Transmission
January 20, 2008
In the vedic tradition, a deity can be invoked in a person’s body, darba grass, a kalasha pot, fire, or a murti. In the photo above you see our Chief Priest, Seetharama Shastry, performing the invocation portion of a puja. What is happening is that mantras are chanted to take the energy of the deity from his “heart” and transmit it to the kalasha pot using the bundle of darba grass to link the two.
At the end of the puja, the process is reversed and the deity is returned to the pujari’s “heart”.