Rahul Mahajan's predicament

05.06.06.

Rahul – what a fall.

Rahul Mahajan has fallen. We have all fallen one time or the other in our lives and often many times, but we were able to pick ourselves up and continue with life, largely because the public at large had not noticed us fall. We are largely anonymous folks. Unfortunately for Rahul Mahajan, whatever else he was destined to, he was not destined to be anonymous.

If he is a person who has had spiritual training, then right now (and he is on his way to the jail right now) he would in all probability be enjoying life to the brim, nothing really touching him – for spiritual training gives you the capacity to get up and continue walking after a fall, as if nothing had happened. The past is past, dead and gone. If I have broken your laws, then the ball is in your court. Right now I am not breaking any laws, am I? The only way a spiritual person might lose would be the shattered image the public may have of him. But then a spiritual person would not seek to form any image in the first place. So what shatters is an image formed by others, for which the spiritual person is not responsible.

But in all likelihood, Rahul Mahajan may be quite far from any spiritual attainment. He would not have got into this mess if he was onto spiritualism.

Let us say he was an addict. And Vivek Moitra was his Guru. The Guru has paid for it. Rahul may be sentenced to some months in jail on charges of consumption of drugs. But would other things come out? About homosexuality? Worse, about Pramod Mahajan’s supposed hidden millions? And each time Rahul is punched by the media, the BJP’s image takes a beating. BJP simply cannot escape Rahul’s predicaments.