The current age is called as Kaliyuga which means the age of quarrel and hypocrisy where people want to show themselves what they are not. Every single day someone calls himself to be an Avatar of God and claims to cure all problems, this doesn't happen only in India but practically all over the world. On the name of faith healing, faith destroying is going on. So many babas, mullahs, healers have been accused for playing with simple people's faith and cheating them. These are the people who don't know even basics of their scriptures, but are very expert in pretending to be well learned in science of devotion and scriptures. World is made of cheaters and cheated.
People who make a show of their religion and devotion are many times hypocrites and use religion as source of their income, so many of the such pretenders have earned crores of dollars(they speaks about detachment but seems very attached to money). Gita says(BG 3.6),“One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.” So externally they are very expert in showing detachment but their mind is constantly hovering over the sensual enjoyment. As Prabhupad says, they make a show of their meditation and speaks about dry philosophy to bluff sophisticated followers, but according to this verse they are greatest cheaters, their mind is always impure. And because of such pretenders people's faith is also getting destroyed because their action doesn't follow their own words.
But God is not pleased with such pretenders He values genuine and sincere devotion more than anything may that be a simple householder. Lord speaks ahead(BG 3.7),“On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior.” Prabhupad gives a very graphic example he says,“A sincere sweeper in the street is far better than the charlatan meditator who meditates only for the sake of making a living.” So one has to be very careful while choosing association, don't just look for eternality but try to look the internal character of person too. Better than the pretender is one who is sincerely doing his prescribed duties. So these pretenders are actually offenders at the feet of God.
Pretenders are those who have accepted religion as their money making business and we find so many of them still present in society. One has to be little intelligent to understand who is genuine and who is cheater, if one follows the cheater then he will be cheated because they can't free themselves from material bondage how they will free their followers. In conclusion be careful of religious pretenders because they can create havoc in your spiritual life...
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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People who make a show of their religion and devotion are many times hypocrites and use religion as source of their income, so many of the such pretenders have earned crores of dollars(they speaks about detachment but seems very attached to money). Gita says(BG 3.6),“One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.” So externally they are very expert in showing detachment but their mind is constantly hovering over the sensual enjoyment. As Prabhupad says, they make a show of their meditation and speaks about dry philosophy to bluff sophisticated followers, but according to this verse they are greatest cheaters, their mind is always impure. And because of such pretenders people's faith is also getting destroyed because their action doesn't follow their own words.
But God is not pleased with such pretenders He values genuine and sincere devotion more than anything may that be a simple householder. Lord speaks ahead(BG 3.7),“On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior.” Prabhupad gives a very graphic example he says,“A sincere sweeper in the street is far better than the charlatan meditator who meditates only for the sake of making a living.” So one has to be very careful while choosing association, don't just look for eternality but try to look the internal character of person too. Better than the pretender is one who is sincerely doing his prescribed duties. So these pretenders are actually offenders at the feet of God.
Pretenders are those who have accepted religion as their money making business and we find so many of them still present in society. One has to be little intelligent to understand who is genuine and who is cheater, if one follows the cheater then he will be cheated because they can't free themselves from material bondage how they will free their followers. In conclusion be careful of religious pretenders because they can create havoc in your spiritual life...
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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