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Rituals and meaning: Our ritual combine religion, medicine, yoga, wellness, cooperation, climate and all issues and they evolved over a long period of time. People at every generation did understand something and others followed their elders believing that their parents knew better. Nothing was documented. For example, we offer flowers, fruits etc., that are locally available as a gratitude to GOD in the South with coconuts, beetle leaves, where as in the North India they offer dried fruits in winter. Which is right?
The idea is to offer – emotional satisfaction and no GOD has taken them and eaten- showing the gratitude for the invisible GOD or nature. You walk around the temple three times as an exercise and try to reduce your mental stress by channelizing our thoughts and enhancing our faith in better days ahead etc. They offer Tulsi (Basel ) water as a precaution against cold virus (Ayurveda) as Vishnu is also accepted as Danvantri and so on.
So, your question is as though like Vatican, we have some authority who knows and has written down every thing. Remember, until writing came into practice, only sruti – heard from ears – chanted form was prevalent. Thus, when you ask a question, even though you might not mean, show some invisible authority you have to ask such question. You need to read and search extensively to understand all the old systems. Curiosity is different from egoistic questioning – look at your statement : So would want to know the origin and more info. on that without any tweaking.”. Good luck

<blockquote data-quote="Mani_Chennai" data-source="post: 462945" data-attributes="member: 96637">Rituals and meaning: Our ritual combine religion, medicine, yoga, wellness, cooperation, climate and all issues and they evolved over a long period of time. People at every generation did understand something and others followed their elders believing that their parents knew better. Nothing was documented. For example, we offer flowers, fruits etc., that are locally available as a gratitude to GOD in the South with coconuts, beetle leaves, where as in the North India they offer dried fruits in winter. Which is right? The idea is to offer – emotional satisfaction and no GOD has taken them and eaten- showing the gratitude for the invisible GOD or nature. You walk around the temple three times as an exercise and try to reduce your mental stress by channelizing our thoughts and enhancing our faith in better days ahead etc. They offer Tulsi (Basel ) water as a precaution against cold virus (Ayurveda) as Vishnu is also accepted as Danvantri and so on. So, your question is as though like Vatican, we have some authority who knows and has written down every thing. Remember, until writing came into practice, only sruti – heard from ears – chanted form was prevalent. Thus, when you ask a question, even though you might not mean, show some invisible authority you have to ask such question. You need to read and search extensively to understand all the old systems. Curiosity is different from egoistic questioning – look at your statement : So would want to know the origin and more info. on that without any tweaking.”. Good luck</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mani_Chennai, post: 462945, member: 96637"] Rituals and meaning: Our ritual combine religion, medicine, yoga, wellness, cooperation, climate and all issues and they evolved over a long period of time. People at every generation did understand something and others followed their elders believing that their parents knew better. Nothing was documented. For example, we offer flowers, fruits etc., that are locally available as a gratitude to GOD in the South with coconuts, beetle leaves, where as in the North India they offer dried fruits in winter. Which is right? The idea is to offer – emotional satisfaction and no GOD has taken them and eaten- showing the gratitude for the invisible GOD or nature. You walk around the temple three times as an exercise and try to reduce your mental stress by channelizing our thoughts and enhancing our faith in better days ahead etc. They offer Tulsi (Basel ) water as a precaution against cold virus (Ayurveda) as Vishnu is also accepted as Danvantri and so on. So, your question is as though like Vatican, we have some authority who knows and has written down every thing. Remember, until writing came into practice, only sruti – heard from ears – chanted form was prevalent. Thus, when you ask a question, even though you might not mean, show some invisible authority you have to ask such question. You need to read and search extensively to understand all the old systems. Curiosity is different from egoistic questioning – look at your statement : So would want to know the origin and more info. on that without any tweaking.”. Good luck [/QUOTE]

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