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 ----- Original Message ----- 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 --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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