Plea to Tirumala Tirupathi [temples] Devasthanam
This is a good idea which when fructifies will provide a pleasant treat to the eyes of devotees traveling up and down the hills and bring the slopes and valleys at par with the natural beauty of Valley of flowers in the distant Himalayas .
But the catch is this--It was specifically mentioned that these saplings will be fed by treated sewage water.!This is a highly abhorrent method of executing the flower planting scheme on the sacred hills .It is revolting and cuts at the basic faith of all devotees of Lord Venkateswra/Srinivasar since yore , the belief that all the seven hills within which the temple at Tirumala is situated are all as sacred as the temple itself.
Namaazhwar 8 to 9 th cent AD , one of the most revered saint of Srivaishnavaites has written several hymns on Sri Venkateswara in which he states that if it is not possible to climb up to the temple at Tirumalai,then paying obseince to these hills from far will suffice to provide liberation or Moksham to a person.These hymns are recited every day in pious Sri vaishnavaite households .
Sri Ramanujar the foremost acharya of Sri Viashnavaites refused to climb the hills since he felt deeply and was overwhelmed with the belief that every inch , every bit of the soil and rocks of these hills were so sacred that he couldn't get himself to defile them with his foot !He is said to have climbed up the hills on his knees .
The sacred feet of Sriman Narayana nestled in these hills in archa form as Venakteswara in the temple is said to have been washed by Brahma with sanctified water when His feet stretched even beyond Brahma loka when he assumed the Trivikrama avatar, in ancient times.
Kindly donot spoil the scaredness attached to the feet of Sri Venkateswara by pouring treated sewage water to plants and thus washing Tirumala and the slopes of the seven hills with such water.
Tirumala and the hills seem to receive copious rainfall every year. So where is the dearth for water?Even if there is water shortage, is TTD so cash strapped that it cannot buy and transport fresh water to water the saplings and plants?
I would rather reel in the pleasure of a occasional glimpse of wild flowers of rain fed plants and trees at Tirumala and prefer the dry forest on the hills than see green slopes with rows upon rows of bed of flowers and huge gardens with brightly colored flowers fed on a diet of treated sewage water .That very sight even if it be a mere glance at such flowers would be sacriligeous .The means of executing of this new scheme [planting flowering saplings and watering it with treated sewage water ] is totally unacceptable and absolutely revolting.,
My plea to TTD is ,kindly abandon this scheme to water saplings in Tirumala and on the slopes of the seven sacred hills with treated sewage water immediately .
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