Between myth and reality!

The grand Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple of Thiruvananthapuram continues to be in the limelight. The hype regarding opening up of the remaining vault, containing treasure and other valuables, doesn't seem to subside. It's now reached a state where the powers that be have to take a call between myth and reality!

Reality.

The court had stayed the opening of the remaining vault termed as 'B' vault and said that it would announce a suitable date later. Meanwhile, a team has been set up by the Government of Kerala to assess the actual value of the treasures that have been found in the vaults opened thus far.

Myth.

The 'B' vault has the insignia of a serpent on its ornate door and people are chary about opening it, citing ominous happenings that would befall upon the royal family of Thiruvananthapuram - the true inheritors of this mammoth wealth though they've termed it as god's, the people of the state and the country, as a whole - strictly, in that order!

Consequently, on directives from the royal family, a 'devaprasnam'(a question and answer session between the 'tantris' and god, where answers are provided by Him to questions posed, in the form of indicators/results/signs during the course of the long puja) has been progressing over the last four days, within the precincts of the temple. The upshot of the entire rigmarole is that god has ordained that it'd be inappropriate to open the remaining vault as it would bring about untold misery and extremely bad happenings, as cited earlier.

My take.
It's really tough to take a call on this aspect because the fear of the unknown is 'great' as it involves god and impinges upon one's faith! Notwithstanding that, I'm of the opinion that the remaining vault must also be opened and the entire wealth be quantified correctly - once and for all!!