1. My musings.
Profound words! They were sent to me today, by a friend of mine, which got me thinking as to whether my life, thus far, encompassed this axiom. And I tried to go back in time to establish it and surprisingly found that, indeed it does - I had followed it, in letter and spirit. There are no regrets in life, whatever had been chosen was on my own accord with the inputs that were available at every given point of time. I must admit that there was a time when I used to put the blame for my shortcomings on others, but on further analysis, I realized that it was me who took the call as I always had the freedom to take or drop the advice given to me by my well wishers, and the responsibility for everything that I’ve done, thus far, has been mine and mine alone!!
2. Why do ‘Godmen’ attract people?
Of late, thankfully, there has been an increase in the busting up of the wayward activities of many so called ‘swamijis’ or ‘godmen’. Their backgrounds always follow a familiar pattern – start up as no gooders failing in every thing they take up, then make a disappearance act only to reappear as an individual with ‘godliness’, who take it upon themselves to teach their unfortunate and ignorant brethren the meaninglessness of life. They publicly despise power and pelf, but surreptitiously cultivate both, in that, they’re always surrounded by people who adorn powerful positions in society and never refuse donations towards charity( which is actually diverted in building up their empires where all things, unlawful, take place). What beats me is that educated people get roped in and I always wonder as to how this hoodwinking takes place – I mean, how do they complement each other? Are the educated lot also running away from something they want to forget? The one factor that these unscrupulous godmen exploit is man’s fear of God and the unknown. I’ve seen people, who depend on servants to get menial work done at their homes, willingly doing the same jobs at the ashrams – a euphemism for the godman’s den – without any hangups. From the huge family circle of my father’s, two young men - both brothers, one an IITian and the other an IIM product – left their MNC jobs to become a part of the inner circle of Mata Amrithanandamayi and have been there for the past ten years. Their parents died heartbroken after they lost the battle – they’d gone to court saying that the Amma had seduced their sons and therefore, the court should help retrieve them - against the powerful ‘Amma mafia’.
My take on this is that one does not need an usher to attain one's God. Period!
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Profound words! They were sent to me today, by a friend of mine, which got me thinking as to whether my life, thus far, encompassed this axiom. And I tried to go back in time to establish it and surprisingly found that, indeed it does - I had followed it, in letter and spirit. There are no regrets in life, whatever had been chosen was on my own accord with the inputs that were available at every given point of time. I must admit that there was a time when I used to put the blame for my shortcomings on others, but on further analysis, I realized that it was me who took the call as I always had the freedom to take or drop the advice given to me by my well wishers, and the responsibility for everything that I’ve done, thus far, has been mine and mine alone!!
2. Why do ‘Godmen’ attract people?
Of late, thankfully, there has been an increase in the busting up of the wayward activities of many so called ‘swamijis’ or ‘godmen’. Their backgrounds always follow a familiar pattern – start up as no gooders failing in every thing they take up, then make a disappearance act only to reappear as an individual with ‘godliness’, who take it upon themselves to teach their unfortunate and ignorant brethren the meaninglessness of life. They publicly despise power and pelf, but surreptitiously cultivate both, in that, they’re always surrounded by people who adorn powerful positions in society and never refuse donations towards charity( which is actually diverted in building up their empires where all things, unlawful, take place). What beats me is that educated people get roped in and I always wonder as to how this hoodwinking takes place – I mean, how do they complement each other? Are the educated lot also running away from something they want to forget? The one factor that these unscrupulous godmen exploit is man’s fear of God and the unknown. I’ve seen people, who depend on servants to get menial work done at their homes, willingly doing the same jobs at the ashrams – a euphemism for the godman’s den – without any hangups. From the huge family circle of my father’s, two young men - both brothers, one an IITian and the other an IIM product – left their MNC jobs to become a part of the inner circle of Mata Amrithanandamayi and have been there for the past ten years. Their parents died heartbroken after they lost the battle – they’d gone to court saying that the Amma had seduced their sons and therefore, the court should help retrieve them - against the powerful ‘Amma mafia’.
My take on this is that one does not need an usher to attain one's God. Period!
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