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July 21, 2005
Why should God be available for cheap? – Part 3 - Final
The entrance fee for Chennai’s prime multiplex Mayajaal is Rs 250. Queensland – the latest theme part charges Rs 450 per head, while you can spend the entire day at MGM Fun World for Rs 350 (refreshment extra). And surprisingly there is no religious or spiritual place in India where there is an entrance fee. No wonder the whole of religiousness & spirituality has gone down the drain in the past few centuries. We are outright ready to buy tickets that cost Rs 200 for a Rajini’s newest hit movie, at the same time we get offended if someone asks a special fee for a special darshan at Tirupathi shrine!
On one hand we train children at school that money is bad, and that they should not be greedy. On the other hand when the children grow up – we call them unsuccessful if they don’t make enough money. Money making is a trick, which has to be taught from childhood. No wonder most Gujarathis stop education, and get into their family business very early in their lives.
There is a preconceived notion that few divine profession should not be done for money - astrology, ayurveda, pujas, mantras, & meditations are considered to be very holy, and hence is told be done out of service & not for money alone. Of course this held true, when people valued these professionals and paid them good. But not when people just try these things out of curiosity & for fun and take these specialists for granted.
I have seen people coming in their Lancers to the temple, and placing a one rupee coin in the archana plates. And if someone pays the pujari Rs 10 note, he gets a royal treatment. That doesn’t mean the pujaris hanker for money. It simply means that he is giving you extra attention because you helped him solve few of his problems, and money of course has the power to solve few problems of life.
People pray for a good job and say God is the one who provides them one. When they get a job they donate few hundreds to the temple, and take the thousands home and never come back. What about the next month’s salary? May be God helped him just for the break, from now probably it will be HIS own effort! He will come back to God only after he is being sacked or when he isn’t getting the right appraisal or promotion even after 100 per cent effort.
Government takes 33 per cent of your salary every month without even asking you, and tells you – Don’t ask what the Government has done to you, ask what you have done for the government. God/Divine/Existence/Super power provides you with all the amenities, but still never asks you what have you done for Him?
God gives more to people who give out more or who donate more. Lakshmi believes in rotation hence try not to save more. If you have more money, give them to the needy, it will help few lives & help in solving few people’s problems – at least to some extent.
Posted by Kenni at July 21, 2005 11:04 AM