What is a puja?
Not a ritual. A conversation with the divine.
Customs & Rituals
The circumambulation is cosmology disguised as a walk.
2 min read · Customs & Rituals
The circumambulation is cosmology disguised as a walk.
In every Hindu temple, worship ends with pradakshina - walking clockwise around the sanctum sanctorum. Three times is standard. Seven for major occasions. The direction is always clockwise - keeping the deity on your right side. The pradakshina is a circumambulation of the centre. The centre is the divine. By walking around it, you are saying: this is my centre. Everything in my life orbits this. There is also a traditional explanation: the universe itself moves clockwise in its observable pattern. By walking clockwise you are aligning yourself with the natural movement of things. There is a famous story in...
Let the idea move immediately into prayer or temple ritual.
When you watch your sacred video from the ceremony, notice the pradakshina that the Tantri or devotees perform around the sanctum.
Keep the context connected rather than isolated.
Not a ritual. A conversation with the divine.
He goes first. There is a reason for that.