Temples, Non Hindus and Courts | Focus Tamil Nadu
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- The Madras High Court recently ruled that only Hindus could be appointed in educational institutions established with funds of temples administered by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Departments. Why did it say so?
Soon after the M K Stalin government took over the reins in Tamil Nadu in mid-2021, the HR&CE Minister P K Sekarbabu had announced that the department will start 10 colleges. These institutions were to be established on lands owned by temples in different parts of the state. The HR&CE Department had previously established five arts and science colleges. This move was largely welcomed but a controversy broke out when advertisements were issued for appointing teaching and non-teaching staff to these institutions. The advertisements said the candidates must be Hindus.
Objecting to this clause, Suhail a Muslim candidate, who had applied for the post of Office Assistant in Arulmighu Kapaleeswarar Arts and Science College in Chennai, moved the Madras High Court.
Last month, the High Court dismissed his petition and held that only Hindus can be appointed to teaching and non-teaching vacancies in self-financing colleges and schools established with temple funds by the HR&CE Department.
The Government had argued that sanctity of the temple is in no way affected by allowing non-Hindus into certain portions of the temple. Consequently, the court held that the rule permitting non-Hindus inside temples is ultra vires of the powers of the rule-making authority.
Now irrespective of what the law says, the reality is Tamil Nadu has shining examples of inter-religious harmony.
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.....Is there a muslim festivals where Hindu gods are hailed or chanted??.....
One way secularism.... Muslims intervening in Hindu festival..... Dancer Zakir Hussein is true hindu... Hus devotion to Ranganathar is time tested.....
Religious institutions should as accountable as government, priests staff should be elected by voting, all hindhus should be allowed without discrimination, all caste of hindhu religion should be allowed to study veda, text , Upanishads,etc
Religious text should be discussed and bebated in open society with logic reasiong like dayanand saraswati,Raja Ram Mohan roy , Swami Vivekananda, did and also more importantly they should reform and reject the weakness .
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Temple priests should only be held by Brahmins as is tradition. The custody of the priesthood of these temples were given to Brahmin families by the kings of the ancient past. Who is the state to interfere in matters of Dharma? Brahmins are the upholders of the Vedas and Dharma. Other non-priestly jobs within the temple jurisdiction can be open for other Hindus ONLY.
As far as entry inside the temples, within the compound, the Dharmashatras does allow mlecchas into certain areas but when it comes to the inner sanctum or garbhagriha, only the servitors of the temple (who are Brahmins) are allowed. Other non servitor Brahmins as well as the common masses can adore and worship the deity from the inner compound adjoining the garbhagriha. This is called "Darshan" (Or to see), a privilege only accorded to Hindus and not non Hindus and mlecchas.
"Secular" law cannot be enforced in matters of temple management and administration where only the Vedas, Dharma and the Dharmashastras are held supreme.
I agree
@@stormshadow5283100% you are not a Hindu and trying to divide Hindus on caste lines.
Any hindu can be priest. Krishna himself says in the Gita that varna is dependent on guna or actions and not by birth .
Similarly all the castes of Hindu should be able to get the reservation benefits like admission to colleges and jobs in govt., departments....
Would Churches employ Hindus or Muslims as Staff or alrar boys???
Are all teachers in missionary school Christians? Are so all the students?
It would be considered as a religious institution. Religious institutions are private and set their own rules.
80 % of the country is Hindu. Are you suggesting any Hindu who sets up an institute and then claim is as a religious institution can bar entry to non-Hindus. Didn't the British have this kind of rule where Indians were excluded and treated as 2nd class citizens. Its shocking people are celebrating this move. Welcoming 2025 with apartheid. Even Christian institutes do not have exclusion criteria for non-Christians, and one wonders why people are converting to the religion en masse.
It is the correct action that the High Court has taken. All appointments in temple and connected affairs only Hindus should be appointed. In other communities there are only their religion and cats only. Why Hindus only compelled for appointments other than their casts in temple affairs and other institutions.
I am really surprised because this kind of judgement also can be given by the court like Tamil Nadu
Do you understand what is judiciary and what is legislature...?
Free temples
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Temple priests should only be held by Brahmins as is tradition. The custody of the priesthood of these temples were given to Brahmin families by the kings of the ancient past. Who is the state to interfere in matters of Dharma? Brahmins are the upholders of the Vedas and Dharma. Other non-priestly jobs within the temple jurisdiction can be open for other Hindus ONLY.
As far as entry inside the temples, within the compound, the Dharmashatras does allow mlecchas into certain areas but when it comes to the inner sanctum or garbhagriha, only the servitors of the temple (who are Brahmins) are allowed. Other non servitor Brahmins as well as the common masses can adore and worship the deity from the inner compound adjoining the garbhagriha. This is called "Darshan" (Or to see), a privilege only accorded to Hindus and not non Hindus and mlecchas.
"Secular" law cannot be enforced in matters of temple management and administration where only the Vedas, Dharma and the Dharmashastras are held supreme.
