As a Bharatiya and as a Hindu, I see the great need of super-rich Hindu Gurus in present India. I am not talking about Gurus who are only popular in local crowd. I am talking about the high-profile Gurus with great financial power.
Typically a Guru is seen as one-way bridge from Ignorance to Enlightenment. Since I am not into spirituality, I see super-rich Gurus as a two-way bridge between rich and poor.
Bridge between rich and poor:
Well, not much explanation is needed here as the sub-heading is self explanatory. Lot of rich people make rich donations to AoL for whatever reason and the money is being spent for the benefit of poor people. In return, the donors get well needed and well deserved satisfaction or mental peace (whatever you call it).
The point that One needs to know is the grand scale of the social service activities and the responsibility taken by the AoL organization. When a good task is done in a grand scale, the ripples of it awakens the enthusiasm in people. This enthusiasm is what we need to bring change in our mother land Bharat.
Why only Hindu Gurus:
Because I have not seen any Gurus from other religions taking up social challenges. Christian organizations in India have been getting billions of dollars in the name of charity. But I have not seen any project that is done for the benefit of general public. They have established good number of schools to expand their faith. That is called business not social service. Coming to Muslim organizations, where is all the Gulf money going? If there is any project done by Muslim organizations, it should be visible to the public. I don't see any. The only significant and self-less projects that I see are listed below.
Great works done by super-rich Hindu Gurus:
Satya Sai Baba Water Project :: Super Specialty Hospital :: Sri Sri Schools :: Rural Development :: Sri Sri University :: Swami Ramdev Patanjali Yog Peeth
When it comes to super-rich Gurus, they have the well needed money power to get things done. The guts behind the success of AoL is the largest volunteer base and financial strength. There are many other Gurus who limited themselves to teach spirituality. But money is what allowed Sri Sri to reach out millions of needy people.
My wish list:
I wish Sri Sri would help Hindus to take control of their temples from the government. When Masques and Churches are controlled by religious organizations, why the Indian government still wants to control Hindu temples. I think it is time to speed up the "take control of our temples" movement and request Sri Sri for help to achieve this.
It is my wish that we Hindus should have vote bank to counter the tactics of the political parties that play vote banks politics. In a multi cultured country like India, vote banks are not desired at all. But to counter the enemy, I feel the great need of Hindu vote bank by next election in 2009.
It is my wish that Sri Sri would raise a strong voice against illegal religious conversions in India. Religious conversions are not good at all for the stability of our mother land Bharat. Sri Sri had volunteered to resolve issues between LTTE and Sri Lanka Governemnt. If religious conversion are not stopped, India will have similar conflicts in near future. To avoid such situation, I wish Sri Sri would initiate a movement in his mother land.
Thank you,
Vasu Gokaraju
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