The Uniqueness of the Sun Temple at Konark lies in the fact that it was
built using the concept of magnets. The peak of the temple was said to be a
giant 52 ton magnet. A massive magnet was placed at the temple top and each two
stones of the temple are inserting by iron plates. The statue of the Sun inside
the temple was said to be floating free in air based on the unique arrangements
of the main magnet and the reinforced magnets around the temple walls. Between
every two stone pieces in the temple there lies an iron plate.
The magnets which disturbed the incoming East India Ships to Diamond Harbor
were removed and destroyed and thus was the temple however many stories survive
about its legend.
Thanks to the complementary honeymoon week package to Sterling Resort post
wedding, I was fascinated on my visit by the lovely sexual depictions in the
periphery walls of the massive chariot, KONARK. Though all temples have a
construction based on the VIMAN Shastra (will talk about this sometime later)
this is a unique construction as a chariot of the SUN god.
I always wondered why were the erotic sculptures a part of the temple
complex and not a separate identity for more intrinsic learning. But then these
were the temples of learning.
As I grew up and studied more about the temple I found that the way to the
sanctum was dotted by many stages of learning and giving up. One needs to
attain high levels of knowledge with peace and consciousness while moving
towards the sanctum sanctorum leaving the periphery to the normal biological
behaviors.
If we were only to satisfy our biological needs like eating, mating and
excreting then we are just animals like a cow or a dog. But if we have evolved
we have to move towards enlightenment. (Wow)
So here is a rider: if the net on our phone shows more of porn, that means we are actually reversing the evolution and going back to becoming the animal we were.
