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Gold Treasured Siddhi Vinayak Temple of
Mumbai , Maharashtra
Why Is That India Needs To Snatch The Gold From It’s Hindu Temple To
Stabilise The Economy The recent statement by the Ex-Chief Minister of Congress Mr Prithiviraj Chavan has caused a furore in the circle of the entire DEVOTEE -DEVOTION-FRATERNITY when he said that the GOLD from all the Temples should be brought and exerted out of the Temples to use it for the purpose of the nation .
This had caused a tremendous FURORE and had EXCITED ANGER amongst all the Hindus all over India and OF-COURSE the world.
Temples with the GOLD in it are NOT anything new. Infact the OLD SOMNATH Temple at one stage of a time was FULLY made up by GOLD. We have the GOLDEN TEMPLE at Punjab which is the most HOLIEST place at Punjab. There are many a Temple which still stands and which is made up of gold . Infact most of the Temples in India were made up of Gold
It was only during the period of the AFGHAN-MUGHAL rule that thee Temples and so many a Temples were looted by the Mughals that thereafter it was the Temples again which were constructed again, were constructed such that the Gold were taken away from the REMAINS and except a few part where the Gold were allowed to be as such the remaining Temples were constructed with the Gold being kept at a secret place.
Over the period of time many devotees who went to the Temple after their wishes were granted would offer the Silver and the Gold to their deities and over the period of time these Gold and the Silver beside the MONEY and the OFFERINGS became such that most of the Temples at the time of the DIRE-STRAIT of the state Government would give LOANS to the State Governments
Why all of a sudden that only the temples have been pointed out for the Gold and NOT either the Mosques or the Churches remains a mystery. There are BELIEFS and and in the tradition of the HINDUS at the very crucial juncture when they find no solutions to their problems they turn on the dieties and their temples where they feel and find that their prayers and answers would be answered by their belief whom they believe in the form of the SUPERFICIAL power. Once it is answered most of the followers do again turn up to these Temples and they offer whatever they can. GOLD and SILVER are one of them.
Examples Of How The Hindus Are Related To The Temples To Find Their Solutions-::
To cite an example in the 1981-82 series against England Gundappa Vishvanath who was running a very POOREST and an IMPOVERISH time with the bat, that time in the series he went to Balaji Temple and prayed that if he gets runs in the Test series he would offer SILVER to the Temple. In the Delhi Test he scored a 107 and thereafter he rushed to the same Temple to offer Silver of 107 grams which in those days was priced around Rs 222=00 . He scored a 222 in the Madras Test hitting 32 boundaries in that innings. NOW THIS IS THE BELIEF.
WE CANNOT HELP IF THE N-G CLAN OR CONGRESS DOES NOT BELIEVES IN THE SAME.
When Golds Are Auctioned Then Why “ SNATCH ” The Same From The Temples
There are many instances and there are many occasion when the GOLD were auctioned and sold by the Temples. Every Temple has a permissible limit where they can store a things or materials in their places. Once the place gets filled with the items then the Temple Authority with the permission of the authorities in the power of that place after seeking the permission sell those items which are in excess and which they cannot store it in the temples because of the lack of the space.
Between 1965 to 1988 there have been any an occasion when the Temples did that. They after receiving the permission sold off the extra amount of Gold in an open auction to the GOLDSMITH and leading the case was the SIDDHIVINAYAK TEMPLE of MUMBAI now.
There are special trained and designed workers for this in most of the temples and they do it with a purpose of NICETY .Their training which is full of precision makes them to take the advantage of ther situation and when the prices of the Gold are such that it can give them a BOUNTY of RETURNS finding the situation if the holding of the excess gold is not possible they advise the temples and it’s authorities to sell the excess Gold which the Temple does and this money is again used for strengthening the temple in terms of the construction to offer the BEST of the SERVICE to the devotees.
Workers for the centuries-old Shree Siddhivinayak Temple here spent hours unpacking gold coins, heavy wedding necklaces and lustrous pendants from a closely guarded “strong room.” By the time gold buyers began mingling with worshipers at the sweltering sanctuary on Tuesday, the jewelry auctioneers were and would be ready – fully ready.
