Every human being deserves to live
in a consecrated space. Consecration is a live process. It is like this: if you
transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh
and bone, we call this digestion, integration. If you make flesh into mud, we
call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty
space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration. Today, science is
telling you that everything is the same energy manifesting itself in a million
different ways. If that is so, what you call the Divine, what you call a stone,
what you call a man or a woman, what you call a demon, are all the same energy
functioning in different ways. For example, the same electricity becomes light, sound and so many other
things, depending upon the technology. So it is just a question of technology;
if you have the necessary technology, you can make the simple space around you
into a Divine exuberance; you can just take a piece of rock and make it into a
god or goddess; this is the phenomenon of consecration. Because it does
not matter what you are eating, how you are or how long you live; at some
point, a need will come that you want to get in touch with the source of
Creation. If that possibility is not created across the planet and is not
available to every human being who seeks, then society has failed to provide
true wellbeing for a human being. It is with this awareness that in our
culture, every street had three temples; because even a few metres should not
pass without there being a consecrated space. The idea was not to create one
temple versus the other; the idea was that nobody should walk in a space which
is not consecrated; nobody should live in a space which is not consecrated. The
temple was always built first, and then houses were built. The whole state
of Tamil Nadu is built like this. Agastya muni was sent to South India by Shiva
– the Aadhi Yogi, or the first yogi. He consecrated every human habitation
south of the Deccan Plateau in some form and made sure that a live spiritual
process was on. He did not spare a single human habitation. They say it took
him 4,000 years of work. We do not know whether it is 4,000 or 400 or 140 – but
looking at the phenomenal amount of work and the amount of travel that he did,
he obviously lived an extraordinary lifespan. Every significant town in
Tamil Nadu had a grand temple and around that, a little town. Because the kind
of dwelling you live in is not important. Whether your house is 10,000 square
feet or just 1,000 square feet is not going to make an ultimate difference in
your life, but being around a consecrated space is going to make a phenomenal
difference in your life. With this understanding, they built human habitations
like this: if there are 25 houses, there must be one temple. Whether you go
there or not, whether you pray or not, whether you know the mantra or not, is
not the point. You must be in a consecrated space every moment of your life.
yukta
