Amma Bhagavan Grace

STORY RETOLD

Indians love stories. It was this tool that Mr.Vijay Kumar alias Kalki/Bhagavan born on March 7,1949 at Natham , North Arcot District of Tamil Nadu, India and his wife Mrs.Pamini Vijay Kumar alias Padmavati Devi/Amma born on August 15 ,1954 in Sangam, Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh, India used in luring millions of followers into the fold of the famous ‘Oneness Movement’.

The story goes way back when Vijay Kumar worked at the ashram of Jiddu Krishna Murthi. Having a clerical job there, he had every access to the ashram’s administration and its where-about. No sooner the ashram’s authorities discovered his hidden agenda than he had made away with the land Mr.Khoday wanted to offer the ashram. Vijay Kumar was quiet successful in setting up a village residential school and named it Jeevashram and became the director of the school. Children who came from poor families of the near by villages were very vulnerable to any form of brainwash. It was hard to trace the master plan behind the opening of the village school. As a daily routine, the students were made to interact with the director.

Coming from a J.Krishna Murthi’s philosophical background he drilled the virus of &nbsp ; baseless passion for enlightenment into their young minds by showing them movies like “Oh! God!” and stories of St. Francisco of Assisi and others to rave their psyche with an obsession to transform mankind. He convinced the children to believe that they are his messengers and that he is the savior of the mankind. As a result the children refused to go home with their parents. For children from houses where wife- beating and alcohol was a daily affair, the recognition and illusionary affection showered by this director of the school and his wife was a luxury. Soon the children were found watching more movies, reading spiritual books and even imitating few sages and seers of the past. They had reached a point of no return and the vision was lucrative and worth dying for. Soon the young children began to speak in tongues, giving blessings and even conducting spiritual lessons for the school authorities and many illiterate parents. Their young minds got accustomed to this spiritual high. Hence one story led to another until millions were captured in the web of stories by yet another cult. The school had fulfilled its true purpose.

Even before the parents could realize, Vijay Kumar and his wife had conquered the children psychologically. With the help of his child hood friend Mr. Shankar, the scientific brain behind the movement Vijay Kumar successfully initiated 6 students-Jyoti,Kavitha, Deepti,Giri,Vinay and vimal(?) into monkhood. As fate would have it these children did not realize the trap they had set up for themselves. Slowly he set up a stage to entertain public with his spiritual drama and stolen philosophy from J.Krishnamurthi, Buddism and modern psychology. soon he became an Enigma to the society. People could neither understand nor digest how a mere LIC agent from a poor low- class family rise up to the status of a spiritual guru preaching the importance of relationship when they had witnessed fights and verbal abuse that often prevailed between Vijay Kumar and his nasty tongued wife who was from a lineage of psychotics-it’s a known fact amongst villagers that both her brothers were mentally- ill! Indian Villagers have always been good audience. They watched day after day families driving to the school campus to find solution for their problem. Soon families became small groups then large until huge crowd began thronging to these spiritual courses lasting for a couple of days. Every conceivable atrocities in the name of repentance and flowering of the heart happened in these courses and hopeless women- wives of drunken husbands became the back bone of the movement and soon took charge in spreading the news of the new found living god “kalki”. A woman’s mouth is faster than the forest- fire; the ‘Kalki’ movement became a public affair. These women were determined to drag any tom-dick-harry into the Kalki fold because they believed that they had a mission to follow and in the doing so they were taught to think that they were wiping the bad karma of these scapegoats falling prey to their cock and bull stories defining the glory of their living god.

A psychic child at the age of 7 had kept a knife under his pillow to kill God for having taken away his grandmother and after 40yrs turned out to be the 10^th avatar of Vishnu – The kalki of Hindu scriptures. (refer Chennai parabramha Brahma yagna souvenir) . As soon as Vijay Kumar realized that he had fallen in the soup of media attacks he intelligently asked his disciples now titled ‘Acharyas” to stop using the name Kalki in the so called moolamantra which he ordained for himself to strengthen his godly image. The sacred mantra became a universal tool for Vijay Kumar to loot people because the nature of any mantra in to bestow divine grace upon the seeker. The mantra never said Vijay Kumar Namaha – it addressed the supreme consciousness and that higher consciousness channelized its divine energies into the lives of anybody who sought grace for material and spiritual growth. In Srilanka there is a temple where people worship Ravana and obtained boons. The tribes worshiped stones and received grace. It does not mean that Ravana or the stone is god. They are only a medium. But Vijay Kumar enjoyed all the credit of miracles and conveniently managed to promote himself in the Hindu spiritual market. His movement expanded across the length and breath of India. He had successfully brained washed the targeted egalitarian percentage of Indian community who blindly replaced their gods with his photo graphs.

