Guest guest Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 All I know is we only make an offer " ALWAYS " expecting something ( if not something atleast happiness) in return. May be to realize our true nature (never satisfied and selfish) we are we practise this " offering to god " Second thing is we have this habit of bribing everyone with something for something we want in return. We do the same thing with God too. Also we try to cheat ( trick) him offering him his stuff for something we want( desires). Something like I pay the shop keeper from his cash box. All these practices are to make us realize how sleepy minds are....! Please forgive me if I am wrong or rude Gokul Krishnan gokul krishnan <gokulkris99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Hi Krishna, You might be true in some circumstance but the reason why one offer " Nivedana " to god is to: 1. Show/Convey his respect to God that he is having this food b'coz it is given by Him. 2. Tradition offering to makes what you are going to have more sanctity. ( Yatho Buddhi Sthatho Bava) 3. More over No Human being can cater to the Hungry all the fellow Human beings in the world but if " if You pray Him, He will do that " . Warm regards Sarat. Ramya Sarat Panganamamula <ramya_sarat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Dear Gokul, Sai Ram. Even if you are rude, in a way you are writing one facet of the truth, so there can be no quarrel with what you or any one else writes. The truth has several facets and you are seeing and showing one of them. What you wrote is the Yagna kanda of the Vedas. Nature is always bountiful and give back more than what you sow. All businesses are conducted with the same principle that the businessman is entitled to his share of the transaction. So, it is not bribing but giving God (everything is given by God, so there is no way that we can offer God something which doesn't belong to Him), or in a slight different way, reinvesting part of the business returns for future. If the farmer did not keep part of the harvest for sowing, he (and others who depend on his efforts) won't have food for the next year. From where does this extra food come from? From sun's energy and the earth's minerals, water etc. Similarly, what we offer to God returns magnified many more times. Thus the very concept of Naivedyam teaches us to be careful of what we offer to God! Best regards. Swamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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