Three mayors from across B.C. proclaimed July 3, 2023, as “Guru Purnima Day” at the request of the United States of Kailasa.
It would have been an honest effort by the cities of Surrey, Victoria and Nanaimo to celebrate a Hindu festival focused on offering respect to spiritual and academic gurus.
The only problem — Kailasa isn’t a real place.
Kailasa is a self-proclaimed “great cosmic borderless nation,” and its founder is a self-styled Hindu swami, Nithyananda, who, according to the proclamations signed by three mayors, is the “Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism” and “head of 21 ancient indigenous Kingdoms of Hinduism.”
He is also wanted in India since