Every problem faced by the common man was made into an opportunity to earn money. Vijay Kumar and his wife used the Achrayas and other full time volunteers, also called as dasas who were mostly young men and women who gave up their personal lives, careers and parents to serve humanity. They lived a monastic life initially and public have witnessed their austerity, they shouldered the mammoth task of spreading the movement in a systematic way with their commitment and ‘never say die’ attitude. The Kalki movement exploded in every nook and corner of the Indian village. Indian teenagers seeking a direction and a new meaning for life were trapped by the charismatic pseudo scientific approach offered by the movement. They soon became the untitled BDMs of oneness movement who marketed Vijay Kumar in the corporate kingdom with the young dasas as their ideal. Every passing day these Achrayas and monks lived with a hope of enlightenment for themselves and through them, enlightenment for mankind. In the name of spiritual evolution they cocooned themselves in the campus set up by Vijay Kumar far away from the cities, cut off from media or any communication with the out side world with a belief that they were living with god. Anything offered to them be it a teaching, physical torture or a verbal abuse they accepted it as a divine benediction. In reality they were trained ruthlessly like war soldiers! But the greed of the founders slowly laid its icy hands on their young shoulders with pressure of bring more and more money from the public that these youngsters lost the very purpose of their life of serving humanity instead they became the dignified slaves for Vijay Kumar and his family and began to think and act the way they wanted and lost their freedom of expression. Greed became pressure, pressure created competition-DIVIDE AND RULE was the policy adopted by the founders. As a result health of these volunteers deteriorated even with out their notice. Time passed and the brutal torture in the garb of motivation or spiritual sadhanas became a way of life and each volunteer found his/her own way of adopting to this pressure conditioned to the fear that otherwise they would lose the golden opportunity of being channels for making the mankind enlightened .Amma’s vulgarity on commenting on the devotee’s physique who came for her darshans and foul language-paired with violence was covered by Vijay Kumar that she is in Kali devi roopa…..in reality it was not Kali roopa but kaaaali dabba! The dasas were confused and hopeless and so were the public. Though a hypothetical trust called ‘Kalki rural trust’ was setup over a period of time Vijay Kumar along with his son Krishna and daughter in law, cunningly organized his spiritual company. All the funds were funneled to Golden Shelter Pvt. Ltd which is in Krishna’s name and funds from Prajit Foundation is in Smt. Preetha Krishna’s name who recently bought a diamond ring worth 70lakhs from Coimbatore, TamilNadu, nothing wrong in owning one but it is the public money collected in the name of noble cause! Every single pie from a daily wage laborer, a widow, an MLA or from the spiritual work went into these accounts. Since the movement had spread rigoursly, money pored into their bowls. The movement changed its name, its form and even its vision to manipulate the money in-flow into the great Oneness- Money minting company.Not a single person was spared who visited the ashram at Nemam - Chennai or the Oneness University at Andhra Pradesh. Ever since they announced of offering enlightenment in the year 1999 the financial graph of the movement shot up in unbelievable proportions because the selling concept was a ‘benevolent god’ packed with the Hindu theory of god as a Bhakta paradeena. This gave the lisense for all misinterpretations of the sacred scriptures. Concepts like transformation, causeless love and enlightenment sold out as hot cakes in the course and Vijay Kumar laughed his way to riches and public fame at the cost of middle class families who even sold their properties and parted away with their hard earned money in the idea of supporting the noble cause.

