Importance and benefits of Prayer
Praying is essential for understanding God and for perceiving His existence through our body, mind and intellect.
Praying is essential for understanding God and for perceiving His existence through our body, mind and intellect.
Let us understand through this article how lighting of lamp purifies the environment as well as invites Divine waves to the premises.
Every now and then we would have received invitations to attend a Satyanarayan puja at our friends’ or a relative’s house.
Conducting Shanti rituals post 50 years onwards and every 5 years thereafter, is essential to obtain spiritual benefits.
After waving the dhoop, incense-sticks of a specific fragrance are waved in front of the Deity, which attracts the respective Deity’s Principle to a greater extent.
Haldi (Turmeric) being a tuber which grows below the surface of earth, the waves of Pruthvitattva (Absolute Earth Principle) in it are in far greater quantity than in stems growing above the surface of earth.
The cotton vastra represents the Sushumnanadi of the Kundalini and the seven cotton beads in the vastra are associated with the seven Kundalini Chakras in the body of the individual.
The seven rivers referred to, are the Holy rivers Ganga, Godavari, Narmada, Kaveri, Krushna, Brahmaputra and Yamuna. Water collected from these seven rivers is put in the ritualistic pot, which is used during ritualistic worship.
Drinking bed-tea enhances the Tama component; while having sattvik food or drink after rinsing the mouth increases sattvikta, thus preventing the entry of black energy