Simple Ganapati Pooja Process

This is a simple version for doing Ganapati pooja for Ganapati festival or daily, approximately it will take around 15 to 20 mins to complete this.

Buy a Ganapati idol and keep it in you pooja room after cleaning the place then chant “Suklambaradaram Vishnum Sasivarnam Chathurbhujam Prasannavadanam Dhyayet Sarva Vignopashantaye” and light the lamp

Do achamana (sipping of water from spoon by reciting below mantras each time)

Om Keshavaaya swaha

Om Narayanaaya swaha

Om Madhavaaya swaha

Om Govindaaya namaha (here water you hand with a spoon of water and drop it into the bowl)

Perform Pranayama – Do alternate nose breathing (inhale slowly from left and exhale from right, inhale from right and exhale from left (1 cycle) do 3 cycles) No mantra required just do more cycles

Sankalpa – Take a vow for what reason you are doing the Pooja (think about Longivity, health, wealth, growth and to attain liberation)

Haridra Ganapati – prepare Ganapati in turmeric power (add some drops of water to turmeric and prepare a pyramid, this will be you Ganapati)

Chant - Om Tatpurushaya vidmahay Vakratunadaya dheemahi 

tannodanti prachodayat. (Offer flower to the turmeric idol)

Offer a peeled banana and place it upon a beetle nut and leaves with a coin along with banana and say “Kadali phala nevedhayaami”

Next for the main Ganapati Idol Chant the below mantra

Suklambaradaram Vishnum Sasivarnam Chathurbhujam Prasannavadanam Dhyayet Sarva Vignopashantayet (offer flowers to the idol)

Prana Pratistapana – Infusing Vital forces

Take a flower dip in with Sugar/jaggery, milk, honey, Ghee and curd and lightly place it upon the idol (just touching it and infuse vital energy to it – Visualize here) Chant below mantra for prana pratistapana

mamopatta samastaduriatakṣayadvārā śrī parameśvaraprītyarthe Shree Maha Ganapati prana pratiṣṭhāpanaṁ kariṣye ||

om aiṁ hrīṁ śrīṁ om āṁ hrīṁ kroṁ yaṁ raṁ laṁ vaṁ śaṁ ṣaṁ saṁ haṁ om haṁsaḥ sohaṁ sohaṁ haṁsaḥ Shree MahaGanapatim prāṇā iha prāṇāḥ ||

Once the above mantra is chanted and done with the idol is not supposed to be moved.

After this start with main part of the pooja as below

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Dhyayami. (Visual Ganapati in your mind)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Avahayame. (Invite Ganapati by visualization and offer flower to the Idol)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah. Asanam samarpayami. (Visualize offering a place/more like a chair/throne that you offer when guest comes in – offer flower to the Idol)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Padyam samarpayami. (Visualize washing Ganapati’s legs, offer drop of water to Idols leg)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Arghyam samarpayami . (Visualize offering water to God and offer water to the bowl next to you)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Achamaneeyam samarpayami . (Visualize offer water to God for drinking, drop some water in the bowl after showing in to the idol)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Madhuparkam samarpayami . (Offer honey to God, visualize for all steps)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Snanam samarpayami . (Offer bath, meaning drop few drops of water or do complete abhishekam)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Achamaneeyam samarpayami . (Offer water to the bowl after showing it to the Idol)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah Vastram samarpayami (Offer clothing to the God)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Yagnyopaveetham samarpayami. (Offer sacred thread to the God)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā || Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Gandham dharayami .(Offer Sandal paste)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā || (36,54 or 108 times)

Chant any Ganapati Shloka, Stotra or Suktam and offer Flowers and Grass for the below

Om Sumukhaya namah
Om Ekadantaya namah
Om Kapilaya namah
Om Gajakarnikaya namah
Om Lambodaraya namah
Om Vikataya namah
Om Vignarajaya namah
Om Vinayakaya namah
Om Dhumaketave namah
Om Ganadhyakshaya namah
Om Phalachandraya namah
Om Gajananaya namah
Om Vakratundaya namah
Om Surpakarnaya namah
Om Herambaya namah
Om Skandapoorvajaya namah
Om Mahaganapate namah
Nanavidha parimala patra pushpani samarpayami.

