A puja or a prayer grows from your heart

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Dear All,

 

The following is an excerpt from the translations of Shri Mataji's

old Marathi letters regarding the puja or a prayer that grows from

the heart.

 

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" Puja is an external offering, but you should understand how you get

the reward of the blessings of the puja and its prasad. a puja or a prayer grows

from your heart. Mantras are the words of your kundalini. But if the puja is not

performed from your heart or if kundalini is not associated with recitation of

mantras then that puja becomes a ritual.

 

If you become thoughtless in puja, know that your heart is also involved in it.

Collect the puja material and offer it sincerely. There should be no formality

or binding in the offerings. It is correct to wash hands, but is your heart

washed? When attention is on heart it does not go to others. Although you remain

quiet from outside, you are speaking from within. Hence you should not be silent

for long time. If man's heart is not clean, then the silence becomes very

harmful. At the same time loose talks can bring catastrophes.

 

You should say the mantras in puja but with great faith (shraddha). There is no

alternative to shraddha. You should perform the puja when shraddha goes deep, so

that the heart itself gets all puja performed. At that time waves of bliss start

flowing because it is the Spirit that is saying, 'How can any thought come at

that time?'

 

People pour wine in the glass. Your puja is like that. In that, wine is your

faith and the glass is the recitation of mantras and the worshipping. When you

are drinking that wine forgetting everything, how can a thought come! Then only

bathing in the ocean of bliss! How can that joy be expressed in thoughts? Who

will pour that wine, back in the glass, which is to be drunk and that too in the

inferior glass of thoughts? However, the joy that you get after drinking the

wine is eternal and ever present. It becomes your asset.

 

Many such pujas have been performed in My presence. Every time a big wave comes

and takes you to a new land. Experiences of many such lands becomes your own.

They give vastness to personality and open new gates of joy. Best is worshipping

in the heart. If, the photograph by looking at it, can be placed in heart or,

after the puja, its view goes to heart, then the joy which you get only at that

time, can become everlasting and everpresent.

 

(Australian Sahaja Newsletter - 3 September, 1999)