oppn parties No 'Shivling' Worshipping Right Now

News Snippets

  • R G Kar rape-murder hearing start in Kolkata's Sealdah court on Monday
  • Calcutta HC rules that a person cannot be indicted for consensual sex after promise of marriage even if he reneges on that promise later
  • Cryptocurrencies jump after Trump's win, Bitcoin goes past $84K while Dogecoin jumps 50%
  • Vistara merges with Air India today
  • GST Council to decide on zero tax on term plans and select health covers in its Dec 21-22 meeting
  • SIP inflows stood at a record Rs 25323cr in October
  • Chess: Chennai GM tournament - Aravindh Chithambaram shares the top spot with two others
  • Asian Champions Trophy hockey for women: India thrash Malaysia 4-0
  • Batteries, chains and screws were among 65 objects found in the stomach of a 14-year-old Hathras boy who died after these objects were removed in a complex surgery at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital
  • India confirms that 'verification patrolling' is on at Demchok and Depsang in Ladakh after disengagement of troops
  • LeT commander and 2 other terrorists killed in Srinagar in a gunbattle with security forces. 4 security personnel injured too.
  • Man arrested in Nagpur for sending hoax emails to the PMO in order to get his book published
  • Adani Power sets a deadline of November 7 for Bangladesh to clear its dues, failing which the company will stop supplying power to the nation
  • Shubman Gill (90) and Rishabh Pant (60) ensure India get a lead in the final Test after which Ashwin and Jadeja reduce the visitors to 171 for 9 in the second innings
  • Final Test versus New Zealand: Match evenly poised as NZ are 143 ahead with 1 wicket in hand
Security forces gun down 10 'armed militants' in Manipur's Jiribam district but locals say those killed were village volunteers and claim that 11, and not 10, were killed
oppn parties
No 'Shivling' Worshipping Right Now

By A Special Correspondent
First publised on 2022-06-09 09:15:04

A 'shivling' was allegedly found when the water was drained out of a pond in the Gynavapi complex during the court-ordered and videographed survey of the same. The images that went viral could not conclusively prove that it was a 'shivling'. The Muslim side insisted that it was a fountain. The courts are yet to examine the 'shivling' and have not issued any orders regarding the same.

But a seer, Swami Avimukteshawaranand, jumped the gun and filed a plea before the Varanasi district judge (who is now hearing the entire Gyanvapi matter under the express direction of the Supreme Court) for orders to permit worshipping of the shivling. The court has rightly rejected the plea on the grounds that it was "not maintainable" at this stage.

There are several things to be considered in the matter. First and foremost, since the original case about the legality of the survey of the Gyanvapi complex ordered by a different court in Varanasi is still being heard, anything unrelated to the same needs to wait. Then, since it has not yet been legally established that what was discovered inside the pond is actually a shivling, the question of worshipping it does not arise at this stage. Finally, since the court is also hearing the plea that whether Hindus should be granted right of worship to 'visible and invisible deities' inside the complex, no exception can be made on an urgent basis in the case of the recently discovered 'shivling'.

Since the Varanasi district judge is hearing the petitions already filed in the matter, it will be better for all concerned to refrain from complicating matters by filing fresh petitions on issues unrelated to the matter at hand. If the court thinks it fit to grant Hindus the right to worship the 'visible and invisible deities' inside the Gyanvapi complex, the right to worship the 'shivling' will obviously be an integral part of that order. Hence, litigants and others must help the court in deciding the matter at hand by providing evidence or raising points of law and not make matters worse by filing frivolous pleas.