{"id":41570,"date":"2017-02-25T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41570"},"modified":"2017-02-25T22:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:21:20","slug":"uma-bharti-asserts-right-enter-sanctum-temple-sadhvi-hindustan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41570","title":{"rendered":"Uma Bharti asserts right to enter sanctum of temple as a \u2018Sadhvi\u2019 &#8211; Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"moz-reader-content\" class=\"line-height4\">\n<div id=\"readability-page-1\" class=\"page\">\n<article class=\"story-details\">Union minister Uma Bharti asserted her right to enter the sanctum sanctorum of famous Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain as a \u2018sadhvi\u2019 on the occasion of Mahashivratri.<br \/>\nBharti managed to secure entry to the temple\u2019s sanctum on the basis of her status as sadhvi despite the fact that temple authorities had barred entry on the day owing to huge rush of the devotees to have \u2018darshan\u2019 of Lord Mahakal.<br \/>\nEye-witnesses said she was initially stopped by the officials as the administration had barred the entry into Garbh Grah (sanctum-sanctorum) in view of the rush during the Mahashivratri.<br \/>\nUjjain Collector Sanket Bhondwe, who is the chairman of the temple committee, informed her about this rule, but the Minister was visibly annoyed, witnesses said.<br \/>\nUnion water resources minister told the officials that she was a \u2018Sadhvi\u2019 (spiritual leader) and therefore they cannot prevent her from entering the sanctum-sanctorum to offer \u2018jal\u2019 (water) to the deity.<br \/>\nBhondwe later told PTI that \u201cwe allowed her only to offer water, and did not allow any other person (to enter).\u201d<br \/>\nThe bar to entry in the sanctum sanctorum was meant to avoid inconvenience to the people, and because of this system, more than 2.5 lakh people could have \u2018darshan\u2019, he said.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Bharti said in a statement later that she went to the temple only after getting a permission from Mahant of Udasin Akhara Prakash Puri, who looks after issues regarding the temple\u2019s customs.<br \/>\nShe only performed \u2018Jalabhishek\u2019 as she had the due permission and it was also allowed to other \u2018mahants\u2019 and priests of the temple, she said.<br \/>\nOn Mahashivratri every sadhu has the right to perform \u2018Jalabhishek\u2019, she said, adding that she was a \u2018Dikshit Sanyasi\u2019 (properly initiated spiritual leader). The senior BJP leader also praised Madhya Pradesh government for making arrangements during the Simhasth (Kumbh) mela last year.<br \/>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Uma Bharti asserted her right to enter the sanctum sanctorum of famous Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain as a \u2018sadhvi\u2019 on the occasion of Mahashivratri. Bharti managed to secure entry to the temple\u2019s sanctum on the basis of her status as sadhvi despite the fact that temple authorities had barred entry on the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}