Guest guest Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Day 8 Dear Satsangha! Hope everyone was able to complete their sankalpa and has read through the new mantras at least once. After purification of the maala we will offer the flowers (pgs. 8-10 Beginner Shiva Puja.) Remember you can use whole flowers, petals, drops of water, or pull the flowers from your heart or offer mentally. If you have a picture of Ganesh or a murti of Ganesh you can give the flower offering that says : "ete gandhapuspe om gam ganapataye namah" to Ganesh. The rest of the offerings you can give to your shiva lingam or in front of your picture(s) on your altar or anywhere else on the altar. You will create your own puja. In the Advanced book these flower offerings are on page 19-21. In both books the mantras are the same. You can use either book. Start with: ete gandhapuspe om gam ganapataye namah....... and end with ete gandhapuspe om braahmanebhyo namah. After the last flower offering there is one mantra in the Advanced Shiva puja book on page 21. The directions say: Tie a piece of string around right middle finger or wrist. The mantra starts: om kusaasane ...... Note: Here at the Mandir when we do our personal pujas Swamiji says we do not have to tie the string. But you can if you want. We just recite the mantra. When Swamiji performs puja for another person he ties a string aroung their wrist. It is a red thread that is tradtionally used in India and when people go to the temples and do puja the priests often wrap this thread around a person's wrist. It is binding us to God and reminding us of God and also acts as protection. Traditionally the string is tied on the left wrist of the woman and the right wrist of the man. Swamiji explains that the word kush in kusha grass has different meanings. One meaning is great joy or happiness. Another meaning is the purified grass that we sit on. One other meaning is the shining light. Homework: Please read through the flower offerings in the Advanced Shiva puja book pgs.19-21 and add the string mantra on page 21. Read the English as well. Looking forward to hearing how your enhanced Shiva puja is going. FYI: Here at the Mandir two songs Shree Maa has asked us to sing for the month of Shravan are Bhava Saagara (page 465-468 Advanced Shiva puja) and Sivaastakam (page 204-207 Advanced ). Both songs have a beautiful meaning and if you have time you may want to read them English. Om namah shivaaya! Jai Guru! Jai Shiva! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Namaste Parvatiji, yes, I was able to complete the sankalpa and have performed Shiva puja with enhancements (as far as we have learned) and on Monday also recited the Rudri (I offered light and flowers mentally as I was not at home, hope that is ok). The new mantra's are very beautiful, although I find it a bit distracting to have to look at the text when reciting those, so I hope to know them by heart soon. A question came up when re-reading the 'mala mantra's': in the first 'mala mantra', do we address the mala as 'mahamaya'? How is the rosary connected with 'mahamaya'? Has it something to do with the mala representing the totality of possible creation? Or with the audible mantra being a particular manifestation of the Word or 'root vibration'? Or with the mala being a circle, representing infinite possibility? thank you for your continuing guidance, with love, Henny , "parv108" <parv108> wrote: > Day 8 > > Dear Satsangha! > > Hope everyone was able to complete their sankalpa and has > read through the new mantras at least once. > > After purification of the maala we will offer the flowers (pgs. 8-10 > Beginner Shiva Puja.) > > Remember you can use whole flowers, petals, drops of water, or > pull the flowers from your heart or offer mentally. > > If you have a picture of Ganesh or a murti of Ganesh you can give > the flower offering that says : "ete gandhapuspe om gam > ganapataye namah" to Ganesh. > > The rest of the offerings you can give to your shiva lingam or in > front of your picture(s) on your altar or anywhere else on the > altar. You will create your own puja. > > In the Advanced book these flower offerings are on page 19-21. > In both books the mantras are the same. You can use either > book. > > Start with: ete gandhapuspe om gam ganapataye namah....... > and end with ete gandhapuspe om braahmanebhyo namah. > > After the last flower offering there is one mantra in the Advanced > Shiva puja book on page 21. > > The directions say: Tie a piece of string around right middle > finger or wrist. > > The mantra starts: om kusaasane ...... > > Note: Here at the Mandir when we do our personal pujas > Swamiji says we do not have to tie the string. But you can if you > want. We just recite the mantra. > > When Swamiji performs puja for another person he ties a string > aroung their wrist. It is a red thread that is tradtionally used in > India and when people go to the temples and do puja the priests > often wrap this thread around a person's wrist. It is binding us to > God and reminding us of God and also acts as protection. > Traditionally the string is tied on the left wrist of the woman and > the right wrist of the man. > > Swamiji explains that the word kush in kusha grass has different > meanings. One meaning is great joy or happiness. Another > meaning is the purified grass that we sit on. One other meaning > is the shining light. > > > Homework: > Please read through the flower offerings in the Advanced Shiva > puja book pgs.19-21 and add the string mantra on page 21. > Read the English as well. > > Looking forward to hearing how your enhanced Shiva puja is > going. > > > > FYI: Here at the Mandir two songs Shree Maa has asked us to > sing for the month of Shravan are Bhava Saagara > (page 465-468 Advanced Shiva puja) and Sivaastakam (page 204-207 Advanced ). Both songs have a beautiful meaning and > if you have time you may want to read them English. > > Om namah shivaaya! > > Jai Guru! > Jai Shiva! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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