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The Hindu militant organization Sanatan Sanstha was co-founded by Jayant Athavale, his wife, Dr. Kunda, and Dr. Ashutosh Prabhudesai. The state of Goa in India serves as the organization’s headquarters.
After earning his MBBS in 1964, Dr. Athavale spent five years working in various Mumbai hospitals. Later, he relocated to the UK and successfully practiced hypnotherapy, becoming a skilled hypnotherapist.
Dr. Athavale, who views himself as a Godman, has as his main goal creating a “Hindu Nation” in India. He is highly regarded by his adherents. They have come to believe that he has undergone “divine changes” as time has gone on.
The organization’s site, englishsanatanprabhat.blogspot, describes Athavale as the “personification of God.”
The Sanatan Sanstha has said in numerous issues of Sanatan Prabhat that their goal is to create a Hindu Rashtra by the year 2023. Muslims, Christians, rationalists, and communists are all attacked in its writings and headlines as evildoers. Imagine how you would feel after killing a bad person, remarked Athavale, as quoted in the Sanatan Prabhat in 2007. “You feel so triumphant after killing a mosquito,” he said.
Athavale has made it known that his movement’s goal is to bring about Ishwary Rajya, or the Kingdom of God, on earth by eliminating durjans, or evildoers, who engage in “bad habits,” “misinterpreted religious beliefs,” and “bad politics, economy, and culture.”
In the November 2006 issue of the Marathi periodical Kirloskar, which is published from Pune, rationalist, hypnotherapist, and founder of Akhil Bharatiya Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (All India Committee for the Eradication of Superstitions) Shyam Manav wrote a harsh critique of the Sanstha. He claims to have been a close friend of Athavale from 1985 to 1990.
“Even though the Sanstha was established in 1999, I had realized in the early 1990s that Athavale had become distracted from the science of hypnotherapy by his concern with spirituality. He had begun using magic tricks, which I was aware of because I knew many magicians, to assert his own paranormal and spiritual abilities, Manav claimed. With the help of ‘Sanatan Prabhat,’ Jayant Athavale began programming minds and establishing a cult using his hypnosis abilities.
Athavala referred to the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013 as “a blessing from God,” as he had avoided a lengthy, agonizing death from old age.
Concerning Sanatan Sanstha
Three members of Sanatan Sanstha were detained by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) in 2007 after they allegedly planted homemade bombs at cultural centers in Mumbai’s neighboring cities as a form of protest against the screening of a play. The wider Sanatan Sanstha family includes violent organizations including Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Shri Sriram Sene, and Hindu Yuva Sena.
After the 2009 blast in Madgaon, Goa, which claimed one life, it suddenly came under the spotlight when more than 150 of its members were interrogated, some of whom were eventually imprisoned. Various rationalists, activists, and journalists, including Narendra Dabholkar, MM Kulburgi, Govind Pansare, and Gauri Lankesh, were also murdered by the gang. The organization has been charged with utilizing Ericksonian hypnosis to recruit new members and commit violent actions.
A senior scientist at a chemical business in Khopoli, close to Mumbai, named Vijay Rokade filed a plea in the Bombay high court in 2011 accusing the Sanstha of being a “terrorist organization and seeking a ban.” 2018 saw the arrest of Sanatan members by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad as well as the discovery in Mumbai’s Nalasopara of a sizable cache of illicit weapons and homemade devices. Many states reportedly considered outlawing the organization. Sanatan is a group that has been classified as a terrorist organization by the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC).