If Hinduism as a religion is intended to crown the sovereignty of our country, it clearly fails when our priests preoccupy themselves with imagined pollution because another person may have polluted the precincts of the temple or the person. The Samoothiripad (Zamorin) of Kozhikode is right in his claim that priests had traditionally decided these matters. If they are unwilling to end such practices, they can hardly be considered fit to run national institutions. This raises the question of their management which the state has been totally unfit to regulate as it repuditiates what should have been the adoption of the Hindus as the principal's of the state. So, I see no merit in the Government proposal to regulate entry but I presume the legislation would exclude mosques which bar entry to all except Muslims. There is no equity in such a proposal.
Conditions of admission to places of worship temples properly lie with the temples. Hindu temples should have long ago realised the inequities in the practice of the religion, and they have a long way to go to put their house in order. Caste is no way to regulate admission and to label visitors as pollutors is to ascribe to rituals greater importance than they deserve. Hindu religious leaders need to demonstrate worldly wisdom which is quite evident with the examples of the Christians and Jews and their love of learning. This has been a source of hnour and profit to their countries.
