Ashram Yoga : India's Spiritual Tradition » puja

Beautiful Arati fire ceremony at Sivananda Yoga Ashram

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:26:21 +0000

path2yoga.blogspot.com Devi Puja and Arati at the Sivananda Ashram in Madurai, India

Sivaratri 2011 in the Bahamas

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:29:20 +0000

Maha Sivaratri is one of the most sacred nights on the yogic calendar. We celebrate this night of Lord Siva with homas and pujas conducted by Krishnan Namboodiri, a Tantric priest from South India. Senior staff of the ashram lead us in continuous Siva chants from dusk until dawn. www.sivanandabahamas.org Join us for the next Sivaratri. February 20th, 2012

Meditating In The Haidakhan Dhuni BABAJI Ashram India~Welcome~

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:59:06 +0000

Devotees from around the world come to mediate in the MAHAsHAKTI Dhuni in Haidakhan VishwaMAHADham as the Pujari gets ready to start the Divine Mother Puja. Adorations to Goddess, who is the auspiciousness of all that is auspicious, who is the consort of Lord Shiva, who is the bestower of every desire of one’s heart. Adorations to You! O Devi, I have taken refuge in you.

Golden Durga Puja @ Cuttack

adam — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:46:00 +0000

Kolkata may host the most lavish Durga puja pandals in the country complete with elaborate decoration and dazzling illumination, but in Cuttack the puja is popular for the extravagance in style reflected in gold and silver work. Lakhs of people visit the puja pandals organised by three main puja organisers who compete with each other to put gold crowns on the heads of the deities. It all started a few years back when the three organisers put up silver tableaux or ‘Chandi Medha’ in the pandals imparting a sparkling aura. But gold? Nobody thought of it till Choudhury Bazar puja committee made gold crowns for the deities in 2002 to coincide with its golden jubilee. Thereafter the three organisers are vying with each other to give the ‘golden’ touch to their worship of Durga. The budget for the Mangalabag Puja Committee this year is a whopping Rs one crore, the major chunk of which would be spent on making gold crowns. Not just the Durga idol, all the other deities that flank her will sport gold crowns this year including Ganesh, Kartik, Laxmi and Saraswati. While the main crown of Goddess Durga is made up of 2.5 kg of gold, the remaining four crowns weigh a little over 2.5 kg. The total cost for the crowns, including making charges, has crossed the Rs one crore mark, said a member of the puja committee overseeing the work. Two other two puja committees — Choudhury Bazar and Sheikh Bazar — have also made gold crowns for Durga idols this year. The crown for Mahisasura was made of 7.6 kg gold at a cost of Rs 50 lakh. Besides the crown, they have ordered gold necklaces for the Goddess Durga as well. Sheikh Bazaar had also made a gold crown for Goddess Durga in 2008. A crown of 3.5 kg gold was made at a cost of Rs 28 lakh which continues to be the star attraction of Cuttack Dusshera. Known for their impeccable dexterity, filigree artisans of Cuttack have always received appreciation worldwide. At a time when silversmiths of the city were deprived of government support, non-existence of cooperatives, poor entrepreneurship, professional rivalries and invasion of machine-finished products in markets, the competition to go for silver tableaus and golden crowns have given them a new lease of life. Click On Picture To Enlarged Image

See the rest here:
Golden Durga Puja @ Cuttack

Puja To Shri Haidakhan BABAJI In Chilianaula Anand Puri Ashram India

admin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:14:50 +0000

Located in the small Indian village of Chilianaula near Ranikhet is a beautiful Haidakhan BABAJI ashram called “Anand Puri” the place of Bliss with a magnificent view of the Himalayas. Shown here is the Morning Puja to Bhole Baba inside the beautiful white marble temple.

Morning Puja BABAji Ashram Haidakhan India OM

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:56:54 +0000

Sorry this video is the wrong way, it was my very first one in Haidakhan it switches to the correct way at about 2:45. I’ve posted it up for posterity since it shows dear old Lokiji who has been the pujari in Haidakhan for many years. He has now retired to his home. This was filmed on 1 December 2007 on a very cold morning as you can tell from how everyone is dressed. This is the morning puja in the main temple before aarti. … Puja Haidakhan babaji ashram India aarti …

Pandit Performs Family Puja For Namrata Main Temple Babaji Ashram Haidakhan India

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:16 +0000

We are very lucky to have access to the Pandits in Haidakhan, they are versed in many different types of pujas & ceremonies. In this clip The pandit is performing a “Family Puja” for Haidakhan devotee Namrata and her loved ones. You will notice the temple being cleaned even as the puja is going on, Karma Yoga [work as worship] is the main teaching in a BABAji ashram. The date 15 January 2008/Haidakhan VishwaMAHAdham. … Pandit puja temple Haidakhan Babaji ashram India …

