| Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Chapter 14 (part 1) |
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28) sitting with one's back to the Deity;
More offenses listed in other scriptures "Other scriptural sources have listed additional offenses; these I mention briefly. "It is offensive to eat opulently; to touch the Deity of Hari in darkness; to touch the Deity without proper rituals; to open the altar doors without an accompanying performance of music and song for the pleasure of the Lord; to offer food to the Lord that has been seen by a dog; to speak during Deity worship; to offer arati without putting a flower garland on the Deities; to worship Lord Krsna with unattractive or non-fragrant flowers; to offer worship to Lord Krsna without first cleansing the face and mouth; to offer worship to the Deity having neglected to take a bath after with one's wife; to be in the presence of a woman during her menstrual period; to offer worship directly after having kindled a fire; to pass air before the Deity; to offer worship wearing dirty or contaminated clothes; to offer worship while angry; to offer worship directly after having been at a cremation ground, or having touched:a body or seen a body's face; The basis of ethical protest against genetic engineering on lower and higher species is respect. And the basis of our respect for living beings is our perception of a fundamental distinction between the living and the nonliving. We see life as special. Without that respect for the living, there is no basis for protesting the treatment of the living as if they were nonliving. to offer worship while suffering from indigestion or dysentery; to offer worship immediately after eating; to offer worship while chewing betel or tobacco; to touch the Deity after having had a massage with oil; to worship with flowers from the pipal or castor tree; to worship at an inauspicious time; to worship while squatting on a small wooden stool; to touch the Lord with the left hand while bathing the Deity; to offer old or already offered flowers; to boast during worshipping; to spit habitually; to worship the Deity after having applied smudged or zigzag tilaka; to enter the temple without washing the feet; to offer the Deity food cooked by a non-Vaisnava; to do puja in front of a non-Vaisnava. |