(Reality is having beautiful temples is good but having better-educated students is even better – Image source: http://media.merchantcircle.com)
Actually, this is something that I and my cousin have had in our minds for some time now. This will be, in my opinion, one of the best ideas to come when it comes to our fellow Indians’ behaviour with donation money and temples.
From Raged Indian:-
Why build thousands of temples when our Indian children can’t even afford to go to the school? Why the fuck do we need air conditioned temple? So that people will call our God ‘cool’ eh? The Tamil schools don’t even have a ceiling fan, and we have fully tiled expensive marble temples all over the country?
We have the biggest statue in the world, and we also have the first school to be located in shop houses. We point our fingers towards the politician, but shouldn’t we be looking in the mirror? The change should be with us. We’re the one to be blamed.
We hesitate to give to another human being, but we do not hesitate to give it to God. When had God used your money? He do not need your pocket money all la! If you’re saying by donating directly to the school, the schools might misuse the money; then what about all the money you give out to the temple; it goes to Lord Sivan’s pocket is it?
We are so scared about God and punishment that we eventually forget what He said in the first place, to help fellow human beings first, not Him. He does not need your fruits, rice or any other things. We, humans are the one who need it. We give out so many offerings to the God, using our hard earned cash, when none of them realistically would reach God.
Ayya veke ayam, attha veke atte kutiyum vettenethe pothum pa…
Annual festival in the temple and you take part in as much as ‘Abishegam’ (ceremonies) as possible. You pay between RM 51 to sometimes as higher as RM 1001 for something that is solely based on your faith. Is there a price for faith? Will God not accept prayers from the poor?
If all this funds can be redirected to schools, imagine how many thousands of children would study in a much more excellent condition than below cramped and hot classrooms?
It is a noble idea, especially since people who have been bugging me to donate “generously” to temples and especially on certain days of the year so that I and my family will get that “extra” blessings.
Well, it has not been to only Indian students but to any Malaysian students who have been deprived of a proper environment for better educations. Poor students in schools, facilities depleted schools and struggling charity homes should take precedent to cash-rich temples.
Further, with many small temples still hesitating to merge with other smaller temples and create a more efficient temple administration, depriving them of the extra cash in yearly festival donations may just be the trigger to force them to merge into one bigger temple.
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Why they are building temples so grand rather than building a good school? The reasons are simple:
1) Temples can generate huge money (sucked-up give to suckers)
2) Schools can’t.
Thanks & best regards…