This Muggle Life

The next time you desperately need a visa,don’t bother to stand in the long queue in front of the embassy.Just pay a visit to our friendly neighbourhood Visa Venkateswara Swami. Nope,he is no screen God like our Superstar rajini or ultimate star Ajit, Hes a real God ! whos also fondly known as Visa Venky(I've taken the liberty to shorten Venkateswara Swami).

To quote from Deccan Herald :
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The 500-year-old Balaji temple at Chilkur, about 40 km from Hyderabad attracts
plenty of visitors, the devout praying for a hundred different things, as at
most temples. But none as many as those who want visas. So, much so, the
(swayambhu) god here has begun to be referred to as 'Visa Venkateswara Swami'.
It is a growingly popular belief, around here, that this god grants the most
difficult-to-obtain visas to go abroad for jobs, post-marriage emigrations, or
higher studies, in a miraculously short time after making a vow

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But,what I truly find unique about this temple is the fact that

[Quoted from Deccan Herald]
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You cannot offer cash or jewellery offerings in the hundi here, nor
ornaments/clothes for the diety, as thanksgiving. In fact, there is no hundi
here!
In these ways, of course, the temple, which attracts, about 5,000
visitors on weekdays, and 25,000 on weekends and public holidays, is like any
other temple.

Nevertheless, with its no-hundi and
no-separate-queue for VIPs (with rare exceptions), and no paid-sevas policy, it
counts as unusual.

You are told not to deposit money anywhere.
It's extraordinary in other ways too: there is no prasadam sold here: the priest
just hands you small fistfuls of it. And the priests themselves are highly
educated. M V Soundararajan, head priest, was a commerce professor and is
retired-registrar, Osmania University. M V Rangarajan, the younger priest, quit
his job as biomedical engineer with an MNC, to work here, am told

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Finally , a God who has truly abstained from all worldly things !

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