Saas Vs Saap

There is a subtle difference between Sainthood as a Service (SaaS) and Sainthood as a Profession (SaaP). Those who really delve deep into themselves with the help of studying the scriptures, cleansing their body and mind, adhering to the austerity, lead a life to set an example, share their knowledge with an intent to make the world a better place, unassuming in their demeanor, remain in the society with a specific intent to pray for the well-being of the society, etc., have demonstrated qualities of SaaS.

However, many choose study the scriptures with an intent to play one up with the rest, pretend to have cleaned their body and mind, lead a luxurious life despite their claimed position as a saint, lead a life that is distasteful, share their knowledge to build their individual wealth, pretending to be a realized soul, remain in the society to attract as many people as possible to serve the saint to increase their name, fame and wealth, etc. They can be classified under the category of SaaP.

A true self-realized saint doesn’t promote himself to earn a living out of his knowledge. He leads a simple life of austerity and let the society find him. They don’t promote their knowledge through a set of disciples/followers to find more disciples/followers. They don’t build wealth for their personal good but everything they receive out of love and reverence (not forced), they redistribute to the society to serve them. This discrimination is essential before anyone makes a long-term commitment to listen to the teachings and to dedicate the life to serve those saints. A true saint doesn’t like to possess wealth but give everything he has, to serve the people in need. They are rich in their heart and not in their wealth.

A true saint lives in the trust of the followers and not out of the trust set up to collect wealth. A mere setting up of not-for-profit organization and the amount of wealth the saint receives and accumulates doesn’t reveal the true intention of the saint. Before anyone contributes, he should look at for what purpose such trust money is applied for. Religious beliefs should not blind anyone to commit themselves, their families and their wealth to a saint. On the contrary, one who is a true saint should have a purpose of transforming the individuals and redistribute wealth to the needy and not transfer wealth to the saint.

Any saint who is suggesting to blindly follow him and his teachings without a proper inquiry is misleading the aspirants. Before accepting anyone as a spiritual guru, one should understand the true purpose is to find a way for self-transformation that leads to self-realization. Saints must always suggest one to make inquiries, remove desires and attachment, hold every possession with a mindset of a trustee (not contribute everything to his trust), remain unaffected by pleasures and pains and most importantly set his lifestyle to be an example of everything he preaches others.

There must be a law passed to make every trust formed by the saints into a public charitable trust involving the prominent independent citizens of the society monitoring the source and use of funds. Any saint who has been found guilty in a court of law should be stripped of the trust funds immediately and a court appointed liquidator should redistribute the contributions made to the trust equitably. Until vast majority of the citizens can discriminate the difference between SaaP and SaaS, the law should be strictly enforced irrespective of the religion such saint belongs. The saints contributing money for political purposes and politicians becoming enablers of saints should be prohibited.

Religious belief can’t be used as a tool to promote wealth, name and fame for individual saint or hatred towards other religions. The government should build this awareness across the entire country and they could do it only if they themselves don’t discriminate one religion against the other. Religion should be kept out of politics and for promoting individual empires by saints. Religion should be practiced only inside homes and inside the place of worship without any disturbance to the society.

 

@SinghManisha & @Sunshine04,

Thank you for your responses. I am not a frequent visitor to Relationship Forum and unfortunately, I am not familiar with the terms SaaS and SaaP with reference to MILs. Please enlighten me.

 

@Caughtinbetween,

Thank you for answering my question. It is always a pleasure to receive your response to my snippet. Therefore, SaaS = SaaP in @singhmanisha’s response means MIL = Curse/Snake. I am enlightened now.

 

Dear Agatha,

Wishing you and yours a very happy new year as well.

Thank you for your excellent response summarizing how Sainthood is practiced as a Profession. There are so many Saints sitting on huge pile of money leading a luxurious life and in the company of young and attractive female followings. I couldn't agree more on the foolishness demonstrated by them. The parents joining the mutt with family and all young children is atrocious. How in the world a parent can leave their minor female or male children under the custody of a Saint especially there is so much published about the Saint? These Saints appear to be having up to date knowledge about when they are likely to get a raid and how and when they are likely to be arrested from the government directly without which how can they plan to escape?

Even corporations find it hard to have multi-national presence but these saints do have presence in many countries. Money appears to be pouring into their operations both in India and overseas. Recently, I had a chance to see a You Tube video in which a young woman from a very affluent family, educated as a graduate from a premier educational Institution in India, working for a world class organization in the west coast of the US, decided to join the Mutt and went on to become the leader of the Mutt. Some of the Saints appear to bring in science over and above the religion to bring in more audience. It is very opt you commented with Vadivelu's language as one of the saints appear to be speaking in this comedian's tone in all his telecast.

I hope someday, the people will wake up and the government will be compelled to keep these criminals away from access to people and money but for that the government has to be cleansed without the criminals.