I recently visited one of very old temples of Lord Shiva at Bhimashankar, Maharashtra.
I am not a very religious person and I generally try and avoid going to any religious visits. Apart from me not being very religious there is another reason I don't like these temple visits.
People are very impatient to see "God" (which is actually just and idol). Most of the times I end up having arguments with people around me in queues, who would just start behaving incessantly, as soon as they start approaching the actually temple/idol.
As if, if they don't go and see the idol in the next second "God" would disappear.
Also there is this thing about Hindu places of worship. We take our shoes off when we enter the temples but we have no problems with throwing bottles, wrappers of chocolates/chips etc, plastic bags, coconut coir part and anything we don't find of use in or around the temple.
We keep our homes clean but we make our places of worship so dirty that it is hard to walk barefoot in it.
Around 10 years back I took a trip to Tirupathi with my aunt and her family. We took some kind of VIP pass so that we could have early darshan (another thing that I hate about Hindu places of worship).
Despite of the extra money and the VIP pass I had to stand in queue for 8 odd hours before I could reach the actual temple and there also before I could take a look at the idol the police man pushed me forward.
That day I decided to not go to any such religious places unless people were a little more civilized and disciplined.
I have nothing against the religion itself but it's the people that have ruined it for me.
I am not a very religious person and I generally try and avoid going to any religious visits. Apart from me not being very religious there is another reason I don't like these temple visits.
People are very impatient to see "God" (which is actually just and idol). Most of the times I end up having arguments with people around me in queues, who would just start behaving incessantly, as soon as they start approaching the actually temple/idol.
As if, if they don't go and see the idol in the next second "God" would disappear.
Also there is this thing about Hindu places of worship. We take our shoes off when we enter the temples but we have no problems with throwing bottles, wrappers of chocolates/chips etc, plastic bags, coconut coir part and anything we don't find of use in or around the temple.
We keep our homes clean but we make our places of worship so dirty that it is hard to walk barefoot in it.
Around 10 years back I took a trip to Tirupathi with my aunt and her family. We took some kind of VIP pass so that we could have early darshan (another thing that I hate about Hindu places of worship).
Despite of the extra money and the VIP pass I had to stand in queue for 8 odd hours before I could reach the actual temple and there also before I could take a look at the idol the police man pushed me forward.
That day I decided to not go to any such religious places unless people were a little more civilized and disciplined.
I have nothing against the religion itself but it's the people that have ruined it for me.
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