The Guru Puja
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In the Guru puja – offering to the Master - just the maanasa puja mantra – the verse which pays obeisance to the Master through inner visualization - will remind you of all the clicks that happened in you!
The first line of the maanasa puja mantra says, ‘Hrut padmam aasanam dadhyaat’, my heart is a seat for You. This very line implies that our heart has to be clean! It is an inbuilt reminder, a click! When this click happens, all our thoughts, words and deeds will automatically become pure and devoid of the quality of attracting more karma. We will think, talk and do things with great awareness not to collect further karma.
Then there is the line, ‘Sahasraar achutaamrutaihi Paadyam charanayor dadhyaat’. Sahasraara amruta is the deep and sweet taste in your tongue and throat that happens when you overflow with gratitude. Some of you may have experienced this. Especially during Ananda Darshan, you can experience this. How many of you have felt this? During the Ananda Darshan, you suddenly feel the entire throat area feeling sweet. That is what is sahasraara amruta – the nectar that happens out of deep gratitude!
When you feel fulfilled, the nectar comes down from the sahasraara - your crown center at the top of your head, and your whole throat is filled with it. That very nectar is used as the paadyam or water, to wash the feet of the Divine! It means that when you sit for the puja everyday, in order to experience the nectar, you need to remember the instances or clicks that caused the nectar to flow! In our example, it is the Ananda Darshan experience. Then, you will bring yourself back to that same ecstatic state! If you do not experience that sweet taste in your throat at that moment of puja, you cannot offer puja because then, you would be telling a lie! Only if you have that real feeling again, are you authorized to use those words sahasraar achutaamrutaihi paadyam charanayor dadhyaat in the puja!
The words manastu arghyam nivedayet mean that you are offering your very mind as food to the Lord. At the end of the Nithyananda Spurana Program, (Life Bliss Program Level 2) you offer all your samskara or engraved memories or karma into the fire. All these put together is what is your manas, your mind. So, when you recite this line, you will automatically remember the action, 'Yes! Like how I offered everything there at the NSP, I am now offering everything that I may have further collected, at Your feet.' This is another example of the click that has to happen here.
The words tena amrutena aachamaneeyam mean, with that same ecstatic nectar, I do the abhisheka - holy bath - for You. This line will pull you back to that Ananda Darshan experience - that joy, that ecstasy - in order to experience that nectar again. So in this way, every step of this chant reminds you and brings you back to the clicks, to the initiation experiences that happened in you. I have explained just a few words from the Guru Puja mantra. If you go through the whole thing, you will not only appreciate this ritual, you will start appreciating the way in which the entire ritual science has come into play.
It is such a beautiful concept! If you understand this, it is enough. Automatically, all unwanted thoughts, words and deeds will leave you, and the Master's grace will descend upon you in no time. Once that happens, you are liberated.
(You may refer to the book 'Do Guru Puja Yourself' by Paramahamsa Nithyananda for a complete pictorial explanation of the entire Guru Puja procedure and its benefits.)