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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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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