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Dear Sir, There are animals like pigs, donkeys, dogs, mules, monkeys who go around excreting on the main approach road and the square. There are shops which play loud music of bhajans in filmi tunes, creating an unbearable sound pollution, and spoiling the whole environment of peaceful thoughts. There are cigarettes, gutaka and bidis being sold openly. There are road-siderestaurants that serve food in a very unhygienic and unhealthy condition and environment. The moment one gets in the temple, the management of the temple is clearly well visible. The front-office clerk gives the rooms to the people with 'influence' and can be sometimes seen asking for money. He is always rude, slow, arrogant and obliging. The dharamshalas are awfully managed as well. Unclean toilets, unclean bed sheets, beds with bugs, rattling fans are present in almost all the rooms of all dharamshalas. The canteen inside the temple campus serves with no sense of hygiene, cleanliness. One can see the same age-old halwai, swiping sweat and making things. The moment you step inside the temple premises, you can see the security guards lazing around smoking bidis inside the campus. At times you can also see them fighting using abuses loudly. The campus is not clean either. The meditation room it is air-conditioned, but does not operate even in very hot unbearable summer. It will work, if you offer some money to the doorman. We all visit the temple to find peace and seek the blessings of our Lord. But there is really no environment inside the temple. People shout and pray on the top of their voice, not together either. Imagine the sound that will be produced, if about a 100-150 people will shout on top of their voice, and each one of them seeking peace. There is really no effort by the temple management to ask and request people to pray peacefully. Each one of us, on every visit, give donations generously. Still the place, the temple, the dharamshalas, and the whole environment leaves a very bad taste. If one would like to spend a day more there, one has to have a very high tolerance and endurance. The better managed places like Shirdi, Virayatan, etc. must be seen to realize how are temples managed. We as a part of the community have been bearing all the mismanagement for all the years. We have also been protesting, writing complaints. But nothing at all changes. One can see all this easily and clearly, every single time the place is visited. It clearly displays the in-efficiency of the temple management, who have not vision, no dedication towards their responsibilities. To a certain good extent one would not be surprised if there have been vested interests. Still if you say, it is not 'appropriate' to bring the grievances in open, then what should be done? --------------------------------------------- |