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PM Modi's visit to Sabarimala will hopefully end the numerous woes of the shrine

by Rajeev Srinivasan Oct 24, 2014 16:17 IST



#BJP #christians #communist #Congress #ConnectTheDots #Devaswom Board #Hindus #Kerala #Lord Ayyappa #Muslims #Narendra Modi #pilgrims #Religious Apartheid #Sabarimala temple #State Neglect

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The hill abode of Sri Ayyappan in the Western Ghats has become one of the most-visited temples in India, and it is in the list of places where the most places converge in the world (Source: The Economist, 2013). Unfortunately, it is also a testament to the incompetence and uncaring attitude of the Indian state, because pilgrims suffer greatly if they wish to visit.



Therefore I am delighted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may visit the shrine this year, according to G Ananthakrishnan (“Sabarimala on PM radar”) in The Telegraph, as it may force the authorities to improve the critically deficient infrastructure that they could easily upgrade, but won’t. It is also a metaphor for what appears to be active official hostility to Hindu pilgrims.



I know because I just went to Sabarimala for Deepavali. I have done the pilgrimage five or six times over many years, and can testify first-hand as to how it has deteriorated over time. My very first pilgrimage was when I was 17, and at that time there were no permanent settlements on the summit of the hill, where the shrine is. People only went there during the season (November to January) and for a few days at the beginning of every Malayalam month.



The main difference is the number of pilgrims visiting, which has grown exponentially, as it is an attractive, albeit difficult, trip, and the worship of Ayyappa has grown dramatically in the southern states. Then, I walked alone up the hill through rough paths, and I encountered only a handful of people who were going down the hill. When I went to the summit, I could pray for as long as I wanted in front of the deity’s tiny abode.



A few days ago, there were thousands of pilgrims at the summit, and I encountered hundreds returning down the arduous climb. During the season the numbers swell to hundreds of thousands of black-clad visitors, as the total number over the truncated period comes to over 30 million (which is the entire population of Kerala, to give some perspective).



Unfortunately, this tsunami of pilgrims has overwhelmed the carrying capacity of the area, and it makes the strenuous climb far more difficult than it needs to be. For, from the Pamba river staging area where vehicles park, it is a vertiginous climb up a few thousand feet through dense tropical forest to the small plateau where the shrine is. It is hard on the feet (we climbed barefoot up the granite and concrete path), on the heart (every year a few people have cardiac arrest), and on your system in general (there are only a dozen or so toilets on this path).



Once you get up to the plateau, things don’t get any better. Often, in peak-season, you have to wait for up to 10-12 hours in line in concrete sheds with corrugated-iron sheeting as roofs, which gets stiflingly hot on sunny days. Accommodation availability is utterly minimal: many sleep in these very sheds. Toilets, bathrooms, a clean place to sleep, decent food to eat, medical care – all are scarce.



The amount of plastic trash around the place is startling: bottles, bags. There are feral pigs – yes, wild pigs with mean-looking fangs – rooting in the food waste and human waste, and they add their droppings to the mess of mud and paper and flowers and plastic.



And there have been several stampedes in the past, which obviously is a problem of poor organisation and crowd management. (Tirupati, with an equally large number of pilgrims, has figured out crowd control; there is no reason why this cannot be attempted in Sabarimala too.)



This is no way to run a holy place. Nor any way to treat poor pilgrims who come from far away. I once met a barefoot pilgrim who was a Sri Lankan-origin investment banker in London, but many are ordinary folks from villages in interior Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh. They come, black-clad and bearded after 41 days of penance, carrying on their heads the twin coconuts filled with ghee that they will use for ablutions. These are the believers, that vast and invisible substratum of India that Dharampal once mentioned: they follow ancient practices of pilgrimage to holy spots, ignoring the cities and other distractions. This is eternal India, sanatana dharma.



You get a glimpse of this true India when you finally reach the sanctum with your aching and weary body, your only thoughts those about Ayyappa. Strangely, when you try to get your micro-second glimpse of the presiding deity before you are shoved forward by the press of those behind you, you tend to forget all the hassles.



Because it is a point of singular power, and it has been so for millennia



The criminal neglect of the temple is mostly due to state hostility and partly to sheer incompetence. Kerala alternatively has Communist-led and Congress-led governments, which for practical purposes means a Communist/Muslim coalition or a Christian/Muslim coalition. The Hindu vote is fragmented and divided, to the extent that the BJP is yet to have a single MP from the state, although O Rajagopal almost unseated Shashi Tharoor in Trivandrum last May. Modi appeals to the OBC Ezhavas (the mainstay of the Communists) and to the SC Pulayas; and this may lead to some electoral realignments, and that is surely part of his calculations.



There is a monstrous entity called the ‘Devaswom Board’ that controls all Hindu temples (and note please: only Hindu temples, as Christian and Muslim places of worship are entirely free of control or even audit or tax. I read a ruling by an Income Tax appellate court that Hinduism is a way of life, not a religion, and therefore Hindu temples are not tax-exempt!)



