Follow @9jaLife He is 65. He is at an age when his peers have started coming to terms with the onset of old age. It is an age when his contemporaries have started seeing their grand children, some luckier ones, great grand children. Paradoxically, it is an age Sat Guru Maharaj Ji, the Ibadan, Oyo State-based self-acclaimed Living Perfect Master, has come out to shock the world with an unabashed antagonism to the sacred institution of marriage. In a recent encounter with the bearded one at his hilltop commune on the outskirts of the Oyo State capital, the reclusive spiritualist declared that, for him, marriage is a taboo. It is a no-go area. He has never given it a thought and never will do so because, to him, marriage is an unnecessary distraction. "I challenge anybody who says she is Maharaj Ji's wife to come out," he declared matter-of-factly. "I challenge anybody who says she has children for Maharaj Ji to come out. I don't have any biological children. My children are my followers. I'm the father of creation. … I don't have any biological child, and I'm not married to any woman. I don't have a wife. "I've never thought about marriage, and I will never do so, because there is a war going on, and the war is between light and darkness. Until the war is over, anybody who gets involved with marriage will always be in trouble. … My advice to the young men of these days is that they should not get married. This is not the time to go into marriage because the situation is not conducive." This is not the only bombshell that the man in Ibadan dropped during the interview. He also threw darts at pastors, men of God, who he accused of using diabolical means to hoodwink their teeming followers. "Quote me," he declared, his eyes like balls of fire, "all of them use juju. How can a pastor touch somebody and he falls down? That one is juju at work. Our people are very foolish and ignorant. How can you touch somebody and he falls down? There is something behind this." Well, what else can we [...]
