Right side front of temple starting from the door
1) First mudra– stands cross legged. Right leg crosses the left leg and stands flat foot on left leg and on toes on right leg. The meaning is that toes take positive energy from earth & circulate through right side. Foot retards negative energy Both lead to balance in both.
2) Second mudra is Brahma. Once energy is balanced in body, creativity starts. Brahma denotes creativity
3) Third mudra - Right hand on head with thumb on Sahasrara chakra & left hand on thigh with fingers pointing down and thumb on thigh. This is balance created through akash (cosmos)
4) Fourth mudra - In dhyan mudra both hands. Right hand over heart chakra (anahata chakra), left hand over muladhara chakra and crossed legs as per first mudra. This is meditation pose in standing position.
5) Fifth mudra - Once energy is balanced & meditation is done, Shiv comes to destroy ego. Cut head denotes ego.
6) Sixth mudra - Once ego is destroyed, vices (vikaar) have to be destroyed. Dog denotes vikaar. Tail of dog is always bent, cannot be straightened even if you try. Thus, if you want to destroy vikaar, you need to kill it. And you have to put your leg on top of it to kill it.
Right side front of temple (Sideways)
1) On right side bottom intervined snake with head. Right side of body is ida nadi denotes positivity and left side of body is pingla nadi denotes negativity. Right side of temple is ida. Thus to retard any negative force, immediately on right side in bottom is snake with head raised. The snake is interwined around a flower. Flower suggests positive force and it is protected on all sides by the snake (Goga bapu). Raised hood always retard the negative force.
• Elephants are placed on bottom of temple Elephant suggests intelligence and power (bal). Thus anyone entering the temple also will get intelligence and power. But because elephant is not free of vikaar (vices) it is placed at bottom. Once ego is subdued by samarpan (surrenderness) then mind become still, This is depicted by monkey on top (Monkey means – unsteady mind) who is sitting with hands folded (namaskar). Only steady & surrendered mind can do naam (name) – smaran (remembrance) of God. Thus parrot who depicts naam smaran is shown top most but still below roof of temple on roof of temple. On roof of temple are gandharva & kinnar & yaksh for protection.
Note: Namaskar is symbol of samarpan (surrenderness). Finger tips receive energy and hands touch. Thus, ida and pingla are balanced. Thus, Brahma (smiling younger) appears with creativity & understanding and then Saraswati appears with veena. This leads to gyan (knowledge) and harmony with music form. Thus, this is sahaj yoga.
2) Right side 1st mudra – Left leg flat foot on ground and right leg on left knee, right hand in gyan mudra near anahat chakra and left hand has sword. Dog near it. Dog denotes vikaar (vices). With left leg, you retard negative energy and with right hand you get positive energy. This positive energy pushes out negative energy through right leg, sword kills vikaar. Right hand in meditation pose. Thus now you do combination of energy balance meditation and killing of vikaar. First step is always balance. then comes balance from sky (thought), then is creativity, then comes meditation which leads to destruction of ego by shiv and then you kill your vikaar. All steps together occur in this mudra.
3) Right second mudra – Vishnu is a symbol of bhakti. When balance of energy, destruction of ego by Shiv, meditation occurs then Vishnu emerges. Vishnu is also a symbol of action. He has cow next to him. Cow means love and devotion. Lakshmi is next to him. Lakshmi does not mean money. It means richness of thought and action. So when Vishnu emerges, you get right action & devotion in you.
a. So where Shiv is there, Vishnu is there and where Vishnu is there, Shiv is there. Without Vishnu, Shiv is not there and without Shiv, Vishnu is not there.
b. Shiv means gyan yog (mediation), Vishnu means bhakti yog, karma yog. When all 3 merge, then you get harmony in life.
4) Right third mudra – When you get bhakti (devotion) and right action, you get dance and harmony in your life denoted by first & third ladies mudra together. Second is Brahma - He has mala (prayer bead) intsead of sword. It denotes right understanding. He does not have beard. That means when you get right understanding, you get younger & younger.
5) Right fourth mudra - Right hand in gyan mudra over anahat chakra and left hand at stomach chakra. Now energy starts rising.
