Sanctification

Sanctification and consecration are two words, used interchangeably at times.
There is a tradition of revitalizing the energies of a place of worship, handed down by spiritual masters, with only the rituals differing from place to place, according to local customs and practices.

We invariably seek that ‘feeling’ of ‘peace’ as a source of reassurance that our attempt to reach the ‘divine’ has been fruitful at least to some extent.

Those who insist on tangible, perceivable evidence of ‘blind-belief’(about places of worship) would settle for just beautiful places for visit, and then, they too look out for some peace too there.

I felt intrigued by a question asking for such a place on the planet. Now, how could anybody answer ‘objectively’ unless that person has visited all such objects (places)?

So, I felt that it would not be ‘out-of-place’, if I try to point the place within, as a re-source (as a variation to out-sourcing)!

I did feel fortunate to have remembered to mention about that strange ‘mystic-looking-phenomenon’ by many visitors to that pre-independence prisons at Andaman & Nicobar Islands. (In that famous Gettysburg speech by Abraham Lincoln, he to mentioned that those who laid down their lives there had ‘consecrated’ that piece of land!)

I feel proud of the rich cultural and spiritual heritage handed down by ancient masters, who gave us the tools and techniques to ‘energize’ even our homes thus! It is indeed fortunate that this art is still available for those willing, to learn. It gives us the choice then, like a good photographer,(who would say thus: “If you are not beautiful, I will make you look beautiful, and if you are beautiful, I will capture your beauty!”), we can either enjoy the energy of a place, and /or add some, to it.

Psn(17th July, 2010)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100717010258AAhaOv2
What do you think is the most beautiful or peacful place on the planet?
Any opinions shared would be awesome, thanks!

My answer:
That place where we feel expanded enough to completely merge, dissolve ourselves into!
(Now, it happens at various levels, at various places, at various occasions, in a very relative way to each individual).

One can evolve into 'making it happen' any time any where , at will, consciously, for oneself in the beginning, and then out of compassion, for yet others who also have to extend the 'willingness' to allow it to happen for them too.

At sensory levels, that 'common-minimum-program' which comes to us with 'bundled-original-equipment', that self awareness, affords us samples, glimpses of it at some places of natural beauty like lofty snow-clad mountains, waterfalls (Niagara, etc), rocky mountains (Grand canyon), places of worship (especially ancient ones), and wonder of wonders in most unexpected places like those prisons of Andaman & Nicobar islands (now turned as national monuments/historic-places-of-visits) where many number of extremely patriotic people embraced death by torture, in such deep states of acceptance that visitors were quite unprepared to 'experience' strange serenity which vaguely resembles the sanctity of places of worship!