Four stages in the cosmic plan to save the humanity

Four stages in the cosmic plan to save the humanity

Dear friend,

    I hereby give my observations regarding what has happened during 16th July to 31st Aug. 2013, the period predicted by Nostradamus (also in SRIMADBHAGWAT) as a prelude for start of a program to be taken up by thecosmic powers for ushering in a golden period for the entire world; to be initiated from India in 2014 and to cover the entire humanity by 2025.

    Interpretation of Nostradamus prophecy no. 24 - chapter 6 suggests that during 16^th July to 31^st August this year such a calamitous situation will arise, which would necessitate the coronation of a King (leader) who would lead by example in India and bring a lasting peace in the entire world. As this peaceful period is to start from India, Nostradamus might be referring to the next leader of India.

    Has such a calamitous situation actually arisen?

    Firstly, exactly during this period, certain revelations have been made in India that have exposed all leaders, to whichever political party they belong, to be thoroughly corrupt and culprits to the extent of being criminals. It was necessary for the cosmic powers to expose them, if a total change of order is to be brought about during next general elections. Just in order to purchase votes, about three lakh crores of rupees are being spent annually on unproductive factors like Narega, Manrega, and now the food security bill. By proper utilization of this amount, such schemes could have been implemented that could solve the unemployment problem of the country, add to production and thus solve all the major problems facing the country.

    Secondly, scientists have reported that the radioactive water is constantly flowing from Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, and the situation is so grave that most of the persons living on earth may develop cancer within 20 to 25 years. Anyone needing the copy of these views by prominent scientists may mail me. Japan Government has officially confirmed this, but they seem to be underplaying this news. However, a grave danger as indicated by Nostradamus is certainly looming large on the horizon for the entire humanity. Half of the world is reeling today under the perils of vigorous hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, possibility of nuclear disasters and other natural calamities besides constant threats of terrorism.

    Another Nostradamus prophecy that was fulfilled on 15^th February 2013 has proved to be astonishingly accurate. It was predicted that when the Pope will change his place, burning pieces of an asteroid would fall on earth. For the first time in past hundreds of years, a Pope resigned in February 2013 and thus changed his place, and during the same period burning pieces of an asteroid fell in Russia. It was also mentioned in the same prophecy that, thereafter, a big dog will howl all night. Nostradamus had referred the ‘big dog’ as the ‘EVIL’ or Anti-God’. It is mentioned in KALKI PURAN(the scripture regarding the next incarnation of Lord Vishnu); when the Evil enters in final phase of war against the Kalki Avatar, he would fight ferociously till end. Therefore, the howling of big dog, as described by Nostradamus, is nothing else but the last war cry of the Anti-God.              

    Also, I wish you to carefully analyse the predictions made by a Persian saint Ustad Sahib to the King of Mewar about 100 years back. These prediction are recorded and are kept at the Zoroastrian College, Mumbai (a Deemed University) and are so amazingly accurate as if told be the God himself. During the period these predictions were made, no one could even think on these lines, but now, every prediction has come true.

Ustad Sahib had predicted about hundred years back:

1. India will get the Swaraj as it is destined, but this will not help the Indians because the new rulers will not be up to the job and they will start treating the people as their servants.

 2. India will be divided at the time of getting Swaraj. This prediction is most amazing because the idea of Pakistan was not even mooted at that juncture.

3. The rule of kings will be converted to rule of people i.e. democracy would be established. No one could even think of this eventuality 100 years back when the country was a conglomerate of states ruled by kings and nawabs.

4. The first ruler will be from north; then a man will rule for a short period; thereafter a woman will rule for 11 years; then a man from Gujarat will the ruler and thereafter the Lady will come back to power. First ruler from north turned out to be Pandit Nehru, and then Lal Bahadur Shastri ruled for a short period followed by the 11 year rule of Indira Gandhi as predicted. She was followed by Morarji Desai (the man from Gujarat) after which she recaptured the power as predicted by the Persian saint.

5. It was further predicted by the Persian Saint that after these periods, there would emerge a situation of chaos, and sometime after 2000 AD the price-rise will become uncontrollable resulting in a revolution. This prophecy has been fulfilled exactly during period predicted by Nostradamus. The free fall of rupee has virtually submerged the country in a financial tsunami.

 6. Thereafter, a person guided by the cosmic powers (who can be termed as a representative of God) will take over the rule of India and will be able to control the situation to bring in a golden period.

    Another amazing incident occurred in 1964 when a representative of cosmic powers met in shape of a LAMA (Buddhist Priest) to an Australian writer Andrew Tomas. Our research indicates that the said Lama was none other than LORD PARASURAM who asked Andrew Tomas to convey a divine message to the mankind through his writings. He told the Australian writer - at present humanity is at crossroads; from here you can either ascend to stars or go down in pit of moral decay. Your foolish race has already fought two world wars, and are preparing for the third. In this war you can destroy our creation – the earth, the lama said. He further added that it has taken us a MANVANTAR (a large period of time running into crores of years) to build this planet. If man is going to destroy it, we will destroy the man first. We can again develop the man in few lakh years, but if earth is destroyed it will take us a manvantar to build it again.

