Questioner: What is a ‘Temple’, and what purpose should it serve?
Acharya Prashant: A ‘Temple’ must definitely have elements that elevate your consciousness.
Being at a place, being with elements, being with people, being with structures, being with sites, scenes, sounds, that remind you of the Beyond, that take the lowly consciousness to a high point, where it becomes receptive to signals from the sky.
That’s a ‘Temple’.
Are you getting it?
So, a ‘Temple’, first of all, must have those elements. Secondly, wherever those elements are present, that place is a ‘Temple’, even if you call it by some other name.
So look at the effect the whole situation, the arrangement, the whole architecture is having on you. Is it taking you beyond the mundane things that keep circulating in your mind?
If ‘yes, then it deserves to be called a ‘Temple’. If no, then it is just another place – entertaining probably, imposing probably, but not elevating.
