In staff andhra-pradesh. Religious ecstasy

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Religious ecstasy and business here nearby. Pilgrims make thousand kilometres in hope of these or those favour bozhii. We saw, how devoutly they make religious ablution in a pond near to a temple (observe them in the temple we could not: foreigners there do not suppose). As it is a pity women with the naked white heads, the hair which have offered to a temple look. To a temple it is an additional source of the income. They sell hair for manufacturing of wigs. In trading numbers near to a temple on a wind female chignons flutter. Dexterous businessmen sell here various amulets, ' protecting ' those who will get them, from troubles and illnesses, texts of various prays and spells. The temple is how much rich, it is possible to judge to that it contains own university in the city of Tirupati.

In 1973 under edition of professor A.D.Litma-na the interesting collection ' Religion and atheism in India ' is published. In the foreword to it it is said, that ' religiousness makes the important element of social psychology of peasantry, handicraftsmen, a considerable part of formed proletariat, the city and village middle class. The religious regulation penetrates a daily life, family relations, norms of morals of Indians. The religion has considerable influence on various areas of the Indian culture. At last, diverse, it is far not passive forms of display of religious consciousness and religious ideology are constantly found out in sphere of social relations and in the field of internal policy '. Pretty often reactionary forces aspire to maintain religiousness of weights in political strike against those who struggles for a progressive reorganisation of a society.