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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


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