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Yesterday I was talking to someone who recently transferred to Delhi. Recently they had tragedy so I asked them how they passed Pitra Prakash (Shaarad) days. They told me here in Delhi, temple do thing differently. During Shaard Pandit/Priest don’t take food cooked by them but ask them to put in buckets based on type of food (cooked rice, kheer…). They had kept separate containers for uncooked food (rice, floor, lentil, sugar.. etc). She wanted priest to have food cooked by her, but priest convinced her to come back to temple around 12.15 pm and see herself. She went back to temple; temple was full of poor kids and adults sitting in line eating food left in temple. Everyday temple was feeding poor during “sharad days” and now temple is cooking meals during Navarati from uncooked food to poor.
This is ofcourse off from tradition but a very good change.