Should We Go to the Temple?

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Should We Go to the Temple?

 

For my answer anyone can abuse me, insult me, call me a fool, what

ever …

 

1. Tagore was an outstanding poet – such geniuses are born with

Chitra nadi is in action. Chitra nadi is one that creates dreams good

or bad, vision and hallucination depending on the balance with Vajra.

 

2. Don't go to the temple is a generalization – a poetic fancy

he had when Chitra had kept his mind under sway.

 

3. Regarding temples – most of the modern temples are useless

but that's not the case with ancient seats like Kamakhya, Kalighat or

Arasur which are known as Shaktipithams. These are seats of Yoginis

from where a sadhaka receives guidance and blessings.

 

4. One need not go to a temple unless he/she is inspired to. A

Sadhaka cannot afford to remain at home forever – his footprints

lying elsewhere, Gurus residing elsewhere – there are obligations

that must be necessarily attended to on the path and thus arose the

tradition of pilgrimage.

 

5. Sadhana is not poetic fancy or commonsense – it's a science

having extreme rigor. There are some people who quotes the sayings of

Bhaktas or their poetic fancies as eternal truths/ as part of the

Tantra sastra. This notion is wrong. Bhakti has done immense damage

to India's spiritual tradition…it's a big subject and let's not

create a controversy at this juncture. These lines are intended to

provoke some thinking in the sadhakas.

 

6. Keeping the mind/heart pure – who is capable of it? Had

anyone been capable of having a sreekovil in him – there was no need

of Tantra. What made people –even thousands of years before to go to

such remote places as Kamakhya, Arbuda, Arasur, to have their

sadhana? By chanting like a frog alone no one is going to become a

Sadhaka. Someone had given the right meaning of "Atha" of "Atha

yoganusasanam" – atha meant the acquisition of Jnana – Jnanayoga must

precede Rajayoga.

 

7. No one can control their mind by easy methods such as modern

meditation. What such people experience is the pretension game of the

subconscious mind. Tantrik sadhana is aimed at eliminating this

subconscious and only a Guru can effectively watch and instruct a

disciple for this stupendous task.

 

8. Who is entitled for Yogasiddhi? A "Veera following the path

instructed by the Guru". Who is Veera? One devoid of fear, greed and

all kinds of weaknesses. Odd practices of Tantra had their aim in

freeing a sadhaka from all false notions, preconceptions, the

accumulated non-sense of his subconscious that exercised a control

over him.

 

9. It's not easy or practical to become good or acquire

goodness. Had it been so why this country had been degenerating?

There are innumerable temples, Ashrams, and Gods half as well as full

offering their blessings and see who are their devotees and what they

do after coming out of their sannidhi? Greatest frauds of this world

are now in the realm of spiritual, in the temples, in the ashrams…

 

10. A true sage is capable of showing Kali in her divine form to

His disciple.

 

11. We saw a Vivekananda at the close of the 19th century

emerging out of the spiritual grace of Sri Ramakrishna. Another

century has passed – could we see another Vivekananda?

 

12. If you can experience (not believe) the spiritual grace of

Sri Ramakrishna you can't afford to skip the temples.

 

13. Sri Ramakrishna and Tagore were contemporaries – Sri

Ramakrishna was different from Tagore. Another contemporary of them

too preached a kind of spirituality that speaks of the myriad

perversions possible of human mind. There was another like Tagore

writing on spirituality with the Chitra nadi referred earlier.

 

14. We are all here to observe and learn – when we become simply

well informed and aware of our own identities in terms of the evils

we harbor as to become a disciple – the Guru will appear. If we think

it's easy to become pure as to welcome `Lalitha', never shall we be

able to pluck those evils that forbids her descend to our

minds.

 

15. I want to say a word more – diplomatic goodness has no role

or meaning in spirituality. Sadhana is not a deal between embassies.

If I am raising a question out of my inquisitiveness to the group, I

do so as a disciple to all in the group – I ask to learn from you.

Whatever anyone say is an answer to me and I shall learn. When I

realize that I had enough here I shall quit. All of you have all

freedom to correct me and that's what I am looking for – otherwise

why to waste time – to pat each other like blind men? Or as if

sitting in a Hasyakavi sammelanam?

 

chandra hari