shivling puja

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namaste friends,

 

I actually wrote a lot .... but unfortunatly for me the whole page

refreshed and a lost the whole 30mins of writing ..... DAMN....!!!!

 

I had so many questions and it now late for me....

 

So dear friends... to cut it short... is there any right way to do

shivling puja (I brought a parad shivling from neetaji) without the

use of cow dung as it is a little hard to come by here in urban UK.

Something less elabarate for the morining before i go to work.

 

Thanks and regards

 

M Vaghela

 

PS

 

Realllyyyy "annoyed/irritated" with losing all that I wrote, i has so

many ques. Oh, one was, quickly, is any working person out there in

a full time job doing 1008 (or was it 1080) japa? How you manage it?

 

Thanks to all answers.

[Guest guest]

Dear Simoneji,

 

Namaste,

 

Thanks for the info on Shivling puja; i also enquired about this.

I'm from the UK and i brought a Parad Shivling from Neetaji. I read

the section on how to do puja in the Parad shivling page. It

mentions such items as cow dung or urine and you have mentioned

ashes of funeral pire! These thing are pritty hard to come by un

urban UK as well as to do every day. However, i have tried to get

help and search for other ways. At the moment I get together, pure

filtered water and a little mixture of milk, honey, brown sugar (in

place of sugar cane juice) and a little ghee (which in semi solid in

these cold UK climate and is a little hard to mix into the cold

milk). I place the Shivling on a clean steel plate and pure some of

the pure water over reciting "Om Namah Shiviy". Then i pure the milk

(I think they call it some think beginning with CH...>>). I then

used to pure over the remaining pure water to wash off the milk and

them pure a little rose water over the shivling to finish off. I

have a clean cloth for wiping dry the shivling only which i finally

place on the Altar or Mandir with a Tulsi leaf and a washed white

flower ready for pray. I then do one round of Japa of "Om Namah

Shivay". I do this every day without fail before I go to work. Is

there any thing else I SHOULD add here taking note that im a working

man living in urban UK?

 

Another question I have is about Japa mala. How many rounds should

one do and, what is this about doing 1008 of Japa<<<??? Now is this

1008 rounds of a 108 bead japa of a total of 1008 beads of the japa;

which works out as 9.3333... rounds of a 108 japa mala (it would

bake sense to do 10 rounds of mala which add to 1080 beads). Am i

somewhat confused here. I tried to do this 1008 bead japa and had to

caculate a what number of bead on the 10th rounf of japa i had to

stop. Can anyone correct me on this as i'm sure I'm doing this

wrong??

 

Regards and Thanks

 

Namashkaar

 

M Vaghela