Nobody can do anything if the N-G family or the BRASSES of the Congress do NOT know this.
“This is not a regular gold coin that you would buy from a gold shop — it contains the Lord’s blessing,” a temple board member said, holding up a tiny coin, probably left by a devotee years ago. It eventually sold for four times its face value.
What is the VOLUME of the GOLD in the Temples at India.
Wealthy Hindu temples are there in abundance but NOT every Temple has the same amount of Gold as would have the Temples at Kerala, or the Balaji-Tirupati Temple to cite an example. The SIDDHI-VINAYAK Temple too could be counted as an example.
Wealthy Hindu temples such as this one are repositories for much of the $1 trillion worth of privately held gold in India — about 22,000 tons, according to an estimate from the World Gold Council. In 2011, one temple in south India was found to have more than $22 billion in gold hidden away in locked rooms rumored to be filled with snakes. Another has enough gold to rival the riches stashed at the Vatican, experts say
Why Is The Congress Blowing The “ HORN ” When The Present Government Is On It
Before the DEMONITISATION the Government under Mr Modi did make an attempt to unearth the GOLD that is being held by many in this country in their HIDDEN NEST . He declared a scheme of giving the Gold to the RBI and keep that in and with the RBI so as they get a monthly interst as an accrued sum for the same or they can sell it to the RBI and get the entire money . It brought in a very LITTLE amount of success but an effort was done by the Modi Government a few years ago.
Based on the same, the Indian Government went many a step ahead to DEMONITISE and that converted the entire BLACK MONEY into WHITE The success rate was about 90% or more if NOT 100%.
But very OBVIOUS a little of it is contributing to the Indian economy, and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is looking to monetize India’s vast hidden wealth.
He has done it with the LIQUID GOLD ie the CURRENCY and there maybe even a big plan which we DO NOT KNOW.There was a time, and there could be once more, the government would plan to begin a program that will allow temples to deposit their gold into banks to earn interest and circulate in the economy, rather than sit idle in musty vaults. The gold, officials say, would be melted down and sold to jewelers.
India is one of the largest consumers of gold in the world, importing almost 1,000 tons each year. The nation’s leaders have tried in vain to curb the nation’s insatiable appetite. But now the government hopes to coax temples into parting with some of their gold to address the country’s trade imbalance and protect its foreign exchange reserves.
A trace of it was seen before the DEMONITISATION and the process that was held when the Modi Government did that to extract the deposit of the gold with the people and the temples to put it to the Reserve Bank Of India as explained above.
It might have NOT been that kind of a success but it did bring about a little volume which was not too satisfactory as an example as it could be. However an attempt was made. It will Not be that easy for any Government to take out the reserves of the Gold from the temples or the Mosques or even the Churches of India.
The CONSTITUTION of India under the Article 365 which provides an article 26 under it’s garb which states that the offering of the devotees to the temples and the other RELIGIOUS places will remain the property of those religious institutions and nobody other than those religious institutions will ever have a right on it to either dispose it or to take it under it’s belt.
Thus any UNTOWARD or any inclination of anybody to even think that the GOLD and it’s reserves could be FORCIBLY taken out of these religious institutions is being ruled out MIND YOU the N-G family and the Congress
The question that BOILS down is WHAT IS THE RESERVES OF THE GOLD OF INDIA AS COMPARED TO THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD . Well it is here under as per the chart and the figure of the WORLD COUNCIL OF GOLD ::
Most of this temple gold is neither traded nor monetized, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in a budget speech in February. By contrast, the Indian government’s gold reserves amount to only about 500 tons.
“Our hunger for gold had led to a severe current account deficit a couple of years ago because gold was the number two imported item after oil,” said Gnanasekar Thiagarajan, director of a Mumbai-based commodities consultancy called CommTrendz. “Gold has consistently given good returns even as stock market and land prices have fallen, and has been the chosen mode of investing wealth among Indians.”
