You promised to comment on my blog last week, in which I tell how moved I am by the atmosphere, the openness and the spiritual energy that I experienced during my visit to this temple.
I will do so.
You have appreciated this ancient Hindu belief well. So many years of
devotion and tradition, and refined rituals and a variety of images of God and
stories about great heroes who were dealing with the gods contribute precisely
to what you felt. A strong impact on your sense of devotion that is accompanied
by great spiritual energy. One enters and one is touched immediately. One is
absorbed into the great temple, which is built in the spiritual world, which
exerts its influence on every visitor. And it also touches the distant
environment with the spread of spiritual energy. The Hindu temples are also
transformer houses of spiritual energy and a blessing for the environment.
From the principle of monotheism and the fight against superstition and
from the perspective of the human ratio, Islam, Judaism and Protestantism score
very well on earth. One God, great simplicity and austerity.
Shintoism, Catholicism and Hinduism on the other hand score best on the
principle of multi-colouredness and creativity and support for the human heart
and for human emotional life.And who will tell which of the now seven billion people on earth must believe what? God / Allah / Braham / Yahweh does not do this. More often, Its servants on earth do that, too often.
The glorious multi-colouredness of Hinduism is best symbolized by the
Holi-Phagwa festival where spring, the victory of good over evil and the new
year are celebrated. And non-Hindus are very welcome at this party. All
fellowmen. And have you not experienced in this temple that you and your family
member as non-Hindus were very welcome to receive the bindi (dot on the
forehead)?
That gets Me to another aspect that I would like to emphasize in this
blog. The openness to other religions, other gods, other forms of faith. The
Hindus were delighted to welcome Christians and their Christ. They were
impressed by the figure of Christ, His spiritual example and the rituals and
customs of the Catholics for example such as the communion and a church full of
images of saints. It only contributed to the multi-color nature of their faith.
This is a wonderful characteristic of the Hindus, they did want to welcome
Christ and Mary, but the Christians wanted them to abolish Ganesh and Durga and
so on. In contrast with the Christians the Hindu faith here displays a
beautiful, rich, wise and age-old openness that is sung in the spiritual world!
Finally this, My son. We do great injustice to the Hindu faith of
devoting just two blogs to their rituals, their gods, their wisdom and their
traditions. But we can't help it. We have so many other topics in front of us.
And after all, you have to visit a synagogue and a mosque for example as well?
The Hindus are blessed.My blessings to you all
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