Temple or Aalayam

Temple is a place where individual souls are reabsorbed into their source.  The purpose of temple is to get rid of oneself of the three defilements – ego, lust and maya. Temple topography mirrors the human body, the “temple” of the individual soul, where the gopuram is the mouth, Nandi is the tongue, the flagpole the tonsils, and the various lamps and lights are representing the five senses.  Accordingly, the inner sanctum is the heart and the temple deity is the soul itself.  Where scripture delineates the five koshas or sheaths that encase the soul, the temple has its five prakaras.  Like the koshas, the prakaras are enclosed one within the other with the innermost the sanctum sanctorum.  As one moves from the gross body to the most subtle – the self in its primordial state, so the pradakshina through the five prakaras to the inner sanctum is the symbolic journey from the gross world of form to the subtle realm of spirit and the divine.

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Bangalore famous Temples

• Someshwara Temple, Someshwara Temple, Ulsoor, Bangalore - 560 008
• Prasanna Veeranjaneya Swamy Temple, Mahalakshmi Layout
• Bull Temple, basavanagudi
• Dodda ganesha Temple, Bull Temple Road in Basavanagudi
• Gavi Gangadhareshwara Guhe (Cave Temple), situated behind Ramakrishna Mutt on Bull Temple Road.
• Ramanjaneya Temple, Hanumanthanagar
• Kadu Mallikarjunaswamy Temple, Sampige Road, Malleswaram besides the Prasanna Sai Mandir
• Banashankari Temple on Kanakapura Road
• Dharmaraya Temple, Located in Nagarathpet
• Sugreeva Venkateshwara Temple, Located in Balepet area
• Ragi Gudda Anjaneya Swamy Temple, Ragi Gudda, J. P. Nagar
  
• Bhoganandeeswara temple, Nandi Hills
  
• Yoganandeeswara hill temple, Nandi Hills

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