Why we so often incline to godmen?

India is a place where people follow many religions and sometimes they fight with each other on these issues. You visit any house, you will find either the photos or the idols of Gods and Goddesses.  Traditionally, every home has a small temple, every street corner has a medium sized temple and in some places, you will find a full fledged temple with crowd stand in queue to see their preferred Gods or Goddesses. Every family has a Kula Devta and mostly every important events of our life is governed by God. Apart from this, there will be various festivals to celebrate doing fasting and performing pujas so as to get the blessings of Gods and Goddesses. In fact, we are so obsessed with the power of divinity that we  greet each other on the streets, addressing in the name of “Hare Krishna” or “Ram-Ram” or “Radhe- Radhe.” In some places of India, of course, we simply smile or nod saying “Namaskar.” Broadly, the Hindu civilization is based on God-centric. If we discuss the details of the Vedic period, we find of Agni, Vayu, Surya and Marut and we used to perform all types of Yagnas for fulfillment of our wishes and also to bring solace to our families and other members. 

In the mythological scriptures, namely Upanishads, which teaches us to search the discovery of truth. Through this discovery of truth, we are able to find our inward contemplation.  Of course, not all of us are in a position to ascertain this fact, because this requires a bit of Sadhna and meditation. With the turn of the millennium, we have the Puranas, which provide the description of anthropomorphic Gods and get ourselves divided based on the belief to Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, Ganesha and Surya. Each person has accepted any of these Gods or Goddess and start performing Pujas and chanting hymns in their names. Then we bring in the semi-gods like Kubera and Kama and the celestial beings like Gandharvas and Kinnaras. Thereafter, we have the period of many sages and pious persons whom we respect almost as Gods because of their power. These sages were gifted with the vision and they brought the various truths closer to us. Despite the plethora of godmen, our belief in Gods and Goddesses remain intact. We turn to our God to solve all our problems and we turn to them in awe and veneration. We feel God only could  control our lives. 

The culture of this period was full of religious fervor.  Buddha, Mahavira, Bharata and Panini used to teach us the philosophy of life.  Their teachings used to enlighten the morality of people. They believed in a loving relationship.  Against this backdrop of the post-Vedic period, the modern India is getting spoiled because of fragmented traditional values, cultural shocks based on groups with respect to caste, religion, race and socio-constraints. The economic disparity is another reason for determination of traditional values.  In modern India, we are afflicted with various types of sufferings; we have more pains and less delight and that too also artificial.  We have sorrow rather than serenity. There is more uncertainty and less certainty today.  Because of this, we are forced to search for gurus to relieve our anxieties.  We hope that our gurus will guide us to grow in a more balanced way.  We start to think that the Gods are like a metaphor of idols and images, whereas the gurus are persons with whom we can interact meaningfully. The various types of Gods provide us a contemplation to convert a particular form to the formless and churn our minds to consider stillness. 

Godmen and godwomen very rightly understand this psyche and invite people with a hug and a beautiful smile.  Some of them offer mantras after making them as their disciples.  Some other godmen entices  them  and  say them to perform different ambiguous practices.

Precisely,that is the reason, we run to  these gurus.When they are not able to satisfy our desires and make us feel that they cannot  take  the roles of God,we again rush to the temples to seek the blessings of Gods and Goddesses. So, our Gods have never failed us, we are not able to understand the so-called charismatic power of these gurus, which is a momentary consolation. God is omnipotent, omniscient and He will protect us always. Is there any need to incline for these godmen?