'Brainwashing - The Science of Thought Control' by Kathleen Taylor, might give some insights into the mechanics of a brainwashed mind. In the first chapter there is an excellent outline of the main features of control following a model outlined by Robert Lifton, who identifies eight psychological themes characteristic of thought reform that, even though describing the processes undertaken by totalitarian governments, work quite well in describing the mentality of oneness followers (or indeed any type of cult member). Here follows the eight themes along with a brief description:

1. Milieu control - Control of an individual's communication with the external world, hence his or her perceptions of reality. Attempting to dominate not only the communications with the outside world (all that he sees, hears, reads, writes, experiences, expresses) but also - in it's penetration of his inner life - over what we may speak of as his communication with himself.
2. Mystical manipulation - Evocation of certain patterns of behaviour and emotion in such a way that they appear to be spontaneous. Often refers to higher purposes and supernatural authorities such as fate, the hand of history, or God, or being chosen, or to the divine or semi-divine status of the controlling organization as representative of a supreme authority.
3. The demand for purity - The belief that elements outside the chosen group should be eliminated to prevent them contaminating the minds of group members. Follows from the binary oppositions inherent in totalist thought: Party/Non-party; Communist/imperialist; person/non-person; good/evil. Just as in George Orwell's Animal Farm the slogan of 'four legs good, two legs bad' becomes the animals' guiding 'essential principle', so in other ideologies the stereotypical dualism of good and evil leads to the poisonous (and unrealistic) demand that elements outside the chosen realm should be eliminated lest they contaminate the saved.
4. The cult of confession - The use of and insistence of confession to minimize individual privacy. Rejects privacy in favour of glorifying confession as an end in itself, used to exploit and control rather than to console.
5. Sacred science - Viewing the ideology's basic dogmas as both morally unchallengeable and scientifically exact, thus increasing their apparent authority. Like mystical manipulation this involves a moral/spiritual mystique that is applied to the ideology's basic tenets; the very act of challenging them can render the challenger as a 'non-person'. Scientific exactness provides the conclusion of 'an ultimate moral vision becoming and ultimate science'.
6. Loading the language - Compressing complex ideas into brief, definitive-sounding phrases, 'thought-terminating clichés'. A mind-numbing process by which 'the most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed', whose aim is to shut down independent thinking. The 'thought-terminating clichés' imply group unity and the Party's control over language and, ultimately, thought.
7. The primacy of doctrine over person - The idea that a dogma is more true and more real than anything experienced by an individual human being. A noted characteristic of totalitarian regimes.
8. The dispensing of existence - The right to control the quality of life and eventual fate of both group members and non-members, and granted to the Party, it believes, to determine the fates not only of its adherents but also of the people beyond its sphere. This right follows from the Party's belief that there is only one path to truth ... that it alone knows that path, and that false paths must be eliminated.

In any case, here's the breakdown of how Oneness followers and/or the organization fits very well into the criteria of Lifton's brainwashing model:

Milieu Control - Oneness followers are constantly urged to be a perfect conduit for Vijaya Kumar teachings, the stress on which invariably lies in acting in accordance with Vijaya Kumar wishes on just about every mundane subject. How one walks, talks, eats, sleeps, sits, dress themselves and much more are all to be done in line with "Vijaya Kumar's teachings". Devotees are also urged to indulge in constant self-enquiry, to watch the flow of their thoughts at all times, and even to engage in ceaseless meditation on his form and repetition of his name! Watching television and films is out of the question, reading newspapers is discouraged and Internet use is shunned In the name of vara deeksha malas and form of vrathas.

Mystical Manipulation - It is open knowledge that devotees view every ocurrence - every tiny and mundane event - as being carried out through "Vijaya Kumar's will". Although the beliefs in karma and such are part of the wider Hindu tradition, the vast difference lies in the premise that Vijay Kumar himself is the adjudicator of cosmic fortune and that everything lies in his hands. On the flipside, the Organisation's programs and activities are also viewed as being in line with Vijaya Kumar’s wishes and so it follows that everything that is done by the Organisation has the Vijaya Kumar’s direct approval.

