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Monks' Dilemma
Monks' Dilemma
| 151 utilised in his own perverted way. He became popular because sex sells best."
Deepak, "If there are no other important commitments. Deepti and I shall also join you. In the meantime we propose to go to Hardwar, meet some prominent saints and study their life style and functioning."
Deepak had three invitation letters on his table. One was from a local client inviting him to Bhagwat programme on the coming Sunday. The other was for an annual event at Arvind Ashram Pondicherry. The third was from Osho Foundation, Pune. Both were scheduled next week end. He consulted Deepti. She suggested, “We must attend the Bhagwat programme of our client. The dates of other two programmes are clashing. I shall prefer to go to Pondicherry. Osho was a pervert to the extreme and advocated sex even for the ultimate salvation. I think that he must have been a sex maniac and there were reported cases against him even in U.S where society is permissive and promiscuous. He was punished and thrown out of that country disgracefully. I wonder how he managed to establish himself again in India. One of my friends at Jaipur was from Jabalpur, the native place of Rajneesh alias Osho. Her father and Osho were colleagues in a college. Rajneesh used to teach yoga also in addition to his subject and was organising yoga camps at different places during college vacations. He remained unmarried but his sex escapades were well known. He exploited his female students with impunity as a practice of yoga, an essential ingredient in Vam Marg and Tantric rituals, he must have adopted from there. Of course he was a genius, intelligent, very knowledgeable being a voracious reader of almost all important scriptures of all sects and was an impressive orator, the qualities he skilfully
Bhagwat programme was organised in a spacious compound of the family temple. There was a big dais, decorated profusely with all different available varieties of flowers and posters and pictures of deities. The head Pundit was seated on a beautiful throne-like raised seat, surrounded by members of his team, each having a musical instrument to play as and when desired by the Pundit. There was a voluminous scripture in his front. When Deepak and Deepti reached there he was delivering his introductory lecture, "Bhagwat is a jewel and epitome of all scriptures. Those, who attend the discourses on the Bhagwat with devotion, are bestowed with boons and they accumulate immense good and beneficial karmas that entail pleasures in next birth in heaven or on earth. You will hear numerous instances of god himself coming to personally help his devotees in distress."
Pundit then started reciting a devotional song with his team playing their instruments. Ladies and gents in the audience started dancing and this went on for over fifteen minutes. Pundit turned a few leaves of the book and read a few lines about the incarnation of Hiranyakashyap, stopped and sent a young child with a begging bowl to roam around the audience for collecting donations. Again recital of song, playing of musical instruments, dancing was repeated followed by a brief from the story and collection of money. In over three hours the story from the book was narrated hardly for half an hour. There was lunch break. It was announced that the programme would restart after the Pundit had taken rest for
