The followers of Sanātan dharma (termed as Hinduism by the Western scholars) visit temples, the sacred space, often habitually as a religious tradition received under their cultural heritage, oblivious of the many subtle and significant meanings conveyed through the temple architecture, the divine images and sacred rituals taking place within the temple premises. The present paper attempts to highlight how a temple embodies the fundamental and perennial values and the world view of Sanātan dharma. A Temple encompasses all the dimensions of human life; the physical, the material, the communitarian, the spiritual and the transcendental into a single composite form. It beautifully and aesthetically translates the four goals of Indic life i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa, making it possible, even for an average person to understand and assimilate the meaning of human life in its totality.