Born	Nirmaljeet Singh Narula Samana, Punjab, India
Website	http://nirmalbaba.com/

Nirmaljeet Singh Narula or Nirmal Baba is a Godman and "spiritual leader" known for his public discourses and has followers in some parts of India. Nirmal Baba alias Nirmaljeet Singh Narula became controversial and came to limelight following several allegations of cheating and fraud against him in several states.

Life

Nirmal Baba, former name Nirmaljit Singh Nirula, was born in 1952 in Samana, India, near Patiala Punjab, to a Namdhari Sikh family and is the youngest of two brothers and three sisters. He grew up in Palamau, Jharkhand after his parents shifted there in the Fifties. He is married to Sushma Narula and has a daughter and a son.

Nirmaljit Singh began his brick kiln business in 1981. However, he suffered losses and following this, he started a cloth shop but again failed in his venture. He was then involved in mining of Kyanite from Jyoti Hill, Jharkhand in 1998–1999.

He claims to have attained nirvana in a Jharkhand jungle in the 1980s. He then cut his Sikh hair, shaved off his beard and adopted the name Nirmal Baba.

Nirmal Darbar

Nirmal Darbar used to be the name of the paid televised show corresponding to each public meeting of Baba. This show was broadcast by approximately 40 different channels including AXN, TV Asia, Star News, SAB TV and more. During these Darbars, he used to make public appearances and conversed with aggrieved devotees who usually narrated their personal, social or financial worries to him. He would ask questions to diagnose what has stopped "kirpa" (God's kindness) from flowing in the devotees' lives. He then, used to advise them on those issues publicly and suggested "solutions" to make "kirpa" (God's kindness) flow in the devotees' lives again thereby solving their problems. Nirmal Baba also claims to save his devotees from negative effects of black magic and evil spirits. All the Samagam meetings had tickets for ₹2,000 (US$24). The tagline of the show is "Yantra chale na tantra mantra, na rahe dukhon ka ghera. Bhagya uday ho jayega jab ho, Nirmal Baba aashirwad tera." meaning "Even when objects representing aspects of divine and mystical hymns and sounds having special meanings fail, good luck can be awakened in a person's life by blessings of Nirmal Babaji."

Kirpa

Many babas blame "bad luck” or some planetary or other influences like Shani, Mangal, Rahu, etc. Nirmal Baba maintains that the origin of good luck is from powers (shakti) which are constantly granting favours (kripa) to all people in the world. However, some people create impediments in the flow of kripa and this is what causes "bad luck”. Nirmal Baba claims he diagnoses the impediments and gives some simple remedies to remove the impediments to keep the flow of kripa. In fact he is like a plumber who removes impediments in a pipe to keep the flow going. His remedies are very simple. They basically consist of

a) Keeping in touch with the shaktis so that they are induced to keep the kripa flowing. He advises his devotees to visit temples regularly so that kripa will continue flowing.

b) He advocates giving of charity like free food to be distributed to poor people to support the flow of kripa.

c) He identifies some action of the devotee which creates impediments in the flow of kripa. For example he feels the reason a devotee does not conceive a child is because she is eating samosa with red sauce instead of green chatni, consequently showing red signal to the flow of kripa. If she eats the samosa with green chatni, the signal will become green and the kripa will start flowing again. He advocates keeping a money plant in a glass bottle to keep the money flowing. He advises devotees to close their eyes and open their purses or wallets so that the kripa will flow into the purses or wallets and eventually fill them with money.

He has classified devotees’ intentions: getting money, getting child, getting job, getting growth in business, among other things, and he gives a simple plan of action to remove impediments in the flow of kripa. This encourages the devotees to follow the plan of action. If the steps are successful and devotees get money Nirmal Baba suggests 10% of the money should be donated to the poor as "Daswand". He also charges Rs.2000/- per devotee attending the conference which he calls "samagam”. From the point of view of the devotees who are mostly middle class these are steps easy to take. In the period he specifies, some devotees get some success which they attribute to Nirmal Baba’s blessings (aashirwad). Other devotees wait for some more time. Once they start believing in Nirmal Baba they credit anything good happening, to his blessings. One devotee who got into a car accident and damaged his car said he was saved because of Nirmal Baba’s blessing. Only the car was damaged!

Thus, Nirmal Baba has created a safe and simple system of keeping the kripa flowing and improving his devotee’s luck. Compared to other babas, this does not involve any black magic or rituals to pacify or counter the planetary influence of Shani, Mangal, Rahu, etc and is simple to follow. Those who cannot afford to pay Rs.2000/- to attend the "samagam”, can watch it on TV and still get the flow of kripa and the blessings of Nirmal Baba free. They can also follow the advice given by Nirmal Baba to the devotees who attend in person in case they find that advice is applicable to them and get the benefit free of cost! He does not advocate any specific medicines so that he does not come under the mischief of the Magical Remedies Act. He does not take any money from the devotees except attendance fee for the samagam. The devotees pay 10% of the profit if they wish to pay. Thus the entire process seems to involve no special cost and not surprisingly the number of devotees has grown to a few lakhs (Nirmal Baba claims one crore of devotees all over the world).Nearly 40 TV channels telecast the Nirmal Baba programme every day (as paid advertisement) and for many people it is a good substitute for the news channel and even the entertainment soaps.

The success of Nirmal Baba has created a lot of jealousy because he estimated his own annual income at Rs.238 cores without having any power to create miracles or any special knowledge of Yoga or Reiki, Vastushastra or astrology. He has merely the gift of the gab which sustains him through his discourses. He is essentially successful because he focuses on the luck factor. Everybody wants to be lucky and Nirmal Baba provides an easy and economic way to be favoured by luck!

Similarities b/w Sai Baba & godman Nirmal Baba

According to OneindianewsNirmal Baba have similarities to sai Baba.Despite several stern controversies over Nirmal Baba, the followers of the godman still keep their faith on the spiritual guru. Their beliefs on their guru compel them to think that Nirmal Baba shares some common features with Sai Baba. According to supporters and true followers of Nirmal Baba, their guru can show magics with his divine power as Shirdi Sai Baba used to show. The devotees of Nirmal Baba also show few more similarities between Shirdi Sai Baba and Nirmal Baba saying that even Shirdi Sai had faced opposition during his lifetime as Nirmal has been facing since last few weeks. During a samagam in Delhi on Wednesday, Apr 18, a follower of Nirmal Baba has been quoted as saying, "...even Sai Baba used to show his magical powers just like you (Nirmal Baba) do." Showing their wrath on the media for allegedly pursuing an anti-Nirmal Baba campaign, the godman's disciples claimed, "...they (the media) will face the wrath of fate, definitely." Meanwhile, Nirmal Baba claimed, "My devotees are themselves exposing these conspiracies. It's they (media) who are being exposed by bringing forth fake devotees and getting them to say things against me." Earlier, the supporters of Nirmal Baba lashed out at the media for showing the self-proclaimed Godman in a negative light after a series of controversies started questioning his genuineness as a spiritual guru. According to his followers, the media is trying to tarnish Nirmal Baba's image by not reporting the truth. They further said that media's allegations against Nirmal Baba will have no effect on their belief towards spiritual guru.