✦ The Complete Worship ✦

The Online Puja

The Worship Of The Divine Mother Maa Sri Lalitha TripuraSundari, Offered By Your Own Hand

This Digital Temple is a threshold where the devotee performs. Nothing here is watched from a distance, and nothing is performed on your behalf: the hand that offers is your own. Nothing is booked, nothing is priced, and nothing is promised in return.

The received tradition of the Sri Chakra Puja itself teaches that those unable to procure the ingredients of the worship may offer in their place a single drop of water. The offering was never the ingredient. What is offered with a sincere heart, The Divine Mother Receives as whole. This Online Puja is that drop of water, offered without apology.

✦ The Shape Of The Worship ✦

1. 1
   The Bell And The Two Lamps

   Entering the sanctum

   The worship begins as it does in the Temple: the bell is rung by your own hand, and the two lamps are lit at the threshold.
2. 2
   Darshan

   Being Seen

   The veil parts, and The Divine Mother Is Beheld. Ten quiet breaths are kept before anything is offered.
3. 3
   The Alankaram

   Drawn from the sixty-four Upacharas

   Water at the Sacred Feet, the bath, the red silk of dawn, the crown of nine jewels, the vermillion in the hair parting, the garlands of every season, and the ascent of the great Chakra throne.
4. 4
   The Five Offerings

   Gandham, Pushpam, Dhupam, Dipam, Naivedyam

   Each offering is made by hand, and each carries its inner meaning, given below.
5. 5
   Karpura Nirajanam

   The Arati

   The flame is carried in slow circles before The Divine Mother, by your own hand.
6. 6
   The Navavarana

   The journey inward

   Through the nine Sacred enclosures of the Sri Chakra, from the Bhupura to the Bindu, one flower offered at each.
7. 7
   Samarpanam And Prasadam

   The offering of the fruit

   All this worship, and its every fruit, is offered To The Divine Mother. The Divine kumkum is taken to the brow.
8. 8
   The Return To The Heart

   The close of the worship

   The Divine Mother Is Received back into the Heart. Rest there, In The Heart.

✦ The Inner Meaning Of The Five Offerings ✦

1. 1
   Gandham

   The sandal paste

   To remember the Divine Name always: that is the true sandal paste.
2. 2
   Pushpam

   The flowers

   The senses, softened into flowers, are laid at the Sacred Feet.
3. 3
   Dhupam

   The incense

   The six enemies of the heart rise and thin like smoke.
4. 4
   Dipam

   The lamp

   To behold The Divine Mother: that is the true lamp.
5. 5
   Naivedyam

   The food offering

   All that is seen, known, and experienced, offered.

The offering was never the ingredient.

The deeper practice of the Sri Chakra Puja, with its Sacred sounds and disciplines, is Received from a living Guru, in person, and is not taken from a page. What is offered here is the devotion itself: the acts of the worship, made by your own hand, with a sincere heart.

The shape of this worship is drawn from the temple’s received Sri Chakra Puja tradition and from the temple’s own teaching, “The Sri Yantra & The Nine Enclosures”.