God - The power supreme.. Everyone is equal to him.. people of all the castes, regions, poor, rich.. everyone! However, this doesn't seem to be reflecting in the world. If a person is rich and can shell out money, he can get the quickest possible darshan, loads of blessings from the priest, VIP services and what not! Not only is he finding a deviation from the equality, he is making the other people wait for the darshan by stopping their line till the rich man leaves the temple premises. What kind of injustice is this? I get really annoyed at those people who leisurely do the work knowing that there are hundreds of people waiting for many hours in the line to take a look at Him for may be just one second and because of you.. and people like you, they have to wait for more and more number of hours.
Gone are those days when the people of certain castes were not allowed certain privileges in the temple. Welcome to the days when its the turn of the people who cannot give thousands of rupees to be deprived of a whole lot of privileges. When will we learn? We agree that what happened in the past was not fair.. Then what is happening in the present? Why are you directly or indirectly supporting it? Why are you folks, who always serve the God, showing differences in the name of money? Aren't you the ones who should be preaching otherwise? And why are you folks with loads of money spoiling the society with your hurry? You might be busy.. But you have to understand that everyone else is equally busy in their respective works. You have to place yourself in their shoes before you start thinking about breaking the line.
There are certain places like Chilkoor Balaji temple in Hyderabad, where the huge rush is managed so well and everyone is treated equal. There are no special darshan tickets, no special pooja fee etc. I really love such places. Our wishes will be granted at those places where the purity of the place is maintained. I think its high time we change and not commercialize our beautiful treasures.
well said Sravs..i agree with you but unfortunately this change is not going to happen.The other day I watched a NEWS channel which was debating about a similar issue. Forget about equality among people, do you know that temple management sometimes breaks the rules just because some MLA has entered temple premises. They treat MLA above God and offer their seva to MLA's instead of offering to God. When they don't fear GOD, how can they think about equality, justice and stuff?
ReplyDeleteYeah.. And these VIP's compete among themselves - they gave better services to so and so.. they did not give any special attention to me.. blah blah.. ufff.. and there is one media coverage also on such issues.. still they just go on.. i think only God can bring about a change in this completely rotten society..
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