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Om Ganapataye namah. Mahaganapatim sripadukayam poojayami tarpayami namah (3 times) (offer water to the bowl)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Mahaganapataye namah dhupam agrapayami, (Offer incense)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  deepam darsayami, (Offer lamp light)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  nivedyam samarpayami Madya madya paniyam samarpayami, (Offer food to the God)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  uttaraposhanam samarpayami, (offer some water to the idol and pour the same in the bowl)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  hasta prakshalanam samarpayami, (offer water for washing hand, meaning offer some water to the idol and pour the same in the bowl)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah pada prakshalanam samarpayami, (offer some water to the idol and pour the same in the bowl)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  achamaneeyam samarpayami, (offer some water to the idol and pour the same in the bowl)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  tambulam samarpayami . (Offer Tambula – Beetle nut and leaves)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Karpura Neerajanam darsayami.( offer some Camphor light to the God)

Om Tatpurushaya vidmahay Vakratunadaya dheemahi tannodanti prachodayat. (Offer flower)

om śrīṁ hrīṁ klīṁ glauṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye varavarada sarvajanaṁ me vaśamānaya svāhā ||  Shree Mahaganapataye namah  Mantrapushpam samarpayami. (Offer flower)

Shree Mahaganapataye namah Pradikshana namaskaram samarpayami.

Shree Mahaganapataye namah Samasta rajopachara, devopacharan samarpayami.

Shree Mahaganapataye namah Anaya poojaya bhagavan sarva devatmaka sree ganapati supreeta suprasanno varado bhavantu.

Offer Prayer (Can chant again “Suklambaradaram Vishnum Sasivarnam Chathurbhujam Prasannavadanam Dhyayet Sarva Vignopashantayet” and offer flower) or any shloka etc

Prana Pratistapana Mantra taken from my Guruji and ammended. Any mistakes solely mine

Karma

A person accrues Karma when he says that he is the doer, but if he performs the action and does not take credit for it as he is the doer, then it does not create Karma.

If a person performs an action for his own benefit (ego) then it is karma, eg: people steal money and justify that I'm unemployed and need money for survival hence I stole the money - here the intention is for self preservation of the ego hence Karma.

At the same time one accidentally kills a persons while trying to protect someone does not cause Karma.  Similarly Soldiers perform their duty with the intention of protecting people from evil, so no Karma

All opinions are person in nature

Good Read - Teachings from Ramana Maharishi

Self-Realisation

D:    How can I attain Self-realization?

M:    Realization is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realised’. Stillness or peace is Realization. There is no moment when the Self is not. So long as there is doubt or the feeling of non-realization, the attempt should be made to rid oneself of these thoughts. They are due to the identification of the Self with the not-Self. When the not-Self disappears, the Self alone remains. To make room, it is enough that the cramping be removed; room is not brought in from elsewhere.

D:    Since Realization is not possible without vasana-kshaya, how am I to realise that State in which the vasanas are effectively destroyed?

M:    You are in that State now!

D:    Does it mean that by holding on to the Self, the vasanas should be destroyed as and when they emerge?

M:    They will themselves be destroyed if you remain as you are.

D:    How shall I reach the Self?

M:    There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached,it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.
The fact is, you are ignorant of your blissful state. Ignorance supervenes and draws a veil over the pure Self which is Bliss. Attempts are directed only to remove this veil of ignorance which is merely wrong knowledge. The wrong knowledge is the false identification of the Self with the body, mind etc. This False identification must go, and then the Self alone remains.
Therefore Realization is for everyone; Realization makes no difference between the aspirants. This very doubt, whether you can realise, and the notion ‘I-have-not-realised’ are themselves the obstacles. Be free from these obstacles also.

D:    What is the use of samadhi and does thought subsist then?

M:    Samadhi alone can reveal the Truth. Thoughts cast a veil over Reality, and so It is not realised as such in states other than samadhi.
In samadhi there is only the feeling ‘I AM’ and no thoughts. The experience ‘I AM’ is being still.

