Respected swamins, I want to share a haunting thought of mine. I am a retired middle class pensioner in Banglaore. For the past 3 or so years I find things are becoming very costly for doing annual pitru srardhams. The charges are like this: Rs.650 for Bruhaspathi + small coins Rs.50, Rs.600 for 2 swmingals, Rs.700 for thaligai swami and the provisions Rs. 600. Thus the total cost of a srardham is Rs.2600. I have to do two per year and arrange for the srardham of my poor sister who passed away. Many middle class bramins must be facing this kind of music. Can any middle class person can afford such costs? Whether any other people from other religion or even other caste people would spend like this annually on remembering the departed souls? Rs.500 if donated to an orphanate or oldage home would feed atleast 25 mouths. Where is our sect heading towards. I am sure that unless our sect wakes up and rationalise and regulate these fleecing bruhaspathis, the whole custom of peforming such rites would quickly vanish. It is time, our mutts start some registered body where they should register these bruhaspahtis and swamins and fix reasonable tariff also. adiyen Kochappaa ------------------------------------ Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Oppiliappan-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Oppiliappan-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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