‘Whatever the majority says, the minority will have to accept it’, a big statement by Swami Avimukteshwarananda in Jabalpur

Shankaracharya Avimukteshwarananda said that the Tirupati incident makes Hindus aware that government interference in religious places should end. All temples of Sanatan Dharma should be free from government control, because if secular governments remain in religious places, this will be the result.

Sourabh Jain anytv, Jabalpur, Madhya PradeshFriday, Sep 20, 2024 02:53 PM Share

Jyotishpeethadhiswar Jagadguru Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand gave a big statement in Jabalpur on Friday saying that the minority will have to accept whatever the majority says, and he also said that cow slaughter cannot happen in this country. At the same time, regarding the matter of animal fat and oil in Tirupati Balaji Prasadam, he also talked about getting the Prasad of temples across the country tested.

Speaking to the media, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati said, ‘We have our own beliefs, our own faith, our own tradition, we will follow them. If someone can adjust with us, we will adjust him too. But no one living in our country can work against our sentiments.

Further he said, whatever the majority says, the minority of this country will have to accept it. This is an amazing thing, that when the government has to be formed, the majority will be considered and when laws have to be implemented, the minority will be considered, what the minorities want. Hey, the minorities can want something, whatever the majority wants will happen in this country and the majority in this country are Hindus. The majority in this country is against cow slaughter, so cow will be worshipped in this country, cow cannot be killed in this country.

Also, he expressed extreme displeasure over the news of animal fat and fish oil being present in the laddus given as prasad in Tirupati Balaji temple. Targeting the government in this matter, he called it the result of government’s negligence. He said that adding unholy ingredients in the prasad of Tirupati is a crime against the entire Hindu community, in this case he demanded immediate arrest of the culprits and filing a case in the court. Also, he demanded that a big committee be formed and the culprits be investigated and given severe punishment.

Shankaracharya also congratulated Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu for exposing this matter and said that if there was no truth in the allegations, Naidu would have been surrounded by now. He said that all the temples of Sanatan Dharma should be free from government control, because if secular governments remain in religious places, this will be the result. The incident in Tirupati makes Hindus aware that government interference in religious places should end.