Kalki Bhagawan

In 2020, the White Lotus group joined a consortium which is bidding upwards of $200 Million USD to buy Reliance Communications from Indian Business tycoon Anil Ambani.

In 2019, Indian law enforcement agencies raided Kalki Bhagavan's properties and confiscated unaccounted assets worth US$67 Million. The Enforcement Directorate attached 900 acres of land belonging to his ashram and registered a case against him under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

In 2019, popular Taiwanese Actress Yi Nengjing removed her social media post promoting Kalki Bhagavan's teaching after the Chinese Communist Party through its Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and China Anti-Cult Association (CACA) issued a warning about the Oneness activities in the state run media Global Times. The Chinese Communist Party claimed that the Oneness Organization used '2012' philosophy to control its believers.

The Dubai-based White Lotus Investment Group was co-founded by tycoon Raju Poosapati (PSR Raju), an associate of N.K.V Krishna. The group has invested in The Pinnacle tower in Nairobi, the tallest in Africa, which is currently under construction. The Pinnacle is a joint venture between White Lotus, Jabavu Village and the Hass Petroleum Group. Between them, the White Lotus and Hass organisations are investing about $200 million in the Pinnacle project. However, as of September 2019, construction of the Pinnacle had stalled. During 2019, the White Lotus Projects group was found to be in contempt of court for proceeding with the Pinnacle project in violation of two court orders issued in 2017. In February 2020, Nairobi police issued an arrest warrant for the CEO of White Lotus, Raju Poosapati. The White Lotus property development group also has offices in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska.

In 2019, writing for the Times of India, Arun Ram recounts that, in 2002, he wrote an article about Kalki Bhagavan's Oneness Movement which resulted in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the publication. However, the Mumbai High Court found in favour of the publication, and the media's 'right to write'.

In October 2019, more than 300 Income Tax department officials and police personnel raided about 40 premises associated with various businesses owned by Kalki Bhagavan and his family. During the marathon raid which took place for 5 days, the department confiscated unaccounted assets including:

The Enforcement Directorate registered a case against Bhagavan and Krishna under the Foreign Exchange Management Act. In December 2019, 907 acres of land owned by Kalki Bhagavan and his family was attached by Indian Law Enforcement agencies.

In November 2019, he was admitted to an Intensive care unit (ICU) of a private hospital at Vanagaram, after he suffered a heart attack.

Vijaykumar openly supported the TDP in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019. Leaders of the regional party YSR Congress, and other opposition parties alleged that the TDP ran its election campaign with the help of Bhagavan's employees who doubled as party workers. K. Adhimulam, a YSR Congress leader, alleged that Kalki Bhagavan was actively funding TDP's election campaign and that his ashram staff were distributing money to voters.

In 2017, the Oneness organization was handed over to Kalki Bhagavan's son, NKV Krishna and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna. They have renamed the cult to 'Ekam'. During 2019, NKV Krishna and Preetha Krishna published a book together, called The Four Sacred Secrets, writing under the names 'Krishnaji' and 'Preethaji'. In January 2020, NKV Krishna was interviewed by Nick Duerden of the British edition of GQ magazine. In the interview, NKV Krishna claimed to be a guru with 10 million followers in India. Krishna told the interviewer that his father saw otherworldly visions, including “...a gigantic golden orb of light provoking him to chant and meditate for the liberation of humankind”, and that he has inherited those visions.

In October 2016, Kalki Bhagavan was again admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai due to a health ailment. He was rushed to the hospital from his ashram at Nemam on the outskirts of the city after he complained of uneasiness.

Bhagavan through his associates, is reported to own a defunct media company Studio N, a satellite television channel that is presently shuttered. It is reported to have been purchased in 2014 from Narne Srinivas Rao, father-in-law of film actor N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

Since 2013, many Westerners lost interest in the Oneness Movement when they did not experience any 'spiritual awakening'. There was further disappointment when, after 2012, the much anticipated and supposed 'Golden Age' was not perceivable in people's lives.

Vijay kumar encourages his followers to worship him as God; and claims to be a divine Avatar capable of performing miracles. He has also claimed to be a Messiah destined to give spiritual enlightenment to mankind. In 1989, he launched a New Religious Movement called Oneness, and prophesied to inaugurate a spiritual golden age in the world in the year 2012. When no such event occurred on 21st December 2012, disappointed followers left the cult and it was handed over to his son NKV Krishna (“Krishnaji”) and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna (“Preethaji”). They have rebranded it under different names like 'Ekam', 'pkconsciousness', and 'O&O Academy'.

