pujas

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Swami Dayamrita gave a satsang once and we started off with a short

puja. He said after it was over that it is not necessary to do

everything perfect if we are doing the puja for meditation-to focus

our mind on God. However if we want a particular material benefit

then it has to be done precisely-like when we pay a pujari to perform

a puja so it is done "correctly"

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Ammachi, "sinarosej" <sinarosej> wrote:

> Swami Dayamrita gave a satsang once and we started off with a short

> puja. He said after it was over that it is not necessary to do

> everything perfect if we are doing the puja for meditation-to focus

> our mind on God. However if we want a particular material benefit

> then it has to be done precisely-like when we pay a pujari to

perform

> a puja so it is done "correctly"

 

It depends on whether you're doing it regularly

and whether or not you do a "sankalp"/resolve

for the puja, even for spiritual benefits,

that's why many times I don't make a resolve

especially when I was first learning from

MA Center's puja book a few years ago.

If you're doing puja for devotion's sake,

then I'm sure it's as Dayamrita said that

it's not that important to do things correctly.

Besides, it's always a good idea to include

an apology for errors at the end of a puja.

Here's the page from Amritapuri about pujas:

 

http://www.amritapuri.org/cultural/homapuja.htm