I urge all to do just the opposite. What you give to the priest goes only to him. What you put in the Hundi is used for the temple up keep, maintenance, payments to the non-regularised workers, upkeep of the poorer temples under Devaswam board, payments to the priests in those temples which get fraction of the visitors who come to bigger temples and such other activities. Ofcourse, the government mechanism also used the money to pay workers of the Devaswam Board, its offices and some money will get diverted by the governmental machinations. So some of the money does get diverted. But you can be sure that what goes to the priest goes only to him. I know of many small temples which were almost on the point of ruin due to the avaricious priests, but were revived by locals who took up the management of the affairs.
