Madurai, it is one of the biggest, peaceful and beautiful cities in Tamilnadu. For development of Tamil Language this city has considerable participation. The great Meenakshi Amman Temple is in Madurai. We don’t get good food anywhere in Tamilnadu like Madurai. “Madurai is better than heaven” is the slogan that we can hear from Madurai people. Such a great city, nowadays it’s slowly losing its originality and becoming like Chennai.
When I was studying my Diploma 2nd year, I went to Meenakshi Amman Temple. I had good Dharsan without pay anything. But when I was visiting same temple on my Engineering 3rd year, I have taken special ticket by the cost of Rs. 25 and I had given Rs. 5 to kurukkar. Other than this I have not faced any issues anywhere till come out of the temple. Last weekend I went to the same temple with my Mom and Dad. When I was taking special ticket, literally I was shocked, because the ticket cost was Rs. 100. Really this is unacceptable but I did not have any other choice. So I took the ticket and entered. We called ayyar for special pooja and gave all pooja items to him. Simply he told me that “today is Tamil month karthikai 1st and next year kumbavishegam, so I need Rs. 200 for this Pooja”. We don’t know what to say. If we did not accept then he won’t do pooja properly. That’s why we accept for this also. I have enquired why such a drastic changes in this temple. I heard that when Meenakshi Amman temple was proposed to the World Wonders, temple devasdhanam has increased the amount. People who are all coming for free Dharsan, really they won’t get Dharsan since “idol” is very small. Temple devasdhanam is introducing new rules and conditions, to show the richness. I feel that this temple is trying to come like Tirumala, for that devasdhanam is sucking money from public.
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