Prayer means pleading fervently from God. In other words, it is asking God for something with intense yearning. Prayer includes respect, love, pleading and faith. Through a prayer, a devotee expresses his helplessness and offers the doership of the task to God.
Westerners and Hollywood film stars taking up Hinduism as their religion, after realizing the importance and the scientific approach involved in every action done.
Saying a specific prayer to a particular deity actually enhances our faith in the presence of God.
We all go to the temple in order to have darshan of the Deity and receive blessings. By following the guidelines given to us in our shastras, we can derive maximum Chaitanya (Divine consciousness) from the darshan.
In order to derive maximum benefit from the darshan (viewing), one can follow simple guidelines as per the Hindu Dharma.
Many of us go to the Devalay (Temple) to have darshan (viewing) of the Deity. In order to take maximum benefit of the darshan, one must do pradakshina of the Deity.
A Devalay is divided into seven levels. Each level is connected with a Cosmic Principle and in turn purifies the related chakra (Centre in the body through which the spiritual energy flows) of the person taking darshan (viewing) of a Devalay.
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In order to receive maximum Chaitanya (Divine consciousness) we must have the darshan in a spiritually correct manner.
Most of us visit the Devalay in order to have darshan (viewing) of the deity and derive benefit from the saatvik vibrations.
We all may be aware of certain actions that have to be performed when taking darshan (view) in a Devalay. For example, removing one’s footwear, doing Namaskar at the main door before entering the temple, not covering one’s neck at the time of darshan of the Deity.
