The latest scandal to be revealed is that of the 'godman' Ram-raheem, from Sirsa, in north India. According to the revelations, he has studied only upto the ninth standard and was an 'ordinary' citizen until he got married. Through a span of thirty years approximately, this man has made an 'empire' for himself with an entire 'dera' or city of his own. In this dera, he is the king, and the rulemaker, the most powerful person, with his own plastic currency, his numerous bungalows, with themes, an extravagant life style, with a pretty partner, Honey-preet.
Such innovation! But alas! Only for his own selfish comfort. But then, we all want comfort and luxuries for ourselves, and that is what we work towards. The only difficulty is that we cannot manage to earn too much. Ram-raheem earned so much wealth, by whatever means, he managed to become a film hero too. And among his friend's circle are the likes of the chief minister of Haryana and Shilpa Shetty and Mr. Kundra, as disclosed on the news channels.
I envy this man's innovation and enterprise, but if only he would have been 'human' and not murdered others, and raped women, as is being disclosed. Each one of us has skeletons in the closet, but this man has skeletons in his backyard, buried by his orders, of innocent detractors. If only he would have used his energies to be genuinely good, as he wanted to be portrayed, and not behaved fiendishly to achieve wealth and fame and power.
Fairy tales about 'rags to riches' abound. A Tale of Two Cities, the Prince and the Pauper, Macbeth, Hansel and Gretel, and the real life examples of The Ambanis and The Bachchans. But Baba Ram-raheem has outdone all of them to have achieved so much extravagance and luxury and opulence.
The investigation has revealed that all his fifteen bungalows, built around 'the wonders of the world' and underwater theme titled, the Amoeba, built around the planets and space, titled the Sun, the Eiffel Tower palace, the Taj Mahal palace, Disneyland themed bungalow, etc., all these have seven star luxuries. Wow!
Whichever way this baba has erred, it cannot be denied that he has genius, evil genius, but genuine genius nevertheless. And there are so many others who would cash in on their 'evil' genius, if they could, without being caught. And then some of them are 'caught'.
Everyone wants luxuries and for that, everyone wants cash, whether it is a Shahrukh Khan or a Rabdi Devi. I can give you one recent example of avarice, wherein the very 'famous' Mr. Arjun Rampal was contacted to grace a certain school level function, and promote his movie Daddy too. His PR team conveyed to us that for 45 minutes of his precious time, we would have to shell out a whopping eight lakhs. So then, when we judge Ram-raheem, it should be noted that he too used his initiative to earn a luxurious lifestyle by managing to dupe the vulnerables. And all of them went into his 'dera' of their own free will.
Why should the spider be denied his bait of the fly?
Such innovation! But alas! Only for his own selfish comfort. But then, we all want comfort and luxuries for ourselves, and that is what we work towards. The only difficulty is that we cannot manage to earn too much. Ram-raheem earned so much wealth, by whatever means, he managed to become a film hero too. And among his friend's circle are the likes of the chief minister of Haryana and Shilpa Shetty and Mr. Kundra, as disclosed on the news channels.
I envy this man's innovation and enterprise, but if only he would have been 'human' and not murdered others, and raped women, as is being disclosed. Each one of us has skeletons in the closet, but this man has skeletons in his backyard, buried by his orders, of innocent detractors. If only he would have used his energies to be genuinely good, as he wanted to be portrayed, and not behaved fiendishly to achieve wealth and fame and power.
Fairy tales about 'rags to riches' abound. A Tale of Two Cities, the Prince and the Pauper, Macbeth, Hansel and Gretel, and the real life examples of The Ambanis and The Bachchans. But Baba Ram-raheem has outdone all of them to have achieved so much extravagance and luxury and opulence.
The investigation has revealed that all his fifteen bungalows, built around 'the wonders of the world' and underwater theme titled, the Amoeba, built around the planets and space, titled the Sun, the Eiffel Tower palace, the Taj Mahal palace, Disneyland themed bungalow, etc., all these have seven star luxuries. Wow!
Whichever way this baba has erred, it cannot be denied that he has genius, evil genius, but genuine genius nevertheless. And there are so many others who would cash in on their 'evil' genius, if they could, without being caught. And then some of them are 'caught'.
Everyone wants luxuries and for that, everyone wants cash, whether it is a Shahrukh Khan or a Rabdi Devi. I can give you one recent example of avarice, wherein the very 'famous' Mr. Arjun Rampal was contacted to grace a certain school level function, and promote his movie Daddy too. His PR team conveyed to us that for 45 minutes of his precious time, we would have to shell out a whopping eight lakhs. So then, when we judge Ram-raheem, it should be noted that he too used his initiative to earn a luxurious lifestyle by managing to dupe the vulnerables. And all of them went into his 'dera' of their own free will.
Why should the spider be denied his bait of the fly?
