Importance of Siva Puja

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union with the object result. The influence of Siva-puja on the lives of the

Saivas is also manifest in another way. Thousands of Siva temples dot the

TamilNadu and there is a temple in every small village. Siva-puja is daily

offered there on the agamic lines; festivals are also conducted there

throughout the year; hundred of temples are renovated at great cost even in

these days of cold reason and nihilism; every ritual is conducted, not on any

modernised or revolutionary lines, but only on the lines laid down in the

agamas, some twenty centuries ago. All these are standing monuments to the

glory of the agamic worship and the pulsating vitality of their regulations

regarding Siva-puja. The presence of God should always govern the actions of

human-beings. The Siva-puja are intended only as a reminder of this presence.

The

agama lays down. "A man may even dare to give up his life or cut off his own

head; but let him not dare to take a single morsel of food without performing

Siva-puja." Man cannot live without surrendering himself to a higher being;

this was recognised even by Sankara, hailed as the greatest exponent of

advaita; he is known to have helped to re-establish the six schools of worship

and so he has come to be hailed as the Sanmata-sthapanacarya; he had felt the

need for an upasana-murti for man to give him inward peace. Yours George

Pillai

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