{"id":435,"date":"2016-01-21T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=425&amp;preview_id=425"},"modified":"2016-01-21T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T07:07:16","slug":"kanchi-seer-sidelined-at-rameswaram-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Kanchi seer \u2018sidelined\u2019 at Rameswaram temple | Deccan chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"cover\">\n<div style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dc-cdn.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/dc-Cover-20160121070642.Medi.png\" rel=\"rameswaram.co.in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"coverimg\" src=\"http:\/\/dc-cdn.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/dc-Cover-20160121070642.Medi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rameswaram temple (Photo: rameswaram.co.in)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rameswaram<\/strong>: Even as the consecration of the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple here was performed on a grand scale with utmost religious fervour on Wednesday, a controversy brewed over the alleged \u2018sidelining\u2019 by the temple authorities of the visiting Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathy.<\/p>\n<p>While the pre-consecration rituals including the \u2018yaga saala pujas\u2019 that commenced on Jan. 15 with invocations to Lord Ganesh (Vigneswara Puja), went off very well in front of the \u2018Amman\u2019 shrine over the past four days, the seer attended the \u2018pujas\u2019 on January 19. But \u201cdue respects were not accorded to the Kanchi seer\u201d, sources said. Instead, temple functionaries kept a tab on his movement, which deeply hurt the Kanchi seer, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi on Wednesday morning kept away from the main consecration function.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief meeting with Kanchi mutt functionaries here in the afternoon, the acharya merely went up to the \u2018Artha Mandapa\u2019 in front of the presiding deity\u2019s sanctum, handed over the golden \u2018Naaga Kavasam\u2019 (as gift to adorn the hood of the Shiva Linga) to the temple priest, offered prayers to the Lord and quickly left for Kancheepuram. The acharya\u2019s non-participation in the main function left devotees shocked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/current-affairs\/210116\/kanchi-seer-sidelined-at-rameswaram-temple.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanchi seer \u2018sidelined\u2019 at Rameswaram temple<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rameswaram: Even as the consecration of the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple here was performed on a grand scale with utmost religious fervour on Wednesday, a controversy brewed over the alleged \u2018sidelining\u2019 by the temple authorities of the visiting Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathy. While the pre-consecration rituals including the \u2018yaga saala pujas\u2019 [&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":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}