100% you aren't a Hindu and trying to divide Hindus on caste lines.
Any hindu can be a priest. Take your strategies to your own faith.
100% you are not a Hindu and trying to divide Hindus on caste lines .
@@chatcricket1405😂 anyone can become a priest according to the Varna system. But when you go through the caste system, the majority of the Brahmins are only the upholders of Vedas and are vegetarian. When the two conditions which I told you are held with dignity, anyone of caste can become. And also the person must leave his job. The people who do not know Vedas and are not vegetarians and cannot become priests in the strict regulations and cannot be modified according to anyone's understanding. And when you ask some temples to follow the non-vegetarian people to become priests, it is the day which type of culture is called as kola chara and vamachara paddhati. Most of the temples follow the Dakshinachara and Veda Chara, which include satvik.
Very good. Muslim countries have similar laws in their countries.
There should be no discrimination based on caste system in those institutions,all Hindu should get equal education,they should get more knowledge of Hinduism and its culture.
Remove caste discrimination permanently,also they they should build health care centres,do consusion for Hindu like CMC Vellore did.
Temple priests should only be held by Brahmins as is tradition. The custody of the priesthood of these temples were given to Brahmin families by the kings of the ancient past. Who is the state to interfere in matters of Dharma? Brahmins are the upholders of the Vedas and Dharma. Other non-priestly jobs within the temple jurisdiction can be open for other Hindus ONLY.
As far as entry inside the temples, within the compound, the Dharmashatras does allow mlecchas into certain areas but when it comes to the inner sanctum or garbhagriha, only the servitors of the temple (who are Brahmins) are allowed. Other non servitor Brahmins as well as the common masses can adore and worship the deity from the inner compound adjoining the garbhagriha. This is called "Darshan" (Or to see), a privilege only accorded to Hindus and not non Hindus and mlecchas.
"Secular" law cannot be enforced in matters of temple management and administration where only the Vedas, Dharma and the Dharmashastras are held supreme.
@@stormshadow5283 that's my point is, not opposing with you,a general person who has loyal to Hindism should become priest to new temple's.after he completely learned Vedas and shastras, temple agamam who has qualified to do priest job, any one can become Brahmin by learning Hindu scriptures and his sincere towards faith,thus it may give empowerment to general people and increase faith in their surroundings, and many reforms should be taken to strengthen Hinduism,else we I'll loose counts become a mainority. This is sad truth, things need to be implemented to strengthen Hindu brotherhood,in and out of the country.
@@Kinginthenorth-stark that's a great way to reform the religion. I second your opinion.
CMC Vellore has non-Christian staff as well. St John's Medical college in Bangalore has many Hindu doctors as heads of departments. But here there is a complete ban on non-Hindus for posts in institutions with temple funds. Its honestly a bad ruling given that it excludes people with talent who might come from a different religious background. Concessions can be given to Hindus, but others should not be completely excluded, as it risks dividing our society and further isolates people of different faiths.
@@alileevil iam not against any religion.
They might have given this but,they expected same from since Christian missionaries came to India they used it's service platform as a religious extension platform, school, hospital etc.
I have literally seen it,it's morally wrong to use vulnerable people as a advantage to spread religion.
More problems has we seen in religious places where other religion people came and used their job to spread their religion, problem comes here,when it ment to serve its sole purpose employees should do they duty without any intension,in tirupati sv university hod's preaching Gospels to their students how it will be tolerated,that too it's running in temple funds,more scenarios are there, it's other religion should realise they shouldn't do it, hence problem solved.
People are obsessed with religion.thats why it's create boundaries.in Hindu institutions importance should given to Hindus, it's government duty to provide good health care not a religious institutions,if u think so we failed to get our rights, religion can't be responsible for education and health care but mandatory for government.
Already people are divided into religion and language only way to unite them is on government not on religious institutions. Hope you get the point.
Why would these schools only want Hindu teachers? Wouldn't they want the best no matter the religious background of the person? I swear this country is going backward.
The fact that you doubt there are not enough smart people in Hindu's when your mind can think there are enough smart people in other religions makes me think about the future of Hinduism regardless of your religion.
@@karthikkumar5822 I am not saying Hindus aren't smart. It has to do with rejecting people with talent. With the ruling, a person like Kalam would be ignored. In IITs there are Muslim and Christian professors. They would not be eligible. Isn't this foolishness? And ultimately, it will be Hindu students who pay the price. XLRI, a leading business school outside the IIMs is a Christian college. But its one of the best because of the diversity of talent they hire. How can Hindu organizations hope to compete when they exclude talent?!
Do you find any Hindu teachers in madarasas?
@@sreenathjimmy245 Madrasas only teach Islamic studies. They are like ashrams or seminaries. We are talking about schools that teach subjects like math, science and language.
@@alileevil Says who bro ? Along with maths, science we also teach Bhagavad Gita and Vedas . Religious School by definition is not a secular place. Don't try to apply secular logic to religious places because you wouldn't like it if religious logic is applied to secular place