THE PERFECTED ONE AND THE PRETENDER

THE PERFECTED ONE AND THE PRETENDER

Swami Bhuteshananda once gave a scriptural hammering to a U.P. professor who later became a notorious godman with 108 Rolls Royce cars, a la 108 spiritual beads on his necklace of debauchery in the name of spiritual practice with the rich and the gullible. This the Swami did at a spiritual meet when the said godman gave dubious interpretations to some passages of the Hindu scriptures. Such has been the tradition of the illumined monks of the Ramakrishna Mission who have quietly corrected scriptural aberrations made by charlatans of bygone years. They have been civil but firm in their denunciation of spiritual heresies. It is a shame that some of today's devotees of the Master's Mission cannot distinguish between a conman and an apostle of the Sanatan Dharma. Strange are the perfidies of the times, stranger the alliance of the devotees with dastardly godmen and their sympathies with verbose crooks masquerading as messiahs despite protestations perfect to the contrary, labelling themselves as seekers of the vagueness they term truth.

Written by Sugata Bose