04-15-2007, 01:36 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-narayanan+Apr 15 2007, 05:46 AM-->QUOTE(narayanan @ Apr 15 2007, 05:46 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->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".
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No N.
No shame here - none at all.
You are going for a Darshan. You owed someone money a debt from a previous life - and your darshan could be complete only after you paid that debt. It had to happen that way.
As for others behind you - for some - it was a deliberate choice of staying in line as part of their own personal bhakti, and for others - it was a debt they were repaying for some previous transgression.
You were not "sinning" you were merely reaping what karma had in store. Do not dwell on this non incident. You have killed no one. You have hurt no one. You have not asked for the hurting or killing of anyone? Why torture yourself?
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".
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No N.
No shame here - none at all.
You are going for a Darshan. You owed someone money a debt from a previous life - and your darshan could be complete only after you paid that debt. It had to happen that way.
As for others behind you - for some - it was a deliberate choice of staying in line as part of their own personal bhakti, and for others - it was a debt they were repaying for some previous transgression.
You were not "sinning" you were merely reaping what karma had in store. Do not dwell on this non incident. You have killed no one. You have hurt no one. You have not asked for the hurting or killing of anyone? Why torture yourself?