How Hindu our Hindu temples are?

Recently I've visited a famous temple. The temple was not much crowded on the day of my visit. It was past mid noon and the temple gates had just been opened. As I had entered the temple I observed three passages leading to the sanctum where the main deity presided. The first two passages would give access to the sanctum whereas the third passage would give only a glimpse of it. Well this is not uncommon in all major Hindu temples especially if they are generating good revenues;leave alone their spiritual importance and historical significance. Despite being a famous temple, the devotees were not more than 30 on that day and there were no persons at the ticket counter. So we proceeded through the passage which gave access to the sanctum so that we could darshan our deity from a close distance. Just as we had reached the sanctum we heard a man from the temple entrance shouting "Who allowed them in that passage? That is paid passage. If they want free darshan they should go through the free passage. Get them out." I felt bad. I felt helpless.
I'm desperate because our Endowments Department has degraded our sacred places to the level of cinema theaters where every body is seated according to their paying capacity. Where exclusive galleries are reserved for VIPs. And we don't see such kind of practice in churches and mosques. Is it because they are not under government control?
By simply saying "Namastey", a Hindu conveys a profound message that "I bow to the divinity in you and you and I are the same". Whatever is being practiced in our major temples is certainly not Hindu in spirit.

Age

I was reading a random book bought from an old book store and suddenly realized that the book was actually 10 years older than me. How beautiful! Every tissue of it must be at least 10 years older than my physical body. But wait, May be that is not true. It is because both the book and I are of same organic compounds containing Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and some other minor elements. These elements existed in almost the same quantity and proportion ever since the formation of the earth . We both have merely borrowed these elements in different combinations and physical structures where I ended up with consciousness. So strictly speaking, there is no question of something being older than another in our world. And this fact leads me to a tentative guess that some of the elements in my physical body(and yours and everybody's) might actually have been a part of some other conscious being (human or any other creature) in the endless cycles of births and deaths since the manifestation of the consciousness on our earth. This is even more beautiful!