Guest guest Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Namaste, Someone asked me this: " If God is everywhere, why do we need temples? " How should I answer him? love, Shantnu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 om namashivaya, one should understand the real meaning of hinduism, we say god is everywhere, and every particles of the universe, he is there withinyou too. To realize the presence of god within you you have to follow strict mediation as prescribed by mahathmas . why we need temples is that mass worship will be possible only in a temple, by which bagavan makes everyone to feel the oneness. hence in acient period a lot of temples were built and it is being built even today.this paves WAY FOR MASS WORSHIP .If you feel that you CAN DO worship for the masses of this universe you can do it at home or whereever you feel like.    --- On Thu, 14/1/10, shanracer <no_reply > wrote: shanracer <no_reply > why need temples? Thursday, 14 January, 2010, 6:20 PM  Namaste, Someone asked me this: " If God is everywhere, why do we need temples? " How should I answer him? love, Shantnu The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Homepage. http://in./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 , umashankar krishnamoorthy <sk_umashankar wrote: > > om namashivaya, one should understand the real meaning of hinduism, Umashankarji, does that mean temples are only useful for mass worship? Does it mean they have no purpose for individuals? As many old temples were really tiny- only 1-2 people could enter them at a time. Huge temples is a recent phenomena. love, Shantnu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Namaste, There are different levels of perception. Sariyai, Kriyai, Yogam and Gnanam are the four levels of worship. In Sariyai, one considers the idols in the temple as verily gods; in kriyai, one is able to realise that God is both within and in the idols of the temple; in yogam, one realizes that God is within and in Gnanam, one is able to realize God's presence in every form, both manifest and unmanifest. Once you attain Gnanam, you no longer will feel the need for worshiping in temples. ulaganathan p ________________________________ umashankar krishnamoorthy <sk_umashankar om namashivaya, one should understand the real meaning of hinduism, we say god is everywhere, and every particles of the universe, he is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 Pranam ShanJi, A wonderfull question " If God is everywhere, why do we need Temples " Again i would like to quote swami vivekananda's quote which i posted little earlier " We always begin as dualists. God is a separate Being, and I am a separate being. Love comes between, and man begins to approach God, and God, as it were, begins to approach man. Man takes up all the various relationships of life, as father, mother, friend, or lover; and the last point is reached when he becomes one with the object of worship. " I am you, and you are I; and worshipping you, I worship myself; and in worshipping myself, I worship you. " There we find the highest culmination of that with which man begins. At the beginning it was love for the self, but the claims of the little self made love selfish; at the end came the full blaze of light, when that self had become the Infinite. That God who at first was a Being somewhere, became resolved, as it were, into Infinite Love. Man himself was also transformed. He was approaching God, he was throwing off all vain desires, of which he was full before. With desires vanished selfishness, and, at the apex, he found that Love, Lover, and Beloved were One. " TO SUMUP LET ME SAY " So as a begginer i seperated God from Me and depicted in a manner accepted by me and built a temple or a seperate place and had his image/symbol, I started worshiping him/her/it in a seperate place called temple. I worshiped him/her/it in different forms and relation in the seperate place called temple. Then as time passed i began to know God is not seperate from Me or You so i choose again temple as a place to know about me and Love. May be as i progress i would feel the whole world as a temple and still search and seek. " AS SWAMIJI & OSHOJI SAID " we all are like traders shopkeepers and pray to GOD in anticipation that he would give us wealth health prosperity and what not... with out understanding HIM/OURSELVES, we go against nature and worship like a shopkeeper - I pray you, you give me this that... " I would like to put it in this way, Even advanced soul sit in a place regularly ( for meditation or for prayers ), for a common man it would be a place called Temple to Meditate/worship him/her/it may be for materialistic pleasure or samadhi/moksha ( for advanced soul ). Even advanced spiitual souls look for a regular place for meditation, but in my veiw as he/she advances the total world would be his/her temple. Shanji i may be quite wrong, pls forgive me and shed light on the question you asked. Thanks for enkindling. Luv. > " If God is everywhere, why do we need temples? " > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 GOD is not everywhere. This is a wrong complete misguided concept of the understanding of Almighty GOD. Prophet Adam told us where GOD is and multiples prophets came to earth to give us valuable relevant information communication of our GOD. senthil_sym Pranam ShanJi, A wonderfull question " If God is everywhere, why do we need Temples " Again i would like to quote swami vivekananda's quote which i posted little earlier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 , " senthil_sym " <senthil_sym wrote: > Pranam ShanJi, > > A wonderfull question " If God is everywhere, why do we need Temples " > AS SWAMIJI & OSHOJI SAID " we all are like traders shopkeepers and >pray to GOD in anticipation that he would give us wealth health Thanks Senthilji, UmaShankraji & Apunathji for your answers. Senthilji, it was in a book by Osho I read that temples were built acc. to very scientific measures. The roof was dome shaped, which would cause the chanted mantras to form a circle around Sadhaks head. So even the Sadhak stopped, the Mantra energy would keep swirling above his head. This moving energy, when it combined with Sadhaks energy, would complete the circuit, which would cause the Sadhak to enter into Samadhi. thats why old temples had a small door, or were built in caves it was hard to enter(see the original gate of VaishoDevi for example). The purpose was no energy should be lost, all the energy should be circling around the Sadhak. The other details of temple depended on which mantra was chanted- for Sufis, this was Hoo,as in allah hoo, while for Hindus is is Aum. The bells are there to stop the mind, & to replicate the Anahat sound heard in heart chakra. Temple building was a science - I was reading in another place that temples are built acc. to Yantras, with the Yantras hidden beneath floor etc. One western researcher even found Yantras hidden in erotic images of Khajuraho! But these Yantras are secret, & their design/purpose is unknown. These highly energised temples vitalised the whole village, which is why each village had its temple. Just walking by a temple made your feelings spiritual. A related question is: do Teerath Sthans(pilgrimages) have any effect, or are they just like tourist spots? love, Shantnu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 > Senthilji, it was in a book by Osho I read that temples were built acc. to very scientific measures...... Sadhak to enter into Samadhi. Very true ShanJi, even the architects and civil engineers in those day had very precise knowledge. Even in recent days, if you have visited Gandhi mandap in Kanyakumari and a few temples in Kumbakonam,I wonder how they have precisesly built, a beam of sunlight falls on a particular place on all days/seasons... even when the earth tilts its axis. Amazing. > temples are built acc. to Yantras, with the Yantras hidden beneath floor etc. One western researcher even found Yantras hidden in erotic images of Khajuraho! But these Yantras are secret, & their design/purpose is unknown. Again Very True Shanji, but as a common man most of us donot know the secrets behind yantras. > A related question is: do Teerath Sthans(pilgrimages) have any effect, or are they just like tourist spots? I would say Teertha sthans are Natural Temples without human made either in the form of a temple building or Yantras. Theerta sthans have that spiritual waves naturally, like you said we feel the spiritual waves when we pass by a Temple. Luv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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