Bangalore: India is globally recognized as the ‘Land of Temples’ and Indians are known to be immensely fanatic about their religion. India is also known as the land of Gods and Goddesses and therefore serves as an ideal option for pilgrims. Every year millions of visitors throng Indian temples owing to the rich heritage and cultural significance these temples carry. People of various religions and beliefs offer many precious assets to the temple as a token of their respect and faith.
Take a look at some of the richest temples of India. Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Kerala
Padmanabhaswamy Temple is credited with the title ‘The richest Temple in India’ and in the world as well. This temple is situated in the heart of thiruvananthapuram, kerala and has created history with its vast and enormous wealth that was retrieved from this temple recently.
This temple shot to fame on 7th July 2011, after the assests were discovered from 5 secret cellars of the temple where treasure worth more than Rs. 1,00,000 crore was found, that’s around US$22.3 billion in total, without even calculating the antique value of the objects. With this Padmanabhaswamy Temple became the richest temple beating the likes of the Tirupati Balaji temple that was till now touted to be the richest.
Interesting Fact: The treasure that was found
Antique gold ornaments
Sack full of Diamonds
Golden idol of Mahavishnu worth Rs. 500 Crore
Golden Crowns
Golden Bow
17 kg of gold coins(dating back to the East India Company period)
Gold in shape of rice trinkets(Weighing one tone! )
18 feet long golden necklace weighing 2.5 kg
Thousands of pieces of antique jewellery studded with diamonds and emeralds
Golden Vessels
Tirumala Tirupati Venkateswara Temple, Andra Pradesh
Tirupati temple is the most sacred and second richest temple of India. It is situated in Andra Pradesh and is the major pilgrimage destination of South India also known as ‘Tirupati Balaji Temple.’ Lord Balaji is worshipped in this temple, popular bollywood actor Amitabh Bachhan is a devotee of the diety and has reportedly donated around Rs 51 lakh to this temple.
Interesting Facts:
Tirupati’s Venkateswara deity is clad with about 1000kgs of gold!
Every day around 150,000 laddus are made at the temple to serve the devotess
The revenue from the sale of laddu annually is more than 11 million rupees.
It is said that people drop bags of gold and at times even diamonds at the feet of Sri Venkateshwara.
Around 50,000 pilgrims visit the temple every day and
The temple gets up to Rs 650 crore in donations every year.
Saibaba Temple, Shirdi:
Sai temple of Shirdi is among the top pilgrimage sites of the world. This temple is a beautiful shrine that was built in 1922. The temple is located approximately 296 Kilometers from Mumbai City in India. It is the third wealthiest temple in India where millions of devotees of different religions and castes visit everyday. Shirdi is flocked by devotees and curious tourists who journey to this holy land of Shri Saibaba. The temple has gold and silver jewellery worth approximately Rs 32 crore and silver coins worth more than Rs 6 lakh.
Interesting Fact:
Like most of the perfect saints Sai Baba left no authentic record of his birth and early life before arriving at Shirdi. Nobody knows weather was Hindu, Muslim or Christian. So people of all religion visit shirdi.
On an average there is an inflow of over 40,000 devotees which reaches to a million during festivals.
The temple gets donations worth Rs 350 crore every year.
परोपकाराय फलन्ति वृक्षा: परोपकाराय वहन्ति नद्यः।
परोपकाराय दुहन्ति गावः परोपकाराय इदं शरीरम्।।
( hari krishnamurthy K. HARIHARAN)"
” When people hurt you Over and Over think of them as Sand paper. They Scratch & hurt you, but in the end you are polished and they are finished. ” "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."- Mark Twain.
If Hinduism is bad: –
🇮🇳
( 1 ) Then why scientists of "NASA”
Considered voice emanating from
The SUN
by the "⭕〽"
"♏"
( 2 )Why United States got 4 Patents
on "Indian-Native–Cow urine"
& Is developing anti-cancer drugs .
While we are aware of the
Importance of " cow urine"
Since Thousands of years.
( 3 ) Why is “ BHAGAVAD GITA”
a must read in
" Setan -Hall University in
New Jersey (U.S.)
( 4 ) Why Islamic country like Indonesia names their Airlines
“Garuda Indonesia Airlines” &
The "National Emblem" called
“Garuda Pancasila”
Named after the holy bird
“Garuda of Hinduism” .
In Hindu mythology, Garuda is the name of Lord Vishnu’s mount (vahana).
(5) Indonesia, one of most populous Muslim country in the world, have imprinted
“Lord Ganesha “
on their high-denomination
(20,000 rupiah) currency note.
( 6 ) Why " Barack Obama," always keeps a photo of
" Lord Hanuman"
In his pocket?
( 7 ) Why Today The whole world is crazy for "Yoga – pranayama"?
( 8 ) Why" Ancient Indian scientists"Had informed
Thousand years ago ,that “Earth is round”
( 9 ) Why name of German Airlines ✈"Lufthansa"✈
derived from Sanskrit Words ‘Lupth’ & ‘Hansa’
meaning Disappearing swan (bird).
( 10 ) Why the mountain of ‘Afganisthan ‘ has a Hindu name
" Hindukush " ?
( 11 ) Why in the name of Hindus 🇮🇳Hindi language 🇮🇳Hindustan ,
🇮🇳Hind Mahasagar l(Indian Ocean)
( 12 ) Why in the country of Vietnam
a 4000-year old statue of " Lord Vishnu" found ?
