Temples Beyond Religion | Sadhguru
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
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Looking at the science of temple-building, Sadhguru explains that traditionally in India, temples were never a place of religious prayer or worship. The temple is essentially a device created to come in touch with the divine. #Sadhguru
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| 0:00.0 | Now, don't you think that would be the beginning of all the problems, because if you take history, |
| 0:13.5 | all the major battles have been fought because of these, because of religion. |
| 0:21.2 | My this thing would be, could be lably differently, I mean a temple in every city would be, could |
| 0:26.6 | I did not say temple in every city, did I say that? I said, you must, your home, your, your city, |
| 0:33.8 | your town and your state and your nation and the world should become like a temple that cannot |
| 0:40.9 | be done by building more temples, that can only be done by you being in touch with the divine. |
| 0:47.6 | And anyway, about the major wars, you need to understand this. |
| 0:52.9 | There never was any kind of religious war till about 2,000 years ago, not even 2,000, |
| 1:01.9 | about 16, 1700 years ago. There never was, because in the east, in this part of the world, |
| 1:10.9 | there was no such thing as religion. If you do not know this, this is the only religion less |
| 1:18.1 | culture, godless culture. This may be a little scary for people, because we have 33 million |
| 1:26.1 | gods and goddesses in this country. That happened when our population was 33 million. Since then, our |
| 1:37.1 | population has increased, but we did not create enough gods and goddesses, because of Western |
| 1:43.1 | influence, we started feeling ashamed of gods and goddesses. If each one of you, this is something |
| 1:49.1 | called as Ishtadevata, you can create your own god. You don't like any of the things available, |
| 1:54.1 | you can make a tree in your house, god, you worship it, nobody will think it's an odd thing |
| 1:59.1 | in this country. There's a rock in your garden, you can worship it, nobody will think it's odd. |
| 2:04.1 | You can worship your mother, you can worship your wife, you can worship your child, you can worship a cow, |
| 2:09.1 | whatever you want. But the important thing is, this should be devotion in your heart, |
| 2:15.1 | because if there is no devotion, this, with this much intelligence, this animal will go crazy. |
| 2:22.1 | It needs devotion. Devotion means not about god, about you, isn't it? Is devotion about you or about |
| 2:31.1 | God? Whose quality does it change? Whose quality does it change? Your quality or God's quality? |
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