Puja and the Living Goddess
If you have never seen a puja you should go and watch some. They are very instructional. They symbolically remind you of all you must do to have the proper relationship with a Living Goddess.
But first, you must understand that the presence of a properly consecrated and properly worshiped Living Goddess will fill your heart with love and joy. You may feel your body tingle, your heart open wide, your mind alight. You become aroused. You may feel the universe has expanded in Her presence.
This is Her gift to you. Without the female body there is no life and so female bodies are uniquely prepared to become a consecrated focal point for your worship, to draw up the vital energy of this planet and allow you to feel it vibrate around you and in you. A Living Goddess gives you something that no other worldly experience can give. It is something that is not readily available to men and so they are on a constant quest for it. It cannot be bought and so has immeasurable value.
Because of Her unique role, you must treat a Living Goddess properly and the puja symbolically shows you how. It teaches you exactly how to stoke the fire within Her and to feel the warmth and gain the vital energy you crave. Properly worshiped, a Goddess simply overflows with abundance. You will then never need to feel needy.
There is nothing that causes vital energy to dwindle and move away from you than thievery. This is why rape must be treated like the most egregious of crimes. It is an attempt to steal vital life energy from a woman. She can pour this energy into you freely when properly worshiped, without losing anything of Herself. With the correct effort there is an endless supply. But an attempt to steal it when She is not generating it in your favor or has not been properly honored goes against nature and will shut Her down at Her source. It is a kind of death. Rape or coercion of force snuffs out Her fire. It leaves the world cold and stale around her.
A Living Goddess properly worshiped has so much erotic life energy it can heal everyone around her. Proper worship includes offerings of beauty and things that delight the senses. Delicious food made from the heart, clean pure water, delightful fragrances that please Her (synthetic scents often do not). Fine fabrics and beautiful clothing, adornments, flowers, jewels, and precious metals. Proper worship shows reverence with kneeling, bowing, and humility. Proper worship incorporates sweet words of praise spoken with the most sincere and melodious tone and voice. Proper worship involves the right kinds of skilled and pleasurable touch at the right times. Proper worship incorporates art, music, dance, and movement to delight Her. Proper worship demonstrates sacrifices from the heart, and absolute selflessness. When She senses real selfless action the fires within Her rise. Surround Her with selfless action and She will radiate for miles. Like attracts like, and so your love attracts Her love. Express it.
Proper worship provides Her a safe temple to protect Her from thievery. And so She must have shelter. A place where those who wish to experience Her vibrating, vital, erotic energy can gather and worship Her properly. And it requires long periods of peace and meditation in Her presence, where minds are settled and She can open your heart wide to receive Her grace.
The fire of aarti allows you to share in Her vital energy, as it passes to you from the core of Her through the flame.
Properly worshiped and cared for the Goddess will bring such pleasure and grace into your life you will wonder how anything as quick and meaningless as an orgasm ever held your attention.
Improperly worshiped, Her energy dims. When held captive or when demands are made of her, or if approached with selfishness or greed, Her energy goes cold.
But there is a secret other function of the Living Goddess that I share here with caution. The Living Goddess on this planet is an alchemist. She may have experienced some abuses throughout Her life to teach Her this secret alchemy.
Your twisted thoughts can be alchemized in the blazing fire of the Living Goddess's vital energy. Kinks and fetishes can be whispered to Her as an act of vulnerability. When you open darker parts of yourself to Her light She can transform shit into gold. She has learned to do this from a very young age, sensing the neurotic drives and selfish intentions of the men in the world around her. She moved them through Her and found, when transformed, they gave Her power. And so She began the work of seeking out your dark corners to experiment with turning filth into electricity.
But in order to do so She must do so from a place of being properly worshiped. Offerings must be made. She must feel safe, comfortable, and Her senses pleased. She must be pleased first, so that whatever rage or disgust that might emerge from Her can be used to transform you and the world. This is a delicate process. But he who has sacrificed to Her with true selflessness, without expecting anything in return, and has his heart wide open in devotion will find it easy.
Alchemy is not about purification, but refinement. Without the crude raw materials, there is nothing to refine into beauty and value. So the goal is not to eliminate those parts if you, but allow them to take on new shapes.
Worship your Goddess well and then be sure to show Her all that is within you, no matter how dirty or raw. Be naked before Her in every way. If only the world could do this, we would all realise we live in a true paradise.
This is the work of the Living Goddess, worth more than money, status, political power... It is the movement of the vibration of life itself.
Devi Viola Voltairine
