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Dr Kovoor's Conclusion
Sincere and honest persons earn their living by sincere honest work.
Dishonest persons do so by cheating those who work and earn. To the
category of dishonest parasites who thrive by cheating the credulous
among honest workers belong the teachers, preachers and priests of dubious
religions and cults, mystics, saints, arahants, sidhas who claim that
they have acquired enlightenment through meditation or penance; gurus,
babas, anandas, rishis, swamijis and yogis who claim that they have
obtained miraculous powers through yogic practices or as from boons
from gods; oracles, exorcists, charmers, soothsayers, fortune-tellers
and all types of occultists who claim that they have developed their
special powers through spiritual exercises, astrology,
palmistry, numerology, telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis (Psychokinesis),
precognition, necromancy, spirit possession etc
In recent years a new type of hoaxers have cropped up in India
in the form of incarnations of one or other of numerous gods of the
Hindu pantheon. Intelligent crooks of that country have found a new
method of amassing wealth with the least effort. They get hold of a
person who is clever at sleight-of-hand tricks, and brand him as an
"avathar". A lot of cock-and-bull stories about the miraculous
genesis and divine powers of the godmen are published in books and newspapers.
Whenever this imitation of god appears in public, his agents offer him
flowers and prostrate before him. Asmost gullibles have the habit of
doing exactly as others do, the thousands of credulous spectators too
prostrate before the miracle performing charlatan. Money pours in lakhs(one
hundred thousands) to be shared by the juggler and his agents. It is
indeed a tragedy that among these crafty god-makers are some of the
highly qualified scientists of that country
Although the acts of these hoaxers are as criminal as those of
robbers, cheats, smugglers, blackmarketers, pickpockets and thieves,
governments are reluctant to prosecute them because their practice is
sanctioned by most religions. In a democracy where the majority of people
are blind believers in religions, these hoaxers can carry on their trade
of cheating with impunity: If legal action is to be taken against them,
the first person to be prosecuted will be the Pope, the earthly representative
of Christ, for cheating his gullible flock by making them believe that
the wine they are given during the Holy Sacrament is blood of Christ.
This is a fraud that can be proved by subjecting the Sacrament Wine
to chemical test.
It was to convince the ignorant masses that there is absolutely
no truth in the claims of these hoaxers that I
have been challenging them staking all I have to demonstrate their
powers under fraud-proof conditions.
I am aware that my various challenges, staking large sums of money,
are liable to create a false impression in the minds of the public that
I am a fabulously rich man with plenty of money to throw about for cheap
publicity. I am also aware of the dire consequences of these challenges.
If there is one person in the world with supernatural or paranormal
powers, I will eventually have to end up in a" Home for Destitutes",
but I was, and still am, fully confident that I will not be losing a
single cent by these challenges, because nobody has, and nobody ever
had, miraculous powers although we read in scriptures and sensation-mongering
newspapers numerous stories about people possessing miraculous powers.
That is why I am keeping these challenges open till my death or till
I find the first winner.
None of the hoaxers who claim supernatural powers will dare to
take up my challenge for fear of their fraud getting exposed under scientific
tests. The only person who was foolhardy to deposit Rs. 1000 as proof
of his earnestness to face my challenge, was, strangely enough, not
one of the charlatans, but a highly religious person who blindly believed
in the supernatural and the miraculous.
Dr, G. Venkata Rao, a medical doctor of Bangalore, who was credulous
enough to believe that his Guru Raghavendra Swamiji of Mantralaya, Andhra
Pradesh, has divine powers, paid Rs. 1000 as earnest deposit, and finally
lost it!
Dr Rao foolishly believed that a person could obtain divine powers
by chanting the mantra "Om Raghavendra Sharanam" daily 100 times. Being
an extremely gullible person he also belied the cock and bull Story
the sacred ash, honey and flowers come out like fountain from the eye
of a 6 year-old child in a village in Mysore district.
Later, getting wiser-probably after testing the claim of the miracle
Child himself at my request-he wanted his deposit returned. Much against
my wish, I had to decline his request as it-was against the conditions
of my challenge.
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