Buddha Boy Ram Bomjon: So He Wouldn’t Cut His Hair

The current Ram Bomjon Legend tells us that Young Ram once refused to cut his hair when asked to do so, so he could be in conformance with all of the Other Religious Students, and indeed with the Ancient Traditions which he now claims to be the Supreme Guardian of. What sense does such a regulation make? Well, I can suppose that no one student should be allowed to be stunningly beautiful while all the others students endeavor to be self-effacing. No one student should be allowed to feed his own vanity, preening himself while the others must feel silly for submitting to an Obedience that they find was only optional. Also, long pretty hair can hide fleas.

As it is now the Ram Bomjon Groups are universally in support of Young Ram’s insubordination. Their feeling is that his hair is SO beautiful, blah blah blah. Certainly the same rules do not apply to both Buddha and to mere mortals.

While I had still been believing in Young Ram even I myself was willing to see this episode as a privileged assertion coming from a Self-Aware Avatar. But now, we can see signs that this Young Ram was perhaps only a young conceited narcissist, which are really not that very rare, and which fits well with everything else we have subsequently learned about him. The most important thing here is his notion that a Six Year Meditation would give him some kind of Spiritual Perfection.

So far we have taken it as a matter of Faith that this Six Year Meditation REALLY WILL perfect our Young Ram. But what if this was simply another narcissistic assumption of a megalomaniacal young man? He THINKS he will be a great Saint if he CAN meditate for 6 years. He believes it because he may be self-delusional, but why should we believe it?

Even then, of the few things we know for certain about Young Ram, the one thing that is sure is that he has broken his Meditation. Oh, his original fame derives from the assertion of his followers that he was in a perpetual fast, not eating anything, ever. Well, now he is, and probably always has, as we remember that his followers would throw up a tent around him every evening in order to assure a few hours of privacy, which I guess they used for serving dinner. So, as far as we know there is no very significant difference between Young Ram and any other teenage boy who has taken up Meditation – starting seriously and then tapering off as he has grown bored with it. Oh, and most other young boys don’t have a support team of fellow conspirators.

Well, how should we treat this dereliction on his part? What are the rules here? If he breaks his 6 Year Meditation, does he have to start over again? Well, not entirely. I can suppose that many of the benefits of Long Meditation do not simply evaporate. But we had been lead to believe that the Six Years was somehow critically important… that it was necessary for him to go progressively deeper and deeper, or higher and higher, as the case may be. So it could really be a matter of Starting Over at some point if the Meditation is interrupted. After all, it was he who came out telling us that a Six Year Meditation was essential. So how should this correlate with his wondering around making meetings, moving in and moving out of increasingly comfortable Meditation Pads, giving speeches, running away from snakes, collecting swords?

He gets a lot of business done considering he is supposed to be in an unbroken six-year meditation. One would think he is hardly meditating at all, or that he is meditating about as much as any of us, that is, whenever it happens to be convenient.

The only difference between him and ourselves is that he has made huge claims for himself… and that he ignores traditions and decides not to cut his long flowing hair when everybody else does what is asked of them. The difference is that he is Narcissistic and we are not.

So why have we decided to reward him for this? Why do we credit what is probably just a very dysfunctional young man with an Elevated Spiritual Title?

So anyway, when the six years is over, then what? We will have a young man of 22 who quit school when he was 16, in pursuit of a Goal he assigned himself, with a Plan he could not keep up with. We will have a Stupid Disappointment.

Oh, except for the Hard Core Believers who will UNCONDITIONALLY accept him simply because they want so much to BELIEVE in anything… even if it is so patently absurd. The truly sorry thing about all this is that his anti-social and egotistical behavior may still make him a Huge Star in the Spiritual Community. Cynically speaking, at this point it is only a matter of how he handles his Public Relations. He’s already famous, and we can see he is already cashing in on it. One can hardly imagine how bad he would have to screw up now in order to shake off his Blind Faith Followers. As an example, we can see Sathya Sai Baba in India – a famously accused pedophile and phony, exposed as a hoax thousands of times, but still a Big Time Guru with perhaps millions of diehard followers.

It’d be nice if people held their Gurus to even the tiniest degree of Moral and Spiritual Standards. It is odd that people seem to expect a good deal more from themselves than they do from their Gurus. After all, wouldn’t we have all cut our hair?