Ah! I see.
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We richer people pay Rs.2000 and get a quick darshan
On the other hand, you can see the free darshan lines where people wait for days for a darshan. These people will never convert, no matter how much bribes is offered<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please don't think I am attacking the dear postor who posted that truth.
But is it permissible to include in the "Narrative" a question:
Do we rich people ever consider that no Almighty worthy of that name, would ever be impressed by someone paying a Rs. 2000 bribe to the temple money-collectors, to save time in making the "darshan"?
Once I was snuck inside the Guruvayoor temple, skipping maybe half an hour of queue, by some friend of my relative who had accompanied us. On compassionate grounds, no bribe, reasoning that "US-retarned" wimps would probably faint if they had to stand on their own feet for a few minutes.
Took me a year to get over the shame of that line-jumping. Long training should have automatically made me refuse the special consideration, very firmly and with no "ifs" and "buts". But the moment for that came and went, and I just "acquiesed".
I trust that dear G.Appan is merciful and understanding enough to forgive me for that.
The best thing about Shri Yesu Christu's legend is the part where Yeshu goes in and smashes the Moneylenders' desks and Hundis, and driving them out of the Temple that had been completely infested by them. As I understand, this was the "crime" for which he was executed by torture.
An example to be proud of. I confidently submit that the incarnations of the Almighty that we worship, would all have emphathized with Yesu, and joined him gleefully in kicking the musharrafs of the money-lenders and the money-collectors at all the temples.
And yet.... at every major temple today... <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Each line has a different price
We richer people pay Rs.2000 and get a quick darshan
On the other hand, you can see the free darshan lines where people wait for days for a darshan. These people will never convert, no matter how much bribes is offered<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please don't think I am attacking the dear postor who posted that truth.
But is it permissible to include in the "Narrative" a question:
Do we rich people ever consider that no Almighty worthy of that name, would ever be impressed by someone paying a Rs. 2000 bribe to the temple money-collectors, to save time in making the "darshan"?
Once I was snuck inside the Guruvayoor temple, skipping maybe half an hour of queue, by some friend of my relative who had accompanied us. On compassionate grounds, no bribe, reasoning that "US-retarned" wimps would probably faint if they had to stand on their own feet for a few minutes.
Took me a year to get over the shame of that line-jumping. Long training should have automatically made me refuse the special consideration, very firmly and with no "ifs" and "buts". But the moment for that came and went, and I just "acquiesed".
I trust that dear G.Appan is merciful and understanding enough to forgive me for that.
The best thing about Shri Yesu Christu's legend is the part where Yeshu goes in and smashes the Moneylenders' desks and Hundis, and driving them out of the Temple that had been completely infested by them. As I understand, this was the "crime" for which he was executed by torture.
An example to be proud of. I confidently submit that the incarnations of the Almighty that we worship, would all have emphathized with Yesu, and joined him gleefully in kicking the musharrafs of the money-lenders and the money-collectors at all the temples.
And yet.... at every major temple today... <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->