Hinduism recognizes that all religions are pathways to the Supreme. Nowhere in the Puranas, Vedas or Upanishads have there been any pointers for keeping non-Hindus from our places of worship. We have to take this up with the so-called 'trustees' of our faith. Sri Namboodiri deserves full cooperation from Hindus all over the world.
How ironical it is that Yesudas's voice reverberates throughout Guruvayoor, sining praises of Lord Krishna, and he is denied entry. This is religious fanaticism, and this has absolutely no place in Hinduism.
all power to the likes of Sri Namboodiri for breaking down the artificial barriers. Rajeev is totally within his bounds, when he talks about the Christian and Muslim transgressions. But by opening our doors to people of other faiths, we are not diluting the purity of our temples. as Hindus, we should protect our Dharma and faith against fundamentalism with all the force at our command. Likewise, we also need to fight the demons in our backyard, and not measure our behaviour by their yardstick.
RE:Discriminatory
by Narasimha on Jan 10, 2006 12:07 PM Permalink
That is Saudi's problem which is a hardcore islamic nation.We do not have any such restrictions in India and we need not be concerned about Saudi's policies
RE:Discriminatory
by bhaskar datta on Jun 07, 2007 11:02 AM Permalink
Will you answer one simple qustion?Why would non-Hindua visit what is essentialy a place of worship for Hindus?Please understand that temples are NOT tourist spots
Even Islamic countries (e.g Saudi Arabia) doesn't allow other religion people to visit their shrines/mosques. Saudi Arabia doesn't even allow practicing their religion (if other than islam) , doesn't allow their holly scriptures/books to be kept with them.
Are you going to appose it ? But if some temple in some province of Kerla in India doesnn't allow it, you have problems.
I don't understand why the communists are persecuting Hindus again in Kerala. Hindusim is soon disappearing in Kerala..there were more than 19000 temples in Kerala begining of 20th century, now there are hardly couple thousand. The temples are slowly being converted to Churches and Mosques, which is okay for the communists.. People of Kerala need to kick out the comminists who think Secularism is freedom from Hinduism, rather than freedom of religion. So what next? if you allow non Hindus in Gurvayoor..they will then complain that the Hindus don't let non Hindus do pooja..then they will complain Hindus don't let non Hindus do Abhishekam etc., If you don't believe in Sanatan DHarm then just don't go to the temple..Do you let a Hindu go and preach in a Church or a Mosque? think about that...
The priests are absolutely correct in saying that Jains and Buddhists are Hindu since Bhagwan Buddha and Bhagwan Rishabhdev are noted as two of Narayn's 24 avatars.... But whether banning others fromentering is neccessary...?
