In Kerala, our media is always after trends and
sensational news. The new
sensationalized news is that there are many and many fraud 'swamis' in the
state.
It all started with one person, called 'Santhosh
Madhavan' is been accused and arrested of taking money under the cover of
spirituality and living a lavish life. He
is under police custody as of now. His
marriage function was attended by high rank police officers and he had high
level political connection. In search of his house a lot of money, Skin of a
tiger, police uniform, blue films and several documents of fraud are
uncovered. Sooner at least 3 girls
accusing him of sexually use them. One lady whose face is identified in a film
however said she didn't have a complaint.
Within couple of days the earlier swami's arrest one
Swami reached to the police station accusing media of harassment and said he
will shoot himself and suicide witnessing the media. To the
terror of reporters and police, the Swami fired 3 bullets but nobody
died except minor injuries. It came to
light that the license for the gun was given without proper police verification
even. The police supported all the drama
in the police station is been suspended and accused where the 'Swami' is in
police custody.
Sooner a raid on all the 'swamis' functioning in the
state been ordered and police is searching their houses, ashram's etc. Fearing backlashes most of them are now fled
to safe places where the followers are trying hard to protect the name. People are now wondering which one is good
and which one is bad. The bad name put some shadow on all the spiritual men.
Adding political colour to the events, DYFI
(The youth wing of CPM) marched to a 'Swami's house and destroyed things over
there accusing illegal collection of money.
BJP start their share,
marching to a Christian priest who claims can do miracles but possess lot of
land. A Muslim 'Thangal' who said to
have posses the talent to strip 'Jinn' from people by giving egg to throw on
the walls is also flashing in news. KSU
the student wing of Congress too did their part in protesting.
These are the major ones and there are many other
small scale scandals too. In a 30 minute
news these news occupy not less than 10 minutes.
On the one hand all those people who make use of
spirituality to make money and cheat people, their action need to be
condemned. The ones who really work for
the good of spiritual growth of people should be promoted. At the same time it is a pity to see that
media didn't have anything else to project except these scandals. God save God's own country from all the evils
of fraud spirituality and from the scandal media.