Kali temples of Kolkata (was American Woman Denied Temple Entry)

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Hello everyone.

 

Ten years ago I had the good fortune to visit the Dakshineswar Kali

temple and several other temples of Dakshina Kali in the Kolkata

area.

 

My experience was that these temples welcome a person of European

appearance who comes to worship. They might, however, have concerns

about someone from a non Hindu background coming in just for a look.

 

Redder Red <redderred> wrote:

>In any case the priests here are know for their material greed,

>so this show of `purity' fools no one.

 

I have heard such things said about some staff at the venerable

temple at Kali Ghat, near the centre of Kolkata, which is sometimes

confused with the Dakshineswar temple.

 

Om Shantih

Colin

 

 

, Len Rosenberg

<kalipadma108> wrote:

>

> Elizabeth Usha Harding, the author of "Kali, Black Goddess of

Dakshineshwar" had no trouble entering the temple in Kolkata. I

guess she convinced the priests that she was a Hindu!

>

> My Canadian friend Brian also had no trouble entering Hindu

temples when he visited India. But he was dressed in a dhoti,

wearing rudrakshas and the sacred cord his Guru gave him. And a

few days in the Indian sun turned him brown as a berry. (I'm

envious! Centuries of my ancestors interbreeding with Eastern

Europeans has left me seriously melanin-deficient.)

>

> -- Len

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> Redder Red <redderred> wrote: Define Hindu I

say ! It is a word created for inhabitants east of the Hindukush

mountains. So technically the Pakis should be allowed into the

temple ! A more accurate description of a Hindu would be one who

lives by the Vedas, in which case this lady has every right to

worship. In any case God in any form belongs to any one who

chooses to worship that form.

>

> I experienced the same problem at the Dakshin Kali

Temple in Kolkata. I had taken a foreigner, a Dutch gentleman,

and he was denied darshan. Okay he was not a Hindu, but God

belongs to everyone and everyone belongs to God.

>

> One can say the women in their menstrual cycles should not

enter as the menstrual period is one of cleansing. One does not

go to the house of a friend with soap on their face !

>

> This is a very bigoted approach. Barring entry is basically

arrogance and puffing up the ego of the priests. In any case the

priests here are know for their material greed, so this show

of `purity' fools no one. Wait till them meet Lord Krishna, he

will give them a nice kick !

>

> Devi Bhakta <devi_bhakta> wrote: Bhubaneswar,

INDIA: An American woman who claimed she had converted

> to Hindusim but was denied entry into the 'Hindu-only'

Lingaraj

> temple in the Orissa capital, said she would continue her

struggle

> to seek entry even as the Congress and a major Hindu group

announced

> support for her.

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