Godmen act as stress therapists, and to attract followers they use all types of entertainment like pimping, providing free sex, magic, music, pomp and show, drugs, yoga, breathing exercise, meditation, silky smooth discourses with a velvet voice, and singing hymns to relax their followers in the comfort of palatial fortress having the best amenities called ashram.
On a serious note, there are reports of frequent murders taking place in these ashrams on contract killing or at the behest of the Godman. Sex is for procreation, no training is required to perform sex, even animals do it instinctively but for perverts it’s pleasure. There are many philandering proxy pundits called Godman who urge their followers to have free sex to reach a state of super consciousness. Tantric claim the power of Kundalini enables an individual to move sexual energy into spiritual channels. Honestly, all this garbage reduces the yogic union of self with the divine to a distorted level. So, it is essential to set apart sex from spiritualism. Sex has no role to play in our spiritual ascent. We are surrounded by people who shape our emotions and actions. They use their rank and reputation to convince us to carry out their plan or program. They are the ‘OPINION-MAKERS’. They fuse knowledge, experience, personal charisma, and understanding of human issues. It is true, the opinion-makers and not bogus Godman enjoy the admiration and emotional support of the educated people. Religious people spend their whole life with Gods name on their lip and hardly feel the presence of God. In fact, the absence of God starts right from the time they begin to pray. Therefore, they live in a continuous state of spiritual pain till their death. Their tormented mind fails to find God, so they themselves doubt his existence. The Godman also lives with this deep-set discrepancy. But, Godman as a con artist masquerades his personal and public demeanor to hoodwink people. Therefore, his discourses are engaged in verbal deception. He laughs and weeps as if his heart is in love with God. Being a hypocrite, he depicts self-contradictions. What he speaks is completely different from what he does. He lives in a distorted reality. Therefore, his deceit and ignorance are not conducive for spiritual growth both for him and his followers. Godmen entice and entrap spiritual seekers. Goodman’s dangerous designs are not visible until it is too late. The Godman is after money and nothing else. Spirituality isn’t dependent on the skills of salesmanship. But Godman is like a salesman and not as a hermit, who cajoles and coerces innocent people by selling his ambiguous promises to them. A real Holy man does not preach for money, he lives a simple life. In other words, simple living and high thinking. A lot of image building goes in superficially making a wolfish Godman look attractive, who demands donations from people, accepts expansive gifts and lives a king-size luxurious life as a parasite on others hard earned money, he occupies decorated thrones in massive halls and reaches out to millions of viewers through television. He is a smooth talker, artificial, shallow, hypocrite, and inept to set his disciples free from suffering. Yet, not only the gullible but even the elite engage Godman secretly to enhance their social standing, and politicians seek them stealthily as a vote bank. There is hardly any spiritual pursuit in these activities. Myths are created to define the mystical. All faiths proclaim Avatars, Prophets and even God will descend on earth from sky to communicate directly with mankind. This is an ancient belief held closely by the followers of all religions. The Godman time and again try to fit into this ‘Gap’ to exploit the trusting believers. There are Godmen among us, who on the sly, bring disparaging deviation of ethics and spiritual wisdom, as a result, people start following their wicked and wrong ways. These shameless Godmen propagate a doctrine of their own, and having entered a religious life they do not cease from committing sins and drive others to commit sins. Even perfect murders are executed and victims burnt in their ashrams, the police shy to enter. Abstract religious concepts offer a plethora of opportunities to manipulate and deceive religious people. Godman use this conceptual slide to slip, skate and skid the naïve into a pit of darkness. Godmen have refined and finetuned the art of deception to its most wicked level, to deter people from truth, and tame them to become obsessed with the Goodman’s fallaciousness. Criticism is stifled, protest is profane, only praising the Godman is allowed. Under this protective shield, it is easy for an imposter to fabricate and spread a number of contradictory creeds and thus mislead the easily trusting and innocent people. Nowadays, the ‘Pop’ creed is becoming more and more a means of escape for the youth, who are disheartened by the religion forced upon them from birth. So, spiritual discourses and meditation has become a default replacement, working as institutional support systems like the counseling centers are. The world should support social processes by popularizing universal spiritual values through State machinery rather than by ‘Retreating Religions’ or by ‘Goons as Godman’. Recently, a Godman used laughing gas to infuse happiness and laughter on the sad faces of his depressed disciples, and a Godman who loved to perform magic tricks rather than preach the doctrine of divinity. Illusorily, the Goodman’s hairdos, facial hair, beard, whiskers and dress code is a trademark, and not his cut and paste copied teachings, picked up randomly, from here and there without understanding, yet, a Godman’s words create an impact on a dumb audience. This baffles the common man who fails to reconcile such sheer stupidity. ‘Meditation’ and ‘Yoga’ not only serve as relaxation exercises but it paves the way to higher levels of consciousness. Godman as a deceitful dodger has made meditation and yoga look cumbersome and tedious to justify the money he stealthily extracts from his disciples, otherwise, it is a set of simplistic exercises, which can be learned from any trainer, but the Godman sinisterly makes a big business turnover out of it so cunningly. We cannot allow the Godman to belittle Vedic philosophy and heritage any more. We need a ‘Regulatory Authority’ to deal with the Godman with stringent laws. Why corrective measures are not being taken? Why State rules are not set up to enforce punitive action on those who under the grab of a holy man con simple innocent and trusting people? When will the State wake up from its self-induced slumber to deal with this serious social problem?
