Team Blitz India
BITING cold could not stop devotees in the UK to throng temples across the country to celebrate the consecration ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. Thousands of devotees were seen crammed into Slough Hindu Mandir in Berkshire in the Thames Valley.
Singing praises to Lord Ram and chanting shlokas, the devotees celebrated the ceremony. The queue to enter temples was seen extending to several blocks with people waiting outside in the freezing cold shouting “Jai Shri Ram”.
“This day is important. It doesn’t matter how long we have to wait,” one of the devotees responded to a television media query while waiting in the queue at a western locality in London. A huge billboard was seen at Westfield London which said, “UK celebrates the homecoming of Bhagawan Shri Ram in Ayodhya today.”
Devotees were seen dressed in Indian traditional attires with colourful shawls and many had Ram inscribed on their forehead as a tilak.
“We are creating the same energy over here as in Ayodhya. People can feel the vibrations. People feel so much happiness that the place of Ram’s birth has been given to us and built so marvellously,” Slough Hindu Mandir head priest Pandit Naresh Saraswat told media amid the celebration.
The Slough temple, which was the centre of celebration in the UK, distributed around 5,000 packs of laddus as Prasad and sacred unbroken Akshat rice grains from Ayodhya were handed over to devotees who came to lit diyas on the occasion. Many locations in the UK also had live screening of the consecration ceremony from in their neighbourhood areas. Many devotees were also reported fasting on the day to mark the occasion.
