A trip to Tiruttani

I went to Tiruttani with my friends this sunday. Actually the trip was planned only around 10pm on saturday night. As I was mentally very much down on saturday and was in search for a big break. It came as a gift to me.

Tiruttani - a highly commericalized holy place
I really shocked(i think this is the right word to use) to see how much everyone given their share in commercializing this spiritual place. The contributions were from everywhere, the government, the business people, the public. They exploited each and every possiblity of making money from this place. As we found ourselves as victims in several places. One of the incident is, every shopkeeper invited us to leave our footwears in their shop, they kept on telling that we won't be allowed to wear our shoes when we walk through the steps to reach the temple. We fell in their trap and we then realized that we were fooled. And as we entered the temple, they had 4 separate queues for dharshan, General(dharma) dharshan(no fare), Special dharshan(Rs.10), Quick dharshan(Rs. 25) and VIP dharshan(of course its free, not for us). Every priest in side the temple who gives "prasadam" keep on asking for money, without hesitating. If you give money you they will give you a parcel contains prasadam otherwise you will be getting the 'prsadam' that is thrown uncaringly on to your palm. Amidst all these kind of money making techniques there is still i can see lack of proper systems in place and zero maintenace. They are just using this place to make money and nothing else. I noticed dirty walls and pillars, poor ventilation, very narrowed paths, 'mayil vaahanam' with broken mouth piece. And there I was searching peace of mind...aiyo aiyo...

We had fun
And what is important from our friends' perspective is "WE HAD FUN" lots of fun. Enjoyed each and every moment. We saw new people, new places, hardcore devotees, Vyaabara kanthams(business magnets) and ofcourse some beuatiful girls. We took photos everywhere with my new k750i mobile phone(Its an awesome phone i have to write a separate post on that.) The day went like anything. I will be posting all the photos taken during this trip with captions on future posts. So keep an eye on this space.

Enjoy.
Cheers!!
.shiva.