So, here we are on a new day, with a new diary entry and facing the aftermath of yesterday’s diary entry about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Yesterday I reported about a story which I had read on the official website of his foundation ‘Art of Living’, in which he claims that his devotees are able to charge their mobile phones in front of his picture. Today my browser automatically opened this page again – not by magic but because I have set it on opening the previous session – and shows me that they have taken the page with that story down! It now shows ‘You are not authorized to access this page.’
We do have a screenshot however for those of you who were not quick enough with reading it! Click on the following link – it will open in a new window for you to read and see for yourself:
http://www.jaisiyaram.com/ravishankar-web.htm
Once something is out on the internet, it is difficult to make it vanish again, especially if the attention of thousands of people has been drawn towards it! I posted my diary entry yesterday afternoon and, as I always do, shared it on my facebook page. From there it spread like wildfire across the internet – and obviously reached Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, too. As quickly as possible they removed the text from their website, thinking that they can remove the evidence of what I am saying. Well, again, modern media is able to give proof of what happened online and you can see it above.
I had actually not expected to find such a superstitious article on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s website because I had until had the impression that he wanted to present himself in another light. It had seemed to me that he was very careful not to publicly show that he is just the same kind of guru like all the other fake ones, trying to attract devotees by showing magic tricks and claiming to be ‘omnipresent and all knowing’. The fact that he and his team decided to take the article down after I wrote about it shows only that they know that it is wrong! They know that this is not possible, that it is just fiction, an invented story to impress those who are listening.
He says himself that it is a story of a rural Indian area, a place where people are very superstitious, where people don’t know much about scientific reasons why this cannot be true and where people are gullible and religious enough to blindly follow a fake guru if he just tells them enough fantasy stories about his power. By saying that they are more powerful than he himself, he actually made them greedy on top of fooling them! They, too, want to have such powers!
The sad thing is how many people have been cheated and lured into believing that this man has true powers! Before I receive more comments telling me of all the benefits people had through his techniques, let me tell you that I don’t doubt the benefit of yoga, meditation or breathing techniques! I don’t believe however that there is any benefit in having a fake guru teaching them, telling you invented stories of his powers or the powers you could have if you joined him!
I just want to send out another appeal to everyone who happens to stumble over this article: you see yourself in this example that Gurus like this man can take their words back in a second, writing one thing today and another tomorrow. They are not honest, they don’t have any superpowers and they are not enlightened beings. They don’t want to help you, they want you to depend on them, they want your money and they want to manipulate you. Don’t get caught in their traps, take responsibility for your life yourself and be happy without depending on any guru’s fake powers!
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