Repent-less murder

Yesterday, on 12 June, 2010, most of the newspaper in Bhopal carried a news about father hacking to death his five daughters. Today as follow-up to this heinous crime, it mentioned how the culprit-father remorselessly accepted the crime.. He claimed that in his dreams Lord Hanuman asked for sacrifice of his children, and the crime was in adherence to his command.

'The Week' few weeks back had carried a story about women being tormented for witchcraft...

Baba's are having field day, in flesh, money and material, under the garb of spiritual heroism.

Couple of years back, suddenly there was spurge in senior officers being drawn into transvestism in love with God....

In every action mentioned above, spirituality has been stretched to crime. The last example, as such, would not directly tantamount to crime, but I willing would like to tag it as crime because as civil servant, they made mockery of society, they failed to deliver to tax payers who are responsible for their salary, they violated the spirit of secularism of constitution by acting in public and divided the society into sectarian conflicts by personal action.

Over the years I have seen that our country has been deluged with spiritual guru's and their market is not affected by meltdown-recession in economy. With the increase in sense of insecurity in society, with shooting graph of crime, with rising corruption, and increase in unethical activities, desire for support from the almighty has increased. Materialism and spirituality, which sociologists would say do not go together, are flourishing in support, moving hand in hand, juxtaposed to each other.

It is high-time when new theory has to be evolved to explain the new trend. Can someone suggest how this perversion in the name of religion, spirituality can be controlled.