Gokul Temple — Attraction in Uttar Pradesh

The Biggest Religious Scam I Have Ever Seen

Visiting Gokul Dham in Mathura was one of the worst travel experiences of my life. This place operates under the guise of spirituality, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a massive scam.

As soon as you arrive, self-proclaimed "priests" (Pandas) will approach you, pretending to guide you through the temple. However, their only goal is to force you into making donations in the name of God. If you refuse, they will insult you without hesitation. The entire system here is designed to extort money from visitors under the pretense of devotion.

The scam doesn’t stop at the temple. The locals have set up small, fake temples in their own homes, confusing visitors about which one is the real temple. No matter whom you ask, nobody will give you the correct information. It seems like the entire village is involved in this fraudulent scheme. From auto drivers to hotel owners, everyone is only interested in tricking you into spending money.

Mathura and Vrindavan are filled with people begging for donations using microphones inside temples, behaving no different from street beggars. Everywhere you go, you’ll hear the same chant: "Donate, serve, contribute!" Instead of genuine religious experiences, all you find is relentless money-grabbing.

Nidhivan, another supposedly sacred site, is also a mess. They have built multiple unnecessary temples inside the forest, which serve no real purpose other than extracting donations. Even the main priest is more concerned about collecting money than offering spiritual guidance. If you truly need money, at least beg honestly rather than deceiving people in the name of God.

Recommendation

If you are planning to visit Mathura-Vrindavan, I strongly advise you to skip most of the so-called temples. The only real and worthwhile places to visit are Prem Mandir, Rang Nath Temple, and Govind Dev Ji Temple. Everything else is just an organized scam designed to...

Biggest scam in the name of god, the guide will make big promises that this will happen when you do this/that way the Pooja and mention various types of bhogs but never let you know the money for it and tell that their so called pandit ji will tell about it. Here comes the main part, the main so called pandit ji or pujari will do predictions about you by seeing your family for 5 seconds - how they can judge you in that time and now comes the main thing he came up with bhogs package - 1 lakh, 50k, 28k, and 5750 rs compulsory package for poor people. And we wanted to give 1100 rs, and after that the pandit take away the flowers from us which he gave for Pooja and talks to us rudely and says minimum amount is 5750 which is for poor people. And then we have to give 5750 rs. as for the devotion of god without any argument but scam is literally very big scale, every one is involved in the village, don't visit there imo or visit...

Radhe Radhe...Just Pray and come without taking to anyone in the temple...Taking Guide would be the biggest mistake...they will first try to impress by telling all the stories and then attach to a priest..he will force you to pay in the name of parents and God.. I had to pay 2500 after negotiation...he forced 11,000 initially.every priest you visit you have to shell minimum 500rs.. initially the guide will tell, you will get butter as prasad and it won't be spoiled for 1 month and should not be opened till you reach your home..after all the scam happened inside the temple I forcibly opened the prasad inside the temple and found just the sugar cubes, when I asked the guide he said they will spray butter on the cubes itseems....these people will loot you completely....they should be banned and temple should be free by these scammers...They are just spoiling...