Socio-Economic Status of Deities
Mrs. Deepa chocked her voice
when she heard her husband’s jeering on the Hindu Godhoods. It is all
owing to her day long intermittent worship on gods and deities that
have crowded the walls of her inner bed room to the threshold holy
basil plant. Deepa for the first time got confused with her vision
blurred and perception undergoing utter deception.
Akash could probably feel the
nerve of her better-half. He said with his tone containing the same
amount of derogation. “Do you know Deepa, the Hindus in our country
worship as many as thirty-three crores of gods and a genuine ration of
godman population in the land will be one is to three. In other
words, there is one deity employed by the almighty to take care of
three men and it is still a hard concept to believe as to why there is
anarchy, parochialism, disintegration and gross inhumanness prevalent in
the land.”
Akash kept making his speech
more relevant and clear. “There are major five different types of
gods reigning the ecclesiastical as well as the socio-economic worldly
status of India :
Deepa was thunderstruck to hear
such casual, playful and godless categorization of deities by her
husband. But there was no way out. It is because she knew the
temperament of her husband who had talk-o-mania then. He did not mind
gossiping and arguing on issues, for hours together and for this, she
kept mum and she thought it would probably serve as a better silent
appreciation.
Akash continued, ‘See, Deepa,
the proverb goes ‘Man is the maker of human destiny. It is in other
words, has been a much talked acknowledgement that it is man who has
created god and for that reason, he has made all worldly gods maintain a
socio-economic status for the betterment of the human living.
It is here that Akash’s humour
crossed the perview of sanity and he categorized Indian Hindu deities
into five major categories – each according to ability and each
according to capacity and credibility.
The first category to remain top
in the list as per Akash, there are certain gods in India having
multi-millionaire identity. As per instance, there is Vaishno Devi,
there is Tirupati Balaji and infact, a score of powerful deities who
enjoy darsanas and worships round the clock and went back to their
nativity in the evening having lacs in collection.
The second category, as Akash
perceived, are the middle class deities. They also enjoy customers who
offer them with sumptuous alms and satisfy them with burnt offerings.
Akash guffaw knew no bound when
he further categorized a quite different category as the gods in the
BPL list quite dependent on truckers and motorists whose sole offering
during their enroute tour.
Both, Deepa and Akash, chocked
with their heart throbbing. The wife prostrated before the house
deity to forgive her husband and to bless her only son.
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