Spiritual Assault

God is omnipotent and that is how we’ve known him. Though we haven’t seen him but have heard and believed the tales associated with his divine strengths and capabilities. Our belief in him has made us more inclined towards him and has no doubt triggered our hopes and ambitions.

            In the past decade man has become more receptive to any form of hope and pleasure; and simultaneously has turned impatient and hopeful. This realism for sure has immensely magnetized many positives and negatives. From faith to luck, from the substitution of hard-work to devotion, from Laughing Buddha to the God idols everything is available in exchange of a few crisp notes and they are all believed to bring good fortune to our homes. The irony is that we too are engulfed so deeply in this whirl of desires that we have started believing on things from a ‘yantra’ to a ‘red-fortune telling book’.

            Amidst all these things, a few spiritual saints have dug their bottoms deep in the name of service and devotion of the common man. You can find these long bearded, saffron/white wrapped saints wandering all around and boasting to tell tales of your awaited bright future. However, in the recent past these saints were few, but veterans of their fields. Today, ironically there are many and it’s hard to guess who the holy ones are. No doubt it could be true that many of these holy-saints are holy and lead a life of complete austerity but in the haze of the present it is hard to find who really the true ones are.

           

            The present national uproar has hysterically shifted from politics to satanic-spirituality ever since the spiritual guru Asaram Bapu has been dragged into a rape case. Where on one note this incident has shattered the beliefs of thousands of devotees from these holy-babas, on another note it has also divulged the hidden face of the literal word ‘leaders’ (gurus). In my previous blog too (The Holy Pig raped a Chick) I talked on the same matter that recorded the feedback of people as referring to the matter as pathetic, unholy, and similar many other negative descriptions.

            No doubt after all the political games, national scams, price hikes and other similar things the common man is now also scared to pour his heart out to some guru for guidance. For him there is only less to gain and more to lose. Surely this incident has horrified us all and that leaves the aam-aadmi with one last guru to approach for all his problems and questions (without being physically harmed or harassed) - GOOGLE!