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dear friends

 

The statue or photo is the inert object. The form carved in a stone or painted

on a paper is also an imaginary form and not even a direct photo. The statues

and photos are only models representing the concept, which is knowledge. The

form of statues and photos is mainly human form, which represents the concept

that the Lord always comes to this world in human form as said in Gita

(Manusheem Tanu Masritam).

 

Please remember that Gita did not tell that the Lord would come in any other

form. The forms of fish, tortoise etc., were only temporarily to kill the demons

and nobody worshipped such forms during their time. But Rama, Krishna etc were

the human forms worshipped by several devotees like Hanuman and Gopikas. The

Lord will come in every human generation; otherwise, He becomes partial to a

particular generation. If necessary the Lord can come whenever there is

necessity as said in Gita (Yedaa yedaahi).

 

Once this concept is realized, there is no need of temple and statue for you.

You should go from school to college and then to university. This does not mean

that when you leave the school, the school should be destroyed. The school must

exist for the future batches. Therefore for you, the statue and the photo are

not necessary and this does not mean that the statues, photos and temples should

be broken. They should be protected and must be respected as the models of

divine knowledge for the future ignorant devotees. Some devotees cannot accept

the human form, which is before their eyes as said in Veda (Pratyaksha dvishah).

 

For such devotees the statues and photos are necessary for meditation since

they are at the school level. The statues and photos are useful for the

meditation of such limited minds as said in Sastra (Pratima svalpa buddhinam).

Veda says that the Lord does not exist in the inert objects (Natasya pratima,

Nedamtat), but says that the inert objects can stand as models representing the

Lord (Adityam brahmeti).

 

Therefore seeing and meditation upon the statues and photos are correct in

the case of the ignorant devotees. But the other rituals like offering food,

burning camphor, fume sticks, oil lamps and breaking coconuts, offering flowers

etc. are not mentioned in Vedas and there are unnecessary and are causing the

air pollution harming the humanity. All these unnecessary rituals should be

avoided.

 

Offering food should also be done to the human form of the Lord only but not

to the inert statues. Ijya or Yajna is cooking and offering of the food. Gita

says that such Ijya should not be done to the inert objects. In the name of the

statues, people are stealing the food and money. The statue and photo is not

taking the food or Gurudakshina. The people behind the statue are taking those

things and most of them are either cheating or wasting the money with ignorance.

Whatever the Gurudakshina is given should go only to the priest and not the

managing devotees. The business of the merchants by selling such materials in

the temples should be stopped, because such materials are not even heard in

Veda. Of course, the priest should be a Satguru and preach the divine knowledge

to the devotees and the devotees should give Gurudakshina to such Satguru only.

Thus, the temple should become a center of learning selfless devotion and divine

knowledge and the priest must do only ‘Jnana Yajna’

in the temple and not the ‘dravya yajna’ as said in the Gita (Sreyaan

dravyamayat).

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

gaytrishandilya <no_reply> wrote:

Dear surya do you wish to say temples and pilgrimage places have no

significance ?

There should be something specials about temples and pilgrimages,which helps in

spiritual progress. What it is

gs

 

 

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Namaskar , thank you very much for the enlightening reply

Somaadi

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-- In , prakki surya <dattapr2000 wrote:

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> dear friends

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"gaytrishandilya" <no_reply>

<> wrote:

 

There should be something specials about temples and pilgrimages,

> which helps in spiritual progress. What it is

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Temples and places of pilgrimages are like the intensive care units for the

seeking soul, similar to such units in the hospitals for the sick people.

 

OM

radhakutir

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> Temples and places of pilgrimages are like the intensive care units

for >the seeking soul, similar to such units in the hospitals for the

sick >people.

 

Radhakutirji, don't the Temples run out of energy, like hospitals run

out of blood? In Hospitals, you have to order extra blood. What

happens in Temples, as most of our people goto temple always to ask

for something, never give anything?

 

 

Shantnu

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"shanracer" <no_reply>

<> Shantnu wrote:

 

 

> Radhakutirji, don't the Temples run out of energy, like hospitals run

> out of blood? In Hospitals, you have to order extra blood. What

> happens in Temples, as most of our people goto temple always to ask

> for something, never give anything?

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When an example is given in the scriptures, it is only meant to make a

point, it should never be extended or extrapolated because it will not work.

 

I don't believe that the temple shall run out of energy just because people

go there for asking something, as long as they have the Lord in mind whom

they are asking. Lord Krishna very clearly says in the Gita that four types

of devotees worship Him, even though there may be gradation among them. When

one thinks of the Lord, for whatever purpose, there is expansion of energy

and not loss of it. I think it is the thought behind asking, which is

important, that the all compassionate Lord alone can remove my sufferings.

 

OM

radhakutir