Shri Ganesha Puja 1982
I would like to tell you about the meaning of puja. There are two aspects.
One is the aspect that you have got your own Deities within yourself.
These Deities are to be awakened within you.
OFFERINGS TO GOD
Deities are the different aspects of one God. So on one side you have the
Deities. That means the aspects of God which are all the time awakened. On
the other side you have your own Deities, which are sometimes awakened,
sometimes half-awakened, sometimes sleeping and sometimes sick.
So you have to use two methods: one to please the Deities of God and to ask
them to bless your Deities or to ask them to awaken your Deities. So by doing
the puja, it means you offer anything that you have got to offer.... If you want to
offer flowers to God, you do not have to speak anything. You have to just offer,
that “this is for You.”
Anybody can understand offering. It means for that you do not have to have
even a tongue. Even if a blind man is there, if he wants to give you something,
he can just give you like this. And that expression is sufficient for anybody to be
convinced that he can offer it. You do not have to say anything about it.