HOW TO RECOGNISE FAKE GURUS WHO ARE DELUDING AND LOOTING THE MASSES

HOW TO RECOGNISE FAKE GURUS WHO ARE DELUDING AND LOOTING THE MASSES

Verbosity, gaudy apparel, taking huge sums of money for programmes conducted, advertising their achievements, proximity to politicians, levity and frivolity in speech, pandering to popular vanity, absence of depth-knowledge of scriptures or their meaning through experiential access, discussing anything and everything without verbal restraint, misquoting the lives of great men such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna, plagiarising quotes and passages from other people's writings and using them after clever adaptation, creating a mist and a mystique about themselves and their deeds through use of deliberate delusive phrases, terms and language in general, creating advertised festivals of  gods that are highly priced at the gate, destroying the environment by encroaching into forest and tribal territory or river valleys by colluding with governmental authorities, claiming divinity indirectly through misuse of scriptural definition of the Guru, preaching rationality while simultaneously creating myths that will spread superstition further, and a host of allied stuff. They are all there for the discerning to see and see through the designs of these crooks selling spirituality, but the naive, the corrupt hands-in-glove people and the crafty politicians will either fail to see or purposefully pretend not to see or go all out to protect the nefarious interests of these unholy men in order to secure their own profit-making and political exploitative ends.

Written by Sugata Bose