Temples, Not a Place of Prayer | Sadhguru
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The ancient temple in India, if you're really talking about ancient temples, yes, the temples |
| 0:19.5 | were built to a certain science called Agama, you heard of Agama? |
| 0:25.1 | There are five basic parameters with which the temple was built. |
| 0:29.6 | If the temple is built according to that, the size and shape of the temple, the size and |
| 0:34.4 | shape of the parikrama, the size and shape of the garbha-grihara, the sanctum, the size |
| 0:39.6 | and shape of the idol, the mudra, the idol holds, the mantras that are used to consecrate |
| 0:44.3 | this, if all these things are properly matched, it will create a tremendous field of energy. |
| 0:50.6 | You need to understand, Indian temple is not a place of prayer. |
| 0:55.5 | There is nobody leading a prayer in the Indian temple. |
| 0:58.8 | There is nobody to lead a prayer. |
| 1:02.6 | You go there and do what you want. |
| 1:05.4 | Nobody telling you you must sit down and pray and do this or that. |
| 1:10.1 | Though now you started the request sheet, paying fire, peace and telling God what he should |
| 1:14.5 | do, you started that recently. |
| 1:16.8 | Otherwise your culture told you, if you go to the temple, they did not even tell you |
| 1:21.0 | you must pray, but they told you you must sit there for some time, is that so? |
| 1:26.9 | The temple exists in South India, in North it is gone. |
| 1:29.5 | In South India, still families are aware that if you go to the temple, you must sit there |
| 1:33.8 | for a while. |
| 1:34.8 | Now you just touch your bottom and go away, touch your bottom to the floor and go away or |
| 1:41.0 | you sit there and discuss your neighbor or the cinema or something else. |
| 1:47.4 | The idea was, if there is a strong field of energy, you simply sit there quietly and |
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