Pujitha Puppala

The temple is beautiful and gave me a soulful feeling whenever I went there until today. I know on Shivaratris it can get annoying but as a priest I am sure they are there to pray and preach about the good in the world around us. It was so disappointing and disheartening that when I was placing flowers wholeheartedly to the Lord, not even in the main mandir but to the gods at the side, the priest just yells in front of everyone and say “ how can you offer it? Why don’t u go to puja and Abhishekam in the main mandir if you think u can offer flowers to god yourself. Why are we here then?” I think he completely forgot why he was there because he was there to respect god and his devotees. Do some good. I really didn’t expect this. The priest could’ve been more humble and the temple could have boards saying don’t offer flowers to god. Everyone was offering flowers, I saw so many flowers being placed by the devotees themselves, so why was I pointed out? The volunteers have no clue why they are there because all they did was yell at people. We believe that after praying, we need to have the Prasad and leave the temple. There was no Prasad being offered at all and cold glares were given by all the volunteers. For gods sake, we are there to pray. All we want to do is pray to god in peace. I don’t think I can ever feel that peace in this temple. There are so many more temples that are so warm and welcoming!