A puja or a prayer grows from your heart

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Dear Jagbir and All,

 

Can those who do not want to do external Hindu looking puja, like Christians for

example, do the puja as a prayer from the heart, rather than as an external

puja, once they have their self-realisation? i am asking this on behalf of those

who come from the Christian tradition, who are not used to having to do an

external Hindu looking type of worship. As a SY, i have not had problems with

doing external puja and enjoyed it, and gained many blessings by it - but the

external became the internal in that. Since i am not going to the local

collective any more, my worship has mostly been internal, rather than external.

If Shri Mataji's Message is to go out into the world and be accepted, those who

come from the Christian tradition will i believe, need to know that they can do

the worship of God as a prayer in the heart, which is the way they are used to

doing it, rather than as an external puja. What do you say to that?

 

regards to all,

 

violet

 

 

 

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" Violet " <violetubb wrote:

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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.

>

> violet

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>

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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)

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