D:    How can I repeat the experience of samadhi or the stillness that I obtain here?

M:    Your present experience is due to the influence of the atmosphere in which you find yourself. Can you have it outside this atmosphere? The experience is spasmodic. Until it becomes permanent, practice is necessary.

D:    One has at times vivid flashes of a consciousness whose centre is outside the normal self, and which seems to be all-inclusive. Without concerning ourselves with philosophical concepts, how would Bhagavan advise me to work towards getting, retaining and extending those rare flashes? Does abhyasa in such experience involve retirement?

M:    Outside! For whom is the inside or outside? These can exist only so long as there are the subject and object. For whom are these two again? On investigation you will find that they resolve into the subject only. See who is the subject; and this enquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
The normal self is the mind. This mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation as above outlined.
Getting: The Self is always there. You have only to remove the veil obstructing the revelation of the Self.
Retaining: Once you realise the Self, it becomes your direct and immediate experience. It is never lost.
Extending: There is no extending of the Self, for it is as ever, without contraction or expansion.
Retirement: Abiding in the Self is solitude. Because there is nothing alien to the Self. Retirement must be from some one place or state to another. There is neither the one nor the other apart from the Self. All being the Self, retirement is impossible and inconceivable.
Abhyasa is only the prevention of disturbance to the inherent peace. You are always in your natural State whether you do abhyasa or not.... To remain as you are, without question or doubt, is your natural State.

D:    On realizing samadhi, does not one obtain siddhis also?

M:    In order to display siddhis, there must be others to recognise them. That means, there is no jnana in the one who displays them. Therefore, siddhis are not worth a thought; jnana alone is to be aimed at and gained.

D:    Does my Realization help others?

M:    Yes, and it is the best help that you can possibly render to others. Those who have discovered great truths have done so in the still depths of the Self. But really there are no ‘others’ to be helped. For, the Realised Being sees only the Self, just as the goldsmith sees only the gold while valuing it in various jewels made of gold. When you identify yourself with the body, name and form are there. But when you transcend the body-consciousness, the ‘others’ also disappear. The Realised one does not see the world as different from Himself.

D:    Would it not be better if the saints mix with others?

M:    There are no ‘others’ to mix with. The Self is the only Reality.

D:    Should I not try to help the suffering world?

M:    The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarly take care of the world also .... if God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

D:    Is it not our duty to be patriots?

M:    Your duty is to be and not, to be this or that. ‘I AM THAT I AM’ sums up the whole truth; the method is summarised in ‘be still.
And what does stillness mean? It means ‘destroy yourself’; because, every name and form is the cause of trouble. ‘I-I’ is the Self. ‘I am this’ is the ego. When the ‘I’ is kept up as the ‘I’ only, it is the Self. When it flies off at a tangent and says ‘I am this or that, I am such and such’, it is the ego.

D:    Who then is God?

M:    The Self is God. ‘I AM’ is God. If God be apart from the Self, He must be a Selfless God, which is absurd. All that is required to realise the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? Hence atma vidya is the easiest to attain.

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Kaivisham - Poisoning of food before consumption

KaiVisham is nothing but intentional positioning of food before it is fed to intended person. Usually after consuming this food, person gets aversion from eating the food that was initially fed to him with this poison and later he develops aversion for eating food itself. Thereby affects his/her health.

Remedy

1.KAIVISHAPARIHARI GULIKA -  Available from Arya Vaidya - Use as per directed

2.Use Brahmi Leaves (fresh ones) make juice out of it and take around 25ml of this juice and mix it with raw milk (preferable fresh cow's milk if available) and take on Sunday, Thursday and Sunday. Diet for those days is Milk rice.

Some Powerful Affirmation

Spiritual up-liftment       I'm realized from now
To attain grace               I'm blessed from now
General well being         I'm well from now (this is the best that there is as it encompasses all factors health, wealth, peace etc)
Monetary gains I'm a millionaire/billionaire from now
Health                             I'm healthy from now

Before going to sleep use anyone of the above affirmation, please note that it has to be very strong.

Just remember that You can be/do/have whatever you imagine

source my Guru

Affirmations

Introduction

Affirmations work well when it done in a proper manner. So what is the proper way affirming, to know this we should understand, what affirmations are.

