'Purification' in temple after foreigner's entry

IT IS HIGH TIME, THE NEW GENERATION OF (EDUCATED)HINDUS BOYCOTTED THESE TYPE OF TEMPLES, BE IT GURUVAYOOR, BALAJI OR PURI AND BUILD BIGGER AND BETTER REPLICAS OF ALL THESE TEMPLES, OPEN FOR ALL, THAT WILL PUT THESE GUNDA BRAHMINS OUT OF THE JOB AND EVENTUALLY ON THE ROADS

' AHAM BRAMHASMI ' means God is within. Why Temple authorities do not know this basic Hindu Dharma when they refuse other religious people to enter sanctom sanctorium of Guruvayour temple. People like Yesudas who rendered songs on the lord refused entry... it's amazing to understand the logic of head priest where " God " him self decide to stay in his tongue

They are deviding people in the name of religion. There is no difference between hindu and christian etc for God. Nothing will happen to the Diety inside temple if a non hindu entered a temple.

Interesting that Indians should complain about racism or religious discrimination abroad when they do the same. As an Indian living in US when I think of discrimination of SC and ST as well as the reverse discrimination of the so called higher caste by imposing seat quotas in education for political reasons India still has not really matured on a global theatre

Dear Mr. Pranavahi

It is high time that the minds of temple priests were purified. A Hindu can enter into a church or mosque and why not a non-hindu enter a Hindu temple.

I WOULD RATHER WASH THE TEMPLE AND ITS SURROUNDUNGS EVRY TIME THIS SO CALLED HIGH PRIEST EVEN LOKS TOWARDS THIS TEMPLKE. NOT TO SPEAK OF HIS ENTRY INTO THE TEMPLE. hE IS VERY DIRTY FROM WITHIN. hE IS A BIG SHAME TO HINDU DHARMA, WHICH PREACHES "SAVA DHARMA SAM BHAVA"

Krishna, as a scripture describe him, was raised in a cowherds family. He lived with them, took the poorest friends like Sudama near his heart. Made friends with mistreated people like Vidur. Just to think of it, he was not a Bramhin. Nor was he a Keralite. I do not find any logic in Puritan Guruvayur Bramhins to claim that Krishna gets impure by people visiting him. It is surprising that these 14th Century bafoons are still controlling the temple. Being a progressive state, Keralaites are accountable for this laggard social conciousness. Maharashtra showed the way back in 16th century when Lord Panduranga was freed from the clutches of the Bramhins and was allowed to be touched by lower cast Bhakt-jana. Kerala needs a social uprising to stop this nonsense.

This is bizarre. I am a Hindu thick and thin, deep-down. However, to not allow a non-Hindu into a temple or to "purify" the temple as described above smacks of high-handedness.

This particular case is odd. If the british national produced a certificate of conversion, the priest should have had a little more diplomatic sense than to create an issue like this. He is probably very uneducated. This is the kind of stuff that gives us Hindus a bad name. What is the difference between a certificate from Thiruvananthapuram or Khozikode? Come on? Please somebody answer this question? A Hindu is a Hindu is a Hindu. What he has done is given some people who like to foul mouth Hinduism a toe hold to puke ill things about us.

this is absolutely BIZZARE , the "priest" should be IMMIdelately relieved from his services... and sent to a mental psychatrist. Being a hindu i take proud but dont let entering other relegion people is an insult to God itself..calll God by any name.. those people only wanted to see the ancient temple and others want to worship..ask urslf a question people, have U ever heard a church barring hindus frm it? NO-F`ing WAY. i m sick of exremists...rot in helll!!! adn i wil be the first to p33 on ur grave...

Thank God for Hindu religion not spread to many parts of the world?!!! As all religions are selfish, Hindu religion is also the most racist of all the religions!!

Well, we live in modern world and these so called modern Hindus are more of affront to our religion and customs. It is better they be outcaste too having love of non-veg and every vice, like the Rakshas of yore, even the Bunggie, untouchables are more superior in my opinion then these modern trash.Therefore, I will ask the Mandirs as all mandirs should preach Dharma, that all have atmas, all atmas are equal, by quality of person as to what duty is performed, and from ones atma knows god. We must respect people of intellect first because we respect intellect in Hindu society, not because they are superior, but intelligence should lead, but fools, pretenders are there dressed as pandits who never learn, nor teach dharma. As Hindu dharma is being lost by lack of education. By fools, who wish not to teach dharma, but wish for benefits and for their position. Not understanding dharma that even Lord Ram made Ravern’s brother king, also made friendship with monkeys, Bears, Birds. So where is this backwardness in Hindu dharma?

