Real Use of Temples

Aptly dedicated to the Hindu deity Vishnu (the Preserver) - the other key ones being Brahma (the Creator) and Siva (the Destroyer) - this temple managed to preserve a lot of 'kurunge' (money in Tamil).

Smart deity. Don't trust paper money and convert those things into real stuffs for storage. And that is just what the deity preserved (left behind). One wonders how much the deity have 'used' to-date.

I wonder which of the Hindu deities is the re-incarnation of 'AGNI' the Auditor General N Inspector.

Everywhere such 'holy' institutions are filled with money hoarders. Coincidence?

According to the report, the 'secret chamber' where the valuables were held had not been tempered for 140 years. You believe that?

If that is true, that means the people who hid those valuables did not want others to know about it. Why?

If those few (if not few how to keep secret?) people are the only ones that know about it, do you think they would not help themselves to some of it?

The more likely scenario is that there had been some falling out between the different people managing the 'secret chamber' and the ones who lost out (and therefore could not use those valuable anymore) threatened to spill the beans. So the others had no choice but to 'reveal' the existence of those valuables.

Note: Throughout history temples are good places to hide or store valuables because only a few 'top religious leaders' (i.e. insiders) are allowed into the temples' inner sanctums (where valuables are stored) supposedly because those places are 'super sacred'. In addition, temples enjoy fanatical protection from worshippers who would protect the temples with their lives when called to do so by those 'holy leaders' - those dumb suckers think they are protecting their gods. A good example is the Greek Parthenon which the Delian League used as their 'treasury'.


Indian temple yields priceless treasure
Russia News.Net
Saturday 2nd July, 2011

Gold and silver jewellery, coins and precious stones have been discovered in an Indian temple.

The treasure, thought to be worth billions of dollars, had been hidden in secret compartments in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in southern India.

Indian officials have hinted that the valuable find might be worth over ten billion dollars.

While one more secret chamber is yet to be opened, thousands of necklaces, coins and precious stones have already been brought out of the underground vaults.

The secret chambers had not been tampered with for over 140 years.

The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is dedicated to Hindu lord Vishnu.

It was built hundreds of years ago with devotees continuing to contribute to its upkeep.