B ) EARTH

[ 1 ] Views to Nature Many temples are located strategically away from populated cities like at some high altitudes, near the sea shore, around forests, in distant or secluded scenes of nature and which allows the positive thoughts or advices to sink into the mind in its finer moments or when the soul is at leisure.

The 2 examples above are of the temples in Natural settings and their Philosophical significance are explained by Aurobindo Ghosh in his Book ‘The Significance of Indian Art’. He explains as not to detach the temple from its surroundings, but to see it in unity with the sky and low-lying landscape or with the sky and hills around and feel the similarity in them as the reality in Nature, the reality expressed in the work of art, the oneness to which this nature aspires in her self-creation, and the oneness to which the soul of man uplifts itself in his conscious spiritual upbuilding.

[ 2 ] Sound

The Vedic chants and prayers are recited and sacred instruments such as conch shells, bells, and gongs are played in these Chambers. (Prasad & Rajavel, 2013).All together play are very important role in healing, as many research studies have observed chanting of various shloka or hymns helps in wellbeing.

Figure 26 Reverberant sound fields with sound source in (a) Garbha-Griha and in (b) Ardha-Mantapa. (Prasad & Rajavel, 2013)

The inner sanctum has only one door and no opening, this chamber is made up of highly reflective, and has higher reverberation time. Further followed by Ardhamandapa which is also made up of stones and is highly reflective. The sounds of conch shells, bells along with main priest in garbha griha and the priests in Ardhamandapa are sounded profoundly in Ardhamandapa.It is observed that both Garbha-Griha and Ardha-Mantapa significantly contribute to the acoustical enhancement of the spiritual experience of the devotee (Prasad & Rajavel, 2013)

[ 3 ] Material

Fractal materials are materials that are phase conjugate because they have been in most cases produced by some type of natural processes (Schlosser, 2020).It is interesting to know that atmosphere being positively charged and earth negatively, thus dielectric materials exhibit same condition. Thus, the use of such materials or natural materials should be used maximum in almost all the buildings today.