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Kriya Yoga and Idol-Worship
The worshipper should offer Me with faith and sincerity Achamana, Padya (water for washing the feet and mouth), scent, sandal, flowers. Akshatas, incense, light and presents of fine articles.
If one has the means, sweet cooked rice, or rice which is boiled with milk, specially prepared articles of food with ghee, different kinds of flour cakes and sweets, curd, vegetables, dhall, ghee, butter, puddings of wheat flour etc., should be offered to Me.
My image may be washed with milk, oil and other ointments. The devotee may clean My feet, teeth etc. He may adorn the altar with mirrors. He may prepare various kinds of food for Me, give Me treats of music and dancing or singing on special days like fullmoon, newmoon, Ekadasi etc.
In a pit dug in the earth made according to the rules with a girdle, cavity, platform and altar, he should place fire and when it is well-kindled, he should collect it with his own hand.
Having according to rules placed the sacred grass (Kusa) round it and sprinkled water on all the four sides, having performed a process called Anavadhana i.e., placing the sacred fuel and other things and placed to the north of fire, the articles to be offered and sprinkled, then with a spoon of water from the consecrated vessel, he should meditate on Me in the fire.
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