Facts or Conspiracy?

In recent months, Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu had become target of petty politics. Suddenly, the saint widely known for spreading the message of creativity and selflessness through his satsang-discourses and wide-ranging altruistic activities, who is being listened to by millions through TV Channels, became the subjects of breaking news. The hearts of crores of disciples and devotees associated with his Ashrams, Samitis, satsang and Seva Kendras spread all over the world were filled with anguish. Allegations like that of killing children for exorcism were leveled against his Ashrams. Penchant for sensationalism has given a new language to the media. Accordingly, untoward epithets were used even for Sant Sri Ashramji Bapu, a saint revered by the masses. Sustained efforts were made by sensationalizing the issue to put a question mark on the revered saint’s image and to damage the faith of his devotees. But in the end, investigations revealed that all this had been much ado about nothing. This episode raises an important question, that of the missing truth in ‘breaking news’. A particular section of the media had deliberately used derogatory words to make its news sensational. The sequence of events strongly smells of politically motivated conspiracy. A section of people ignorant of the value of satsang and therefore considering it to be a vocation received the stuff dished out by the what after all is at the root of all this?
Senior journalist Shri Neeraj Bhushan says it is the game of TRPs played TV Channels. He says, “Recently some newspapers and TV Channel gave undue one-sided coverage to news about Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu and his Ashrams and tried to spread sensation. The news were not only false but were motivated by a malicious intent. In these news items, Bapuji was deliberately maligned and a campaign was launched to tarnish the reputation of his ashrams. An attempt was made to play with the feelings of crores of sadhakas and followers of Bapuji.”