Name of God,
wealth of Brahmins
Dr. K. Jamanadas, 'Shalimar',
Main Road, Chandrapur- 442 402
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Dr. Ambedkar asked to use temple money for public good
In a special editorial in Mahanayak of 14th July 2012,
titled, 'Name of God, wealth of Brahmins', the author has given interesting
statistics. The following is the gist
of it.
Mr. Sharad Yadav has recently demanded that the money
collected in the temples should be taken over by the government. Sharad Yadav is one of the militant OBC
leaders emerged after the post-Mandal agitation. India is considered to be most
backward country in the world in the matters of education, health, malnutrition
of the children, poverty and neglect of human rights. But the people in the
country are quite generous in donating money to the temples. They are far ahead
in this respect of all throughout the world.
On 24th of January 1954, Dr Ambedkar had said in a
conference of the devotees of Saibaba, that money is collected in the name of
religion and spent on improper matters.
In the present condition of poverty and misery, it is a highly criminal
tendency to collect the money in the name of religion and spend it on at the
festivals or on Brahmins. The money
should be spent on hospitals, on education, on industrial enterprises, to
provide employment to the unemployed, on poor and helpless women, on vocational
training, and the matters like these. The suggestion of Sharad Yadav is in
consonance with the ideas expressed by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Therefore, we
support the suggestion of Mr. Sharad Yadav, wholeheartedly.
Creation of unthinking society
Among the various organizations in India, which control
the national life of the country, there have been tremendous efforts to create
the ‘individual religious mentality’ meaning promotion of unthinking mentality,
among the masses, during last 25 years. As a result of this, in every state of
the country, the number of temples, mosques and other religious places are on
the increase in great numbers. As an
example, in Tamil Nadu, there were approximately 2,00,000 temples in 1970, now
we get the number of 3,00,000 in the year 2010. Out of these 38,481 are the big
temples under supervision of Tamil Nadu government. These temples hold 4,78,462
acres of agricultural land, 22,599 buildings and 33,627 commercial
establishments. The average monthly
income of each of these temples is 28.27 crores of rupees. But the government
does not get a penny out of this income.
On the contrary, the Tamil Nadu government spent 35 crores of rupees on
these temples during last five years, as recommended by 12th and 13th finance
commission. In the neighboring Karnataka State also, there are 2,07,000
temples. Their declared annual income
on an average is 72 crores of rupees. In whole of India, there are
approximately one million temples.
These temples do not come under the purview of land reform Acts, and in
no state, there is any land ceiling act, applicable to these temples.
Problem of Land
Taking undue advantage of this, the corrupt bureaucracy,
politicians, the priest in the temples and religious organizations have
colluded together and purchased crores of acres of land in the name of
temples. For example, the Jaganath
temple at Puri has 57,248.81 acres of land. In Rajasthan, Gagamedhi, Rishabdev,
Raghunath mandir, Kunjbihari mandir, and Charbhuja mandir - these six temples
possess one lakh bighas of land. In Maharashtra, approximately 2,500 acres of
land stand in the name of temples. Guruvayur temple in Kerala has got 13,000
acres of land, and Vaishnodevi temple has got 50,000 acres of land.
Lakhs of temples, if taken into consideration all over
India, it will be seen that lakhs and lakhs of acres of land have been horded
in the name of God. If all this land is taken possession of by the government
and distributed to the landless people, question of Indian poverty will at
least be solved to the extent of 50 per cent.
Wealth and Income of temples
The precious metal and jewellery is lying idle in this
form to such an extent that the whole world is astonished. Padmanabha temple in
Kerala, movable property is estimated to be one hundred thousand crore.
(Recently, this estimate has been increased to one million crores) It contains
the god’s image of 500 kilograms of gold, 17 kg historical golden coins, and
250 kg of golden ornaments and hundreds of bags, filled with precious stones
and jewels.
In Andhra Pradesh temple of Tirumala Tirupati, their
declared income is annually 700 crores of rupees. This temple has 5 tonnes
gold, and there are ornaments of 1000 kg of gold on the image itself. There are
jewels and precious stones worth crores of rupees and 560 crores cash deposits.
