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Yoga regards certain points in the Human Body as more energetic and purer. Similarly it also regards certain places on Earth as more energetic and pure. These splendid places of divine presence are called Kshetra or Tirthas. People have been going on pilgrimage to these Tirthas from time immemorial. When a man manifests the divine inner experience into the world by means of Vastu Shastra, then a Temple is created. Temple is a creative communication of the inner experiences into the outer world. Watch how? Before Temples, there were Yajna Mandapas, Pavillions of Fire Altars . This rock edict dated 163 BCE says that great Jain King Kharvel at age 16, further studied the script, design and mathematics in detail. Why Adi Shankar build a Temple at Sringeri? At the site of a temple, the life-giving energy should always be greater than the life-destroying energy. When these sacred places were destroyed, the life-giving Vastu structure of India was severely damaged. Dr Nagaswamy tells about the origin