Temple of god or priest………?

Usually I go to temples for the serene n quite environment. But my mother’s insisted that I should come to temple as it is Diwali. It is lord venkateswara’s temple. There are more than 100 devotees in the temple and temple is relatively small for that many people. I am trying my level best to have a glimpse of god through the huge crowd. Poojari is in the middle of the crowd. It is time for him to bless ignorant devotees. People think that he is as powerful as god as he is messenger of god. So they should definitely please him. The most pleasing factor in this world is “MONEY”. People, who hesitate to give one rupee to poor beggar, started pouring money into our poojari’s plate and falling on his feet to hear his blessings. It’s pity that they blindly believe that his mere blessings would make them prosperous and happy. Any ways there will be somebody who takes advantage of our ignorance. Here that somebody is our poojari, who knows making most out of people’s ignorance more than any body else on this earth.

So he applied a new strategy instantly. If you give less than 5 rupees, you don’t deserve his blessings. He says “later”. If you give 10, you are lucky enough to hear one blessing. If you give, you will be showered with numerous blessings. It doesn’t matter to him whether they are relevant to you or not. His idea filled his plate with money within minutes. Nobody is interested in our poor god but only in poojari and his blessings. Our poor god is witnessing this silently. He might even have got doubt that whether these people have come for him or his poojari…? God only knows.