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a gold pillar, manifestation of the ego of the person who built it. Deepak told a very disgraceful story about the temple, "It was built by a Jain Seth, richest person of Mathura at that time. Normally Jains are not supposed to build Vaishanavite temple but superstition overweighs everything else. He was issueless. Some Vaishnava monk promised to grant boon of getting son to his wife if she built a majestic Vaishanavite temple."
Deepti, "Children are not products of any boon but fusing of compatible spermatozoa and ova. The Seth must have been impotent and his wife must have been impregnated by the monk. There are several such unwritten stories."
Monks' Dilemma
| 163 At Gokul the scenario was much more ridiculous. Idols of Krishna as a child were put in many houses depicting playing: sleeping etc. and the priests or their wives were asking donations. Anguished by the superstitions prevailing all over they returned to Mathura for a night's stay in a rest house in a Jain temple which was built by the same Seth from the left over residue of Vaishanavite temple at Vrindavan.
While returning to Mathura from Vrindavan they were obstructed by a procession of devotees reciting the words, 'Radhe, Radhe'. There dresses were inscribed all over with these words. Deepti asked, "Radhe is probably rustic version of Radha, beloved of Krishna. She is not any god incarnation, then why is revered as deity?"
Deepak, "She is treated the same way as queens are along with the kings."
Deepti, "She was not a queen. Krishna never married her. Surprisingly none of the sixteen thousand queens and their chief. patrani Rukmini are not as revered as Radha. It is wonder of superstitious India that even an extra-marital relation is glorified which otherwise is considered a taboo in the society."
Deepak, "There is no mention of Radha in canonical scriptures. It is later addition by some influential monk or priest who must be having infatuation for female. It is manifestation of latent sex urge."
