Why people go to the Temple ?
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
India
September 27, 2010 5:04am CST
Hello Everyone here Ji,
Why people go to the Temple ?
If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
A 'devotee' wrote a letter to the editor of an Indian newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple . 'I've gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 mantras.
But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all.
This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.
But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!
When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment! All right, now that you're done reading, send it on!!! I think everyone should read this!! 'When the devil is knocking at your door, simply say,
'God , could you get that for me?!!'
Om Vighneswaraya Namah !
You gave me strength to carry on,
When my body was so torn.
And lifted me on wings of love,
When my spirit was so worn.
Through all the times when in despair,
When I hung my head in shame.
You came to me when I knelt down,
As I called upon your name.
And when my heart was troubled,
With more heartache than I could bear.
You caught each and every tear I shed,
In a bottle you have up there.
And when I get to heaven,
I'll kneel before your feet.
You'll wipe away all my tears,
For my soul is yours to keep.
May u n your family be blessed.
Please keep the blessed GANESH moving from house to house.
Dear All,
I'M MOVING HIM TO YOUR HOUSE
Please keep the blessed GANESH moving from house to house.
May God bless You and have a great time.
1 person likes this
8 responses
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
28 Sep 10
Hello my friend Lakota12 Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response . Take care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
26 Jan 11
Madam
I used to visit so many temples not only in my city or state but outer states too, my wife accompanies most of the time, on many occassions my sons, daughter laws too, but gradually i find things are getting commercialised, the priests suck us not only in tems of money, but they seem to eat our head, all interest is gone, i feel so annoyed..
Thank you so much for this excellent discussion.
Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .
Cheers have a lucky day ahead.
1 person likes this
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
27 Jan 11
Hello my friend Professor2010 Ji,
So nice of you for your response. But I think it is only belief. I know very well, when we visit any renounced place, there are many pandfas surrounding, it is like crowd all aroiund us at all items, so why not we allmake habit to get in touch with meaningful persons and discard the rest. ASbove all my hubby always says that ;DIL EK MANDIR' Thanks.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@spiderlizard22 (3444)
• United States
27 Sep 10
What is spiritually? Everyone needs food to live but you don't need to go to temple to live. What service does temple actually provide? How do temple get their money?
1 person likes this
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
28 Sep 10
Hello my friend spiderlizard22 Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response . But one who attains spritualism in reality does not require anything. Body becomes soul house for everything.
But it is very difficult attainment. Take care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
27 Sep 10
Hello MGBY Jee,
To be frank I have never visited a temple seriously or to say with a devotee's heart. Do not know why I am not attracted to it. May be the hypocrisy of the priests and pandas there or the fact that I believe that God does not mere stay in a temple.
I think temple is a place where people worn out with the pressure of life and depressed for various reasons visits and listening the priest chanting mantras they feel sort of counseled.
Still there are some who die hardly believe that god resides in the temple only and nowhere else.
My wife believes in God but she hardly visits any temple.
For me if you are looking God or his grace in a temple you better serve human kind, help the poor, and do have love for all creatures.
1 person likes this
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
28 Sep 10
Hello my friend krajibg Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response favouring partially. I am not here to convince that temple is the only place to worship, instead it is also a place for worship. I believe that Soul is God and Soul remains till breath stops in any living body, soul is very near to God, no need to go to temple just to listen to preist for Mantras. One can remain in four wall of one's house and pray oneself sitting tight at home. Take care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@srjac0902 (1170)
• Italy
27 Sep 10
Temple is a place not to meet or experience or remember the manthras alone. It has manifold objectives. A temple is a place where the presence of God is felt strongly. But that can be felt anywhere if God bestows vision. But temple is an abode of love and fraternity. The temple is for all. Here a common brotherhood should be strongly felt. There is an Archkan or the priest on whom some authority has been bestowed and therefore he pleads God for the participants. He offers cult to God in the name of the people. People feel happy in the company of brotherhood. But very few may be are led to the temple by grace, so many are led because of their devotion to the ancestors who worshiped God. Following a tradition but feeling so dry in the heart. Going to the temple may be a mere ritualism without establishing common brotherhood and compassion. We cannot judge anyone. As long as one is human, his self is restless unless it meets God
1 person likes this
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
28 Sep 10
Hello my friend srjac0902 Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response favouring to visit temple. You have explained very well. Some of the responders are of the view that why to visit temple, biut we need an better atmosphere like for anything else for all our social activities. Take care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
28 Sep 10
Hello my friend preetabh Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response with perfect explanationTake care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@tarachand (3895)
• India
28 Oct 10
A temple, a gurdwara, a church, a masjid, any place of worship is where generally no other work is to be done except to worship the respective creator or creators that each religion believes in. Since in most these places of worship, people stay silent, the places are kept clean generally, and the person/s cleanses himself/herself/themselves before entering that place of worship, and generally tends to behave himself/herself/themselves, it is a mutually agreed upon place of truce, of peace, of sanctuary.
Personally I agree as well disagree with all that you have said. It is not the remembrances of the mantras or the prayers or the gurbani or the shuras or the prayers that matter. it is what you have inside you that matters.
Just speaking to the creator with an open, truthful and clean mind even from the un-cleanest of places is enough for him (not trying to be sexist here by using the male gender for the creator, just using convention). The creator and his image dwell in your own heart. Check the Gita - do what you do without the expectation of a reward, do it well, for the believers - this should include praying, for the atheists - well, doing things well is a rewarding!
Have much to say on this - but will refrain - don't want to start sermonizing!
@dengshijie (98)
• China
27 Sep 10
Three boys in a dilapidated temple to the event.
A monk asked: "Why is a waste and desolate the temple it?"
B monk said: "It must be a monk impious, so the gods not working."
C monk said: "It must be and is not hard,therefore, does not repair the temple."
Followed by a monk, said: "It must be and is not Jingjin, so not many believers."
Three boys discussed a long time. Finally, they decided to stay, whatever, rebuild the temple. Thus, a monk alms call out, B concentration Bay by Buddha Monk, Monk C every day to clean. Soon, the burgeoning temple incense, devotees worship the swamp from the temple once again restore the old concept of thriving.
One evening, three, and no matter chat. A monk said: "The alms are around me, so believers greatly increased." B monk said: "I humbly bowing are so Buddha manifestation." C monk said: "all my spare no order, so the temple Huanran a new. "Since then, three boys fighting over, no longer care what the temple, the temple gradually run down.
Parted ways that day, they finally reached the same conclusion: The reason why the temple deserted, neither monk ungodly, nor is it, and yet hard-working, more non-monk
1 person likes this
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
27 Sep 10
Hello my friend dengshijie Ji,
So nice of you for your immediate response exactly in similar ways. It is well desrved and well replied. However, I also believe that from concentration of point a place other than house is required. Take care.
May God bless You and have a great time.
