The common man clings to sense pleasure and the commercial Gurus provide them that only well-packaged in scriptural misquotations and part-quotations.
Every person has two elements in his being. One is the psycho-physical element and the other the spiritual element. The former craves for sense pleasure while the latter acts as the conscience and keeps on urging him to refrain from it. The tussle continues and constitutes what we call life. It is here that the Gurus of the day with their mercenary motivations play their part.
The Gurus offer an easy avenue to the attainment of spirituality so that their followers can carry on with their sense indulgence while blissfully imagining that they are on the fast track to godhead. This suits both disciple and deceiver. The disciple goes about with his unprincipled way of living, of earning the bread of dishonour and the deceiver in the shape of the Guru goes on accumulating the resources which he asks his disciples to offer by way of charity to a good cause. The disciple's conscience in misdeeds is, thus, cleared and the Guru's conscienceless life flowers as well. Renunciation flies through the window as 'realisation' hops in through the door. After that it is a hop, skip and dance all the way!
...to be continued...
Written by Sugata Bose
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