Questions Kali puja class: Day 3 (pgs.9-29)

[Guest guest]

This class is wonderful! It is so very well presented. I am learning

so much that is helping me with other pujas, too. I have a few very

small questions that I have noted next to the appropriate section of the

class below.

 

> Kali puja class Day 3

>

> The second description is of Maha Lakshmi, the

> destroyer of the great Ego. She is also called

> Mahishasura Mardini, the great ruler of duality. She

> holds the rosary of alphabets which signify the 54

> letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. All of the letters

> of the Sanskrit alphabet stand for all of the

> vibrations that can possibly come into existence and

> go out as well. This is the japa of MahaLakshmi.

 

What is meant by the japa of MahaLakshmi?

 

> pg. 17 (touch rosary)

> This is the purification of our maala. We pray to our

> maala too "illuminate the meanings of all mantras and

> to grant us the highest perfection."

 

Is it right to understand that the prayers purify the mala? No

sprinkling of water?

 

> Pg. 19 (tie a piece of string around right middle

> finger or wrist)

> Recite this mantra only.

>

> We do not do tie the string around our own finger or

> wrist unless we are doing puja for another person.

> Then we wrap a string around their wrist and recite

> this mantra. This is the mantra which reminds us that

> we are bound with God.

 

If we are doing the puja alone, we say this part but do not tie a

string--is that correct?

 

Again thank you so very much for this class. It is really helping me to

understand puja better!

 

All my love and blessings,

Karen