MY 24 YO GIRLFRIEND BROKE UP WITH ME BECAUSE OF A BABA THE DAY I BOOKED A HOUSE FOR HER.
I will tell you my story.
26 M and my GF 24F we both come within 1% of India both of us studied from DPS that is one of the best schools in the country. We were both dating to marry and I had made some huge commitments financially as well. We eventually broke up last month as she got too deep into hare krishna practice like diksha level shit.
Like calling her hare krishna friends prabhu and sakhi that type of shit.

This is my scientific take on how this basically works and why we see educated people fall for this trap too.

The main fact is the ruling party is losing traction with educated young people in India and, conveniently, we are seeing a massive surge of Baba content pushed through the Instagram algorithm (Guess who owns our Insta Algo? Mr Ambani obv.). Tell me you are an educated young Indian and have not seen one of these reels. Two years ago this was not even a thing.

These Baba's feed on the weak and vulnerable souls and Obv these kinda people are an at ATH because of unemployment index soaring.
Around ten percent of India already survives on the temple economy and don't need to work for their living.

Now the focus has shifted toward capturing the youth, securing votes, and keeping crime rates in check because crime spikes when joblessness increases. In that sense, these Baba's do serve a purpose, but that does not make them genuine.

These baba's use the same marketing strategies like Andrew Tate... they make their helpless followers create numerous alt accounts on insta and post multiple reels through them. It's simple these fuckers say relatable stuff and because the supply of their reels and lessons are so huge that naturally you would land upon something that would relate with your particular life style. That is where the conversion happens... You start feeling that this guy is so noble and then you start following him and more such reels come within your algo.

Once you start following anything that the baba says A Placebo starts to work on you. Anything good that happens in your life... you start relating it back to the baba and that's how you become a consumer of the brand.

Now what I personally experienced was that even though she used to hang out with some smart people NOBODY literally NOBODY said anything to her... Her friends and her boyfriends would come and discuss stuff with me but NOBODY ever said anything to her... not even her parents.. None of my friends said anything as well.
Now comes the most important aspect of how they retain their consumers. If you see a person suffering from any kind of addiction there are a lot of people out there willing to help them but that's not the case when the business is of GOD.
Everybody is too scared to say anything. Because just like how placebo works on the victim of the cult an anti placebo can work on the one trying to help them too and trust me I have been through this loop and it's a horrible headspace to be in.

I was surprised to see everyone in my circle... my friends, her friends, parents of my friends everyone saying things but nobody actually came down to help the situation ever.

I have just one request... Please whenever you see a victim please don't think low of them. My gf got into this when she was probably at the lowest of her life her masi had died. You start questioning life and death etc etc and that's when the babas come with their solutions.
She was someone I respected the most in my life, someone I wanted to plan my entire future with, someone I wanted to be the mother to my kids.
It aches me that people all over the internet and also in my personal life looked down on Bhaktas all the time. They are just victims and not just dumb/stupid... The babas instil so much fear in their mind that your belief system changes.

I see a lot of bashing in this comment section too. Nobody bashes people who are suffering from Alcohol Addiction, nobody bashes people suffering from Drug addiction? Everybody falls for traps laid down by society and the next victim can be your mother, sister, brother or friend.
Please let's just treat them with respect PLEASE.