November 25, 2024 • Makkal Adhikaram
Analysis of an American Christian by Stephan knapp
The book came out a year ago.
Hindus & Hindu temples are in ruins! It is the Hindus who are supporting this!” Stephen Nape, ‘Crime Against India and Need to Protect Ancient Vedic Traditions’
He has authored a research book titled ‘Crime against India and the need to preserve the ancient Vedic culture’. The book, which has been released in the US, is now doing well at the box office. How are thousands of years old Hindu temples in South India? Politicians in power…! He has revealed that they are very weak. besides
In India, which claims to be a ‘secular country’, how is it that Hinduism does not have the privileges of Islam and Christianity? He explains the tragedy well.
Today, politicians are subservient to people of other religions for some selfish reasons. Today, places of worship of minorities are maintained by the respective religions. But the ancient Hindu temples have been taken over by the government under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act of 1951.
Officials of the secular state have begun to “poke their nose” into the administration of every temple, in the affairs of the Agama and in the handling of their property. Other religious places do not have this disturbance. Stephen Knepe says so clearly.
“All Hindu temples were built by ancient kings. It is they who have left them property and ornaments. Their descendants did not claim any right to these temples. Not a single such temple has been built in the present democracy.
If that is the case, how can the government enter into a matter to which they have no right at all? How can you interfere in Hindu places of worship?” Of the 43,000 Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh, only 18% of the annual income is spent on these temples. The remaining 82% is spent on other administrative expenses of the government. Tirupati Sri Venkatachalapathy has an annual income of Rs 3100 crore. Of this, 83% is taken by the government. Andhra Pradesh government demolishes 10 ancient temples Builds a “golf” course. besides
What would have happened if we had planned to demolish 10 mosques or churches?” asks Stephen Knepe. A question worth pondering?
In Karnataka, out of the Rs 79 crore revenue generated annually from Hindu temples, the government spends Rs 7 crore generously (!) on the maintenance of these temples. What’s upset about this is… Rs 59 crore is being diverted to Haj pilgrimage. Of this, Rs 13 crore will be given by the government for the maintenance of churches. So far, 50,000 Hindu temples are closed due to lack of funds. This, too, is Stephen Nape’s “observation.” besides
Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala has been exploiting the income of the temple staff without any funds to pay the salaries of the temple employees. except
Thousands of acres of forest land around Sabarimala Ayyappa temple They are destroying the forest by giving it to the Christians. The government is even considering dissolving the existing Travancore-Cochin Autonomous Devaswom Board through an ordinance. This is also the analysis of an American Christian. Of course, Stephen Napp is not a Hindu.
Similarly, he ruefully describes that the government has “swaha” 70,000 acres of land belonging to Lord Jagannath in Puri, the most famous place in Orissa, and that about 4 lakh temples in Maharashtra have become dilapidated. besides
Don’t ask about our Tamil Nadu. Stephen Nape explains with statistics how the properties of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments are decaying, how the revenue due to the temples is not collected, that the mandapams, walls and tanks are not maintained at all, that the salaries of temple employees are not paid properly, and that government officials sell temple property as they like and spend it on other things.
Moreover, under the democratic rule that India has established since independence… The author attributes the fate of Hindu temples to lack of awareness among Hindus, corrupt attitude of politicians and anti-Hindu conspiracy of the media.
O Hindus! Now wake up.
