Hindu Temple Experience

Religion has always played a prominent part in ancient cultures, and this is all the more so in India. The temples have played a central role in the fostering of the Hindu religion. The Hindu temple is not just a congregational structure or prayer hall. It is the House of God and the image inside is the soul. The temple that I went to was located in Ashland, MA and it was called Sri Lakshmi. From the outside the temple look really big and the color of the building is white, and they are a lot of trees surround the temple (include a picture at the end). First thing before we can step inside the temple is we have to take off our shoe and wash our feet, they provide us we a small pool in the front gate. The first thing I see went I step inside …show more content…
One thing that makes me feel is to relieve is that everyone seems to be really nice, one of the members we met in front the entrance even explained to us, all the step of what we have to do and that include taking our shoe off and wash our feet. My aunt went up to the front desk to ask how can we attend the ceremony, and they explained to us like we were one of them. After we got the answer we walk in front the Nataraja statue and tell the shirtless staff that we want to attend a ritual, I find out later that the shirtless staff was a priest and he was shirtless because is part of the custom. During the ritual, he will be saying something in Hindu and it seems like they are singing a song. My grandfather seems to have effect during this process because his whole body start to shake and he starts to speak a different language; He seems like a completely different person. In the middle of the ritual the priest starts to walk toward each of us, he dips his thumb into a red color can and make a circle dot on our head. I did not question it because I know to part of their ceremony and custom, but the paint kind of smell funny, so after we walk out of the temple I clean it