An­oth­er Hin­du tem­ple has been van­dalised, this time in Car­li Bay.

Pun­dit Satyanand Ma­haraj has said that af­ter Navra­tri ser­vice last night mem­bers of the mandir se­cured their Kali Ma­ta tem­ple in Car­li Bay and head­ed home.

Navra­tri is the holi­est time to wor­ship the Di­vine Moth­er God­dess.

"To­day they woke to find the mandir bro­ken in­to and their mur­ti or con­se­crat­ed im­age of the Di­vine Moth­er de­stroyed and smeared with olive oil! A warn­ing from Ex­o­dus 20:3-4 was paint­ed on the out­side. A re­port was made to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion, how­ev­er, no re­ceipt for the re­port was is­sued by the TTPS," he said.

Ex­o­dus is a book in the Holy Bible and chap­ter 20, vers­es 3-4 read, "Thou shalt have no oth­er gods be­fore me. Thou shalt not make un­to thee any graven im­age, or any like­ness of any thing that is in heav­en above, or that is in the earth be­neath, or that is in the wa­ter un­der the earth."

Ma­haraj added, "While Trinidad and To­ba­go is a mul­ti-re­li­gious coun­try where we all en­joy free­dom of wor­ship, it seems that some peo­ple are bent on de­stroy­ing the peace­ful co-ex­is­tence that re­li­gious groups en­joy. This act of vi­o­lence un­der the guise of Chris­tian­i­ty must be con­demned by all peo­ple of Faith."

He said a call has gone out in this Navra­tri to help re­store this sim­ple and hum­ble shrine in the quick­est pos­si­ble time.

"Ser­vice will con­tin­ue night­ly. Kali Ma­ta is more than a mur­ti, she is a phi­los­o­phy for suc­cess­ful liv­ing. She is the granter of mir­a­cles. Mem­bers have vowed to con­tin­ue to wor­ship and will not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by mis­guid­ed per­sons," he said.

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