Capital city is growing faster and what I have recently observed is the growing number of roadside small mandir and dargahs in the city. There are areas where a number of small under-managed mandir and dargah being opened in the recent times on the roadsides. While seeing these mandir/dargah people cannot resist themselves to stop for a while and offer something to the gods placed in those. I am hardly able to determine the reason and purpose of those mandirs and dargahs where long queues of people get mustered up every day or on specific days. I don't know whether these newly emerged mandirs are actually able to fulfill any purpose/wish of the people who visit them? It deliberately makes me to ponder upon the expansion of superstition in our country.
People still do believe in such spots which were apparently set up because of the greedy intentions of some lazy people who have made these spots a medium of their earning. It is like a big chain of superstition in which one blind follower makes the others blind! And this scenario becomes pathetic when such spots become crowded and create traffic jam on the roads. Vehicles and people cannot move because of the crowd of those "highly religious people" who are busy in pleasing the gods by offering the phool mala and chaddar. These spots are truly unauthentic and illegal but still they are not only persisting but growing faster.
This situation raises many questions at a time; that if such spots would grow faster then what is the significance of visiting the big shrines? Is this the way the religious beliefs among the Indians getting strengthened? Are we becoming religious or superstitious and Is this is the way we can correct our problems and life conditions? This is a very complex issue which needs to be thought of by every wise Indian.
People still do believe in such spots which were apparently set up because of the greedy intentions of some lazy people who have made these spots a medium of their earning. It is like a big chain of superstition in which one blind follower makes the others blind! And this scenario becomes pathetic when such spots become crowded and create traffic jam on the roads. Vehicles and people cannot move because of the crowd of those "highly religious people" who are busy in pleasing the gods by offering the phool mala and chaddar. These spots are truly unauthentic and illegal but still they are not only persisting but growing faster.
This situation raises many questions at a time; that if such spots would grow faster then what is the significance of visiting the big shrines? Is this the way the religious beliefs among the Indians getting strengthened? Are we becoming religious or superstitious and Is this is the way we can correct our problems and life conditions? This is a very complex issue which needs to be thought of by every wise Indian.
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