Hi Friends,
Before getting into the post , let’s see who are the monks?. Are they are simply God-men or God .
Though there are many flavors of religion to name and worship ‘their” God or Gods ,The ultimate thing is “Single” .
Monk ~ a solitary man whose influence over the world is drastic.Only the true monks did justice to their role such as preaching religious asceticism and detachment from physical things ,while others are misused their power and name over politics.
In real the name ‘Monk’ is misleading . Many are deeply involved in the world around them as teachers, social workers, mission.
The monks possess the one of the main leadership quality “THE CHARISMA”. They can make their followers as puppets .These puppets started to believe the monk as their GOD.It would influence their daily life activities in both positive and negative ways.It depends upon “the Monks” intention and thoughts over their life.What if that puppet is a leader? . How do they affect their followers,the politics,nation ?
Whether the followers of the leaders would obey the leader’s leader ? The answer is “no” .
Usually the monks enter the leader’s life as healers or mentors,later they are dominated by their so called mystic /religious powers. What-so-ever their influences are definitely a slow poison to the society.
Most of the monks wanted to preach their religion with the help of political power .Mostly they are against science and inventions. They used the “power” to imprison or kill such persons ,in the name of almighty. It is common in any religion.So far Christianity, Islam, Saivism, vaishnavism, buddhism.They used the God and the mystic powers to attract the kings and in return King return back his power to them.
Let’s see the most influential monks in the world history and their impact on the society.People always need a leader @any form ,the leader again need a monk/mentor/priest to led him ! But the followers should not obey their leaders blindly.It is the moral of this post
An article about Rasputin,a russian “Mad monk” made me to write this post.So I start with the mad monk!!!
Grigori Rasputin (men who lived n last century)
Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич) (12 August 1904–17 July 1918) of the House of Romanov, was the Tsesarevich and heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. He was the youngest child and the only son of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.Born with haemophilia, his mother’s reliance on the starets Grigori Rasputin to treat the disease helped bring about the end of the Romanov dynasty.Skeptics have claimed that he did so by hypnosis to heal hemophilia.
Rasputin had a considerable personal and political influence on Alexandra,[12] and the Tsar and Tsarina considered him a man of God and a religious prophet. Alexandra came to believe that God spoke to herthrough Rasputin.
Of course, this relationship can also be viewed in the context of the very strong, traditional, age-old bond between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian leadership. Another important factor was probably the Tsarina’s German-Protestant origin: she was definitely highly fascinated by her new Orthodox outlook — the Orthodox religion puts a great deal of faith in the healing powers of prayer.
His influence over the ladies of upper-class and in appointing the officials were beyond the Monk’s limit.
Gradually he had gained enemies because of his behaviors,talks and influence . Finally the kingmaker was killed and his death is an example for “the death should not be”.
Now its the time to look back at our Indian history….
Gyana sambandar
During 5-7th century Buddism and jainism were popular in India.The king Koon pandiyan had Boil disease and fever . Jains couldn’t cure. His wife who was influenced by Sambandar and saivism asked him to cure his husband’s disease.
He cured it with the hymns and Saivism holy things. In turn Sambandar asked him to kill the Jain Priests.How cruel that was ?. Actually monks “used” their mystic or medical remedies to preach the religion ,not only his religion ,but wanted to destroy other religions.
Now we can understand ,their “true”understanding and madness about their”GOD”. Shocked to know about ‘Tirukadaikkappu’ fame “Sambandar” . There are many others like them .We actually believe in them i.e., we were taught like that ! .See u with the snap of other monk’s history in the following post
To Be Continued…..
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambandar
http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre04historynotes.html
