GURUS & GODMEN
Recently I was listening to some
lady diatribe on one of popular guru of south India. She was ranting how he was
fake & cheated her and millions like her. Her name was Sarah landry and the
guru was Paramahamsa Nityananda who now attained cult status for his apparently
comic statements like “ he would make cats talk Sanskrit”” he is an alien”
& he started his own nation called Kailasa!!! Youtube is filled with his
jokes already but police don’t find it amusing. There are several cases
including rape, child harassment etc. All while some time ago Netflix coming
with program “Wild Wild Country”, program on controversial guru of 70s, The
Osho! Back then he was considered so dangerous that even his plane was not
allowed to fly in dozen nations airspaces. His famous disciple “Maa Sheela” has
come into spotlight as Osho is no more. Other program which was in talks was
Bikram Yoga founder for alleged sexual advances which I have no clue about.
Are they fraud or not, I don’t know.
I personally have flirted with many gurus. I read their books, practiced their methods
of meditations, enjoyed their videos on youtube etc. At different points of my
life I enjoyed the wisdom of Yogananda, Iskon, Nityananda, Sadguru, Sri Sri (I do
Sudarshan kriya irregularly regular), Om Swami (not big boss wala), Swami Rama
of Himalayan masters, Bruce lee,Naval Ravikanth etc etc. At all these points many
people called them frauds and many (esp Beautiful ladies) encouraged me to be
part of their group.
Lemme tell you my opinion on if they are Fraud, Not
really fraud, Could they be fraud?
Yes, many times they could be fraud. But lets not under
estimate our own stupidity of giving our life savings to imaginary utopia
promised in few sessions. Some courses in Nityanadna or Sadguru are too
expensive for ordinary person. Yogananda in some speech says till a person gains
complete enlightenement , there is every chance of him falling back to worse than
ordinary human beings,
Possibly all these saints were
genuine seekers who fell from grace or had given up in between. Now armed with
some shaktis or siddhis, they are out to earn Money/opp sex/fame which they
sacrificed in pursuit of truth. And in
another instance maybe we are still too novices to comprehend higher truth spoken
by them. For example, Nityananda “Me, Me, Me”(popular trolling video) was made
fun of. But on closer observation, what he said was profound. Aham Brhamsami is
explained in that manner which somehow didn’t click with many.
Iam not defending anyone nor I promote
anyone (But Radhe Maa was 100% funny & Dera Sacha Ram Rahim was very gaudy)
. But I definitely find fault with seeker falling foolishly. How can someone be
so brainwashed that they cant see his/her masters faults. But again , can this
be Masters leela for strengthening seeker growth? Maa Sheela was kicked out of
Osho sangha . maybe her attachment is impediment to her spiritual growth. I read
somewhere : Ananda was most devoted to Buddha yet while many disciples experienced
Ultimate and moved on, Ananda still struck on. Once he asked Buddha why he isn’t
yet enlightened? Buddha replied “You are still attached to me”. Ananda countered
that if he cant be attached to Buddha, who else can he attached to for him,
Buddha is final. He cant dream life without Buddha. Buddha calmly said “This is
truth” only when buddha died, in enormous grief, Ananda is said to be enlightened
or so story goes
Many a times Masters don’t care
social conventions or rules of world as they are above them. Their games for
spiritual growth of student are incomprehensible. Saying that we never know if
we are being taken for ride or being uplifted. Even Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had to
walk out from his Guru , only then he was able to bloom completely.
I always believe every Master has
something to offer. Take it. Take the wisdom & internalize it. Whether one
wants to become andha-bhakt or grow himself is left to seeker. There is no choice
but to go trail & error in searching right Guru. I think most of time,
seeker gets screwed coz rather trusting self effort, h/she expects quick
results by appeasing master. Often seeker themselves have no clear defined
spiritual goal just hang around Master for self interest or greed for power etc.
