If Ram Bomjon Really Wants People to Stay Away

Old Sai Baba of Shirdi was perhaps as great a Saint as they come, which presents quite a dilemma. You see, Great Saints attract quite a crowd. And Shirdi was not a big town, and Old Sai Baba had only one last residual vestige of ego-conditioning left, that he enjoyed some little bit of privacy. And so the crowds put him in a bad temper and he used his last traces of Worldly Thinking to plot how he was to get rid of them.

Ram Bomjon asks people to leave him alone.

Old Shirdi Baba thought it a better strategy to chase them away.

Really objectionable people he actually did physically chase away, and if they did not run fast enough to stay out of reach, they were beaten with his rather long and massive walking stick.

Then he started a program of soliciting contributions. When asked why, by a particularly confidential devotee, he replied that most people found it so offensive that he would publicly solicit funds that they stayed away. It worked out for him. The money that he did get, he gave away anyway.

He put up flags for the same reason. He lived in an old dilapidated Mosque, but it was surrounded about by all sorts of ostentatious flags. It made him look horribly Vain for one who was supposed to be a Holy Man, and so it served to keep people from visiting. People don’t visit Holy Men that seem so morally and ethically flawed.

Now, the problem with Rom Bomjon assuming such a strategy is that it could make it difficult, later on, to call back the Masses and the Media after he effectively manages to chase them away.

However, it is not as though it doesn’t appear that he is already making the kind of public relations mistakes that could only serve to drive the unwanted crowds away. Let us look at the situation. A few years back Rom Bomjon started as the dedicated Buddha Boy who did not eat or drink, and spent all of his time in silent meditation. In Spiritual Circles he was the Perfect Poster Boy. Perfect!

But since then we find him afraid of snakes… and for a reason…. Has he REALLY been bitten three times? What is THAT about? He has begun carrying around a sword. A SWORD? Did they have to call it that? Couldn’t he have gotten a “snake stick” from somewhere so that the Founder of the Next World Religion won’t be memorialized carrying around a Sword. Heck, if we wanted that – a Sword Religion, we already have too much of THAT Religion already, don’t we? And then we have him coming out of a silent Meditation to do some public speaking. Now, I don’t know the language, but I could see in the video that the crowd was bored and restless, people chatting, people getting up and leaving.

And his greatest claim to fame is that he does not eat. DOES NOT EAT. But it has been released by his press secretary or somebody that he is taking “medicinal” herbs. In other words, he is EATING.

So now he is a 18 year old kid who dropped out of school. He eats, he speaks (badly), and he’s afraid of snakes. Hey, the last time I looked… isn’t everybody like that?

Well, the “strategy” might begin to work. People might start leaving him alone.

But I am really willing to believe it is a strategy, or just a series of stupid public relations gaffes. Mostly that the Young Man REALLY isn’t eating. If it is found that he really has been sneaking food, then I’m out of here far too quickly to worry about the door slapping me on my ass.
But if our Young Man comes out of his Meditation in 2012 ready to do Business, with some degree of skill and maturity, then people will come back quickly enough.