Why Still Government of India is Looting the Temples #FreeHinduTemples

if you see what they have done, years ago 12 15 years 1500 years ago you will feel proud of all the artifa incredible in terms of engineering the Mastery of engineering that they had and structures is too phenomenal but they're all being systematically being all the artifacts are being stolen they're all mostly gone for the temple are managing the temple whoever gets elected this one thing must happen joining us now is uh sadguru G of the Isha foundation and he's somebody who uh has also very actively spoken about uh the need for the taminadu government to let go of the control over Hindu temples or Hindu in religious institutions uh sadguru G let me start uh with your thought because uh we we here have said that it's time to take the right stand to free Hindu temples but let me understand from you so let me uh bring a little historical perspective to how these things have happened happened uh it all started with uh a regulation a Madras regulation it was called The Madras regulation of uh 1817 so this was done by East India Company not even by the British government then by 1840 it uh you know the resistance built up within their own society that Christian men were managing Pagan temples so resistance came up in England so in 1840 they wanted to give it back so they put out a directive and said okay hand it over to the trustees but then by then they had taken over trusts were dismantled all this had happened so a few main temples they handed over by 1845 most of the temples were handed over important ones then they passed a religious endowment act in 1863 with which they made a complete Handover of the religious institutions and endowments back to the Hindu Community then in 1925 they pass passed a Madras religious and charitable endowment act this included all religions by now this was a strategy to stem the independence movement in the country and they found whether it's a mosque or a church or a temple all of these things had becoming hubs of for people to meet and you know come together and act so they tried to take over all religious institutions but there was a vigorous resistance from the minorities so they excluded them and brought the Act only for the Hindus as uh it was called as the Hindu endowment act Hindu temple and endowment act whatever it was called then further they tightened the screws in 1935 that they could give uh uh you know like a notification to any Temple to take it over and uh this is all happening before independence but post Independence in 1951 they passed this uh law of Hindu religious and Char charitable endowment Acts 19 1951 and many provisions of this 1951 act were struck down both by The Madras high court and the Supreme Court so during the kamaraj era in 1959 they passed another this Tamil Nadu Hindu religious and charitable endowment Act was passed which is still in operation right now with this over 37,000 temples are in government control so what is the issue here the issue is one thing is it's a disgrace that in a secular country that one Community I mean if you say this in any other country if you mention this nobody will believe you nobody will believe in India religious institutions are managed by the government so secular institutions means they should have no business with any any religious institution when I when we talk about the Hindu temples immediately there's a whole group of people who will say then take over churches also take over mosques also I'm saying the government has no business to touch a mosque or a church or a temple or a gurwara or anything for that matter right now there is one problem so let us multiply the problem that is not a solution all right the important thing is the devotees should manage the temple because fundamentally the Indian temples were not created as places of prayer there is no single person leading a prayer for a group of people it is largely different type of energy centers where people can go soak themselves in that energy whatever whether you believe or not it is true for millions and millions of people for Millennia it has been the experience of people whether you believe you don't believe that is your issue but in terms of basic human rights this must happen in terms of constitutional rights as fundamental rights this must happen but now there's a whole lot of people arguing their argument is generally but it was under King and kings are also government so it was always under government this is not true because Kings were devotees Kings were very strong devotees to such a point in many kingdoms the de was the king the king was a danan or a minister for the Dy so always the Dy ruled only in the de's name he ruled the country so they were a different people Al together and there also the contributions came from the people to build the temples above all these are especially the South Indian temples the the Tamil Nadu temples particularly they are magnificent creations of engineering and architecture if you see what they have done, uh years ago 1200 15 years 1500 years ago you will feel proud of Being Human because it's absolutely incredible in terms of engineering the Mastery of engineering that they had and how they built these structures is too phenomenal but they're all being systematically being run down all the artifacts are being stolen they're all mostly gone because people who have no feeling no heart for the temple are managing the temple namaskaram sguru sguru general elections are coming up this year so what is the one thing that you want the newly elected government to do there are many things that the country needs in terms of economic boost needs to happen which are which definitely will happen I believe in the next 5 years to 10 years time educational transformation needs to happen but you're giving me only one thing only one thing I have many things but if it's only one thing one most important thing for this civilization to burst forth and become something significant in the next 25 years is the Hindu temple should come to the hands of [Applause] Hindus why why this is important because you must understand Hindu temple is not a place of prayer it is not even a place of worship these were energetically consecrated spaces for different purposes so that human beings will flourish which they did in the past when most of the world did not know what is what we had the highest level of mathematics music astronomy spiritual process if you look at the thought proc process of people who were here 5,000 10,000 years ago nowhere in the world anything like that happened all this happened because we invested in the inner well-being of the human being temples are a physical Monumental representations of that it is not a place of worship it is not a place of prayer where somebody leads you to say you give me this money then I will send the message to God and he will respond to you and he'll talk to you and all that stuff here you went there only to have D not to pray you must und