Śrī Someśvara
I remember in the early morning, walking through a field in India after a huge Yagya, a Maha Yagya, was performed. A silent mist filled the air. It felt like I was walking the grounds of a cosmic battlefield, where an epic event had just occurred to change the course of history.
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The consecration of Śrī Someśvara Temple will be an historic victory for the world. It marks not only the consecration of Śrī Someśvara Temple but also the awakening of a perfect Guru Chula, an enlightened city. According to the Bhrigu Nadi, this was predicted by the great rishi, Brighu, thousands of years ago. According to Brighu, though attempted before, this will be the first of its kind. The land will reverberate with that feeling.
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A Vedic temple inauguration can be likened to a cosmic explosion, signifying a phase shift in the world. At its inaugural moment in time, the Divine geometrical structure will crystallize, sending a cosmic wave throughout the universe. Those at the source of the wave receive the karmic benefit equivalent to 10,000 daily visits to a temple.
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A powerful catalyst for evolution, it is said that even the participants’ family members who are not present at the inauguration, receive some karmic benefit, five generations out, in both directions of time. Bring your children, relatives, friends, and loved ones. Do what you can to get here for this purifying event.
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During the time when Lord Rama walked the earth, there was a sacred cow that lived, in physical form, named Kamadhenu. It is said that the people who paid homage to this cow were granted their wishes and cured of any disease. At the inauguration, we will have our own cow with calf to embody that quality.
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Big tents across the lawns will provide gathering places for friends, families, and children to play. Fantastic authentic Indian food prepared with Ayurvedic expertise will be served.
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Beautiful, limited edition, miniature Shiva lingas with Nandi and ballipeedum, miniature kalasums, and a small number of other consecrated items will be available as gifts to temple sponsors.
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Yagyas will be performed from dawn until dusk. It will be a rare opportunity to enjoy the company of highly respected Pundits and Sthapatis from India. A number of renowned experts, inculding Jyotishis, Sanjay and Sarbani Rath, will attend.
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Several of the shilpis will remain at Mount Soma through the consecration, working closely with the pundits to perform the last steps to “turn on” the temple.
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From one angle, we can view the temple as a machine; built precisely to amplify and broadcast the harmony found at the transcendental level of life. From another angle, we can view the temple as a living being; not a structure representing God, but God himself.
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Vastu architecture is a mapping of the human/Divine body. The temple has a head, torso, and limbs. Inside the temple, the stone murtis (statues demonstrating the numerous, personified attributes of God) have an arresting presence. The eyes of the murtis will be opened according to ancient Vedic technology, first with iron, then silver, then gold utensils, bringing them to life.
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The culmination of the event is on the evening of the fifth day when the temple comes together as fully functioning structure of the Divine. The building of a successful Vedic temple in these times is an undertaking that is difficult beyond what most people can imagine. The financial, coordination, communication, and interpretation obstacles are tremendous. When together we succeed, you will want to be there to see it. This event is not just for students, scholars of the Veda, or Hindus, it is for all people. People will be talking about it for ages.
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If you miss this event you will look back and wonder how you could have allowed yourself to not be there.
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