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BAAL YUVIKA

MANDAL

PRANAM

Its a way to show respect to elders

ENTERING THE TEMPLE

Touch mandir stairs

This signifies leaving your ego outside

GIFT TO ALMIGHTY

Once inside approach main sinhasan

Place money/offerings into the container

DO NOT

THROW!!!!!

He accepts it as a gift from a humble

devotee

DARSHAN

Remember your going to see (get darshan of) KING OF ALL KINGS so ladies please cover your heads

When standing infront of maharaj take as long as you need to observe (Nirakh) and do DHYAN

SANG DHYAN

Look through maharaj’s vagha and imagine all the tils and cheen starting from Maharaj’s right foot all the way round his body down to his left foot.

UPANG DHYAN

Vagha sahit dhyan noticing haars and flowers

SUPASHADH DHYAN

Dhyan of maharaj seated in sabha with santos

SALEEL DHYANDhyan of maharaj doing leela

Benefit of Dhyan

Not only get peace and closeness with Maharaj when observing Him,

but you can experience all of that again when you do your darshan and visualise Him within.

types of Pranam

Ashtang Pranam8 parts of body

touch Maharaj’s charan

Panchang Pranam5 parts of body

touch Maharaj’s charan

Panchang Pranam

These five parts include:

HandsFeetHeadEyesMind

Video on how to do Panchang pranam

After panchang pranam what next?

Touch any pasadini murtis, touch their charans and then to eyes and over your head.

Then do namaskar to all murtis of the Acharyas (Guru Namaskar)

Proceed to do atleast 3 pradikshinas

After all is done sit down QUIETLY in the sabha.