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Dear Raghy,

The OP is one amoung a string of articles published in Times Of India criticising about the management of Tirumala Thirupathi Devastanam. Sri. Rajagopal posted one of those articles without any comment or without any of his point of views. Somehow I have a feeling this aim of this thread is just to pass slander against Hinduism in general and TTD in particular. This article is presented as if a leading auditing company audited all the accounts of TTD and found out fraudulant practices! Personally I would pay much attention to such mud slinging articles if I see articles from Times of India criticising church held immense wealth and the properties held by Waqf board. I too got a similar feeling reading the series of write ups in TOI. There is some corruption in the lower levels of the temple employees but it is the weakness of human beings. During any of my visits to the hill temple (which is quite frequent) I have never paid any bribe and I had the darshan without any hindrance. I think it is all what you have to put up with when your are in a tearing hurry for a quickie darshan. If you are in such a big hurry you should choose some other time to go to the temple. Any way it is not the God who is calling you to Tirupati. It is the bhakta who is asking for an appointment with him for a few seconds.

A visit to Tirupati is supposed to be an occasion when you forget for a moment the ego in you to surrender to Him. For some people it appears the ego refuses to vanish even for a second.

Cheers.