( 13 ) Why Dr. Howard Steingeril, an American scientist, after researching considered that Hindus 🔔" Gayatri Mantra "🔔 produced
110,000 sound waves /second…
This was the highest & was found to be the most powerful hymn in the world.
( 14 ) Why Immam of Barwala Masjid in Baghpat (U.P.) after reading “Satyartha Prakash” by Swami DayanandSaraswati adopt Hindu religion with his new name "Mahendra Pal Arya" in November 1983,
Since then he has converted thousands of Muslims into “Hindus” & has invited Dr.Zakir Naik several times to debate but Dr Naik never gathered to confront him.
( 15 ) If 🔥" Yajna* " 🔥 Performed by Hindus is "Superstitious"
Then "Kushwaha – family" the only survivor of ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy’ managed to escape the tragedy becoz they were performing 🔥"yajna" 🔥
(16) Burning of Cow ghee on cow-dung cakes, produces phenomenal amount of oxygen & clears contamination from air.
(10 gms produce 1 ton oxygen)
(17 ) Why "Julia Roberts" (American actress & producer) Adopt
🔔 Hindu religion🔔 And Goes to Temple everyday
(18) If 🔔" Ramayana"🔔 Is false ,Then Why in the world, only stones of
🔔" Ram – bridge" 🔔 are still floating ?
( 19 ) If 🔔 Mahabharata🔔 is false ,
Then how recent exploration activity by
National – Geographic ‘s team , & the Indian Army in the northern region of India uncover a Giant skeleton of ‘ Ghatotkach ‘ (80 foot) Son of Bhima.
( 20 ) Why the US troops in Kandahar (Afghanistan) recently discovered a
5000 year old Vimana,(an aeroplane) from ancient Mahabharata period?
* Lufthansa: When an aeroplane service first started in Germany, the aircraft they employed in service were pure white, resembling huge white swans. When these aeroplanes would fly into the sky and grow slowly smaller and disappear, they would look like swans disappearing into the heart of the sky. In Sanskrit, the word that could describe them was lupth-hansa, or the hidden swan and that’s the correct meaning.
*A Yajna is a sacred purifying ritual (havan) in Hinduism that involves a fire ceremony. It is a ritual of sacrifice made to the fire god Agni . objects such as Ghee(Clarified butter), grains, honey,or wood are put into the sacred fire.
Feel proud to be “Hindu”
Feel proud to be “Hindustani” Value our ancient scriptures
परोपकाराय फलन्ति वृक्षा: परोपकाराय वहन्ति नद्यः।
परोपकाराय दुहन्ति गावः परोपकाराय इदं शरीरम्।।
( hari krishnamurthy K. HARIHARAN)"
” When people hurt you Over and Over think of them as Sand paper. They Scratch & hurt you, but in the end you are polished and they are finished. ” "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."- Mark Twain.
I need to tell you something. I hope you don’t mind. You see, what I have to tell you might not be something you want to know. But here goes, "You are not always right." This is my polite way of telling you that sometimes you are wrong.
It’s OK. Believe it or not, we all are wrong about something. We are wrong regularly and repeatedly. It is the nature of who we are. I am not asking you to dwell on when you are wrong or what it is you are wrong about. I ask you to consider how are you wrong? Translation, when you are wrong about something, how do you behave and how does this impact your team?
When you do not believe that you are wrong you might adopt one of these approaches:
You are convinced that as soon as you share the facts with others, they will see your point and come over to your side of the argument. This will lead you to work to teach others the ‘real facts’ so that they too can be right.
You see that others have the same facts as you and they simply do not get it, therefore they must be idiots. Unfortunately this might lead you to condescend to them and to disregard any contributions from them.
You see that they have the facts and they are not idiots, so they must be purposefully disregarding what is clearly right. In fact, you might think they are saboteurs and so you treat them like an enemy. You decide to hide information from them and exclude them so that they cannot cause trouble.
What if you do recognize that you are wrong? Do you hide it, admit it or look for someone else to blame?
When you try to cover up the fact that you are wrong about something you damage your integrity. Perhaps you do this because you come from a culture where admitting an error is a sign of weakness or you are afraid of losing face. When you are wrong and you hide it, you are teaching your team to engage in the same behavior. This makes it very difficult to proactively solve issues.
When you look for someone else to blame, you are hiding the fact that you are wrong PLUS telling a lie about someone else. This is even worse for your integrity and your credibility. Now you are teaching your team to use other team members as human shields. This makes it very difficult to build any kind of high performing team.
When you are wrong and you admit it, you model responsibility and integrity for your team. You can proactively address issues, you can demonstrate how to behave like an adult professional and you can all move forward.
Granted in different corporate cultures and political climates there are different rules about how to be wrong. Unfortunately some of these cultures do encourage insisting that you are right or shifting blame, but you always get to decide how you will behave and what rules you will use when you are wrong.
I need to tell you something. I hope you don’t mind. You see, what I have to tell you might not be something you want to know. But here goes, "You are not always right." This is my polite way of telling you that sometimes you are wrong. It’s OK. Believe it or not, we all are wrong about something.
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” When people hurt you Over and Over think of them as Sand paper. They Scratch & hurt you, but in the end you are polished and they are finished. ” "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."- Mark Twain.
( hari krishnamurthy K. HARIHARAN)"
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