Dear swamin I was listening to some pravachanam recently. It goes like this "People who might be in Calcutta, who can take bath in Ganges flowing there every day, will go to kAsi and gayA to take bath on Ganges. Since they heard that taking bath on Ganges in kAsi and gayA is sacred and wash off their sins. If that is the case, those who stay in kAsi and gayA should not have any sins on them and should not suffer by taking rebirth. Actually the reason behind going to Ganges especially to kAsi (any tHEertHayAtrA) is if we are lucky due to God's mercy, we will meet some enlightened souls and receive their blessings towards relinquishing the attachment to these material world and realize the purpose behind one's life. This is because in the olden days that was considered important than going and touch the ganges and come back. But they put it in indirect way to force people to travel their". Similar logic is applied here also. People from Chennai near Tiruvallikeni Sri. Parthasarathy temple will go to SriRangam and pay Rs 50/- or more and have special darshanam since they cannot wait in queue to have darshan of Lord, they will justify that they have humpteen reasons to do like that. The point they miss is God is not a show piece but a being sitting and judging all our actions inside and out. Secondly the Godliness is to be exhibited not just on the side of the diety but on our side too as we are particles of him, otherwise how to communicate with him when our language is different, why there are very few pure devotees like AlwArs and when AlwArs were able to see God in stone and every thing arround them, many who serve in that same temple every day do not have an impact and tend to accept money and treat people differently. Bottom line is our bHavA due to His mercy which propels a person near to him. Otherwise, any one can be near or farer from him, and there will be no impact. Hence one should not be worried about it or affected by it. It is to be understood, that this is the level of godly qualities the persons incharge of that place of worship has. Seeing from the other angle, we need to get the temples out of the clutches of the Government. The pollution this is causing is so much that it affects those families that are for generations did pious activities to continue as Bhattars and their recent generations because of the mix doing all non-sense forgetting their ancestor's life. adiyen Ramanuja dasan Suresh --- Alwar Srinivasan <vasan682003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Swamin > You are correct in your views but dont get angry > which may laed to unwanted incidents .You should > pity onthem since they get the curse of thousands > devotees like you. > This also gods creation .We can only try to create > the awarenes since we dont have the power to stop > such corruption > srinivasan > > shekar babu <prs_raaj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Om sri ramanuja, > > Where ever i am visiting temples i am finding > devotees misbeheviour instead of their bhakthi. > Every where money is visible from gate keepers to > pradana archakaas. Infront of murthy also the > priest is dancing according to the money the > devotees offering them. > > This is not a cheating, if they are not afraid of > any one, won't they fear of even God also. Queue > for free darshanam is very long and even one devotee > also won't have darshnam after 2 to 3 hours. where > as thousands can get darshnam with in seconds and > can offer varieties of sevas infront of God by > offering plenty of money to the temple's staff. > They don't think of other devotees even for a while. > not only these incidents there are so many which > iritates every one, but no one take responsibility > to correct the system. > > actually i won't get angry because i want to leave > every with freedom even f they are doing above such > things. but in temples i am not able to control my > anger and i want to correct this system. > > can any body tell me whether my intension is > correct or not > > namosthuthe > > shekar > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! > Answers India > Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! > Messenger Version 8. 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