Ritual of offering dakshina (Offering in cash or kind)
By offering dakshina, a virtue of sacrifice develops in the individual. From sacrifice, detachment develops and this in turn gives rise to vairagya (Ascetic-like detachment).
Offering Naivedya to a Deity with a bhav that the Deity is consuming it
When offering Naivedya, first pray to the Ishtadevata (Benevolent Deity) and draw a mandal on the floor in front of the Deity.
Why are only unbroken rice grains used as akshata in ritualistic worship ?
Akshata has the ability to attract frequencies of 5 Deities, to activate them, make them functional and to transmit them with the help of Earth and Water elements.
Importance of the substances used in ritualistic worship
Read information about how the substances should be arranged in the ritualistic platter and spiritual importance of the components like turmeric, sindur, Akshata, camphor etc used in ritualistic worship.
Substances used in puja and arrangement of implements
We will read about substances used in puja and arrangement of implements (like naivedya, conch, bell, samai etc) and advantages of arranging the implements and other constituents of puja according to Panchatattva levels.