398--Q&A WITH SWAMIJI-- Arati Offerings to Muktimaa

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Kisses with love to you muktimaa <muktimaa (AT) aol (DOT) com> escreveu:

Jai Maa, Querida Kala Chandraji!Thank-you so much for sharing this

Bhakti filled excerpt from "The Worship of Sri Ramakrishna"! i am

very inspired, as i always am reading your pure hearted, devotion

filled posts. i have that particular book and now i will go back and

re-read some of it's wonderful sweetness. May Thakur continue to

bless you with Divine Bhakti to Maa's Lotus Feet! May She hold your

dear hand all the days of your life and beyond! Kisses!Jai Chandi

Shree Maa! Jai Shiva Swamiji! Jai Thakur Sri Ramakrishna Deva!

your sister in God, muktimaa--- In

, Kala Chandra <kalachandra2003>

wrote:> Dear Nandaji and Grace> I readed this nectar about Arati in

the book Worship of Sri Ramakrishna:> > "The tradicion Vaisnava

gives another beautiful interpretation of the Aratrika ritual. we are

presented with a charming picture of the Lord sporting on this earth

as the child Krishna. He has been out since the morning, grazing the

cows in fields. Now it is almost twilight, the "cow-dust" hour. Um

anxious Yashoda is waiting at the doorstep, ,straining her eyes to

see whether her beloved child is on his way back. just at the

twilight hour, the Divine Child returns. Darkness has begun to set in

and it is difficult to see Krishna´s face clearly. So the first thing

Yashoda does is to light the lamp and look at the enchanting face of

her darling child to her heart´s content. She waves the lamp around

him to check if his tender body

has been hurt or has been smeared with the dust and dirt of the woods.

Then she gives him a good wash cool scented water. Next she wipes him

dry and clean with a piece of soft cloth. She then decorates her

Gopala with fragrant flowers and garlands. Decoration> over, she

gazes at him lovingly, with one-pointed attention. Simultaneously,

Yashoda fans her Child with a camara to remove his fatigue. Then all

on a sudden, she perceives in the Divine Child the presence of the

Supreme Lord, the Primal Cause of all creation, ,and overwhelmed with

devotion, respect and awe, she falls at His lotus feet and salutes

Him."> > Jai Swamiji! Jai Maa! Yes! the essential is bhakti. I bow

in yours sacred lotus feet. You are bhakti in person.> > With love>

Kala Chandra> Nanda <chandimaakijai> escreveu:> Question from

Nanda:> When we do the arati at the

Mandir, we offer the conch used in the > viseshargya . If we do just

beginner Shiva/Durga puja, since we > dont perform the viseshargya

can we omit offering the conch during > arati ? Can people doing

the beginner puja just offer incense/ > lights/camphor and flower ?

Thank you for your time.> > Swamiji's response: > As there are many

ways of offering puja, so there are many ways of > offering arati.

There is panchopachar puja (five items), dasopachar > (ten items),

shorasopachar (sixteen items) and rajopachar (many more > than

sixteen).> > The important ingredient is bhakti.> > Nanda's footnote

:Hope that helps Grace ! Remember you had asked a > question during

our Beginner Puja series whether we needed a second > conch to offer

during arati ? Well, we can omit that for beginners > and do

panchopachar puja. Any one know

the five items ? (Aside from > Bhakti :-) ) > > > > > > >

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