Though the genuinity of this case is not known to me, religious heads pondering into public life is unwarranted that too involving in money and land matters. The particular case is foistered by Jaya when the Mutt did not part way with a land title and also some funds remitted to the mutt from a neighbouring country which was misutilised for other cause. As the writer Krishna has pointed out, the prestige and respect that the Mutt commanded during the presence of Maha Periyaval has been sullied by the present pointiff unnecessary involvement in politics that too in Tamilnadu where the political heads have scant respect to hinduism.
