In a freewheeling chat with the godman, Rajiv Malhotra, a self-styled scholar of Hinduism, discusses Nithyananda’s thoughts on the possibility of transferring one’s current wealth to the next life (Bill Gates be warned). 

Nithyananda also strongly believes Albert Einstein got his equation on energy and matter all wrong. 

Some videos show him as a sparkling figure emanating the “energy” he often talks about.

A few days ago, he tweeted about “enlightening” children. 

All that time, he was being accused of child abuse.

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