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A authorities teacher carried a Dalit workfellow connected his shoulders into the Lalitha Peetham temple astatine Srinivasa Mangapuram, adjacent Tirupati, re-enacting a 2,700-year-old occurrence to marque a constituent connected caste equity.
Mahesh Degala, founder-president of the Hindu Upadhyaya Samithi, led the move. The workfellow connected his shoulders was Munaswamy Nagarajan, a Dalit teacher who is besides the State president of the Samithi’s SC/ST Reservation Protection wing, and the enactment drew cheers from chap teachers and the public.
2,700 years ago
The enactment was a re-enactment of an lawsuit believed to person taken spot 2,700 years agone astatine the Srirangam temple, involving Tiruppan Alwar, a Dalit among the 12 Sri Vaishnavite saints, and a temple priest, Lokasaranga Muni.
According to the account, the Alwar stood earlier the temple successful a trance, singing hymns successful praise of Lord Ranganatha. The clergyman pushed him distant for obstructing his way into the temple, causing him bleeding injuries.
When the deity of Lord Ranganatha wrong the sanctum sanctorum was besides recovered bleeding, the shocked clergyman rushed out, apologised to the Alwar and carried him connected his enarthrosis into the temple.
Replicating this event, Mr. Mahesh carried a Dalit teacher, Munaswamy Nagarajan, who is besides the authorities President of the Samithi’s SC/ST Reservation Protection wing, connected his shoulders and entered the temple, amid cheers from chap teachers and wide public.
Referring to the intent down the re-enactment, Mr. Mahesh called it an effort to close what helium termed the distorted position attributed to Sanatana Dharma by “pseudo-secular” forces.
“The Varna strategy (hierarchy by profession) mentioned successful our past scriptures is antithetic from the caste strategy successful vogue today. We, the teachers, person a work to contiguous the close representation to the society,” helium said.
Later, the members sat unneurotic for a assemblage lunch.
