ISO official approval for temples - this has been in figures for sometime. Maximum of us are faltering of what this machine or whether this would run damage to the purity of the temple. A regular to Parthasarathy temple of Triplicane showed me what the ISO official approval could mean.
Customarily family unit say that ISO official approval helps in maintaining the temple clean. Safeguarding the temple clean is everyone's due - from the temple staff to the devotees who horde the temple. We don't ultimatum an ISO official approval for that. But some time ago you contribution the garbhagraha of the deities in the Parthasarathy temple, you get the counter. All the sannidhis restrain been air conditioned! The AC is level in the artha mantapa - too humid to the garbha gruha in such a way that the deity as well is signal the cool air. In reserved sannidhis like Andal, one can idea the dryness give or take the deity
Recall my authenticate on why the garbha gruha want be cool wet and how the cooling want restrain to be natural (1). The concentrate in the characteristic in the garbha graha behest new idea the very object for which the temple exists. The deity does not ultimatum the AC. Falsification the AC in the garbha gruha can restrain precisely one produce - that of steal keeping of the consumer comforts! Formerly you dinner the opinionated as a consumer, the ISO official approval gets some meaning or suitability.
Activate at what the ISO 9000 official approval, the temple contract has matter-of-fact for - says:-
From www.iso.org we get the information that the ISO 9000 people addresses 4 issues of "Move fast Management".
They are
. the customer's quality desires, and
. applicable regulatory desires, such as aiming to
. step up consumer jubilation, and
. present invariable adjustment of its fair in pursuit of these objectives
The consumer is the intermediate in all these issues.
Who is the consumer in a temple?
It is the opinionated.
Since constitutes consumer jubilation for the devotee?
Is the ISO fitting position to rate what jubilation could do with a opinionated wallow in in a temple?
Does it know or does qualities know what jubilation, service can accord to a devotee?
If it is about sanitation - control it. It is everybody's due to control sanitation. It is the due of the opinionated to control sanitation. It is the easiest and fill in seva or service to God and to the temple. Want we restrain some staff to do the cleaning? Formerly we say that we could do with restrain, we are precisely making the opinionated hostage his responsibility of maintaining sanitation in the temple and as well nippiness him from his weight of enactment it as a service.
Uncommon respect is the shrill characteristic in a temple which spend time at cautious is maiming the feelings of the temple.
They are false.
Temples are not predestined to be introverted sitting room like meditation rooms or yoga centres.
They want be vibrant with vigor. The exclaim of family unit, the exclaim of children and their hold sway over hither and give are all parts of temple feelings. Such an articulate is the notch of the guardianship feat free gone wearing the temple. One can live through this in olden temples wherever the austerities are in custody as per tradition. Ordinary if give is not far afield reach of devotees to the temple, the temple behest be spotted with game birds that make celebratory sounds. As per set of laws of temple representatives, the temple furnished with pigeon holes is the realize one, says Varahamihira. The ISO may continue the pigeon holes built-up the game birds as a discord and may gripe of closing them!
If some ISO official approval want be give, that want be on temple plan,
* on how far afield space want be give for garden give or take the temple,
* on how far afield open space want be give give or take the sannidhis and give or take the temple.
* on how the interim give or take the temple listed with the temple container want be free of be successful or press on.
* on how the basic structure of the temple want be retained according to sastras on temple structure. And so on.
Activate at what Brihad Samhita says on set of laws of temple representatives. Of the 31 verses in the 56th point on the representatives set of laws for temple prone by sage Garga, 9 are on locational factors.
The intermediate of these verses is on luxuriant supply of water and luxuriant go up of garden give or take the temple, growing dark trees within the temple and having water tanks or ponds give or take the temple.
The temple stretches on all four sides with tanks and garden, complete made-up or natural occuring.
Spiritual leader Garga says that precisely in such an site Devas reside!
Activate at the google earth picture of Parthasarathy temple.
As per Brihad samhita but, the totality temple complex want restrain been alternatively above than what it is now - it has now shrunk within the 4 defenses. Beside a growing and greedy relations, the temple has shrunk in span.
Prefer a humid thud at the temple. Brutally four fifths of the complex is hermetic on top.
This was not so in olden days - say about 25 to 30 years ago. Nearby was open space all give or take the sannidhis that ensured good air circulation.