Among the young and upwardly mobile urban professionals, he said, there has been a shift to what is called “paper gold” or gold mutual funds instead of real gold. About $2.5 billion is invested in paper gold.
“But if the temples start allowing the government to melt the gold jewelry donated by devotees, will it hurt their religious sentiments?” Thiagarajan asked. “Will gold offerings slow down in the future?”
Discrimination : Why Only With The Temples And Why Only In India.
It is seen that the discrimination is there only against the temples by the politicians especially the Congress and there is no LIPS that qrerries the Churches and the Mosques here at India.
DOES NOT UNACCOUNTED MONEY COMES FROM THE PETRO- DOLLORS COUNTRIES TO THE MOSQUES TO CONVERT THE HINDUS INTO ISLAM AND TO SPREAD ISLAM AT INDIA
Does not the Churches get the money from the Vaticans to do the same. There are umpteen examples of the LAND being sold at the rate of Re 1=00/square feet to the Christians Institutions here at India to built Churches and attach the educationa institutions to it to spread Christianity as a base of education
There is nothing so undisturbing if the temples at India holds their gold offered to these temples by the devotees .This parctise of the temples holding the gold under them in many a countries situated abroad also makes us to rethink on the same.
I cite another glaring example and this NEEDS to be taken and analysed very seriously
Now I ask ONE pertinent question and that is :: WHAT WILL THE CONGRESS DO IN THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
The temple - which is also known as Darbar Sahib - is in the city of Amritsar which was founded in 1577 by the fourth Sikh guru, Guru Ram Das with the fifth, Guru Arjan designing the temple. The temple started to be built in 1581 with the first version of the temple taking eight years
The golden temple, Harmandir Sahib, is surrounded by other milky white temples and the moat. It is not a large temple, but it is stunning, Built in 1577, the temple's dome is gilded with 750 kg of pure gold .
This temple was built by the INDIVIDUAL money and the other things that were required also was brought by the individual money that the TWO GURUS of the Sikhs as mentioned
Thereafter they also donated a LOT of GOLD to the temple as a RESERVE so that in the case of EMERGENCY that GOLD could be converted into LIQUID CASH and the temple may be saved from going to NOUGHTS.
Will Sonia Gandhi again will have the KNACK of CRYING that the GOLD of the GOLDEN TEMPLE should be brought out to the public to stabilize the INDIAN ECONOMY. DOES SHE HAS A RIGHT TO DO SO?
Incase if she does not know, the INDIVIDUAL GOLD or the OFFERINGS that it has been made to the GOLDEN TEMPLE is the INDIVIDUALS PROPERTY which he or they have donated to the TEMPLES and even the DECENDENTS of the TWO GURUS have NO RIGHT over them LEAVE apart Sonia Gandhi or the Congress. Even the COURT will NOT have the RIGHT at all to take it out from the Golden Temple
The Congress led by SONIA-RAHUL-PRIYANKA is NOTHING but a BLANK-HEADED-DONKEYS that BRAYS without POSSESSING any SOUND for anybody to hear and that way also- THE BRAY OF THE DONKEYS ARE NEVER HEARD BY ANYBODY OR TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
Many traditionalists, including the boards of many of the country’s leading temples, prefer to have their gold locked up rather than circulating in the economy. If the Government of those countries allow them to enjoy that facility why is that there is a HUE-AND-CRY here in India. What is there that makes the Indian temples and it’s administrators a VILLIAN to be counted out and “ CHICKED ” out ?.
“The jewelry belongs to God. Why should the government melt it?” asked Chandan Male, 42, a businessman and devotee at the Siddhivinayak Temple. “By auctioning it, the jewelry is only circulating among the devotees.”
India’s Love For the Gold
Gold in India has been the PRIVELEGE of a few and not many. Many have always desired to possess it as a TREASURE but not everybody have been able to possess it the way they might have been had the way to do that. For most of the time India was ruled by the princely rulers and they got what they needed. Then came the Mughals who looted it the way they wanted it to loot. Then came the Britishers who extracted the way they wanted it to send it to UK and England. What remained was the Indians who could loot that the way they wanted to do with the Congress and the little left overs have come to the temples and a bit of it tremains with the prople who could afford that.
