Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaIt depends on our mental condition whether we gain something or do not gainsomething by going to the temples. We have to approach these temples in ahumble and penitent mood. They are so many homes of God. Of course Godresides in every human form, indeed every particle of His creation, everythingthat is on this earth. But since we very fallible mortals do not appreciate thefact that God is everywhere we impute special sanctity to temples and thinkthat God resides there.H, 23 Jan. 1937April 21When we approach these temples we must cleanse our bodies, our minds andour hearts and we should enter them in a prayerful mood and ask God to makeus purer men and purer women for having entered their portals. And if you willtake this advice of an old man, these physical deliverance that you havesecures will be a deliverance of the soul.Ibid.April 22Bitter experience has taught me that all temples are not houses of God. Theycan be habitations of the devil. These places of worship have no value unlessthe keeper is a good man of God. Temples, mosques, churches are what manmakes them to be.YI, 19 May 1927April 23If anyone doubts the infinite mercy of God, let him have a look at these sacredplaces. How much hypocrisy and irreligion does the prince of yogis suffer to beperpetrated in His holy name?Auto, p. 242www.mkgandhi.org Page 32