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The word puja is roughly translated into English as 'reverence, honour, homage, adoration, or worship'. [3] Puja (পুজো / পুজা in bangla), the loving offering of light, flowers, and water or food to the divine, is the essential ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, the divine is visible in the image, and the divinity sees the ...
Mantra Pushpam, Text in Sanskrit, compiled by Swami Devarupananda, Published by Ramakrishna Math, Khar, Mumbai, India. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad with the Commentary of Shankaracharya, Translated by Swami Madhavananda, Published by Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata, India.
Kanya Puja performed to honour a young girl . A tradition associated with Durga Ashtami that originated in North India is to honour the kanyaka (young girls) with a ritual called the Kanya Puja. Kanya Puja is observed on the Navami (Ninth Day of Navaratri) and Ashtami [2]. In this Tradition, a group of young, unmarried girls (five to seven) are ...
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world".
At times the outermost parikrama path covers the whole village, town, city, thereby implying that the length of the path can stretch. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] Parikrama is also done around the sacred Peepal tree , tulsi (Indian basil plant), and agni (sacred fire or the fire God), [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and agni parikrama, known as Mangal phera , is a part of the ...
Asalha Puja—which is also sometimes called Dharma Day—is an important holy day for Buddhists. It takes place on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month, typically in July.
Panchayatana puja (IAST Pañcāyatana pūjā) also known as Pancha Devi Deva Puja is a system of puja (worship) in the Smarta sampradaya, which is one of four major sampradaya of Hinduism. [1] It consists of the worship of five deities set in a quincunx pattern, [2] the five deities being Ganesha, Adi Shakti, Shiva, Vishnu and Surya.
Siddha-chakra Puja:It is a ritual focused on the Siddha-chakra, a lotus-shaped disc bearing representations of the arhat, the liberated soul, religious teacher, religious leader and the monk (the five praiseworthy beings), as well as the four qualities namely perception, knowledge, conduct and austerity to uplift the soul.