Thursday, May 30, 2013

Abhishekam

Hi again supporters,

                 I hope that you had got some basic ideas about the relationship between God and Science. Now it's time for us to go a little deep into rituals done for the idols and their needs.
                One may wonder why our Gods (idols) are being washed or made to take bath, dressed, and given a make-up every day. (Muruga am sorry) I don't want to get punished by God for describing in such an obvious manner. So let me go Spiritual, "Why are Gods subjected to sacred bath (ABHISHEKAM) in a routine?" The answer lies within ourselves. We take bath to get ourselves fresh and the same is applied here, but with some added advantages. As told in the previous blog, the idols are used to store the cosmic energy and dissipate them. We know that energy transfer occurs only when there is a potential difference exists. Here in this case the idols are the high potential dissipaters and we(humans) are the low potential absorbers. The amount of energy an idol can store in them varies with respect to the size of the idol. (Sorry that I couldn't give the exact mathematical expression between the size and the storage capacity of an idol.) Hence if the number of absorbers increases, the amount of energy lost by the idols will also increase. We know that the average count of people visiting a temple is maybe 1000/day. And as the count is pretty high the idol is pushed to its limits of transferring capacity by continuously getting energy from the Khumbam and supplying it to the devotees visiting the temple. This phenomenon would eventually make God become powerless within a day. To be scientific, the composition of the idols would lose the capability of storing the cosmic energy within itself.
                In order to replenish the power of God, the idols are subjected to the ritual called Abhishekam.
This is a ritual in which the idols are made to take a sacred bath not only with water but also with Vibhuti, honey, milk, turmeric, etc



                After the Abhishekam(Holy Bath) is done, the composition of idols gets prone to the radiation again. And since they had been replenished with rich ingredients, the capabilities of God get restored. Thereby our God starts blessing the devotees again.
                 A similar bath is done to the idols present in our home also. But we usually don't do it daily. That's because the idols present in our home have only a few numbers of devotees. (fewer absorbents and hence less loss of energy )

                Usually, after the Abhishekam is done, the spent liquid is passed on to the devotees for them to drink or to apply to their heads. Since the liquid is made to flow over the statues, it is believed to have the energy collected by them. And making use of that liquid(locally called TEERTHAM) may certainly have some good effects on us. There is no exception in other religions too that they use such holy liquids(usually kept in the main shrine for a long period of time) to heal diseased beings. This procedure is by par used in Islam and Christianity also. They follow the practice of supplying the holy water to their devotees to cure diseases and Sins.


17 comments:

  1. Muslims and Christians copied a lot from older religions like Hinduism and Judaism. There's no need to mention they "also" do the same. 😤

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  2. This Milk offered to god can be used my 100s of poor families...
    Y r we neglecting human and offering to god...god does not need milk human needs it...
    How long we will be in this mith of offering so much milk to god for our selfish motive that God will do something good for us..
    He will do good for us if we do good for others not offering milk to him...If we have so much money we have to
    Give it to some poor friend in family educated their children
    Buy books make good use of money to develop the society.
    We are all educated and practical enough now....If any one feel this message makes sense .please share and break the mith��

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    1. This was exactly going inside my mind. That's why I was searching for an answer why milk abishekam is important. We have to start realising how these could be used to help our fellow mankind.

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    2. Your opiopin is exactly true... It has been also said 'service to man is service to god'. For sure we have to help the needy... But it no where related to abishekam, we are not offering milk to God... We are doido it Re energise the idol in temple so that, the cosmic energy is transformed back to the people. How ever food we eat it is cosmic energy that gives more energy to us, we also get this when we deeply meditate.

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  3. no problem in giving the milk to poor instead of pouring on god. But real help we are doing to poor is to realize them or make them to earn for milk by themselves. pouring of milk to god and getting poor to go there to watch helps them to achieve both of getting spiritual and milk..

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    1. 1st of all it's the milk of devotee ,he /she have right to offer it to anyone ,you fool don't know prasadam is distributed to many of Poor's

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    2. The science behind abhishekam was logic and making me proud to be in this religion which has this knowledge from the beginning....but the point make people realise to earn for milk by themselves is a stupid statement...babies cannot hold their starving for milk til their parents earn and buy the milk for them....such a selfish statement it was...this makes others to talk offend the abhishekam ritual..

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  4. Great explaexplan sir... But god will never punish or curse sir...
    Even the good and bad happening to us is only because of concequences of our actions (Punya and papa karma).

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  5. WTF! logic this is.
    So if u will not bath the idol it will not work properly??
    Its ur God or an electronic machine which need maintenance????

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    1. Everything and Everyone needs replenishing and since you don't pour milk on idols... tell me do you don't milk to the p?oor

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  6. WTF! logic this is.
    So if u will not bath the idol it will not work properly??
    Its ur God or an electronic machine which need maintenance????

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    1. We perform abhisekham of murti not of God ,murti is the symbol of god ,ok also that murti is manmade,

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  7. Your explanation is perfect. I would like to know the Idol (Urchava Murthy) in due course of time become thin and its image has become eroded look. Based on this reason our village temple authorities stopped doing abishekam on daily basis. Can you please tell me whether the Urchava Murthy can be made anew with the help of shilpi or give me your suitable reply.

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  8. Stupid liberals and commies have a problem with everything. I wonder since you people dont pour milk on idols.. do you donate milk to the poor everyday???

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  9. I want to know -among the people who were critical of milk being misused - how many have donated milk or money to the poor or contributed to their education

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