Panchopachara Pooja

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, " sesha_maruthi27 "

<sesha_maruthi27 wrote:

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Panchopachara puja vidhanam has to be practised after regularising in

panchadasi. Takeit from ur Guru if u have Panchadasi-Srividya.

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> SWAMY SARANAM AYYAPPA SARANAM

>

> Namaskaram to everybody

>

> I am in need of PANCHOPACHARA POOJA VIDHANAM with MUDRA DIAGRAMS in

> devanagri lipi(i.e. in SANSKRIT). Please if anyone can upload a PDF

> document,I will be very happy. " MAY GODESS LALITHA PARAMESHWARI

> SHOWER HER BLESSINGS UPON YOU " .

>

> SWAMY SARANAM AYYAPPA SARANAM

>

[Guest guest]

In the 'Files' section of this e-group you'll find a

file containing the following. It's not quite what

you've asked for, but might be of interest.

 

The conversation is/was between two members of

the e-group.

 

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PANCHOPACHARA POOJA

 

Q: What is Panchopachara?

 

A: It is the simplest pooja; a pooja requiring nothing - it's

all mudras only. The other poojas are but elaboration of

this.

 

Q: How is it performed?

 

A: There are two versions of this pooja. I will teach you the

one called jalaadi jalaantam - " starting and ending with

water. " Though the materials are five, the steps are six (in

the other version, it is five materials and just five steps).

The principle in this version is that everything arises from

water and ends in water; which is in consonance with the

Vaidik concept of deluge - that everything starts after a

deluge and ends in a deluge.

 

Q: And these are mental offerings accompanied by mudras -

are they the same offerings symbolized by various materials

in gross pooja?

 

A: Yes, exactly. In gross pooja, jalam is water; gandham is

sandal paste; pushpam is flowers; dhoopam is scented smoke;

deepam is the lamp. Okay?

 

Q: Okay.

 

A: Good, then we will proceed.

 

1. So the first step is saying vaM apaathmanaa jalam

kalpayaami - saying this, one shall rub the ring finger with

the thumb from the base to the tip, both hands. My aunt's

father-in-law used to say, " When you rub the ring finger with

the thumb as part of pooja

and say 'vam' then water should flow from the tip of your

ring finger. " I said, " It is not possible. " He said, " It is! " and

he showed me. That shows the concentration needed. As you

rub, imagine all the pure and offerable waters of the world

as being offered to the deity.

 

2. The next step is rubbing the little finger with thumb base

to tip, reciting laM prithivyaathmanaa gandham kalpayaami.

Here we offer the deity all that is sweet-smelling in the

gross world. When you do that you must feel the sweetest

otherworldly smell.

 

3. Next you rub the thumb from the base up with the index

finger, reciting haM aakaashaathmanaa pushpam kalpayami.

Thus we offer to the diety the best most beautiful and sweet

smelling flowers. You must visualize all of these flowers -

innumerable in number - manifesting out of the tip of your

thumb at the feet of the deity.

 

4. Next is the index finger, and you say yaM vaaywaathmanaa

dhoopam kalpayaami, " all the best incenses are offered here

in form of sweet-smelling smoke " - and you must manifest

the smoke.

 

5. Then the middle finger: raM vahnyaathmanaa deepam

kalpayami. The primordial light that first came is offered to

Her and you visualize the darkness of ignorance being

removed by this Divine Light.

 

6. Then, again, the ring finger, but this time with vaM

amritaatmanaa naivedyam kalpayaami. With that you offer

all that is exquisitely edible and nutritious to Devi; and with

that, everything goes back to its primordial state. Finis. Is

your question answered now?

 

Q: Yes, thank you!

 

A: Happy New Year!

 

NOTES:

 

(1) The index finger is used to rub the thumb, and all other

fingers are rubbed with the thumb. Use both hands.

 

(2) The preamble is whatever you usually do before a pooja.

If you have an altar, you might sit and do your usual japa,

prayers, offerings - whatever you do. Then just take a deep

breath and begin. The pooja requires nothing -- not even an

image of the Deity if you can see Her in your mind. In fact,

the whole pooja is an exercise in intense, focused

visualization. With frequent (preferably daily) repetition, you

will find that the imagery does begin to take on an objective

reality, first in your own eyes and later even in the eyes of

third parties. Strange but true! ;-)

 

(3) We can do this simple Pooja in the temple too.

 

(4) If you would like to, you can add anjali mudra [i.e. the

familiar palms-together gesture that accompanies

'Namaste'] at the chest, saying Sam

sarwapratheekaathmakam thaamboolam kalpayami namaH ,

which means " I offer thamboola (betel leaves) as a

representation of everything. "

 

Then anjali at the forehead- Samastha rajopachaaraan

kalpayami namaH - All Royal diginities are hereby offered

 

Then anjali over the head - anantha koti namaskaaraan

samarpayaami- I offer infinite namaskaras unto thee also.

 

Then it will be complete.

 

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, " sesha_maruthi27 "

<sesha_maruthi27 wrote:

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> SWAMY SARANAM AYYAPPA SARANAM

>

> Namaskaram to everybody

>

> I am in need of PANCHOPACHARA POOJA VIDHANAM with MUDRA DIAGRAMS in

> devanagri lipi(i.e. in SANSKRIT).

[Guest guest]

That was really excellent. Thanks a lot. Hardly in five minutes pooja of the

Ishta Devata can be performed, at home and on visit to any temple.

 

Ram Prabhu  

 

 

On Mon, 29 Dec 2009 msbauju wrote :

>In the 'Files' section of this e-group you'll find a

>file containing the following. It's not quite what

>you've asked for, but might be of interest.

>

>The conversation is/was between two members of

>the e-group.

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