If you also could say why, that would be very helpful.
Thank you so much
2007-03-18 13:31:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Idol Of god- for pooja
5 kind of fruits- its essentical as per our culture
Rice
Ghee for hawan
money- for pandit
red & orange sindur to decorate god idol
2007-03-19 18:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by shweta - 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Puja is usually a ritual done to satisfy our own ego . There are a section of people , who decides what is required in a puja. These are also recorded in religious books . But these are only means to achieve the wanted . These cannot ensure the result.
Puja in the most simplified form is showing your gratitude to your first god , that is your parents . What is required there ? Love , devotion , faith, loyalty,etc. etc. all forms of human emotions are involved. Where there is no need of anything else.
So puja in its absolute necessity , needs all human emotions, burnt in the pyre of purification , to raise one person from mundane existence , to a bliss full ecstasy of harmony and togetherness with the higher presence . This is real puja and the result of a higher level of living.
2007-03-19 08:01:39 · answer #2 · answered by ssen1232006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know what ... absolutely nothing!
Except for your pure heart and strong intent. You can do a fabulous puja in your mind! And imagine how much more elaborate you can make it there! Anything your heart desires you can offer at the feet of your Deity or Guru. It is as strong (or sometimes stronger) than a puja made by material means.
2007-03-19 05:30:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You must understand that all the Hindu religious practices help you in God realisation. It is nothing but an attempt at self-realisation. The Self within the individual in the God, in microcosm. What we perceive in the Universe is there in the atom, in all the living beings, in the form of life. By means of puja, meditation, japa, we aim at merging our consciousness with the Soul. That is a very difficult thing to achieve. For the mind, plays the spoil-sport. Puja, japa and meditation help in containing the mind. Once the mind is annihilated, the God within us, surface in our consciousness.
2007-03-19 02:12:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is Puja?
What can't I do without? Small list.
1. Oxygen
2. Water
3. Food
4. Shelter
5. An income (Money)
6. Transportation
2007-03-18 20:36:01 · answer #5 · answered by Xaphan 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Puja and meditation are 2 diff things
Puja is ritualistic hence deity, flowers, etc etc all are required.
For manas puja you dont need any thing and all offerings are made to god, imagining things being offered
For meditation you need faith only... if not faith at least a strong desire to know the truth
2007-03-19 03:33:11 · answer #6 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You need to have witness for you puja - absolutely essential apart from daily offerings and faith.
Whenever you make any kind of offering or doing Puja, you need to have two witness who will be with you forever, so that when you go to heaven and if God asks you if you offered any Puja to Him, you should be able to back up with your answers with some strong evidence/witness. Since you cannot have same family in every birth you need to pick two witness who will be with you forever and how will never lie. There are only two things which will be with you where ever you go. Sun and Air. Since we consider them as our Devata, they will never lie if we make them witness in our Puja. Since we cannot call Surya Devata and Varuna Devata physically, we represent them by offering Deepak/Candle and Agarbatti/Inscence sticks. This way you make two witness for your Puja. So now if God asks you the very question, you have two witness Surya Dev and Varuna Dev.
2007-03-18 22:22:49 · answer #7 · answered by Deepak S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you heard discourses of great Gurus, you would have heard that The Param Purush the Almighty does not expect any thing from you. You not worry that this ritual is the right one or the other. Yet to show our love and to some act of pooja - light a lamp, offer doopa, offer a tulsi leaf on his feet, and offer a fruit .
If you want perform elaborate poojas, books on Nithya Anushtana are available. It is better to get trained by a Guru.
2007-03-19 01:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by marsh man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the must essential for Puja.Without faith Puja is useless.
2007-03-18 20:44:35 · answer #9 · answered by J.L. S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there should be a GOD and a worshipper and then the heart talks goes on and on if you feelings and prayers and gratitude is pure then you need no materials to inhance it
just let the heart to heart communication surrounds
2007-03-19 01:18:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