    The lama said that we will give you a ‘planetary warning’ at appropriate time. We have hidden some facts in pyramids which would indicate that these structures were made by a developed race, much more accomplished than your race. When these astonishing facts would be revealed, you would see the details on Teama said that we will give you a ‘planetary warning’ at appropriate time. We have hidden some facts in pyramids which would indicate that these structures were made by a developed race, much more accomplished than your race. When these astonishing facts would be revealed, you would see the details on Television screens while sitting your homes. When the lama made this prediction in 1964, such programmes were not shown on television, but in July-August 2013 a series of episodes were shown by History TV18 Channel, where it was revealed that these pyramids were actually power houses which produced electricity and relayed to thousands of other pyramids placed strategically all around the world.

    The lama also predicted that these revelations would be a warning to the mankind; pay attention to what we say, otherwise, your race would also vanish from earth, and after ten thousand years no one will know about you as you do not know about the race that built the pyramids. He said that when these revelations are made – understand that big things are going to happen.

    Other details of this discussion are given in my book- FATE OF THE WORLD BEYOND 2012.  

The fulfillment of the above-mentioned predictions prove that every major event happening on earth is predestined, and therefore, we can hope that like the past events, the future events predicted would also happen accordingly; and we would be saved .

     Now the question before us is that how all this would happen?

     I feel that there is a cosmic plan running in four stages, and each stage would be unfolded before us by the cosmic powers exactly at the right time.

1st stage     The people of India would be made to believe in the existence of cosmic powers and their plan, which has already been described in ancient scriptures and through many saints and seers. This would be through the fulfillment of various prophecies made hundreds of years back, and also through understanding of divine messages being received directly by our study group in shape of such miracles that have already been certified by leading scientists of the world to be sent by the cosmic powers.

     The media will play a major role at this stage; they will make the people realise that these predictions are being fulfilled exactly in the described period, and the country has actually sunk in a no-hope situation, both on political and financial fronts. The prediction made in SRIMADBHAGWAT that ‘various dacoits masquerading as kings would be ruling India at this juncture’ has already been proved to be true, and further it has been predicted that these dacoits would be eliminated by the cosmic powers before 27th July 2014, the date by which the next government would be in power.

    There is substantial progress on this count. Though most of the leading TV channels in India had broadcast my interviews regarding the research of our study group, it is for the first time that ZEE NEWS, in a recent broadcast of my interview, have opined that the disaster of Uttarakhand (and many other disasters) could have been saved if the divine messages received by us were heeded. Correspondents of many TV channels, newspapers, and websites have thoroughly studied the divine messages received by us in shape of pictures appearing by themselves on pieces of white papers put by me in my pooja place. Reputed scientists, philosophers and jurists from various countries have examined these pictures and have certified these to be divine messages necessary for immediate consideration of entire mankind.

     Some newspapers and magazines are also helping by publishing these details. After publishing my books -' FATE OF THE WORLD: BEYOND 2012' and 'A COSMIC PLAN TO SAVE THE HUMANITY', M/s Dhingra Publishing House (dphbooks@gmail.com) are going to publish my next book in Hindi which would incorporate the details of our latest research..

     Therefore, it is the duty of all of us to urge the media to complete this job as soon as possible because if the first stage is not completed, the next stages cannot be taken up by the cosmic powers. A film producer of Mumbai Mr. Mahesh Adhikari is in touch with me and is carrying out research on this aspect in view of making a film on the proverbial KALKI AVATAR, the next incarnation of Lord Vishnu who would appear in shape of a consciousness and take up the work of enlightenment of humanity.

2nd stage     When the people of India realise that the consciousness of a Divine Power has descended on earth to bring a total change of order in the world, another prophecy made in SRIMADBHAGWAT, given below, would be fulfilled.

Verse - 20, Skandha XII, chapter -2 of SRIMADBHAGWAT

When all the culprits ( various dacoits masquerading as kings ) would be eliminated, then, due to the presence of Lord Vasudeva on earth, the thoughts of everyone will be purified.

     This means that when the people realise the presence of GOD (or HIS Consciousness) on earth, they would adopt the cosmic plan. This plan is based on ‘Doctrine of heart’ being told by the divine powers to the mankind since hundreds of years. Famous Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurthy had said that the GOD has a plan for the mankind, and this plan is so beautiful that whosoever has understood it cannot think of anything else. The basic ingredients of this plan were told by a cosmic power (described above) to an Australian writer Andrew Tomas in 1964; and after the death of Andrew Tomas in 2001, this plan was forwarded by the cosmic powers to our study group for propagation.Accordingly I have discussed this plan in my book A COSMIC PLAN TO SAVE THE HUMANITY. This book is available free of cost to all those who send me a request for this book at ashokkrghai@yahoo.co.in.

3rd stage     When people of India understand and believe in the cosmic plan, they would bring that government in power which is destined to bring a golden period in India after 27th July 2014. The exact process for mind-wash of the people including the politicians has been formulated by the cosmic powers, and will be revealed at the proper time.

4th stage     The governmental, political, financial and social aspects for development of a scheme to be taken up by the government and the people, has also been told to our study group through miraculous divine messages. If we Indians show the will for execution of this plan, we will certainly succeed. Therefore, we shall harbor no doubts about the success of the COSMIC PLAN TO SAVE THE HUMANITY. We have only to work for its success to complete it before 27^th July 2014. It is not only our study group; there are hundreds of thousands of such persons and groups in the entire world who are aware of this change of order to be brought about by the divine powers and are working for its fulfillment .

