Self-proclaimed “Godwoman” Radhe Maa is in news again. A Delhi Police officer is being investigated after a photograph showing Radhe Maa sitting in his chair surfaced on social media. Five more policemen were seen dancing with her, they have been punished with transfers.
I first came across the existence of a certain Radhe Maa because she was accused of a crime. It was a little article tucked away in the corner of some news website. Accused of a crime- that’s how people like us come across people like them. When we dig deeper, we realize that our earlier state of ignorance was indeed more blissful. And people like them, shepherds like them in fact, couldn’t care less. They’ve got their sheep in order. Come to think of it we’re generally not too different from the sheep, ignorantly blissful as they are.
Shepherds claim to have attained spirituality. How would you describe a spiritual person? Somebody with an omniscient vision, perhaps? Someone who has no ego, who has renounced worldly desires and possessions, who has surpassed dualities? The sheep beg to differ. Spirituality is dynamism. Our shepherd can be seventy four but his loins can burn like a teenager. Spirituality is all about the self. He can produce and direct a film in which he acts and sings himself, and the film portrays… surprise, surprise… himself. Spirituality is about experimentation. He can conduct experiments with a starlet in bed. Spirituality is about strength. He can bathe in milk and stockpile an artillery befitting a little country. Oh spirituality!
And why should boys have all the fun? In 21st century India, even our womenfolk are entitled to spiritual enlightenment, aren’t they? Just when I had tagged it as yet another all boys club, yet another dominion of misogyny, this woman Radhe Maa seems to have joined the party. Quite literally. That’s what goes on in the third floor of her ‘bhavan’ if reports are to be believed. Bollywood music, lap-dances and cougary (which is not a real word, but should be). This is the closest one can get to a Playboy Mansion in India. Late Heffner would be proud.
But this is the funny part: Radhe Maa isn’t accused of duping thousands of followers, no! She isn’t accused of public display of affection as yet either. Radhe Maa is accused of forcing somebody for dowry. Biiiig whoop! Dowry is like breaking a traffic rule in India! I mean with all the fetishes and eccentricities of the Indian god-folk, dowry seems quite grounded.
One can’t help marvel at the prospects of Baba-hood in India. The money, the sleaze, the celebrity status… can anyone get a ticket to baba-hood in India? Yes, literally anyone. A little bit of eccentricity, a little bit of mystery, sheltered under an umbrella of falsehood, and you’re good to go. It’s a sea, nay an ocean, of sheep; you’ll always find some who’ll lend a sympathetic ear. Start talking to the lowest rung, the poor, uneducated, irrational, naïve, trusting. It doesn’t matter who you are. (lap)Dancing queen was a tailor trying to make ends meet before her current profession. Erotic grandpa was a carriage driver back in the day.
The sheep hear your every word, they worship you. The more of them you have at your disposal, the more gather. It’s like an unusually fertile farm. Figuratively, you extract every milligram of wool off them, milk them till they run dry. You exhaust them, in body, mind and spirit. And yet in that state of despair, they keep looking at you with the same compassionate eyes, seeking guidance, seeking you to put into motion the cycle of loot all over again.
And those bright-eyed, khadi-clad, potbellied men we select to protect us from all dangers, do they make sure the innocent sheep are not led astray? Well of course not for had they grown a pair by now many things would have been different! They fear the sheep turning on them. They know that if the sheep had to indeed choose between them and their shepherd, they would choose the one with theistic legitimacy. Why not instead, bow before the shepherds in front of cameras and reap all the sheepish goodwill there is?
For Radhe Maa , the jail cells now beckon. For us, rational people who see through shepherds’ games but are too ethical to indulge in them ourselves, this will be poetic justice. Our shepherds are many things: conmen, gangsters, power brokers, hound-dogs. But for heaven’s sake, for the love of god, they are not god-folks.
Oh! and by the way Radhe Maa’s secretary is called Talli Baba. Whaaat the hell?
– Shared by a TFI fan who wishes to stay Anonymous
Stop generalizing on everything. Before writing such one-sided communist-minded desperate-to-defame-Hinduism articles, have a look at their contributions to the society. Gurumeet Ram Raheem Singh once asked his 1500 followers to marrythe prostitutes of Delhi and provide them a good life. As u have mentioned in ur article, the sheep blindly obeyed him. When Nepal earthquake came, it was these people u r insulting who contributed the most for relief aids. Go and listen to satsang sometime, ur dirty mind will be cleaned a bit. The yoga taught by them, the values taught by them can never be understood by communists like u crying over beef ban.
what? Do you really think people like radhe ma are even worth a bit of attention or association with Hinduism? I think you are mixing other things here.
I am not saying anything personally. I dont even know who she is. I am saying that only because few liars fraud people by acting as saints, dont say rubbish about all the saints.
Marry prostitutes, is this guy serious?
Yes seriously and his followers obeyed him. The question here is not about how we personal feel or react at this ‘order’ but it is about giving proper living standards to those prostitutes. They live an extremely miserable life, caged in a tiny suffocating room, having sex with no less than 100 men during the night hours and frequently getting beatings from their owners. It may sound bizarre to anyone, no normal person can think of marrying a prostitute. But Guru Ram Rahim Singh used the obedience of his followers to gives those ladies a good life.
TFI, why write in so complicated english. Write in simple english so as all can get the direct meaning.
This article has mixed up everything. If you have problem with fake babagiri, then arrest them on the charges of deceit etc, that is the proper solution. I will support arrest of Radhe ma on charges of obsceneity or duping bhakts etc etc.
Here the FIR has been filed on the charges of dowry inciting. And we know that there is a geat indian epidemic of fake dowry charges, lakhs of indian men and their family persons are languishing in jail due to fake dowry charges. Once female judge had commented whle delivering the judgement, that there is more than 75% dowry harassment cases fake. Will somebody dare to write the article on FAKE DOWRY-VICTIM-GIRI mindset of girls.
Here one girl has filed FIR for dowry victimhood, and the whole nation is acting as if FIR by a girl – means it is final truth. It is this societal mindset, due to which lakhs of male-victims are doing suicide. If a girl files dowry charges, apart from radhe maa – those sasural walahs immediately go to jail – even before investigation. Who will think/analyse about the sasural walahs of, that girl – who filed that FIR. Till now FIR – is not proven either true or false.
God! Who is God?
is he quantifiable?
in my opinion no
what do we get out of worshipping God? hope and peace of mind.
Do we not donate some money in the mandir or gurudwaras or churches.
we do
So if someone is able to give hope and peace of mind to other people what is the harm, if you don’t find solace with such kind of people then why bother but why bother those who do find peace and solace with these godmen and women.
In my opinion it’s just like clothes you like some you despise some, it’s just a matter of preference.
But you can’t rubbish them because they have some x factors which attracts people at large to follow them.
I really can’t understand why the people are not able to see through all of this shit? I mean seriously how can they not realize what is going on after all this journalism and awareness around ? The biggest surprise was to find one of the most intelligent personalities, Navjot Singh Sidhu, lauding her openly.
Spirituality is all about attaining peace, but the videos show some kind of a rave party going on. No wonder, more and more people are turning atheists these days due to their faith being shaken by these incidents.
These type of situations deeply questions the literacy and dumbness of our society and makes one wonder if we really are “developing” ?
jai shree ram