Two days after her visit to the Brahma temple created a row, the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai broke her silence to clarify that none of her guards had consumed alcohol and then escorted her during her visit and puja within the sanctum sanctorum at Pushkar.
But the priests have gone ahead with cleansing rites at the temple premises. Ash’s visit to Pushkar on Thursday turned controversial when the priests at the temple alleged that during her visit to the shrine, one of the actress’ bodyguards was inebriated.
This, they claimed, hurt religious sentiments of the pilgrims and the people of Pushkar. Ash spoke up after the local and national media picked up the story about the drunk bodyguard and the fact that her security detail allegedly roughed up some pilgrims.
Reports quote Ash as saying that the entire episode has upset the entire Rai family and that she wanted to clarify that none of her bodyguards were drunk.
“in fact, she does not even know the person who is alleged to have consumed alcohol and was present at the temple while she performed puja,” the report quoted Ash as saying.
Ash said that both her bodyguards had immense faith in Lord Brahma and in fact it was upon their insistence that the trip to the temple was made so the question of their integrity does not arise.
Meanwhile at Pushkar, the umbrella organisation of the temple’s priests held a cleansing ‘yagna’ at the lake ghats on Saturday and the Brahma temple priest also announced that the idol of Brahma would be cleansed with Ganges water.
Priests performed a yagna invoking the divine power to give “wisdom” to Ash to atone for the sins by her bodyguard.
