Digest Number 1818

[Guest guest]

Sri Ramakrishna Charanam Saranam; Sri Sri Ma

Dear Suresh,

Have you observed the majestic South Indian Temple Towers with tons of

granite stones, bricks, mortars ordinary metals and other valuable building

materials stacked one upon another to present awesome grand architectural

masterpieces?

 

1) If you observe them as an Engineer/Architect, you can guesstimate the

weight of Gold used to fabricate the small but bright imposing pinnacle, say

10 Kg and the weights of bricks and other building materials as tons and

tons and tons of huge masses.

2) Just because the quantity of gold used to make a pinnacle there is

too small compared to the majority of the building materials used, would

anyone of us dare to derate the significance and value of that majestic

golden pinnacles?

3) Those towers are complete with the beautiful golden pinnacles and

they are pieces of marvellous architectural creations. In the same way,

exalted spiritual experiences and austere spiritual ways of lives are

similar to the precious materials required to mould the pinnacles of the

religious towers of our lives.

4) But at the same time, if we lose sight of the importance of the

low-lying underground granite corner stones and basements of those grand

towers and just go on glorifying the beauty of the golden pinnacles, we are

doing injustice to the very existance of those tower structures. Various

religious laws available to us in the names of Halal living, moral and

spiritual living are similar to those huge bulk of ESSENTIAL building

materials.(In Hinduism especially in the contemporary India, we just ignored

the essential basic building materials and started just singing the glory of

that NON-ESSENTIAL pinnacle. The pinnacle will become an essential part when

an Engineer or master-builder tries to construct a masterpiece in bricks.

5) Hinduism exhorts each one of us to build grand structures complete

with golden pinnacles as our spiritual lives. And the glad news is that we

have enough bluprints of many such marvellous designs to follow to achieve

that end.

6) If we choose just to construct a mere building, it is alright. But WE

ALL HAVE THAT POTENTIAL DIVINITY IN US TO BUILD GRAND TOWERS LIKE MASTER

BUILDERS.

7) Let us be strong in following a halal life (moral, ethical, selfless

disciplined and well-regulated life) and slowly move on to create a golden

pinnacle of spiritual realizations on the HALAL tower of our spiritual life.

Bricks and mortars are required to build the structure and precious metals

are also required to to complete that wonderful engineering project in great

success. Pinnalcles are required to create masterpieces. No doubt about it.

Am I arriving at some acceptable points Suresh?

Pranams

Prakash

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