First of all, the fact that this went under the noses of so many people, so easily, is a complete dissapointment.

Hundreds, if not thousands of devotees visit the massive temple complex every day- and consume the prasad- hell, this doesn't even include the people who get the prasad as a gift from people who visited Tirumala.

Not even counting faith- this was so wrong on multiple other levels- including health. This was obviously a massive food safety violation.

Fine. Let's say that this alarmingly large issue went unnoticed accidently. But that still doesn't justify the responses of the people in charge.

And then going into that temple and saying that 'if we did this wrong then the lord will take care of us' is absolutely shameful.

Pushing all the wrongs onto god's name, just so that no-one will question them, instead of acknowledging a huge, huge wrong is just absolutely so so disappointing and shameful.

I am just immensely, immensely disappointed by this chain of events- and all I can say is that I'm absolutely ashamed of it all.

This whole incident speaks a lot about these 'organisations' and their actions- and just breaks my trust in them even more.

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I was scared to post about this incident- but after a point, I simply could not take it. Tirumala is a place very, very close to my heart and honestly I considered it a safe haven- but now this incident has shaken me up. Tirumala will never lose its divinity- but this just makes me so much more reluctant to go there- not because I don't like Tirumala, or that I think of it as different- but because of my distrust at the organisation handling matters regarding it.