Consecration and temples

“If you transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, we call this digestion. If you make flesh into mud, we call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration.”

Today, modern science is telling you that everything is the same energy manifesting itself in a million different ways. If that is so, what you call the Divine, what you call a stone, what you call a man or a woman, what you call a demon, are all the same energy functioning in different ways. For example, the same electricity becomes light, sound and so many other things, depending upon the technology. So it is just a question of technology; if you have the necessary technology, you can make the simple space around you into a Divine exuberance; you can just take a piece of rock and make it into a God or a Goddess; this is the phenomenon of consecration.

- Sadhguru

The ancient cultures have always centered around powerful energy fields or places of immense spiritual significance. In these cultures, every aspect of life was carefully studied with a view to assisting the individual’s inner growth. Temples or consecrated spaces stood at the very heart of these early societies. Living in a consecrated space nurtures human well-being and brings benefits in various aspects of life. Because it does not matter what you are eating, how you are or how long you live; at some point, a need will come that you want to get in touch with the source of Creation. If that possibility is not created across the planet and is not available to every human being who seeks, then society has failed to provide true wellbeing for a human being. It is with this awareness that in our culture, every street had three temples; because even a few metres should not pass without there being a consecrated space. The idea was not to create one temple versus the other; the idea was that nobody should walk in a space which is not consecrated; nobody should live in a space which is not consecrated. The temple was always

Consecration is the process of utilizing life energies to create human wellbeing and bring benefits in various aspects of life. It is a process where a material substance is energized into the highest, subtlest possible reverberance. It is a science of transforming a stone, an empty space, or even one’s own body into a Divine possibility.

In today’s world, it is still possible for you and your family to live in a consecrated space through the powerfully energized yantras.

At some point, a need will come that you want to get in touch with the source of Creation. If that possibility is not created across the planet and is not available to every human being who seeks, then society has failed to provide true wellbeing for a human being. It is with this awareness that in this culture, every street had three temples; because even a few meters should not pass without there being a consecrated space. The idea was not to create one temple versus the other, the idea was that nobody should walk in a space which is not consecrated; nobody should live in a space which is not consecrated. The temple was always built first, and then houses were built. 

Agastya muni was sent to South India by Shiva – the Aadhi Yogi, or the first yogi. He consecrated every human habitation south of the Deccan Plateau in some form and made sure that a live spiritual process was on. He did not spare a single human habitation. They say it took him 4,000 years of work. We do not know whether it is 4,000 or 400 or 140 – but looking at the phenomenal amount of work and the amount of travel that he did, he obviously lived an extraordinary lifespan. 

 

The whole state of Tamil Nadu is built like this. Every significant town in Tamil Nadu had a grand temple and around that, a little town. Because the kind of dwelling you live in is not important. Whether your house is 10,000 square feet or just 1000 square feet is not going to make an ultimate difference in your life, but being around a consecrated space is going to make a phenomenal difference in your life. With this understanding, they built human habitations like this: if there are 25 houses, there must be one temple. Whether you go there or not, whether you pray or not, whether you know the mantra or not, is not the point. You must be in a consecrated space every moment of your life.

As life is just energy manifested itself in various forms, a whole science of consecration is also about using these life energies and the manifested forms which could be of immense benefit and serve human well-being on various dimensions. The Linga is one such form and the science of manifesting energy in the Linga form is an ancient science, which has been mastered in this part of the world and been prevalent for thousands of years.

Here, in India, people did not believe in god. You need to understand there were never any prayers in India till a few centuries ago. Only invocations, no prayers. Even today, nobody is leading a prayer in the Indian temple. Nobody tells you you must pray, but the tradition is you must sit there for a while. It’s very alive in South India even today. These places were created as energy centers where people could go, recharge themselves, reverberate with the energy and come out. For different types of requirements different types of temples were created. Now if you are suffering from fear you go to one kind of temple, lack of love you go to another kind of temple, lack of prosperity you go to another kind of temple – they created different types of energies. This whole science is called as the science of consecration. You consecrate a certain space with a certain reverberation where people can go and benefit from that.

For different purposes they created different types of temples where you need not go and appeal for anything. You just go sit there, imbibe that and come. This is a kind of technology. But when the bhakti movement swept the country, this technology became diluted. When the bhaktas or devotees came – a devotee is not interested in any science. He grows from the strength of his emotion – his emotion is everything for him. Earlier all the temples were built by the yogis and the siddhas, but later on devotees started building the temple. When the devotees started building temples, they started making them whichever way they like because these are romantic people. They are in love with something, so they just do it whichever way they feel like it – for them science and technology means nothing. Because of this, so many things got distorted.

So your ideas of God, whatever the idea, is just a social influence upon you, isn’t it? If you really want to know, you should not assume anything, that’s the first thing. From where did this idea of God come to you? Because there is creation, you assumed there is a creator, isn’t it? So the only reason why you thought of a creator is because of the creation. The creation is definitely the doorway and which is the most intimate part of creation to you in your life? Yourself, isn’t it? So this is the easiest and simplest way.