గురు బ్రహ్మ గురుర్ విష్ణుః గురుర్ దేవో మహేశ్వరః
గురు స్సాక్షాత్ పరబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః
శుక్లాం బరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం
ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్ సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే
శ్రుతి స్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం
నమామి భగవత్ పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం
ఓం నమః శివాయ
I created this post based on the following
- One of the episodes of Brahmasri Chaaganti KoteswaraRao gaari pravachaanaalu.
- Inputs from a friend of mine.
We invite a very important person to our house. Lets say, this person is a minister. We are looking for some promotion or some contract which is in the hands of the minister. We know that if we take care of this guest well when he visits, our job gets done. On the day of his visit, we do all the following things.
1. We keep our house clean, provide proper sitting place with appropriate air circulation and lighting, with proper decoration.
2. We also keep ourselves neat and clean wearing some good dress. Since the minister is coming to our house, obviously our close friends and relatives also would want to have a look at the minister and if possible, give a shot to be noticed by the minister. So, we invite them as well. We give them clear instructions about the starting time so that they dont keep coming in whenever they want and are assembled much before the minister comes in.
3. Once the ministers car stops outside the gate, we rush out and with great respect get him and his family/colleagues inside. Make them sit in the designated locations.
4. We first give him Water, then coffee or some drink of their choice.
5. Then we start our program. We give a detailed introduction of our minister. We praise him and different members take turns to do the same (if at all we allow them).
6. In between if some of our friends/relatives walk in, we obviously would not leave the minister and his entourage and receive our friends. We put all our attention on our guest and his entourage and the rest of the guests are ignored, if necessary.
7. While sitting with the minister and talking to him and discussing things, we obviously will not ask him to wait there, while we go and conduct another discussion with someone else in between.
8. Then we make food arrangements and take so much care in feeding the minister to ensure that he gets to eat the things that he likes. We would have checked with the close aides of the minister abouts his likes and dislikes and our menu would follow that strictly irrespective of whether we like those or not.
9. We will put in all our efforts to ensure that the minister eats properly and feels contended.
10. We will make some arrangements for his recreation (mostly a TV these days) and provide him a place for rest for some time and once he is ready to leave, we thank him profusely for visiting our house and just before he leaves, we put in our request as well.
11. We provide a proper send off to him and keep looking at his car till it is out of sight.
12. Post that we will start paying attention to our guests who have assembled. We might then apologize to some of the bigger guests among them, stating the reasons for not being able to pay attention to them earlier.
Whenever we do Pooja, this is exactly what we do (rather supposed to do).
1. The minister is none other than God himself (Analogy, not that every Minister is a God).
2. Ministers entourage is none other than all the navagrahas and Indraadi Ashta dikpaalakulu. We keep placing betel leaves with Nuts, coins on the mandapa inviting each devatha (we keep saying ఆవాహయామి)
3. Shodashopachaara (16 upachaaras or activities) pooja, which is performed in every pooja that we do, is nothing but all the activities that I have mentioned above.
…To be continued
సర్వే జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు
PS: There could be typos and other mistakes in telugu and english, kindly pardon me with big hearts.
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