bells in temple
Hearing of temple bell sound is a good activity. Before entering into the temples, it is always highly recommended to ring the temple bell, which would be kept inside the temple premises. Ringing the temple bell gives positive vibrations, and it would even chase the evil spirits, negative and evil thoughts! While ringing the temple bell, we would get a wonderful noise which would deeply enter into our brain, and it would activate the brain in a faster manner. Those who are in depressed mood with tensions are advised to visit the temples and to ring the temple bells at least for a few times.
We are ringing the temple bell in order to inform to the deities that we are present in the temples. It is also a part of offering our honour to the deities, and we would also get blessings from the deities present in the temple by the way of ringing temple bell. During the time of puja also, the temple bells would be ring, in order to complete the puja successfully.
In some temples, puja bells also would be stolen by evil minded people, for the purpose of making some money on that. While ringing the temple bell, we could also notice the “OM” sound which would come from that. Temple bells are made by skilled artisans, and before making it, they would perform puja to the deities, in order to complete it in a proper manner.
Sometimes devotees would get addicted with the temple bell sound, and they would also make use of it unnecessarily. Temple bells need not be ring unnecessarily, since continuous ringing of temple bells would also disturb the deities present inside the temples. Nowadays, automatic temple bells are available in the market, and in most of the temples, those types of bells are used. But however, ringing of bells using our own hands is recommended, since we used to put some physical work by the way of activating the temple bell on our hands.
But still some people do not use either automatic or manual bell in their homes, since they didn’t even perform puja at their homes. Some people used to tell that are not aware of performing the puja, and hence they are not following it as a practice. But doing like that would cause lot of problems in our life, since knowingly or unknowingly we are committing lot of sins in our day to day life. By the way of performing puja in our homes with the use of puja bell, our sins would be reduced at least to some extent!
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WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR