Purchase spree subsequent to Black Friday

In US we have seen Thanks Giving Day, on 27/11/14 for which I have seen people eagerly waiting for it as all shops will be offering heavy discounts mainly on all electronic items like TVs, tablets, phones etc and even on many items of general nature like clothes. This is followed by Black Friday where the same types of discounts are getting extended and you find there is a mad rush in all Malls  and shops; of course, on thanks giving day I have seen people waiting outside in very long queues in front of all Malls and  shops,but whereas for for black Friday and subsequent days,they flock to the malls as all these are holidays, my today,s experience being very bad,and sad, I should say,
 

Today being Sunday my son-in-law took us to Franklin Mills Mall which is situated 45 miles away and takes about 45 minutes.While I am not surprised to see rush in that outlet mall,where you find all sorts of people right from small babies on strollers to very old people who cannot walk but still do shopping on wheel chairs.

Here I want to enlighten my self on whether it is right to go on shopping spree merely because heavy discounts are being given irrespective of whether the items are needed! I feel sad because I saw thousands of people reaching there in morning, entering each and every shop, most of time only doing window shopping, while purchasing very little; sometimes they purchase and return, which doesn't make any sense! What I noticed was people go there without any aim and objective or without any rhyme and reason, because they do not know what to but, nor is there any real necessity. I am sad because it is criminal waste of money, time and energy as it can be appreciated if they have any requirement or if they have any idea of what to buy. In this process with this type purchase spree shop owners get huge profits,and the malls are only luring the gullible, while we are the losers!
The same situation is catching up in India and the day is not far off that we may become victims of the situation.

Our visit to Sharadamba Temple in Pennsylvania

By the time we reached back from Dallas to New Jersey it was 6:40 pm at Philadelphia airport, and it took an hour to reach my daughter's house. Immediately on reaching we were told that we are supposed to travel 75 miles next day early in the morning, to SHARADAAMBA TEMPLE  at Stroutsberg. On hearing this my wife jumped in happiness readily agreed to travel early in the morning,however difficult or inconvenient it is, as of late, she has developed this, habit of visiting temples and performing TEERTHA YATRAS as per convenience. Here I must share one truth to my FB friends,back ground of the present temple visit, before we went to DALLAS ,my daughter's friend, a kannadiga lady who has lot of faith in this Goddess, took us to the temple  and to my utter surprise, I found it is an excellent,beautiful well managed and we'll maintained directly under the supervision of His holiness Sri Shankaracharya of Sringeri mutt. Excellent food arrangements are there for the devotees who come from far off places.

When we were having lunch, luckily the chairman of temple sri Yagna Subramayaian, came, when we got introduced, he asked my daughter as to what she does etc and she told him that she is in search of a suitable job, for which he said you pray the Goddess and you will get it soon. Now within one month she got a good job. therefore she has organized the visit.

Here again I would like to share few more details about the temple. As I mentioned it in is in stroutsberg, just after Delaware, in sprawling 35 acres, established by a trust under Sringeri Shankaracharya peetham, such trust being first of its kind outside India. In scenic lush green Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Stroudsburg while pratisthapanam was done in year 1995, it is committed to foster our sanatana dharma among global communities in general  and in the US in particular.

I am happy to note and find now a days with the advent of media the awareness on Bhakti has increased in India among us and it can be seen in every temple of repute, and in Tirumala it is next to impossible to have just a glimpse of the lord, and I have seen in US in every place there are temples and you find all sorts of sevas, Archanas, people are involved and it is good to see that things are nicely and systematically organized.