Skeletons
are tumbling out of Asaram Bapu’s cupboard. His whole family is getting
embroiled in sexual exploitation scandal. Asaram is already behind bars. Now
after a married women had charged his
son Narayan Sai with rape, he is absconding. Police has issued a lookout
notice against him. Narayan Sai’s mother and sister are also on the run. Police
has charged them with complicity to crime.
As the sex
scandal dragnet closes on Asaram , and murky going-ons are revealed , a sense of disgust seems to envelop people, many of
whom, till the other day, were his ardent devotees.
It’s a
quintessential case of decline of dharma. Spirituality has become a spurious
commodity. A money-spinner.
Die-hard Marxist’s are having their day. Their guru
Marx has been vindicated. Religion, has finally been proved to be opium of the
masses.
There is a
general decline of true spirituality. Meditation and devotional worship has
given way to ritual and liturgy. And then some more. Somewhere along the way, the
core of religion has been discarded, and the shell of externals have shielded corrupt godmen.
The plight
of a wayward and sexually deviant clergy of the Roman Catholic Church is finding
a sinster reflection in this land too.
For too long
political honchos and moneybags have patronized the independent Hindu clergy
who go by the name of godmen. The masses have deified them, bestowing on them
cult status . The hype of the Sadhus has reaped hysteria dividends. All this have made the self-styled sadhus feel
invincible.
They feel
they can break laws with impunity and get away with it. But now with Asaram
behind the bars its clarion call for the society to wake up to the act of charlatans,
and expose them with impunity.
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