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THE WAY OF LIFE
cannot you have a separate room for the Paramatma ? Yes. There may be some people who have to live in small houses with one or two rooms only and they cannot build a separate room for the Paramatma. It is for such ordinary or middle class people that the temple is built. Wealthy house-holders must build a separate room for the Lord in their houses and must worship the Lord there and have a darshan. In that case, there would be no such crowd in the temple. If you build a room for the Paramatma in your houses, you can have a darshan of the Paramatma in the manner, I have described. You can also perform Thratak (Seeing without winking) before the Paramatma. After pining for the darshan, if you have a darshan, Thratak also takes place naturally. Nobody will interrupt you there.
WHY DO YOU GO TO THE TEMPLE ? IS IT TO GIVE OR TO RECEIVE ?
You desire to have a darshan of the Lord where there is a big rush of people. You believe that that place of pilgrimage or temple or idol is great and efficacious where large numbers of people collect. This is the truth. Is it not ? All of you love the powerful and efficacious Paramatma; do you not? Those who go to the temple thinking of his power only do not really love him. Only selfish people are attracted by the power of the Paramatma. Do such people go to have a darshan of the Paramatma ? No. Those people go to the temple to give a darshan. That is, to show themselves to the Paramatma. "Oh Lord, look at me. How helpless I am ? I am in sorrow. Oh Lord ! Look at me". So, you think and go to show yourselves to the Paramatma. You think that your objective is achieved if the Paramatma sees you. You attach importance to your objective. If the Bhagwan can grant your wishes, that is enough for you. Do you go to the temple for this reason? People of this kind do not really have any knowledge of the principles of the Paramatma. Such people cannot have any intimacy with the Lord. They go to the temple not to give but to receive. Why do you go to the temple ? Is it to receive or to give ?
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