One happened to chance upon a discussion in one of the prominent US TV channels, CNBC or Fox or something of that type. It seemed to be a debate or a round-table on the health care reform of Obama administration. One of the participants of the show was Deepak Chopra, the self-styled guru of neo-classical transcendentalism.
All one could see on screen was the aging face of Deepak Chopra with lines and wrinkles barely concealed beneath the non-ayurvedic mascara. The visage of the spiritual and yogic master may well be aging, but we are sure the TV screens denied us a peek at that 'ageless' body below. Though rare as a Sphinx or a Centaur it may be, an aging head and face may well rest on the broad shoulders of that ageless body.
Thus may we commence our eulogy to the author of the "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind"
or was it Timeless Body, Ageless mind
or Mindless Body, Ageless Time
or Bodyless Mind, Timeless Age
or Mindless Age, Bodyless Time
How was the soul forgotten in this spiritual soup of phrases depriving us of another assay into Spoonerism. It must indeed be the Indian Curry soup of spiritual paraphernalia as the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" is appropriated by another nationality and faith.
From the the body-less and mindless exercise in confounding health, medicine and treatment, Deepak Chopra traverses further in the holy and spiritual pursuit of flogging the dead horse of 'success'
As there are seven seas, seven sages and seven wonders of the world, so must there be 'seven spiritual laws of success'
In his book "Seven spiritual laws of success", chopra endeavours to take the 'spiritual' laws to another level, calling them the laws of life, thus providing us a glimpse of his law-making talents. Thus another worthy successor to 'Manusmriti' the legendary Hindu law-giver makes his bow.
Deepak Chopra revels and excels in the copiousness of theological and spiritual drivel. That potpourri of spiritual ideas, opinions, instructions and commandments that could not fit into his 100 odd-pages self-improvement books floods its lunacy into the endless reams of his website and blogs.
Deepak Chopra the master of spiritual gibberish composes this methodical madness in the language and idiom of the Wharton and Harvard business school
Hail Thee O Saint of the Spiritual Bandwagon that is the locomotive of the gravy trains of meditation, yoga and ethnic medicine
Eager for some brownie points on his ability to coin jargons that sounds like a cross between management theory and spirituality, he says that you should release your desires into the "field of pure potentiality".
One might wonder why is this just a field, why not an ocean, expanse, nay even a firmament of pure potentiality
Thus spake the great messiah of spiritual transformation "Birds dont try to fly, they just fly" and "Fish dont try to swim, they just swim"
Further says He "With the same effortless ease we can create in our lives wealth, affluence and success"
What stands in the path of this grand scheme of effortless prosperity and success
Ah! that infernal EGO!that eternal, tireless, steadfast enemy of human divinity
Never since the days of the evil Satan, that foul serpent of the garden of Eden, even the demons, devils, ghouls and spirits of Hindu and Greek yore have we seen such a diabolical enemy as the EGO
How subtly and with surreptitious steps, this immortal fiend creepeth upon this age, and stealing away from the gaze of history and all hoary wisdom, does he ravage our present
From what depths of spiritual abyss did you have to emerge in this century, you foul tormentor
And with what chains doth thou bind humanity to its limited physical state.
To overcome the vice-like grip of EGO, and to attract affluence and success, the sagely DC stirs the pot of pseudo-science, voodoo economics and spiritual balderdash in unleashing his volley of sure-fire prescriptions for success.
His lack of understanding of economics, finance or commerce poses no barrier in his attempts to educate us with his tortured versions of supply-side economics and virtues of spending and how more spending leads to greater wealth creation.
It seems like we, the weak defenders of temporal thought and enquiry, no other recourse to combat the encroachment of this kind spiritual madness into general life but with the impolitic devices of satire and asperity
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