The Hindu : Front Page : Thousands offer Pongala at Attukal: "Thiruvananthapuram: In an atmosphere charged with religious fervour and devotion, tens of thousands of women offered pongala at the Attukal Bhagawathy temple here on Sunday, marking the climax of the annual festival.
The Attukal Pongala, recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest congregation of women in the world, got off to a start in the morning with temple chief priest T.M. Muralidharan Namboodiripad lighting a traditional hearth in the presence of hundreds of euphoric devotees on the temple premises. Almost simultaneously, thousands of women devotees spread across 22 municipal wards in the city lit the small hearths they had set up on roadsides and in houses to cook rice and jaggery, which is offered to the presiding deity of the ancient temple."
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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Allrite , you said about the stupidity in "gracing" the pen by students wat about this post thousand and thousand of people in the name of god misusing public property and garbaging our roads and creating traffic jams and creating distress to others. im saying from my own experience last time i went there along with my mother just to accompany her . All these institutionalised worshiping grosses large chunk of money annually. half of wat they gross around the world might be enough to wipe out poverty from around the world . here i'm not referring to any particular religion. infact in every religions all religious institutions are big fatty with this sort of money. Well you will also realise if think for a while. people around the world are competing each other killing each other in the name of god but they fail to realise that compassion to our fellow being is the greatest religion and god is love. We are all caught up with certain symbols within each religion i hope a day will come when we learn to look beyond all these scriptures and symbols and will understand that unconditional love to others make a great religion and god resides within ourselves. you dont have to go to attukal to get the blessing he is right there within your heart and who lives through your good deeds.
Thanks
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