Letter to the Editor (refer to Filio’s comments
in Scheme Suit Update)
The likes of Filio are best left alone in their world of fantasy
and delusion where they are the self-styled, self-proclaimed defendants of the
faith and the new gospel of Peter and his protectors. In this new gospel that
they have floated, intellectual freedom along with its right to abuse anybody
even remotely looking great, is the highest value. They speak of truth and lies,
but freely mix both so as to confuse their readers or rather to convert their
minds to this new gospel where the Trust is equivalent to the Master, and is the
only approach to God. Clearly a religion is in the making right under their
noses! And who is their God? A being who enjoys and defends those who deny
spiritual things and mocks at them, a God who defends those who denigrates
spiritual Masters, defiles Their image in human hearts, throws doubts at Their
experiences, trivialises Their achievements. Or a God who rushes to attack and
destroy anybody who stands for Idealism and has the courage of conviction to
stand upon one's faith as on a solid rock. Do you not see why they attack
Sraddhalu? Plain and simple jealousy! These fellows are not even one-tenth his
measure, either in spiritual achievement or in his invaluable service to the
Master that he is rendering to humanity and the world while these fellows are
busy enjoying their freedom to hurl abuses and enjoy the Ashram privileges.
They attack him because they are mortally scared of him. How they wish they
could earn as much or even half the respect he commands through his deeds! But
these good-for-nothing nobodys are simply after cheap popularity, whose names
no one knows except their relatives, and who have hardly made any difference to
anybody's life except their kith and kin. Their life begins and ends with
themselves and the rest concerns them only so long as it serves their selfish
interests such as closeness to the Trust and the petty advantages thereof. So
my advice to you is to leave aside these dwellers in false values. They are
really irrelevant. It is also no point discussing with them since they can
hardly understand deeper things, have not even an elementary training in logic,
label whatever they do not understand as rhetoric and most importantly cannot
write one paragraph without spewing venom and hate, which is perhaps their
daily food. After all, what else can you expect from those who are fine with
the denigration of their Master and can go to any absurd length to justify
Peter Heehs and his likes in the 'true' and convenient secular spirit of India.
May be the time has come for the breaking of all institutions and what we are
witnessing is just one of those beginnings which will lead to a genuine
spiritual Age.
But meanwhile see their logic. They give the analogy of stone
throwing at Sraddhalu’s house but what about applying the same logic to the
book! Peter Heehs has thrown not one but a number of stones and over the years,
not only at the Master’s House and the devotees but at the Master Himself. May
be the likes of Filo and Co are feeling not only jealous and spiteful, but also
guilty that they did nothing when the Master was being attacked. So to
recompense for that lapse they are rushing to defend the caretaker of the
house. What they forget is that the caretaker is not the Master and is perhaps
not doing enough to take care of it. How else can one explain the rot and the
revolt if they were functioning properly! Something must be seriously wrong in
an institution where the members are at war with each other, cancelling and
demolishing each other. Unity is lacking, but then where is the fault? In
spiritual life it is well known that when one is attacked by an outside force,
one takes a hard look inside so as to know where is the opening inviting such
an attack. One does not rush to blame others. And who are these ‘others’? -members
of the same community! If the Trust had wanted, no power
could have divided the community. It is they who let it happen, who sat
silently while the community was being divided by an American and other
‘pseudo-secular’ forces for their own vested interests. If the community is
divided today, the responsibility is surely with the Trust and nobody else. They
never made any attempt to reconcile, or even to talk and discuss with the
aggrieved persons since they knew very well that they cannot justify their
action to safeguard Peter’s interests in public. So they hid themselves under a
veil of mysterious silence that was broken only time and again when they were
attacked or their throne shaken. They created a smoke-screen of diverse
opinions and raised the bogey of freedom to justify their (in)action. They wore
the mask of neutrality to justify partiality. Even now things can change if
they are willing to talk face to face. Let them or their masks (the abusive
gang of Filio and others) come out in a common open place before all the
devotees and take the debate. Do they have even an iota of courage to do so?
They would not! So it is best is to let these faithful dogs bark in their den
and stop listening to them. They know nothing else but to bark. But also do not
paint all ex-students with the same brush just as these jokers call all who
come to listen to Sraddhalu’s talks as ‘gullible masses’. Let them come and see
whether we are a gullible mass or an accomplished lot. These fellows are
exceptions and are best ignored lest they find no end to their self-importance.
Veerbhadra Singh
Rudrapur
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