Minor girl revered as Goddess survives on liquid on maun vrat from many years

As per a report:

In India, there seems to be no end to the bizarre superstitious practices, despite so many debates. The latest case of superstition has been reported from the Taj City Agra, where a 14-year-old girl, Neeru Singh is considered as a 'goddess' by locals. According to a report published in TOI, Neeru has decided to take 'samadhi (to give up her life) and she has been put under house arrest.

The shocking incident has been reported from Pinahat, a town 55 kms away from Agra. According to locals, the minor has been observing maun vrat (fast of silence) from last eight years. They also said that at the age of six, Neeru kept a fast for rains and it rained! Villagers have even built a temple after her instructions and a community festival is also celebrated in her name. She has been surviving on liquids for a long time and has stopped taking food.

Thousands of villagers have gathered outside her house to offer prayers since Monday morning, the first day of Pitru Paksha Shradh. Just like controversial godwoman Radhe Maa, the girl was also dressed in a red dress and had adorned heavy jewellery.

Meanwhile, to ensure her saftey, heavy police personnel has been deployed outside her house and her father, Hari Singh has been asked to take care of her safety. A police official also said that an FIR will be filed against her father for promoting superstition. Police is investigating whether her father used Neeru for earning money, in the name of calling her goddess.

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A Temple in India Where Rats are Revered

Reverence for all living things is a special trait of Hinduism. But nothing prepares you for the freak show at this temple in Rajasthan overrun by thousands of overfed rats. There are more than 20,000 of them living within the temple precincts and people come from far and wide to pay them obeisance.

The temple is located in village Deshnok, 30 kilometres from Bikaner on the Jodhpur-Bikaner Highway. It is called the Karni Mata temple after the resident deity, the progenitor of the rats. There are perhaps as many legends about Karni Mata as they are rats, and like much of Hindu mythology the story changes with every narrator. According to the temple priest, Karni Mata lived in this village in the 14th century and was one of the reincarnations of Goddess Durga.

She was married but chose a celibate life and married off her husband to one of her younger sisters. When a son of one of her sisters drowned in a pond, Karni Mata took his body to Yama, the Hindu god of death, and pleaded for his life. At first Yama refused, citing the inevitable law of nature, but eventually yielded and promised Karni Mata that her sister’s son would be reincarnated as a rat.

The promise came true and after that all of Karni Mata’s relatives began to be reincarnated as rats. Read more here.....Where Rats are Revered

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