In fact, in an allegedly secular state, there should be separation of ‘church’ and ‘state’, that is, the government should not interfere in religion. That is true for Christians and Muslims: the State leaves them alone to do whatever they want with their churches and mosques. But in the case of Hindus, the government expropriates whatever Hindu temples have. The Devaswom Board is a violation of the constitutional principles of equality before the law and freedom of religion.



This is the principal reason Hindu temples are in trouble in Kerala, as the Devaswom Board, with atheists and Communists often as board members, acts as a mechanism to commingle the revenues of temples with government revenue. In other words, the Devaswom Board, and thus the Kerala government, steal the money that pilgrims donate to Sabarimala (and other large temples like Guruvayur). No more than 5 percent of this is spent on upkeep and maintenance and infrastructure development in the big temples; the rest is swallowed by the state treasury.



Many of the smaller temples under Devaswom control are closing because there is no money spent on them at all (I read a report quoting the Travancore Manual that were some 10,000 temples in Travancore a hundred years ago; while today there are fewer than 1,500). This verges on extinction.



Temples are torn down for ‘development’. For instance, the 1,800 year-old Parthasarathy temple in Aranmula is slated for severe downgrading for an unnecessary airport project there which is basically a land-grab. Dozens of temples were torn down to create Cochin’s airport. In the 1950s, a planter tried to burn down the Sabarimala shrine to grab the forest land around it.



All this is simply abominable.



A visit by the Prime Minister should shine the spotlight on this unsavory aspect of what is quite simply apartheid against Hindus. In addition, he will see first-hand how his idea of a Swachh Bharat has a long way to go: unlike most temples in Kerala, where the abundance of water, and related habits, ensure cleanliness, poor Sabarimala is the epitome of unsanitary conditions.



The PM’s visit should create an awareness of the problems faced, and perhaps it will lead to the dissolution of the Devaswom Board, just as that other white elephant, the Planning Commission was disbanded. That would be not a day too soon. Kerala’s temples deserve the right to manage themselves without busybodies from government interfering in them.



If the PM were to visit during the season, the difficulty in ensuring security will mean disruption for pilgrims, especially if he were to make the full trek up and down the hill, which, he, as a physically fit individual, should be able to do, unlike all other PMs so far. Still, that would be a small price to pay for the possible improvements it might bring.

Truncated a paragraph. (The reason for doing so is explained over 10 posts elsewhere.)



Anyway, Rajeev may be wasting his breath. Modi isn't likely to even be re-building Sri Rama temple built at Ayodhya - although I suppose for that to be undertaken under Modi would be regarded as risky. Then again, all the BJP will forever regard it as risky. It has become a project some may still talk about but no one will ever actually do. (=Victory by communists, who didn't submit a shred of evidence for their lies, but still prevented Hindu nationalist govts forever from rebuilding the Sri Rama site. All hail christo-communist shrieking.)



But who's betting the Sri Rama temple will never get built at Ayodhya? = Summary of the future of Hinduism in India (aka extinction). And with it, the guaranteed extinction of all the whiny Indic minority religions and ideological movements (dravoodianists, psecularists, etc), so they don't need to cheer just yet.



Unconverted Indians in current generations are in such a state of secularised stupour that they will never take any important matters into their own hands. Even when it regards the future of their own survival.





Why doesn't BJP just start building the temple, release an immediate press-conference summarising that the courts had granted the right for the Sri Rama Temple at Ayodhya and that even if a whiff of a single riot takes place it WILL be because of the christo-islami-communist-terrorist "minority" only and that any of this kind seen partaking in any riot will be put behind the slammer for good (or shot on sight if they're violent). After all, Hindus won't be rioting against the rebuilding of their long-awaited temple.



But BJP won't do that. They'd rather cowe in fear that the terrorist minority will call them fascist (or other terms that are similarly exclusive synonyms for christo-islamics*) if a Hindu temple were to be rebuilt on a Hindu site in a Hindu country.

* True in every sense. Since all fascists that Ever Existed (and ever can exist) are christoislamic Onlee - e.g. the infamous islamic hanschar division who worked for the nazis - because fascism=christianism, see IIRC Dr Michael Hakeem's articles on why christianism is directly responsible for the Holocaust, published by Freedom From Religion Foundation. Or "What is the Vatican hiding? The Vatican's Complicity in Genocide in Fascist Croatia - The Suppressed Chapter of Holocaust History" by Barry Lituchy, copy at web.archive.org/web/20130209235823/http://freetruth.50webs.org/Appendix4.htm. With chapter titles like "Vatican Sponsorship of Fascism" and "The Vatican's Holocaust" etc.



