Realities Of Worship.......Helps to preserve the Hindu Righteousness towards Universal Peace.
We approach the temple in a much different way, a humble way. We believe that the Deity lives in the temple, that He comes from the inner worlds, hovers over the stone image in His golden body of light and, as the priest invokes Him, blesses those present. Everyone is elated. Everyone feels His holy presence, and an advanced soul may even see Him there. So, we approach the Deity with a pure mind. We approach Him in trepidation. We want to look our best, for when He takes over the stone image in the sanctum and sends forth His rays and vibrations of blessing, we don't want to look disrespectful in His eyes. We therefore prepare the body and the mind before going to the temple. We get our aura looking just right. The aura is the sum of vibrations that emanate out around the body. The colors of the aura are dark or light depending on the nature of our thoughts and emotions. We prepare our aura by chanting mantras, hymns and prayers. We prepare our body by
bathing and dressing simply and properly. Then we go to the temple, and the Deity actually comes on the inner planes and blesses us, listens to our prayers, clears our minds and calms our emotions.
We take that holy vibration home, back into the community, where we respect our elders and they guide us wisely. Then culture flourishes, because culture has its source right there in the temple. When culture is flooding out of the temple, our actions are productive and our minds are creative, our speech is pure, our hearts rejoice and we become good citizens.
Religion makes us good citizens, because we are peaceful inside and want peace in our land. Peace comes first from the individual. It is unrealistic to expect peace from our neighbours unless we are peaceful first, unless we make ourselves peaceful through right living, right worship and right religious culture in the home.
How can we destroy all of this? It's simple. Stop going to the temple. Culture will begin to go. Refinement and love will begin to go. Arguments will be heard in the homes. Stress and mental illness will become the common experience-all because we stopped that one, great, mystical practice-temple worship.
The temple is the great psychiatrist of the Hindu religion. When we forget that, we suffer the consequences of our neglect, personally and as a nation. The temple has mystical powers that surpass the greatest psychiatrists on the planet. Our priesthoods have the tools to invoke and perpetuate this power. The temple can not only analyse your problem, it can give absolution. You can leave the temple wondering what it was that was bothering you on the way to seek the help of the Deity-so complete is the power of the temple.
Be proud to say that we worship God and the Gods. We object to the liberal Hindu propaganda which denies the existence of our Gods and installs its limited knowledge in their place. We object to the notion that all religions are one, and we believe that for us God(Hinduism) is the greatest religion on the Earth and has no equal. It is my earnest and humble request that Hindu Religious leaders should rise up against liberal Hinduism and remove it from the minds of the children and the general population. It is a cancer for which there is no miraculous cure, so it has to be surgically removed to preserve Hinduism. That is the only solution available.
Well, we all can observe that our religion is faced with a lot of serious problems. Yet, there are good, sensible solutions if we, the united Hindus of the world, all pitch in and work together and have a little selfless sacrifice to offer. Feel the spirit coming up among God's devotees. But it is not enough. More has to be done. We need religious people to come forward from among the grihastha community, who have something to offer, who can serve and teach the Hindu Dharma. We need Hindu schools of a fine caliber to be built and managed by devout Hindus. We need all of you to spread the religion to the next generation, many of whom are not receiving proper religious training. We need field workers and teachers and missionaries to serve God in His work. This is necessary in the technological age, necessary in order that Hinduism will be the religion of the future, not of the past.
J.K
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