"I am ready to believe in God if baba can answer one simple question of mine", quoted a stand-up comedian.
"How does the chain or the watch magically brought by the BABA have a "Made in China" label on it and where is the warranty card for the Watch/Chain?."
I laughed it off then with a sense of slight embarrassment that such Baba's bring to our religion.
Recently I watched the movie "PK" which was also in the news off late for protests by right winged organization who termed the movie being "Anti-Hindu".
"Being Baba" is what i call it, has evolved to become a cult-status, providing lots of fodder to Humorists, be it Baba Nityananda or Asaram Bapu or Baba Ramdev, Nirmal Baba or the recent Guru Ram Rahim Singh, you are bound to find a mockery of them in movies or comedy shows. So i questioned myself , What really happened?, What could have caused the rise and fall of such God-men?. Why is it that we believe in such Baba's so blindly and when they fail we criticize them?.
The answer lied in the famous portrayal of "Nataraj" by Lord Shiva, Now Lord Shiva is responsible for destruction of the three worlds on dooms-day, if you see any of his Nataraj forms you will find its right foot on a Baby, the left hand represents blessings, right hand represents being patient, left leg in the air represents balance and right foot represents conquering IGNORANCE.
Ignorance has been defined multiple times in our vedas, which can also lead one to the path of destruction and eventually Hell. When we go to a Baba, we expect him to read our palm, understand our problems, seek guidance,provide a solution and we present them with gifts, just like a Doctors appointment. While if that's what we really want, why don't we go to a Psychiatrist? He does the same job, our problem is we expect from the Baba's everything, we expect them to be super-hero's literally, we expect them to know Astrology, Medicine, Psychology while expecting them to miraculously gift a chain or vibhuti or any other gift.
Our scriptures state God is of the Ultimate form, he is the most beautiful, most powerful, most appealing, most infinite, most eternal thing that ever exists. Check Psalm 115:3 in Bible or the first chapter of Srimad Bhagvatam or the first Chapter of Sri Gurugranth Saheb(Akal Purakh
), all of them quote the same thing about God's beauty and power. This should make us question ourselves, should god have to really pull out a chain or a stone to prove himself as god?. That is too Shallow according to God's standards. He is God, not a road side magician.
Our Expectation is what spoils the Baba's of the society, I believe in Idol worship, but Personality worship or Personification worship i believe is wrong. We all know "Bharat Mata" or Telugu Talli, after bifurcation Telangana Talli, to be logical they don't exist, Bharat Mata is just a representation, she doesn't exist anywhere, its just a form given to our land which we use to worship our mother land.I can respect Bharat Mata as my mother country, but i really cant worship her and claim worshiping God, because its wrong, such wrong representations of worship and not respect have lead to temples of Sachin, Rajnikanth, Actress Khushbu have created an empire of 330 Million Gods and Goddesses. They are mortals, they feel pain, respecting your Teacher/Guru is fine but you cant worship and claim your path to heaven/Moksha obviously.
There are other Baba's like Osho, who received more followers once they went out of the country,which has lead to people around the world like Henry Ford, Julia Roberts, George Harrison, Richard Thompson adopting our religion, because they understood the spirituality that lies beneath it. Had such Baba's been in India, they would have spent their life hood receiving questions of "When will i get married?" or "Will i ever get a chance to go out of country?".
My point is simple, we spoilt the Baba's, we gave them an advantage in life, we gifted them, we gave them a larger than life status and like normal human beings when they took it to another level we blamed them and said "Ye Baba-waba sab dhongi hothe hai".
"How does the chain or the watch magically brought by the BABA have a "Made in China" label on it and where is the warranty card for the Watch/Chain?."
I laughed it off then with a sense of slight embarrassment that such Baba's bring to our religion.
Recently I watched the movie "PK" which was also in the news off late for protests by right winged organization who termed the movie being "Anti-Hindu".
"Being Baba" is what i call it, has evolved to become a cult-status, providing lots of fodder to Humorists, be it Baba Nityananda or Asaram Bapu or Baba Ramdev, Nirmal Baba or the recent Guru Ram Rahim Singh, you are bound to find a mockery of them in movies or comedy shows. So i questioned myself , What really happened?, What could have caused the rise and fall of such God-men?. Why is it that we believe in such Baba's so blindly and when they fail we criticize them?.
The answer lied in the famous portrayal of "Nataraj" by Lord Shiva, Now Lord Shiva is responsible for destruction of the three worlds on dooms-day, if you see any of his Nataraj forms you will find its right foot on a Baby, the left hand represents blessings, right hand represents being patient, left leg in the air represents balance and right foot represents conquering IGNORANCE.
Ignorance has been defined multiple times in our vedas, which can also lead one to the path of destruction and eventually Hell. When we go to a Baba, we expect him to read our palm, understand our problems, seek guidance,provide a solution and we present them with gifts, just like a Doctors appointment. While if that's what we really want, why don't we go to a Psychiatrist? He does the same job, our problem is we expect from the Baba's everything, we expect them to be super-hero's literally, we expect them to know Astrology, Medicine, Psychology while expecting them to miraculously gift a chain or vibhuti or any other gift.
Our scriptures state God is of the Ultimate form, he is the most beautiful, most powerful, most appealing, most infinite, most eternal thing that ever exists. Check Psalm 115:3 in Bible or the first chapter of Srimad Bhagvatam or the first Chapter of Sri Gurugranth Saheb(Akal Purakh
), all of them quote the same thing about God's beauty and power. This should make us question ourselves, should god have to really pull out a chain or a stone to prove himself as god?. That is too Shallow according to God's standards. He is God, not a road side magician.
There are other Baba's like Osho, who received more followers once they went out of the country,which has lead to people around the world like Henry Ford, Julia Roberts, George Harrison, Richard Thompson adopting our religion, because they understood the spirituality that lies beneath it. Had such Baba's been in India, they would have spent their life hood receiving questions of "When will i get married?" or "Will i ever get a chance to go out of country?".
My point is simple, we spoilt the Baba's, we gave them an advantage in life, we gifted them, we gave them a larger than life status and like normal human beings when they took it to another level we blamed them and said "Ye Baba-waba sab dhongi hothe hai".
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