Jaggi Vasudev is a charlatan, a fraud and though he will eventually have his downfall, it will take time. History teaches us that charlatans like him go through a period of glory and gushing admiration from fools who flock to him like sheep while they peddle the snake oil of bliss, transformation and divine energies. Like in any Ponzi scheme, these fraudsters exploit gullible, impressionable, weak minds to invest themselves in the service of greed, in this case spiritual greed, while the charlatans snicker from their high pedestals, and enjoy the ride.
Egoistic, immoral and cunning salesmen like Jaggi Vasudev and Deepak Chopra speak erudite nonsense and act holier-than-thou while verbally bullying their feeble critics and amateur spiritual seekers with their voice full of undeserved authority and condescension.
Hifalutin aunties and "I've read Eckhart Tolle and Rumi" kurta-wearing-westernized-idiots might think that they are better than the followers of Ram Rahim who, they say, shaking their heads, must have been blind not to see his garish lack of depth. But they themselves are in the psychological vice-grip of better-dressed expensively-environed imposters.
People who flock to these fraudsters for emotional relief are those who are justifiably stressed and suffering from the circumstances of their own lives. These people have genuine questions about life, love and happiness. But when you are in emotional trouble, you are seeking comfort, not truth. Truth is harder to accept. These charlatans are professionals when it comes to bamboozling these dumb seekers with their pseudo-scientific talk of subtle energies, mystical cause and effect, quantum consciousness, the realm where the sun don't shine, and the effectiveness of "inner" engineering.
Well, of course, a disciplined life handed down from the master will help some to shed their drug addictions and distracted life. But at the cost of emotional servility. For some, it will definitely bring about stress relief. But at the cost of superstition and an abdication of intellect. Just because a quack's remedies occasionally work does not thereby mean he should be awarded an MD.
The problems faced by modern humans are diverse, and are in many cases, psychological in nature. They seek an authority figure to tell them to be better human beings. The authority figures are only too happy.
I feel bad for the seekers. Like the followers of Baba Ram Rahim, they venerate their Baba as the all-knowing who has the answers to every question, be it scientific, emotional, ecological, social or political. But they scarcely realize that these charismatic sons of bitches are professionals in the business of conning amateur wannabe philosopher-seekers to depend on them as their tickets to nirvana. Ask these criminals any question, and they will answer authoritatively. These greedy, gaudily-dressed men of paunch will prescribe humility and inquiry, but one look at them and you know that if there was a Nobel prize for arrogance and hubris, the prize must surely go to them. The weak-minded followers will lap up their answers without scrutiny and will regard any rigorous analysis of their bullshit as faithless suspicion and the evil intellectual opposition from the inexperienced-in-divinity.
"You have to attend his course, only then you will see." "Try it once." "If you haven't felt it, you won't understand." "You are only talking from your intellect, which is limited." "Without tasting honey, how can you critique its taste?" Oh please!
Though I condemn without hesitation these long-bearded fakers, I am more appalled at their followers. After all, a conman stands a chance only if his target is himself greedy and gullible. These politically-connected usurpers of public resources residing in their five-star fragrant abodes are just milking the opportunity presented to them. If the followers are willing to be sucked dry, these reptilian milkmen have no compunction doing so.
Like any astute businessman, Jaggi Vasudev is now advertising with all cylinders firing, be it on social media, in the newspapers, on YouTube, on roadside billboards, in airports, ... He is calling you. The guru has finally appeared, and you, the seeker, must have been ready, that's why.
Otherwise educated men and women, but those who have little grounding in modern physics, cosmology, philosophy, analysis, human psychology, the scientific method and all else, see Jaggi Vasudev as the modern messiah who, with his polished lingo and his charismatic gestures, has finally descended from heaven to offer them the release from their ignorance and sorrows. Thank God for Jaggi, they say.
Fatal error.
The followers will be eventually left high and dry, but in the meantime, what a waste. I would probably not be as bothered if these charlatans and their sheep were indulging in their ugly internal circle-jerking orgy of surrender and "take me, oh master. yes of course dear soul." while the rest of the world continued as it did. After all, there is all kinds of malfeasance going on in the world, so why single out these specialists of speciousness?
