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Home > Practicing Spirituality > Religious Acts > Ritualistic Worship

Ritual of offering dakshina (Offering in cash or kind)

December 8, 2018May 14, 2014

By offering dakshina, a virtue of sacrifice develops in the individual. From sacrifice, detachment develops and this in turn gives rise to vairagya (Ascetic-like detachment).

Categories Ritualistic Worship Tags worship_decoration_and_rituals

Offering Naivedya to a Deity with a bhav that the Deity is consuming it

January 4, 2020May 13, 2014

When offering Naivedya, first pray to the Ishtadevata (Benevolent Deity) and draw a mandal on the floor in front of the Deity.

Categories Ritualistic Worship Tags worship_offerings

Why are only unbroken rice grains used as akshata in ritualistic worship ?

January 2, 2020May 13, 2014

Akshata has the ability to attract frequencies of 5 Deities, to activate them, make them functional and to transmit them with the help of Earth and Water elements.

Categories Ritualistic Worship Tags worship_offerings

Importance of the substances used in ritualistic worship

October 28, 2017May 11, 2014

Read information about how the substances should be arranged in the ritualistic platter and spiritual importance of the components like turmeric, sindur, Akshata, camphor etc used in ritualistic worship.

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Substances used in puja and arrangement of implements

October 28, 2017October 19, 2005

We will read about substances used in puja and arrangement of implements (like naivedya, conch, bell, samai etc) and advantages of arranging the implements and other constituents of puja according to Panchatattva levels.

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