Pushkar - beautiful spiritual village or cheater palace?

This small village welcomed us with it´s spiritual atmosphere, a wholly lake which is said to be created by the Hindu god Brahma -- he dropped a lotus flower on the ground and the lake appeared.
Patricia, Agus and I found a very homely hotel recommended by a nice couple we met in Udaipur and started to feel relaxed and comfortable here right from the beginning. After a short rest I went to find the only Brahma-temple in whole India, not without having read about the dangers of getting set under serious pressure by real or fake priests to spend rather high amounts of money for the good of the souls of the beloved. Of course I thought that this would only happen to very green-horned tourists and not to such a skilled and experienced traveler like me ;) 10 minutes later I found myself with color in my face and flowers in my hands next to the holy lake repeating a rather stupid text preached by this wannabe priest. The emotional blackmail was that tuff that I ended up paying something, but of course it is never enough. The good victims get a red band, I guess in order to be left in peace afterwards. As I did not spend enough to be a good victim and thus did not deserve this band, I got stalked in many occasions until putting on a more serious attitude towards them to make clear, that they went way to far and that I wouldn´t have had any problem with drowning one of them in the holy lake in case the did not get out of sight ;)

The sun had already disappeared behind the surrounding hills when I found a silent spot from where I could enjoy the view of the lake and observe locals doing there washing rituals. I imagine that this village must have been very spiritual before the touristic exploitation began and with it the cheating under the cover of spirituality. Now this place seems to consist of hotels and shops only and for every step you take someone wants to charge you. Even for sending postcards exists a service charge, I guess it is for licking the stamps ;)