Temple

Why were temples created? What is the purpose of temples? What are they symbolically representing?

#1.Temple of a Family Person

• Temple= Place within
• Visiting temple= Place where we go within, being established inside
• Outer wall of the temple= Body
• Idols depicting sex, play, war, routine life=worldly life, whatever is outside, my physical existence
• Shoes=worldly impurities
• Leaving shoes outside=leaving world behind
• Bell or chanting=calling the Guru or personal deity
• Sanctum sanctorum= my innermost being, heart point where awareness is
• View= self-realisation, knowledge of my true self, essential nature
• God=my true self that is divine, self illumined
• Lamp=light of awareness
• Flowers=what is temporary
• Offering flowers=discarding that is temporary, letting go of the world
• Prasad (Holy offering of food)=progress, knowledge gained from realisation

In the dark times this knowledge has been lost. There is superstition instead of attention. There is no God inside the temples because there is darkness of ignorance inside a person’s heart. Idols do not have life force. they are lifeless. Temple is not a spiritual practice, it is a business.

#2. Temple of an Occultist or a Seeker

• It is a laboratory.
• Nobody would be allowed inside.
• In certain temples women and kids will not be allowed. If they go the experiments and powers can harm them.
• Occultist knows how to defend oneself, ordinary masses do not.
• It will be away from populated spaces.
• It would in a cave or on the top of the mountain. Difficult to reach there.
• There would be warning signs like a trishul, red flag or skull.
• Guards (idols outside the door) would be fearsome.
• Sanctum sanctorum would be deep inside the basement.
• This is to protect masses and to protect from masses.
• There would be linga or Goddess. These would be consecrated.
• These do not bear everyone especially impure people, become angry with mental impurities.
• Therefore not for ordinary people. Ordinary people are fully polluted.
• Worship is special, not physical.
• There will be one door that will never open up. Beyond that there will only be wall or rocks.
• This is the opening door for other worlds, from here the Occultist visits other worlds in subtle body.
• There will be window on the roof or an archway or the same closed door from where angels, astral and metaphysical beings enter.
• Nobody can see what happens here, can only be seen with subtle vision, which is received through spiritual practices.
• Experiments, chants, devices are kept secret.
• Even after knowing one does not understand them nor is it possible to use them. Only the Occultist knows.

There are many such temples. Some are huge and grand. In dark times they are in wreck. Occult science has been lost or it is not shared. People are selfish and stupid, they harm themselves or harm others. This kind of spiritual practice has only turned into superstition or meaningless circus. Some temples are used for devotion or accommodating saints. In some temples such technical imagery has been found that is miles ahead of modern science. This only conforms that civilization has regressed and not progressed. Now it is up to the new generation Occultists to revive this science, expand it and re-establish it. Tantra Bodhi is a beginning, a little effort in this direction.

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