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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
evident that those whose sensual desires get pacified and eliminated and who develop love for the precepts of the enlightened attain greater and greater happiness. Only human beings can attain detachment. They can attain salvation and ineffable bliss. There is perplexity in sensual pleasures but felicity in renunciation. The greatness of renunciation shows itself in the worship of the image of the Lord. This worship is of eight kinds. Mentioned in their proper order, they are:
(1) Jala Puja (Worshipping with water). (2) Chandana Puja (Worshipping with sandal paste), (3) Pushpa Puja (Worshipping with flowers), (4) Dhoopa Puja (Worshipping with the fragrance of the smoke of incense), (5) Deepak Puja (Worshipping with lights), (6) Akshata Puja (Worshipping with holy grain), (7) Naivedya Puja (Worshipping with the offering of food), (8) Phala Puja (Worshipping with the offering of fruits).
While performing the first kind of worship the worshipper thinks that he should wash his soul of the dirt of Karmas sticking to it just as the water washes the dust and dirt covering the image.
While performing the second kind of worship, the worshipper thinks that just as sandal wood subjects
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