Kojagari Pooja

adam — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:34:00 +0000

KOJAGARI PUJA Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped today, the Sharat poornima day, the full moon day of autumn. Mother Lakshmi visits the houses of those who are awake late in the night and blesses them. She comes asking,”Ko Jagrati – who is awake?”and that is why the puja is known as “Kojagari puja”. This puja is widely performed in Bengal and in all branch centres of Ramakrishna Math. In the life of Chandramani devi, mother of Sri Ramakrishna we have an incident relating to this puja. That happened before the birth of Sri Sri Thakur. Once, Ramkumar, the eldest son of Chandramani, went to perform this Kojagari puja in a neighbouring village Bhursuo as a priest in a house. It was very late night and as he didn’t return, Chandramani came out of the house and was waiting for his return. Then a small girl with many ornaments came from the direction of the village. Chandramani asked her,’ Did you see my son, he has gone to that village for doing today’s puja? The child replied,” Yes mother, I am coming from that very house where your son has done the puja and he is also coming.” Then Chandramani invited the girl to her house,” In this dead of night, where are you going alone with these precious ornaments? Stay in my house night and leave in the morning?” The girl replied,” No, no, this time I will not be able to stay. I have to go different places. I shall come next time.” Saying so she went towards the house of Lahas. Chandramani seeing from the distance that the girl was not going in the regular path, chased her to guide her the right path but the girl soon disappeared. Then Chandramani realised it was “Mother Lakshmi Herself who had come in the form of young girl.” Returning home she narrated the incident to her husband Kshudiram and later her son Ramkumar and they also had confirmed it was Mother Lakshmi Herself. “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is filled with His oft repeated teaching that one should should be free from greed and lust. He Himself practised the sadhana of taking earth in one hand and a coin on the other and threw them both in the Ganga water so as to mentally imbibe the idea that both the things are of the same. When his chosen disciple tested Him by placing a coin beneath his bed, He sprang up as if stung by a scorpion. Then why this worship of Goddess of wealth? Goddess Lakshmi is the mother of all wealth. Scriptures allow men to have 4 types of wealth, viz. the wealth of dharma, the wealth of sensory pleasures, the wealth of pleasures of flesh and the spiritual wealth. But unfortunately, we identify Goddess Mother with 2nd and 3rd wealth (artha and kama) only and pray Her for those 2 types of wealth. Sometimes men resort to unrighteous means to have those 2 types of wealth though the scriptures permit only through dharmic means. But many do not know that Goddess Lakshmi is also the Mother of the wealth of spiritual knowledge. In fact the vehicle of Mother Lakshmi denotes the same. Owl is the carrier vehicle of Mother. Owl is seen as an ugly bird, known as partially blind and considered as inauspicious. But why the Mother who is beauty personified selected that bird as Her vehicle? Is it to indicate that man if he chooses only those two types of wealth, it will drain away all his physical and mental energies and he will look ugly, fit for nothing either of this world or the other? Is it to teach the man that those pleasures that are enjoyed in darkness will lead man to darkness only and he will be blind to the light of knowledge? Is it to warn him that if he is confining himself only to those dark room pleasures then inauspicious future moments are awaiting him? We shall have to think for a while as to the answers. In case if we choose to pray Mother to bestow Her spiritual wealth, then how to view the owl? In such cases, does Mother wishes to say that Her vehicle Owl is the symbolic message of Gita sloka no.69 of 2nd chapter, wherein Lord Krishna says the quality of a man of steady wisdom. The sloka says that for a man of steady wisdom, that which is darkness of night for men of ignorance, for a man of steady wisdom it will be daylight and that hectic day time wherein men exert for wealth for senses will be night for a man of knowledge? Choice is ours to pray the Mother either for the secular wealth or for the spiritual.

Continue reading here:
Kojagari Pooja

CHRISTMAS Haven [Fire Ceremony] 2007 Haidakhan Babaji Ashram India

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:29:11 +0000

The Christmas Day Fire Ceremony in Haidakhn Led by Shri Muni Raji MAHAraj. 25 December 2007 Haidakhan VishwaMAHAdham India.

Yoga and Power

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:23:50 +0000

In this excerpt from a workshop given in September 1989 entitled “Maps of the Mind”, Swami Radha explores the power we have and how we need to balance the positive and negative in ourselves. … Swami Sivananda Radha Yasodhara Ashram yoga spirit puja guru temple light balance mind