Incredible India - Tourism places

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Sai Baba Temple, Sikkim

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Kashi Vishwanath Temple

 

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Badami Cave Temple,

 

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Tirupati Balaji

 

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That diamond encrusted Golden crown of Balaji costs a cool 10 Million $.

If you consider the rest of the diamond encrusted ornaments in the picture, the whole thing would cost something like 50 Million $.

 

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Tirupati Balaji

You can't find god in jewels and gold you can only find him behind the smiles of helping the less fortunate.

 

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That diamond encrusted Golden crown of Balaji costs a cool 10 Million $.

If you consider the rest of the diamond encrusted ornaments in the picture, the whole thing would cost something like 50 Million $.

There are dozens of sets of those crowns and angavastrams all in different patterns.

You can't find god in jewels and gold you can only find him behind the smiles of helping the less fortunate.

Please no Christian moralizing here. You can find God everywhere. A God which is not present in diamonds and gold is not present in poor or helpless either. It is a handicapped God and hence not a God. Why don't you try taking a poor home and treating him/her like God?

That diamond encrusted Golden crown of Balaji costs a cool 10 Million $.

If you consider the rest of the diamond encrusted ornaments in the picture, the whole thing would cost something like 50 Million $.

They are priceless cause they will never be evaluated or sold.

 

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Kollur Mookambika Golden Chariot

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Temple Shikara

 

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There are dozens of sets of those crowns and angavastrams all in different patterns.

Please no Christian moralizing here. You can find God everywhere. A God which is not present in diamonds and gold is not present in poor or helpless either. It is a handicapped God and hence not a God. Why don't you try taking a poor home and treating him/her like God?

They are priceless cause they will never be evaluated or sold.

No doubt they are priceless.

In any case Money is nothing but time and donation of money to god indicates sharing of good fortune in a gesture of thanks.

However the trustees of the temple have a far greater responsibility to spend that money for public welfare and for the establishment of Dharma.

Rather than storing all that gold and putting money in FD and giving it to the govt., they should be starting sanskrit schools and spending to educate hindus about Hinduism.

Its sad that these trustees are under govt. control. ...... anyway topic for another thread.

To the point however, The Smriti for the Kali Yuga in this kalpa is not the Manusmriti but the Parashara Smriti and it says,

"Tapa param krityuge, Tetraya gayna muchyete,
Dvaypare yagnevahum, Danameva Kali yuge".

It means, That the rules for Dhama for the each age are,

"Tapasya for the Krit Yuga, Gaining knowledge in the Treta yuga,
Yagna (homa - vedic) for the Vaypara yuga and Charity in the Kali Yuga".

 

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Udupi Krishna Golden Chariot

No doubt they are priceless.

In any case Money is nothing but time and donation of money to god indicates sharing of good fortune in a gesture of thanks.

However the trustees of the temple have a far greater responsibility to spend that money for public welfare and for the establishment of Dharma.

Rather than storing all that gold and putting money in FD and giving it to the govt., they should be starting sanskrit schools and spending to educate hindus about Hinduism.

Its sad that these trustees are under govt. control. ...... anyway topic for another thread.

To the point however, The Smriti for the Kali Yuga in this kalpa is not the Manusmriti but the Parashara Smriti and it says,

"Tapa param krityuge, Tetraya gayna muchyete,
Dvaypare yagnevahum, Danameva Kali yuge".

It means, That the rules for Dhama for the each age are,

"Tapasya for the Krit Yuga, Gaining knowledge in the Treta yuga,
Yagna (homa - vedic) for the Vaypara yuga and Charity in the Kali Yuga".

They do do a lot. I read somewhere that Hindu institutions and charitable trusts run schools and hospital tens of times over what the Christian churches do. Though agree they are not allowed to educate students about Hinduism.

People should be careful about charity too. It breeds laziness and a sense of entitlement among those at the receiving end. It was not all that long ago that there were dozens of beggars at all traffic signals of major cities of India unlike now where they are just a few or mostly sellers of some cheap plastic toy.

 

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Kanchipuram Kailasanathar Temple,

 

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They do do a lot. I read somewhere that Hindu institutions and charitable trusts run schools and hospital tens of times over what the Christian churches do. Though agree they are not allowed to educate students about Hinduism.

People should be careful about charity too. It breeds laziness and a sense of entitlement among those at the receiving end. It was not all that long ago that there were dozens of beggars at all traffic signals of major cities of India unlike now where they are just a few or mostly sellers of some cheap plastic toy.

Hindu temple trusts are under govt. control so they cannot use their funds as per their wish. So in that sense, putting donation in a hundi is equivalent to paying tax.

It would be better to give that charity to independent hindu organisations. But few honest one's comes to mind.

One should be careful about giving charity and taking charity, but that is no excuse for not doing it. In any case the Dharma shastra is very clear about it. How to do it is left to individual discretion.

PS: Author of Parashara Smriti was Rishi Parashara, father of Veda vyasa.

 

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Siddhivinayaka Temple

 

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