CHENGANNUR - BHAGAWATI TEMPLE

The Tahsildar's plight

Here is another - In the recent years, one Tahsildar of Chenganmur, a pious officer, performed in an elaborate manner 28-day Utsavam with pomp and splendour. During this period, the Mother had menses. The officer with a view to completing the Utsavam as planned, turned a blind eve to the occurrence, when acquainted by the Chief Priest, and hushed it up using his official powers. Could he hoodwink the omnipresent MOTHER? Would she endure this desecration? 'Result: His wife had profuse bleeding. Unusual and untimely too.

Enlightened by Munro's experience, he offered special pujas as an act of atonement. His wife got relief. So the belief gained currency and fortified the potency of the MOTHER and respect for the age-old traditions. Would any heckling 'ISM' blink at this? With what could it measure that divine sport? It is not literature to set aside labeling it, as the fevered flight of imagination, but pure history recorded with distilled facts and dates at it. Scepticism or agnosticism must remove the coloured glasses soon for getting a better perspective of the god's sports for their own benefit first. If not prototype of Munros and Tahsildars fill the land, and their wails will rend the skies. Now turn to legends, the divine saint-seers authored for the welfare of humanity.

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