To Nanda on puja ~ simple and elaborate

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Nanda wrote:

Yes Linda dear, you can take a puja to any deity and then lengthen or

shorten them depending on the time. If we use the Rudri as a puja for

example (see below for how we would), we would need to add a few of

the components like offerings to complete the puja. If we use the

Advanced Shiva puja book, we could take more techniques, like

establishing a pot, doing pran pratishta, using a yantra etc. So we

can make it as elaborate or as simple - it is all upto our time and

inclination.

Dear Nanda ~ perhaps because I missed out on most of the class for the

Chandi, and didn't have the book for the Beginning Shiva Puja, this

doesn't exactly make sense to me. I wonder if there is a list posted

in the files section or if you could answer these two questions,

since making it more elaborate or more simple is a mystery to me in

terms of the parts of the puja. So, for a simple puja, for example,

what are the basic essential parts, without which it would not be a

puja? Where is the best place to find an explanation of these basic

elements? (I know it's probably in the class material somewhere, but

once when I went to look through the material, I ran out of energy,

started to get sick and had to stop.)

 

If you wanted to make a puja more elaborate, I assume you would take

the basic elements and add others. If this is not correct, please let

me know. If it is correct, please let me know what the additional

elements are and where an explanation of them could be found.

 

I still feel hopelessly at the baby steps stage. At some point, I hope

if I persist enough, I will understand and also be able to do a puja,

even if it is from my bed, as I had asked Swami about before. Thank

you for your endless patience ~ Linda