078. The Disintegrating Kerala Temples. P. S. Remesh Chandran

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The Disintegrating Kerala Temples 
P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

01. Article Image & Graphics By Courtesy of Adobe SP
 
THE DISINTEGRATING KERALA TEMPLES

This article is the first part of the book ‘Is Reformation Over For Hinduism?’ by P. S. Remesh Chandran published by Amazon. The other parts are 2. The Loudspeaker Criminality, 3. The Elephantine Injustice, 4. The Fireworks Fiasco and 5. Is The Need For Reformation Over In Hinduism? They expose the farce that is going on in Kerala temples in the name of religion. The original title for this series was ‘Mad Things Happening In The Name Of Religion’.

Apartheids suppressed by British colonial administration once are returning.
 

Mad things are happening in Kerala in the name of religion in temples. Race, class and gender apartheids enforced by the upper class in Hindu religion through centuries, suppressed once by the British colonial administration for a time, are returning with new vigour. Fanatics and extremists in Hinduism, armed with anti-constitutional attitudes and backed by a timid civil administration, create hell in places where people meet for worship. Reformation is now a distant dream in this religion. 

Rama hunted in the forests; what do they think he hunted and ate?
 

Hinduism had been undergoing reformation through all centuries. Whenever it reached a stage where further reformation was unacceptable to those higher in the hierarchy, dissatisfied people formed new religions and flocked to these. Buddhism was one such example. 20th century and 21st century Hinduists tend to believe that all reformation needed in this religion, and possible in this religion, has already happened and nothing more is needed or possible. But it is never all dross will be removed from their minds and this religious body. Look how bad their convictions are on if all the needed reformation has been over! The Hinduists throughout India interested in capturing ruling power of the country kill people who eat red meat, in the name of Rama. They know Rama hunted in the forests. What do they think Rama hunted and ate? Piggish priests, who will normally love to see luscious and lusty women come to temples with nothing on if possible, forbade women coming to temples wearing the all-covering and popular dress, Churidar; they want to see at least their shoulders, neck and abdomen. Tell us; is all the needed reformation in Hinduism over?

 
Officers who would have been hanged in other countries for helping mass-killing people just transferred or suspended for a while.
   

02. Old Thali Temple Calicut Kerala PD By Unknown
 

Like in every other state in the country where Hinduism is in majority, loudspeakers, elephants and explosives meet in Kerala temples to create hell. Civil administration and political administration remain submissive and loyal to anti-communal and anti-democratic elements in this religion who try to run the country into an authoritarian theocracy and help them flout whichever laws they find unsuitable for their purpose. Officers who would have been hanged or decapitated in other countries for helping anarchists’ mass-murdering of people are just transferred out of their stations or merely suspended for a while from service - ridiculous punishments for betraying the constitution of the country.

 
Thousands suffer loss of hearing and balance after festivals and need psychiatric help for years.
 

Law and Order stands still, animal abuse laws, anti-loud speaker laws and anti-explosives laws are violated each day, and anti-social elements re-recognized as temple committees reign freely in streets, creating anarchy in the name of religion. Apex court rulings and constitutional regulations are minded not; they do only what their lawless minds and mindless organizations tell them to do. Indian Administrative Service personnel and Indian Police Service personnel keep back from interfering for keeping law and order, for fear of antagonizing the communal elements in society and loosing their jobs eventually. Some of them even join communal organizations and secure promotions and positions. Innocent people die in hundreds in elephant attacks during street processions, in miscarried temple fireworks explosions and from loss of hearing and loss of balance after weeks of loudspeaker and fireworks aggression. Thousands of people behave like zombies after weeks-long temple festivals and hundreds become mute after this steady onslaught of sound and need psychiatric help for months or even years to revert to some semblance of normalcy. District Administrations stand like frozen spectators and view things as if these are happening not in their country.

Without a quiet and peaceful place for worship, there is no religion.

