Five Reasons why you should visit temples
The present generation is not as keen on visiting temples as their ancestors. With their busy comfortable lives, they don’t get time to visit temples. Since God is everywhere and prayer can be done at home, what is the necessity to visit temples and how it is going to benefit us? Would you like to know?
1) Feel the positive vibes:
In most of the temples we find that the God’s statue is placed on a copper plate. What could be the possible reason? It is widely believed that these copper plates absorb earth’s magnetic waves and radiates it to the surroundings. Thus a person regularly visiting a temple and walking clockwise around the Main Idol receives the beamed magnetic waves. This is a very slow process and a regular visitor will eventually start to feel the positive vibes.
2) Concentrate your thoughts:
It becomes easy for a devotee to concentrate on worshiping God in a temple where hundreds of devotees come for the same purpose. The environment of the temple produces a psychological effect which helps in improving the concentration and peace of mind. Continuous repetition of mantras charges the whole energy, the whole space is kept alive. So if you go and stand in front of an energized moorthy, in front of energy space in the temple and create a wish, your whole body and mind will be tuned to that thought. Naturally it will become reality in your lives.
3) Appreciate the Architecture and Know its History:
The entire art of building temples is not a mere art; it is a science. Every single facet of it – from the size of the idols to the directions and the sanctum – Yes! Temple architecture is a highly developed science. We have to cultivate the fondness for architectural excellence in the minds of our children. Each ancient temple is unique and has its own history. Its important to know its history while visiting the temple and its equally important to tell our children about these temples’ history so that future generation has more bond affinity towards our amazing ancient tradition and culture. The stories and legends of these temples also will impart moral and ethical values in our children’s minds.
4) Rejuvenate the Five Senses in you:
Five senses of Human Body are Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste and Smell. These are activated by following actions in the temple.
- Ringing the temple bell – Hearing Sense Activated.
- Lighting Lamp – Sight Sense Activated
- Showing hands facing the camphor flames and then touching eyes – Touch Sense Activated
- Offering flowers to God – Smell Sense Activated
- Drinking Theertham – Taste Sense Activated
The positive energy in the temple is absorbed properly only if you ensure that all five senses are activated in your body while you are in the temple.
5) Feel the energy transformation within you:
When people go to a temple for the *Deepaaraadhana*, and when the doors open up, the positive energy gushes out onto the persons who are there. How do temples radiate energy?
A Japanese scientist, Dr. Emoto has carried out research on the power of thoughts and has proved that thoughts have a tangible effect on material objects. Dr. Emoto took samples of water from the same source, put it in different containers and exposed it to different influences.
To one sample he spoke positive words of love and gratitude and recited Buddhist chants. Over another he spoke negative words of anger, hatred and war. Then he froze the water so that it could be photographed it in its crystalline form.
Beautiful clear crystals, like diamonds formed in the samples exposed to positive energy. With the samples exposed to negative energies, the crystal structure appeared dark, misshapen and ghost like.
Over three hundred experiments conducted by Emoto repeatedly proves the effect of words and thoughts on water that are recorded in his book, Messages From Water.
When simple water can respond to our thoughts, our vibrations, why not a structure? Why not a temple, why not a stone?
The mantras, when chanted continuously, the very air vibrates with the pure vibrations. Our ancestors have installed the energy in the earth elements, in the stone. These are the idols or moorthies.And thus energy lost in a day’s work is regained through a temple visit and one is refreshed completely.
