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Dear Vaishnavas,

I had the great privilige to have Darshan of Lakshmi
Narasimhar and Yoga anjaneyar at Sholingur on
02.01.03, and I wish to bring to your views the
following on the conduct by the Archakas and the other
happenings.

1) There are more than four archakas in the Lakshmi
Narasimhar Sanithi and the behaviour of them was
attrocious ( I feel sad to use these words but I
cannot help it). 

2) At the first instance they do not guide and help
the pilgrims in the right way. One of the archakas was
found sitting at the entrance and behaving in a
irresponsible way for pilgrim queries. He was doing
kainkariyam for Thayar Sannithi. Darsanam for the
perumal and Thayar was permitted in alternative times
only and not together inspite of the rush of the
pilgrims and the fact that one of archakas was found
in slumber and giving irresponsible answers.

3) To my possible extent I gave Rs.50 as my offering
for the archakas and this was not adequate for them
and they DEMANDED more. I was forced to give them my
piece of mind. The whole affair gave the projection of
a money spinning racket and there was a middle man who
is a non archaka who is taking inventory of the
collection and deciding how the distribution should
take place.( All this happening in front of the
pilgrims) I hopelessly tried to perform a archanai and
the archaka was not even aware of what I was
mentioning on the Gothram, Star or anything. Halfway
through I stopped and he also stopped and gave me some
prasadam and asked additional Rs.10 for the prasadam.

4) In the chinna malai I even heard the archakas
exchanging some very bad and abusive remarks on the
posture of Sri Renganathar. 

In the chinna malai ( Anjaneyar Sanithi)There is one
senior archaka who is continuing to have some value
system but I heard the junior archakas literrally
abusing him and calling him by names in front of all
the pilgrims.

I finally gave my piece of mind to one of the archakas
that his collection per minute on an average works out
to more than Rs. 30 which will add up to more Rs.5000
per day on a average and inspite of that they are
still not satisfied. I also added that Perumal only
can save them from the state they are in.

While in the ground in the entrance to the temple
another form of money spinning was going on. There was
some illegal gambling and people were involved in
throwing rings on some money bundles. I have seen that
this is the modus operandi in all the bigger temples,
either this type of gambling or the lottery racket. It
appears there is a bigger team at the back ground. The
objective here seem to be to drive the people who are
involved in temple services ( Auto drivers, flower
vendors etc ) into this racket and then later use them
for different anti temple activities in the long run.

Let us all make a note of this pattern and do our
little part to remove these anomalies.

Let us do our little part.

Cheers,
Suresh
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PS:Moderator's Note:
Rather thatn just talk about things and how they are, 
Let us take this oppurtunity to talk about what can be done, 
and who can get involved?

Who are the authorities to whom we can bring this to?
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