Temple

Wondering as the foreigners I wandered round the temple
In the temple city of Tamil Nadu; I prayed to Goddess Meenakshi
To bless me with her grace to get the bliss I gaze long.
Perhaps her blessings bade me to see many temples in this State.

The sanctum sanctorum of great temples silences silly notions;
Is it the divine power or the artistic excellence that produces awe?
The great God is not a simple joke to be easily assimilated;
It’s better not to have faith rather than to believe to have one.

Faith depends upon devotion on what one deeply believes in;
Such a belief comes on long experience and never on compulsion.
Love and affection, kindness and devotion keep faith everlasting;
And devotion based on love and truth keeps faith diligent and strong.

The mysteries of divine miracles are beyond the scope of comprehension;
But the evidence of such happenings put aside all doubts in their favour.
The perfection of human soul is the message of all temples;
But without sex life is meaningless on observing Nature in depth.

Sex has to be enjoyed meaningfully in life to achieve maturity.
Sex is the communion of two souls in complete pleasure in life;
Sex plays a vital role in all human endeavours in the life of the world;
And so sex is very important in achieving divine bliss too ultimately!

Beauty is perfection in the combination of vital elements in art;
Such Beauty is Truth in the Temple Art we all see everywhere;
And love of such truth in earnest desire is real devotion to God.
Each deity is a model of perfection everyone has to try to achieve;
But it is left to the devotee to select the deity to achieve perfection.

Religion and philosophy, literature and culture, life and art are
What the temple is the symbol of the whole in one to know.
As in sex with one mind everyone has to enter the temple
To commune with the whole of everything in one God there;
That is the way to love and worship God to get peace and bliss.

The beauty of Nature surrounding the temple touches the heart first
That brings the necessary mood before one enters the temple then;
Of all, mountain shrines touching heaven and earth is most attractive;
So, Nature and Temple Art nurture human nature to divine nature.