sri sri on tsunami sparing temples

dec 27

forwarded by daisies aka savitha



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Temples untouched by tsunami - love or fear?
by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

[available at
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Was tsunami scared of temples or did it love them? You cannot brush this
aside as a mere coincidence because of the following phenomenon throughout
the coastal line of India and Sri Lanka.

Let us take the cases of the big ancient temples of south India. Kanyakumari
temple which is right at the edge of the ocean has remained untouched by
tsunami. The famous Tirhchandur temple saw the ocean receding, leaving the
temple intact. Rameswara temple also remained unaffected.

Did this strange phenomenon happen only in India? No. If you travel through
the coastal line of Sri Lanka, you will be amazed to see that all the
Buddhist statues, monasteries and Hindu temples have also remained untouched.
The media have reported a famous Murugan temple at Ampara district is
perfectly intact while all the buildings surrounding the temple have fallen
apart. While the whole locality went to shambles, not a single tile was
broken in this Kerala style temple. When the whole village in Hampenthode
district was ruined, nothing happened to the Buddhist statues there.

In Jaffna, the very famous Karainagar temple (also known as the Chidambaram
of Sri Lanka), where tens of thousands of people had assembled for the
annual five chariot procession on December 26 was unaffected. The 40 feet
tsunami waves did not affect the people in the temple premises, and in fact
kept them safe from the devastation. Amongst the temples and monasteries
that were strangely untouched, was also Art of Living retreat centre on
the beach road, Chennai. This AOL centre, which hosts many, many satsangs
and meditations, experienced an incredible phenomenon. While the water
rushed through all the streets around the centre and in fact all of the
centre's adjacent streets, it left the centre itself completely untouched.

So far only one case of a temple being washed away by tsunami has been
reported from Kerala. This is reported to be a small 100-year-old Lord
Subramania temple.

Other than this, all Hindu temples and monasteries in Sri Lanka and
India have withstood the deadly tsunami. This seems to defy all logic.
We should not forget that when Puri (Orissa) was flooded by cyclones a
few years back, the ancient Jagannath temple stood completely intact.
Is it the architecture or energy or some intelligence in creation which
causes these monuments to stand these killer furies of nature? This
remains a mystery to be unlocked... it may be worthwhile for a team of
architects and scientists to go around and study this phenomenon.
Isn't it amazing that tsunami could lift big heavy boats over large
buildings and deposit them many hundreds of metres beyond the streets,
and yet not affect a small temple in Velankanni. Is this to strengthen
the faith of the believer, remains to be answered. One thing is for
sure; Either tsunami loves the temples or it is too scared to go close
to them.



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