Tirumala Tirupati-Some perceptions.

04-01-2004, 08:00 PM

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KNOW THE LIMITS - RECOGNISE GOD - NEVER CHOP THE HEAD TO FIT THE CAP.

When your stomach can accommodate half Kg of food, don't force 1 Kg of food for the want of health and more strength. So also, if public flow is more, don't stuff more people and make God restless, giving up the minimum rest he needs, in the name of public service. If a person wants to earn more, he is never giving up his sleep altogether ! Minimum sleep is a must for a person to be healthy. For one day or two days, Yes... it is a special case but Not every day..... Doesn't this apply to God who is standing still in the form of a deity for the sake of His devotees ? Sasthra ordains some time, as rest to Lord and also certain Upacharas to be performed ! These should not be given up because they don't yield any commercial value ! !, No tickets, No flow of monetary benefits ! If they are given up, does it mean that you have the sense that it is " God " standing ? Rather you are considering the deity as the Commercial Exhibition Product ?? It is the spirituality and the sense of devotion that is making people come there all the way to take His blessings. When you yourself strike a match stick it never exempts you from burning if you touch the flame of it. So also, though it is God in the still form and frame made of metal or stone or clay, accepting services from you, but, still, He never becomes just a stone because you did not recognise Him so. If it is just an exhibition product, people need not come all the way !! So, any thing wrong done to Him, will be severely dealt with, to teach them a nice lesson. No escape... However ! God promised to protect His devotees always under all circumstances ! Let all the time for regular Upacharas be implemented as-it-is irrespective of all other factors. If you can provide more facilities for more public flow, do it. But, for that, one should not give up minimum Upacharas and the procedures to be followed thereby. Think not from the commercial point of view or benefit point of view. Think from the 'Devotion' point of view, think from the 'minimum concern' point of view, think from 'Spiritual value' point of view.

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