Varalakshmi Pooja

Relish the Pooja!



Sometimes intense living does not need any words to express! So the Gap...fully relishing life! Our ancestors are really great having artistically tasted life in all aspects! The pooja when we really involve ourselves unfolds beautifully as a celebration of divine love! Goddess Mahalakshmi...beautiful & intense sattvic energy...the Divine Heart... manifests when you invite HER with love and everything that happens will be a miracle!. I started this Pooja with intense love to do it and carried away by the energy..it is as though the pooja happening spontaneously without effort! One of my Flat neighbour expressed...you do it methodically unlike others...to which I replied...I never know any method...what all I love to do I do!Really Intense love draws the divine like a magnet! It is all powerful!



And to my Home Assistant( I am not comfortable in calling any one as servant maid because all are servants to Divine alone) I said...never expect anything from me..but with intense devotion if you pray it will manifest because I keep this house as a temple of LORD! You know she was desiring to get a gold mangalsutra for one gram and in one of the house where she was working, the lady got her on Varalakshmi Pooja day came to our house and gave it to her after keeping it in front of the Goddess. She was overwhelmed with this event! This is not a miracle to say...life itself is miraculous which we are unaware! Not very big penance nor chanting mantras nor performing austerities & rituals which gets us near to God. But simple love...childlike love...complete surrender...it is more than enough! Live in HIM! Nothing is impossible. Iam just a householder with a kid living very ordinary life! When even I could experience the miraculousness of life...it is possible for each and every one of us!





You know I started this pooja with a eversilver kalasa...Next year my mother gave me a small brass kalasa ..with which I performed pooja! Next year there was Kumbabishekam in the nearby temple and I had a dream of giving money for it. I gave money for kumbabishekam and I got a kalasa from them it is big brass kalasa! Next year without my knowledge my husband gave for Paal kudam...(Milk) to one of Sakthi temple from where came a big copper kalasa. Everything spontaneously arrived at right time and now I keep silver kalasa! And you know the very first time when I performed the pooja with intense love I invited only two three people.I had bought eight blouse bits thinking of offering it to Ashta Lakshmis'. And to my wonder eight women came including unexpected people... not one more or one less and I could feel the real blessing of the Goddess!



No word could fill this page fully and I could keep on writing but let me have a stop...! Perform even a simple thing with intense love and devotion....which alone takes you face to face with the CREATOR!

What we are now is created by us either consciously or unconsciously through millions of years of evolution! Nature has the tremendous power to supply our genuine wishes. But alas! We seek externally in vain through the strong walls of mind created blocks....breaking our heads! Dive deep to realise the divine within which is the only way to solution! Otherwise no option is left in our hands when the nature pulls us from within through death! Unconsciously we go....!

Today is a blissful day...I woke up with the vibrating slokas from within...Sri Rama Rama Ramethi ....from Vishnu Sahasranama three times( It has been said reciting this sloka alone gives the benefit of reciting Sahasranama) & Kayenavacha manasendriyaiva...Narayanayethi samarpayami( meaning ..I surrender everything to Sri Narayana)

I was wondering why this sloka flow within me. I woke up to see the calender if it is a special day...! Yes. it is so...It is Sarva Vaishnava Ekadasi as it is written in the calender. So full of love I bought cute little orange roses and tied it along with Krishna Tulsi and carried it to the Lord at Tirupathi Devasthanam Temple near my office. So beautifully it decorated the chest of the Lord carrying my love.

It is not new to me. It happens often that if some special day is there lord reminds me of it...! Such is the Love of Lord which carries his devotees who has surrendered their all at His Feet.
I realise truly some inner science has been invented by our Rishis and Yogis which we miss amidst the shallow life we live now.

Unless and until I experience myself I never believe blindly in any external rituals.If I feel it in every cells of my being I am for it. Otherwise not.If I am unable to place my heart I never worship merely mechanically.

And one more incident...yesterday while driving vehicle I was just wondering how skitting of wheel would be...because I never experienced it...!Then immediately a thought came over...If it happens you will fall....so don't think like a crack...!

Today while crossing Panagal Park...,small small stones were laid on the turning which really made my vehicle skit...for a second my heartbeat was gone with fear overlapping...but fortunately I didn't fall down..! Thank God! When I lifted my eyes from the road I saw the words... Bible words... "Naan vun munnae chentu konalanavaigalai chevvai cheivaen"...meaning I will go before you and make good all cranky things on the way...!(very bad translation I feel!)
It is an experience of Divine Love which responds beautifully...which I experience day to day...!

DIVINE OCEAN

You wanted to…teach me
More and more tough…lessons!

You came to me as a colleague
Full of jealous within….!
You discouraged….me…
With negative words….!

I was struggling
Within myself….
To be one with you….!

You spoke very softly
Like honey outside…!
But carrying….
Vengeance within….!

Cleverly you executed
Things to your favour
Making people
Believe falsehood…!

I could observe you….
Your face shrinking….
At any good happening to me….!

You projected…..
As though you are
Close to me....
But truly you were….
Far…far…away from me…!

This is something new…
Which I never faced before….!
Even the most
Self-centered souls….
Dissolve in Thine Love…!

I found…truth…..
To be pushed last….
And ridiculed...by people around….!

I searched where I went wrong…
Carrying Thee in my heart…!
I had to fight a lot…within…
To retain your liveliness….!

How come…..
You are in jealous with
Your own soul…..???
I cried within….!

You answered….

My child…
You are swimming hard
To overcome
The waves of jealous…
Repeating itself…..!
You will be tired...soon
Leave it…..

DIVE DEEP…!
YOU WILL SEE THE TREASURES OF
THE OCEANIC LOVE AWAITING YOU…..!

TRANSFER LOVE WITH DIGNITY AND NOT AS AN ALM! THE VERY CREATION OF YOU AND ME ARISE FROM PROFOUND LOVE OF GOD IN FORGETTING HIS ETERNAL SELF TO GIVE LIFE TO OUR SOULS TO ENACT AN ETERNAL PLAY!

While driving a vehicle, in the beginning speedometer is required.But once we know how to drive, it is just an indicator with no meaning attached.Same with life, when we realise the spontaneous flow of creative force, all external definitions stand merely as an indicator & holding on stil... only to the rules or ideals blindly will make life struck to it.

Lust free selfless pure heart ever aware perceives TRUTH without any distortions!
Without pure mind there is no progress even if you get heaven because hell accompanies it!
All austerities....penance...yoga...prayers...done are only tools...not an end in itself!
Better loose the tool for the Ultimate than loosing the Ultimate for the tool!