The festival has spread all over the world and when I looked it up on Wikipedia they used a picture of the Spanish Fork Holi festival. We have one of the biggest Holi celebrations in North America.
And the Devotees from the temple don't mind that most of the people there aren't Hindu but Mormon.
And it takes days or even weeks to clean up after a Holi festival but that got me thinking about these Devotees and volunteers cleaning their temple.
When Jesus got angry at the money changers He wasn't just throwing a fit, He was cleansing the Temple.
The Temple had been defiled by greed. The house of The Lord needed a cleansing. But after Jesus the Temple was again defiled until it was destroyed by the Romans.
I don't know that any of our Temples need to be cleansed but I don't believe a bishop's or Stake President's interview can be bullet proof in regards to preventing defilement it may cut down the possibilities but it is not fool proof. But then nothing is.
But then if we make ourselves pure then we can rest easy knowing we have done all God could ask us to do. When we cleanse ourselves then we cleanse the Temple that The Lord has made by His own hand. And our bodies are Holy having been made by the hand of God.
But the hardest thing to purify is our mind and our emotions. But we can progress day by day and end up in a purified state.
A building is just a building, it's what's done inside that can make it Holy but it's not intrinsic to a building. It depends on the behavior and actions of those who enter it.
Our bodies, our minds and our emotions are what Jesus was referring to when He said The Kingdom of God is within You. And it is the Temple of our bodies, minds and emotions that need to be purified most often.
Much like the Hare Krishna temple after a Holi festival of colors event, we must purify our own personal Temples in order to unlock that Kingdom of God from within.
It's not that man built Temples are obsolete or unimportant but for those Temples to fulfill their duties our personal Temples must be purified.
Purifying the body is part of this process but it is only one part of that process. Our minds and emotions must be purified with the same vigor so many only reserve for the word of wisdom.
It takes days or weeks to purify the Spanish Fork temple but it takes a life time to purify the mind, body and soul.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Don't be disheartened if you take longer than what you feel may be too long. We have enough time and you have enough potential.