Heathens should really save these pages. And also paste them everywhere. Let every christo-islami-communist who ever dares yell fascist to Hindus or to other heathens - who merely wish to rebuild their temples and merely wish he missionary parasites would stop from missioning on heathens, and stop trying to legislate against our equal rights - be silenced by the following:

Holocaust

By Michael Hakeem, Ph.D.

ffrf.org/legacy/fttoday/back/hakeem/index.html



Series of 5 articles

The sub links have been saved at archive.org:



web.archive.org/web/20090101213614/http://ffrf.org/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust1.html

Part 1: Christianity's Propensity For Ferocity



web.archive.org/web/20090101213557/http://ffrf.org/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust2.html

Part 2: Holocaust (Pogroms) In Christian Russia



web.archive.org/web/20091022130639/http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust3.html

Part 3: Its Foundation In Christian AntiSemitism



web.archive.org/web/20090416063925/http://ffrf.org/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust4.html

Part 4: Catholic Reaction To The Nazi Holocaust



web.archive.org/web/20090101213609/http://ffrf.org/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust5.html

Part 5: The Protestant Reaction To The Nazi Holocaust



(Of related interest, see "Hitler's Religion," by Anne Nicol Gaylor.)

(More at web.archive.org/web/20130319143530/http://freetruth.50webs.org/A7a.htm)





Every time Indian christo-islami-communists=nazis even open their mouths and name-drop "fascism" and "Hindu/tva" together, just link to all the above.

In fact, Google for pictures of the SS hanschar (=islamic nazis) and of the German and Austrian churches proudly displaying flags with the infamous nazi German hakenkreuz symbol, and of nuns in the nazi SS, siegheiling that catholic (and never excommunicated) Hitler.

NOTHING shuts Indian christoterrorists up faster than witnessing how their vituperative attacks against Hindus has merely resulted in the public exposure of the demonstrable, undeniable nazism=fascism that's exclusive to their own christoislamic religion.



In fact, Modi govt should release a book on the real nazism/fascism in all schools bearing all the above articles and countless images of openly and proudly nazi christian organisations.

Make it a compulsory part of the Indian syllabus. Every single time stuff the images of the islamic SS hanschar and the German Christian nazi movement and Youth in the student's face.

And any christian school/uni that refuses to teach this history will result in automatic fail and to be closed down. And don't forget them to call them holocaust-deniers and anti-semites - which christians are, including Indian christians (especially when they pretend that christianism had nothing to do with it).



And book any christoislamic/communist/psecular minority for accusing Hindus of "fascism/nazism" under libel. Only christoislamics can be nazis/fascists, and may therefore legitimately be called so. (And the christist National Socialist[=Nazi] Council of Nagaland is literally - even in its name - nazi. But also in its behaviour: its genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native heathens.)





So if the terrorist minority or their crypto-christo/communist supporters don't like the Sri Rama temple being re-built, well:

the terrorist minority (including cryptos) are always welcome to move back to the lands of monotheism in the Islamic State (IS) or nearer by in the Taliban headquarters of AfPak TSP-E/W. I mean, no one *wants* them in India. And no doubt christos and communits and other pseculars will be happiest with their brothers in monotheism, the muslims.







Repeating this little bit that was dropped like an anvil:

the 1,800 year-old Parthasarathy temple in Aranmula is slated for severe downgrading for an unnecessary airport project there which is basically a land-grab.

You know, it's a certainty that this would never be happening if all the christo-islami-communists=terrorists infesting the subcontinent had moved to TSP-E/W (=where they all belong).





Amazing how mentally-challenged India's native population has become. They can't recognise the fingerprints of christianism even after knowing what it looks like. They're just in Deep Denial. Even anno 2014, most people will probably conclude it's all some "secular mistake/random disaster" - that is, if they ever even find out about such things that no news channel in India seems to report on (=another christian tactic: christomedia hogging the media so that the systematic destruction of Hindu temples and of Hindus such as in the NE is never covered, and so that the heathen masses remain in the utter dark about the very matters most precious to them: heathen sacred sites. Media blackout is not a coincidence, right? It's christian pre-meditation).





It's too much to hope that another partition will happen and that this time, every single anti-Hindu is re-located to the lands that were specifically set aside for monotheism/one-troo-gawdism during the last Partition: TSP-E/W. (It's all the land they can have. And dravoodianism and p/secularism are monotheisms too, being a spin-off from christianism, so they can move back into Paki-land too. Dravoodianism did always pretend the IVC was theirs, it's also there in Pakiland, so they should be happy. And all ex-Hindus who willingly married something christoislamic should feel right at home in monotheism-central where they belong too.) Of course, the islamaniacs will there cannibalise all the other kinds of their anti-Hindu brethren that come to join them - this is guaranteed - but that's an intra-monotheism problem, and one which no media in India need bother covering. It doesn't concern the unsaved kafirs. There are more serious humanitarian issues to be worried about. Like African nations being afflicted by Ebola, and poverty and malnourishment among heathen Indians and Africans, and education for All (starting with cultivating the use of common-sense and an ability to reason based on facts rather than speculations and pseudo-analysis).





And the news was:

The Hindu God Ayyappa's Shabarimalai temple and other Hindu temples in Kerala endangered, including:



firstpost.com/india/sabarimala-metaphor-case-state-apartheid-hindu-shrine-1770403.html

the 1,800 year-old Parthasarathy temple in Aranmula is slated for severe downgrading for an unnecessary airport project there which is basically a land-grab.