Why We Ring Bells as a Part of Puja?
When you’re doing puja next time, just concentrate on all the moments that you ring the bell or ghanti. Have you ever thought about why this simple and humble bell is such a crucial part of our rituals? During childhood, you always want to be the one ringing the bell because it was one way to involve yourself in the puja and also do something that felt significant. Well, the truth is that it was actually very significant! But that is plain to see if you begin to notice just how many places seem to have these sacred bells. You see them in offices, in homes, at temples, at ashrams, they’re almost everywhere! So, now it’s time to understand what they symbolise and why we should always have a ghanti during a puja. The most popular reason for using the ghanti before a puja begins is to invoke the deity that we are about to worship. It actually is a way of communicating to the universe that a puja is about to begin. Another thing that the bell does is to awaken one’s ...