03. Guruvayoor Temple Kerala In 1730 PD By J Pullokkaaran

Temples were not built for acting out crimes against people. In centuries when everyone had to put in back-breaking hard work from morning till night and all through night to make a living, there was no time left to be spent on rest and to find solace from daily worries. People’s houses were tiny, streets were narrow and there was not that feeling of space without which man’s mind could not survive. Human mind craved for space and the solace it provided. Human life, as it was centered on production then, could not afford the luxury of leisure and did not have the time for intermingling with others. Temples provided this much-needed space, and solace, and served as the meeting places for people. You could go to a temple at any time of the day or night: they had no surrounding walls, and they had no locks. They used mellow oil lamps for lighting: there was no harsh lighting inside. Green cool canopies of trees protected you from hot scorching sunlight and heat inside: the compounds were not treeless or marbled and tiled as of now. People came with torn hearts and tonnes of worries, stood in the space and silence of temples unloading their worries, and left with soothed hearts and tranquil minds, with enough energy to last and carry them on through weeks. When this recharged energy was exhausted, they came again. This was the simple mechanism behind the temple, then. This was the sole purpose of a temple. The belief that there was someone inside there to listen to our worries and sympathetically consider our tearful prayers and remedy things for us through divine intervention was important in human life; it was the very basis for religion. When this space and silence were lost, so also were belief and religion and the residual hulk remains as skeletal frame for a pseudo religion. Without a peaceful and quiet place for worship, there is no religion.

 
Temples provided feeling of space and solace and served as meeting places for people once.

04. Roadside Shiva Shrine PD By Vindheim
 

Though temples once provided a feeling of space and solace to people, ironically, it was not the intention of those who built them to dispense divine peace. The conquerors and kings who constructed these temples as imposing structures- as awe-inspiring behemoths- only wanted to imprint upon people’s minds the permanence of their conquest or the grandeur of their empire; it had nothing to do with the peace of mind or the spiritual upliftment of people. But except in the minds of these megalithic builders, Hindu religion- or any other religion of importance in the other parts of the world as a fact- remained impassive to splendor and gave no importance to awe-inspiring grandeur or physical pleasure, and great masses in these religions treated temples only as places for spiritual liberation. In fact there were practically no religions in the world which gave too much importance to carnal pleasures and visual delights except perhaps those rare obscenities created by people like Acharya Rajneesh fervently called Osho by his similarly deranged followers, or a few obscure cults lying in the unmentionable hinder lands of civilization. For a long time the ancient temples did provide solace and peace to torn minds and served as meeting places for people. But since when science and technology arrived, things began to change- the most wrong turn, theologically speaking.

 
Electric light, compound wall and loud speaker brought down the fall of Hindu religion and temple.

05. Koodal Maanikkya Temple At Iringgalakkuda Kerala By Krishnanow
 

First the temples were walled-in, so that the priests grabbing the breasts of women could not be seen from the outside. Then there came electric lights, replacing the mellow oil lamps and taking away the ambience of softness in the temple atmosphere, bringing in ruthless harshness instead, reflecting the perpetrators’ minds well. The chants and prayers from human lips were the next to go, to be replaced with coarse recorded instrumentalized music from cassette players, c. d. players and pen drives roaring through multi loud speakers, so that the time spent on praying also could be liberated for more breast-grabbing and if possible copulation, or the frightened horrible shrieks from girls being raped inside temples could not be heard outside as it happened in Jammu in 2018. What other benefits did walls and electric lights and loud speakers bring to Hindu temples and Hindu religion? Did worship become more ardent and pious and people, priests, temple and religion cleaner? Soon temples became no more soothing to human minds and people lost interest and confidence in this kind of temples and religion. If someone says electric lights, compound walls and loud speakers were reasons for the degeneration of Hindu temples and religion, how can one disagree?

