devI mAnasa pUja -1

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If one does not know any formal pUja, one can do a manasa pUja. It can

be done anywhere, at any time, you dont have to spend a paisa on pUja

materials. manasa pUja is worshipping in mind. You imagine the entire

sequence of worship. It is no inferior to actual worship. In fact it is

superior, as it is easy, and engages the mind without distraction. In

actual pUja you may be sitting at altair and thinking about your bank

account. But in mAnasa pUja it is not possible.

 

I write this in response to Mangalam Ravi Ganesan, who wants to worship

ambaaL. I am going to use mostly English. But you can find support in

many works like sahasranAma, mInAxI pancharatnam etc. What I am going

to do is something like a shoDasha upacharam. Where we invite ambaaL,

perform bath, decorate HER, do pUja to HER and worship HER. 16 steps

upacharam is a standard way to worship. But you can do the same in 64

steps or more.

 

It is better to pray with understanding. It can be English or in any

language. Ultimately it is in the language of heart and love that

matters.

 

 

 

Step 1: Meditation (dhyAnam)

 

(this section is long, but cant you write Giga Bytes and Giga Bytes of

description of HER)

 

O Mother, in truth, you are beyond name and form; and you are beyond

words and thought. How can I then meditate on you? But out of your

boundless compassion, you have assumed many forms and names. I am

grateful to you. Forgive my ignorance of seeking you in one form, when

all forms are yours and your are beyond it too. But my limited human

mind can not do anything better.

 

 

O mother I meditate on you as mInAxI. In my mind's eye I see you

beautiful, captivating form radiant like thousand crore rising suns.

When I focus in that light and I see you in close, I see your beautiful

form as lady with a greenish hue, wearing a nice red silk saree with a

broad and wide golden border, and a dark green blouse.

 

You hair is so dense, dark, and well groomed, I think it is like entire

dark cosmos. It is nicely adorned with many beautiful flowers. I wonder

whether your hair gets the fragrance from the flowers or these flowers

get the fragrance from thee. Beauty of thy hair is partly covered by

this shining crown with adorned with diamonds and pearls. What a

beautiful face! It is like blemishless full moon, or full blown lotus

flower. Your eyes, they are like fishes swimming in the flow of

compassion arising out your face. Lips put the bimba fruit to shame in

its red color. When you smile, your bright white teeth flashes like

lightning! Your forehead is like ashTami moon and adorned with sandal

paste, musk and kumkuma. Your nose is like champake flower, I can even

say kumkuma chimizh. You ears are adorned with nice rings, which have

have form of shrIcakra.

 

You neck is soft and shaped like a conch. It is adorned with so many

jewels, I wonder how it bear them. Why not? Are you not the one who

bears all our troubles. These jewels must be no big deal. I look at

your well formed breast, I think they are filled with jnAna and bhakti.

I envy jnAnasambhanda who was blessed to drink from it. Was he not

kumara swami. That is why he got it, I guess. Your waist! is it there

or is it not there? I am unable to decide. How does it bear the weight

of your breasts? They are slender than lightning. And the nice, gem

studded belt on your hips,isnt it beautiful. Mother how can I describe

your thighs? Only Lord shiva knows its beauty. You calves are so

beautiful like quiver of manmatha, covered in red cloth. Your ankles

are so smooth and I see no bone protrusion there, I guess it is covered

by flesh.

 

You are arms are beautiful. They beat the wish fullfilling creepers in

their might. The parrot that is sitting on the flower held in the right

hand, to me it resembles entire veda-s. Does it utter all the veda

mantras just by being in your presence? I wish I were that parrot.

Actually I am your parrot, all my words are yours, isn't it? Am I not

merely repeating it!You are arms are adorned with nice keyura and

angada.

 

Look at your feet. Why is it so red? Is it because you roam on hard (to

understand) stones called upanishads? Or it is red out compassion. You

toe nails glitter and may its radiance dispel its ignorance. Your feet

is like radiant lotus flowers. Your anklets have nice bells, which

makes such sweet sound when you walk slowly like a swan!

 

O ambaa, come to in this form of mInAxI. I wish to worship you. I know

you need no worship, you can not be flattered. Yet, out of love I want

to worship you. I know nothing about worship, yet I want to worship

you. Please give me the knowledge to worship, I meditate on thy form.

May your grace make my meditation deeper.

 

Step2 Invitation

 

(AvahAnam and dhyAnam presented sometimes in different order. I prefer

this order)

 

O ambaa, you are there every where. You are all pervading. Isn't it my

stupidity, I invite you to some place. How can you come to a place,

when you are already there. But you have to forgive this child's

stupidity.

 

Now I imagine that you are always in my sahasrAra, a place where I have

never frequented. But I invite you to come in front of me so that I

can worship you well. Mother come unto in the form of mInAxI so that I

may lovingly worship you. Mother come in front of me and please be

seated in this beautiful ratna simahasanam, with soft cushion pads.

(this step is called Asana samarpaNam).

 

 

(next we will see pAdyam and arghyam)

 

 

 

 

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ambaaL daasan

 

Ravi

 

sharaNAgata raxakI nivEyani sadA ninnu nammiti mInAxI

 

http://www.ambaa.org/ http://www.advaita-vedanta.org

 

 

 

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