They say, “Behind every dark cloud there is a silver lining”. In India in reality, it’s just the opposite, “Behind every silver lining there is a dark cloud” or in other words, “After every bright morning there is a dark night”. I say, “What’s the difference?”
Everything in this world is balanced and requires symmetry. Look at yourself; considering you aren’t a physically disabled person, you have 2 hands, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears. So in other words you are symmetrical. Even the balance your vegetable grocer uses to weigh vegetables is symmetrical (am talking about the traditional ones, not the modern electronically operated ones).
Similarly for being good in doing bad work requires you to be bad in doing good work as well. For example, in India we have the God men who appear to be doing good work, but are bad in it and so end up getting caught doing bad work.
Going by the recent developments, we have the guy called Swami Nithyananda, who has gained a lot of popularity. He is in fact even shrewder than a businessman. If he needs a palace to live in, he would ask a hugely popular film star or a politician to donate money to create it in the name of God and an Ashram for the poor. Yet after this I did spot beggars at a stone’s throw from ashrams all over India. Strange!!
When a very popular film star or a politician donates for an ashram or even comes to these men for spiritual support and help, all that happens is the popularity of these God men increases exponentially. They even have mastered the art of magic, and they perform tricks to bring in more devotees, or followers (actually they are the ones who get fooled by their tricks) which appear to work miraculously.
A businessman would work hard, make money by fooling people and then get to build a palace, but see the idea of these so called saints wildly misusing the name of God and Religion. The religion of Hindu is such that, in order to be eligible to become a religious captain the only requirement is to wear a saffron coloured cloth. And that’s it. With a few more tricks and superb acting (actually fooling) abilities, you can make devotees from all over the world and subsequently enjoy a religious superhero status. Although you will be able to keep personal assistants, live in AC rooms (ashrams) and also have personal bodyguards, you cannot drive a BMW or Mercedes even though you have the money to buy 10 of them, nor can you have a ‘fan’ or for that matter a devotee asking you for an autograph.
You can continue with a lot of underworld and illegal activities with no limitations. These include supporting terrorism or storing weapons and also running prostitution camps and sometimes you also enjoying nights with some of the top models and actresses in the country.
Well that’s a very nice way of making your empire and doing your work, but will you be rewarded in the end? Will be known as Swami Vivekananda in the end? Every men (or women) have their own faults, so can you, but that does not mean you will deceive people and use their money to support inhuman activities?
What I always believe in is “Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best”. Next time you talk to a new (or an old) God men, keep that in mind. He might be clean, but don’t take him to be clean just because you didn’t find anything unclean, he might have pasted the brightest feathers on his wings. Take him to be clean only if you find everything clean, everything and confirming that he has not stole those feathers.
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