Affirmations are forceful thoughts that are incorporated in our mind to get desired results.

How does this work, basic thing that we have to understand is that our mind is capable of doing wonderful things given that we channel our thoughts in a proper way. We can a have a stress free day just by affirming the same.

Important points on affirmation

• Intensity of our affirmation plays a vital role in the manifestation of the same.
• Regularity of affirmation also plays vital role
• No second thought about the affirmation should be there, i.e. when affirming on sometime at the back of our mind we should not think it is not going to happen.
• Finally the way we think also plays a vital role
• Gratitude to the higher self after affirming is done

Example

Suppose you are travelling to your office and want a smooth way to reach your office.

What we have to do is that we have to calm our mind first and with full intensity we should put a thought in our mind that “I will have a smooth and safe journey to my work place”, what we can observe is that most of the time we will have a smooth journey (like less traffic, easy ride etc)

When Affirmations do not work

If one is supposed to endure something, Karma will not work, meaning one’s Karma always supersedes any affirmations, but it doesn’t mean that we should not affirm, it is at the time of despair that we need to affirm positively as this will mitigate the effect to a certain extent.

What type of Affirmation is Good

Affirmations that are done for the wellbeing of self and others are always good, should not be used for bad purposes as it will create bad Karma and is very dangerous for oneself.

Source my Guruji

Steps in Affirmations

Step 1 Having a clear mental picture of what you want
Step 2 Write it down with specific details - write it in present tense
Step 3 Visualization - add as much details as possible
Step 4 Act and feel as if you have already  - vacuum give away old so that it will be filled by new

Step 5 Action - Inspired action (trust your gut, intuition)

Source youtube

About Self Realization

Our practice towards self realization is a path with many questions and confusions. Firstly when we are sure that the divinity is within us and we are supposed to find that divinity in us.

Then what is stopping us from realizing the self?

This is the fundamental question will come up in our mind, before coming to this point first let us try to understand what is meant by self realization?

With my limited knowledge what I can infer is that, it is the purest form of awareness that one can experience.

Now what is this purest form of awareness, let us break this down, first awareness in general sense is the situation where a person perceives an external object and identifies the object to himself. meaning if I see an apple, I become conscious of the presence of apple in front of me.

This awareness to subjective and impure as whatever we perceive happens only in our mind. This awareness is out of collecting information from different sources, processing the same in our mind and finally perceive the object. The quality of our perception limited to the quality of input. If the input is faulty then our perception and awareness also becomes faulty.

Knowledge plays an important role at this time, in dark we can be misled that a rope is a snake, but when light appears our ignorance is washed away by seeing the rope. Similarly once we understand that our perception/awareness of the external world is always limited and it our mind which creates these imprints/awareness, we can understand that our awareness is impure.

Now is what is pure awareness, this is the opposite of the previous.

When we perceive something that is never changing, which is absolute and beyond any reproach, then it becomes pure.

Further we need to understand what is this pure consciousness/awareness and how to experience such awareness.

Pure awareness is a state where one has no thoughts (since thoughts create false/incomplete awareness), when there is no thought then he just becomes a silent observer of what is happening to him internally. Meaning when there no thought there is existence but this existence is free from any afflictions. So ideally in this state we should experience a type of awareness which beyond anything. How this experience will be for a person cannot be explained as I do not know how it would be to feel sure consciousness.

So experience such awareness is Self realization (according to my understanding).

Next step is to find out a way to achieve this awareness. This is possible by meditation. Meditation is a process of exploring ourselves internally.

Ideally we should start with focusing our attention to on single point within our body, best point of focus is Ajna chakra (as per my Guruji) as this is connected to Pineal Gland and Pituitary Gland, which triggers trans easily (Let bother about trans later).

When we focus our attention and concentration on a single point within our body, slowly over a period of time we start exploring that space, various thoughts keep popping up in our mind but we should trying ignore those thoughts and concentrate on that point. To avoid thoughts we should practice Nadi Shodhana Pranayama. Perfection in this breathing technique should stop thoughts during meditation.

to be continnued