Faith, priest and contradiction

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Ayodhya is an ancient city of India, birthplace of Lord Rama as per Hindu belief and setting of the epic Ramayana. It is situated adjacent to Faizabad city at south end in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Hanumangarhi is a temple of Lord Hanuman in Ayodhya. More than 70 steps lead to the main Hanuman temple which is one of the most popular temples of Lord Hanuman in North India.

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PTI/July 21, 2013

5th August 2013, Monday, Ayodhya:  

It was a pleasant morning of August, ....usually the monsoon time in the plains of India.... 

Early morning downpour has brought pleasant cool breezes, but the temple alleys (crowded with sweet shops all around, as sweets are purchased by the devotees for the offering in the temple) now are the worst place to move bare footed (as required from the devotees) because mud, sleet, dirt has made a dark, awful, slippery pitch on the ground. I was moving up all through those high steps of the temple, with strong childhood memories of this sacred 'Hindu' temple.

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Hindustan/July 22, 2013

But the sanctity of this place has been corroded  deep in our heart by the recent report of the News Papers, which says that firing broke out between two rival groups of priests, involved in dispute over properties and wealth being collected by temple from devotees, resulting in death of one person and injuring two !!
Our travel sometime brings strong, ugly, painful contradiction of our lives, and shaking our beliefs from our own basic formed in the earlier time of the innocent childhood......  

"Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see, but microscopes are prudent in an emergencies," a meaningful reminder by the EmilyDickinson.