     The Time has come when should understand the meaning of what Dr. Ambedkar had said when we were fighting for freedom from the British. He said – today we are blaming the British for all of our problems. After attaining freedom we will blame each other; and a time will come when we will have no one to blame except ourselves. Therefore, we are ourselves responsible for the dreadful situation that we are in today, and only we can rectify it. Up to now, we had applied our minds and brought about this precarious situation; let us now work according to the minds of cosmic powers and extricate ourselves from this seemingly hopeless situation. For this, the divinity has given us a four staged programme described above. Lest us all work the success of the first stage; making the countrymen believe in the cosmic powers and their program. Rest all will automatically fall in place.

     If you are convinced, please forward this message to all you can.

Ashok Ghai,

Convener, Kalki Vichar Manch

mail id - ashokkrghai@yahoo.co.in

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Convener, Kalki Vichar Manch

mail id - ashokkrghai@yahoo.co.in

A Leftist assault by Tavleen Singh

A Leftist assault

Tavleen Singh 

Nov 24 2013

Every time I check online these days for reactions to this column, I come upon some new malicious attack on me personally.

Nearly always the writers of these venomous pieces are Leftist hacks whose sentiments I have offended for the exact same two reasons. 

The first of these is that they appear to be incensed by my daring to make fun of their beloved ‘Shehzada’ and his Mummy and the second is that I have written more than once that when we discuss Narendra Modi we need to use the same measure as we use for other political leaders.

When I said this at the Tata Literary Festival two weeks ago, I so deeply offended a venerable former editor that he started bobbing up and down and frothing at the mouth. 

He then proceeded to write an untruthful account of what I said, attributing to me “rabid anti-Sonia and Rahul Gandhi feelings”. So I feel obliged to set the record straight. 

What I said was that the Gujarat riots of 2002 needed to be seen in the context of the history of communal violence in India and especially in the context of the 1984 pogroms against the Sikhs. 

If Modi is to be charged with “State sponsorship” of the violence in 2002, then the same charge must be made against Rajiv Gandhi. This is very important because only when we see 2002 in the context of 1984 do we realise that there would have been no 2002 if there had been a semblance of justice after 1984. 

This should be clearer to political pundits than it is to ordinary voters, but the opposite has happened. 

The reason why Modi’s rallies are drawing huge crowds across the country is because ordinary voters can see that the Gujarat Chief Minister’s past mistakes are no longer the issue. What they are more interested in is what Modi can do for India in the future. 

They have heard, they tell you, that in the villages of Gujarat he has been able to provide reliable, uninterrupted supplies of electricity.

They have heard, they tell you, that in Gujarat there is more prosperity since Modi became Chief Minister, and it is this that is the secret of Modi’s appeal. 

Leftist pundits, alas, hate leaving the salubrious and safe environs of literary festivals in Mumbai and press conferences in Lutyens Delhi, so they continue to rant about Modi’s “fascism”. 

They appear not to have observed that the word is not understood at all in that big, bad India that lies beyond their immediate circle of friends and fellow travellers. 

In the ‘real India’, what matters most are such things as the absence of proper schools, hospitals and roads. 

Shameful though it is that after 66 years of glorious Independence what matters is the daily struggle to get clean water and reliable supplies of electricity. Modi is seen as someone who is able to deliver on these fronts. 

Not all Leftist pundits are ideologically blinded so there are those who have noticed that he is raising fundamental economic issues and they see this as extremely dangerous. 

What if he does become prime minister and changes the economic direction we have taken in the past decade? What if he succeeds in making India a halfway developed country? What will happen to them and their political ideas? 

Incidentally, if Shrimati Sonia Gandhi (see how respectful I am) had not forced a change of economic direction, India would almost certainly have been a middle-income country by 2030. This is not my private assessment based on my “rabid” feelings, but the assessment of some of the finest economists in the world. 

What are the things that were changed under her guidance? 

We took money that should have been spent on rural schools, hospitals, roads and sanitation and invested it in welfare programmes of the MNREGS kind. 

And, by introducing taxes that can be imposed with retrospective effect and closing down huge projects in the name of environment, we sent investors fleeing to friendlier shores.

Somehow even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh forgot that the boom years that came as a result of his economic reforms were mostly thanks to the private sector. 

Whenever I say this, it acts as a red rag to my Leftist critics who then proceed to malign me for being “pro-rich”. 

In fact what I am is very, very pro-India. I believe that if India had followed economic policies that were not guided by ideology, we would today have been among the richest countries in the world. Ordinary Indians appear to share this view. 

This is why when Modi talks of 53 years of misrule by the Congress, he manages to get such resonance. 

Leftist pundits seethe when they see this and in shrill tones say the ‘Gujarat model’ is a failure. 

Only they believe this. 

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Controversial varsity to be cut down to size

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Controversial varsity to be cut down to size

Kumar Chellappan

24 November 2013

CHENNAI

[The controversial Heera International Islamic University built by one Nowheera Shaikh at Tirupati, suffered a major setback with the District Collector of Chittoor, K Ramgopal, ordering the demolition of six floors of the seven-storeyed structure.]

An investigation ordered by the District Collector revealed that Shaikh constructed six additional floors though she had permission from Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) for constructing only the ground and first floor.

The Heera International University set up at the abode of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess Padmavathi had triggered massive protests and all major political parties in Andhra Pradesh had demanded its closure.In his order, Ramgopal has asked the police and revenue officials to demolish the illegally-constructed six floors.

Ramgopal has asked the Thondavada Panchayath Secretary to take the help of senior officials including Vice-Chairman of TUDA and police to carry out the demolition. TUDA had given permission to the society Madaresa-Niswam Isha-Atul-Islam-Urdu and Arabic Development Society Trust headed by Shaikh to construct a building with a first floor.

