So much so, that the Temple Management feels very proud of recognition by a foreign journal. The Indian TV Channels are also agog with the news and are showing the clippings of the news repeatedly, along with the web page of the Washington Post.
So now, thousands more will visit the temple and fill its coffers.
It is how temples flourish on superstitions.
BLOGGER'S VIEW
ASSUMING that God is accessible, and willing to fulfil the desires of devotees, what a devotee has to seek from the God? Even let it be the worldly things.
Should he ask for a US Visa? OK heshe gets as US Visa. What next? Does he get a job in US? Will he be happy in US? Won't he be shot by an unscrupulous fellow like a pigeon by a hunter? Suppose after going to US, he becomes sick?
The devotee has to ask for: health, family joys, food, clothing, shelter, old age security etc. in that order.
The temple authorities can issue booklets to devotees in this respect. It is a moral obligation on them, because they enrich from hoondi collections. They get prestige when the name of their temple is shown on the first page of a Western Journal.