 
Police officers and district collectors delegate powers to local goons during festivals.
06. Someshwari Temple At Koovery Kerala By Vaikoovery
 

The seasonal and annual festivals in temples are the most important events which are the litmus tests to gauge how much humane these temples and this religion are. When large crowds with the prospect of huge money are seen, organizers loose their minds and with it sanity and humaneness. Mega religious festivals in North India attract millions of devotees and go without incidents, guarded by the efficient civil set up there. But temple festivals in Kerala are accompanied by accidents and deaths; the civil set up ensures it. The civil set up in Kerala is disloyal and weak and yields to local politicians’ and local religious criminal elements’ pressures. They look the other way when vital laws meant to provide safety to people are flouted by gangs. The respect the people of Kerala had once towards Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service personnel is lost, and they are viewed as no more dependable for ensuring the safety of people. Investigations on incidents of mass-killing of people in temple festivals in Kerala during the previous years revealed that they were just standing ineffective as spectators instead of enforcing law sternly. These investigations brought to light their lightening their burden of keeping people safe by conferring with local goons and taking them into confidence and assigning to them the duty of law keeping. Thinking these born criminals would respect their stars, stripes and uniforms and titles, these irresponsible and lazy officers believed in those personal assurances and guarantees from criminals and entrusted law keeping to them! When these local goons got their way and mass killings happened through firework accidents, riots and elephant trampling, these officers blamed one another and filed contradictory statements and kept their job and hide safe by creating confusion in government. The dozens of reports of judicial investigations on incidents of temple mishaps in Kerala during the previous years underline this view.

 
Nowhere will sane administrations entrust crowd control to local muscles with record.
07. Valliyoorkkavu Bhagavathhi Temple Kerala By Challiyan
 

We can understand a civil administration taking into confidence a local set up of muscles to carry on things smoothly in a festival, if the latter is proven to be consisting of reliable and trustworthy persons with no criminal records. But the civil administration in Kerala already knows that most of the local organizers of temple festivals, by records, are either pucca criminals engaged once in rowdy activities or investigated previously for stealing public money. Still the civil administration trusting them and entrusting to them the safety of people in temple events is criminal negligence. Where crowd control is concerned, nowhere in this world will a clean and sane police and civil administration entrust law and order into the hands of a bunch of locals with an arm’s length of records showing no concern for human lives or having ever a conscience. 

Written In: February 2018
First Published: 17 July 2018
E-Book Published: 10 August 2018

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01 Article Image & Graphics: Adobe SP
02 Old Thali Temple Calicut Kerala PD By Unknown
03 Guruvayoor Temple Kerala In 1730 PD By J Pullokkaaran
04 Roadside Shiva Shrine PD By Vindheim
05 Koodal Maanikkya Temple At Iringgalakkuda Kerala By Krishnanow
06 Someshwari Temple At Koovery Kerala By Vaikoovery
07 Valliyoorkkavu Bhagavathhi Temple Kerala By Challiyan
08 Is Reformation Over Book Cover Image & Graphics: Adobe SP
09 Author Profile Of P. S. Remesh Chandran By Sahyadri Archives

This is the first part of the book ‘Is Reformation Over For Hinduism?’

08. Is Reformation Over Book Cover Image & Graphics: Adobe SP 
  
IS REFORMATION OVER FOR HINDUISM?

Politico-Religious Treatise
©P. S. Remesh Chandran
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About the Author P. S. Remesh Chandran:
  
09. Author Profile Of P. S. Remesh Chandran By Sahyadri Archives
 

Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single. 

Author of several books in English and in Malayalam, mostly poetical collections, fiction, non fiction and political treatises, including Ulsava Lahari, Darsana Deepthi, Kaalam Jaalakavaathilil, Ilakozhiyum Kaadukalil Puzhayozhukunnu, Thirike Vilikkuka, Oru Thulli Velicham, Aaspathri Jalakam, Vaidooryam, Manal, Jalaja Padma Raaji, Maavoyeppoleyaakaan Entheluppam!, The Last Bird From The Golden Age Of Ghazals, Doctors Politicians Bureaucrats People And Private Practice, E-Health Implications And Medical Data Theft, Did A Data Mining Giant Take Over India?, Will Dog Lovers Kill The World?, Is There Patience And Room For One More Reactor?, and Swan, The Intelligent Picture Book. 

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Identifier: SBT-AE-078. The Disintegrating Kerala Temples. Essay. P. S. Remesh Chandran. Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum.

Published by Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Editor: P S Remesh Chandran.