Does Temple serve its Purpose now???

Nowadays Temples have become very commercial... The number of temples is increasing like anything.... in olden days temple served lots of purposes...

In olden days they took years to build a temple... I was really amazed on seeing good old temples... they exposed the talent of the Indian architects... hope u all know that our leg has many acupuncture points... Walking in temple's rough floor is an acupuncture treatment ... (but nowadays temples are built with marble floors which doesn’t serve any such purposes [money plays])... and many used to walk around such big temples many time in a day... that is a great exercise for them... and the sacred water which they give in the temple is a blend of many herbs... because of these acupuncture, walking, blend of many herbs and many more(and also because of gods blessings) the diseases get cured when we go to temple.... In olden days marriages were done only in the temples.... and one more purpose was during war period all the children and women will be in temples since it’s a safe place to be in... And what not???? Many such purposes were solved by the temple... And the money which are collected in the temples were used to do good to the people and to maintain the temple

Though don’t know much about temples, these many things comes to my mind when I think of the olden temples.

When I think of the present temple the first thing which come to my mind is "PAID ENTRANCE", we have tickets for Rs5, 10 and even Rs500 in some temples... they say that as special Dharisanam... this is introducing a new caste system(in a place which is common to all) which is based on the money which u have… in a temple priority should not be given to any one on any basis… if one is so very particular on seeing the god in temple he or she should be made to wait in the queue which has no priority…

It will be good if they use the amount collected for maintenance of some of the historic temples or so… god only knows how that money is used… and one more thing which I don’t understand is that the prayers of the people like “if so and so things happens I will put this much money in so and so temples Hundial….. bla bla bla ”… they think that they are donating money for a good cause, may be they are doing it for a good cause… but god will be more happy if u donate at least 50% of that money to some Blind School or some orphanage or Blue cross and keep the remaining 50% in ur pockets… and u will also feel good that u have donated money for some noble cause… try doing that… u will experience the satisfaction in ur HEART… at the end of the day u will also be praised by many…

And one worse thing which is encouraged in the surroundings of the temple is begging… you can find at least 5 beggars in the entrance of the temple… and the number is very very high in front some historic temples… and the worst thing is that we encourage them by giving them money, thinking what’s going to happen in the one rupee which we are giving them and because of this the number of beggars increase day by day since it gives them a good income… doesn’t this create a bad image among the foreigners who come to see these historic temple… what will be in their mind… the architecture of the temple or the beggars????

I really don’t know how to end this blog… I don’t like to find fault in any one of ur belief system and all... u may think that putting money in Hundial or donating beggars is good and u may feel that its correct too… at the end of the day it u who is going to decide what u r going to do…

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