Guru Business - Its Advantages
* Tax exempt status
* Volunteer donated labor from disciples, no need for payroll or workman's compensation -- how simple!
* Customers who want to feel relief, feel better and do not want to fact check
because fact checking spoils the mood
* Audiences who don't ask questions who glare and frown at disruptive skeptics
* Getting waited on by an entourage, meals, laundry, housing, appointments all
taken care of
* Personal physician who gives you all the drugs you want and does not nag you
when you get fat from overeating
* Get to stay in swank hotels and rich disciple's houses when on tour
* Full access to all adult pleasures, such as bossing people around and them
never retaliating, sexual release whenever one wishes, partying, famous
Bollywood stars at your parties, changing array of
partners, can binge watch TV or Netflix and pig out on favorite foods show up
late for lectures or not at all and retinue and disciples
will make excuses for you
* Chose only companions who are interesting and entertaining, kick them out when
bored
* Design a palace to your own specifications, use money and local connections to
overrule objections by neighbors
* Influence national politics and have politicians courting you so you'll tell
their disciples to vote for you (India)
Drawbacks to Guru Career
* Gotta wear same outfit every day
* Deep down guru gets scared of any situation not under guru's control - and
must hide that
* Guru begins hiding from disciples, less available, hating them for being so
clingy yet Guru had made them clingy
* Life no longer feels fresh and spontaneous because Guru controls everything.
Simple pleasures no longer suffice. Guru increasingly dependent on luxury,
fussy, disciples continually berated for not giving satisfaction. Personal care
team cannot satisfy guru.
* Guru feels dead inside and has to face all these people who expect guru
to give them vitality
* Nonstop adulation and luxury get boring, guru needs more and yet more
adulation and luxury to get any sort of mood enhancement - just like a junkie
who needs to shoot more and yet more dope
* Monopolizes all disciple attention and resents any attention paid to disciples' own children. May pressure disciples to abandon children for ashram life, get abortions, not have children at all, disrupt partnered relationships
* Increased scrutiny from government or adverse media coverage leads to paranoia
* In old age, guru usually becomes isolated, cared for by just a few disciples. Succession disputes loom. Elderly guru may become a prisoner of enfeebled body and caretakers. Possible elder abuse behind closed doors.
* Age and guru occupational diabetes cause narcissistic moritifcation when
bedroom performance impaired. Guru gets more abusive of women because of
erotic insecurity, more abusive and bitterly envious of younger more vital male
disciples, may inflict increasing demands for celibacy on followers
Karmic payback is not pretty.
* Tax exempt status
* Volunteer donated labor from disciples, no need for payroll or workman's compensation -- how simple!
* Customers who want to feel relief, feel better and do not want to fact check
because fact checking spoils the mood
* Audiences who don't ask questions who glare and frown at disruptive skeptics
* Getting waited on by an entourage, meals, laundry, housing, appointments all
taken care of
* Personal physician who gives you all the drugs you want and does not nag you
when you get fat from overeating
* Get to stay in swank hotels and rich disciple's houses when on tour
* Full access to all adult pleasures, such as bossing people around and them
never retaliating, sexual release whenever one wishes, partying, famous
Bollywood stars at your parties, changing array of
partners, can binge watch TV or Netflix and pig out on favorite foods show up
late for lectures or not at all and retinue and disciples
will make excuses for you
* Chose only companions who are interesting and entertaining, kick them out when
bored
* Design a palace to your own specifications, use money and local connections to
overrule objections by neighbors
* Influence national politics and have politicians courting you so you'll tell
their disciples to vote for you (India)
Drawbacks to Guru Career
* Gotta wear same outfit every day
* Deep down guru gets scared of any situation not under guru's control - and
must hide that
* Guru begins hiding from disciples, less available, hating them for being so
clingy yet Guru had made them clingy
* Life no longer feels fresh and spontaneous because Guru controls everything.
Simple pleasures no longer suffice. Guru increasingly dependent on luxury,
fussy, disciples continually berated for not giving satisfaction. Personal care
team cannot satisfy guru.
* Guru feels dead inside and has to face all these people who expect guru
to give them vitality
* Nonstop adulation and luxury get boring, guru needs more and yet more
adulation and luxury to get any sort of mood enhancement - just like a junkie
who needs to shoot more and yet more dope
* Monopolizes all disciple attention and resents any attention paid to disciples' own children. May pressure disciples to abandon children for ashram life, get abortions, not have children at all, disrupt partnered relationships
* Increased scrutiny from government or adverse media coverage leads to paranoia
* In old age, guru usually becomes isolated, cared for by just a few disciples. Succession disputes loom. Elderly guru may become a prisoner of enfeebled body and caretakers. Possible elder abuse behind closed doors.
* Age and guru occupational diabetes cause narcissistic moritifcation when
bedroom performance impaired. Guru gets more abusive of women because of
erotic insecurity, more abusive and bitterly envious of younger more vital male
disciples, may inflict increasing demands for celibacy on followers
Karmic payback is not pretty.