Never judge a book by its cover. We all know this.
And yet, it’s so hard to practise.
Was watching the outstanding pronunciation of sanskrit mantras by one learned person on YouTube.
He was dressed as any normal person, was also performing a homa, all the whilst providing explanations to every shloka he uttered.
Truly someone with great divinity, without which such grasp of the esoteric would not be possible.
What was the very first comment on that video and the one with most likes?
“I clicked on the video, saw a guy chanting mantras and doing a homa, noticed that he was wearing a pant and shirt instead of a dhoti and being bare-chested, so I immediately shut off the video. This man is a charlatan!”
Should the book cover matter? Never, but apparently it does…