(Someswar Bhagwat)
Just as temples are representatives of Hindu culture or the ancient religion of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism the pyramids represent also ancient) Egyptian culture and civilization. The only difference is that Hindu temples were plundered and looted with the declared reason being Islamic opposition to idol worship and polytheism (multiple Gods
The real, undeclared, reason was to take away the abundant riches and gold of the temples and the proselytization of the non-Hindu religions. While Islam believed that ALL non-Muslims were kaafirs who could be killed. Christianity spread with the help of the crusades, the inquisition, and money collected in Churches.The stone temples and idols were needed to help focus on God and the echo of holy hymns — of temple chantings — by the temple rocks helped the devotees, Recently I forwarded to a. WApp group a video of someone explaining how Hindu temples were built with granite rocks echo the hymns chanted inside just as hills do. It was an excellent scientific description of how such sound affects our mind and body when we visit temples that chant Vishnu Sahastranam and Lalita Sahastranam and how visiting the sanctum sanctorum of a temple affects visitors for good. (All Hindu temples are built with heavy granite stones –except modern brick and cement Birla temples and the Mangesh mandir in Goa.) It was a must-hear-and-see video and had to be shared widely. Probably it was the first time someone has attempted a scientific explanation for the blissful experience of reciting mantras and visiting temples. Simply brilliant.One Paul Rajkumar responded immediately, which was strange as most posts go unread. He said the same principles were used in the Pyramids in Egypt. The dimensions of all these matches in one way or the other “While Islamic Turkey (where thousands died in a devastating earthquake recently and
our rescue teams are at work) had — centuries ago — looted our temples, the equally Islamic Egypt did not añd is India”s good friend, while Turkey always backs the homeland of terrorism Pakistan. Did the principles common between Indian temples and Egyptian pyramids? Were both nations having ancient cultures the reason for their friendship? Was India helping the quake victims of Turkey despite its plunder and pro- Pakistan policy modern the equivalent of the Christian idea of Jesus turning the other cheek? Are these and there is no other Hindu nation despite the Indian footprints in many South East Asian countries a sign of ‘Indian intolerance? These are some of the questions which the anti-Indian ‘sickular’ Hindu liberals have to answer to the nation.
