Where are the questions?

[Guest guest]

Dear Jayapataka Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

I have already asked this question to the deity worship conference without

any response.

Can you tell me anything about . According to the deity worship book Satya

Narayana puja (katha) is a concocted form of worship. People have told me

it is in the Skanda purana. Can you throw further light on this?

 

Your humble servant,

Krsnendu dasa

[Guest guest]

Camp: ISKCON Telok Intan Branch Rathayatra Festival, Perak State, Malaysia

 

> Dear Jayapataka Maharaja,

> Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

>

> I have already asked this question to the deity worship conference without

> any response.

> Can you tell me anything about . According to the deity worship book

> Satya Narayana puja (katha) is a concocted form of worship. People have

> told me it is in the Skanda purana. Can you throw further light on this?

>

> Your humble servant,

> Krsnendu dasa

 

Would you be kind enough to find out from those people where in Skanda

Purana it is mentioned and send me a copy of that section of Skanda Purana

or at least the reference? Skanda Purana is the largest of all the Puranas

and it is a common joke that if you want to win an argument just say it is

in Skanda Purana and the opposing scholar will spend the rest of his life

looking for it. It might actually be there, but it would save me the time

to know where it is.

 

Even if there is Satya Narayana Puja, it is quite possible, but the aspect

that ISKCON objects to is not worshiping Satya & Narayana. Worshopping

Laksmi and Narayana is wonderful. The problem is when professional priests

do such Pujas only for mundane purposes and not in a devotional mood.

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami