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Nithyananda Temple Arts Preservation
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Nithyananda Temple Arts
Preservation Foundation
-Preserving the rich Vedic
heritage
In modern society, life is built around universities, educational institutions. In traditional India, societies grow around temples. Did you know that every village in India, however small, has a temple, which serves as the center around which people's religious and social lives revolve?
Temples serve as energy centers that tap the cosmic energy and make it accessible to man. They directly work on creating a positive mental setup and thus a healthy society.
Connecting
to Existence through the
Elements
Existence is made up of the five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether. Through these elements, man can connect with the Existential energy.
Connecting to Existence
through deities made of
Earth element
Connecting to Water through
holy waters
Connecting to Fire
through homas (fire rituals)
Connecting to Air through
mantras (chants)
Connecting to Ether element through
meditatio
The subtlest and most powerful akasha (ether) energy is tapped to the less subtler air energy through the chanting of mantras (chanting), then to the even less subtler fire energy through homa (fire rituals), then to the still less subtler water energy through abhisheka (water based offerings) and finally to the least subtle earth energy symbolized in the deities.
Moving from the earth element to the ether element, one can experience the merging with Existence.
Our Masters have created so many methods, techniques to hold the Existential energy. Temples are the techniques that they created to experience this.
The ancient Vedic system of worshipping deities is not ‘idol worship’; it is worship through the idol; We do not worship the idol itself, we worship the ultimate cosmic Energy through the idol.
Our prayer is not towards the stone idol itself, but to Existence which is personified by the idol.
Temples provide an easy and convenient way for the common man to relate with the divine; to constantly remind him of his deep connection with the divine.
Temples also provide a common platform for people to share and bond with each other as a family. They enable to see the all-pervading divine not only through the idol but in each other.
In the energy space of temples, two things happen. First, you will have the shakti (power) to make your dreams into reality. Next, you will have the buddhi (intelligence) to realize what you think as reality itself is a dream!
The energized idol is not an idol, it becomes a living energy, a deity. The cosmic energy radiates itself, makes itself available to us through these deities, through these
vigrahas.
Temples are like satellite
relay centers where high
intense spiritual energy is
created;
where the high
intense spiritual vibrations
are created and sent all over
the world to help
heal
people
physically, mentally,
emotionally and above all
spiritually.
