Religion sells. Different religions sell in different ways.
Leaving the naked ascetic where he was on his mission of life in Pandukeshwar, I moved further on to my destination in Badrinath.
Badrinath Hotel
Badrinath is a famous pilgrimage situated in the upper ranges of the Himalayas in India.
Badrinath: Scenic Beauty
Its beauty is really breath taking, nestled among the snow-clad mountain peaks all around. You feel you have ascended on to the heavens as you reach the 10,000 feet high valley, which is the source of Badri Ganga, a tributary to the famous and highly revered river the Ganga.
Badrinath Temple
I thought of visiting the famous temple over there. As I reached, I saw people standing in a very, very long queue waiting for their turn to enter the temple, which by no means could come anytime before 3 to 4 hours. There was a parallel queue also in which not more than 5-10 people were there.
I inquired about the second queue as to what it was, and by the answer I got from the priest I came to know it was a VIP queue for which I could buy a ticket in 500 rupees - not a small sum at all!
I told the priest I was going back as I was in no mood either to wait that long or to become a VIP by spending 500 rupees. The priest's religious sentiments got hurt and he challenged me I wouldn't dare go back without offering my prayers to God inside the temple.
"I'm not very fond of that." - I said and turned back.
With the speed of lightening did the priest spring up from his seat and stood in the very front of me - "No one ever in the history of Badrinath has ever gone from outside the temple back without offering prayers to God. How can you?"
I held his hand and pulled him to my side gently, saying - "So let the history be created today." - and climbed down the stairs of the grand temple that it was. Just to play the game of life in a fairer way than the humanity plays on the planet!
The priest kept looking at me taken aback in disbelief as did the people standing in the two queues - the long and the short!
It's not only the story of one single religion. Every religion sells. Different religions sell in different ways.
And it sells quite costly as well!
Do you want to buy religion too? Different religions are there on sale here, which if you buy will give me my cut too... good for me, good for you, good for both of us!
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