But when they start indulging in harming the society at large, murdering journalists and encroaching on public lands, planting trees while also planting their seed in their women followers, rallying for rivers and the mother-nature while incestuously raping that very mother by destroying sensitive ecosystems and having a cavalcade of gas guzzling vehicles (but they need comfort while they save nature, you see?), ignoring the laws of the land, getting their children settled abroad while they ask their followers to work tirelessly for a pittance, having their mistresses order everybody around in their "ashrams", getting grants and patronage and legal immunity from vote-bank politicians who are only too happy to associate with these nirvana-peddlers, offering garlands to murderous ministers, and causing immense collateral damage on the families of their followers, then it is the solemn duty of normal citizens to speak up and ask: Just who the hell do these emperors-with-no-clothes think they are?
Have they no shame? But of course they don't. But have their followers no sense?
From Reddit:
India will remain a land of suffering, superstition and sycophancy as long as these wolves-in-robes continue to have their way with their millions of sheepish followers. These godmen are not the ones who will remove the curse of servility and backwardness from this fallen motherland of mine.
These godmen are themselves the curse.
Hifalutin aunties and "I've read Eckhart Tolle and Rumi" kurta-wearing-westernized-idiots might think that they are better than the followers of Ram Rahim who, they say, shaking their heads, must have been blind not to see his garish lack of depth. But they themselves are in the psychological vice-grip of better-dressed expensively-environed imposters.
People who flock to these fraudsters for emotional relief are those who are justifiably stressed and suffering from the circumstances of their own lives. These people have genuine questions about life, love and happiness. But when you are in emotional trouble, you are seeking comfort, not truth. Truth is harder to accept. These charlatans are professionals when it comes to bamboozling these dumb seekers with their pseudo-scientific talk of subtle energies, mystical cause and effect, quantum consciousness, the realm where the sun don't shine, and the effectiveness of "inner" engineering.
Well, of course, a disciplined life handed down from the master will help some to shed their drug addictions and distracted life. But at the cost of emotional servility. For some, it will definitely bring about stress relief. But at the cost of superstition and an abdication of intellect. Just because a quack's remedies occasionally work does not thereby mean he should be awarded an MD.
The problems faced by modern humans are diverse, and are in many cases, psychological in nature. They seek an authority figure to tell them to be better human beings. The authority figures are only too happy.
I feel bad for the seekers. Like the followers of Baba Ram Rahim, they venerate their Baba as the all-knowing who has the answers to every question, be it scientific, emotional, ecological, social or political. But they scarcely realize that these charismatic sons of bitches are professionals in the business of conning amateur wannabe philosopher-seekers to depend on them as their tickets to nirvana. Ask these criminals any question, and they will answer authoritatively. These greedy, gaudily-dressed men of paunch will prescribe humility and inquiry, but one look at them and you know that if there was a Nobel prize for arrogance and hubris, the prize must surely go to them. The weak-minded followers will lap up their answers without scrutiny and will regard any rigorous analysis of their bullshit as faithless suspicion and the evil intellectual opposition from the inexperienced-in-divinity.
"You have to attend his course, only then you will see." "Try it once." "If you haven't felt it, you won't understand." "You are only talking from your intellect, which is limited." "Without tasting honey, how can you critique its taste?" Oh please!
Though I condemn without hesitation these long-bearded fakers, I am more appalled at their followers. After all, a conman stands a chance only if his target is himself greedy and gullible. These politically-connected usurpers of public resources residing in their five-star fragrant abodes are just milking the opportunity presented to them. If the followers are willing to be sucked dry, these reptilian milkmen have no compunction doing so.
Like any astute businessman, Jaggi Vasudev is now advertising with all cylinders firing, be it on social media, in the newspapers, on YouTube, on roadside billboards, in airports, ... He is calling you. The guru has finally appeared, and you, the seeker, must have been ready, that's why.
Otherwise educated men and women, but those who have little grounding in modern physics, cosmology, philosophy, analysis, human psychology, the scientific method and all else, see Jaggi Vasudev as the modern messiah who, with his polished lingo and his charismatic gestures, has finally descended from heaven to offer them the release from their ignorance and sorrows. Thank God for Jaggi, they say.
Fatal error.
The followers will be eventually left high and dry, but in the meantime, what a waste. I would probably not be as bothered if these charlatans and their sheep were indulging in their ugly internal circle-jerking orgy of surrender and "take me, oh master. yes of course dear soul." while the rest of the world continued as it did. After all, there is all kinds of malfeasance going on in the world, so why single out these specialists of speciousness?
