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Panchopachar pooja.

1. So the first step is saying vaM apaathmanaa jalam kalpayaami saying this, one shall rub the ring finger with the thumb from the base to the tip, both hands. My aunt's father-in-law used to say, "When you rub the ring finger with the thumb as part of pooja and say 'vam' then water should flow from the tip of your ring finger." I said, "It is not possible." He said, "It is!" and he showed me. That shows the concentration needed. As you rub, imagine all the pure and offerable waters of the world as being offered to the deity. 2. The next step is rubbing the little finger with thumb base to tip, reciting laM prithivyaathmanaa gandham kalpayaami. Here we offer the deity all that is sweet-smelling in the gross world. When you do that you must feel the sweetest otherworldly smell. 3. Next you rub the thumb from the base up with the index finger,reciting haM aakaashaathmanaa pushpam kalpayami. Thus we offer to the diety the best most beautiful and sweet smelling flowers. You must visualize all of these flowers innumerable in number manifesting out of the tip of your thumb at the feet of the deity. 4. Next is the index finger, and you say yaM vaaywaathmanaa dhoopam kalpayaami, "all the best incenses are offered here in form of sweetsmelling smoke" -- and you must manifest the smoke. 5. Then the middle finger: raM vahnyaathmanaa deepam kalpayami. The primordial light that first came is offered to Her and you visualize the darkness of ignorance being removed by this Divine Light. 6. Then, again, the ring finger, but this time with vaM amritaatmanaa naivedyam kalpayaami. With that you offer all that is exquisitely edible and nutritious to Devi; and with that, everything goes back to its primordial state. Finis. Is your question answered now?

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