Kalki Bhagavan is the name given to the hindu

Hindu

Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 guru

Guru

A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others . Other forms of manifestation of this principle can include parents, school teachers, non-human objects and even one's own intellectual discipline, if the...

 Vijay Kumar by his disciples. He was born on 7 March 1949 as Vijay Kumar, in Natham

Natham

Natham is a panchayat town in Dindigul district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Demographics: India census, Natham had a population of 22,533. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Natham has an average literacy rate of 40%, lesser than the national average of 59.5%: male...

 district, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

, and worked as a clerk at the Life Insurance Corporation in the early 1980s before becoming an administrator of a school in Rajupeta village in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

's Chittoor District. He and his wife "Amma" Padmavati (born 1954) claim to be divine beings, or avatar

Avatar

In Hinduism, an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation," but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation"....

s. The headquarters of their organisation are in Golden City, near Chennai, India

India

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Etymology

Kalki

Kalki

In Hinduism, Kalki is the tenth and final Maha Avatar of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga. The name Kalki is often a metaphor for eternity or time...

 is the name given to the tenth incarnation of Vishnu

Vishnu

Vishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God....

 when Vishnu will appear on a white horse, wielding a sword, as destroyer of the wicked.
Bhagavan

Bhagavan

Bhagavan, also written Bhagwan or Bhagawan, from the Sanskrit nt-stem literally means "possessing fortune, blessed, prosperous" , and hence "illustrious, divine, venerable, holy", etc.In some traditions of Hinduism it is used to...

 is the name given to a superior guide, or a respectful form to address spiritual teachers or guides, as commonly referred to in guru traditions.

Darshan

The price for a standard darshan

Darshan

or Darshan is a Sanskrit term meaning "sight" , vision, apparition, or glimpse. It is most commonly used for "visions of the divine" in Hindu worship, e.g. of a deity , or a very holy person or artifact...

with Bhagavan is Rs.5. The price for group darshan darshan with Bhagavan is a minimum of Rs.5,000 and Rs. 50,000 for one-to-one darshan, as for March 2010.

Litigation

In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Madras High Court and in the Supreme Court it has been alleged that the personal assets of Kalki Bhagavan and his wife have been enhanced through the misappropriation of donations from their followers. Documents deposited with the Income Tax Department by their son state that Kalki Bhagavan and Amma Bhagavan have received gifts of Rs.5 crore, mostly from outside India.

Deaths

On 2 July 2008 eight people died and more that one hundred were injured during a stampede at a preliminary ceremony marking the inauguration of a Oneness temple.

Opposition

The Communist Party of India has called for an official investigation into the financial affairs of Kalki Bhagavan. The Communist Party has also complained at the occupation by representatives of Kalki Bhagavan of Dalit land for construction purposes at Varadaiahpalem. The Oneness Movement has attracted controversy, with local TV and press reporting corruption within the organisation and unrest among the local population.

Media ban

In March 2010 in the Chennai High Court, a judge issued an order to thirty Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu news channels preventing them from showing footage related to allegations about the organisations and affairs of Kalki Bhagavan.