In spite being brought up in a conservative family I had the good fortune of traveling within and outside my country, I feel it helped me to instill secular values within me. Though in present circumstances I find it difficult to define the word secular.
I don’t remember taking religion too seriously even then but I also remember words like 'religious' and 'god fearing' being used to describe any one in particular who were attributed with the respective qualities.
These days the focus has shifted to being not religious but spiritual. Most people it seems are spiritual, I am not surprised cause we all are beings with spirit, which makes us spiritual beings.
India is well known for its spiritual gurus, we have countless number of them with large followers, disciples etc.
Recently there was an article in the paper informing the public in general about one such guru who has arranged a cruise tour for people who are interested. Of course there is a price tag attached.
The vacationers will be doing what people usually do in cruise ships (relax and have 'fun') with a certain amount of sight seeing involved. It would also give the passengers an unique opportunity to be close to their guru, listening to him and also learning yogasan up close and upfront.
This would help them to de-stress and more than that will offer some hope that a little bit of spiritual dust would be transferred through this physical proximity.
Isn't it hilarious that people who find it so difficult to be moral can so easily become spiritual?
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We have heard of such gurus organizing boat and plane journeys. The devotees are more often than not from wealthy backgrounds with the means of spending a large amounts of money. They justify these trips by saying it is money well spent. Do they ever stop to think as to what exactly they achieve from them?
In my books, money well spent means money spent on good causes like helping less well off families get two meals a day and providing funding to educate their children. It means contributing money for catarcat opeartions for the poor. It means helping a poor man with enoug hmoney to get his daughter married. It DOES NOT mean chanting the Lord's name on board expensive cruise liners. Chanting can be done within the four walls of one's own home.
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