Hanuman Mandir of New York — Attraction in New York

Decent mandir but idols are facing North, making YOU face South which - for long periods of time - is quite deleterious on your aura and chakras. YOU need to face East. Not the idols. The one that needs to benefit from East is YOU!

For more detailed information do a Pranic Feng Shui course from Pranic Healing. I cannot go into as much detail as this is simply a review.

EDIT: the Pujari has a habit of opening too much of his mouth and saying things that are UNNECESSARY. For ex. 2-4 is for kids aged 5-15 for Hindi, Sanskrit, and Mathematics. The priest said, "if you want to teach your kids your culture that is good, if you want to keep them at home and teach them 'hi, hello' [sic] then that is your prerogative."

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This temple is EXTREMELY profit-driven. Whenever I go there to pray, I am asked to give donations. They do not even introduce themselves; they just ask for money out of the blue. They do not just ask for a couple of dollars; they ask for LARGE donations (ex. $100). It is really annoying. On top of that, if you do not donate, they make you do chores in the temple. The temple already gets a lot of donations from others, so why can I not just go there and pray in peace? Somebody should SUE the...

It's a nice, quiet place to pray for the most part. However, one day this person kept bothering me asking me to donate money to the temple. I don't know if he works for the temple or what, since he never introduced himself. I didn't push back, since I went there to pray, not to get into a fight. But I felt uncomfortable that a total stranger would approach me to donate money, when there are already prominent collection boxes in the temple, and I didn't need...