Holier Than Thou

He who chants the Vedas the Loudest
Gets moksha from the Endless cycle
of Life and Death and Life again...

He who pays through his nose
To get a darshana of the Lord
Is truly blessed,
And promised a place in Heaven

He who truly wishes to gaze,
Upon the radiant face of the Lord,
Shall have to push fellow believers,
And such a one is truly blessed in afterlife

From : The Fake Bhagwad Gita, not the spoken word of Lord Krishna.
Hinduism, and in essnce followers and believers of the Hindu Holy Trinity, often realize that their "salvation" or "moksha" lies not in mass communal gatherings and prayer. It is an individualistic path one must tread in order to attain the Bhramana.
This is both a vital, as well a selfish [selfish, not in the bad sense] way or attaining spirituality, but thats the way it is ordained in Hinduism. Now with a population of 800 million of the faithful, it is a tough job giving your fellow Hindus a leg up on attaining moksha.
That simply ends up in the madness that is seen in Hindu temples all over India and especially south India. People run all over each other in an attempt to gaze at the Lord, and more over if its a special festive occassion or a special occassion based on the phase of the moon it gets doubly worse. More people have died in their attempt to break the damned cycle than ever before.
Prayer chanting at temples is supposed to be either done by the priests. What ticks me off is when people sit down in areas clearly earmarked "Dhyanam" they get their little cellular phones - which arent exactly allowed inside temples - and start playing off spiritual music. And also, keep the mantra chanting to yourself, or in the vicinity of your home. Rigorous vedic chanting once in a few months in the temple is not going to give you and vimochana - except it might add to your bad karma from all the curses you'd get from the people around you. Please leave your Holier than thou attitude at home. We are all here to pray, some a little, some a little more - lets not rub it in to each other's faces!
Hinduism's curious case of leaving each to his own creates a spiritual rat race we see in temples all over India. The amount of money these temples make is unbelievable, and the followers are utterly oblivious as to who lines their pockets with the gold and money - the amount if put directly to charity can do a lot of good. Temples do function as charitable trusts, but the question of accountability still remains. Seeing the conditions in which most temples are kept, it is pretty clear absolutely nothing goes into their maintenance.
Clearly these people want you to attain spirituality, by giving away all your worldly posessions to them. Sounds like a scam!