点评:Shri Baidyanath Dham has to be one place which is totally controlled by pandits.
For starters, there is a vip darshan for 300. But the entry cards are available only to pandits. So I reached her before 5, but the darshan didn't start before 6. I was told that I would stand in line and Pandit would get the entry card. Now imagine this is true for everyone. Once the card counter opened, all the pandits went there, and came back with cards forcing their people inside. So that line meant nothing. There was stampede like situation and 3 policemen couldn't get the crowd under control. Eventually, the vip line and normal line merged 100 metres before the temple.
Then I had booked (I say booked, but it was merely phone call) jalabhishek for 1100 rupees. But the pandit wanted 2000 rupees, because apparently 2 of them helped me get near the shivling. Inside the garbh, while performing the jalabhishek puja, there was pushing and snatching, with every pandit wanting his clients (I am using the word client instead of yajmaan because that's what we were) to come to shivling. After this, another pandit, who is inside the garbh asked for money, because he, not the pandit I paid, helped me in jalabhishek. I said I would pay outside and he should come outside. After this, the pandit wanted me to perform few other poojas, starting from 1100, but I refused.
Honestly, I have never seen such mis management in any of the jyotirlings or any other temple. The pandits have their names printed on mandir walls, which is just disgraceful.
翻译:什里·拜迪亚纳特·达姆(Shri Baidyanath Dham)绝对是被祭司们完全掌控的地方。
首先,这里有300卢比的VIP朝拜,但只有祭司才能拿到入场券。我5点前就到了,但朝拜要到6点才开始。有人告诉我,我得排队,祭司会帮我拿入场券。现在想想,这招对所有人都管用。结果,一开卡,所有祭司都冲过去,拿着卡回来,强迫他们的人进去。所以,排队根本没用。现场一片混乱,三个警察都控制不住人潮。最后,VIP队伍和普通队伍在离寺庙100米的地方就汇合了。
然后,我预订了(其实只是打了个电话)1100卢比的圣水沐浴仪式。但祭司要价2000卢比,因为据说有两个祭司帮我靠近了湿婆林伽。在圣殿内,举行圣水沐浴仪式时,人来人往,推搡抢夺,每个祭司都想让自己的“客户”(我用“客户”而不是“祭祀者”,因为我们当时就是客户)上前拜见湿婆林伽。仪式结束后,另一位也在圣殿内的祭司向我要钱,因为是他而不是我付钱的那位祭司帮我完成了圣水沐浴仪式。我说我会在外面付钱,让他出来。之后,这位祭司又想让我从上午11点开始再做几个其他的祭祀仪式,但我拒绝了。
说实话,我从未在任何一座湿婆林伽神庙或其他寺庙见过如此混乱的管理。祭司们的名字被印在寺庙的墙上,这简直是耻辱。