by winston » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:37 am
What are the real offerings we should make during sacred festivals?
During sacred festivals, there could be form of worship called "dedicating various limbs and organs to the Divine".
In the performance of this, there is a form of self-deception.
When a devotee says, "I offer my eyes to the Divine" and offers only a flower, one is indulging in deception.
The proper thing would be to say that one is offering a flower.
Mantras like this are intended to indicate that one is using one’s eyes only to see the Divine.
The real significance of the Mantra is that you think of the Divine in whatever you see or do.
Therefore, true worship is to declare that you offer all your limbs in the service of the Divine. This means that whatever work, you do should be done as an offering to the Divine.
Sacred festival should be used as an occasion to examine one's own nature whether it is human, animal or demonic, and strive to transform animal nature to human, and finally divinise human nature.
- Divine Discourse, Oct 06, 1992.
Wisdom cannot be acquired from outside. It has to be got through inward Spiritual Practices.
Source: radiosai.org
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