Prayers In Chilkur Balaji Temple On Banking Crisis

The ongoing crisis in the banking sector, especially in the nationalized Punjab National Bank, has prompted the Chilkur Balaji temple priests to conduct special pujas and rituals on Monday.

Temple Protection Movement convener and head priest of Chilkur Balaji temple Dr M V Soundararajan said that special pujas were conducted to save the public from threats to their hard-earned savings in the banks due to political and governmental interference in the banking system.

"There is a severe crisis and the hard-earned money of Indians is being looted by many corporate houses. At the Chilkur temple, devotees in thousands chanted the Runa Vimochana Nrusimha Stotram, a special chanting invoking Lord Nrusimha Swamy," Dr Soundararajan said.

The head priests Dr Soundararajan and C S Gopalakrishna suggested that such an invocation would help the recovery of money from defaulters, however big they were.

"A temple has to pray for the well-being of humanity, and this is a crisis which could have a spiralling effect on the common man, and hence this prayer. Also, the Chilkur temple was the first temple to prescribe a dress code of handlooms for devotees to help the weavers. It has always responded to social causes, and hence this unique prayer," Dr Soundararajan explained.

He said that the devotees made two extra "pradakshinams" of the temple with these prayers.

Dr Soundararajan recalled, "The Lord blessed us when we prayed similarly in September 2008 when there was a power crisis. He will definitely fill our accounts with credit flows and save the banks. He will help nab the defaulters and recover the money that belongs to public."