What: Snatra Puja
When: January 19th 2013
Where: JSSD Vista Center
Time: 9.30 AM to 11.30 PM (followed by Lunch)
Details:
The purpose of performing Snatra Puja is to perceive and praise the virtues and attributes of the supreme beings Jineshwar (24 Tirthankars), and thereby remembering to always conduct ones own daily life with the same supreme virtues and attributes. This is a very auspicious event for our Jain Sangh in San Diego and we urge all the community members, specially Pathshala kids to attend and participate in the puja.
Donations
Each Puja (total 8): As per individual wishes (donation box will be available)
Shanti kalash:$151
Arti: $101
Divo: $101
Sign-up
1. Puja Labhs -- please click here (** please wear washed and clean clothes to avoid ashatana to Bhagvan **)
2. Lunch RSVP -- please click here
3. Swami-vatsalya sponsorship -- please contact Rekhaben Savla (rekhasavla@hotmail.com) or Manish Shah (mshah_1202@yahoo.com).
Snatra-Puja Details
Snatra Puja consists of following parts -
1. Remembering and respectfully worshiping the virtues, attributes and characteristics that allowed the 24 Tirthankars to attain salvation.
2. Celebration of the birth and re-enactment of the Tirthankars first bathing ceremony.
3. Astha Prakari Puja: Worship with eight symbolic entities.
4. Aarti
5. Divo
6. Shanti-Kalash Ceremonial Process.
7. Bhav Puja: Chaityavandan
When: January 19th 2013
Where: JSSD Vista Center
Time: 9.30 AM to 11.30 PM (followed by Lunch)
Details:
The purpose of performing Snatra Puja is to perceive and praise the virtues and attributes of the supreme beings Jineshwar (24 Tirthankars), and thereby remembering to always conduct ones own daily life with the same supreme virtues and attributes. This is a very auspicious event for our Jain Sangh in San Diego and we urge all the community members, specially Pathshala kids to attend and participate in the puja.
Donations
Each Puja (total 8): As per individual wishes (donation box will be available)
Shanti kalash:$151
Arti: $101
Divo: $101
Sign-up
1. Puja Labhs -- please click here (** please wear washed and clean clothes to avoid ashatana to Bhagvan **)
2. Lunch RSVP -- please click here
3. Swami-vatsalya sponsorship -- please contact Rekhaben Savla (rekhasavla@hotmail.com) or Manish Shah (mshah_1202@yahoo.com).
Snatra-Puja Details
Snatra Puja consists of following parts -
1. Remembering and respectfully worshiping the virtues, attributes and characteristics that allowed the 24 Tirthankars to attain salvation.
2. Celebration of the birth and re-enactment of the Tirthankars first bathing ceremony.
3. Astha Prakari Puja: Worship with eight symbolic entities.
- Jala Puja: (Water): Water symbolizes the ocean. Every living being continuously travels through life's ocean birth, death, and misery. This puja reminds that one should live their life with honesty, truthfulness, love and compassion towards all living beings. This way one will be able to cross life's ocean and attain Moksha or liberation.
- Chandan Puja: (Sandal wood): Chandan symbolizes knowledge (Jnan). By performing this puja, one should strive for Right Knowledge. Jainism preaches that the Path of Knowledge is the main path to attain liberation. Bhakti or Devotion helps in the early stages of one's effort for liberation.
- Pushpa Puja: (Flower): A flower symbolizes conduct. Our conduct should be like a flower, which provides fragrance and beauty to all living beings without discrimination. We should live our life like a flower, with love and compassion towards all living beings.
- Dhoop Puja: (Incense): Dhoop symbolizes the ascetic life. While burning itself, incense provides fragrance to others. Similarly, true monks and nuns spend their entire life selflessly for the benefit of all living beings. This puja reminds that one should strive for an ascetic lifestyle that ultimately leads to liberation.
- Deepak Puja: (Candle): The flame of deepak represents Pure Consciousness or a soul without any bondage (liberated soul). In Jainism, such a soul is called a Siddha or God. The ultimate goal of every living being is to become liberated from karma. By doing this puja one should strive to follow the Five Great Vows: Non violence, Truthfulness, Non stealing, Chastity and Non possession. Ultimately, these vows coupled with Right Faith and Knowledge will lead to liberation.
- Akshat Puja: (Rice): Since rice is a non-fertile grain, it cannot be grown by seeding it. Symbolically, it means that rice is the last birth. By doing this puja, one should strive to put all their efforts in life as if this is their last life. And after the end of this life, one will be liberated and will not be reborn again.
- Naivedya Puja: (Sweet): Naivedya symbolizes a tasty food. By doing this puja, one should strive to reduce or eliminate attachment to tasty food. Healthy food is essential for survival, however one should not live to eat tasty food. The ultimate aim in one's life is to attain a life where no food is essential for our existence. That is the life of a liberated soul who lives in Moksha forever in ultimate bliss.
- Fal Puja: (Fruit):Fruit symbolizes Moksha or Liberation. If we live our life without any attachment to worldly affair, continue to perform our duty without any expectation and reward, be a witness to all the incidents that occur surrounding us and within us, truly follow ascetic life, and have a love and compassion to all living beings, we will attain the fruit of Moksha or liberation. This is the last puja performed and symbolizes the ultimate achievement of our life.
4. Aarti
5. Divo
6. Shanti-Kalash Ceremonial Process.
7. Bhav Puja: Chaityavandan
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