Kalki Bhagavan had claimed that by 2012, he would enlighten 64,000 people to a state of extremely high consciousness who will in turn 'enlighten' the rest of humanity. In 2002, he announced that in the coming decade, humanity would be entering a new Golden Age, and he was going facilitate the transition.

Most western spiritual seekers lost interest in the Oneness Movement when they did not experience any 'spiritual awakening' and 'enlightenment' promised to them by Kalki Bhagavan. There was further disappointment when, after 21 December 2012, the much anticipated and supposed 'Golden Age' of 'world enlightenment' prophesied by Kalki Bhagavan did not occur.

During 2012–2013, Kalki Bhagavan was severely ill and underwent an open heart surgery in Apollo Hospital in Chennai.

Arjuna Ardagh, author of the book Awakening into Oneness noted in 2010 that more than 70 percent of the people he interviewed for the book had ceased their association with Oneness Organization and Kalki Bhagavan due to disappointment, disillusionment, allegations and controversies. He outlined this an afterword he added to his book Awakening into Oneness (Dutch edition). In particular, he mentioned Erwin Laslow, who wrote the book's foreword, Rani Kumra, who ran the American movement, and scientist Christian Opitz who researched the effects of deeksha in the brain. In addition, Ardagh wrote that the '100 Village Project' he referred to in Chapter 10 of Awakening into Oneness had been abandoned.

In November 2009 there was a significant change, when 25 of the senior instructors, including NKV Krishna, Anandagiri and Vimalkirti, disaffiliated from Kalki and Amma Bhagavan to form their own organization, which they named 'One World Academy'.

Kalki Bhagavan claims that when enough people have received 'deeksha', a type of Oneness 'blessing', a critical mass will be reached, affecting the collective DNA of humanity. He also claims that enlightenment is a neurobiological process, and that overactive parietal lobes are the "biological seat of the ego". Another of his claims is that many psychochosomatic ailments are healed by deeksha. However, after initially supporting these claims in 2006, author Arjuna Ardagh later wrote that pilot studies in India and the USA had found little indication that deeksha has any effect on the brain that was different from meditation or other kinds of relaxation.

As a godman, Vijaykumar has made a number of claims and predictions. In a 2005 video interview with Mitchel Jay Rabin for A Better World TV, he claimed to have supernatural powers like the ability to:

In 2004, Mayanist Carl Johan Calleman based on interpretations of the Mayan calendar, collaborated with Sri Bhagavan to initiate a worldwide festival called Oneness Celebration on the occasion of the Venus Transit of June 3, 2004. During that period, Kalki Bhagavan claimed that by the year 2012, inside the Oneness Temple, there would be between 5,000 and 8,000 people meditating at all times.

In 2002, social activist Viswanath Swami filed a complaint with the Indian Income-Tax Department, alleging that Kalki Bhagavan had floated multiple trusts for rural development and obtained tax exemption for funds collected by these trusts. Swami also alleged that Kalki Bhagavan was using these funds to help setup multiple corporations for his son NKV Krishna, rather than using the money for the stated purpose.

In a 2002 interview to the India Today magazine, he called himself 'spiritual supermarket', and claimed to have the ability to make people experience God:

In 2002, Bhagavan claimed that miracle of honey flowing from his picture was witnessed by well known Indian Rationalist Hosur Narasimhaiah, who in turn claims not to have witnessed the said miracle.

In 2002, Kalki Bhagavan predicted that all organised religions would die between 2005 and 2012 and that only his Kalki cult would survive. In 2019, after large-scale raids by Income Tax officials, writer DP Satish observed that the godman has been proved wrong and that "the opposite is now happening". As of 2010, Christianity had an estimated 2.2 billion followers worldwide, while Islam had 1.6 billion. Hinduism had around 1 billion. These numbers are predicted to grow substantially in the coming decades.

