Nirmal baba fraud
Is Nirmal Baba A Fraud? Part 1
Nirmal Baba needs no introduction. In India, he has become a household name. Basically, he is a spiritual guru, but with a little bit of difference. The inherent difference within Nirmal Baba also makes him a suspicious guru.
The sudden rise of popularity of Nirmal Baba is really astonishing. Today only Ramdev Baba can be termed as more popular than him. The popularity of Nirmal Baba is because of some so called divine power that he is endowed with. He is said to be the person with perfect sixth sense. He claims to heal anyone from any sort of disease, even Cancer and AIDS, without even a personal contact. He is quite confident about his vashikaran mantra by which he can control the thinking power of anyone on this planet. And, the most important thing is that if you follow his samagams on television channels, then you will find that lots of people claim there that they have been really blessed with healing power of Nirmal Baba.
Why does he look suspicious?
Despite showing his healing power to the whole world through electronic media, Nirmal Baba looks quite suspicious. He looks like a fraudster masquerading as a spiritual guru.
Let’s have a look on some point:
1. Vashikaran mantra: Though, Nirmal Baba has become less frequent in his offering for vashikaran mantra, but it is a fact that his popularity rose because of this. But, the question remains. How come a mantra can control someone? It is not mantra, in fact, but it is his psychological tricks which controls someone. He do know and apply hypnotism. However, it is simply impossible to use a mantra to control someone who is far away from Nirmal Baba. To deliver this mantra he asks Rs. 2,000 per person. What……Rs. 2,000 for three lines? It must be counted as one of the most costly stuff on this planet. The fact is he offers the same mantra to everyone. I wonder why he didn’t contact Manmohan Singh to use this mantra against anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazaare? Or, why he doesn’t offer this mantra to a business personality to crush the cut throat competition by controlling the competitor? By going this way he will definitely earn more. The crux of the matter is the fact that there is no mantra worth offering. He is only earning money from gullible people.
2. Little is known about the history of Nirmal Baba. Even, very little public knowledge is available about his current work current business life. What he is doing with crores of rupees that he is earning per month? His followers say that somewhere out of blue Nirmal Baba got the divine power. I wonder why the nature selected him to give these ‘divine powers’ when the person is not going to offer it free to anyone? Nirmal Baba is just using tricks of medieval India’s Brahmans to make his wallet heavier and heavier. Like Brahmans he also doesn’t offer anything free to anyone, not even for a person dying because of hunger. (The use of Brahman here has nothing to do with caste-ism.)
3. Why does he charge money from his followers? If one wants to participate in his samagams then one needs to make a payment of Rs. 2,000. Payment should be made through a bank challan and devotee needs to keep one counterfoil of that challan. Send the other to the designated office in Delhi and after the confirmation of registration they will send an SMS (What if you don’t have mobile phone?). On the date of registered samagam, devotee needs to go there with the counterfoil challan and a valid ID proof. Only these two documents can ensure a pass for the samagam. Oh Gosh!!!! Is it an online test for CAT? Even UPSC doesn’t ask for so much documents. The whole process from charging money from followers to issuing pass stretches the credulity about the veracity of these samagams. Why a spiritual guru who is out there needs original photo I-cards from his followers?
4. If Nirmal Baba is really endowed with divine power to do anything that can be imagined, then what is stopping him from doing something real for the humanity? Why his home country is still reeling under poverty? Yes, he is not responsible for poverty and destitution that India has, but certainly he is a living example of the reason behind the poverty of India.
5. Baba asks money from bank challan. That must be appreciated. It means to say that at least his earning through his followers is being recorded by official manner. Is it useful? Nah!! Some spiritual gurus in India are very shrewd. When it comes to money they can even surprise icons like Warren Buffet. They run lots of fake trusts and NGOs to avoid any taxes. Few years ago, a private Hindi news channel ran a story about some spiritual gurus who were showing the modus operandi of changing black money to white in India through their trusts and NGOs. Kirit Bhai was one of those gurus involved in that scandal. Then, as a college student I used to be a deep follower of Kirit Bhai, but……….. [Do you want to see the power of Indian spiritual guru? If yes, then search IBN7 Video of that scandal involving four self styled gurus. I have just tried unsuccessfully. There is no video available.]
