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Ritual
What happens, and why it is done that way.
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Ritual
Home Puja: A Simple Daily Practice
A lamp, a little water, a few minutes and a steady habit. How families have kept daily worship at home, and how to begin without overcomplicating it.
Pandit Rajendra Prasad Mishra · 3 min
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Ritual
The Sixteen Samskaras
From before conception to the final rites, the sixteen samskaras mark the stages of a life. What each one is, and how families observe them today.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min
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Ritual
Shraddha and Pind Daan: Remembering Ancestors
Shraddha is less about appeasing the dead than about a family deliberately remembering them. What the rite involves, and what it does not claim.
Pandit Suresh Tripathi · 3 min
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Ritual
Upanayanam: The Sacred Thread
The thread is the visible part. Upanayanam is really about a student being brought to a teacher, and the discipline that follows.
Acharya Vishwanath Iyer · 3 min
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Ritual
Sankalpa: The Statement of Intention
Every puja begins with a sankalpa, a formal statement of who is acting, where, when and why. Why this short recitation is the foundation of a ritual.
Acharya Vishwanath Iyer · 3 min
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Ritual
The Role of the Priest in a Vedic Ritual
A priest is not a middleman selling access to the gods. In the Vedic model, the yajamana performs the rite and the priest makes it possible.
MyAstro7 Editorial · 3 min