Monday, June 28, 2010

Baba's and there confused disciple

Let me start with a disclaimer that i am not a follower of any of the baba's (when i say Baba please read them as spiritual guru or simply a preacher) nor i am against of it since birth not related to any of the baba's org directly or indirectly. I just want to make it clear that i am a neutral observer. Here i will not defend or abuse any so called organisation or there activist.

If you stay here at least once you will be persuade by few to follow a group. In Hindu's mythology we have 330 million gods and these so called Baba's increase the count. No documentation is there but i am sure this figure will definitely shoot up by 1 more million. We used to make fun in our parlour that go to varnashi and do the crash course for a month get a certificate to be a Baba. You speak something, in a logical dressing i am sure there will be dozen to follow you. The more the crowd the more popular he is. So what about there career growth? Gather few bureaucrats, few politician. then the crowd grows. Once it reach to a level you get hefty donation. Make an ashram (don't create a picture of small hut as in Ramanand sagar's Ramayan, its equipped with all the amneties you can think of) for cozy living and preaching once or twice a day. If "word of mouth" works then he keep on growing. Next level is the preaching on TV. It keeps the disciple growing on an exponential rate and so is the donation and the respective land/accounts and all. People make the baba as GOD.

Each time i turn on the switch i am amazed to see a new face and thousand of people at other side listening as if a scantily clad woman serving beer in a bar where beer can run out at any moment. There is nothing wrong in it. They dont speak rubbish. If you listen intently and use your logical brain its practical. Its just the people wants to be told by someone and that makes them the preacher or the path finder. They can be implemented in daily life for a peaceful living. But where lies the problem, why they keep disappearing and why some or other bad incidents happening to them. Lets do a step by step analysis of the whole fiasco.


Here i am referring to the two infamous incidents. One with Asharam Bapu and the other is Swami Nithyananda. In Bapu's case its the child death (due to drowning) and Nithyananda in a compromised position with an actress. After this there is sheer chaos on around there ashram. Few people create fuss to gain the social/political advantage of this situation. same applies to Nithyananda's case. I dont blame them. I blame them who are once there own disciple and now creating havoc on a news or incidents. How can someone change its color so quickly. If i am talking nice, helping or guiding you socially or spiritually, you make me god and then next moment a "pinch of doubt" will pull the faith from GOD to a criminial?? Is this the way you treat your god? I am thankful that i dont belong to that catergoty.

One thing people don't understand that there so called god don't claim themselves as god, its you who are making them as god. And by making them god doesn't mean that there souls are eternal nor doubting or abusing makes them ephemeral either. So as a follower i might not like my guru to be lying with a girl (i dint see much of offensive stuff though) but thats not the takeaway for me. For me they are as normal man as i am. I would love to ignore the incidents and followed remaining 100 things he might told me to do or follow. Its the faith in any religion makes the god more real and practical. If you believe the stone is gonna help you, and if your faith is pure it will. Thats why we have 330 million of gods (i doubt whether we have that many compound material exists on earth). These incidents puts a disciple in a litmus test and if u flunk you dont qualify to be a disciple.

Cheers
(I am bad at preaching though)

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