Monday, January 09, 2006

Playing Games

Fracois Gautier writes In defence of Hindu Gurus This is an article where the author plays games of prejudice using popular notions.
How ? Excerpts:
May I be forgiven my arrogance, but what Indian gurus have to understand
It's arrogant to suggest something to a Guru !
In India today, every third shop is an allopathic medical shop, whose profits go to Western multinationals (hello Mrs Karat!) at a time when Ayurvedic medicine is becoming increasingly popular in Western countries, after being disillusioned by antibiotics and other heavy-handed medicines.
Profits go to "Western Multinationals", Ayurvedic medicine is increasingly becoming popular "in West after being disillusioned"..
We are witnessing an interesting phenomenon in India today. Some Communists, some Christians, some Muslims and some Congress leaders -- all of whom have nothing in common and often hate each other are united against Hinduism and Hindu leaders.
Communists, Christians, some Muslims and some "Congress" Leaders.
Again, in all humility and conscious of the limitation of mind compared to some of these great gurus whom I have met,
Shouldn't it be "my" mind here ? Reader is not stupid, sir. Speak for yourself.
Yet, if you take the combined people power of Satya Sai Baba, Amritaanandamayi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Ramdev, Guruma of Ganeshpuri, the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, and so many others I cannot mention here, it runs in hundreds of millions
Sir, show me the Census.

Most of the statements made in this article are of simliar nature. The author simply combines the popular prejudices as a defence for the Gurus. Horrible.

3 comments:

Swami Saiexposedananda said...

I was a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba for just over a decade, and made six trips to see him in India. Now no longer a devotee, I use this blog to record memories, comments and muses on the SB scenario and also point out inaccuracies in SB's philosophical and theological presentation.

http://saibabaexposed.blogspot.com

anshul said...

saibabaexposed, I did read some of your posts, to find out why you fell for baba and why you became disillusioned. I don't have much interest in sai-baba, so I don't know what to say to you about this effort of yours :)
Peace be unto you.

vinayak, you postulate the same thing that the Francis's article says, and I don't have much of an opinion on that. I was simply pointing out that I didn't like the article because of the way it was constructed.
thanks for the comment anyways.

Equalizer said...

"Sai Baba EXPOSED" (aka Sanjay Kishore Dadlani) has been fully exposed for his shocking perversions, pathological lies and aberrations: See:
http://sanjaydadlaniexposed.blogspot.com/

Sathya Sai Baba has never been charged with any crime, has never been convicted of any crime and has never had even one single complaint lodged against him by any alleged victim (first-hand) in India (the only place where courts would have jurisdiction over Baba as an individual defendent).

Exposing the lies, deceit and dishonesty of critics, skeptics and ex-devotees of Sathya Sai Baba: saisathyasai.com