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Sadhguru: Today, when you use the word “temple,” it isa hugely contaminated word. When you say, “Temple,”people think, “Which religion?” It is human beings whoneed temples, not Gods, isn’t it? So what kind of templesdo human beings need? Whatever nurtures them andtakes them to their peak, that is the kind of temple theyneed. The temple is not about God, it is about taking the“human animal” and allowing him the possibility ofbecoming a divine possibility.

This is horribly misunderstood in theworld: in India, people are allowed to

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create their own gods because it is theonly culture where people haveunderstood that God is their making.We have thirty-three million gods andgoddesses. And this happened whenour population was thirty-threemillion. We know the technology ofgod-making.

If you convert or transform mud into food, we call thisagriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, you callthis digestion. If you make this flesh and bone into mudagain, we call this cremation. These are all differenttechnologies. Similarly, if you can make any substance orspace into a divine reverberation, this is calledconsecration. There is a whole science of consecration. Youcan energize any object. Let us say you hold a flower, ifyou are sensitive, if you hold this flower in your hand,see how it feels and give it to me for just ten, twenty

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seconds, I will hold it and give it back to you. I will makeit feel completely different in your hands. But after sometime, once again it will be just a flower. But if youenergize certain forms created out of certain material, in acertain way, they will become eternal forms. Oneimportant material like this is mercury.

When we energize a substance, wewant the densest possible material thatwe can find. Mercury is one of thedensest possible substances and it is inliquid form – it is the only liquidmetal. Once you energize this, it willremain the same way for ten, fifteenthousand years. If the right kind ofsituation is maintained, it may remainthat way for a hundred thousand years.

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The idea and the science and technology behind this isthat you create an energy form which will do somethingthat you want to do for a long period of time. It is becauseof this that most of the lingas are mercury-based. Themercury lingas in the Theerthakunds are solidifiedmercury – 99.2% pure mercury – that 0.8% impurity isbecause laboratories are not capable of removing it.According to modern chemistry, you cannot solidifymercury at room temperature; you can solidify mercuryonly if you take it to -38 degrees Centigrade. But I willtake it in my hand and solidify and liquefy it at roomtemperature. This is Indian alchemy and this is a way toenergize any space. We have seen how for people whohave taken solidified mercury forms into their homes,their health situation, their mental situations, even theireconomic situations, have changed phenomenally.

Indian systems of medicine likeAyurveda and Siddha Vaidya usemercury on a daily basis. Siddha Vaidya

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cannot operate without mercury.

Normally, the thing about idols which are consecratedwith mantras and chants and things like that is that if youdo not take care of it for a certain period of time, it willbecome a receding force. This is the reason why if anyidol is even slightly damaged, they will take it and throwit into a well or a river because if you are in the presenceof a form which is in a state of receding energy, it willcause harm to you. So it is instantly taken and put in aplace where no human beings will approach it. That’s theidea. But once a form is created with solidified mercury, itwill never be a receding force even if nobody takes care ofit. That is the safety.

This whole science of solidifying and energizing mercuryis called Rasa Vaidya. It is a subjective science, because ifyou have to change one thing into something else, youneed some kind of addition, subtraction, change intemperature – you have to do something, otherwise itcannot happen. But now at room temperature, mercury is

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solidified without any addition. That cannot be physical,objective science. It has to be subjective science.

Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and SiddhaVaidya use mercury on a daily basis. Siddha Vaidyacannot operate without mercury. Mercury is the mostessential ingredient in Siddha Vaidya and also in someAyurvedic products. This practice has been on forthousands of years. Consumption of mercury is verymuch a part of yogic practice. We know what it does to thesystem. In India, you will see people wearing mercuryballs around their neck. There are any number of peoplewho have come out of very serious immunologicaldiseases just by having a piece of solidified mercury ontheir body.

Everything on this planet, if you know how to use it, itwill be for your wellbeing. If you do not know how to useit, it will be your poison. Today, I am alive and healthyonly because of mercury. After I finished the Dhyanalingaconsecration, my body was in such a broken condition.When I went to the United States and took a few blood

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tests, they diagnosed me with all kinds of bizarrediseases. They said, “You are a Blue Light Emergency.You should not get onto an airplane because you could dieanytime.” But here I am, I have been flying and I am muchmore healthy than most people can imagine. I put in muchmore activity than a lot of people can ever do in a day.

Mercury has been my saving grace.Without it, my body would not be whatit is today.

Mercury is not poison. Especially in the western part ofthe world, people are terrified of mercury poisoning. Thepoisoning happened only because industries usedmercury and let out mercury compounds into rivers. It isthe mercury compounds which poison. Mercury hasalways been on this planet. It has not poisoned the earth,has it? It is part of the earth. If you misuse it, it poisonsyou. Even the oxygen that you breathe can poison you. Ifyou take in excess oxygen, you can become comatose.

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Everything on this planet, if you know how to use it, itwill be for your wellbeing. If you do not know how to useit, it will be your poison.

Shiva has always been known as the Neelakantha. Thatmeans a poisoned throat. If you have a cobra hangingaround your throat, if you wear a cobra as an ornament,you are bound to have your throat bitten often enough toturn blue. But there has never been another man with thecapabilities and the knowing that this man had. So what ispoison and what is the elixir of life simply depends onwho you are.

In the South, we have temples wherethe idol is made of nine deadly poisons.They are called navapashanas. Acocktail of poisons together becomevery healing and medicinal in nature.It is a very deep science of how toconvert visha into amrita – of making

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a cocktail of poisons, which wouldinstantly kill you, but instead itnourishes you.

People consume the water that runs off these idols and itis very healing. But slowly the deity wears out. Generallytheir lifespan could be anywhere between hundred andfifty to two hundred years depending upon the size.Slowly they lose their shape and form because every dayas water falls on it, it wears out and people are drinking itup, taking the Divine in. Unfortunately, these deities arenot being replaced today.

Right now in the world, people who think logically aretrying to handle human wellbeing by changing onlyattitudes. That is the only solution people have in themodern world, isn’t it? “Be calm, take care of yourself,don’t worry, be happy” – all this stuff. You will neverachieve wellbeing that way. By changing attitudes youcan manage to a certain extent, yes, but it will neverhappen to its fullest extent because there are other

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happen to its fullest extent because there are otherdimensions and forces working upon you. Withouthandling those, you will never be free from certainthings. It does not matter how much you try to changeyour attitude, you can just go bonkers in your mindsimply because there are other forces both within you andoutside of you. If they are not dealt with, one will notknow a true sense of wellbeing.

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