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 popular in whole world and Third eye of Nirmal Baba TV Episodes became more popular in peoples .[1]
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.[2] He grew up in Palamau, Jharkhand after his parents shifted there in the Fifties.[3] He is married to Sushma Narula and has a daughter and a son.[4]
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.[5] 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.[6]
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.[3]
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.[7] 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).[8] The tagline of the show was "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 Baba."[9]
Allegations of fraud
'Nirmal Darbar' a trust[10] and spiritual program run by Nirmal Baba came under media and legal attacks because of its allegedly fraudulent activities and for charging exorbitant sums of money from people claiming to solve their problems with the help of self proclaimed "divine powers" and solutions through eating certain things like rabdi, pani-puri etc.[11] Soon after the media criticism, his Facebook page was flooded with comments from supporters and fans. The news site Dailybhaskar has alleged that many of these Facebook profiles are fake.[12][13] During further investigations, as revealed on 15 April 2012, Nirmal Baba had invested the donations collected in his samagam and daswant into buying a hotel worth ₹30 crore (US$3.6 million) in Greater Kailash area of New Delhi.[14] Nirmal Baba was involved in mining of Kyanite from Jyoti Hill, Jharkhand in 1998-1999.[15]
A couple from punjab was happy with teaching of nirmal baba[16] On April 16, 2012, the couple and three others were arrested for using forgery to steal ₹1.7 crore (US$200,000) from Baba.[17][18][19]
References
- ^ Template:Nirmal Darbar TV Episodes
- ^ Nirmal Darbar | Third eye of Nirmal baba | Nirmal baba. nirmaldarbar.com. Retrieved on 2013-04-11. {{Link}} is ambiguous. Please use a more specific template.
- ^ a b Bad press makes no dent in Nirmal Baba's popularity : North, News – India Today. Indiatoday.intoday.in (1 May 2012). Retrieved on 2013-01-17.
- ^ Poonam Sharma (19 May 2012) Who is Nirmal Baba?. The Sunday Indian. Retrieved on 2013-01-17.
- ^ "ONE india News : Nirmal Baba shares some common features with Sai Baba". ONEINDIA News. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "'Nirmal Baba Divine power'". ONEINDIA NEWS. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "How Nirmal Baba rose to popularity on the web". Daily Bhaskar.com. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ http://www.nirmalbaba.com/
- ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-baba-and-his-recipes-to-stardom/941484/0
- ^ Sharif, Aslan (14 April 2012). "Nirmal Baba is media struck | His ferry seems to be sinking post tv interview". Parda Phash. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ "Nirmal Baba's disciple registered complaint in court; Hearing on 1st May". DailyBhaskar.com. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ "More disclosures put Nirmal Baba in tight spot". Zee news. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Selling spirituality: 'Fraud' Nirmal Baba has fake followers too". Daily Bhaskar. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ "Nirmal Baba used donations to buy hotel". Zee news. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Nirmal Baba's disciples booked for forgery". Times of India. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ PTI (16 April 2012). "Case lodged against Nirmal Baba disciples for forgery". IBN Live. Retrieved 17 April 2012.