Politicians and Godmen

One says I will turn earth into heaven and other says I will take you to heaven and both promise public to wipe away their tears, vanquish their problems and make honey and milk flow in the country. Wow! What a common purpose! Do we call it symbiotic, socialistic or synergistic?

So many of them have come in this country in the past hundred years, in many forms and with names promising (alteast with names) Nithyananda, Premananda, Brahmananda, Paramananda but all disappeared like bubbles while country continues to suffer deeper in poverty, religious violence, and crime.

Both State and Church have been ruling and riling public from the medieval times (medievil?). They stood diametrically opposite and played people against each other to gain power, following and wealth, but over the years they have shed their polarity and have come closer to embrace, entice and enchant.

Sadly spirituality and politics have no barriers to entry and exit, no educational qualifications required, no pedigree or lineage, but if you have one then it becomes a USP, an IP and with just marketing/PR machinery they can get sky high cutouts, God status and speaking slots in World Economic Summit in a few months. Godmen gets access to HNIs across the globe!

Greatest common denominator (GCD) = People
Highest uniting factor (HUF) = Ignorance, Hope, Faith, One cure for all, Wealth creation
Least common denominator (LCM) = Penury, Crime, Unemployment, Peace

Have you ever looked at the Net worth of religious institutions around the world, well if you pool in all the money you can solve most the problems where money is the fuel – unemployment, hunger, infrastructure, etc. Well the Catholic Churches have paid a lot of money to suppress and settle pedophilia and abuse charges outside the court. Nirvana (Nivarana)is available both in cash or kind!

Why do Godmen need all this if they have relinquished all desires – wealth, women and wine? Where do they get this wealth from? Shouldn’t they help people with their emotional quotient? Why are they running educational institutions and hospitals and taking care of people? Isn’t that the duty of State and not Godmen? When wealth and power comes together then begins the war of ego and might. Well that is where things get murky. May be they realized the new age business model “Coopetition” as opposed to competition and cooperation. Did I say scratching each other’s underbelly?

If you wear the logical lens you will definitely see what I am seeing.

Well the business model is really simple; remember every turf comes with rules. Politicians create ashrams and make Godmen as their Binamis just to hive off illegally earned land and money. They look at ashrams as business and Godmen as CEOs to run their spiritual business. Simple business rules – bring the customer in, better if you get them young, with family are wonderful, then retain the customer, and finally rotate money and give back to the Politician when he needs.

They call themselves the king of their jungle, yet they chase the weak fawns but not an elephant or a tiger. Thrive on their weakness! Sadly lion hunting down the fawn seems like the law of nature and the world admires with awe.

One ashram takes MMS route (mantra, meditation and seva) and other takes the SYS route (Service, Yoga, Satsang) in the end most of them are quacks and suckers. Is it preying or praying at the ashrams?

Often Godmen become more popular, powerful, and persuasive than politicians, and that is where the ego war begins pushing them on opposite sides and looking at opportunity to destalibilize each other.

Then comes IT raid, followed by women scandal, rape and drug charges and finally the Godmen is dragged to prison and public is made a fool and politicians’ coffers are filled.

Sri Sris of the world become che che overnight..and public finally with lost hope, abandoned faith and violated trust, wakes up and looks up to the sky for help.

The old ones pushed into the prison – scam and scandal. A new politician emerges on the horizon, a new Godman becomes the messiah, a new USP to lure public, and then finally a new government and things start all again, public forget the past and new crimes, and coffers filled again.

Isn’t Spirituality and Politics a fake promise and a plunge in murky waters?