punar pooja

[Guest guest]

Dear Members,

I would appreciate somebody can expalin the significance of

punarpooja that is prescribed in all the pooja books for some of the

pooja e.g vinayaka churthi.

 

1. Why is it prescribed only for some pooja?

 

2. what is the philosophy (if any) behind it?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Ravi Salem

[Guest guest]

Namaste.

First of all, it is 'punah pooja' and not 'punarpooja' as it is commonly

called, because the visarga at the end of punah does not become 'r' when the

next letter is 'p'. It remains as visarga. It is to be pronounced as

punafpooja.

When we invoke (do Avaahana) on a temporary image made for the particular

pooja we have to do udvaasana , i.e. cancelling the invocation at the end of

the pooja or the next day, since we will not be worshipping it again. But

before doing the udvaasana we worship the deity again. This is punafpooja.

At the end of the punafpooja we pray to the deity to come again (punar

aagamanaaya cha), just as we tell guests to our house when they leave.. The

image then becomes just an image and no more a deity.

Punah pooja is not necessary when we are using the same image permanently

for the pooja everyday. In Srichakra, Devi is considered to be always

present and so neither specific invocation nor udvaasana is necessary.

S.N.Sastri

 

 

On 8/30/06, svravichandran <svravichandran > wrote:

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> Dear Members,

>

> I would appreciate somebody can expalin the significance of

> punarpooja that is prescribed in all the pooja books for some of the

> pooja e.g vinayaka churthi.

>

> 1. Why is it prescribed only for some pooja?

>

> 2. what is the philosophy (if any) behind it?

>

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> Ravi Salem

>

>

>

>

>

>

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>

[Guest guest]

At the end of the punafpooja we pray to the deity to come again (punar

aagamanaaya cha), just as we tell guests to our house when they leave.. The

image then becomes just an image and no more a deity.

Punah pooja is not necessary when we are using the same image permanently

for the pooja everyday.

 

praNAms Sri Sastri prabhuji

Hare Krishna

 

Here in South India, especially in smArtha saMpradAya, we do punafpUja

after nitya dEvatArchana though the images we use for worship has the

permanent place in our pUja room. After mangala nirAnjana, maNtra pushpa,

prasannArghya, pradakshiNa namaskAra, prarthana etc. we do punaf pUja by

reciting maNtra-s like pUjAnte chatraM dhArayAmi, chAmaraM vIjayami,

nrutyaM darshayAmi, gItam shrAvayAmi etc. etc. and then finally we offer

everything to almighty...by saying bhagavan sarvAtmakaH sarvaM

sri........arpaNamastu...etc...So, in our saMpradAya, punafpUja is a part

of nitya dEvatArchana & shOdashOpachAra pUja.

 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar