Guest guest Report post Posted October 2, 2006 Great Question Devon, I am also interested to know more about the celebrations! Jai Ma! Rukmini devon <bugwitch > a écrit : Namasteh and blessings to all. I hope you are all well. I am wondering, now that Navaratri is over, what, if anything you (everyone) are doing for Diwali. As I am still 'new' to this, I was just curious. Also, I have been told that Kali Pooja (puja?) is on the same day/night. Is that so and if it is, then what sorts of practices go along with it. Thanks you for your input. I appreciate it. Devon Lèche-vitrine ou lèche-écran ? Magasinage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 18, 2006 Well...Since one person expressed interest in my question, however no one was either able to or couldn't answer, I figured I'd put up some links to what I found. Kali Puja is celebrated in some places on Diwali. In most parts of India, Lakshmi is honored with puja on this day, however, in others Kali is. Ganesh is honored with puja first on all occasions. It just seems to be a concensus that I've found. These links are related to either Diwali or the Goddess Kali. http://www.diwalifestival.org/ http://www.diwalifestival.org/kali-puja.html http://festivals.iloveindia.com/diwali/index.html http://www.kalimandir.org/homepage.asp Hope these links are useful if not enjoyable. I know I have had a lot of fun looking around. Namasteh Devon please forgive spelling errors Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 18, 2006 I am enjoying these links greatly- thank you for posting them !! I am new to the ways of Mother Kali, so please forgive my ignorance, but what is a Puja? Is it a ritual, a celebration?? I'm anxious to learn the ways of Mother Kali- she has been appearing in my life a lot lately! Thank you, Jazmine On 10/18/06, devon <bugwitch > wrote: > > Well...Since one person expressed interest in my question, however no > one was either able to or couldn't answer, I figured I'd put up some > links to what I found. Kali Puja is celebrated in some places on > Diwali. In most parts of India, Lakshmi is honored with puja on this > day, however, in others Kali is. Ganesh is honored with puja first on > all occasions. It just seems to be a concensus that I've found. > > These links are related to either Diwali or the Goddess Kali. > > http://www.diwalifestival.org/ > > http://www.diwalifestival.org/kali-puja.html > > http://festivals.iloveindia.com/diwali/index.html > > http://www.kalimandir.org/homepage.asp > > Hope these links are useful if not enjoyable. I know I have had a lot > of fun looking around. > > Namasteh > > Devon > > please forgive spelling errors > > > -- ¸..·*´¨¨~-:¦:- ¸.·´ ..·´¨¨)) ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ *-:¦:- Jazmine -:¦:- -:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 19, 2006 I'm glad you are enjoying and learning. Here is a link to good-old Wikipedia's definition of a puja. I've seen it spelled many different ways, pooja, puja, puuja...So, I just pick one and sometimes run with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja Without reading it yet, my understanding of a puja is this: The ceremony or ritual for a diety. Prayer, offerings, insence, stuff like that all constitute a puja and combined also form a puja. The approach would be different for each person because each person views and approaches their diety/dieties differently. Some dieties have certain historical "requisites" for offerings. I believe that the choice to follow these would be up to you, because, for one, we can't all afford brand new fancy bronze statues of Mother Kali each time we want to worship or have an event of some sort. But, we can, attempt to draw an image (as an example). This started as my definition of puja and turned into something else didn't it...oh well..I am a gemini. Feel free to email me if you want to chat about anything. I'm not an expert by any means, but if we can all help eachother, then that's at least something. Ta Namesteh Devon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rakhi 0 Report post Posted October 7, 2008 we can also get some more information about Durga Puja and Diwali at Festive-xpressions.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