Officials in the Collector’s office told The Pioneer that the secretary of Thondavada Panchayath had issued notices to Shaikh in February and May 2012 asking her to stop all construction activities as she had gone ahead with the construction of six floors for which she did not have permission.

Tirumala Tirupati Parirakshana Samithi, an umbrella organisation of devotees of Tirupati shrine, which includes retired judges of the High Court and former Director-General of Police TS Rao had sent a petition to the District Collector to stop the Islamic University near Tirupati, to ensure peace and tranquillity in the holy town. 

Interestingly, many Muslim leaders in Tirupati had expressed their apprehensions over this university also.

Shamir Basha, a widely-respected Muslim businessman in Tirupati said the Islamic college established last year was shrouded in mystery. “Nowheera Shaikh claims she is from Tirupati. But nobody heard of her  before she started the controversial college,” said Basha. 

Sorakayala Krishna Reddy, Tirupati’s historian and chronicler said the Islamic College has been built on land reclaimed from a temple pond. “The land on which the college has been built belonged to Timmapuram Venkateswara Temple. 

This temple was built in 1542 by the grandson of Saint Annamacharya, the music composer. The temple was destroyed by Hyder Ali in 1782.

The original statue of Lord Venkateswara measuring 14.5 ft was there in the temple land for a while,” said Reddy. He said he had seen the statue during his childhood. 

Adi Kesavulu Reddy, leader of the YSR Congress said all political parties except the Communists were against the Islamic University. 

“The Communist Party of India had come out in the open questioning the authority of the district collector to order the demolition,” said Reddy.

Tirupati and northern Tamil Nadu has been witnessing a series of marches and demonstrations against the Islamic University. Ramesh Shinde, national spokesman of the Hindu Jan Jagruthi Samstha said the agitation would continue till the Islamic University is shut down permanently. “There is a special law in Andhra Pradesh which prevents other religions from building their religious institutions close to Hindu places of worship,”Shinde said.

The HJJS has called for a massive demonstration at Tirupati on December 20 to protest against the high handed behaviour of certain TUDA officials in allotting temple lands to mosques and churches.

HR & CE: Rogue Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu

Dear Shakuntala Iyer 

With reference to  point 2:

2. Lobby with next govt to abolish Endowment or any other form of Act on Hindu Temples. 

It is important that we as Hindus know certain basic facts of the origins of HR & CE or its various versions, in various southern states, that have  have the same colonial origins from the united Madras Presidency, that included major portions of  south India, the present day states up to Ganjam in Odissa, minus the erst while princely states like Mysore.

This act formed during the British era, ought to have been repealed after Independence in 1947 and the Temples ought to have gone back to the orginal trustees and real care takers. It did not happen. 

The first point we all must know is that all these acts are ultravires (anti constitutional). Hence after studying the origins of this malady deeply the TWS has filed a case in the supreme court, and notices were issued more than nine months ago to the states of AP, TN and Pondy. 

There is an article written by T.R. Ra mesh in 2011, that graphically explains the predicament of Hindu Temples. I am copying that article...

Regards,

GPSrinivasan

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HR & CE: Rogue Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu

by T.R.Ramesh

It is a great irony that a secular Government should deeply embroil itself in the administration and running of Hindu temples and institutions in the guise of supervising the secular aspects of temple administration. This grotesque policy of the Government to supervise religious institutions applies only to Hindu Religious institutions.

Viselike grip on Religious Institutions

By its own account the HR & CE Dept administers (or rather mal-administers):

-        36,425 temples

-        56 Mutts

-        47 temples belonging to Mutts

-        1721 Specific endowments and 189 Trusts

This has been possible due to Tamil Nadu being ruled continuously by atheists and unscrupulous persons, a corrupt bureaucracy, a debased High Court and above all, stark apathy, indifference and ignorance among Hindus. In recent times, the covert and overt designs of Christian missionaries and agencies have added to the plight of Hindu temples.

Around 1840, the then British Government started giving up administration of temples. They asked some of the prominent mutts in Tamil Nadu to look after some of the important temples and endowments. The Heads of Mutts who were happy to takeover the administration of these temples so that they are run as they ought to be run, were careful enough to get written documents or “Muchalikas” from the British Government, which assured them that they would not take back the temples from the Mutts.

Thus some very important temples came under the complete control and ownership of these Mutts and the Mutts ran them ably and efficiently. The primary purposes of worship and utilization of funds meant for the upkeep of temples and conduct of rituals were never lost sight of by the Heads of Mutts or officers. While a few temples were thus brilliantly administered by the Mutts, thousands of other temples in the then Madras Presidency were handed over to the respective trustees with the then Government playing little or no role in supervising them.

 In 1925, the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1923 (Act I of 1925) was passed by the local Legislature with the object of providing for better governance and administration of certain religious endowments. The Act divided temples into what are known as Excepted and Non-excepted temples. Immediately after the Act came into force, its validity was challenged on the ground that the Act was not validly passed. For this reason, the legislature enacted the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1926, Act II of 1927 repealing Act I of 1925. 

This Act was amended from time to time. It is unnecessary to refer to the changes introduced later. Suffice it to say that the Act was amended by 1946 by as many as ten Acts I of 1928, V of 1929, IV of 1930, XI of 1931, XI of 1934, XII Of 1935, XX of 1938, XXII of 1939, V of 1944 and X of 1946. A radical change was introduced, however, by Act XII of 1935. The Government was not satisfied with the powers of the Board then existing and they clothed the Board with an important and drastic power by introducing a new Chapter, Ch. VI-A, by which jurisdiction was given to the Board to notify a temple for reasons to be given by it.

Thus, it can be seen that even in the pre-independence era, the Board had systematically consolidated its powers to take over and administer temples. Of course, this despicable intervention by Government applied only to Hindu Institutions.

Hindu Religious Endowments Board

Shri Krupananda Vaariar had undertaken to build the Vadalur Ramalinga Swami’s Sathya Gnana Sabha in the 1940s and had gone around Tamil Nadu collecting funds from devotees and spending such collection with great care. The Hindu Religious Board, of which one Chinnaiah Pillai was president, intervened in the selfless work of Shri Vaariar and tried his best to scuttle it. Thanks to the just intervention of the then Chief Minister of Madras State, Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar, his evil designs fell flat.

Omandur Reddiar also intervened to stop the unjust takeover of Chidambaram Sabhanayagar Temple in 1947. But Chinnaiah Pillai and his cronies in the HRE Board were not to give up.

The 1951 Act

Notwithstanding the clear directions of the Madras Government in 1947 to drop notification proceedings and the clear direction of the Hon’ble Madras High Court in 1939 that the Board cannot undertake notification process on frivolous grounds, the Board started the notification process of the Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple in 1950 and the then Madras Government issued a Government Order (G.O.) Ms. 894, Rural Welfare Dept. dated 28-8-1951 published in the Fort St. George Gazette on 4-9-1951.

Meanwhile, India after gaining independence from British rule had become a Republic on 26 January 1950, with its Constitution guaranteeing certain fundamental rights to its citizens. Special religious and administrative rights were guaranteed to Religious Denominations or sections thereof.

The Board also tried to take over the famous Shri Guruvayurappan Temple in Guruvayur, Udupi Shri Krishna Temple under the management of Shri Shirur Mutt of Udupi and Shri Venkataramana Temple belonging to the sect of Gowd Saraswath Brahmins in Mulkipetta of South Kanara district.

All the above religious institutions challenged the takeover by the HRE Board. In the meantime, a new Hindu Religious Act was passed by the Madras Government, known as the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951. The Board was now replaced by the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Department, headed by a Commissioner who was given vast powers under the Act.

The Government facing stiff opposition in the Kerala region against its order on Guruvayur temple, withdrew the order. Shri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of the Shirur Mutt, the Podu Dikshitars of Shri Sabhanayagar Temple and Devaraja Shenoy representing the community of Gowd Saraswat Brahmins in Mulkipetta filed Civil Miscellaneous and Writ petitions challenging the Government Orders.

Landmark Judgments

On 13 December 1951, a Division Bench of Hon’ble Madras High Court presided by the Learned Judges Justice Satyanarayana Rao and Justice Rajagopalan passed two landmark judgments.

-        1952 I MLJ 481 – Devaraja Shenoy vs. State of Madras – quashing the Government order to takeover the administration of the Shri Venkataramana Temple in Mulkipetta.

-        1952 I MLJ 557 – Shri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Shri Shirur Mutt vs. State of Madras quashing the Government order to takeover the administration of Shri Udupi Krishna Temple and Shri Sabhanayagar Temple in Chidambaram.

In the Shirur Mutt Case, many provisions of the new HR & CE Act of 1951 were held ultra vires of the Constitution. The Division Bench clearly defined a Religious Denomination, their rights - religious and administrative. It also explained how these rights were intermingled and could not be separated in the case of a Mathathipathi and since it was the same with the Podu Dikshitars of Chidambaram Temple, it equated them to Mathathipathis.

Equally important were the findings of the Division Bench that the attempt of the Board and the Commissioner HR & CE to takeover the temples were not only unconstitutional but bad on merits.

Appeals to Supreme Court

The Government of Madras filed three appeals against these two landmark verdicts. On 9 February 1954, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court dismissed the civil appeal 39/1953 after recording the statement of the Advocate General of the Madras Government that the G.O. passed to takeover the Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple would be withdrawn. The Government sought no leave and none was granted.

Similarly the Government’s Civil Appeal no.15/1953 filed against the verdict of Hon’ble Madras Court in the Shri Venkataramana Temple Mulkipetta was also dismissed after the Government offered to withdraw the G.O. appointing the Executive Officer.

The Government of Madras contested only the Civil Appeal 38 of 1953, pertaining to the Shirur Mutt Case and even in that appeal did not contest on merits. The Advocate General argued only on constitutional grounds. This was clearly recorded in the Supreme Court judgment.

Thus, it is amply clear that the HR & CE Department and the Government never had any case right from the beginning on merits, and they simply wanted to takeover the administration of large and famous temples to pave way for the takeover of all other temples in the Presidency.

The 1954 Supreme Court judgment in the Shirur Mutt Case

The judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the appeal related to the Shirur Mutt (AIR 1954 SC 282) and the judgment by another Constitution Bench in the Venkataramana Devaru vs. State of Mysore (1958 SCR 895) are landmark judgments that Courts in India are expected to follow regarding Article 26 of the Indian Constitution and Denomination rights.

