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as an option is a scamster for sure. Many with budgets, that would explain why most
that I know have been made lighter by a few times the estimated cost of surgery or ICUs
thousands by these cons. If earlier you were or stays in hospitals are a multiple of what
satisfied with a few square feet of living is originally estimated. Suffice it to say, you
space and roof, today the builders will cannot get an entry into any hospital unless
make you feel inadequate without having you have coughed up substantial monies
a second and a third house and for good upfront. No one is a patient, everybody is a
measure a fourth one in a different city. milch cow.
Who is not aware of some spiritual
organisation or the other offering life and
living skills and spiritual salves, across
faiths and religions. Even if you are at
peace with yourself, they will start sowing
seeds of doubts and stress you out for no
rhyme or reason. The billions that these
organisations earn could put some small
countries’ GDPs to shame. I have lost
count of the number of missives that I
have got peddling expensive workshops,
seminars, training and what not, from these
spiritual organisations, based in Mumbai
Even the charitable space is replete with or Coimbatore or Bengaluru or Chennai or
cases of such pitches for your hard-earned Delhi or Kerala or wherever else.
money. You would be assaulted with These ‘sellers’ and ‘buyers’ in all of us
overtures from all and sundry entities succeed or fail due to multiple forces at
badgering you to pay for some cause or the play. It would be quite hard to pin down
other with striking and grotesque images of specific reasons, given the situational and
babies or disfigured faces or the disabled. contextual realities of each seller and buyer.
Many of them, if not all, are dubious entities If one were to look at it from a spiritual
as you would soon discover. They work lens, it could be attributed to the kaam
on your emotions and you are their ‘sale’ (lust ) , krodh ( anger), dhan (wealth) and
target. lobh (greed) guiding our actions or the four
Hospitals and pathology and radiology levels of consciousness that pervade human
centres, anyone? You go for some simple existence and behavioural tendencies –
tests and they will hand out reports jaagrat avasta or the waking stage, swapna
pointing out multiple health issues across avasta or the dream stage, sushupti avasta
myriad parameters. One will be half dead or the deep sleep stage and thriya avasta or
with worry reading these reports and the pure consciousness stage.
soon do other expensive tests and ingest While staying away from a deep-dive
medicines with debilitating side effects spiritual analysis and rigour for now,
rather than any cure. All these medical care it will be safe to say that no one can sell
entities are revenues and profits driven you anything unless you wish to buy
and every doctor and specialist are tasked something. Nirvana is free!
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