Dear Achu--the CM of keralaEither you should be ashamed of calling Kerala as 100%"literateState" OR Take immediate action on the stupid priests, who do not know Hinduism.Lord Krishna has shown the Globe in his mouth to His mother--UK is also in that world!!

Kerala, a mad house of castism. Thats what Swami Vivekananda said when he visited Kerala. Todays Kerala reformed a lot, but still a long way to go. All Hindu mandirs are for Hindus, whether he/she is a hindu by birth or by adoption. Today, we have several millions western/European followers of Vedic Hindu dharma, Krishna Consciouness, Yoga etc. We must create an egalitarian Hindu samaj, where no discriminations are allowed. A Hindu is a hindu is a hindu, nothing else. Be by birth or by adoption. Even a non-hindu person who respect and practice Hindu way of worship must be allowed to worship. HIndu dharma is Sanatan Dharma, its purely based on science and reasoning, and not on dogmas like other religions.

Only in Kerala. Even after losing nearly half a population to other religions, they are still showing bigatory. These kind of acts give excuses for government and Politicians to step in. Where is public? I wish someone conducts a opinion poll on this.

may be that guy was doing some research related things. he may tried to check what is happening there. but he selected a holy place for that. he should be punished.

What it is, a short thinking, these guys have to come out of a BOX,there should be no patience to this kind of a nonsense.Where on the earth these kind of people LIVE.The priest should be barred from the temple not the visitor.

It is ever so sad that in the 21st century of information and global citizenship our mandirs can't accept humans to visit to understand our religion. I have traveled and visited churches in UK,France, USA and Spain,Austria without any hinderence or objections. These are beautiful places of worship and the architecures are fantastic. i have visited many Sikh Gurudwaras without any objections. As a matter of fact I was offered room to stay and see the glory of Golden Temple in moonlight and at sunrise.Is Hinduism so insecure that it can't handle other religions? I wish our priests etc were given more education and made aware of the world around them. What can one say except feel sad at our narrow mindedness and lack of education.

Yesudas was not converted to Hinduism.If Yesudas wants to enter Temple, why can't he convert to Hinduism?.If he has sung many songs of Krishna, he might have rewarded suitably for it

Orthodox places of worship - the world over and of all Religions have very strict rules as to the access to the main deity or their Sacred books and articles. It is to be noted that such places do not - in the first place allow their own traditionally long-standing followeres and the faithful until and unless they hare duly 'ordained'.So how can it be 'objeted' that the Kerla Guruvayoor Temple or any other traditional Indian Temple considers it sacriligious to let a non-ordained person [ a foreigner is naturally one such] enter the santum sanctorum and even insist on doing the pooja - the ritualistic worship??

The idea of barring foreigners into the temples is no doubt a hangover from the British and Muslim rule in India. So much so our protective instincts override all other considerations. Having lived in the USA for the past 30 years, I can now see the growing interest in Hindu (Yoga ) philosophy and several Americans genuinely becoming very pious Hindus. It hurts me deeply that some of these individuals are kept out based solely on their skin colour or country of origin. As long as they respect the deities and customs they should be allowed in and pray.

I totally disagree with D'Souza. It's people like him , who have been fooled by others to convert to other religion on those false information that only Hinduism has all such problems. Where in the world these issues which Mr. D'Souza has pointed out doesn't exists. Look at other developed countries where racism is an issue, based on who you are you are either welcomes or ignored and I am talking about 'Developed' counties where 'Hinduism' is not there. One can not change by changing the others. What I am trying to say is that all those issues narrated by Mr. D'Souza to potray the Hinduism as 'DEVIL' and that is by comparing other religious( what so ever) is false propaganda. Hindus of India have been working on fixing the issues related to Caste systems and have made great progesss in doing so and Ms Mayavati, Lalu Prasad Yadav , Mr. Mulayam Singh are good example of that. No other race has accepted change the way Hindu society has accepted the change in the history of mankind. We are moving forward and we need to fight people like Mr. D'Souza who could only see the weak point and try to exploit it. They don't see the brighter side of whole Hinduism who has tolerated everything(including people like him :))

D souza, you have made a good point. Its spot on. That, unfortunately, has been the shortcoming of Hinduism. I hope, as a Hindu, that we all can change that and bring back all the Hindu's who converted to Christainity and Islam for this reason back in the fold of Hinduism.