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THE WAY OF LIFE
If your heart is full of the love for the Paramatma; you will surely visualize the Paramatma in the early morning; you know that the great scholars well-versed in the scriptures say that the early morning is the proper time for visualizing the Paramatma or for having a Darshan of his face. Heartfelt emotion is all important in austerities (performed with love). The importance of time is subsidiary. If you have devotion and love, substances and time will make themselves available to you. Whenever the lovers of the Paramatma get an opportunity of having a darshan of the Paramatma, they go into the temple and get a darshan of the Paramatma, they go into the temple and get a darshan either at noon or in the evening. If on any day, they cannot go to the temple, their souls experience great unhappiness. Their souls writhe in pain.
WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS CONFORMITY TO RULES
If any enlightened person describes the method of worshipping the Paramatma to the lovers of the Paramatma, they do not get angry; they do not ignore his words; on the other hand, they listen to his words with enthusiasm and will adopt the method he describes. The enlightened persons describe and prescribe these methods and means. People must enter the temple uttering the expression, "Nisihi (I promise not to do anything wrong here); they should perform three circumambulations round the temple; they should prostrate three times to the Paramatma; they should perform three kinds of worship namely, Angapuja (Worshipping by touching the idol) Agrapuja (Worshipping before the idol), Bhavapuja (Worshipping him in one's heart); they should contemplate on the states of the Paramatma; (the disguised state; the enlightened state and the transcendental state), they should see only the image of the Paramatma; they should realize the full significance of sound, sense and symbol etc. The lovers of the Paramatma adopt all these methods and means.
WHERE THERE IS LOVE; THERE IS DEDICATION
Would you go empty-handed to the Paramatma whom you love? Would you go to him wearing dirty and soiled dress?
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