Kya Bhagvan ...paise waloon ka hi hai kya (is GOD belongs to rich ones only)
This doubt arised in my mind in my recent visit to a piligrimage called srisailam. This holy place is located on one of the hill top of Nallamal forest. Here, lord shiva showers his blessing as lord Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna swamy.As its famous for its miracles and every one believes in visiting this place, the endowment ministry has commercialized every possible means for piligrims in getting gods blessings. I dont want to debate on commercialization of temple surrounding(0ut side of temple gate).
I want to emphasize the ticketing system for special darshans. there are different range of tickets, provides the luxery of an appointment with god.
Take an example, we were standing in queue in the blistering cold for about 2 hours (of course in free darshan) and where as a guy who bought a ticket of 100/- was allowed before us in temple. He has finished darshanin 10 mins.
why this kind of discrepancy is been followed inside temple. There were also some placards hanging to temple walls stating "wash out all your sins by donating as much as you can","By contributing in Annadan, you will be blessed equally of kashi etc other piligrimages".
Another worst thing is, at the time of pooja and harathi (procedure of worshipping god and chanting words) if dakshina (giving money to poojari) is not given then some pandits wont bless or do the chanting whole heartedly. I am not saying it happens in every temple but Some times, we can experience these situations, so people who never wants to take any chances will donate and give dakshina to poojari. And other side, poojari starts expecting, this intern sprawls like a contagious disease.
if this question is put up to Endowment department, they says, the money earned from this will be shelved for temple's development and maintanace. I say, for this they have already auctioned every possible land or surroundings for other temple based businesses. if that money is maintained properly why pandits expects dakshina from devotees and other activities.
why other systems to earn money in temples?
I am asking,Do we have to spend money, to be blessed by God?is this mentioned in any of our vedas and puranas?
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ReplyDeletelooks like u have been hurt emotionally and spiritually raj...while ideally speaking wat u mentioned was absolutely right...We cant deny the fact that people LOVE to defy rules....The situation is the same starting from tirupathi (Wealthiest Hindu temple) to Vinayak pandals...
ReplyDeleteNow tats called as being truly Gods Own Country...
Acolytes also need to make their both ends meet,so they resort to such heinous acts. Given the Govt perks dont fill their belly's ..i always wonder how come they maintain such Belly's..:-)
It’s really very unfortunate to agree on whatever u penned down here..:(
ReplyDeleteNot only this one and most of the well earning temples in India (though, they are a few exceptions) have been commercialized .I too had even more bitter experiences while i was in Bhubaneswar, where pandits abuse you like hell if you don't pay whatever they ordered you to do and there nothing exists as a committee to take care of woes of devotees , who came from very distant places to have a peaceful appointment with almighty..
All my friends ,who had been to those places ,were all disgruntled by these pandits antics….
Then I realized one of the old sayings in telugu “ Gudilo diva darshnam kavalante mundu Pujarini prasannam chesukovali ani “… (though, it is not same as I mentioned but in the lines of it..)