Thanks, I take it that you are talking about the flowers/Garlands that are still Fresh (< a day after they are made). But what about the garlands/flowers which have gone dry ? What about them @Vaagmi ?After the flowers are offered to Perumal, They are to be taken as prasad of Perumal and treated as such. If they are flowers they can be worn by women with bhakthi.
The dravida Vedas (Divya prabhantham) has the following stanza in the Thiruppallandu of Periyazhwar:
உடுத்துக்களைந்த நின் பீதகவாடை உடுத்துக் கலத்ததுண்டு
தொடுத்த துழாய் மலர் சூடிக்களைந்தன சூடும் இத்தொண்டர்களோம்.........
Meaning:
We wear the clothes that you have worn and discarded. We eat what you leave after your eating. We wear the flower and Tulsi garland that you have worn and left.
This is logic of the sesha vastram that is offered in Vishnu temples to bhaktas by tying the vastram to the head of the devotee. It is not a thalaippakkattu for a Naattaamai as we see in Tamil movies. It should be accepted by the devotee with maximum bhakti, devotion and humility.
Any ideas or anything mentioned in the Vedic Scriptures?
As per the BG (which is a shruti), flowers are only a means to worship (and hence not the end). So what you do with the flowers is pretty much your choice. A person with excess of bhakthi bhavam would obviously treat them as prasadam of the deity whereas a person who sees his offering as the act itself may not be bothered about the flowers.
Best,
Thanks, I take it that you are talking about the flowers/Garlands that are still Fresh (< a day after they are made). But what about the garlands/flowers which have gone dry ? What about them @Vaagmi ?
Dear Vaagmi Sir,
All the flowers and garlands used for the poojA can't be worn by ladies. Some will be left over too.
We usually put such flowers under the trees in the backyard, so that no one will step on them.
Also, if a river is nearby, the 'nirmAlyam' (collected for a few days, at times) is put in the running water.
Even when a picture is kept in the puja room, it is just a paper. Only the devotee infuses his bhakthi to it.They forget that the picture when it was kept in the prayer room was an object of worship representing God and when it became soiled/torn it becomes just a paper and you can have a new picture in its place to represent God.
Even when a picture is kept in the puja room, it is just a paper. Only the devotee infuses his bhakthi to it.
I am not sure if there were paper pictures of God during the Agamic or vedic times. So the picture is just a picture and does not carry any sacredness or divinity with it. It's status is as good as that outside the puja room as it is inside it.
As per the BG (which is a shruti), flowers are only a means to worship (and hence not the end). So what you do with the flowers is pretty much your choice. A person with excess of bhakthi bhavam would obviously treat them as prasadam of the deity whereas a person who sees his offering as the act itself may not be bothered about the flowers.
Best,
BG is not a Shruthi!