Who is a Pujari?

Being a pujari is not just about possessing the knowledge, the memory of the scriptures and the know-how of performing rituals. While this is essential, there is so much more.

As a pujari, one comes in regular contact with energy and uses vedic methods to derive benefits from them. He accepts donations from families in the form of rice, money etc, and helps these individuals come out of a certain issue or help them move closer to a particular objective. But in return, he reaches home, fasts at times, performs vedic mantra chantings for multiples of thousands of times, in order to surrender the karma that he himself has accumulated in the process.

In order to be able to do this, the pujari himself must be in a certain state of righteousness, a certain state of ‘tapas’. He must be practising constant rituals of his own in order to ensure that these activities do not negatively impact his own personal life. It is therefore said that certain homas or special types of pujas can only be performed by priests with the relevant ‘tapas’ and ‘anushtana’.

So in essence, being a good pujari is not just about education or experience. It is about an inner mental state. A state of calmness, of kindness towards others, a state of selflessness while praying for the betterment of others. As Karishye, we wish and humbly submit ourselves to almighty that he guides us to such people to work along side us.