Note: When first mudra is done by crossing left leg it should be done when negative energy is high in body. Then Brahma comes with sword to break this and give creativity. Shiv is the only God who can break negative energy and destroy ego. But when first mudra is done with right leg, that means when positive energy flow is good then “shakti” (MA) emerges and rides over your vikaar (vices) & kills your ego. Then next mudra shows dance & harmony in your life. Brahma comes in form of right understanding which further gives you dance & harmony.
Whether you worship Shiv or Shakti, goal reached is the same. When Shiv Shakti come harmony comes in different Indian mudra.
Note: Right hand closed fist on top and left hand on thigh. Negative energy is being removed but positive energy is not flowing. Face is not smiling. Thus, energy is not balanced. This leads to darshan (glimpse) of incomplete dev Indra with vajra who makes you incomplete God. When you realise that you are incomplete, you try further. Hanuman gives you darshan. Hanuman removes all hindrances in life . Hanuman is symbol of Shiv. However, because of imbalance of positive and negative energy, you do not get darshan of original Shiv swaroop (form). Hanuman blesses you, crushes your ego with his leg. When your ego is crushed & negative is gone, but positive has not come, then gadadhari (mace holding) Varundev (God of wind) comes who removes your depression by flowing it out. Thus, you get “little” harmony in your life and then Brahma with restricted creativity comes. This brahma is not smiling. Thus you get “little” understanding and thus dance is restricted in “life”.
Right side of the inner sanctum of temple
1. Brahma is there suggestive that creativity is on the right side.
2. Same replica of Ma (divine mother) outside as inside the inner sanctum. Her sevaks (persons serving her) are next to her with cross legged position and playing musical instruments. They are in harmony and right energy balance. Then Ma as Shakti destroys ego and positive energy comes. Then Shiv comes with snakes & damru. Shiv also destroys ego but controls negative energy by controlling the snakes and channelises the positive energy on right side in right direction. Once shakti emerges you get Ma Swaroop (form) of “shakti” (Ma is with kamandal). Lotus removes dirt from your life and khappar (vessel) fills your cup of life with her blessing. When Shiv controls energy, Ma appears with mala (prayer bead) which means you know get right understanding.
3. Ma Idol is in form of Mahisasura Mardini: When Ma starts process for you, Ma first destroys your ego. So mudra is of Ma Swaroop of mahisasura mardini. She generates energy in you as she is shakti Swaroop. Then image is of ma with kamandal, khappar & lotus. Thus Ma fills your life with shanti (peace), blessing and removes you from dirt. When this occurs, your life is protected and protector appears.
4. Next step is that you become completely open to God depicted by a naked body. God then in form shiv with snakes around his body controls the negative forces and gives you darshan (glimpse) leading you to get right understanding, which is depicted by ‘Ma’ with mala (prayer bead). Once you get right understanding, you surrender. Bhakti (devotion) depicted by namaskar mudra s seen and then you get harmony and then complete Swaroop of ‘Ma’. After that you get complete knowledge as depicted by “old” Brahma. Old brahma has 4 heads suggestive of complete knowledge.
Behind the temple
1. First mudra is of energy balance through akash (cosmos). You balance your thought. Once thoughts are balanced, you walk on Jeevan chakra. A physical relation with balanced thoughts can lead your energy skywards. This is the shortest 3 step route where there is no need of meditation, action or bhakti. However it is a naked science and thus it kept hidden and thus on back side. However, it is not negative. Thus it is on right side. But this knowledge cannot be given to all.
2. Shows brahma with mala, kamandal & 2 lotus. It suggest right understanding. Thus on right side of garbh (inner sanctum) is creativity, on back side is understanding. There should be no rooms on backside to have free flow of right understanding which will help the entire village. Surrounding right understanding is harmony.
