ANNADANA PRABHU OF VAIKOM

The scrupulous attention he paid to administrative affairs being flawless, generation of priests implemented all that the ordained to the very letter of every tenet. But later sectarianism and dogmatism entered the body politic of the temple management and gnawed at the vitals of noble traditions. And when bigotry assumed its unethical hideous shape, reformers entered the arena and succeeded in cutting it to correct size. 

The unprecedented clamor for admission of Harijans into this temple stands a sure index of the degeneration entrenched in the temple management, and it signifies rightly the public apathy for the orthodox Brahmins that aimed at glorification and perpetuation of the ill- gotten power. Alas! it ended in its nullification. Total and permanent. 

Does God close his eyes for ever? The stone God may, but the living God being ever awake, administers justice at the right time, when wrongs get righted. This natural phenomenon occurred here when Harijan entry into the temple in the agitation started during 1924-25 AD.

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