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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
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> shekar babu <prs_raaj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>             Om sri ramanuja,
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>   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.
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>   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.  
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>   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.  
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>   can any body tell me whether my intension is
> correct or not
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>   namosthuthe
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