New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS): Parts of Rajkumar Hirani's "PK", which questions people's blind faith in godmen, were shot at Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's ashram premises. When the filmmaker was questioned as to why he has thanked the spiritual leader in his film's credits, he says he's "only against fake gurus".

Significant portions of Hiranis latest directorial, which has seen a string of controversies, have been shot at Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Foundation ashram in Bengaluru.

The director and the makers are thankful to Ravi Shankar for understanding the importance of the subject and letting them shoot the film in the ashram premises.

Hirani has said in a statement: I'm being asked that if I'm against religious gurus, why have I expressed gratitude to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the film titles. My answer is that I'm not against religious gurus, I'm only against fake gurus.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a courageous man. He gave me the location to shoot, knowing well that this is a film on god and fake godmen. He is beyond pettiness of religion. He can see the larger picture. I admire his work and have tremendous respect for him. We will be showing him the film soon, he added.

Starring Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma, the movie has already crossed the Rs.300 crore-mark in the domestic market.

Stay updated wherever you go with Daijiworld.com and Daijiworld 24X7 tv channel mobile apps. CLICK HERE to download it for your device. (available on Android and IOS)

More here:
Why Hirani expressed gratitude to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A Karnataka police team is camping here to oversee the exhumation and re-post mortem of a body of a Tiruchi woman who died reportedly under mysterious circumstances at the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam near Bidadi recently.

The parents of A. Sangeetha (24), who was a sanyasini at the ashram, suspected foul play in their daughters death and had petitioned the Ramanagaram Superintendent of Police recently seeking a thorough probe besides demanding exhumation of the body and a re-post mortem.

Sangeetha, who had been working in the ashram for four years, died a few days ago. While ashram authorities had claimed that Sangeetha died of cardiac arrest, her parents suspected foul play.

Upon completion of post mortem in Karnataka, the body was brought here and buried near Navalur Kuttapattu, in the citys outskirts, where Sangeethas parents reside.

COMMENTS

Please Wait while comments are loading...

1. Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team. 2. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published. 3. Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and'). 4. We may remove hyperlinks within comments. 5. Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection.

Read more:
Karnataka police to exhume womans body

Creston Valley Advance

The Yasodhara Ashram is preparing for a redesign and rebuild of its cherished Temple of Light, which was destroyed by a fire in June.

The design process will be led by Patkau Architects, a Vancouver firm.

"It's so rare to have a project that is about aspiration as opposed to meeting some sort of expedient requirements," said architect John Patkau in a press release. "The opportunity to do something that speaks to all the senses and the spirit is a rare and wonderful challenge."

The original temple, completed in 1992, was a longtime vision of Swami Sivananda Radha, who founded the ashram in 1963.

"The temple represented the values and vision of the ashram that this is a place open to people from all spiritual traditions," said current president Swami Lalitananda in the press release. "The next iteration of the temple is to say, yes, we honour that vision."

The Temple of Light's white dome was a landmark on Kootenay Lake, and attracted visitors and spiritual pilgrims from around the world.

"Even though this is one little temple in the wilderness of the Kootenays, we see it as a symbol of hope in the world," said Lalitananda. "The world can feel so divided, and the temple is where we recognize unity the light in each other not division. The temple was, and will be again, a sacred space where we can come together in harmony."

The design and planning phases will run 2015, with a goal of having construction completed in 2016.

The fire broke out late in the evening of June 5, and the Riondel and Balfour-Harrop volunteer fire departments responded, working through the night and extinguishing the fire after about 12 hours.

Read more from the original source:
Yasodhara Ahsram on Kootenay Lake planning rebuild of Temple of Light

Bengaluru, Jan 07, 2015, DHNS:

The Bidadi police are awaiting orders of executive magistrate to exhu-me the body of Sangeetha, sanyasini who died at the Nityananda Dhyanapeetam, to conduct a second autopsy.

Sangeetha Arjunan (24), who hailed from Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, died of an alleged cardiac arrest on December 28. According to the Ashram authorities, Sangeetha had collapsed in the ashram and was declared dead at a hospital in Bengaluru.

However, her father Arjunan and mother Jhansirani had filed a complaint with the Ramanagara superintendent of police Chandragupta alleging foul play. The parents said that Sangeetha had moved in with them in Tiruchirapalli some time ago, however the Ashram staff had taken her back.

The parents have moved the request for a second autopsy. We have forwarded the plea to the executive magistrate. The exhumation will be carried out if the magistrate gives a direction, Ramanagara SPChandragupta said.

Go to Top

Originally posted here:
Death at Nitya's ashram:Second autopsy sought