Sadhu is the Name, Hypocrisy is the Game

by Rajesh

Feb. 26, 2007

The other day I landed up at a friend’s house for a get together. The host had a DVD playing on the TV which was about the preaching of Sant Kabir. I found everyone listening intently and interpreting the knowledge in their own ways. There were discussions too about the interpretations. I looked around the room and wondered how these people who were mean, shrewd, highly materialistic, ambitious, back-stabbing people at work could be so philosophical, broad minded, clear headed, wonderful people?

While I smiled at them, lost in my own thoughts I reached the following conclusion “The extent of the ego’s inability to recognize itself and see what it is doing is staggering and unbelievable. It will do exactly what it condemns others for and not see it. When it is pointed out, it will use angry denial, clever arguments, and self-justification to distort the facts”.

So while you are impressed by the wisdom in the copious flow of advice doled out free by the world, watch the actions. They speak louder than hollow words. So while we have bhajans, kirtans, shlokas, spiritual channels blaring out advice to the world and huge crowds sitting admiringly and nodding their heads in agreement, philosophical spiritual discussions raging all around, we still live in a mean, narrow minded world.

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