Puja is a ritual, a Ceremony, in the Vedic tradition.
It is a time of offering, dedication, thanksgiving and consecration.
In a Puja, we sit before an altar that we have made up.
It can be an established altar where we deliberately and consciously superimpose the great Universal order, the Sacred Intelligence, on an object of our preference.
It can also be somewhere in nature, near the ocean, in the woods or on a mountain top where we use the elements as what is to be honored and worshipped.
In a Puja, I, the individual, relate to this Great Infinite Order, the whole. The all represents all knowledge, all power, all Love. It is the giver of all fruits of action, Bhagavan, the cause of the whole universe, "The Universal cause". In other words, it is the infallible order.
We consider the whole universe, known and unknown, as the expression of the Pure Consciousness, with multiple forms, (all forms of the living), sacred and precious.
Through Puja, we express our gratitude, invoke help, guidance and support for our path on earth through Mantras (chants) and offerings: Prasaad.
It is a way to make one's life Sacred, Divinized and Spiritualized, either through daily Puja and/or occasional Puja for special occasions, passages like birth, birthdays, marriage, initiation into adulthood and death.
Everything can be celebrated and recognized through a Puja ceremony.
At Yoga School Bretagne, we regularly organize Puja with offerings of Flowers, Fruits, and Food, just like in the Balinese tradition, with the offering baskets made every morning at sunrise by the women in the family temple of each house: Pura Keluarga.
