Well i totally agree with the new movie of govinda's atleast with the title 'MONEY HAI TOH HONEY HAI'.Seriously now a days if u have money u can have nething or u can do nething.
Be it a temple or a national monument money speaks baby.Recently i been to kolkatta wer i visited one famous temple but we reached the temple lil late the gate wer closed(from afternoon 2-4 i think).We were getting late as we have to reach someother place before 4.so we were leaving but suddenly one of the preist working there came to us and said give us 350 rs we will give u entry from backside.Intially we were shocked!!!kya ho raha hai now we have to pay money wo bhi bhagwan ke darshan ke liye but we were getting late and too lazy to wait till 4 clock so we settled for 250 for 3 person. Is'nt this funny a preist!!!who is supposably taken as person who has devoted his life to god is asking for money.we thought we wont be spending more money now but wen we went for darshan preists over there nicely made us do the pooja we were very happy ki chalo paise gaye par we got to do the pooja nicely but as soon as the pooja got over the priest asked directly for 500rs by saying ki beti ke liye hai so my mom gave them n as we were leaving they asked for their own dakshina we said no as we have alreadt given them 500rs but they were not ready to listen so somehow we managed to leave but outside again 3 pandits caught us n until we didnt gave them 100 rs they didnt let us go....we were completely shocked???ki aisa bhi hota hai....
Now a days money has becum so important ki bhagwan ke darshan ke liye bhi u need money...i think this trend has been goin on since a long time take the case of bachan's visiting tirupati..wen they visited the tirupati they wer given vip treatment as they being the STAR n the alomost thousands devotees were made to wait for an hr atleast...its really sad to see this n even sadder ki did pay money and couldnt wait for an hr more...