Nirmalya Darshanam at Guruvayoor

[Guest guest]

Whenever I am in Guruvayoor, the Lord blesses me with his permission

to get his darshanam as soon as the Nada opens. However, there is

usually a huge stampede when the door opens. Is there anyway, we

could persuade the dewaswom to make it more orderly to enter the

sannidanam without being / feeling violated?

 

Being in the temple area itself is a blessing when all the devas,

yakshas and gandharvas assemble to wake the lord marking the dawn of

a new day. Everyone of us is eager to get a glimpse of the lord. But

does it have to be with the rude jostling and pushing of the

usherers? Can we do something to inclucate a system where only a

certain number of people are allowed in the queue at a given time?

 

Most importantly, we must try to enunciate a system where people

with infant children, the disabled and the old must be given

preference and priority over the able.

 

Finally it has been my expereince that women are more inconsiderate

than men. Where men show decency in not invading the privacy of

others and protect the sanctity of distance, women do not think

twice before jostling and shoving.

 

I do understand that in a country with such a vast population and

where religion is a passion one wears on the sleeve, these are part

and parcel of living. But these can also be very discouraging to our

younger generation who are constantly looking for reasons to wriggle

out of engagements like visitng the temple, listening to a discourse

or practicing the tentets of sanatana dharma in the face of sham and

double standards.

 

The question to this group is " how can we make the younger

generation a part of our system " rather than curse and lament that

they are not seeing / living the values? What examples can we set

and how can we enrich their quality of living?

 

Here is wishing everyone in the group a joyous Janmashtami in

advance.

 

Om Namo Narayanaya