Demand for Purity - This is closely connected to milieu control in that whereas lip-service is given to deepning and improving relationships with friends and family, a strong undercurrent of impersonalism lies within Vijay Kumar's teachings that proclaims the virtues of vairagya (detachment) and maya (illusion). These twin concepts serve to illustrate the importance of reducing attachments to friends and family and go as far to treat them as illusory! There are also hidden traces of apocalyptic thinking that is intimately connected with Vijay Kumar's plans for global dominion and international acknowledgement of him as God incarnate; the Biblical allegory of the separation of the wheat from the chaff is frequently used by devotees to explain the defection of former members. Devotees are also urged by leaders and their compatriots not to read the critical writings of former members - comparing it to feces on the ground - in a desperate effort to protect their "flock" from being led "astray".

The Cult of Confession - Since devotees are encouraged to behave in an admirable manner (according to the Vijaya Kumar teachings) in all the different aspects of their daily lives, they must similarly watch for any lapses of behaviour and be fully conscious of the same. An example of this is the famous “To see is to be free” teaching. Constant contemplation along these lines contributes to an overwhelming sense of anxiety and paranoia, not to mention that any lapses must be dealt with as soon as they occur by 'confessing' the lapse through contrite repentance, prayer and other means.

Sacred Science - Put simply, Vijay Kumar confirms the existence of alien life forms and UFOs as well as many other queer beliefs in angels, demons, ghosts, spirits and all sorts of mythical disembodied entities which he often marketed in his havens’ or ancestral prayers. His views on cosmology also leave a lot to be desired; asserting that the sun is full of holes and the small matter of his being the lord of all creation, having created it all in the first place! Careless comments on issues belonging to the realm of physics and chemistry also tend to do him no favours. However, his devotees closely follow his ideas on these lines and doggedly defend his astrological and unscientific pronouncements to the death. It also goes without saying that those who attempt to critically analyse the Vijaya Kumar views on various scientific issues are treated with contempt and disdain even when reference is made to unarguable scientific resources of information. Working on the logic of Vijay Kumar's being a divinity of sorts, his pronouncements on this or that scientific issue become infallible and stand true for all time.

Loading The Language - Vijay Kumar is very fond of compressing his ideas into memorable phrases, a few cases in point being 'Suffer and Forgive', Those who give shall receive', 'Man cannot make it on his own, it has to be given’ and so on and on. Whereas the first two examples bespeak of an altruistic nature, the third represents an incongruity with the Vedanta philosophy Vijay Kumar claims to uphold. Combined with the unshakeable conviction in the Vijaya Kumar divinity and it's connective implication that his proclamations are the 'final word' in philosophical matters, this effectively shuts down the critical and independent thinking of devotees who would balk at the thought that their leader's "infallible" declarations merit considerable opposition. Indeed it can be seen how the majority of online devotional activity among devotees consist of extremely little spiritual discussion, which in turn contributes to a false impression that the majority of devotees are wholly conversant with the full body of Vijay Kumar's teachings and therefore no need for in-depth theological discussions arise, or the fact that they are almost wholly ignorant of the Vedanta basis (or lack thereof) of their leader’s teachings.

Primacy of Doctrine over Person: Whether they admit it or not, Oneness followers are all convinced that Enlightenment is the only permanent solution for all human suffering. Every other endeavor other than seeking enlightenment is labled as an escape . Not only is this an extremely dangerous and cultish point of view, but just think what repercussions could be effected by a sycophant who takes Vijay Kumar a little too seriously than expected! It is virtually impossible to even contemplate the disastrous ramifications of such a disturbing doctrine. At the other end of the spectrum, devotees are frequently urged to "see" Vijay Kumar in person to fasten the process of enlightenment. Thus we have a constructed reality that contains mutually contradictory polarisations that all serve to create a serious confusion in the sincere mind of a devotee; on one hand the followers are forced to attend one program after the other and on the other hand they are taught that transformation is a natural neuro-biological process bestowed by deeksha.

Dispensing of Existence - As with milieu control, mystical manipulation and the desire for purity, Vijay Kumar and his organisation seek to control the quality of life for it's members - the dasas. As well as telling them how to sleep, eat, pray and so on, dasas and devotees are expected to adhere strictly to the dharma Code of Conduct.