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Religions rest on the foundation of lies and not on reason so the self-proclaimed Godman conveniently promises supernatural blessings thru his divine powers, he offers hope to ward off all the hardships of life, fears, uncertainties, helplessness and hopelessness, increase their bank balance, enhance power, give promotions, fame and so forth, whatever one can figure out in exchange of money and total surrender to him, without daring to question his nefarious designs.
Religions allow sufficient space for these dubious characters to fill in. Their sole purpose is fraud and not a selfless service to mankind. There is a vacuum in everyone’s life so something always seems to be missing. Misplaced faith can lead people to believe an uneducated conman in the garb of a holy robe as a supernatural being. This is where, the wonder of the weird, called Godman enters. The ignorant see him as special person with divine powers. But, in fact, he is a charlatan preying on human fears and helplessness, promising solutions at a cost, by trading false beliefs and superstitions as a balm for comfort. When people are dissatisfied with their lives, they need to believe in something that can relieve their frustrations and depression. That’s when the Godman gives them hope and offers divine blessings as placebos. Blind faith and trust defy all reasons so people believe in what the Godman says and accept as true the dream he promises to manifest to fulfill their worldly ambitions. Successful people are the most vulnerable of all. They fear failure because they cannot handle losing their material possessions. That’s why they believe in all sorts of superstitions, amulets, gemstones and astrology, believing to stay intact, where they are, and to assuage, the Godman gives them, the 'Hope' to face the insecurities and uncertainties of life. Life is full of suffering. Countless desires remain unfulfilled, even when life comes to an end hurriedly. With ‘Hope’ life is less tormenting or tragic, and becomes an optimistic pursuit that can lead people to higher level of understanding, beyond the reality of the world. The Godman claims to hold the key to the door that gives access to this higher reality that is full of miracles, and which offers happiness and bliss, this dream stuff is sold to the highest bidder. That’s why in India the rich donate huge money to a Godman, and not as genuine offerings in places of worship, for free education, medicines, housing etc. to uplift the poor. How foolish they are. The godman is a social status of the rich. The human attraction towards magic and miracles does goes far on complex celestial causes, this is sheer stupidity. The Godman exists because of people’s faith in his power as a healer and not to gain knowledge of holy scriptures or spiritual wisdom, even though the Godman doesn’t know about it. In the religious marketplace, there is a gang of Godmen, each marketing a different brand of divine solutions. They offer quick fix solutions to all problems. They offer the manna for the mind, balm for the body, and salvation for the soul, and help their brainless and dim-witted followers achieve all that they desire like, money, women, status, mansions, fame, position etc., which is the most stupid game plan, indeed. Many Godmen mesmerize, and manipulate the minds of their followers, and rob their wealth, and ruin them financially and emotionally. Many have been caught by the camera performing simple magic tricks with the sleight of hand, claiming it as a miracle. The followers of Godmen are pretentious and suffer mental disorders, because of pursuing foolish teachings taught to them by the Godmen. When these followers realize their stupidity, then they find it too hard, to face reality, and thus take the route of escapism, drinking alcohol or taking drugs, and consequently ruin their future. Today, there are many rogues, masquerading as masters, who intentionally freeze the freethinking of followers. They jolly well know, it’s difficult for the followers, to tell the difference between the real and the false teacher, in this state of mind followers are time and again deceived easily by the Godman. Conman under the garb of Holy men are now a part of our social system, and this is very worrisome indeed. They mislead naive and the easy to fool people, to accept as true that their problems of life can be solved by their mumbo-jumbo. The troubled human mind accepts the Godman as the panacea for all human ills. Godman sells hope to helpless followers as goods are sold in the bazaar of false beliefs and fake miracles. We live in a world of tricksters and the tricked. There are countless charlatans to have, for those who believe seeking others blessings can magically transform their lifestyle, claiming to be in touch directly with God. No one can save a fool from his foolishness. Godmen are clever psychologist and exploit human weaknesses, extract money from foolish followers, and live a comfortable life without earning it by their sweat and brow. Their followers shell out money to buy peace of mind, but in turn they get more turbulence, more anguish, and suffer more then what they did before. Law should protect people from being misled by the Godmen. Some Godmen own T.V. channels and business empires, one Godman appointed a Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers of a bizarre organization for global governance, and even printed currency notes to finance aid programs in developing countries. One wonders with such stupid pranks; Godmen can still manage to attract the elite and the intellectuals of the society. God willing, his disciple is today a leading international Godman. |
AuthorSuresh Kumar Soni is an ex- Banker, a truth-seeker, leading a retired life. He dabbles in philosophy and is receptive to idealism and pacifism. He is the author of the Book ' A RELIGIONLESS WORLD ' which stands for the spiritualization of mankind. Archives
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