We have a new phenomenon for quite some time now. People who are generally well-qualified Chartered Accountants, M.B.A.s with specialization in different subjects etc., seem to find the pseudo-spiritual line very attractive and perhaps very much more paying than their own qualified fields of work proper. One is Velukkudi Krishnan, another is one swami sukha bodhananda (whose name I mistook for some time as "sukha bhogananda"
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I feel this is an indication that such people find their new lines (the pseudo-spiritual) to be more attractive. At the same time these people do not bind themselves by the rigourous rules applicable to the Ashrama of "sannyAsa" like some of our erstwhile heads of mathams like the senior Kanchi Acharya or the Sringeri Acharyas, etc. For example, I am told that this sukhabodhananda (reveller in the consciousness of pleasure - sukha+bodha +Ananda) goes to the swimming pool everyday with his mother, is a jet-setting management expert who is called by many large companies like Infosys, TCS, Reliance, etc., to give motivational lectures to their staff! (What kind of motivation? inspiring the staff to follow his own path to material success?).
I genuinely feel that Hinduism can very well do without such people who are, in reality, parasites who try and succeed in beguiling the already gullible multitudes and project themselves as the "spiritual gurus" of a large number of the thoughtless people.