Devotees are faced with statements from their “ Sri Bhagavan” affirming that the world population will eventually become his devotees, and on the other hand the has made statements effectively agreeing with the Biblical separation of wheat and chaff. In any case - the sole advantage being the Vijaya Kumar alleged divinity - this in itself is the single and convincing factor that all other paths are wrong and that following them leads to doom, despite the existence of an "all-inclusive" message in his teachings which is nothing but hypocritical and contradictory when you think about it. It is seen as an irony for Vijay Kumar to have formed an exclusive path while riding on the back of a mutually-inclusive doctrine; whereas world religions and their precepts are granted token respect, people really look to Vijay Kumar and his message as the essence of all religions. The proper following of those other paths, then, is largely seen as redundant given that the "goal of all religions" is personally present to correct any alleged misconceptions that may arise.

Looks like Robert Lifton was onto a good thing; not only did he complete the remarkable achievement of providing a structural and systematic framework to show how brainwashing occurs but he also provided many insights into the workings of the human mind. It is sufficient to say that the mind-numbing irony of this article is to show how Vijay Kumar and his organisation are subject to the same scrutiny, subjectivity and general suspicion as every other sect.

Coming back to the genesis of Oneness - the now politically well-knit Vijay Kumar became the undefeatable emperor of spirituality in the new-age attracting people from every corner of the world. Money was the mantra for his success. Laymen were charged for entrance into the campus, the uses of toilets , food and accommodation or Seva. The darshans are charged anywhere between Rs 2500/- to 5 lakhs( very often receipts are not provided, not to mention the logo or the term ‘Oneness University’ is not registered) . The cost is hiked depending upon the status of the seeker. The pujas would cost anywhere between Rs 108 for kalasha pujas and can go up to 60000/- for homas( the idea was picked up when Krishna and Preetha spent a considerable amount for their family havan). The daily collection per day in Neman temple affairs alone is a handsome Rs 2 crores. The course at Oneness University is charged Rs 5600 and even 7000 to 25000 for elite group in metropolis, remitting in annual income of Rs 3000 crores from western courses alone. The fees accumulated every week for courses in four Indian languages with minimum 150 to 1000 participants can turn any auditor’s head numb! But volunteers are always given a context for the need of more donations.

He took the opportunity of introducing his lunatic illiterate “divine consort” to public as the bestower of all boons. This was a well planned set up to high light his family to the public, swindle money and keeping his dasas occupied with “Seva”. His own disciples were becoming public figures and he sensed that its time to tighten the grip. He pulled back all his dasas and corrupted their austerity in the name of freedom from conditionings and emphasized on creating volunteers who were a part of the society thus creating an illusion for the public that it was a people’s movement.

In the year 2003 he smuggled drugs banned by the South American government into the ashram with the help of his senior disciple Giri alias Anandagiri who use to travel abroad often. In the name of exploring higher states of consciousness he drugged his own disciples who had no exposure what so ever pursuing them that it was necessary to cleanse the mucous in the body to aid the enlightenment process. Later he made public witness the disciples in drug -stricken trance and swayed the public that they were in par with the spiritual masters of the past. The public bought all the stories of enlightened states that he sold. The western became easy targets and more than 2000 devotees were given an Indian drug called ‘bhang’ and other substances. When an Andhra Pradesh devotee charged them with drug abuse, they abandoned the entire methodology and covered it up with yet other stories. Black magic became a common affair in dispelling the enemies and competitors. Some gruesome process for enlightenment like tamascal (midnight ritual in the forest had claimed the lives of 3 people who died due to snake bite) but nothing went to the notice of the law. The once garlanded villager Muniratnam is living on roads today in the name of enlightenment! People began to throng the campus and he was in need of more lands to accommodate the participants. He had by then come up with the concept of golden temple or oneness temple and nourished his son’s bank balance using public money that was donated to the construction of oneness temple. Followers fell into the bottomless well of collecting more and more donation to build this gargantuan structure matching his huge ego standing with the story that it would accommodate 8000 meditators who would create a Morphogenic shift in the army of 64,000 people (an idea picked up from Sri Aurobindo’s ashram at Pondicherry). People played all filthy games to accomplish the ‘mahadeeksha’ designation. The cement cost when work started with the contract between Oneness and L&T was Rs 51. Vijay Kumar claims to have spent Rs 350 crores on the marble palace of enlightenment but L&T records does not show the same. Intellectual followers questioned the organizers but were silenced because the dasas were instructed to play the guilt games with the public. Many main co-coordinators began to leave the movement both in India and the west alike. The number of acharyas reduced to 3. The first one to have left was Mr. Shankar alias shankarbhagavathpada-the “paramacharya” who lit the “akhanda jyothi” at the Anna Nagar temple.where is the paramacharya and his akhanda jyothi? No explanations were given what so ever. 3 achrayas also left but public were distracted with newer stories to relish. As the demand for enlightenment soured high, there was no escape route for the much experienced master of spiritual trade. Hence he began gambling with public emotions in every possible way. Sometime the stories were about padukas (holy sandals) moving or the spirit of Amma Bhagavan entering into people and mouthing prophecies or stories about the consciousness calibration and the number of people enlightened in the movement. Every form of marketing techniques and modern technology were used into making Amma Bhagavan into spiritual giants.

