Rao and his wife appeasing the gods |
Telangana Chief
Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao’s faith in God is a highly expensive affair for
his people. His latest offering at Tirupati
Venkateshwara Temple amounts to gold worth Rs 5.6 crore. Earlier too he made similar weighty offerings
at various other temples. He is rewarding
God for making the state of Telangana a reality.
If any
individual wants to give away his/her wealth to anyone for any cause, it is
his/her personal affair. But Rao is
throwing the money from the state exchequer into the temple coffers. The taxpayers’ money is supposed to be used
for the people’s welfare. If the people
of Telangana share their CM’s faith that throwing money into divine
repositories is going to ensure their welfare, may God save them. Otherwise they should question the misuse of
their money.
Rao is
rewarding God for creating the new state. If God is going to do all such
things, then what is human endeavour for?
All we need to do is to sit in the temples, sing bhajans, promise
kilograms of gold to the presiding deity and then leave it to God to create new
roads and bridges for us, to heal our diseases, to educate our children, or
whatever.
Rao is making
a mockery of human endeavour. He is
strangling man’s honest quests to understand and grapple with life’s inevitable
conundrums. But he is likely to get away with it because gods are
involved. That is a more serious conundrum.
Strong post Sir and agree with you.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds so wrong. As I was reading it, I was just thinking, I'm sure not many people would have a problem with giving the state's money to god.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right -- when gods are involved people get away with a lot of things and that's not just politicians, even the people we deal with on a daily basis.