Dear Members,
The temples in Tamil Nadu were built by the kings and all the temples were
provided with enough lands by the kings to cater to the day to day poojas,
Uthsavams and other related celebrations in the temples. They were actually
centres providing employment to all categories of people like Vadyagars etc.
But now most of the temples are without any land as their lands have been
swallowed by the politicians. This process was started when the present ruling
party assumed power for the first time in the state. Most of the temples are
now run by the locals. It looks as though the present order is to weed out the
qualified preists and bring their own kith and kin to finish off whatever is
left in the temples.
S Lakshminarayanan
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From: "govindakrishnan alagar"
To: Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Oppiliappan] Re: All people can become priests
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 06:16:34 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Memebers
The Government of Tamil Nadu has approved the order to make any
'qualified' person to become archaka. There is a long way to go, of
course. First it needs to be published and objections obtained from
public. Then the implementation.For that the Govt. has to find
institutions to 'qualify' 'anyoneq' Questions as to where are such
insitutions, 'who' will teach and 'what' are the qualifications. To
do that the Govrnment as in other cases, would form Commitee and
everyone knows what happens to the Commitees and their
recommendations. Assuming recommendations do come, litigations on
them are not ruled out. When the question of which Thiruman should
adore the elephant takes ages in the Court one can imagine the web
of legal battle on these issues. In the meantime the Govt. will
have a thousand other day to day problems to face than to run after
qualifiying 'anyone' for the job of the lacklusture priesthood.
At the end of the day, the malady lies in the temples being
under the Government. The day the HR and CE ministries were
contemplated the wisemen like Rajaji and others should have
resisted and stopped that move. The damage has been done and which
ever Government comes here after, the issue would remain alive for
reasons other than real interest to implement. In the meantime the
existing practice would be continuing.
Srivilliputtur Govindakrishnan Alagar
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