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Ranganathan swami,

Yes, I can narrate a personal incident to you.

The Bhattar at the Ulagalanda perumal koil, told us
he cannot perform the Aarti unless we gave him money!!

Then I thought it was a small incident. But after
seeing much horror scenes in all the temples, we a
group have decided to follow the principles and start
educating the youth of these evils in our society.

I personally feel that the best way for this would be
to take all the shrines under our Matams and then make
the priests only employees for a salary. We can even
have shifts so that temple is open all the day round.

Parting, do you know most of the temple lands in the
divyashetrams, were in the brahminical custody and we
guys made monetary benifit of it by sale, depriving
both us and the emperuman of it.

The solution lies in uniting all of us under one roof.
No thengalai, no vadagalai, accept the state of the 
temples as today, no matam no ashramam no difference
at all between us.

Then all this is possible. Only Emperuman has to lead
us out of this mess webbed by our greed for money.

Dasan/raghavan

--- vimalkumar ranganathan <panardasan@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Makes you wonder, how can these sort of things
> happen in one of our three most important Divya
> Desams. A real sad incident, the person being
> chopped to pieces. And even worse, the temple
> priests are also suspected to be involved. 
>  
> It really affects one's psyche if he/she thinks that
> this gruesome incident happened at the temple of the
> same deity that spoke to Thiru Kacchi NambikaL and
> gave the Aru vArthai to our EmperunanAr. 
>  
> There needs to be a massive over-haul of the Sri
> VaishnavAs. Priestly duties shouldn't be just a mere
> 8-5 job. Talking nonsense and uttering gibberish in
> front of the deity is an everyday thing at most of
> the temples (unfortunately, one can observe such
> behavior even here in the US, anyway I don't want to
> open the pandora's box), not to forget all the
> stories of the priests swindling money and jewels.
>  
> What happened?? Priests are supposed to be the best
> friends of the Lord (simple logic: you become
> totally acquainted with the person whom you see the
> most, you become best friends with him naturally),
> and how can they even think of cheating the lord and
> the scores of devotees worshipping him?? Do they
> even think for one second, what these deities meant
> to Swami EmperumAnAr and the following AchAryAs? 
>  
> Soo many questions and "if only.....'s" in my mind. 
>  
> AzhwAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE Saranam.
>  
> Dasan,
> Kidambi Soundararajan.
>  
>  
> 
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