Tirupathi Bhishma Ekadasi 2012

Big disputes had been bubbling up from the muddy ground of TTD corruption as they still had not come up with the rebuilding of the 1000 pillar mandapa which they demolished 2002, for socalled safety reason. Then finally all the other issues on rituals and management had disturbed the pilgrims and devotees of Lord Venkateshwara for years now. In the year 1999 i had darshan short after midnight with the bright fullmoon over the ananda Nilaya Vimanam. and i wondered when the Lord will rest. And i think the Lord on the 7 hills did not rest from that time onwards.
HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamy had critizied the administration for over 10 years about all that problems facing with those demolishing of ancient monuments, not follow the rules set up by acaryas and temples time table. But there was no response from their side.
Finally on Bhishma Ekadasi 2012 He celebrated a big pandal Programm with the chanting of Sri Vishnu Sahasranama with more then 15000 people, and i was the happy person to be allowed to participate in that program. It took around 5 hours (ohh my yoga asana trained legs still ache!) to complete the whole session and at the end all of us did offer a small oil lamp towards the Tirumala Hill temple. What a beautiful sight to see all 15000 people do the same with devotion and inner spirit to make a change up there. Finally we all went up to the stairs to claim for another 4 hour walk to Tirumala! As one day before i just arrived in India i was very excausted when i came up to Tirumala temple at around 9 pm night. But to see tirumala gave me a cool breeze on my soul! But what a different view on the temple, as the whole area is just removed and all the agarharam and tousand pillar mandapa is gone. Instead they have built a very uncool looking stage for music and dance with a flair of rubble and dust. Not very attractive. Still one can see the olden mandapas pillars lying around everywhere. How cruel one has to be to have no attraction for culture, art and history!