6. If Nirmal Baba is running a business then one should not object about that. But, why he over glorifies himself. Just watch a samagam and you will see people telling so much appreciating words about Baba before baba and see a smiling Baba. That must be considered as the lowest level of self-glorification. He loves sycophants. [ On Aaj Tak (Nov. 2011) ---- Bhakt: Baba, In last Samagam I asked for a home and you gave me a Bungalow. Now, I want...this, this and that. Baba sitting on a royal chair just waved his hand. ----- ] So, Baba has given him a bungalow for just Rs. 2,000. What about Indira Aawaas Yojna? Government should forward money to Nirmal Baba, Nehru Place rather than spending money in Government schemes. Everyone involved in this new wave of pseudo spiritualism in India is doing a crime. From Aasharam Bapu, Kirit Bhai, Ramdev Baba to this Nirmal Baba. Television Channels must tell viewers that these episodes are ADVERTISEMENT to sell a product, Government must regulate these Baba, and most importantly people who are feeling insecure should never think that these Baba can make them out of their quagmire.
7. One needs to see how people describe about the healing effects of Nirmal Baba. A student who was not studying since five years got job because of Nirmal Baba. Surprising, isn�t it? What about that student who remained in the waiting list despite studying to his capacity. There were so many sagas about results and jobs that you will instantly find the answer about the age long question that why India is not able to produce a Google, Microsoft, or i-Pod.
8. People like Nirmal Baba thrive on placebo effect. A person can be treated without any sort of medication if there is strong belief within him. 10% devotees who are told by Baba that they will be fine turn out to be fine only because of this Placebo Effect. 90% never get healed and they continue to wonder about their sins. (Example of Placebo Effect: Magnetic Therapy – It has been proved by rigorous scientific test that Magnetic Therapy doesn’t have any therapeutic advantage, but still people are using it and surprisingly it has done wonder on some.) If your heart says that you SHOULD GET BETTER KNOW since you are being treated then more often than not you WILL. For information on Placebo Effect and how it applies to our batch of gurus see Wikipedia entry.
9. If you dont have money then Nirmal Baba will not love you. He will not allow you to see his face without making a payment. I must mention here that he always bless all people who are present there and who are watching television programs.
10. What is the theory behind Daswand? He asks his followers to deposit a part of income to someone which may give a sort of guarantee for continuing KRIPA. That part of income which has been offered is called Daswand. The theory is quite simple. Talk with 100 people. Discuss in the most idiotic way about their problems. Give laughable solutions like eating 20 mangoes. And, leave that on the age long principle of Geeta. That is Karma. 10 out of hundred will definitely find themselves out of quagmire. Expect 2 out of those ten to send Daswand. And, keep earning money.
Daswand of Nirmal Baba
Daswand is an old Indian religious practice. Basically, it is an offering that a devotee makes to his guru/religious head. Recently the whole phenomenon of Daswand has been popularized by Nirmal Baba. Nirmal Baba never misses a chance to ask his devotees to send Daswand after any gain/earning.Daswand or Dasvand is the 10% of income that one is expected to forward somewhere for religious purpose. This forwarding of a percentage will make religious institutions to continue with social building work.Where to Send DaswandAccording to Sikhism tradition, Daswand should be forwarded to an established Gurudwara. It is also said that followers should closely watch that their Daswand is not misused. The religious institutions of Sikhism have created a great way to logically use this Daswand. All we need to do is to visit any Gurudwara and see what they are doing with the money of their followers. Exceptions might be there, but the fact is they are using money in the noblest way. Feeding thousands of people daily requires huge amount of money. Then they are also doing some worth appreciating work in terms of eradication of social problems.Daswand and Nirmal Baba
Nirmal Baba also says his followers to deposit 10% of their earnings as Daswand. In some instances he asks them to deposit this cut within two days of earning. For example, he has famously said that persons who have earned money through share trading should send 10% of earnings within two days.
The question arises here, is it really necessary to send this cut to a religious institution or to a firm created by a spiritual head. Gurus in India are earning huge amount of money without any sort of accountability. Nirmal Baba never says that his followers should send Daswand to him, but it is an open secret that he is getting large amount of money as Daswand. Every spiritual gurus in India are having their own website. However, it is not possible to see a single of these websites with financial records. Nobody knows what they are doing with offerings.
The problem with Daswand is its very base. Why should one deposit money to religious institutions? What about government taxes? Why gurus like Nirmal Baba never asks his followers to be punctual in terms of depositing taxes?
Those who are willing to send money as Daswand should continue to do so. There is nothing harm in this act if they can ensure that their money is being used on social cause. However, those who are not willing to send Daswand should not think that this is going to harm them. All that is required is a mass of enlightened citizen who never fails to make tax payment to the Government. This is moral obligation. Sending Daswand is moral aberration. It is against morality.
Nirmal Baba says that if you will not send Daswand then KRIPA will stop. It is amazing how lucidly he makes fool of innocent people.
If you are really willing to use your money to social cause then send them to some well known NGOs. There are many NGOs who are managing their account in transparent way. You can send money to them. Warren Buffet never contributed a single penny to any religious institutions. In the later life he is contributing his money to the Gates Foundation. Being a philanthropist is better than being an illiterate who waste his money in Daswand.