Shodasa Puja P S N Kumar

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Dear friend,

 

I just had a look at your query about the

shodasopacharas. The shodasopacharas are the 16 in

number which are the ways of worshipping the god in

the sagunaradhana.

 

Human system is an integration of the physical, mental

and casual systems of which any experience of

happiness emanates from the casual body only and the

physical and mental bodies are only the carriers of

the information from the casual body to the outside

world.

 

The human integration with the nature is the only

source of his happiness and for that matter for any

being in the world. Man being an intellectual being

has the opportunity and necessity of identifying the

source of comfort with least of the exhaustion unlike

many other species of the world.

 

In this pursuit he has identified a way and means of

identifying the source of happiness derived by

surrenderance to the nature in the form of god there

by deriving the benefit of ultimate happiness to

himself. In the process of this he created a way of

worshipping the self created god with the natural

medium which gives him enjoyment. Things like harati,

dhoopa, deepa, naivedya, natya, gana, chamara, chatra

and other things are the ones which gives himself an

enjoyment in the times of need and he extended the

need of them to the god as the seeker and proveides

them the same, there by deriving the benefit for

himself on providing the same to god. It is actually

a source of providing self satisfaction through the

intermediary of archana to god. In the gross level it

is also considered an ahamkara which gives the

ultimate happiness to the less grown souls who could

not go to the fathoms deep of their intellectual

capabilities.

 

For a nirgunopasaka the things which are substitutes

for these shodasopacharas are the subtle elements of

the nature that could be taken by his own conscious

through the senses. The senses of a nirgunopasaka can

communicate with the nature to a near perfection

enjoying the benefit of nature and there by they can

drive him to the ultimate happyness of unique identity

of himself with the elements of the nature which is

called as samadhi.

 

May be my dear friend you are more confused than

clarified , but till then be informed that in the

initial stages offering the natural benefactors of

individual being offered to the sub conscious through

the intermediary of god is the way of doing

shodasopachara. God is not sitting before me to take

all those things which are provided by him only to me.

THe ideal of offering and the thought are also

provided by the god , so can you identify any thing

which is not a part of the nature. So is god going to

be benefited or enjoying the things which he is the

master. No but it is the way of our appeasing the

ahamkara.

 

Offering donations to god , we feel god is existing by

our alms , but it is a commercial transaction from the

individual to the god for fulfilment of his material

desire. It has been clearly mentioned by god in

Bhagavadgita as " patram , pushpam, phalam , toyam yome

bhaksha prayachati tadahamkritam priyatatmanaha " . So

develop from the sagunaradhana to the level of

nirgunaradhana and to the level of totaly identity

with the own self.

 

 

bi bi

 

P S N kumar

Visakhapatnam