Channel the natural human tendency for construction into temples, making all efforts Krishna's service through loving devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.46 — January 21, 1975, Bombay 750121SB-BOMBAY [37:31 Minutes] SB-03.26.46_750121SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] bhāvanaṁ brahmaṇaḥ sthānaṁ dhāraṇaṁ sad-viśeṣaṇam sarva-sattva-guṇodbhedaḥ pṛthivī-vṛtti-lakṣaṇam [SB 3.26.46] Prabhupāda: [correcting pronunciation] Vṛtti-lakṣaṇam. Nitāi: Vṛtti-lakṣaṇam. [continues leading chanting and synonyms] [break] [02:55] "The characteristics of the functions of earth can be perceived by modeling forms of the Supreme Brahman, by constructing places of residence, by preparing pots to contain water, etc. In other words, the earth is the place of the sustenance for all elements." Prabhupāda: bhāvanaṁ brahmaṇaḥ sthānaṁ dhāraṇaṁ sad-viśeṣaṇam sarva-sattva-guṇodbhedaḥ pṛthivī-vṛtti-lakṣaṇam [SB 3.26.46] So, brahmaṇaḥ sthānam.
This temple is brahmaṇaḥ sthānam, the residential place for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, brahmaṇaḥ. Brahmaṇaḥ means the Absolute Truth. Absolute Truth is understood in three different features: brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate [SB 1.2.11]. So Supreme Brahman means Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as it was accepted by Arjuna after understanding Bhagavad-gītā.
He addressed Him, paraṁ brahma param dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān [Bg. 10.12]: "You are paraṁ brahma." Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate, the Absolute Truth. According to our different realization, the Absolute Truth is realized in three different features: impersonal Brahman; and localized, all-pervading antaryāmī, Viṣṇu or Paramātmā; and the last word of understanding is Bhagavān. So impersonal Brahman, nobody can construct any sthānam, place, of the impersonal Brahman or Paramātmā. Paramātmā has got place everywhere. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ..., sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati.
Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham [Bs. 5.35]. So that is the worshipable Deity for the yogīs. And impersonal Brahman for the jñānīs. And Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the shelter of both Para-brahman, I mean to say, impersonal Brahman, and Paramātmā...
Yad advaita brahma upaniṣadi. Upaniṣadi, in the Upaniṣad, Vedic Upaniṣad, the impersonal Brahman is described. And the yogīs, by meditation, they try to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth by seeing the Viṣṇu form, four-handed Viṣṇu. Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ [SB 12.13.1]. So yogīs, the jñānīs, they have got their function, to realize the Absolute Truth.
Similarly, bhakta. Bhakta, they want to worship the Personality of Godhead in a temple just like we are trying to do, to have a temple here nice. We have got already. Our function is going on.
But we want to make a very gorgeous place for the Lord. That is the utility of this land: to construct temple for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We have got a tendency to construct house. Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittaiḥ.