Swamiji's answer to nikhil's question about Ananda Gandha.

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Question: What is Ananda Gandha? What is its role? is there a

special

meditation for it?

Thanks

nikhil

 

 

Swami Satyananda Saraswati answers: Ananda Ganda means the fragrance

of delight or of bliss. In our pujas

we call gandha uttama, the most excellent of scents. Please see the

mantras for offering incense.

 

Its function is to fill the olfactory sense, sense of smell, with

blissful fragrance, and to direct all perception to the

contemplation of the

divine.

 

The entire science of aroma therapy has been derived from these

offerings.