I’ve a great long term plan coming up, and I would be planning it together with none other than you. I guess you’re getting tired of my ramblings as well, and my half-baked charities. It’s time for a new beginning perhaps, and the implementation stage might take longer than any of you might have imagined. I need like minded people, because this is not going to be an individual effort.
Let’s talk about what we talked previously in a more detailed manner. Since we received reasonable feedbacks on the previous issue, let’s get in depth and see if we can reason out the thing that is leading to the destruction of Indian students in Malaysia.This post is not race-based when it comes to poverty and hunger although I might have mentioned Indian kids here and there.
You walk into a temple, sometimes buying a garland of flowers, and then pray heart fully that you should be happy; and so should all your family members. You should be blessed with as much fortune and happiness as possible. When you’re blessed with such, you return back to the temple, giving more to them, thinking that He will return back what you have given in multiples. Or perhaps you think the more money you spend on the temple, the more sins you have done might be washed.
You see, it’s long known that we would rather spend hundreds of millions to the God you haven’t seen in your life than to spend to people who are living in poverty right next to you. Ask this question to yourself – How many of you regularly go to temple and how many of these temples are well sponsored and well kept? How many of you put your money on the priest tray without thinking twice just for a chance to place your hands in ‘holy’ small fire? How many of you think a thousand times to donate to a school or poor children?
Doesn’t that show how selfish we are? And how stupid we are?
Let me tell you what we’re doing. Let’s talk scenarios.
We go to temple and it happens to be it’s the annual festival. For an example, like the one that we see in Batu Caves every year. Hundreds of thousands of foods is given to every visiting Indians there, which means that millions of money might be spend on food itself. That doesn’t stop there; each and every temple in Malaysia, from the roadside Madurai Veeran temple to the biggest Murugan temple in Malaysia practices this. Why the fuck do we give out food to people when most of this people can actually afford such a food? Simple logic, I can bet maybe around 5% of the people that turn out in this temple might be craving for food, while the rest consists of aunties weighing half a tan. These are the needy people eh?
With that known, why direct the food to the greedy rather than the needy? Do we not realize that all this food can be actually redirected to the people who actually need them? To the hundreds or maybe thousands of unfortunate Malaysian children who could not afford daily food? As most of you had already known, ‘Anadhanam’(food donation) is one of the best form of charity. I applaud anyone who takes the initiative, but a slight change on the implementation would help so many out there.
No need to give 3 packet of rice to the fat Indian aunty who is wearing full jewelry. Instead, give it to all this children:
Why build thousands of temples when our Indian children can’t even afford to go to the school? Why the fuck do we need air conditioned temple? So that people will call our God ‘cool’ eh? The Tamil schools don’t even have a ceiling fan, and we have fully tiled expensive marble temples all over the country? We have the biggest statue in the world, and we also have the first school to be located in shop houses. We point our fingers towards the politician, but shouldn’t we be looking in the mirror? The change should be with us. We’re the one to be blamed.
We hesitate to give to another human being, but we do not hesitate to give it to God. When had God used your money? He do not need your pocket money all la! If you’re saying by donating directly to the school, the schools might misuse the money; then what about all the money you give out to the temple; it goes to Lord Sivan’s pocket is it? We are so scared about God and punishment that we eventually forget what He said in the first place, to help fellow human beings first, not Him. He does not need your fruits, rice or any other things. We, humans are the one who need it. We give out so many offerings to the God, using our hard earned cash, when none of them realistically would reach God.
Ayya veke ayam, attha veke atte kutiyum vettenethe pothum pa…
Annual festival in the temple and you take part in as much as ‘Abishegam’(ceremonies) as possible. You pay between RM 51 to sometimes as higher as RM 1001 for something that is solely based on your faith. Is there a price for faith? Will God not accept prayers from the poor? If all this funds can be redirected to schools, imagine how many thousands of children would study in a much more excellent condition than below cramped and hot classrooms?
Some say that by building more temples, we can instill more cultural and moral values to the Indian children so that they would be a better person in the future. Is that why our Indians populate a total of 70% in the prison? It’s a clear failure, building glass temple or diamond temple or whatever temple is not going to help develop the mentality of Indians in Malaysia.
It starts with good education and (average) growing up environment!
And it’s never too late to start with something, why waste your life not gaining satisfaction for something good you’ve done to others? Why worry so much about God whom you might (or might not) meet after you’re dead? For such a long time now I’ve preached the same thing, but I guess it’s time to stop barking; and start biting.
The next time you put out your money blindly to the temple, think twice, there is always a better choice. I have no rights to order you how you should spend your money, and I’m certainly not totally against spending your money for the temple. Rest assured, I’m arguing over here to convince all of you that we should all be different than how our previous generation had been, to build a better future for Indians in Malaysia.
Faith is priceless. Divert your devotion to poverty and education rather than God. I’m sure He would be pleased 
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