But when they start indulging in harming the society at large, murdering journalists and encroaching on public lands, planting trees while also planting their seed in their women followers, rallying for rivers and the mother-nature while incestuously raping that very mother by destroying sensitive ecosystems and having a cavalcade of gas guzzling vehicles (but they need comfort while they save nature, you see?), ignoring the laws of the land, getting their children settled abroad while they ask their followers to work tirelessly for a pittance, having their mistresses order everybody around in their "ashrams", getting grants and patronage and legal immunity from vote-bank politicians who are only too happy to associate with these nirvana-peddlers, offering garlands to murderous ministers, and causing immense collateral damage on the families of their followers, then it is the solemn duty of normal citizens to speak up and ask: Just who the hell do these emperors-with-no-clothes think they are?
Have they no shame? But of course they don't. But have their followers no sense?
From Reddit:
- Was Jaggi accused of killing his wife Viji by her parents? Yes
- Was there another women involved in this matter? Yes
- Did this women divorce and leave her family? Yes
- Was she the closest disciple of Jaggi in a previous life time? Yes
- Is she a Brahmachari/Sanyasi now? No
- Is her life opulent in the ashram just like Jaggi’s? Yes
- Did Jaggi initiate his young daughter into Brahmacharya? No
- Is he initiating other young girls/boys into Brahmacharya? Yes
- Did his daughter ever do volunteering? No
- Did she ever go through long term/permanent ashram life in her teens like Samskrithi kids? No
- Is there any objective proof/witnesses of Jaggi solidifying mercury? No
- Is there an objective proof that he learned and practiced yoga from Malladihalli Swami? No
- Is there an objective proof that he was student of Rishi Prabhakar for more than a year? Yes
- Is Jaggi and his colleagues are teaching the same yoga, meditation and BSP with minor differences? Yes
- Did Jaggi ever gave credit to/confessed about Rishi Prabhakar? No
- Did Jaggi’s contemporary/colleague Ravisankar Mysore Ramakrishna commented about Jaggi’s plagiarism and lies? Yes
- Is there an objective way to confirm Jaggi’s enlightenment before taking his programs? Yes
- Is he a self confessed liar? Yes
- Does Jaggi have political tie-ups? Yes
- Does he shadow celebrities and crave media attention? Yes
- Did Isha ever disclose their social outreach program details/numbers to public? No
- Is Isha a 100% volunteer run organization? No
- Did Isha use/is using immoral tactics to usurp land? Yes
- Are Isha fanatics waiting for an utopian mass enlightenment never explicitly promised by Jaggi? Yes
- Are they dangerously delusional/hypocritical? Yes
India will remain a land of suffering, superstition and sycophancy as long as these wolves-in-robes continue to have their way with their millions of sheepish followers. These godmen are not the ones who will remove the curse of servility and backwardness from this fallen motherland of mine.
These godmen are themselves the curse.
6 comments:
Good one Harman. As always spot on
Enjoyed reading the incisive write up written with a certain warmth for the masses eternally in wait for some Godot.
Curses like Jaggi proliferate and flourish because they advances the interests of the ruling class and reinforce status quo. This strategic alliance of the motley crowd of charlatans controlling the levers of political power and the minds of gullible suffering masses has a singular agenda- to advance the interests of some groups or classes and exclude or suppress the interests of others.Working in tandem, they reinforce their own privilege and quell any challenge to the regnant authorities.
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Jaggi is fraudthat you will understand if you listen to his talk itself. It always exudes his inflated ego. That he was trained by Rishi Orabhakar is fact and can be verified by number of contemporary RSVK( Rishi Sanskrit Vidya Kendra founded Rishi Prabhakar) leaders like Sathisji Manojiji And others like Raviji.
Jaggi is fraudthat you will understand if you listen to his talk itself. It always exudes his inflated ego. That he was trained by Rishi Orabhakar is fact and can be verified by number of contemporary RSVK( Rishi Sanskrit Vidya Kendra founded Rishi Prabhakar) leaders like Sathisji Manojiji And others like Raviji.
Sadhguru is very greedy, stealing kidneys from the poor. Also he lies at all times!
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