{"id":7383,"date":"2009-01-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/15\/chilean-pilgrim-causes-tumult-in-jagannath-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:00:00","slug":"chilean-pilgrim-causes-tumult-in-jagannath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/15\/chilean-pilgrim-causes-tumult-in-jagannath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Pilgrim Causes Tumult in Jagannath Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">\n<p class=\"summary\">The entire incident left temple priests outraged. According to police, the foreign visitor, Sebastian, dressed like a sadhu. That made it difficult for security guards at the entrance to make out whether he is a Hindu or not. &#8220;He looked like a sadhu. He was wearing ochre robes of Hindu monks and yellow kurta with a shawl. He had also anointed sindur on forehead,&#8221; Singhadwar police station inspector-in-charge Arun Dalai.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing more tension, the policemen escorted Sebastian out of the temple and detained him at the office of the Jagannath temple for hours. <\/p>\n<p>Sebastian admitted that he knew about the temple norm that &#8220;only Hindus&#8221; are allowed inside the temple. &#8220;I knew that. But I am a converted-Hindu. I embraced Hinduism five years ago. I am a disciple of Sonia Swami, a late religious leader from India,&#8221; Sebastian said. &#8220;I just wanted to have a darshan of Jagannath,&#8221; he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Even the stalemate &#8220;which categories of Hindus can enter the shrine&#8221; continues till today at the Jagannath temple.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire incident left temple priests outraged. According to police, the foreign visitor, Sebastian, dressed like a sadhu. That made,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}