Three holly temples of Sujata village(Part 3)
This is the last article about the movie
“Three
holly temples of Sujata village”
taken by the Indian government.
Have you seen the movie already?
If not, click below and check it out!
In last two articles,
I shared about
and
2. Shiva temple.
Today, I introduce you
Dharmanaya temple
Dharmanaya temple locates
the outskirts of the
village
and it’s about 0.5km from
Shiva temple.
From ancient times,
local people kept
praying
for having babies at this temple.
They hold pooja,
Hindu worship.
More than 150,000 people participated
Yaggya,
fire ceremony at this place.
“Yaggya ceremony”
To a big well in the temple,
people throw
offerings
used in pooja ceremony
for their ancestors.
This means series of pooja for ancestors
to
leads to Moksha ends at last.
The flow of the pooja is as follows,
actually.
1.Pooja at Saraswati temple
↓
2.Pooja at Shiva temple
↓
3.Pooja at Dharmanaya temple
↓
4.throw all
the offerings to the well
By the way…
This temple has
two other commonly known
names.
One is “Buddha palace”.
“Buddha statue”
Because it is said that
Buddha dropped here
after 6-year-ascetic practices
at Mahakara mountain.
The other name is “Ghost temple”.
Why ghost…?
I asked to one of the villagers.
To the well of the temple,
people kept
throwing their hair
to drive away evil spirit
other than offerings
used in
pooja ceremony.
Thousands or millions of people’s hair
with
evil spirit…
That’s why ghost appear
this place at
night.
This is the reason villager call the temple
“Ghost
temple”.
The temple is lively
with study groups
such
as learning Sanskrit at daytime,
but after it gets dark,
no villagers visit
here.
Because they afraid the ghosts.
Ghost temple locates at deserted place
with
lots of palm trees.
No light at all,
only the moon light helps.
But If you are courageous enough,
shall we go to the temple
after sunset?
From Meera
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