Question

summery and explanation of the temple and the body vachana

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Answer:

The poem 'The Temple And The Body' highlights the difference between the rich and the poor on the basis that the rich can build the temple of Shiva and hence attain the path to heaven. What could the poor do? The poor embodies the temple in his own body wherein his legs are pillars, the body is the shrine and the head is a cupola of gold. It is the head where prayer, communion and true meditation happens.

It further underlines the fact that temples erected by the rich would succumb to the effects of time and fall but the temple of the embodied self moves with the flow of time and will never perish.