Tireless efforts of genuine followers resulted in the real-estate business of his son expanding with lands in America, Australia, Fiji Island and U.K. A recent business magazine in Singapore in July 2008 issue read about Krishna as one of the powerful real estate developers owning lands worth more than 1000 crores across Singapore. Apart from this, the Vijay Kumar family owns many lands across the nation donated by genuine contributors. All the property was hidden from the public notice.

Krishna who is the Son- in- law of an ordinary brick maker travelled in business class flights, stayed only in the 7 star hotels, supplied call-girls through the abroad working dasas to his business partners with whom he frequently visited casinos and had experienced every conceivable luxury under the sun while the participant or the co-coordinators were not provided with minimal facilities during their stay in the campus. People who questioned or rebelled were subtly attacked and snubbed even as they were squeezed to the maximum.

As years rolled by the oneness temple managed itself to completion still with final finishing left unattended but the inauguration was announced. Once again dasas were sent out like trained zamindars who gave public talks and collected donations and gold with stories of golden ball (copper ball with gold coating). Sarees worth lakhs of rupees, jewelry worth crores of rupees were gifted by the innocent followers- Everything in the name of God; Everything for the sake of mankind.

The blood and sweat of every middle class follower was mingled with the black money that was pooled into making of the Oneness structure. But when the inauguration days neared the event failed miserable in its management and public went out of control. People suffered with lack of basic facilities. Even drinking water was charged for the Indian seekers but special food and wine party was arranged for the western VIPs. Nothing mattered to the “divine couple” as along as money came in. The inauguration was a total failure that sent a spark across the hearts of thousands of seekers lighting the fire of several questions, but public were given no explanation instead the great lord met coordinators in batches and fed them with cooked up stories of naxalites attack and all possible crap. (No compensation was given to people who lost their near and dear once in the stampede) instead he immediately used the opportunity to market his next real estate project ‘Vaikunt’ (of which nothing is spoken of late) not giving the time for the scars of the past to heal. Faithful followers broke away from the movement with disappointments. The dasas who stood as a witness to the never ending greed of the Vijay Kumar family could no longer remain suffocated with stories, they too left with no compensation given for years of selfless service, and instead the same hands that groomed them to public fame now crushed them with condemnation and character assassination. Nothing affected Vijay Kumar and his wife because they always contemplated on dissolving the order but time and again the effort failed.

The former dasas were brutally accused of lust for money and worldly life and public remained a silent witness as ever. Offence was the best defence.Nobody questioned from where such huge amount of money came from if the dasas could easily run away with a good chunk of it! How did the movement have so much of money in the first place?

He continued to run the show with the flagship programs such as ‘breakthru’ ,mahadeeksha or Arogya deeksha with his own body infused from all possible diseases like diabetics, high B.P, decayed teeth and severe arthritis, his wife suffering with tooth aches every other day and a pair of knees that doesn’t bend, son who is infected with acidity due to alcohol and Daughter–In-Law steeped in migraine and the grand daughter with lever disorder and skin ailments and Jyoti alias Samadarshini, his senior disciple having lost a lung to TB and Anandgiri carrying Hepatitis B across the world they successfully managed to conduct health courses for general public, bollywood stars and western celebrities with the help of the dasas who themselves suffer with broken backs, intestinal malady and spondilitis due to drug abuse for more than a year. Thes funds sound stable with the courses collaborated with Anthony Robbins Company from US on 60 – 40 partnership basis.