The Hon’ble Supreme Court agreed with the Hon’ble Madras High Court that many of the sections of the 1951 HR & CE Act were ultra vires the Constitution. It also clearly observed that while the legislature could seek to regulate the administration, it must always leave the administration to the denomination. It struck down the sections of the 1951 Act which sought to appoint Executive Officers to religious institutions as arbitrary and ultra vires the Constitution. The Advocate General of Madras agreed with the Court and said he could not defend those sections.

Major Fraud by the Madras Government in the 1959 Act

Left with no choice but to come up with an amended Act in light of the above judgments of the Madras High Court and Supreme Court of India, the Government of Madras passed a new Act known as the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Act of 1959 (Act 22 of 1959).

In that amended Act, it committed serious frauds which till today continue unchallenged. To understand these frauds we need to know more about the 1954 Supreme Court judgment in the Shirur Mutt Case.

Under the 1951 Act, the HR & CE Dept. had powers under sections 56, 58(3)(b) and 63 to 68 to appoint an Executive Officer to religious institutions including Mutts. Of these, sections 56 and 63-68 were held ultra vires the Constitution of India and were struck down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the above-mentioned judgment. The same judgment upheld Sec. 58(3)(b) as valid (this section was earlier struck down by the Division Bench of Madras High Court) since there were adequate appeal safeguards and since the Executive Officer so appointed could only be a servant of the Trustee and could not be empowered to act as the Trustee himself.

Any honest and law-abiding person would imagine that the Madras Government, in deference to the Supreme Court of India and to meet the ends of justice, would have deleted the two sets of sections struck down and retained the section upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

What happened was exactly the opposite.

The Government of Madras introduced a new section [section 45] in the 1959 Act which was even more arbitrary and draconian than Sec. 56 of the 1951 Act. It also retained the Sections 63-68 in the new Act which now carried the numbers 71-76.

The only section relating to appointment of Executive Officer that was upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court was not carried in the new Act. But this would not seem strange if we understand that the intention of the Government and the Department was that no appeal safeguards should be provided to the Trustees of Hindu Institutions against the Department’s illegal and arbitrary orders. Sec. 58(3)(b) of the 1951 Act had earlier afforded such safeguards – it was therefore removed by the Government.

More intriguing is the fact that this rogue department continue to appoint Executive Officers under Sec. 64 of the 1959 Act (the equivalent of Sec. 58 in the 1951 Act) without any power to do so. For example, the Deputy Commissioner in 1963 modified the scheme for Shri Kamakshi Amman Temple of Kachipuram, which is under the ownership of the Kanchi Mutt. While proceeding to modify the scheme under Sec. 64 of the Act, the Deputy Commissioner appointed an Executive Officer and this is an illegal act.

These frauds show there were adequate number of scoundrels and scalawags in the HR & CE Department sixty years ago, and we all know the Dept. has no dearth of such people now.

Going against the dictum of the Hon’ble High Court and the Hon’ble Supreme Court did not stop here. One classic example of the arrogance of the Government is the amendment they brought out soon after the Full Bench judgment in the Rajan Kattalai Case in the Supreme Court (1965 SCR (3) 17). In this case, to get over the quashing of the Extension of the Executive Officer’s appointment, the Government amended the HR & CE Act introducing Sec. 75-A which gave such extensions retrospective effect notwithstanding any judgments by any courts including the Supreme Court. This attempt to retain control over Rajan Kattalai of Tiruvarur Thiagarajaswami Devasthanam in utter contempt to the judgment of the Highest Court of the land in that case was thwarted by the Hon’ble Madras High Court. The Hon’ble High Court of Madras, held:

-        “by introducing Section 75-A the Legislature has simply directed the Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments and Executive Officer of Sri Thiagarajaswami Temple to disobey or disregard the decision of the highest court of the land in S.D.G. Pandara Sannadhi v. State of Madras (1965) 2 M.L.J. 167. The obvious purpose of Section 75-A extending the impugned notification is to nullify the effect of this decision of the Supreme Court.” (emphasis added).

In view of this judgment of the Madras High Court, the Government could not succeed in retaining administration of Rajan Kattalai Endowment, but this and other illegal sections 75-B and 75-C are still part of the HR & CE Act, not only in utter disregard of the dictum of the Supreme Court of India, but also in violation of Article 31A(1)(b) of the Constitution.

What Hindus should know

HR & CE Dept. officials carry out of a lot of illegal activities in temples and other religious institutions. Most of their orders replacing Trustees or interfering in temple matters are without jurisdiction or in abuse of it. The general impression of Hindu devotees is that these officials have the power under law to do such acts. Nothing can be farther from truth. Every Hindu Devotee should be aware of the following facts:

(1)      HR&CE Dept. or Government cannot appoint Executive Officers to any religious institution without valid reasons and without following natural justice:

As per the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Velur Devasthanam Case 1965 SCR (2) 934, a case must be always made out for an appointment of an Executive Officer. Government or HR & CE Department or even Courts cannot appoint Executive Officers without strong justification. This is the position in the case of non-denominational temples. In case of denominational temples like Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple, the HR & CE Dept. has no rights at all, in view of the special status accorded to denominations by Article 26 of the Constitution and by Sec. 107 of the HR & CE Act.

Further, the Commissioner or the Department need to follow the principles of natural justice while seeking to appoint an Executive Officer and failing to do so would invalidate the appointment. This has been the dictum of a Division Bench of Hon’ble Madras High Court in D. Nagarajan vs. Commissioner, HR & CE AIR 1971 Mad 295.

