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| A screen grab from the viral video showing a sad monkey sitting in front of deity at Vaitheeswaran Koil temple in Tamil Nadu |
Gowri Ramesh, July 21, 2015, Bangalore, NewsCrunch
Devotees of a Shiva temple at Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, were recently stunned to see a monkey sitting and crying in front of the deity.
The monkey was sad, had tears in eyes and reportedly refused to eat anything for four days and eventually went away on its own. Tamil magazine Vikatan uploaded a video of the sad monkey in the temple, which has gone viral.
The incident took place at Vaitheeswaran Koil, a village famous for its naadi-shastra or palm lead astrology.
The village has a massive temple, where Shiva is worshipped as Vaitheeswaran, the "God of healing". The monkey visited the smaller Badrakali Amman temple in the same complex and spent time there.
The video shows a crowd building up to see the monkey. Many offer coconuts, bananas and other eatables to the monkey, which goes untouched. A woman is seen offering it flowers, while a man touches it with devotion.
The sad monkey is seen sitting clutching the wall and ignoring the commotion. When the priests locked the doors of the temple at night, they decided to leave the monkey inside. When they returned the next day, the monkey was still present, reports TheNews Minute.
The News Minute says the monkey ate some of the offerings, while the comments made by eyewitness elsewhere on social media, claim the monkey ate nothing.
After four days the monkey reportedly went away on its own. The video was uploaded on July 20, but it is not clear when the incident occurred.