Recently I visited Belur along with my relatives and witnessed the greatness of Hoysala Architecture. Probably the most creative and sensible engineers were born in those times. To develop chains having stone linkages, stone bangles, sculptures that can be dis-assembled and packed, perfectly symmetric and extremely intricate carvings and what not; to do all these without any machinery is simply outstanding. After a brief look of all the wonderful architecture and some 'really beautiful' sculptures, my cousin wanted to pop up nicotine level in his body which, he thought, had drastically gone down after a longer (relative sense) gap. While our uncles and aunts wanted to see God for a longer duration, we went out and took some tender coconuts, cherishing the taste that I had missed for a long time.
I thought of writing about one little funny incident that i witnessed. Mobile phone is not allowed within the temple premises. The security persons check the people at the entrance and directs them to a place where phones can be safely kept. Needless to say, it is one of the ways to make money. This reminds of so many well-known temples taking money for allowing people to have "darshan" through a 'short-cut' a.k.a 'privileged path'. It so happened once that there were more people in the "special darshan" queue than the regular one!
Anyway... There were 5-6 persons in the queue at Belur. One was asked to keep his mobile phone outside and he was not at all happy with it. A small piece of conversation is as follows.
no mobile guy: ಯೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ನ ಒಳಗಡೆ ತಗೊಂಡು ಹೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿಡ್ತಾ ಇಲ್ವಂತೆ ಮಾರಾಯ
mobile guy: ಯಾರು ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ನೋಡ್ತಾರೋ? ನಾನು ತಗೊಂಡು ಹೋಗ್ತೀನಿ, ಫೋಟೋ ತೆಗೀಬೇಕು ಒಳಗಡೆ.
no mobile guy: ಇಲ್ವಂತೆ ಕಣೋ, ಬಿಡಲ್ಲ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ತಗೊಂಡೋಗಕ್ಕೆ
mobile guy: ಸ್ವಿಚ್ ಆಪ್ ಮಾಡಿ ತೋರ್ಸ್ತೀನಿ
no mobile guy: ಸ್ವಿಚ್ ಆಫು ಇಲ್ಲ, ಗಿಚ್ಚ ಆಫು ಇಲ್ಲ.. ಅವರಿಗೆಲ್ಲ ಬಿಡ್ತಾ ಇಲ್ಲ ನೋಡು..
mobile guy: ಯಾಕೋ?
no mobile guy: ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇವಾಗೆಲ್ಲ ಬಾಂಬ್ ಇಡ್ತಾರಂತೆ. ಅದಿಕ್ಕೆ..
Then they go near the security
security: ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ತೆಗ್ದಿಟ್ಟು ಬನ್ನಿ ಸಾರ್. ಬೋರ್ಡ್ ನೋಡಿ ಇಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲ ರೂಲ್ಸ್ ಇದೆ.
mobile guy: ನಾನು ಆತರ ಏನಾರ ಮಾಡೋ ಮನಶಾ ಅಲ್ಲ. ಸುಮ್ನೆ ತಗೊಂಡು ಹೋಗ್ತೀನಿ ಬಿಡಿ.
security: ಆಗಲ್ಲಪ್ಪ ಅಂತ ಎಷ್ಟ್ ಸತಿ ಹೇಳದು, ಅರ್ಥ ಆಗಲ್ವೇನ್ರಿ?
mobile guy: ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಕಥೆ ಅಯ್ತಲ ಸಾರ್ ನಿಮ್ಮದು. ನಂ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ನಾವು ಹಿಡ್ಕೊತಿವಿ. ನಿಮ್ಗೆನು ಕಷ್ಟ?
security: ನಮ್ ತಲೆನೋವು ನಮಗೆ ಇರತ್ತೆ. ಆಯಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಅಯಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲ.
mobile guy: ಒಹ್, ಏನ್ ಮಹಾ ಇವ್ರ್ದೊಬ್ರುದ್ದೆ ದೇವ್ರು. ನನ್ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಗಿಂತ ದೇವರೇನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಲ್ಲ. ಬೇಡ ಬಿಡ್ರಿ. ನಾ ಹೋಗ್ತೀನಿ ವಾಪಾಸ್...
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