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In India, we already have more places for worship than schools, colleges and universities.......
And now..... !!
Wish their prayers be answered..... sarve jana suchino bhavantu....
The making of a god: How a statue outside a Kerala hospital turned into a deity over time
People pray to the sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby installed in Medical College campus, even the sculptor is surprised.
When you are desperately seeking divine intervention, you begin to put your faith in anything you can gain solace from. And in Thiruvananthapuram, the object of faith for scores of patients and their families visiting the Sree Avittom Tirunal (SAT) Hospital is the familiar grey stone statue of a mother breastfeeding her baby, created by artist Aryanad Rajendran.
Installed on the road near the entrance of the SAT hospital, this work of art has transformed into a deity with people offering candles, agarbattis, payasam (kheer)and milk. Some other throw coins and prayers for their beloveds undergoing treatment in the hospital.
For Geetha, who is from Kadakkal, it is irrelevant that the statue does not represent any known religious figure. “You see faith is all that matters. Even if we worship a stone, it will get supernatural power within days. Faith can transform a stone to deity. After I prayed to the mother, we see her as amma-mother. There is a big improvement in my daughter’s health condition since I prayed to amma. Why would this many people pray here if it was mere superstition?”
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/articl...-kerala-hospital-turned-deity-over-time-64018
And now..... !!
Wish their prayers be answered..... sarve jana suchino bhavantu....
The making of a god: How a statue outside a Kerala hospital turned into a deity over time
People pray to the sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby installed in Medical College campus, even the sculptor is surprised.
When you are desperately seeking divine intervention, you begin to put your faith in anything you can gain solace from. And in Thiruvananthapuram, the object of faith for scores of patients and their families visiting the Sree Avittom Tirunal (SAT) Hospital is the familiar grey stone statue of a mother breastfeeding her baby, created by artist Aryanad Rajendran.
Installed on the road near the entrance of the SAT hospital, this work of art has transformed into a deity with people offering candles, agarbattis, payasam (kheer)and milk. Some other throw coins and prayers for their beloveds undergoing treatment in the hospital.
For Geetha, who is from Kadakkal, it is irrelevant that the statue does not represent any known religious figure. “You see faith is all that matters. Even if we worship a stone, it will get supernatural power within days. Faith can transform a stone to deity. After I prayed to the mother, we see her as amma-mother. There is a big improvement in my daughter’s health condition since I prayed to amma. Why would this many people pray here if it was mere superstition?”
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/articl...-kerala-hospital-turned-deity-over-time-64018
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