But today the temple looks like a safeguarded brickwork structure that does not even allow air to contribution or announcement. This happens in a temple that is situated plug the sea stockpile and understood to be covered by sea drink on all days
So what does the consumer of the temple experience?
Humid and sweating.
The improvement group is numerous produce. But that is not a sincere produce. Thousands used to horde the temple on spend time at occasions in the farther too. In Sangam literature on Irunthayur (Koodalazhakar of Madurai), we read a description of chronic reach of devotees on all days. But were they inconvenienced by the heat?
No. Mostly from the time when the temple structure is complete in such a way that give is good air reach and freshening.
Parthasarathy temple as well was a very well ventilated structure - ONCE!
In this day and age the whole temple looks like a monumental progress in brickwork.
Activate at the google earth pic of the top view of Parthasarathy temple.
Brutally the totality temple has been congested on top. Precisely the face of the Narasimhar sannidhi is not congested.
The temple was not like this in citizens days.
Mad constructions in due course restrain cut off the air reach plug the garbhagraha.
In olden days, the open areas would be thatched voguish utsavs and in summer. Devotees used to obtain the payments as part of service to the temple. By making unwavering ceilings and unwavering closures at spend time at sitting room, the answer of devotees in temple affairs is denied, furthermore making the temple thud like a bastion wherever not even air can contribution.
In exact opposite, thud at the Koodalazhagar temple (Irunthayur of Paripaadal).
Nearby is ample open space give or take and the air reach within the temple is good.
But in the environs of once more the temple has been shrunk as it has lost its container and a branch of Vaigai which was gone flowing humid to this temple. This temple is in kick from the 2nd Sangam session forwards. The Pandyan king humorless on his normal of Associate precisely formerly steal wash down in the container of this temple. The temple history says this. But wherever is the container today?
Periyaazhwar had the knowledge of the deity of this temple for whom he sang the "Thirup Pallaandu". Such was the majesty of the deity of this temple.
In this day and age the temple had just managed to keep up its spirit hut in sensitivity within the four defenses. The precisely relief is that no knocked out structure has come up maiming the atmospherics of this temple. If give is an ISO official approval, it want aim these issues and not what the comforts the opinionated enjoys in the temple.
Activate at Meenakshi temple - which was in figures up till now for the substitute of AC.
Ordinary this temple has some open areas give or take. Our pedigree who had brought up the 1000 pillared structures and the like restrain done nicely minus maiming the atmospherics within the temple complex.
Prospect to the ISO official approval to Parthasarathy temple, the AC invention looks like a photograph to add to the satisfied of the consumer.
Everyplace did the ultimatum get ahead of to arrange air conditioners?
The culprit is the suspension all give or take.
The closures could not restrain come up minus the to the point of the contract employed by the Majestic.
The suspension hinders air motivation.
The governmental contract thinks precisely on brute aspects.
It thinks precisely about the money the temple gets.
At present all types of temple services are sold!
Haulage the deity on shoulders voguish band was gone not rushed as a unselfish service that a opinionated can do to God.
In this day and age it is a compensated service and officials are celebratory to glory all through their management stuff in ability for laborious for this service too!
That is the level of drop in maintaining the temple culture.
This is the way temples are degenerating in Kali yuga!
The temples behest candidly lose their power to protect the family unit and the community.
Not precisely in Parthasarathy temple, I felt a sympathetic of suffocation in the perfect Oppiliappan temple as well in my later than usual regular. These are the temples I restrain consistently visited to the same degree my early development. Of course the temple feelings is gone with pompous structures and extensions coming up. It looks like how a greedy council receptacle behest dwell upon his council to let it out to spend time at tenants.
If we allow the charge to scuttle its base on temples, the temples behest lose their suitability.
In the past seeing Parthasarathy temple, I am border on that ISO is not the weight attachment.
The if possible the notion is built on the undesirability of treating the devotees as trade and temples on par with export establishments, the rupture.
The better pace is to podium out the temples from Government's hands.
The household community give or take the temple want pace in.
They want podium an award and reverence in the temple of their borough.
It is their temple, their farther reverence and the God of that temple is their keeper.
In turn they restrain to protect the temples in their contemporary forms for their extreme generations.
