Temple dedicated to Brahman (Universal Consciousness) : Was Gita Satsangh

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There is a temple in Ochira, in Kerala dedicated to ParaBrahman.

This site has some information about it:

http://www.godsownkerala.net/quilon%20ochira.htm

 

Raj.

advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk> wrote:

> Namaste

>

> Madathilnairji, Please recall what Sunderji said. There is no

> temple for brahman, the Absolute. But there are two temples for

> the Creator BrahmA, the four-faced first-born, born from the

> navel of VishNu. Perhaps there are one or two more which I don't

> recall.

> The temple in Chidambaram, the space of Consciousness, is for

> Nataraja the Cosmic Dancer. It has an additional, very

> important, altar, (just next to the altar which contains the

> Nataraja icon), delineating the fact that this temple indicates

> the AkAsha ( = space) facet of the Absolute. So that altar

> contains nothing but a nail on which hangs a garland. Every day

> when the Arti takes place for Nataraja, this AkAsha altar is

> opened just for a few seconds and the Arti is shown there also.

> People clamour to have this darshan of Absolute Consciousness!

> The other four temples representing the other four fundamental

> elements air, fire, water and earth are at:Kalahasti in Andhra

> very near Tirupati, Tiruvannamalai, Tiruvanaikkaval (near

> Trichinopoly), and Kanchipuram, respectively. Details about

> these and in fact about Temples in India are fantastically

> collected in 'Temples of India' - site by Mr. Kannikesvaran. You

> can go to my site, where I have provided a link for his site.

>

> praNAms to all advaitins

> profvk

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