Need for rituals and ceremonies

[Guest guest]

Question: Priests prescribe various rituals and forms of worship and

people are told that it is a sin not to observe them. Is there any

need for such ritual and ceremonial worship?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Yes, such worship is also necessary. It may not

help you, but that does not mean that it is necessary for no one and

is no good at all. What is necessary for the infant is not necessary

for the graduate. But even the graduate has to make use of the

alphabet he learnt in the infant class. He knows its full use and

significance.

 

Worship might also take the form of concentration on one of the Hindu

gods, that is one of the modes in which Hindus conceive of God.

 

Hari Aum !!!