Puja – The Hindu Vedic Ritual

The word Puja is Sanskrit - meaning reverence, honour, homage, adoration and worship.

The loving offering of light, flowers, water, food and other elements to the divine, as the divine is seen in the deity and the divinity sees the worshipper, accepts and gives blessings/good fortune/relief from illness as Prasad.

Puja - The Hindu Vedic Ritual

Pujas involve the use of all five sensory organs in the ritual: sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound.Puja is primarily considered as the ceremonial worship ritual followed by the hindu that offers devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities that spiritually celebrate an event, often linked with elements of nature/universe emerged from Vedic Science, an ancient knowledge from the days of indic civilization as god land.Hinduism being a pluralist view of god, different deities worshipped by different tribes in the indus valley civilization has their own rituals having a linear commonality which interlinks all people of Sanatan Dharma together under one mega umbrella called Hinduism.The Rituals or Puja is derived from Vedas – The ancient text/scripture of the indic people written by the ancient sage Vyasa – containing four kind of mantras/verses into four kind of collections : Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda & Atharva Veda.The division of these four veda align with the four stages in a man’s life.

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