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Dear Sri Senthil,
 
I agree with what you say regarding visiting temples at leisurely pace.
 
This reminds me of a small incident narrated in Edu 10-2-2
kedumiDar thriuvAimohzi."kunRu sEar mADa .."
 
Sri Parasara bhattar was just going around the Tiru-ananthapuram temple at a leisurely
 pace viewing the structures and beauties around. Some people were speeding -circumambulating the temple.
 
'..allAdhArellAm viraindhu sadakkena vArA niRka, ivargaL thriumALigaigaLaiyum, thiru-k-kOpurangaLaiyum kaNNAlEa parguvAraip pOLEa.."
Unlike others who just speeded and came around, Sri PiLLaith thriunaRaiyUr araiyar were strolling at a leisurely pace and staring at the divine structures and the GOpuram-s as if devouring these by their eyes.
 
However, as regards children playing inside the temple:
Children playing in temple premises is not a new thing. IN fact EmprumAn likes it.
 
Sri Nam AzhwAr celebrates the ceaseless din of the children playing at the altars of Sri Magara nEdum kuzhai kAdhan of then tiruppEarai.
'..piLLai kuzhA viLayAttOLiyum aRA then tiruppEArai' 7-3-1 of TiruvAimozhi.
 
adiyEan dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: senthil b
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [sri ramanuja] Whether god is afraid of man?


Dear Sekhar,

Now-a-days peoples dont find time to visit and have
darshan of Lord in a leisure manner. As like their
busy
work schedule, they want to have a quick darshan and
leave the temple immediately. Only because of this,
there is lot of problems in all the temples whether
its
a Thirupathi or any small temple. According to
adiyEns'
view, this trend should be changed. Everyone from the
family has to visit the temple often in leisure, and
spend the whole day in any divyadesam by remembering
that divyadesa vaibhavam or alwars pasurams.

But if you ask personally to any peoples they will
tell, there is no time to spend leisure way in temples

as they were engaged with some works. So, fault is not

only with archkAs or temple authorities. The fault is
also with the peoples coming to have darshan.

The second reason is that, in the olden days, the
temples ran without any financial problems due to
generous offering from publics and the government. But

now, the situation is worse. Except for some of the
divyadesams like Sri Rangam, Thirupathi, most of the
divyadesams were depending upon the donors
(ubayadhArar's) of high-class peoples Hence whenever,
those persons visit the corresponding temples, the
archakAs has to pay their due respects to those
donors.
One incident happened in thirukadalmallai divyadesam
(adiyEns place).

While some peoples were standing in queue for darshan,

one donor with his family members came to temple for
darshan. Immediately, the archakAs responded them and
done all upachArams and explained clearly the
importance of divyadesam and offered prasAdams. By
watching this, the person who stood in the line,
commented that, ?archakAs will do service only for
rich
peoples, and they are also longing for money!?.

Upon hearing this, the archaka replied ?They had done
many kainkaryam to this temple including Utsavams,
nandavanam maintenance etc.,. Hence we gave respects
to
them when they visit this temple. Why can't you stand

for sometime?, since you came to have darshan of
Lord.? The peoples has to appreciate those who done
some kaimkaryams in running the temples. Adiyen
requests the public to appreciate the peoples who
involved in servicing the temples like sponsoring the
utsavams, poojas etc.,

One more common incident in this divyadesam
(thirukadal
mallai) is that, here the temple authority used to
charge for the entrance, since this (Mahabalipuram) is

a tourist place. The motive behind this is that, this
may helpful in running the temple for giving salaries
to workers, maintenance etc.,. But when the tourists
asked for the entrance tickets, immediately they will
reciprocate and started commenting ?why should I pay
money for entering into the temple? This is very
uncommon and should not be followed in temples?. Only
these kind of poeples will comment, if any donors is
given respects inside the temple by the archakAs.

The peoples doesnt have patience in waiting in queue
for some time. Always in hurried ! Hurried!!
Hurried!!!
Adiyen couldnt find any, and what they are going to
achieve in this hurried world except having darshan of

Lord?

AdiyEns suggestions:
Why cant we utilise the waiting time in queue for
chanting his namAs or remembering his kalyAna gunAs.
When adiyEn stood in a queue, adiyEn could find the
peoples chatting all except about emperumAn's lilAs or

nAmAs. Instead of watching around and cursing others
of
their misbehaviour, utilise the most valuable time in
HIS place by remembering his nAmA,swaroopam or lilAs.
Thank HIM for HIS grace on bringing us to have darshan

during our life.

A good example is that, in life of VivekAnandar, when
he was a boy and resides in Ramakrishna Paramahamsar
ashram, VivekAnandar was chatting with his friends.
At that time, Ramakrishna Paramahamsar entered there
and asked about their discussions. They replied that,
they were commenting about the boy who is not good!.
Immediately Ramakrishnar says that "Who is good in
this
world? Everyone is weak in certain issues. Thats why
we took rebirth in this dark world. DONT WASTE YOUR
VALUABLE TIME IN FINDING FAULT WITH OTHERS!!. Utilise
by remembering the God always. Once the time lost, we
cant retrieve it."

Actually the peoples thronging to the temple DO NOT
follows certain rules like:

1)Those who come with children's, they let their child

play inside the temple premises, making sound, cry
inside the sanctum.
2)Sometimes adiyEn could watch their parents bring
their cellphones inside the temples.
3.Even if we see someone writing on the walls, we are
least bother about the things happening. Many times
when adiyEn had darshan of Sri RengaNAchiyAr at Sri
Rangam, could see peoples writing (drawing?!) on the
walls or pillars with the Manjal prasAdham. They dont
know about the value of that prasAdham. Many times
adiyEn adviced such kind of peoples and let them know
the value of that.

Like the above we can point out many such issues with
the devotees who throng to the temples.......

Finally adiyEn would advice that, please dont waste
your valuable time inside the temples, as we cant go
and have darshan daily in temples like Sri Rangam ,or
Thirupathi, etc., REMEMBER HIM ALWAYS THANK HIM
ALWAYS.

AdiyEn,
senthil.b

--- shekar babu <prs_raaj@yahoo.co.in> 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.
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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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