(2)      General Policy or “Better Management” cannot be reasons for takeover of temple administration: HR&CE Dept. cannot appoint Executive Officer to any religious institution stating it is Government policy to appoint Executive Officers for most temples. Better or efficient management too cannot be reasons for takeover of temples from the Trustees.

(3)      Executive Officer can be given powers only to look after the properties of the temple. He cannot interfere in religious matters or other matters of administration: Even in cases where Courts have approved the appointment of Executive Officer due to presence of mismanagement in the religious institution, the Commissioner can give powers pertaining only to the properties of the temple or institution to the Executive Officer. No other powers, administrative or religious can be assigned to the Executive Officer.

(4)     Executive Officer’s office premises should not be within the temple premises: As per rule 8 of the Temple Entry Authorization Act, 1947, “the temple buildings and premises shall not be used for purposes not connected with or arising from the worship, usages and observations of such temples”.

(5)      Any notice issued by the HR & CE Dept. appointing Executive Officer should state the reasons for appointment and should provide reasonable opportunity to reply or refute the notice.

(6)      Executive Officer or any other HR & CE official cannot introduce innovations concerning the time, place or mode of worship in the temple or stop or discontinue any religious practice followed in the temple.

(7)      Executive Officer has no authority to fix archana or darshan charges: This may come as a surprise to many but it is only the Trustee or Trustees who can fix these charges and not the Executive Officer or any other official in the HR & CE. This is as per Sec. 57 of the HR & CE Act, 1959.

Frauds committed by HR & CE in appointing Executive Officers to Hindu Religious institutions

In 1970, a division bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Madras came down heavily on the practice of HR & CE in not following natural justice while appointing an Executive Officer for a temple. If one imagined that the Department would have corrected itself and adhered to the principles of natural justice after this judgment one could not be more wrong.

To this day, the practice of the HR& CE is to begin by issuing “an order” appointing an Executive Officer to a religious institution. If the institution receiving the “order” does not seek any legal remedy, the Executive Officer takes over immediately. If the Trustees file a suit or writ against the arbitrary takeover attempt, HR&CE would state in the Court that this memorandum can be treated as a notice and the trustees can reply to it. Trustees and institutions naïve enough to fall for this stratagem would accept this in the Court and start replying to the HR & CE Dept to the “notice”. HR&CE Dept. would usually pass a “final order” appointing an Executive Officer while the purported “enquiry” is still on.

If the trustees file a case against this “final order”, HR&CE Dept’s stand in the Court would be that there is an alternate remedy available to the petitioners by way of review petition to the Government. Courts usually are inclined to tell the petitioners to avail this alternate remedy, which in reality is no remedy at all as the Government is known to uphold all the illegal and unethical orders of the HR&CE Dept.

There have been instances in recent times where HR &CE officials demanding bribes to cancel takeover proceedings were arrested. In 2009 a Joint Commissioner of HR & CE Dept was caught accepting bribes for this purpose.

Commissions and Omissions

HR & CE Dept. claims it is administering only the secular aspects of Temple Administration and ensuring that the moneys due to the institution are realized and used for the purposes for which the endowments were made. Lofty sounding, but if one were to analyse what really happens in the temples administered by this rogue department one would find corruption and looting not found even in traditionally corrupt Government departments.

Temple Properties

Temples and Mutts in Tamil Nadu own 500,000 acres of agricultural and other lands. The tenancy laws in Tamil Nadu and the non-functioning Revenue Courts make it almost impossible for landowners to realize any rent or revenue from the leased lands. The HR&CE Dept., which is hand in glove with the Government, takes no credible action to realize these rents or arrears of rents. The Dept. gave a shocking reply to a recent query under the RTI Act that it has no records of the ageing arrears or amount due to the temples. This admission alone is enough to boot out this rogue department from the temples.

Temples in Tamil Nadu also own about 22000 buildings and about 33,000 sites. These buildings and sites are leased out at values much below the market value. The corrupt HR & CE officials and Tamil Nadu Government officials and Ministers pocket huge sums for favouring leaseholders. These buildings are also leased out to non-Hindus especially Christian missionaries and charities which carry out their anti-Hindu activities from these places. This is against the intent and dictum of the people who had donated these places to the temples.

Huge corruption money flowing out of such transactions is the main reason Government does not want to give up its hold on Hindu Temples and institutions. Highly inflated project costs are another way by which HR & CE officials loot temple moneys. For example, Podu Dikshitars of Chidambaram had dismantled the Paniya Nayagam temple dedicated to Lord Subramanya, within the Chidambaram temple precincts, as the roof and pillars were bound to cave in due to loose soil in the basement. This was done as per advice of engineers and stapathis; a new construction plan drawn at a cost of Rs. 90 lakhs and work begun. The Executive Officer after assuming office in the Chidambaram temple stopped the sponsors from continuing the work. He has now given a proposal for the same work at a cost of Rs. 10 crores!

A luxury Toyota car was bought for Sri Maasaniamman Temple near Pollachi at a cost of Rs. 11.5 lakhs. The first question that comes to mind is why a luxury car is required for a temple.  It has come out in newspapers and through RTI queries that this car was used for private purposes of the HR &CE Secretary in the Tamil Nadu government. It is also now known that the monthly petrol bills of this corrupt official were taken from Temple funds.

Funds accumulated in fixed deposits in the accounts of rich temples would suddenly be transferred for flood relief, tsunami or Chief Minister’s relief fund. Funds were repeatedly taken from Tiruverkadu Mariamman temple to conduct free marriages by the Tamil Nadu government. This temple which had huge deposits of money became almost bankrupt.

