Above trade mark banner put up in the public in thousandsVienna,Thursday, February 7,2008: The art of living is in land grabbing.
I could not believe it when Prof.Dr.Narendra Nayak alerted to me that
Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar topped the list of Adichunchanagiri
landgrabbers near Bangalore.Then I saw a fashion photo of the man
dressed as a fuedal Peshva in Gwalior or somewhere in Madhya Pradesh.
I miss that =mayavi= photo some where.I am aware this =appearance
and disappearance specialist gawd man even offers to negotiate with
Marxist Naxals terrorists in India and Islamic terrorists worldwide.
In the name of promoting spiritualism of India these scoundrels are
going about a systematic thuggery of the pre-British days! Now I have
an article provided by Prof.Nyak written by Ms.Bhamy Shenoy.Even
these superstition marketing trade names (TM) are taking the United
Nations for a ride by going the Non Governmental Organizations (NGO)
route who get government cash.Vandana Shiva included. Superstitions
do not help social wellbeing.On the contrary, they under mine it.Most
of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aids land up
in the hands of these spiritual trade mark (TM) marketing hambug gurus,
is indeed a shame on the U.N.system as a whole. Now let me present
you Ms.Bhamy Shenoy of Mangalore:
By Bhamy Shenoy
U.N.taken for a ride
by superstitious guru
trade mark (TM)
holder sri sri ravi shankar
Recently I had been to Ravi Shankar’s Ashram located close
to Bangalore to take part in what was announced as an NGO
meet to discuss environmental protection and access to social
justice. Within few hours of its inauguration, I fled from his
ashram which was looking more like a jail with several security
guards and hundreds of spy like volunteers.
This is one of the cleverest hoaxes perpetrated in the name
of spiritual movement using the facade of NGOs. I came with
a distinct impression that Ravi Shankar is a great genius like
the late Dhirubhai Ambani or yester years US barons,
Rockefeller, Morgan, Mellon etc. One needs to admire his
entrepreneurial capability of earning huge profits from a
simple idea of organizing an NGO summit in collaboration
with U.N’s END POVERTY MILLENIUM CAMPAIGN,
( Sri Sri Ravi Shankar´s poverty) advertising as speakers
such famous people like Dr. Pachauri,(the chairman of Nobel
Peace Prize sharing inter governmental panel) Vandanam Shiva,
(Sundarlal) Bahuguna, Surabaya etc. Shanakr’s ashram is a
commercial operation doling out psychological products
specially for some foreigners and middle class men and
women who have studied in English Medium School.
Surprisingly there were more women volunteers than men.
It was impressive to see how so many could be motivated
to give their services to produce profit for an institution.
This requires genius of the highest order. I even met a
professor from IIT Mumbai who is a volunteer there!
When I expressed my disappointment with the whole
show, she was very "sympathetic" and assured me that
she felt the same way first and later thanks to "guruji" she
could see the light. Uniformly every volunteer to whom
I complained about the NGOs being taken for a ride, responded
in the same manner as though all of them were robots
programmed by some unknown force!
After charging Rs. 5000 (about 150 dollars) as a delegation
fee, Art of Living was providing delegates a room with
three persons and no towels, soap, drinking water, etc.
Food was sub standard where we are expected to wash
dishes after eating (like in Ahmedabad Bania´s restaurant
=Vishala=kb.). I do not think delegates were taking part
to learn about self help as his disciples/devotees may be
expected to do. We did not go there as his disciples. I
refused to wash dishes which was not liked by some.
This is not because I dislike it. I have done it often. But
on the web site I was offered better lodging and food
facilities in “International Center”. What a wonderful way
of captive advertising Sri Sri Shankar’s product by
charging us!. Companies pay money to advertise their
product and here Sri Sri Shankar collects money from
us for the privilege of learning about his non products and
services. This requires unusual capabilities. There were
‘Satsanghs’ ( good companionships,this means business,
matrimonial and any multidimensional gullible human
contact imaginable including gun trotting terrorist,drug
dealers as witnessed in Puttaparti =satya sai´s
palace years ago), "free" introductory yoga classes,visit
to his first abode, etc. I am sure some NGOs would have
decided to buy his non substantive products and will act
as his emissaries.Of course there will be few like me who will
attempt to do just the opposite. There were spies in the
ashram observing people like me. It was obvious and at
one time I was even frightened.During an evening ‘Satsangh’,
there were some prompted questions put to Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar. Still his responses were pedestrian at best. One
of the questions was about the new burning topic of global
warming and climate change and what does Sri Sri Shankar
think about them. First he ridiculed those who are worried
about such things and proceeded to give the example of
Y2K (two thousand years) phenomenon.Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar dwelt on how foolishly people worried about Y2K,
the world coming to an end, places exploding, etc and how
nothing of the kind took place. He was suggesting
that Y2K was not a problem and so also global warming.
Little did he take into consideration elaborate precautions
taken by the world to prepare for Y2K and how India
became of world capital for IT outsourcing as a result.
What a pity such an ignoramus is considered as a "guruji"
even by the fire brand Vandana Shiva. Some one asked the
question about the unrest and violence in Kashmir and his
response was to pat the questioner and to state youth
should get involved. Is it possible he has the ability to
negotiate with Naxals, LTTE, Al Quaida in Iraq etc?
How media has created this “guruji” with such
supernatural powers?
After spending less than 24 hours, I decided to leave
the place. The cult like atmosphere was suffocating.
Some other delegates from Mangalore with whom I
have been conversing also decided to leave after the
inauguration. One of the speakers Ananth Nadakarni,
vice President for Tata Council for Community Initiatives
also decided to leave early.(He should have stayed to get
input on Nano bashing)Another speaker who was to talk
on HIV left even before the first day. But for Vandana
Shiva, none of the experts and well known speakers
Dr.Pachauri (Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel
for Claimatic Protection,which shared last year´s Nobel
Peace Prize with Al Gore) Ashok Khosla, Bahuguna etc
were present. Is it possible that their names were
prominently placed to sell the Sangam?
We were told that about 500 delegates had registered
and there were three silver sponsors. (No golden sponsors!!!)
They must have raised at least Rs three million rupees
and incremental cost would be no more than Rs. 300,000.
This is an excellent and clever way of making huge profit.
Business colleges should use this as a case study. We should
admire the (empty) entrepreneurial capabilities of Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar.It needs genius.(Even the late Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi was not successful selling empty talks like
claiming the power of flying.He then took to selling his own
Trade Marked =maharishi ayurveda=kb.).Despite being a
key note speaker (key to reach U.N.system- kb.), Vandana
Shiva spoke just for few minutes and that too in a
rambling manner. She took the opportunity to bash Tata's
people´s Nano car. Her so called key note speech was dull
and did not dwell on the main subject. A high school student
(in any case the meaning of alternative is second choice!.kb)
could have delivered a better speech with greater insight.
One High Court judge also gave an uninspiring talk making
no points on topics except offering "pranams" to "guruji".
What a joke! I attended the first seminar of the summit,
I have learnt from a participating activist that the
meeting was a total failure and many were totally
disillusioned.
I am planning to demand the return of payment
(of Rs.5000) since facts were misrepresented to me
while registering. I am exploring the possibility
of filing a case in Consumer Forum.(end)
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