The declared annual income of Sai temple at Shirdi is 350
crores. And it is having 100 crores in
ornaments and 427 crores bank deposits. The declared annual income of the
Siddhi vinayak temple at Bombay is 48 crores of rupees, and it has got bank
deposits of 125 crores. The daily income of Vaishnodevi temple in Jammu and
Kashmir is 40 crores. The Guruvayur temple in Kerala has bank deposits of 400
crores of rupees and 40 elephants. One of these elephants can be purchased and
donated back to the temple at the cost of minimum of one million rupees.
OBC leaders protectors of Brahmins
Two years back, the then chief Minister Maharashtra, Mr.
Ashok Chavhan and the self declared OBC leader Chagan Bhujbal had gone to this
temple of Guruvayur and spent lakhs of rupees, and even donated the elephants.
There was an editorial on 12th April 2010, in this paper under the title
“Bhujbal – leader of OBCs or protector of Brahmins", exposing his actions.
Problem of Employment
There is a parallel economy of temples in this
country. This has created a great
danger not only to the Indian economy but also to the security of the country.
The priests appointed for performing Puja in these temples and their helpers
and assistants, are all Brahmins. In Tirupati temple alone, there are 14
thousand workers. The Kerala Devasthan Board has got 15,000 workers, whereas
Tamil Nadu Devasthan Department has got 25,000 of these workers. These posts do
not have the Govt. rules regarding reservation for SC, ST, OBC applicable to
them. Therefore, it is clear that that only the Brahmin workers are recruited.
This tremendous opportunity of employment is not available
to the Shudra Hindus, who are the main donors of Daxina to these temples. The
devotees visiting the temples and giving ample Daxina are mostly the Shudra
Hindus, whereas, those getting the creamy benefits are the Brahmins.
This kind of unjust scenario is seen the God's Durbars. As
the Brahmins have tremendous opportunities of employment in the temples, there
is no unemployment among the Brahmins. No Shudra Hindu comes forwards against
this scenario, but these very Shudra people are always coming forward to oppose
the reservations given to SC, ST and OBCs. This shows that the Manuvadi
organizations have been successful in creating a society with 'religious
individual mentality', meaning the mentality of irrational thinking men and
women.
Problem of Black Money
Right from the BJP to the 'nautanki' Babas Hazare
and Ramdev, are shouting hoarse about black money problem in India. But the
main and large source of black money in India is the temples. There are
literally thousands of organizations related to these temples, which are fed on
a lion's share of the declared and undeclared income of these temples. And
these bogus so-called charitable institutions prepare various plans on paper
and obtain funds amounting to crores of rupees from these temples. It should be of special interest to note
that all such institutions and organizations are run by the Brahmins alone. The
possibility cannot be denied that, that the black money from the temples is
made available to the Hindu organizations involved in terrorist activities in
India,
The illegal and immoral activities
This illegal activity has given birth to innumerable
immoral activities going on in temples, flourishing prostitution going on at
the centers of pilgrimages, the immoral trafficking of the women and minor girls,
the sexual exploitations of the gullible female devotees by the Pundas and
Pujaris in the temples and officers and heads of the religious mutts.
To maintain their control over the financial activities,
the chiefs of the temples and of the mutts get involved in the illegal
activities of criminal nature. This has
been proved by the charges of alleged murder in the case of the chief
Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth, Jayendra Saraswati.
The priests of the temples consider themselves as the
scholars and authority of religion. Therefore, these Pundas and Pujaris do not
give any importance the Indian Constitution. These slaves of religious books
are the ones who are maintaining the caste system in India.
Need for a special Act
The RSS and many related organizations are active in
promoting the caste system by using the money in the temples and are trying
that, among the citizens of India, there should be no brotherhood, and the
society should be permanently kept divided.
Considering all these matters, it is necessary that the
government passes a new independent Act for the benefit of the nation and of
the citizens, for control the affairs of the temples, control the expenditure
of the amount collected in the temples and for appointment of human resources
necessary for the working of the temples.
Otherwise, one-day, these temples will create the danger to the very
existence of the nation.
Thanks
Dr. K. Jamanadas, 'Shalimar', Main Road, Chandrapur- 442
402
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
