Ritendra's Blog

Ghagorburi temple near Asansol-Raniganj is the temple I have found most spiritual. Actually, I have seen the human manifestation of the child deity with my own eyes. In 2015, when I had left the Lecturer job at rani Birla Girls' College and was appearing for some Govt exams, some voices inside me was telling to give something for the brothers and sisters who sit outside the temple. First time (in 2011) I went there I gave them a few 10 rupee notes, when the last one asked, I did not give him any because I was offended by his tone. It was my stupidity to expect a polished manner of asking money from an uneducated poor man. Within 10 km our car had a puncture. We were going to our masis  house at Burdwan. My masis  (mother's sister) youngest daughter made some mocking sound about Ghagorburi and within 1 week she fell at Howrah station and hurt her leg badly. Last Durga Puja, I was able to give few new sarees to the people sitting outside the temple. I believe my new job at OUP a...

On Akshay Tritiya, I drove my mother and grandmother 40 km to Kalighat temple at 4:30 am. I stood in the line for 2-3 hrs and offered my Puja inside the sanctum sanatorium. While standing in the line, I saw a wealthy man empty a whole litre of milk packet on the stone shiva lingam. I thought what a waste of milk in a country like India, where so many hungry children were waiting just outside the temple. feed milk, honey, curd, coconut water to the poor and stop wasting it on stone. Humans need food more than Gods. And Swamy Vivekananda had already said, to serve another living being is the highest worship, the best dharma.