God is in your heart and on your computer screen!!!

I was about to rant in the previous entry about how distressed I was during my trip to India ,when I couldn’t enter the temple of the deity, whom I looked for help in my past two years away from family . I guess I wasn’t destined too go in at that time!!! My dad felt for me , though I behaved like a brat at the time, and reminded me that it’s not visiting temples that counts because after all God is in your heart…he took me to Siddhi Vinayak and Mahalakshmi Temples in Mumbai to make up for it( incidentally the last time he was at Mahalakshmi Temple was on his wedding day, some twenty six year before that day in January).

Anyway why am I bringing this up and why am I not ranting? Because I believe religion is personal , and I don’t think I’ve faced religious discrimination as a woman,atleast not in a way that truly affects me because I choose to let it not affect me, though at times I think we have a Da Vinci code type scenario happening in our own backyard as well!!!

That isn’t the point of this post though, I’ve been pretty much browsing the net like nobody’s business the past few months , but today was the first day when searching for information for the previous blog I keyed in Devi in wikipeida, and saw stuff I already knew , then I thought “Well specifically I ought to click on Durga”; and I did , and I read the Durga Mahishasur story, and scrolled down the page , and I see four links and the last one is about the very temple I was feeling bad about not being able to visit, I was happy but really surprised ,there are many other more famous Durga temples in India and in South Kanara as a matter of fact!!! It wouldn’t be a big deal if it was a large famous temple because then of course there would be wiki about it , but it’s actually a small temple in a rural ( and I mean rural!!!) part of South Kanara, most of the devotees are from the village, I’m sure if my dad hadn’t married my mom he might not have heard of the temple. The priest mentioned in the article is the temple priest , and he’s a Wikipedia celebrity !!!! We usually take our family deity from our mothers side , Durgaparmeshwari is like my guardian angel, and I carry a picture in my wallet , wherever I go, I usually get questions about the picture , which I happily answer.

I guess it goes back to my dads principle of God being in your heart , and I found God when I was thinking about her the most!!!