Published on Jan, 2023

With so much excitement we visited the holy place of Vrindavan and we came across a guide who really took us around the main temples with beautiful darshan … lastly he took us to a temple which he said is nearby and is the main temple on whose name the city is based on … there he told us to sit very close to the deity there were 3 huge deities and the priests started to pressurize us to make donation to help the elderly cows and told us it would be for serving one cow for life time … he said he would come and collect the amt at the place we were staying … he immediately reached there before us and then added additional amt to it at the last moment … we made the payment but some where i was not sure of the approach some thg did not felt correct so i started doing online research and found it was a fraud…luckily we had their-number as they called us to say they reached. I tried my luck n called them up and asked for our money and tht what we had discovered abt them they did agreed immediately to return our money but they did not return the full amt they gave a reason of conversion deductions from bank and paid less 7 thousand ….similar incident was encountered in another temple… so the learning is do not become trapped in these mahatmas trap n do not make any payments to them and also do not blindly follow your guide to an unfamiliar place or temple as they are all part of a team ….think and do reserve before any payment.

Published on Jan, 2023

With so much excitement we visited the holy place of Vrindavan and we came across a guide who really took us around the main temples with beautiful darshan … lastly he took us to a temple which he said is nearby and is the main temple on whose name the city is based on … there he told us to sit very close to the deity there were 3 huge deities and the priests started to pressurize us to make donation to help the elderly cows and told us it would be for serving one cow for life time … he said he would come and collect the amt at the place we were staying … he immediately reached there before us and then added additional amt to it at the last moment … we made the payment but some where i was not sure of the approach some thg did not felt correct so i started doing online research and found it was a fraud…luckily we had their-number as they called us to say they reached. I tried my luck n called them up and asked for our money and tht what we had discovered abt them they did agreed immediately to return our money but they did not return the full amt they gave a reason of conversion deductions from bank and paid less 7 thousand ….similar incident was encountered in another temple… so the learning is do not become trapped in these mahatmas trap n do not make any payments to them and also do not blindly follow your guide to an unfamiliar place or temple as they are all part of a team ….think and do reserve before any payment.