Religious segregation is the separation of people according to their religion. The term has been applied to cases of religious-based segregation which occurs as a social phenomenon, as well as segregation which arises from laws, whether they are explicit or implicit
Answer: It is not like allowing Jains and Sikhs but not Buddhists. It applies to each and every faith, morally.
But it is not strictly adhered to, in all temples, but it is implicit. Morally they should not enter.
You ask yourselves,
If you do not have the faith in the deity, why you should enter that temple with wishful intentions?
The debate over the ban on non-Hindus entering Hindu temples began around 30 years ago.
Several temples in South have signs saying that non-Hindus are denied entry, few of them enforce it as strictly as the Guruvayur temple.
Only Orthodox Hindus are allowed’, reads a signboard hanging from the Lion's Gate of the Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri.
Males should enter the body bare at the top, (not carrying any weapons?)in Tiruchendur temple.
All have its tradition and reason from the history. Many Southern Temples were looted, destructed or demanded money by Persian and European invaders- Turkeys, British, Dutch, Portuguese etc. The tool used is to depute either spies (sufi fakirs) or to convert locals to christianity giving petty economic benefits and use them to get the information and to loot the temples.
Guruvayur came to light due to three invasions and destructions met during 18th century.
Many may not be aware that Dutch Ceylon occupied Tiruchendur temple, looted treasures, set fire and run away with the idol to ceylon in 1650. The current Tiruchendur temple is reconstructed in 17th century in Tirumalai Naicker regime.
Once tasted looting, Dutch Malabar did the same thing in 1710 to Guruvayur Temple. It looted treasures, destructed Gopurams, Shrines and set fire.
This is followed by Hyder Ali 3 decades later.
And again his Son, Tipu avoided destructing it by collecting huge sums of money from Temple administration.
Guruvayur is popular and cornered public attention due to these invasions.
Many temples in Cauvery Delta region were fortified by British and French in 1750s. Aththi Varadhar Raising signified one out of several such destructions.
Earlier Madurai, Sri Rangam etc were ransacked by Kilji and worship commenced after 48 years by Hindu Vijayanagara Empire. It took 200 years to reconstruct the temples what we have today.
These temples served as local economic power houses- built, reconstructed by noble Emperors / Kings by their liberal endowments, review by local devotees every twelve years, with lot of metals and minerals to connect it to the cosmos and empower whoever come in contact in its vicinity with spiritual vibrations.
This is Past History.
But history repeats, that after over 70 years of independence, Hindus in South asking at this critical time:
If one does not have the faith in the deity, why one should enter that temple with wishful intentions?
An atheist Kanimozhi entered the Tirumala Tirupati temple with a bad intention of questioning donation in Hundi.
Jains have been entering the tirupati temple after independence to claim the temple which belong to Sri Vaishnavism sect belong to Jains.
Buddhists have been visiting Tirupati after independance claim that Tirupati idol is that of Gautam Buddh.
Not only other religious persons, the volunteers from other pseudo sects within Hinduism, like Eesha (is Eesha a Hindu org?), enter the temples to own their treasures. Like maids cleaning the house, depute volunteers to clean and make videos selectively to defame the temples and launch free TN temples from Government.
Now the prominant question is
How to identify persons who have the faith in the deity, and how to find out persons entering with wishful intentions?
Till then the ban on entry of non- hindus will not be strictly adhered to.
Leave it to one’s morality.
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