3. Next is hath yogi doing akash (cosmic) mudra with balance of positive & negative energy. Hath yogi gets darshan (glimpse) of Tirupati Balaji. Tirupati Balaji is karuna (kindness) Swaroop (form) of Vishnu. When Vishnu’s karuna comes on Hath yogi, he gets 2 guna of Vishnu – bhakti (devotion) & right action. This will change his stubborness to bhakti (devotion) and leads him upwards. Then he gets glimpse of divine mother with right understanding and ida & pingla get balances. He also becomes open in front of god and ego disappears depicted by female hath yogi with right index in the fist of left hand suggestive of female (no ego), hand positions means balance of ida & pingla. He then becomes god depicted by male form of God
Note: Hath yoga means to torture the body and control the mind. Hath yog is stand alone. One cannot go further with hath yog as hath yogis are egoistic and stubborn. They can never destroy their ego. Hath yog is not negative.
Note: The symbol of any individual doing sadhana (spiritual practices) is female because male is only one – ‘Ishwar (God)’. In Hath yog, male is shown doing sadhana because he is egoistic & his ego cannot be crushed.
Hath yogi who is open egoless (female form) and channelising energy correctly (right hand in gyan mudra over anahat chakra & left hand over thigh) becomes God depicted by male form. When hath yogi is open, egoless ( female form) negative energy is going out (thigh hand) but no positive energy (right fist is closed) then the sadhak (Spiritual practioner) becomes stand alone. This means that even if you have no ego, are open to god but not ready to listen and do what god tells you to do, then you cannot progress. This is negative attitude and thus it is present on left side of temple.
Left side of inner sanctum
1. Brahma holding rope depicting sansaar (world). Ma controls sansaar from here. Sansaar means maya. Maya means negativity and thus it is on the left side.
2. Sansaar control is in form of karma ni lakdi (stick of karma) depicted by stick in hand of Brahma and other Brahma has cobra in hand meaning it bites the negativity. Both stick and bite are negative and thus they are on left side of temple.
3. Hath yogi – is open, egoless (female) but is stubborn, not able to leave sansaar moh (infatuation of the world) depicted by sansaar rope in hand, is not able to leave vaasna moh (lust) depicted by red vagina and thus is stand alone. Sansaar moh & vaasna are negativity, so are on left side.
4. Ma remains unaffected even though rope of sansaar is in her hands. She remains complete.
5. To tackle sansaar problems, first comes Ganpati with Riddhi siddhi & protectors. Ganpati is vighna harta (destroys obstacles). That is why Ganpati always faces left of temple. Inside the temple also he faces left of temple.
6. Next, to control sansaar problem comes Krishna. He brings balance in life and harmony depicted by flute and crossed legs.
7. He also taught that one may have to attack sansaar niyamas (rules of the world) and vikaar (vices) depicted by lady with sword and dog and how to defend (depicted by dhaal). Though he is on left side of temple, he faces back suggestive of right understanding.
8. Mother & son depict Moh (infatuation). When God (Brahma) removes you from infatuation, then you dance and channelise energy. Then you see complete swaroop of Ma and become one in her (the mudra shows hips towards Ma). Moh is negativity so it is on left side of temple.
9. To overcome maya and moh, vikaars solutions are vighna harta Ganapati, Krishna (art of living) and surrenderness.
10. When husband & wife are one and the rope of sansaar is in their control then you get glimpse of god. Vikaars when increase bite you (dogs bites). Before that it is necessary to kill it.
Left side entrance of temple
1. Even when in sansaar, you are having akash mudra (control over your thoughts) then you can become God (brahma – creator, understanding). With art of living by Krishna, you become in harmony with sansaar. All his occurs at entrance of shakti dwar (door). Once you have harmony with sansaar, you can enter into the kingdom of shakti
2. Hath yogi are sitting on top of door on roof facing left. They are facing sansaar, connot give up sansaar, cannot enter into the door and sitting in their stubbornness on the roof. Thus they cannot progress further. Because they are thinking of sansaar, they create negative energy.
Direction of the temple
3. Ma is in north and Shiv is in north west. Entry is from south.
4. Deesa tample is as per Vaastu and is about 500 -800 years old.
5. East – west direction is for the sunrise and sunset. Man will enter temple and achieve but then cycle of life & death contines. Thus east west does not give relief from life cycle. When temple is in north and northwest, devotee comes from south to go to north (upwards). Kailash is in north.
- These are topics of various aspects of spirituality as told by Para.