Tag Palani

Devotion Out Of Fear Is Fine

Ramani, we need Five hours to travel both ways, take one hour for darshan in Special Entrance, leave a buffer of an hour and we should be back by

One PM( we left Chennai by 6 AM)

I told him not to set a time frame to the One who sets Time for Every One, that too, to Lord Venkateswara.

He laughed off saying that I am a Superstitious Fool.

We reached Tirupati, entered the Special Entrance, queue,into the Single lane fenced by iron barrier, from where one can not come back before the darshan is over.

We were made to wait for Seventeen Hours to have the darshan .

Imagine my plight as my daughter refused to get down from my Hips and I had to attend to her calls of Nature, demand for Food!

From that day I stopped even discussing the plans.

As I remarked in one of my Posts, I leave for visiting Tempe,s with no fixed Plan and cover them as I go by and I have been Blessed with immediate and Easy darshan of the Deity, wherever I go.

It was against this background my son told me that I follow Religious Rites, believe In God,being Spiritual because of Fear.

I do not know.

Tirupati Laddus For Hair TTD, Shameful!

Hair tonsuring is a vow undertaken by the Hindus for having had their wishes fulfilled by the Deities.

In South India, this is done at Tirupati and Palani(Lord Subramanya).

Hair is tonsured on completion of the first year of the child at the Family Deities’ temples,as practiced in the Family.

We know that Tirupati is the riches Temple in terms collections through offerings by the devotees.

To demean a sacred vow?

At this rate TTD may announce a prgramme for maximum for donations in the Hundi on and even offer prizes for those who take more vows !

Crass commercialism is reigning at Tirupati including the opening of the Temple at nights after Artha Jaama (after 10-30pm) on English New Year’s Day, in contravention of the Agama Sastra.