Indians’ love of gold dates back centuries, stemming from gold-giving rituals and gold-buying festivals. Brides are draped with gold, and gold-laden dowries are a traditional gesture that cost a life savings for many poorer families in rural India.
Many ancient temples have basement vaults that are rarely, if ever, opened.
During a dramatic court battle in 2011 over the riches in the 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the southern state of Kerala, a Supreme Court team discovered $22 billion worth of gold.
This huge treasure trove — sacks of coins, diamonds and other jewelry, gem-encrusted ceremonial garb and solid gold idols lying in cavernous cellars — was revealed after the court ordered the vaults opened in response to a petition accusing temple officials of mismanaging the wealth.
Much of the gold had been deposited by the local royal family. A popular belief that the gold lay wrapped with dozens of venomous snakes underground kept robbers away. The image of a snake engraved on the wall at the entrance of the vault fueled the popular lore.
“The myth kept the gold safe for centuries,” said Ravi Varma Raja, 74, who was appointed by the royal family as the custodian of the vault keys until the court intervened.
“I am certain that 99 percent of the people would not like it to be melted,” Raja added, reflecting how unlikely it will be for the temple to accept the government’s plan.
A few temples already have deposited small portions of their gold in banks.
Temples which Have Been A Bit Different
There are instances and there have been some cases where the temples have been a bit different.
Some of them have never been so open hearted to follow the heart to come forward to deposit the Gold to the respective Government, be at the state or at the centre but some have done that in a very small manner and the Tirupati Temple is ONE of them.
In the past four years, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, one of India’s richest temples in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, has deposited more than five tons in a state-run bank in a “gold for gold ” program where the goods are melted down and held and the interest is paid back to the temple in gold.
“ We receive interest not in cash but in gold. Had the devotees opposed, we would not be able to do this,” said O. Balaji, the financial adviser to the temple ”.
Said Narendra Rane, the chairman of the Mumbai temple board: “I would not say that our gold is sitting idle.” He said the money from the gold auctions funds charity projects. The temple was waiting to see what the government’s interest rates would be before it decided whether to participate, he said.
At the Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai on Tuesday, thousands of worshipers waiting to pay homage to the elephant-headed god Ganesh stood in line in the heat watching curiously as the auction unfolded. There were bids on 352 gold items worth about $130,000, and 179 gold jewelry items were finally sold at the auction, bringing in $82,300 for the temple.
The wall and ceiling of the temple’s inner shrine are plated with pure gold, and the Ganesh idol is adorned with exquisite jewelry. Over the decades, devotees have made generous offerings when their special prayers were answered.
Reena Awasthi, 48, beamed, holding a gold necklace with Ganesh engravings that she bought for $1,250. She buys gold every year on this day from the shops. This year, her shopping turned out to be very special, she said.
“ Somebody’s prayer was answered, some wish was granted, and they gave this in gratitude to God. It has some sanctity and is more precious,” Awasthi said.
Although some worshipers expressed doubts about the government’s new plan, others were more pragmatic.
“ If the temple gold goes to nation-building and strengthening the economy, that is good karma, too,” said Aastha Desai, a 38-year old businessman.
Yes- that is and that holds GOOD, but then the reserves in the temples should not be ENFORCED for the temples to BRING it out OPEN to the Government . If by themselves if they do bring it out nothing wrong in it. But ENFORCEMENT against the LAW does not holds good.
These are the offerings given by the DEVOTEES and this is a kind of a HOLD that the Temples holds it with the DEVOTEES because the money of the devotees are involved directly when they offer it to the temples and NOT of the Government and hence the Government or any parties cannot ENFORCE the temples to do that ie to give it to the Government according to their whims or the fancies.
A open order ought to be obtained form the devotees. If anybody asks me for the same- MY ANSWER IS A “ BIG ” NO as I have TOILED very HARD to offer whatever MEAGRE that I could OFFER to my GOD and the GODDESS at the temples.
That is it
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Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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