“He has written 40 books on spirituality,” said a confident TV channel reporter. “50,” corrected a new age spiritual guru with a twang. The confidence dwindled and the tone changed. The reporter took more than usual takes to move ahead with the first sentence.
Hypocrisy has become an integral part of today’s life and every now and then I see people contradicting themselves. Projecting something else and saying or rather blurting out something else. Just before the above-mentioned television interview, a lady came up with a question for the guru. “Why do people who are spiritually a little more knowledgeable are high nosed and behave as if they are superior. Is this the way a spiritual person should behave?” And what followed was Guruji's discourse on importance of humility in one’s spiritual growth and how the more spiritually inclined you are the more humble you become. I was impressed and touched with the sincerity in which he answered the question. But just 5 minutes after the ‘discourse’, the so-called spiritually evolved being snubbed someone just because he/she doesn’t happen to remember the number of books the guruji wrote. This is humbleness at its height.
Hypocrisy has become an integral part of today’s life and every now and then I see people contradicting themselves. Projecting something else and saying or rather blurting out something else. Just before the above-mentioned television interview, a lady came up with a question for the guru. “Why do people who are spiritually a little more knowledgeable are high nosed and behave as if they are superior. Is this the way a spiritual person should behave?” And what followed was Guruji's discourse on importance of humility in one’s spiritual growth and how the more spiritually inclined you are the more humble you become. I was impressed and touched with the sincerity in which he answered the question. But just 5 minutes after the ‘discourse’, the so-called spiritually evolved being snubbed someone just because he/she doesn’t happen to remember the number of books the guruji wrote. This is humbleness at its height.
PS: Guruji was in the Capital to release his book on enlightenment. Funny huh!
