48. 84. Temples – Energy Stations.

He has very much supported the institution of temples.

• Whatever is the religion, whichever be the God, temples are common to all.
• Temples are healing energy stations, which satisfy to a very great extent man's energy needs.
• All religions welcome the principle of temples in the name of temple, church, and mosque. Principle of temple: Those holy structures which continue to radiate healing energy are called temples. Temples are hospitals, which feed divine energy of bliss.
• GOD. Is God so small to be shrunk within these three letters?
• Just because you know the word God, have you understood God?
• The above questions are asked to theists first and then to atheists.

A beautiful story told by Ramakrishna...

The question asked daily by the Pundit to the king, to whom he was teaching Bhagavad Gita was, 'Oh king! Have you understood what I have said today?'

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For this, the king used to put a question in reply, 'First of all, have you understood all these?' In spite of his thorough preparation and his beautiful explanation, as the king continued to ask the same question, the pundit got disturbed mentally.

That morning, for the Gita class, instead of the pundit, a palm leaf came to the king. In that it was written, 'Oh king, I have understood the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita today. Hereafter I will not come.'

For the pundit, who had been talking for hours together on how to remain unattached and how to get released from the clutches of the senses, on that particular day only, it was known to him very clearly, that the words spoken by him so far have not at all been really experienced by his own self. The day

he stopped preaching to others he started to take necessary action for his own improvement.

• If, for the pundit, it took so much time, even to understand that, he himself had not understood at all, what is our condition? Just by knowing to talk a few words about the world, have we understood the world? In the same way as the radio stations absorb the sound waves and do the broadcasts, temples absorb the energy waves and spread the energy. So they are energy stations.

Temples which are established by mystics are energy stations to radiate energy constantly. That is why, people who go to the temple with mental depression, mental difficulties, when they come out, they come with a new vigour and fresh hopes.

The fresh vigour and fresh clarity are got from the wisdom energy present in the temples. When people go to the temple, to whatever extent they enter with devotion and open mind, to the same extent they will receive the energy and return.

Devotion is an entrance door which helps energy to enter through. To whatever extent you open out the door of bhakthi (i.e.) devotion, to the same extent the breeze of energy will enter within you. It will make you blissful.

Without devotion, without earnestness if one goes to the temple as a duty, it will be of no use. Open the door of devotion... Let the breeze of energy enter in.

Why were temples created?

Temples are only holy energy stations created for people to have contact with the divine energy.

Doctor Frank Rudolph was a great scientist. He had stayed amongst the tribals of Amazon forests for 30 years and did continuous research.

He indicates in his book about a strange habit prevalent there.

If they wanted to punish their enemies or make them become afflicted with some disease they will make a statue exactly like that enemy, name it with the name of the enemy, after chanting some mantras before it, and break the

legs of the statue. Even if the enemy is present many, many miles away, some accident or the other would happen to him and his legs would be broken.

Same way, if a disease is to be cured, after making a statue like the patient, naming it after the patient and chanting some mantras, the disease goes away.

When Dr. Frank Rudolf heard it for the first time about such strange incident happening, he did not believe it.

Later on, when he wrote about the research he did, in his autobiography, 'For hundred times I experimented with this and on all the hundred instances, I saw with my own eyes such incidents happening. This is 100% true. If this is told by an ordinary person, we can ignore it as falsehood.

But when a great and renowned scientist has proved it through photographs and video recordings it has got to be believed.

By keeping an ordinary statue, if changes can be made on a person who is alive and who is far away beyond hundred miles, why will it not be possible to connect to the Divine energy or God by keeping an idol of a mystic?

The idols which have been installed by Prana Prathishta (Vedic installation of Idol) by a mystic have the power of continuously releasing the energy.

This is truth. This will be understood experientially by those who come with total devotion only.

The more and more devotion increases in your heart, the silly feelings which affect you like ego, anger, envy, hatred – all these will begin to disappear from you.

In case such a thing like this happens...

Suddenly a world war erupts and almost the whole world is destroyed. A cell phone which somehow escaped reaches a few who have survived.

To those who come after one or two generations, if the cell phone is shown to them, saying once upon a time people could talk with a person in any remote corner of the world, will they believe it? No. They won't.

This is because the scientific knowledge to use the cell phone is not available now. Therefore the greatness of the cell phone cannot be understood. You cannot make one understand its use.

In the same way, the greatness of temples created by mystics of those times has been hidden in course of time. Many do not know how the temples serve as a path way in human life and in one's spiritual growth.

The pujas done just as a duty will not yield any benefits. Puja i.e. worship is equivalent to a plantain leaf (plantain leaf is used as a plate in India) laid out but without any food on it.

The worship that is done with devotion is not a mere worship or ritual. It is equivalent to the meditation which helps to obtain a direct contact with the divine energy.

Even the meditation done without interest or total application and involvement is also a mere ritual only. A ritual which is done with earnestness and total involvement is itself a meditation only.

India is a holy land containing a lot of mystics and temples. One should be blessed even to take birth in this holy land. Going to the temples in this holy land and having the darshan (seeing the deity) of the deity, standing for long durations and worshipping is also a type of meditation only.

In the spiritual journey of feeling the experience of realization, going to temples and worshipping the idols are important aspects.

Do not think that these are to be done only by illiterates and those who don't know any thing. Whether educated or illiterate, to those who live consciously, the best path for every one is the path of devotion.

Don't deceive yourself by registering in your mind the public speeches which are self-centered and the ideas which mock at worship. These ideas are written by some people, just because they know how to write.

You may be a best theist within yourself. You go by some wrongly obtained notions about devotion and you deceive yourself by saying, 'Oh! Devotion is silly; I don't feel it.' Then the loss is for you only. It is a loss certainly for you alone.

To feel the divine energy, there are many paths. Of all these paths, if one has to say which the simplest path is, it is only the path of bhakthi or devotion.

Remaining dumb even if one has a mouth, remaining blind in spite of having eyes, remaining deaf in spite of having ears -- All these refer to those stonelike minds of men, which in spite of knowing the truth and knowing the greatness of devotion, remain without understanding it.

Bring devotion to your life; it will change the stone-like heart into white soft one.

You will consciously experience, that due to the full-fledged showering of grace by the divine energy, the deficiencies of body, mind and energy, which are the reason for disease, sorrows and sufferings, are removed and made full to their capacity.

It is just like the wet cloth which smells, when it does not get enough sunlight to dry. When the energy needed for our health is not got to the required extent, our health runs down and disease manifests itself in our body.

In the same manner, for a mind to be happy, if the required energy is not available to the required measure, enthusiasm reduces and grief surfaces.

Disease, grief and suffering are all different expressions of deficiencies of energy in the body, mind and the central location point of our life. It is enough if just the problem of the energy deficiency alone is corrected. All problems will become all right automatically.

For some, it may be difficult to believe this truth.

The only problem of energy deficiency is the root for all problems.

It is difficult to believe this truth.

To accept this is easy. To make it an experience is very easy.

It is easy to act as if the truth is believed. It is also easy to act as though it is accepted also. But it is an impossible task to act as though it is experiential knowledge.

It is very easy to act as a devotee, still remaining inwardly as a cruel person, fraud or a sorrowful person.

But to live as a person full of devotion is difficult. Your deficiencies will expose you.

Because, one who is full of devotion is full of energy! Devotee is an energized man! Devotion is energy!

Devotion and energy are the two sides of the same coin. To whatever extent devotion is present in you; to the same extent energy also will be present in you.