*Professor, Department of Management Studies, Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, Kerala, India
**Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, Kerala, India
Online published on 3 June, 2015.
The life of the vast majority of Hindus in India is centered around temples even today. This is true not only of life at the individual level but also at the social level. The fabric of socio-cultural activities of the Hindus is made up of the warp and woof of religious beliefs and rituals. Music, sculpture, painting, dance and a host of performing arts, besides architecture, Vaastu shashtra, astronomy and astrology owe their origin to the institution of the temple. Though temples are devoted for the worship of the supra-mundane, it is paradoxical but true that they serve as the centre of the mundane life of the people (Menon, 1937:14).
