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Sometimes I feel religion is all about taking leadership. Is it all about marketing some good thoughts efficiently?
Very soon we will see boards like ‘Peace for sale ‘.

Before I start let me tell you this. This is not to hurt anyone’s sentiments about their believes ( and their freedom of choice of that belief). But I am just putting down what I feel about some things beyond the politics of religion. You have the choice not to read.

Saffron scares me now- This uniform which the modern luxury loving saints have adopted to make them look pious! 99.00 % of the saffron coated ones are fake. We keep discovering their fraudness and there would still be people wanting to believe ‘what if he really is good ‘ . A million Santhosh Madavans and Nityanandas ( and a lot more names ofcourse ) are yet to be found. We know that … and still why are people not choosing to brand them frauds ? why do they even give chance for someone like that to grow up ?
It is high time to realize that the time of Sankaracharya has changed and if someone dresses up like Sankaracharya he needn’t be given any more attention than given for a fancy dress competition.

I don’t want to give more examples from any religion. But I have felt things are not different in other boats too.
Money , man power ( we need money , we need people to follow us) – forms the rule.

Surprisingly a spiritual organization spreads world wide in fraction of the time than any other establishment. Infosys took 25 years to hit a proud milestone spreading across the whole world. I was shocked to see a small school set up by a swami who was thrown out of his earlier org having network in almost every state of the USA and in almost every country in the middle east. I was equally shocked to see tall ‘Ashramas’ with modern networking facilities and all luxurious amenities in less than an year.
( Infosys campus took 3-4 years to start its construction . Ethical and legal stuffs unfortunately takes longer time in our country ) .

I wonder who sponsors these saints and what their real motives are . As per the Indian constituency saints are categorized along with beggars –do they get the tax exempt too which the beggars get ?
If they don’t even have to pay tax we should admit that we are foolish spectators of a mighty destroying force veiled safely under religion.
And the funny thing is that the modern day swamis and swamini’s even choose a numerological name which will bring them fortune and publicity . There are channels to sponsor their pre recorded speeches , to advertise their ashram’s new( collection ) programs.

Long beard and hair – olden days real sanyasis had these because they spent most of their life in seclusion and they dint care to take a blade and razor along. I am not sure if you have noticed this or not – modern day sanyasis trim their beards in style and style their hair too in a presentable manner ( ofcourse they have more channel interviews and programs than a real actors)
When asked they will tell us not to stereotype .
‘Who said if sanyasi travels in benz car or if sanyasi puts AC in his room or if sanyasi gets food from the best restaurant that it affects her sanyasam ? Where is it written that sanyasi shouldn’t have private planes and helicopters ? …’ they argue . They keep defending.

As long as there is demand for peace , they keep flourishing . I know they will keep growing right in front of us and there would be people to sing bhajans praising them ( U know they have sahasya naamams and songs praising their names ??? ) . we will still see old women believing that the dummy in front of them in blood and flesh is some incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

I am not here to hurt anyone’s feelings … But at least someone of you out there… don’t you feel this is a primitive stupidity ? ( like how fans association pours milk and offers haaram to super stars ) .
There are always just enough fools to put in their money to build a swami or swamini of their own .