Unholy actions by holy men

Two school kids went missing from the ashram of a noted spiritual guru, their dead bodies were subsequently discovered near a river bed. It was said that the kids had drowned even though the depth of water in the vicinity did not justify that reasoning.

The police were called in. They carried out investigations and pronounced that the kids had indeed drowned. The tell-tale signs of some rituals having been performed were ignored. The parents of the dead kids did not accept the findings and sat on a mute fast. The locals of the city protested by declaring a bandh today and, when a TV team went there to cover the scenes, they were mobbed by persons reportedly belonging to the ashram. A woman reporter was manhandled and from her reports it seems that the hooligans were ready to thwart any attempt to procure live footage - the intention was to clamp down on real time happenings in and around the ashram.

These do not speak well of the guru who should practice what he preaches. When advising others to act and behave with humility and respect the feelings and sentiments of others should also be considered. He should enforce discipline in his own campus. The guru is a revered person and these unhappy incidents have tarnished his image. Instead of dismissing the accusations of the parents of the dead kids, he should extend co-operation to unravel the mystery – it is possible that, unknown to him, there are persons within his ashram who practice witchcraft which was responsible for the loss of innocent lives.