Bait and the wider perspective - a thought

1 - A fisherman puts some food over his hook as a bait to catch fish.
2 - Kidnappers use toffees or chocklates to lure young children.
3 - The Thugs of yore used sweet tongue and assuared safety to the people on the move. They accompanied them as fellow travellers and often outnumbered their victims by four to one. At some forlorn spot the leader would use some code word like 'Tambaku Laao'. The members of the gang would throw hand-ker chief around the necks of their victims and strangled them in cold blood. Here the sweet tongue and assurance of safety were used as a bait.
4 - Sometimes the modern day swindlers use honesty as a bait. They borrow money from the money lenders at higher rates of interest. They return it honestly. Then they borrow higher amounts and return that money also very honestly. Finally they borrow a very huge sum and defraud their creditors.
5 - Some fake Sadhus may use divine knowledge as a bait.

But there is a broader perspective to look at it. God himself is the fisherman. He himself is the fishing rod and he himself is the water. He himself is the bait and he himself is the fish that gets caught with it. (Guru Nanak)