मूर्तिपूजा और नाम-जपकी महिमा
Mūrti-pūjā and the Glory of Nāma-japa
Worship through the Sacred Image and Repetition of the Divine Name
Swami Ramsukhdas · Complete English reading edition
A compact two-part teaching on worshipping God through the sacred image and on remembering the Divine Name inwardly, through japa, and aloud in kīrtana.
About this edition
Form and Name as doors to God
This edition follows the two Gītā-Darpaṇa selections paragraph by paragraph, preserving their questions, answers, scriptural quotations, numbered teachings, stories, and repetitions.
The title and epigraph on scan 2 and the complete book on scans 4–57 and 59–64 are included. Scan 58 is an unrelated inserted page; scans 65–66 are a promotional extract from another work. They are documented but excluded.
Editorial reading guide
- 01Worship of God through the sacred image
- 02Divine presence rather than stone as stone
- 03Self-manifested forms and consecrated images
- 04The Name and the One who is named
- 05Remembrance, japa, and kīrtana
- 06The Divine Name throughout life and at its close
Reading vocabulary
Distinctions preserved in translation
- mūrti-pūjā
- worship of God through a sacred image
- smaraṇa
- mental remembrance
- japa
- inward or spoken repetition
- kīrtana
- the Divine Name voiced aloud
- svayambhū mūrti
- a self-manifested sacred image
- darśana
- the blessed sight or vision of God
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