Gurus, Godmen & Seekers

 

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.

 

Conspiracy theories in times of Corona

 

Conspiracy theories in times of Corona

Its been long since I posted anything. Blame it on Covid & Cupid. I just wanna pen down random thoughts on some issues that caught my attention.

Curious case of Sushant singh Rajput (SSR): To be honest, I never gave even a second when SSR death pinged on whatsapp. My 1^st question, who is he? I hardly watch movies or active on social media and reading page 3 news was never my hobby. Well, I later I remembered watching his film Byomkesh Bakshi, a period film. There I left the matter to rest.

SSR: Suicide..!

But this weekend, somehow my youtube flashed with some debate on his death. Blame it on that days utter boredom or uselessness of myself. I happen to watch it. From there Youtube algorithms took over. One video after another on SSR subject started showing up. I never saw someone death rock entire youtube with multiple theories throwing up.

SSR: Suicide! Nepotism!

First the death backlash highlighted Nepotism in film industry, calling ban on top stars , later entire spotlight fell on his girlfriend. She was hounded by media , shown her as modern Mata Hari cum Gold digger & subsequently accomplice in his apparent suicide. Next in line how he was made depressed artificially by slowly injecting depression medicines. In this drug angle, along with his gf, Mahesh bhatt became prime suspect. And various theories started floating from this perspective.

SSR: Suicide! Nepotism!, Depression!, Nepotism &Nepokids!

Upto this time, the death was still suicide. Or assisted suicide by prolonged drug abuse. Somewhere this time , paranormal angle came into picture with some guy (Steve Hoffman I guess) strated séance where his speech with spirit of SSR was caught on radio box. In that conversation with spirit, it appears, SSR said he was murdered by his trustworthy friends.  From here every paranormal practiconer , Tarot to Automatic Writer to angel Séance , everyone started claiming that they started their conversation with SSR spirit. (Looks like his spirit is most sought after spirit ). Everyone kinda claimed revelation on same lines: He was murdered.

SSR: Suicide! Nepotism!, Depression!, Nepotism &Nepokids! Drugs, Paranormal, Murder

Vox poplei-Vox Dei-Voice of people is voice of god

Government had to succumb to Vox Populi -Voice of people and initiate its own investigation. Police from maharahstra & Bihar , CBI , ED, NCB (Central investigative organizations , after all Bihar elections is in horizon & SSR was from Bihar originally ) . Enforcement Directorate started probing Hawala over SSR wealth in crores, Narcotics Bureau Started probing drugs in Bollywood where several top stars were summoned.  (Well, I guess as elections near, I would not be surprised with govt deploying Army, Raw & IB , NTRO & Raphale jets, rent CIA/FBI to solve the case.. hahah)

SSR: Suicide! Nepotism!, Depression!, Nepotism &Nepokids! Drugs, Paranormal, Murder, Hawala

 

        Social media warriors already concluded  SSR suicide wasn’t natural death. From here some single guy called Advocate Vibhor Anand started churning bizarre stories. There came SSRians channel on Youtube which apparently trying for justice for SSR.  Here Vibhor came with real stories that could be made into awesome thriller .  SSR was developing some technology on Artificial intelligence whose patents was stolen by Shivsena and SSR was killed in his flat by some hitmen while his death was live streamed on darknet which was watched by many top actors and politcians .(Ewww). Bollywood is run by secret cabal where  blackmoney, drugs, sexual orgies, pedophila , rapes, murders etc are routine among top actors and Pakistani ISI has infiltrated into Bollywood totally (OMG, my head is totally spinning with wild accusations). How actress sridevi was killed in dubai by mafia and for her insurance money (whooping 250 Cr). Another bizarre accusation, he stated were SSR was shielding some teenage girl in his flat who apparently victim of child trafficking. And these child trafficking is primarly to extract chemical called ADRENOCHINE . This checmial being extracted from children is used as youth serum which gives people like Queen of England, Salman khan, Anil Kapoor , Hollywood actors ever youth. On extraction of that chemical from children, either they are sold to prostitution or organ trafficking. Thus concluded children are harvested for chemicals, flesh trade and organ trafficking. Now this literally gave goosebumps.

 

SSR: Suicide! Nepotism!, Depression!, Nepotism &Nepokids! Drugs, Paranormal, Murder, Hawala, Mafia, politics, politicans , AI-Tech,  pedophilia, adrenochine, child trafficking, organ trade, flesh trade.

 

Adrennochine also figured in international conspiracy theories which is also called as Hollywood drug, how some secret believers under called QANON started believing that USA is run by cabal of pedophila and only Trump can stop it. Before him JFK faked his death to fight this  gang from behind the curtains. World is run by reptilian aliens.

