@kobrakulsh Supritee, What an intense and thought provoking observation! I feel- temples/worship places invite us to surrender what is beyond our control. Therapy invites us to understand what has been within us all along. One turns us toward the sacred, the other gently turns us toward ourselves. Yet both ask for the same thing- honesty! Both are built with presence. One receives whispered prayers, the other receives whispered truths. One holds faith in the unseen, the other holds faith in the possibility of change. Both ask us to arrive as we are. Temples teach us that surrender is sacred. Therapy teaches us that self-discovery is sacred. And perhaps both are simply different paths leading us to the same place—a heart that no longer carries its burdens alone. So may be therapy rooms don’t absorb grief, they witness it the same way temples witness prayers ![]()
Thank you so much, Harmeet.
I appreciate your perspective.
I agree that both ask us to come with honesty and presence. But my question came from a slightly different feeling.
When I sit in an old temple, (specially in my recent visit to Saluvankuppam Murugan Temple, Mamallapuram), I felt that over the years the walls have silently held millions of prayers, tears, hopes and surrender. It almost feels as if the space itself has absorbed something sacred.
I wonder whether therapy rooms also become like that over time…after witnessing so many stories, so much pain, healing, forgiveness and transformation. Do they too begin to hold a certain energy?
Maybe it’s just the way I experience spaces, but that is what my heart was wondering. ![]()
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Oh yeah absolutely! Every place has its own energy. Spaces carry energies depending on the imprints and experiences felt over the period of time. Sacred places have that calm and peaceful vibes. Every thought, word, prayer, mantra, and intention leaves its subtle imprint. Hospitals carry a totally different type of energy. I strongly believe that energy felt is shaped by the intentions, emotions, and experiences spaces witness, I also believe there is a subtler quality to certain places that many people intuitively sense but cannot easily measure, वो सिर्फ महसूस होती है ! So the answer is yes, therapy rooms do absorb and carry the grief. Long ago my husband’s office shifted to old psychic ward building for a few months and I visited him once and couldn’t be in that building for more than a couple of mins, I still wonder how people worked in that environment? May be I was way too sensitive. As he didn’t feel it ![]()
My humble experience has been that this is why the Masters are showering so much of love on PLRT because in today’s every other spiritual endeavour has come to a grinding halt… Kali Yuga…
Neither the holy places or people have that efficacy any more… as predicted
But the magic is of the Atman/Spirit continues unabated
When everything else fails, there is only one door left and that is to take shelter in the eternal Truth-- the Atman, delay no further, we have very little time!