Ruins of Hindu Temple destruction
DON’T DESTROY TEMPLES
My humble request placed before the government is, “Please don’t destroy the temples, since we (Hindus) consider it as our eyes, entire body, soul and many more! In fact, our entire life is based on the existence of our holy Hindu Temples only.
After reading the life history of Sri Raja Raja Cholan, who built the popular Brihadeeswara Temple, also known as Big Temple at Thanjavur, I am also interested to build at least a small temple, but, not out of brick and sand, but only in my soul, since I am getting afraid of it being destroyed at some time or other! I have heard news about the demolishment of some temples, and though the reason was stated, that the extreme action was taken only due to encroachment criteria! but however, we felt worried for that, and the rest I leave it in the hands of the supreme god, since we are not supposed to talk more about it!
Though there are lot of Hindu temples scattered all over the world, yet, some rich professionals and big business men who belong to Hinduism, must come forward to build a wonderful temple for Lord Shiva, similar to Sri Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur. Only after building this Big Temple at Thanjavur, the name and fame of Rajaraja was spread throughout the world!
But most of us are not interested to participate in such a nice divine work! Most of us would feel that engaging in such a difficult work, would eat our time, and also our hard-earned money would be lost! If we thoroughly read the details about Sri Rajaraja Chola King’s participation in Big Temple, then we would also get the same spiritual thirst, and we would also form a union consisting of spiritual people to build such a nice temple!
At present, even building a small Vinayaka temple is not an easiest task, since it requires lot of patience, hard work, sincerity and many more! But most of us are not interested to take any risk, since we live like a well frog! A frog which lives in a well would think that the place which it stays is much comfortable, since it would never aim to stay at places like lakes or ponds. If we see the big sized Divine Bull, Lord Nandikeswara at Big Temple, then we would be involved ourselves with full of spiritual thoughts, and we would also get good spiritual enlightenment. Lord Nandikeswarar is the one, who would easily capture our mind, and through his grace, we would get full of spiritual addiction, attraction, concentration, and even we could attain liberation. We could see the performance of holy milk bath to Lord Nandi’s idol at the Brihadeeswara Temple especially during Prodosham days, which would be done in an excellent manner by the temple priests, and we could enjoy the divine bliss even by watching the wonderful event in some Spiritual TV Channels.
As per the famous Tamil Proverb, “KOVILAI NINAI, MATRAVAI MARA”, Think only about temples, leave about other things, and hence, let us keep thinking to build a wonderful temple for Lord Shiva similar to the Big Temple, Thanjavur, and let us be blessed. I have visited this wonderful Big Temple on 26.06.2023 along with my mother. The size of the Lingam is big, and the two attractive eyes of Lord Shiva were also installed on the Lingam, and for my eyes the big sized Shiva Lingam appeared like that of Guru Raghavendra Swamy’s Brindavana, due to the Rectangular shape of the excellent Shiva Lingam!
“OM SRI SHIVENDRAYA SHIVA NAMAH SHIVAYA NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R. HARISHANKAR