Monday, August 2, 2010

Is this God expecting from us?

Last weekend went to Shirdi, Nashik and Trabakeshwar. Visiting this places after almost 3 year and was shock that how come these pilgrimages are getting converted into the money hub.

The Shirdi temple was full of gold. While doing darshan, I overheard that recently some big personality donated this gold crown which cost around 75 lakhs. And my mind started wandering from that moment. Then in my whole trip I was just thinking that what’s going on this sacred land.

We proceed to trambakeshwar which was our next destination and here what I see was worst. They don’t allow us to go inside the main temple. If you don’t want to wait in queue for your turn then you have to pay 1000 bucks..!!! and every pandit is busy in kalsarpa yog pooja .. Whatever, I agree that this is there bread and butter. But when I go inside the temple what I see the temple is not clean. And there is a spider web inside the main temple which was growing bigger. No cleanliness. And people are donating milk in litres to the idol which is simply going wasted with water. And everywhere the smell was milky milky.

Till now my mind was so upset that I came outside the temple and didn’t felt like going back. Here in India people are poor that they don’t get one time meal and here gallons of milk is going in drainage!!

Is this what God wants? I guess God never said that he wants gold crown or milky abhishek’s . He wants us to do something for the needy. People donating gold to temples can instead open the school or hospitals.

Oh ghosh ..!! Simply amazing how people go crazy in donating things in temple to please god!!

And then I realised why my father is never interested in going or donating something in temples.

Why my mother calls maid’s children for lunch on festival. Why my parents go to old age home on my grandfather’s death anniversary instead of calling the society people or the so called Brahmins and do show off.

I am not saying that one should not visit the temple or should not believe in god. But I am saying that we people should think logically and practically.

Sometimes I feel I amso lucky ? Because I am not born in that family who just blindly believes and do things which people suggest like : Doing this pooja, donating this, Wearing this.. blah blah

People No offence but I personally don’t believe in these stuff. Or probably my upbringing was like that.

Anyways,. Friends we live in India, the nation which has so many inspirations. Even I too know few of them personally. Just wanna convey that people please please wake up.

This is not God is expecting from us. We have to change ourselves and the society for better cause. What you think?

Just we have to question ourselves that “Is this What God is expecting from us?” And I guess you will get the answer.

I have decided to do something from my side and I have started working for it.

By the way earlier I never use to think these stuff. I guess I am growing now :)

18 comments:

Prabhanjan said...

Good blog.
Perhaps I realised it when I went to srisailam.
All these seem vague to me and I never believe in such darshans.
I hope you grow up and do something new for the society.

shivani said...

a very enlightened blog.....keep it up neha.......ur thoughts are very true and every youth thinks the same but u expressed it on behalf of all...thanks
your blogs are so good that i dont have words to appreciate it...proud of u

shivani said...

i m BIGGEST fan of ur blog....

k.ø.c.h.ü said...

God is a brand now. Temples even have promotional sms forwards these days, ads in radio ;)#kalyug

simplyvishal said...

Thats da truth of this BLIND Country..

Unknown said...

Nicely Written!!!!!!!!
Seems like this one is more from the heart than from the brain.........

Unknown said...

why only we blame the temple authorities for such menace in name of god..........
even much hyped temples such as Siddhi Vinayak or Tirupati has the same scenes....
okay agreed that all our donated money goes there in vague.......but now our concentration should be on CWG games....which will goin to be shame for our country.......
stadiums are not upto standard, One of the stadiums was leaking, one chair which cost 500 price in market are purchased for 7000 bucks

Neways the blog was nicely written....appreciated ur effort

Neha Mehta said...

@Prabhu - Thanks for reading my blog and sparing some time to comment on it. Yes I will try to do something for the society

Neha Mehta said...

@Shivani Miss Cooking Queen :) Thanks for reading my blog and yeah its my please that you like it. I am proud of you too

Neha Mehta said...

@Nitin Yeah these things are growing nowadays but we should not entertain these right :) btw nice to see ur comment on my post :)

Neha Mehta said...

@Vishal agreed but we have to be the change

Neha Mehta said...

@Gunjan Thanks for reading. Yeah it is truly coming from my heart :)

@Sandeep you are right, We have to concentrate on the CWG games but the politics is ruining all the things..!!

UJ said...

so true....god lies in charity, purity of mind, kind words, helping hands...very well written..:)

Siva Prasad said...

very well written..cool!!

Aditya Nandode said...

Good Point! Thats how spirituality has become a business too, check out tirupati sometime, excellently run business association that is.

karthik's said...

Neha!..Did u tried anything to stop this..?..have ever thought that y the brokers around the temple demand 1000bucks to allow for a quick darshan...becoz..people r ready to spend that 1000bucks and have a quick darshan...so guys..instead of paying nd gng for a quick darshan (which is not official too)...please hold on for some time..anyways..they cannot bare us for long time..so they will and they should allow us in...instead of giving 1000bucks...bring those brokers to the authorities..(will b a tough task in India...:-)..)

Neha Mehta said...

@ujwala well said

@sva Thanks :)

@aditya yeah tirupati is the biggest example and bcoz of this reason I don't have much craze to visit that place.

@Karthik complaining would not help but what we can do is we should not encourage them.

Unknown said...

Very well said Neha... I like it very much..
u kmw, Most of the youth is thinking in same way bt it is not coming in action... :(
so still our contry is not developing...
Now day CWG will be held bt you can see wts the problem is going on.. its lack of planning...

any wasy I am divering to other topic.. sorry.

But yes instead of doing all pooja and donating lot of money, we need to utilize this in good work...