Comprehensive synopsis by you. No addition required whatsoever. What is required is reflection on these various aspects of our temple structure, our temple culture and the glorious philosophy behind that seeks expression in concrete terms for the rank and file of our vast Hindu society to grasp and gain spiritual nourishment from. The amplification of each of these aspects would be encyclopaedic, so wide is its sweep, so deep its seemingly fathomless bounds.
The whole of Hindu civilisation is encapsulated in these stone structures of antiquity, the development and evolution of our art forms, our music and dance, our architecture, our scientific visions and, above all, our spiritual philosophy -- all these are enshrined in these sacred monuments to knowledge and culture, to the fusion of matter and the Spirit where the line of demarcation between the twain is blurred as each is envisioned to be the complement of the other in a graded manifestation of the absolute consciousness transcending both.
The temple stands as the gateway to the Divine, as the interface of matter and the Spirit.
These Hindu temples have been the treasure house of such fabulous wealth as well that they have been the singular targets of marauding invaders who have struck them down time and again after plundering their treasures. Seventeen times, thus, was the Somnath Temple destroyed and yet it came up each time again like the Phoenix from the ashes to assert itself once more as the symbol of all that is best in our eternal civilisation of the soul.
These temples encapsulate India and her heritage, and it has ever been our proud privilege to look after them as we tend to our own mother.
Our motherland lives vibrant in these habitats of our gods and our goddesses and our resurrection as a race is entwined with the earnest rehabilitation of these residences of reverence for us.
May God bless you, Fraeortis Satarawalla, in this noble endeavour of study of the Hindu temples of yore and in the generous act thereof of reviving public interest in our glorious temple culture dating from the depths of bygone ages. Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
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