puujaa

[Sankaran Jayanarayanan]

sadananda <sada at ANVIL.NRL.NAVY.MIL> wrote:

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>        patram pushpam palam toyam yo me bhktyaa payacchati|
>        tadaham bhaktupakritam ashnaami priyataatmanaH|
>He is ready to settle for any thing you give, as long as it is given
with
>devotion! There is nothing one can really give him since everything is
his
>only.  What is given is only my notion that it is mine.
>

Thanks for the explanation! Yes, surrendering to God would really mean
surrendering the ego.

But my question pertains only to the case when the puujaa is indeed
performed as a ritual involving more physical rather than mental strain,
but incorrectly due to unfortunate circumstances. I guess the Lord will
see to it that everything works out well for the devotee :-)

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> I want to end with Sankara's shlakas from vivekachuuDaamaNi:

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>        na yogena na saakhyena karmaNaa no na vidyayaa
>        brahmaatmaika bodhena mokshaH sidhyati naanyathaa||
>
>I think Vaidya Sundaram has provided the meaning for these slokas for
those
>who are interested. One can perform as many rituals as one wants, but
in
>the final analysis there is no liberation without getting established
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
> in the advaitic teaching.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A small correction: the last line should read "...established in
Brahman." When the goal is reached, not even "advaitic teaching" is seen
to be real.

>Hari Om!
>Sadananda
>

Thanks again,

Kartik

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