Prayers to God Via Twitter – A Look At The Online Prayer Market In India!

(With inputs and critical editing by Abhishek Kapoor)

During childhood, you might have written a letter to God (complaining about your parents or demanding a personal wish) or sent your messages to him by writing them on kites. Now, it makes us smile thinking about the childhood timidity but the fact is that we get into some serious trouble as we grow older.

Reuters has revealed the latest story on this. A young Israeli student – Alon Nir, has opened an account on twitter – to send your prayers to god. Now you must be thinking how he will forward your prayers to God? Right? On that note, Alon said that he use to take print outs of prayers (Tweets) received on his twitter account and place them on crevices of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. More than 1000 prayers are placed on Western Wall. He is hoping that Tweets received on his account would be beneficial to people all around the world. Direct Messages sent to him will be kept as private (not visible to public).
However, many sites are running on web space who promise to deliver your prayers to Him, like -

OngoingPrayers – A forum for sending your prayers to the god.

PrayerRequest – This site also facilitate to send your prayers to god but it’s a paid service, charging 3.99$ for putting your letter between the stones of Western Wall.

Here at WATBlog, we recently covered the fact where someone’s religious belief means revenue for an organization which is part of a mercantile world. In India, online Pooja Market is surely a booming one. People from metropolitan cities are known to be stuck with their busy lives and seldom get to attend religious functions. A couch potato just needs this new age menu card to know his destiny.

Read this carefully -

“Simply send us one E-mail for offering Pooja on your behalf and we’ll do it.  We believe that eventually you will send the money to us. Remember, no Puja is successful without ‘Dakshina’ which has to be made only from your money sent by you.  As we are engaged in humanitarian activities we believe that you won’t resort any false activities. This is completely on the basis of good faith on you.”

Avail personalized online Pooja services at different famous temples throughout India via different websites that has now become an acceptable trend in the society. Choose your favourite God and choose the most affordable offerings. Religious portals offer IT-savvy devotees prayer sessions done at temples in India, sending them a DVD of the prayer and offerings like dried flowers or vermillion, blessed by the priest. Some of the most famous temples from India have their own websites offering similar services especially when festivals are around.

Shri Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai – Helps you know the whereabouts of the temple, including the history of the temple’s Trust and stories related to Lord Ganesha.

Virtual Darshan – Let’s you stream live videos from the temple wherever you are, and you don’t even need to go to the temple!

Online Booking of Pooja and other rituals – devotees for booking puja online. Choose a day you want your prayers to be offered and check the box if you want the Prasad to be delivered at your doorstep!

Charges differ depending on the demand of poojas during a particular day. Just Book it!

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The Bottomline!

A special Mahaganapathy homam to seek the blessings of Lord Ganesh – $49, a spiritual Rudraksha Mala – $655.17, getting your Pooja confirmed at the holy Kashi Vishwanath Temple – $8.55,

Watching your website gain unexpected traffic – PRICELESS!

But of course, there is something money can’t buy, but unfortunately it exists only in books – Peace, Love and Harmony.

Do you think such websites are flooded with devotees willing to offer prayers only during festivals? Share your experiences as in how is the internet penetration used to digitize the faith in God.