 …eeeeeeeks,, enough. Well, America is always land of conspiracies. I wonder how one guy , Advocate Vibhor could get so much information on SSR as if he had seen all live& first hand. Even if his accusations are 1% true, I donno what to say. It would totally change how you would see Bollywood again.

Suddenly Bollywood appeared like black evil dark gang leading extreme hedocnitic life of orgies , wealth, drugs, crime, underworld etc. Now here I stopped my youtube marathon. This is all conspiracies I watched on youtube. Now I wonder what if this entire SSR death was blown out of proportions by Govt itself to divert citizens attention away from economic disaster, mismanagement of China, migrant & farmer issue. To keep idle citizens busy, what if Govt threw a bone called SSR to chew upon ? We never know…

So what could be next conspiracy theory? Aliens involvement ? we never know...what do you say buddy???

 

 

 

 

CRIME, CON MEN & SCAMMERS

CRIME, CON MEN & SCAMSTERS

I recently was in conversation with a pal where he was telling how his prime land got occupied by some slum dwellers. And now he has to run from pillar to post to get them evacuated. It’s a painful experience he had to undergo where he is rendered helpless against organized gang.. Modus operandi is simple, a gang leader of slum dweller occupies land and refuses to budge till some amount is paid. Normal people are no rowdies who can get them kicked out. Normally we pay tens of lakhs to buy land/house yet fail to secure it by perimeter fencing or get check antecedents of buyer and documents by hiring lawyer/engineer. As loan officer in government bank I get to see how easily builders/developers/promoters fool buyers.  Quite often we are like “penny wise pound foolish”. We spend 50 lakhs to buy property ,yet feel stingy to spend 5000/- on lawyer/engineer to get property inspected. Rather we depend on Bank or Builder to provide for such facility. My landlord trusted his property to care takers and seldom bothered to inspect his own properties and one fine day he found that caretaker exploited owner trust and took a loan of a crore on owner property and scooted leaving owner to repay the loan and face court trials. Its your property. It’s your duty to monitor your money/investments/properties but often “Trust” we use often is mere excuse for our laziness.

Humans are so greedy and want to make quick buck with no sweat on their brow. It amazes me how greed can blind people common senses and fall for traps like ponzi, Nigerian scam or similar investment where scamster promises huge returns with minimum investment. One guy I came across invested 5 lakhs in a unknown company which promised him nominated Director post and twice the investments, ie., 10 lakhs. Similar investments were sought from similar gullible people and later renegade the promise. The investor doesn’t even know the company owner nor company operational plans to make money. He just went by promises of double investment promise. Agrigold scam in Andhra Pradesh reflects human greed which was used to scam thousands of investors in crores.

With influx of digital era, scams have gone online. In a day we get hundreds of calls offering money, cheap loans, etc..web-links saying “PM offering free laptop” or “airline giving away free tickets” or worse “you have won 5 million dollars from coco cola company”. I wonder why the hell would any company give away their products for free?. Quite often these links are malware. Delete without even thinking about its contents. Better safe than sorry. These come in ingenious ways. Couple of months back there was mail in my inbox saying that someone signed in my facebook account.  I always keep my FB deactivated. But seeing this, without thinking much I clicked the link , which activated my FB account. Beunknownst to me, it was malware which immediately posted some 40 advertisements in all my friends fb walls. Imagine the headache they faced to delete all 40 advts from their walls at same time cursing why I posted on their wall. Thankfully, it was just an advertisement. It could ve been worse. Nigerian scam has become popular these days. I used to laugh and wonder how anyone can fall such silly trap. But newspapers scream new victims every day unfortunately.

But that doesn’t stop there. We hear now a days scamsters targeting their victims through matrimonial sites. Scamster lures his/her victim by winning their trust and later dupes gold or money. One of my acquaint lost whooping 30 lakhs  to online romeo scamster who wooed her by promising some business plan, love, and high profits. And one foreigner was fooled by online lover with picture of ashwariya rai. Imagine police amusement when foreigner came to India and showed her photo? No where I am talking about highlevel scams . I am speaking about scams that middle class fall on daily basis. All these scams mentioned above are ones I saw firsthand.

In most of cases , people fall to scams due many reasons such as foolishness, lack of knowledge, laziness…but most importantly GREED. People are so greedy that they want their money to turn gold overnight. There is nothing wrong in being greedy but expecting quick overnight results is. Nothing wrong in desire to get rich. For that one should be ready to work more, plan more, study more on some business plan. Remember old adage “There is no free lunch”