Temple Jewels

Since the HR & CE stopped having external audit from 1985, it is almost impossible to gauge how many antique and valuable temple jewels have been looted. There is widespread belief that valuable diamonds and stones in jewels have been removed and replaced by ordinary stones in many temples. Missing Maragatha lingams worth thousands of crores have not been recovered. Jewels from 215 temples have been stolen and this rogue department does not even reveal the actual value of the jewels stolen. In many cases the loss of jewels is not known to the outside world at all.

On 22 December 2010, devotees discovered that about 156 globes made of gold and 108 globes made of silver, in the palanquins of the God and Goddess in the Perur Temple, were missing. This came to light only when the Golden and Silver palanquins were taken out in procession.

Temple Icons

More than 400 antique metal icons have been stolen from temples under the administration of the HR&CE department, which has not taken any credible follow up actions to recover the valuables. Instead of installing closed-circuit cameras, burglar alarms and modern safety locks, the Department keeps many icons belonging to various temples at one safe room in a big temple. These icons are thus deprived of poojas and maintenance. Continuous neglect of these icons can result in irreparable damage. Further, these sacred icons were meant for worship and this Department willfully ignores this primary purpose. While millions are wasted and looted by Dept. officials no care is taken to protect these treasures.

Festivals, etc

Another crime commonly perpetrated by the department officials is soliciting sponsors to celebrate festivals even for temples that have sufficient and surplus income. Two things are achieved in this manner. One, the unscrupulous officials are not called upon to show the incomes realized from specific endowments meant for such festivals. Soon the endowments or their existence would be soon forgotten and those properties can be sold or leased out for a pittance. Two, bribes can be taken from competing sponsors or accounts can be easily fudged when there are multiple sponsors.

Kapaleeshwar temple in Mylapore has many income generating properties. Still, the Department takes more than 80% of the money required for the Arupathi Moovar festival from sponsors who are given undue positions of importance during festivals ignoring devotees whose families and communities have contributed for generations.

Prasadam Stalls 

Prasadam stalls are amongst the biggest frauds openly committed by this rogue Department. Only food prepared piously in the temple kitchen and offered to the deities in the temple in traditional manner can be termed as prasadam. However, Prasadam Stalls are auctioned by the Department (needless to say many improprieties are committed in these auctions and allotments) to the public and supposedly the stalls are allotted to the highest bidder. This means the Department openly allows third parties to produce food items to be manufactured outside the temple premises and packages them to be sold at temples. This is an act which is at once blasphemous and anti-religious besides being a huge fraud on devotees visiting the temple.

Besides, prasadam shops and stalls, other shops and commercial activities are permitted by the Department. These acts of the Department are detrimental to the serene atmosphere that needs to be maintained in temples and commercialises Hindu religious institutions.

Hundies

Hundies serve the Department in two ways. One, they generate income which the Department fails to realize from the properties of the temple it is administering. Two, they are the easiest source of income that can be looted. In most temples, the real amount generated by hundials is never accounted for. The only exception to this story is the tale of the Hundies illegally installed in Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar temple. At Chidambaram the Department is trying to prove a point by showing a big collection of hundie monies. In the first place, the Hon’ble Division Bench of Madras High Court in 1951 had clearly ruled that the Podu Dikshitars are justified in not having any Hundie in the temple and further stated installing Hundies and introducing archana tickets commercialises the temple.

But after assuming office in the Chidambaram Temple, the Executive Officer came with a posse of policemen and installedHundies in the temple that never had Hundies in its entire history. This is against the law, temple tradition, and in contempt of the Hon’ble High Court of Madras.

After installing Hundies, the Department did two things to ensure it is able to show good collection in the Hundies. It did not handover the second key of the Hundies to the Trustees and they do not seal the Hundies each time after they open it for counting. When it was pointed out the Podu Dikshitars’ collection in gold and other valuables far exceed the Hundie collections even today, and the public have not contributed a single gram of gold to the Executive Officer like they do to the real owners of the temple, the Podu Dikshitars, about 4 gms of gold suddenly appeared among the hundie collections!

What Hindus should do

Hindus should question any attempt to takeover temples in their respective areas by HR & CE Department. They should remember that HR & CE officials have no right to takeover temples that are run by devoted trustees. HR & CE Dept. is only a supervisory department even for temples under its administration, and cannot decide matters pertaining to rituals and religion.

Devotees should ask HR & CE Dept. pertinent questions regarding the temple properties, the income realized, in whose presence Hundies are opened, what are the procedures followed in making and distribution of prasadams, salary arrears of temple employees, income arrears for the properties, why Executive Officer was appointed for each temple, for what period the appointment has been made, order copies of the appointments, arrears of income pending from temple properties, action taken by the Executive Officer, the festivals celebrated in the temple regularly 25 years ago, festivals celebrated now, vehicles bought for the temple, who uses the vehicles and for what purposes, etc. under the Right to Information Act.

Hindus should remember that it is not the duty of a secular government to manage the affairs of Hindu Temples or institutions. They should also remember that the same Government keeps away from mosques and churches.

Hindus should join together and petition the Government and the Courts to bring back outside agencies to audit the HR & CE Dept.

Hindus should take legal action against the Government to restore the temples back to the Trustees or to appropriate Hindu associations.

The author is a banking professional and research scholar on Hindu religious affairs