As much as a proud Hindu would like to proclaim
that he is born to the oldest religion on earth, he is yet deprived of its wisdom compared to the other main
religions.
How is this so?
When a Christian goes to the Church, the
Priest/Pastor may mention a few hymns in Latin from the Holy Bible and later
translated to simple English and explain the values and meaning of the hymns to
him.
When the Muslim visits the Mosque, he attends a
prayer. The meaning of the Arabic verses or ayat
are later explained by an Imam in simple Malay, so the devotee understands.
These verses are from the Holy Quran.
However, when the Hindu goes to the Temple, he
vaguely 'hears' some mantras chanted in Sanskrit by a Priest (when the priest
offers prayers to a deity).
The priest does not translate the valuable
meaning of the mantras into any language a Hindu devotee can understand (it
doesn’t matter anyway, he was chanting to the deity). The Hindu leaves the
temple thinking this is all that's required of him and is happy. He leaves the
temple no wiser than when he walked in. He firmly believes in the ‘magic’ of “God”
– that his prayers will be answered by magic. There is nothing else for him to
do on his part.
Just like the hymns and ayat, the mantras are where the "Knowledge for Man"
resides.
This is why only in Hinduism we have temples with
priests, and ashrams with gurus. Two separate places. You will not find gurus
at temples, and similarly you will not find priests at ashrams. Two separate
sets of people with opposing beliefs. The temple priests are for deity worship; the gurus for spiritual knowledge – the understanding
of the “I” in us, “realising the God within” and the destruction of the false
ego in Man. The mantras are chanted in both these places and are mostly the
same in meaning, but at the temple the meaning of the glorious mantras are never
explained (unlike the Mosque and Church), whilst at the ashram this is all that
is explained from the Bhagavad Gita/Vedas.
The Sanskrit language originally had only 36
phonemes, the words of the originally 700, now c400 slokas or verses all originated from only 36 phonemes – yet the
meaning of each of them, the Knowledge
for Man, is immense and what is required for Man to live a life in peace, happiness and abundance.
The Magic is in the Slokas/Mantras.
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