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Dear Shriman Senthil;

   Good Explanation. (Fantastic !!!)  Initially i was irked by your 
name (Shiva's Youngest Son).

Now i am happy that , you are my aatma bandhu. (Shrivaishnavaite)

Adiyaen

Maaran's Dog.









--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, senthil b <b_senthil2002@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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@...> 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
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