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**sapedotru** · 02-23-2012, 02:47 AM

Our Temples are repositories of our rich Culture, where Philosophy, Art, Music and Dance florished. All the civilizations in the world gave importance to their place of worship. In our Country our Kings spent major part of the wealth they captured in wars to build Temples, as a mark of atonement of the loss of lives.

Vedic Religion does not suggest idol worship. "The Vedic ritual of the propitiation of the natural elements is known as Yajna in which the gods were offered ghee, honey, purodasa (a sacrificial offering made of ground rice) soma- (wine)-and meat of animals. That is why it was called balikriya (oblation- offering) or pashukarma." All our religious practices are conducted around Homa or Havan. This is what Maharishi Dhayanda Saraswathi of Arya Samaj declared by calling "back to Vedas".

How ever, Dr.S.Radhakrishnan says that idol worship was already there when Vedic Aryans entered Bharatavarsha and Temple worship was accepted by Aryan religion and synthesized into rituals of what we see today. "He believed that the Hindu images of God do not tell us what God is in himself but only what he is to us. What the life is to us and what we essentially hold as true about life." Festivals in Hindu Temples gave an occasion to come together and gave a sense of unity that strengthened them as a community.

Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

02-23-2012, 02:47 AM	#7
sapedotru Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 367 Senior Member	Our Temples are repositories of our rich Culture, where Philosophy, Art, Music and Dance florished. All the civilizations in the world gave importance to their place of worship. In our Country our Kings spent major part of the wealth they captured in wars to build Temples, as a mark of atonement of the loss of lives. Vedic Religion does not suggest idol worship. "The Vedic ritual of the propitiation of the natural elements is known as Yajna in which the gods were offered ghee, honey, purodasa (a sacrificial offering made of ground rice) soma- (wine)-and meat of animals. That is why it was called balikriya (oblation- offering) or pashukarma." All our religious practices are conducted around Homa or Havan. This is what Maharishi Dhayanda Saraswathi of Arya Samaj declared by calling "back to Vedas". How ever, Dr.S.Radhakrishnan says that idol worship was already there when Vedic Aryans entered Bharatavarsha and Temple worship was accepted by Aryan religion and synthesized into rituals of what we see today. "He believed that the Hindu images of God do not tell us what God is in himself but only what he is to us. What the life is to us and what we essentially hold as true about life." Festivals in Hindu Temples gave an occasion to come together and gave a sense of unity that strengthened them as a community. Regards, Brahmanyan, Bangalore.
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