Innocent public- men, women, children from all walks of life bonded with the idea of a personal god still wait for the promised year 2012 for enlightenment to happen- to have an out- of- box experience. They knowingly or unknowingly fail to see the ambition and selfishness behind every thought and action of oneness movement. The movement has shattered the confidence and self worth of its members, coordinators and followers thoroughly using various philosophies sporadically.

Now when the D-date is nearing- year 2012, the pinnacle of the spiritual drama, there is no option left but to wash hands. But Vijay Kumar – the master of the game knows to play with the Indian psyche. He is weaving yet another tragedy drama in the YouTube that the senior guides and his son have ran away with the money and deceived him – why aren’t they behind the bars is a question that should rise in the brain of anybody who is used to apply common sense. It is high time that the sincere followers read between lines and understand the dynamics operating behind scenes. When Bangalore based jeweler Mr. Narashima murthy with allegations against him for printing fake currency was cornered by the CBI investigators, he ended up rolling out his tongue and confessed of having given the oneness movement more than Rs. 1 crore. As CBI investigations led itself into the microscopic details of the funds raised in the oneness movement the Avatar though proclaims of having no successor after him wishing that his godly image would not disturb his son’s personal life successfully managed to write everything into his son’s name and pretended to offer free darshans hoping for clean chit from the law. The utterly loyal senior disciples behind him would go to any extend of even black painting their own public image if it benefited their master and helped them escape to foreign countries to live anonymous lives. Hope their conscience spares them sane.

Having diverted the public attention with emotional meetings Mr. Vijay Kumar is moving his final coin in the game. If spirituality and money do not go together as he stated, let him return public money or build hospitals and schools that would serve the society which he had promised the public earlier while collecting funds. By expressing his desire to destroy hierarchy is Mr. Vijay Kumar seeking public permission to abscond? People should be given direct access to him but how? Is he in all probability trying to strengthen the concept of “Skype – Darshan” whereby public would never know where he is – India or abroad? By proclaiming that there would be no successors, will his team of dasas be forced to live anonymous lives? If oneness trainers would be independent with the decision in the local body why are they dominated in charismatic spiritual hierarchy all these years? A god man, who claimed that he possessed the power to enlighten mankind single handedly, today cuts a sorry figure of his team betraying his mission. Isn’t he the same Vishnu avatar anymore? Weren’t the acharyas the scared body parts of the divine master? Why have the body parts forsaken the body? What happened to the divine family which projected itself as a spiritual dynamo to explode human conscious with divinity and would help man in the transition into a new state of consciousness as promised by his son Krishna in the huge public gathering in the Nizam collage parade grounds in the city of Hyderabad? Has the divine dynamo lost its magnetism?

If hanuman was a testimonial to his master Sri Rama, if each Padava glorified the greatness of Lord Krishna what does the character of these Acharyas who have abandoned public responsibility reflect upon their master? If Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamsa who always lived like any ordinary mortal gave the world the gift of Vivekananda, why cannot Mr. Vijay Kumar who always claimed to be sampoorna avatar create quality human beings matching at least half of vivekanand’s greatness? Having the co-operation from the ordinary masses all these years in term of money and other emotional involvment what is the new co-operation or commitment that public are expected to meet? What led him to the debt of 70 crores? If it is the maintenance of the dasas then it is the known fact that people across the nation provided provisions for them all these years. What action can the emotionally fooled followers access when he always maintained a safe stand that people who are participating in the programs or worshipping him are doing so because they chose to?

It is high time for public to wake up and observe that all the disputes currently surfacing now is nothing but a part of the master plan by Vijay Kumar, his son and the senior disciples to create confusions in the movement so that they could escape from the back doors to foreign countries. All the money is already on its way to Fiji Islands via Singapore and to U.S via Mumbai using Ajit Mitaiwala’s bank accounts even as devotees are busy with mass prayers for their all powerful God and his family. Probably it is time for public to search for god in the deepest recess of their hearts than in any tale narrated by any guru- dead or alive.