Fooling people in the name of religion

Durga Pooja is a huge festival in West Bengal state of India. The Bengalis celebrate this festival with great joy. It is based on a mythological story of Goddess Durga slaying the demon Mahisasura who defeated the Gods and acquired Heaven(Swarga).

Festivals based on this story are also celebrated in other parts of India, like Navartri in the state of Gujarat. While across the nation the 10th day of the festival is celebrated as Vijay Dashami or Dusherra, in which huge paper effigies of demon Ravana is burnt. This festivals symbolise the victory of good over evil.

This festival is very important for the economy of the state of West Bengal, people spend huge amount of money in buying products for this festival, especially clothes. Thousands of crores of rupees is spent across the different pandals across the state. It provides much needed earnings for the artists and pandalmakers.

This is a time when the idol makers make a good amount of money. The idols are normally made of clay. Although new variants are tried like idols made from plaster of paris ,fibreglass and even thermocol.

This is best time to see the creativity of the artists across the different pandals . Actually it has become the USP of this festival now. Each year pandal construction is getting more and more creative with newer concepts and themes being implemented.

Durga Pooja is an excellent time for people to use up the money that is unaccounted or black money. It is definitely an excellent way of money laundering as the organisers can simply show the money spent as bogus donations. However Durga Pooja is a festival that symbolises the victory of good over evil. I wonder if god indeed is concerned about this festival . Why should money laundering thrive during this time?

People are least concerned about the religious importance and the message of the festival, they simply want to have a good time. It is also a time when even brothels make great sum of money since lot of men visit that place. Why can't Devi Durga teach restraint to the people who worship them.

Now take Kumbh mela or the greatest so called spiritual gathering on earth. A big number of nude shameless sadhus visit the mela. People throng to the fair in millions. This year the authorities are concerned about the lack of availability of condoms.

The so called spiritual events are opportunities for common masses to indulge in all kinds of fun and that involves sex as well. Especially sex with prostitutes, in India most women who work as prostitutes have been forced into the profession. So buying a prostitutes services is like encouraging crime against women.

In recent times so many so called god men have been found, who were all the time fooling people , like Asaram Bapu of Gujrat(Modi's state). Our Prime Minster was a great follower of Asaram and so did Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar. 

Who knows the later two may have some similar art of living. Asaram and his son Narayan are involved in many sexual abuse and rape cases, both have been cooling their heels in jail for months now . Many of the key witnesses in their cases have been murdered. This is a clear indication of the fact both the father and son duo are guilty.

Whenever there is death in some Hindu home there is an obvious pall of gloom because of the loss of a loved one, but that becomes the opportunity for a pujari to make some quick bucks by repeating some words written in some old book, in a language(Sanskrit) that is not known to common people of the nation. No one gives a damn whether he is reading it properly or not. At the end of the Sradh ceremony he bags good amount of gifts and money for himself, along with some free food.

The family in which death has happened are by religion forced to celebrate the occasion and feed people. They excuse they give is that this procedure will lead to peace of the departed soul. Well, that's what some old books written with barks of trees have written in them.

Much better it would be to donate the body of the person who died to a Medical collage for research and at the same time donate the organs like eyes, liver, kidney which can give a new life to someone. If all people who die donate eyes then blindness in India will become history.