Chilkur temple offers ‘raksha threads’ prasadam

  • | Saturday | 18th August, 2018

Chilkur Balaji temple is offering a unique ‘prasadam’ these days as part of campaign for the Raksha Bandhan festival. ‘Raksha threads’(sacred threads) are being given as Balaji Prasadam to girls to tie them on their senior class and school mates at the government primary school at Chilkur village. Chilkur Balaji temple chief priest C.S.Rangarajan says that on August 26, a large number of rakhis will be kept in the temple to let women devotees pick and tie the thread to any strange man they come across in the temple premises. The campaign got support from school teachers and it will be extended to some high schools, junior colleges and corporate houses. The temple also launched Rakhi Challenge where a young man will accept the challenge of having at least one stranger girl or woman tie a rakhi to him and accept her as sister for the rest of his life.

more-in Chilkur Balaji temple is offering a unique ‘prasadam’ these days as part of campaign for the Raksha Bandhan festival. ‘Raksha threads’(sacred threads) are being given as Balaji Prasadam to girls to tie them on their senior class and school mates at the government primary school at Chilkur village. The campaign got support from school teachers and it will be extended to some high schools, junior colleges and corporate houses. The purpose of the campaign is to promote brother and sister bond between the girls and boys so that they will extend same respect to girls and women as they do to their own family. Chilkur Balaji temple chief priest C.S.Rangarajan says that on August 26, a large number of rakhis will be kept in the temple to let women devotees pick and tie the thread to any strange man they come across in the temple premises. The temple also launched Rakhi Challenge where a young man will accept the challenge of having at least one stranger girl or woman tie a rakhi to him and accept her as sister for the rest of his life.

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