Vannakkam,
Viraja, I think similar questions arise when we're physically really ill, hospitalised even, or during travel ... long flights, and airports. In those cases I just try to do SOMETHING.
Aum Namasivaya
Vannakkam,
Viraja, I think similar questions arise when we're physically really ill, hospitalised even, or during travel ... long flights, and airports. In those cases I just try to do SOMETHING.
Aum Namasivaya
Namaste,
Also when you're performing a sadhana in a remote cave in the Himalayas. The answer, I guess, is Manasopachar, manasik poojan.I think similar questions arise when we're physically really ill, hospitalised even, or during travel ... long flights, and airports.
A few personal experiences: chronicles-of-a-sadhak.blogspot.com
Right EM ji, I have read very, very staunch devotees look upon worshiping their ishta akin to taking care of a small baby... they do not want to miss feeding him/her even for a day. I have read that many such people carry a Shivalinga/Shaligrama in their suitcase and at some weird location too, take them out and offer them their respects...!
I also get weird questions such as these - whether raisins from the marketplace that come in a package can be offered each day in a small quantity afresh from the same package... when we make other food at home, we offer a small quantity of it to god and then assume the rest of it is sanctified and can be eaten. By the same token, all raisins in the same package would share the same status, when a handful of it is offered to god, is it not? And what happens to bananas that come in a quantity of 6 or 7? If we eat one banana from the bunch, can be still offer the rest?
jai hanuman gyan gun sagar jai kapis tihu lok ujagar
Namaste Viraja,
I perform my daily SAdhanA as usual and then perform other Devata worship. It was JanmAshTmi yesterday. I performed my SAdhna as usual and I kept fast and also celebrated Lord Krishnás birth at midnight. I do Durga Pooja in Navratris for all the nine days keeping myself on fruit diet. However, everyday, I do it after performing my daily sAdhanA. Actually, may be it is easier to me because I am an Advaitin and all forms of God/Goddess are same to me. My thinking is that I must first do rituals as taught by my Guru and then do other pooja if I have time and energy left.
Guru must be given priority over any other form of God. Guru is none other than God but it is that form which has taken care to show me the Path and to take me out of the samsAra. It is said that "If God gets angry with me, my Guru will save me from God's anger. However, if my Guru gets angry with me, even God cannot save me." Of course, in every pooja/dhArmic ritual it is Guru who must be worshiped first.2. I have, in my puja, predominantly Vaishnava deities. I offer naivedya (offering of food) to them in a specific order, which, as much as I know is correct. Nevertheless, I also have Sri Hanuman ji, Sri Chakrathazhwar, and Sri Ramanujar pictures. When do I offer them naivedya? Before the gods or after the gods? (Somewhere I read a guruji as Sri Ramanujar is to be considered first for offering naivedya, but I am not sure about this...).
OM
"Om Namo Bhagvate Vaasudevaye"
Thank you very much Devotee ji for the reply.
jai hanuman gyan gun sagar jai kapis tihu lok ujagar
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