A headlines - A dog howls everyday when there is mangalarathi going on outside the temple.
The story.
It was late in the evening. I wanted to purchase a packet of curds. Suddenly it started raining. I ran and ran with all my might to the temple.
See! This is called dramatization. It was evening but did I say it was dark? Nor was it lonely. It was a busy street. And I did not run a kilometer. Temple was just across the street. Then why did I run ? It was raining, right. I did not want to get drenched completely. Why temple? Why not? Though I have not made up my mind whether to be an atheist or a budhdhist or a plain hindu, waiting for the rain to subside in a temple is better than waiting outside a grocery shop for the crab I am (Less people in the temple you seee. If you don't include the Gods!)
I made one round of God (pradakshina) or rather gods. There are 3 of them. I did one big namaskara as . See Ramdev says it is a good exercise. Then I saw small small gods - navagrahas. One pradikshina for them as well. Then I sat with my eyes closed.
Tan, dan, dan, dan, dan...... I jumped up. Ooooooooo. What was happening? The arathi had started with Bells . And at the same time a dog outside the temple started shouting . And he kept saying oooooo till the arathi was completed. Later my son told he does that on every day.
Why could be the dog howling? It is not because he is startled. He knows this happens every day. Is it because in our punya bhumi even dogs are devout? Or is he telling "Your religion is your religion. Why are you torturing me with noise ?" The way we feel when the temples play remixed Bhajans in most besura voice? (sorry I am realising my English vocabulary is very limited. Because i speak kannada, watch Hindi and read and write English :-( )
May be the dog is paying his gratitude "Thank God, You did not make me a man or rather a woman. An Indian woman particularly. My sins in my previous incarnations were not large enough to be made into a woman" -like SitaMata said" Kadu papavamgaidu pennagi putti "
The story.
It was late in the evening. I wanted to purchase a packet of curds. Suddenly it started raining. I ran and ran with all my might to the temple.
See! This is called dramatization. It was evening but did I say it was dark? Nor was it lonely. It was a busy street. And I did not run a kilometer. Temple was just across the street. Then why did I run ? It was raining, right. I did not want to get drenched completely. Why temple? Why not? Though I have not made up my mind whether to be an atheist or a budhdhist or a plain hindu, waiting for the rain to subside in a temple is better than waiting outside a grocery shop for the crab I am (Less people in the temple you seee. If you don't include the Gods!)
I made one round of God (pradakshina) or rather gods. There are 3 of them. I did one big namaskara as . See Ramdev says it is a good exercise. Then I saw small small gods - navagrahas. One pradikshina for them as well. Then I sat with my eyes closed.
Tan, dan, dan, dan, dan...... I jumped up. Ooooooooo. What was happening? The arathi had started with Bells . And at the same time a dog outside the temple started shouting . And he kept saying oooooo till the arathi was completed. Later my son told he does that on every day.
Why could be the dog howling? It is not because he is startled. He knows this happens every day. Is it because in our punya bhumi even dogs are devout? Or is he telling "Your religion is your religion. Why are you torturing me with noise ?" The way we feel when the temples play remixed Bhajans in most besura voice? (sorry I am realising my English vocabulary is very limited. Because i speak kannada, watch Hindi and read and write English :-( )
May be the dog is paying his gratitude "Thank God, You did not make me a man or rather a woman. An Indian woman particularly. My sins in my previous incarnations were not large enough to be made into a woman" -like SitaMata said" Kadu papavamgaidu pennagi putti "
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