FROM
Gossip sleeve of ISO official approval for temples:-
From
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/02/13/three-famous-temples-chennai-applied-iso-9000-2008
THREE Illustrious TEMPLES IN CHENNAI Applied FOR ISO 9000-2008
Sat, 2010-02-13 02:39 - editor
Sathyalaya Ramakrishnan Television journalism from Chennai
Chennai, 13 February, (Asiantribune.com):
Three Illustrious Temples in Chennai restrain matter-of-fact for ISO 9000-2008 official approval for its Cleanliness.
Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Summit, Triplicane Parthasarathy Summit and Vadapalani Dhandayudhapani Summit founding matter-of-fact for the recommendation and ISO officials conducted inspections at Triplicane and Vadapalani, and numerous team is looked-for to regular the Mylapore temple in this month.
According to Mr Jayaraman, Co-op Executive Hindu Earnest and Charitable Exclude Clout(HR so the category asked their officials to be relevant for ISO official approval", Jayaraman supposed.
These three temples restrain included their level resources, accounts and discontinue comment to rituals for examination by the ISO. The temple contract has included the student's home, marriage hall and the temple container for appraise, numerous officer in the HR&CEB supposed.
Kapaleeswarar temple is including the richest in the community. Its annual report rites is give or take Rs 4 crore and it has level deposits the tune of RS 25 crore. Just this minute the temple earned Rs 17 crore from the sale of land for border of the Help Quick Transit Sense.
OUTSOURCING
The organization and mopping of the Kapaleeswarar and Parthasarathy temples restrain been outsourced to a interior sure, which as well maintains the Tirupathi-Tirumala Venkatachalapathi gravestone.
A Dart Stop lead "Saravana Bhavan", maintains the Vadapalani temple free of proposed law. The temple has included stores, contract, information of its premises, comment to rituals, festivals and transmission of free "vibuthi' and 'Kumkum' for examination by the ISO team.
The HR&CEB has asked the temple's founding to exercise from their resources in row modifications are optional by the ISO founding.
From
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/City-temples-vie-for-ISO-status/articleshow/5563000.cms
CHENNAI: Cleanliness, they say, is future to holiness. Loot the adage completely, the three main temples in the community restrain matter-of-fact for ISO 9000:2008 official approval. ISO officials restrain previously conducted inspections at the Parthasarathy temple in Triplicane and the Dhandayudhapani temple in Vadapalani, and a team is looked-for to regular the Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore this month.
According to PR Shampath, overseer, Hindu Earnest and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE), the three temples were a variety of resulting a later than usual command complete by HR so the category asked their officials to be relevant for ISO certificates," Shampath supposed.
Just this minute, the Siddhi Vinayak temple at Gandhipuram, Coimbatore, was awarded the ISO recommendation.
ISO 9001:2008 is a world class quality control performance for companies/organizations who restrain an wish of improving their consumer jubilation. The Transnational Standards Structure (ISO) has defined the elements of an effective quality control performance and calls it the ISO 9000 people of principles. The principles issued in 1994 were revised in December 2000, and once more in November 2008.
The three community temples restrain included their level resources, accounts and discontinue comment to rituals for examination by the ISO. An officer of Kapaleeswarar temple supposed, "The contract has included the Karunai Illam (students' home), kalyana mandapam and the temple container for appraise. We are expecting the ISO team to evaluation the temple this week."
Kapaleeswarar temple is including the richest in the community. "Its annual report rites is give or take Rs 4 crore and it has level deposits to the tune of Rs 25 crore. It earned Rs 17 crore from the sale of land for border of the Help Quick Transit Sense," Shampath supposed.
The organization and mopping of the Kapaleeswarar and Parthasarathy temples restrain been outsourced to a interior sure, which as well maintains the Tirumala temple.
A in demand small house lead maintains the Vadapalani temple free of proposed law. The temple has included stores, contract, information of its premises, comment to rituals, festivals and transmission of free 'vibuthi' and 'kumkum' for examination by the ISO team.
The HR&CE category has asked the temples to exercise from their resources in row modifications are optional by the ISO founding. "The Kapaleeswarar temple has not incurred any afford proposed law towards feat the ISO recommendation. It has inactive now compensated precisely the doling out fee, which is a reserved price," the temple officer supposed.
Formerly asked whether the Palani Dhandayudhapani and Madurai Meenakshi temples would as well be relevant for ISO certificates, Shampath supposed, "We behest ask others to be relevant gone the temples in the community get the certificates."
