✒️ :. Mohd Ishaq Shah
A hypothesis that if someone does not follow the unscientific and illogical practices / customs. And doesn’t tend to show loyalty towards the dharam gurus/ Babas/ Fakirs/ Peers etc , s/ he will face dangerous consequences like uncertain death or material loss or bad relationships etc. When one relates it with his faith / belief he is sure to suffer on account of such fraudsters and hypocrites.
Religious faith is logical in nature and has laid down the clearcut ways of living a life. No doubt there are some supernatural episodes narrated in religious scriptures that sometimes make us tend towards what seemingly doesn’t seem logical or empirical. Although, there is also logic , we do not have such an experience that we can visualise such logic.
Recently ,news got viral that a fake baba from Maharashtra state of India had been sexually exploiting womenfolk of the said state and many videos in its respect have gone viral on social media and the matter has become a burning issue now. Authorities also have taken cognizance of the matter and the accused has been put behind the bars as well. Let me not expose what in reality has happened to the women who used to visit his private office.
I just recollected a short story by R.K Narayana that I happened to go through while persuing my PG in English literature. The story is titled ; An Astroger’s Day , it goes like that a man goes to attend a party with his friends wherein he drinks in such quantity that he loses all his senses and stand one of his friends with a knife. After coming to senses he is apprehensive about arrest by police and hurriedly leaves for home with pale face.
His wife asks him the reason of his apprehension to which he replied that it would be no longer safe for them to live in that city/ town and they must leave the premises immediately. Alongwith his family he leaves the city and settles in another city. There he openes an astrologer’s shop and starts practicing. He wears the robes and aprons making his attire totally strange.
One day the same person whom he had injured in the party and had luckily survived. The person asked him to tell him his murderer. The astrologer replies that if he remains rigid in finding out his enemy ,he would face a fatal accident. So, it is better to leave him to the mercy of God and he might have been killed in a road Accident.
The person returns back and the astrologer hurriedly closes his shop and returns home. Once again his wife asks him why he has been so worried and closed his shop so early. He narrated the whole episode to his wife and reveals before her the reality of past…
So, superstition is the most dangerous social evil that has destroyed the lives of thousands but lakhs of innocent people.
Religion is scientific in nature and logical in treatment. It never allows us to follow someone blindly. People must read scriptures of their religion and follow what has been ordained there. Only then they can spare themselves from fraudsters and looters.
