Puja

[avad]

Just a few more days work and the hammmering part of Puja/Prayers will be done.
Mixed feelings as usual, part of me longing for completion, part of me sad that I won't be working on it everyday anymore, as it's become such a soothing part of my days. But I will make others, and my 'training' is far from over. Still it is difficult to concentrate. To harness my thoughts and work with them. To make a 'sound' with the best of me and send it out.

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[harold3.livejournal.com]

what is puja? looks interesting from the pic... perhaps I should read your back journal and not be lazy... off to read your back journal I go.

[avad.livejournal.com]

'Puja'- a Hindu term- is 'the act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals'.
I have been working on hammered nail pieces such as this for many years now and it has become a very important ritual in my life. I do not prescribe to any one particular religion.I hammer out gratitude, questions, prayers. I'm interested in the common threads that tie together most religions and therefore I like to use as many different terms for the benevolence of 'prayer' as I can. This one will be Puja and will be painted in colors similar to an Indian Temple like the Meenakshi temple (http://www.iitk.ac.in/infocell/announce/bhopal/Meenakshi%20tample3.gif) in Madurai.