Temples & Legends Of Andhra Pradesh
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Temples & Legends Of India

ON TEMPLES

The temple is the very hub round which
the life of the community is built and thus the entire life as nowhere else; the Yogi seeking the Kundalini, the Jeevanmukta
contemplating the divine, the dancer and the musician surrendering their art as an offering to the Lord, the poet pouring his heart out in divine hymns of liquid beauty, the householder submitting his grievances to the Lord for redress, the diseased praying for health, the healthy praying for wealth, the wealthy praying for power, the powerful praying for peace, the king desiring peace and renouncing life and the renounced yogi desiring nothing but good to all, all can be met with in the temples and all attentive to the central figure viz., the divine Lord.

The temple is thus a literal storehouse of the life of the community and without a knowledge of it, a knowledge of life itself is incomplete.  Andhra is replete with temples of various Lords and a story of the temples and legends of Andhra as part of the temples and legends of India has an immeasurable value to every devout Hindu

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