cleanliness

[Guest guest]

I read on bhakti-archives lot of posts by Sriman Anbil

and really I learnt a lot from him. I have lot of

respect for Sriman Anbil. He is really great and I

sincerely mean it. I am very thrilled that he himself

is coming down and with kindness is responding to the

rubbish someone like me is writing on the bhakti

group.

 

In the same nice and patient way usual to him he has

commented on 'cleanliness' also. I don't want Sir to

misunderstand me as "adiga-prasangi" (upstart).

 

Sir, I said what I said because I know many people who

wear "pancha-kaccham" or "madisaarai" only when they

go to pay visit to "achAryA" because they know

otherwise "azhagiyasingar" or "andavan" will not see

them unless they wear "pancha-kaccham".

 

Some people I know wear 12-tiruman because they know

azhagiya-singar will not see them otherwise. Some

other 'mahapurushas' I know will take their 'poonul'

off the bathroom-hook and wear it only on their way to

Mutt or Ashram because they know they will not be

allowed inside without it.

 

In Tirupati some people will join "saatrumarai-seva'

after quickly, quickly cutting off side-burns and

whiskers and painting tiruman on forehead, that too

crookedly ("konna-monnala"),and joining saatrumarai

queue so that they can get 'green-channel' darshan.

 

All this they are doing because of what, I ask

Sriman.Anbil? Because of "incentives" like what

P.B.Anand-sir correctly wrote.

 

So that is why I feel if "acharyas' like

Azhagiyasingar and Andavan or Vananamamalai jeeyar,

Tridandi swami and all put a rule that those who come

to them for "samAshrayanam" or 'baranyAsam", besides

having all other "lakshanam" for it, should also have

done some physical cleaning-work at DDs, temples and

mutts/ashrams then only there will be real "incentive"

for people to keep cleanliness in temples and DD etc.

 

This is my humble feeling, Sir. Please adiyEn should

not be misunderstood as committing apachAram. I am

saying all this because if "achAryas" say things like

this it will have real weight and people will

definitely make effort to pay some heed.

 

Otherwise if like Sriman.Anbil says, acharyas are

thinking that "they have better things to do" then who

will say these things and emphasise about cleanliness?

And who will follow? Who will listen or care to pay

heed to lowly, loukeeka people or "alpa" or

"assatu-brahmana" like me? Then how our temples and

mutts can be kept clean? This is all I am saying, Sir.

Nothing more.

 

Many sishyas will form committees for samprokshanam

and utsavam or abharanam-making or building additional

sannidhis or parayanam etc. But I have not seen one

single case of sishyas forming a committee solely for

bringing back cleanliness to our temples. We have

vidvats sadas many times for discussing abstruse

matters of siddantam but there is no sadas for those

who are concerned about cleanliness of temples, DD

etc.

Sir, because cleanliness is "basic matter" no one is

bothering about it too much. But Sir, I think time has

now come to start from 'basics'. And who else but

acharyas to best take us back to basics? This is what

I am thinking. I hope you also will have same

'abiprAyam'.

 

Once again respected Sir, sorry for talking too much

and behaving like an 'adigaprasangi', please forgive

me but I had to say what I felt I must say.

 

Sampathkumaran

 

 

 

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