why do we go to temples?

This question has been debated furiously by people who believe in god and people who don’t believe in god.But believe me the fact is people who go to temples are benefited!

HARD TO BELIEVE

There are various theories lingering on why we should go to temples, as; to worship god, to get peace, to meditate, to learn about culture, language, religion, morals and goes on.But the most interesting thing I’ve heard is entirely different, astonishing and hard to believe.

Everyone who spoke to me on why we should go to temples told me all the above spoken but none explained scientifically, expect one. I don remember his name and believe it was long time back he told me and some how this popped up in my mind when I was searching topic for my first posting in this blog.

We’ll start with on what all happens in a temple while we worship. When we enter and start to worship we smell the fragrance to flowers and incenses, hear the bell ringing, see the pujari showing the aarathi to god, and finally they offer prasadams. These rituals is correlated scientifically and is said to refresh the major five senses of the human body such as Smell, Sight, Hear, Touch and Taste.

Here’s how this happens
1. We smell the fragrance of flowers and incenses this refreshes the Sense of smell in our body.
2. When we hear the sound of the bell ringing the sense of hearing is refreshed.
3. The pujari shows the aarathi to god and when he circles the aarathi near the god our eyes moves with the aarathi and thus the sense of sight is refreshed.
4. When we touch the aarathi the heat from it refreshes the Touch sense.
5. And finally prasadam is offered and the taste buds are refreshed.

I've searched the net for this information whether this could be true but could not find even somewhere relating to this. Often many people say all the rituals in Hinduism have a scientific reason behind it and all these rituals have to be followed only for our benefit.

We can’t deny these facts and people who don believe in god or worshiping in temples can go for the scientific reasons behind it.