In 2002, Social activist Viswanath Swami filed a complaint with the Indian Income-Tax Department, alleging that Vijayakumar and his associate R. Shankar had floated more than 10 trusts for rural development and obtained tax exemption for funds collected by these trusts. Swami alleged that Kalki Bhagavan was using these funds to help setup multiple businesses for his son NKV Krishna, rather than using the money for the stated purpose. Following this, in 2004, the Madras High Court took up a public interest litigation alleging misuse of public funds by various Kalki trusts. The Madras High Court then rejected this plea for a probe. Later, when the petitioner approached the Supreme Court of India, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice P. Venkatarama Reddi, upheld the judgement of the Madras High Court. The Supreme court of India after hearing counsel Prashant Bhushan, dismissed and rejected the petition by Vishwanath Swami,

In 2000, the Tamil novelist, Indumathi, accused the Oneness organization of pressuring her to recruit well-known personalities within her personal circle, such as Latha Rajinikanth.

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements says that Vijaykumar is currently the most famous of the spiritual leaders laying claim to being the final and future avatar of Kalki. Other individuals who have claimed to be Kalki include Agastya Joshi, who also claimed to be Mahdi; and Samael Aun Weor, founder of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement. Another claimant is Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi of the Kalki Avatar Foundation, founded in 2000 by Younus AlGohar. Yet another claimant was the American writer Adi Da (also known as 'Da Kalki').

Shankara Bhagawat (R. Sankar), Vijaykumar's first serious disciple and close childhood friend, who co-founded the Oneness Organization, left him in 1998, after alleging that Oneness Movement was controlling and manipulative. Freddy Nielsen, Vijaykumar's close associate from Sweden and his long-time follower since 1989, left him in 2005 after directing severe criticism against Kalki Bhagavan and the Oneness Movement.

Professor Makarand Paranjape, now Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, described his experience in 1997 when attending a 'darshan' ceremony at Vijaykumar's colony in Andhra Pradesh. After his visit, Makarand Paranjape described the movement as a new 'religion', or at least a new 'cult'; with Vijaykumar as a 'living god' served by his own monastic order; and with tales of miracles being performed. Paranjape quotes one of the followers who says that "No one can suppress our movement"; and that Kalki devotees are fanatical "...and will lay down their lives for Kalki, but never waver from their faith."

During the 1990s, local village people near the Oneness ashram organised protests against Kalki Bhagavan and his organization for cheaply buying up hundreds of acres of land from local farmers. Subsequently, some of the farmers had their land returned to them.

In 1990, Vijaykumar Naidu claimed to be Kalki, the tenth Avatar of Vishnu. Kalki Bhagavan's wife, otherwise known as 'Amma', claims to be Vishnu's consort, Padmavati. Kalki Bhagavan's claim that he had inaugurated the Hindu Golden Age was not well received by Hindu spiritual leaders.

In 1983, Vijaykumar was expelled from the Rishi Valley School where he used to work as an administrator with R. Sankar.

Vijay Kumar Naidu married Smt. Padmavathi on 9 June 1977. This was an arranged marriage following the prevalent customary practice in India for marriages decided by elders in the family. Padmavathi, who is addressed as Amma by their students, takes an interest and participation in building the spiritual organization Oneness.

Kalki Bhagawan (born 7 March 1949 as Vijay Kumar Naidu), also known as Sri Bhagavan, is a self-styled Indian godman, cult leader, businessman, and a real estate investor. A former clerk in the LIC, he claims to be an incarnation of God (the Kalki Avatar). He is the founder of 'Oneness' / 'Ekam' cult and White Lotus Conglomerate.

Vijay Kumar Naidu was born on 7 March 1949 in Natham Village, Gudiyatham Town, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, to Smt. Vaidarbhi Amma and Sri Varadarajulu. His father was the head of the accounts department of Indian Railways and his mother was a simple village woman. In 1955, when Vijay Kumar Naidu was six years of age, the family moved to Chennai. There, he attended Don Bosco School in Chennai. Later, he graduated from DG Vaishnav College in Chennai, majoring in mathematics. After completing college, he began working as an office clerk for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).

Kalki Bhagavan and his family have invested in developing The Pinnacle in Nairobi, the tallest tower in Africa. The Pinnacle is a co-development with the Hass Petroleum group. Between them, White Lotus Group and Hass Petroleum have invested $200 million in the Pinnacle Project. The White Lotus Group owns the 1930s Redick Tower building in Lincoln, Nebraska. After a $7 million re-development, it was re-opened in 2010 as the Hotel Deco XV.