What is a Temple? || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: The myth of 'Consecrated spaces' || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)
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00:00A Muslim passes in front of a mosque and the kind of experience that he gets is not the
00:05experience that a Jew would get passing in front of the same mosque or a Hindu would
00:09get passing in front of the same mosque.
00:11It's all very subjective.
00:12It's within you.
00:13It's not in that structure.
00:16What can be in the structure is something else.
00:18There can be beauty in the structure.
00:21There can be sophistication in the structure.
00:23Also there can be one more thing in the structure, very important.
00:26I'm glad I didn't forget that.
00:27The structure can have great pointers towards higher values.
00:35And then the structure really becomes a living story.
00:39The structure then becomes a teacher.
00:41The structure is now teaching you something.
00:43But for that to mean anything, you must know what the meaning is.
00:47But do you know what the meaning is?
00:49If you do not know what the meaning is, how have you just blindly started parroting sacred
00:54sacred?
00:55Do you get this?