Why Godmen? Create Your Own Path
Thought Leadership For Reflection ~ A father and his seven-year-old daughter are entering a temple. Suddenly, the daughter screams, “Run Dad, or those lions will eat us!” The child had noticed the big statues of lions at the entrance.
The father consoles the child, saying, “They are just statues and won’t harm us”. The daughter reflects on the thought and queries, “If those lion statues won’t harm us then how could statues of God give us blessings?” The father wrote in his diary, “I am still speechless at my child’s answer and have started searching for God in Humans instead of statues.”
I wish the so-called gurus who build 112-feet Shiva statues or organise lavish #WorldCultureForums and RalliesForRivers, while usurping state land, plundering public resources, misusing legalities, ignoring morality altogether and committing environmental violations, could learn from the wisdom of this little girl. In the past few days, the Gurmeet Ram Rahim case has shown us how self-proclaimed Godmen are misleading people while they indulge in ostentatious, opulent lifestyles and a life of rape, debauchery, murder, sin, thievery and crimes against humanity.
I feel, Gurmeet is the least of the evils, since people following him, come mostly from the illiterate masses. The bigger evil are the so-called gurus who are misleading allegedly literate executives, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, who have been to Ivy League institutes, IIMs/ IITs and other premier institutions.
Imagine, these people are so dependent on these gurus that they even hang their pictures in the temples in their homes and worship them. These educated folks who follow these gurus are made impotent in mind, body, heart, spirit and soul and cannot think independently to live a life of their own choice and just blindly follow what the guru tells them to do. Making people dependent is detrimental and dangerous for human beings.
#GuRu comes from two Sanskrit words, Gu - Darkness and Ru - Light. Real gurus empower people to see the light within, become thought-leaders and lead independent lives. Making people dependent is a crime against humanity and is just a good business model to fund and maintain ashrams and luxurious-lifestyles. Such “gurus” expose their intent and one needs to see the evil face behind the masks and beards.
#IdeasForAction - Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Jesus, Ram, Buddha - or anyone, cannot be a mere 112-feet statue. Trying to establish that, is the chicanery of charlatans. They are simply symbols of #EvolvingMindfulConsciousness and as vast as the universe. This #EvolvingMindfulConsciousness is within every human being. “Namaste” - the word that has been a salutation since the era of #SanatanDharma (Path of Righteousness and Truth) teaches us that there is God, divinity and unlimited potential in every human being. If we do not discover, develop and unleash that potential within ourselves and others whose lives we touch, we end up becoming dependent on these #SadGurus. Be careful. Please do not get misled by charlatans. It is dangerous when people are disempowered for independent thinking and made dependent on anyone to show them the path. You have the unlimited potential to see and create your own path.
