[ goor-oo, goo–roo poo-jah ]
Guru Pooja is a certain science of using chants and offerings to manifest a powerful experience in your living space.
This particular Guru Pooja is known as Shodashopachara, which refers to sixteen ways of welcoming a Guru. Far from being a religious ritual, Guru Pooja is a way of using emotion as a tool and involves a certain reorientation of one’s energies, which can bring a different quality into your life if practiced on a regular basis. Guru Pooja is offered to a lamp as a symbol of all the great masters, regardless of what culture or religion they belong to.
Guru Pooja Training is conducted as a 4-day residential program at the Isha Yoga Center, India, at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences, USA, and more occasionally at various other centers across the world.
Prerequisites
Completion of the Inner Engineering Program (including the Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya) is a prerequisite for attending this program.
“Guru Pooja is a way of making your system become an invitation to a divine.”
– Sadhguru
Introduction
▵ Guru Pooja is a certain science of using chants and offerings to manifest a powerful experience in your living space.
This particular Guru Pooja is known as Shodashopachara, which refers to sixteen ways of welcoming a Guru. Far from being a religious ritual, Guru Pooja is a way of using emotion as a tool and involves a certain reorientation of one’s energies, which can bring a different quality into your life if practiced on a regular basis. Guru Pooja is offered to a lamp as a symbol of all the great masters, regardless of what culture or religion they belong to.
Spiritual Significance
▵ Guru Pooja is not about offering a flower, a fruit, and a coconut – this is a subtle process to create an invitation to the Divine. There is a difference between meditation and a ritual. Meditation is all your own stuff – it is exclusive. But if we actively participate in a ritual, everyone can be in the same space and enjoy the same thing. If performed properly, a ritual is a vibrant and fabulous tool that supports everyone. A ritual needs integrity, involvement, and inclusiveness. If there is no integrity and inclusiveness in the atmosphere, people can misuse it in so many different ways. So there is a serious risk because generally in the society, there is a lack of integrity and inclusiveness.
Guru Pooja is a tool, a certain method. It is not a thanksgiving ceremony. Yes, there is a sense of gratitude in it, but that is not what it is all about. It is a way of creating a certain sacred energy geometry which will naturally draw certain forces to it. You must do the Guru Pooja in such a way that no matter where I am, I must come. I should not have a choice. This is only possible if you make yourself choiceless.
Guru Pooja is a device for you to make yourself utterly choiceless. All these rituals are just that – you give yourself to a process and make yourself completely choiceless. When you are like that, even the Guru does not have a choice. You need to make it in such a way that the Divine does not have a choice about you.
Prerequisites
▵ Completion of the Inner Engineering Program (including the Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya) is a prerequisite for attending this program.
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Guru Pooja Training is conducted as a 4-day residential program at the Isha Yoga Center, India, at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences, USA, and more occasionally at various other centers across the world.
▵ Guru Pooja (Isha)
▵ Guru Pooja – An Invitation to the Divine (Isha)
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▵ Guru Pooja (Isha)
▵ Guru Pooja – An Invitation to the Divine (Isha)