Gadhada Last Section Vach. 23 Vachanamrut Rahasyarth Pradeepika Tika

A disciple of God should perform the mental worship (mansi pooja) of God every day. The way to perform that mental worship is as follows: The mental worship should be different during each of the three seasons, i.e. summer, winter and monsoon. During the four months of summer, one should firstly bathe God with fresh, cool, fragrant and clean water. He should then be offered a washed, white khes to wear, which is fine, light and thick. God should be seated on a splendid seat and then sandalwood paste, which has been prepared by rubbing fragrant Maliyagar sandalwood and collected in a bowl, should be applied over His entire Murti. Firstly, it should be applied to His forehead and then, one should concentrate on looking at His forehead. It should then be applied to His hands and then one should concentrate on looking at His hands. The sandalwood paste should then be applied to His chest, abdomen, thighs, calves, and His other body-parts. One should then concentrate on looking at each of these parts. Splendid kunkoo should then be applied to His lotus feet and soles, after which, one should concentrate on looking at God’s lotus feet. God should then be adorned with garlands of fragrant flowers, such as mogra, chameli, rose and champo, and various flower ornaments, such as bracelets, armlets and cap, should be offered to Him. A finely woven cloth, which is light and as white as a mogra flower, should be offered to God for tying around His head. A white, fine, beautiful shawl (pachedi) should then be draped around Him. One should then embrace God, either once, twice, or however many times one likes, in accordance with the degree of affection that arises for Him. God’s lotus feet should then be placed on one’s chest and then on one’s head. Due to the embrace with God, the sandalwood paste applied to His body will have smeared onto one’s own body; and due to placing God’s lotus feet on the chest and head, the kunkoo would have smeared onto one’s own body. Also, petals from the flower garlands would have stuck onto one’s own body. One should concentrate on all of this and realise, ‘the sandalwood paste, kunkoo and garlands that have been consecrated by God have touched my body’.