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when assuming the role of a spiritual practitioner. Many sadhus accept

disciples, regardless of caste and are expected and obligated to accept

people whether they are rich, poor, powerful or powerless .

So what does the sadhu give to the people? A sadhu is a diety, and the

diety of the sadhu gives darsan, and the people take darsan. The

worshipper cannot initiate the act of seeing, therefore, the deity

enables itself to be seen in its image. The contact between the

worshipper and diety, is thus, carried out solely through the eyes.Since

sadhus are able to given people darsan, it seems then, that pilgrimages

in reality are unnecessary because one can attain darsan without having

to incur all of the strenuous problems and hardship associated with a

pilgrimage and without having to leave their place of domicile .

If pilgrimages are an important necessity for Hindus to undertake, and

if the darsan received from pilgrimage is far greater than that which

can be obtained from a sadhu, then it deprives, and places of those

Hindus that tdo not have the means and ability to go on a pilgrimage -

the paralysed and physically sick, at an unfair disadvantage. Simply

put, they would not be able to get as close as they could, to becoming

released from the cycle of death and rebirth, as a result of not being

capable of journeying on a pilgrimage which is totally unfair .

Therefore, pilgrimage should not play a major role within the Hindu

religion. By placing great importance and significance on pilgrimages,

a bad message is transgressed to and adopted by Hindu. For they will

believe that through physical means of travelling on a pilgrimage, they

will attain additional darsan and that their sins can be completely

washed away. However, if I was a Hindu who did not have the means by

which to go on a pilgrimage then this would not bode well for me. I

could be a Hindu who lives a saintly life, compared to a pilgrim that

sins time after time, and yet receive less darsan than a pilgrim that