Brass Arthi Deep - For Performing Pooja
Doing Aarti/arti while spiritual practices or pooja is an easy and
beautiful medium to light the lamp of devotion and get the grace of God
and blessing. It is an essential and unavoidable part in homa and pooja.
The worship of the highest entity, in its form with all its attributes
is of greatest importance. For the ordinary devotee, the abstract idea,
the formless concept of God, has always been incomprehensible. That is
why worship (puja) performed with all its different accessories of the
idol with flowers, garments and ornaments creates in the mind of the
devotee a distinctive attachment and devotion to the Lord.

Strong
belief and spiritual experience is essential to understand the
spiritual sadhanas. Belief created by information leads to spiritual
sadhanas which in turn direct a person to invaluable spiritual
experiences and knowledge. This leads to faith and the devotee starts
doing more spiritual sadhanas. Further to spiritual sadhanas, one begins
to have spiritual emotions, which finally culminates into
self-realization and that is a state of eternal bliss. Neither- do our
merits save us nor sins destroy us. Only spiritual emotions can save us.
Some devotees equate spiritual emotions with faith. But that is not
correct and faith is said to be three fold - three fold meaning sattvik,
rajasik and tamasik, depending on the three components (sattva, raja
and tama). Spiritual emotion is trigunatit i.e. beyond the three gunas.
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