{"id":13,"date":"2026-10-21T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:17:16","slug":"significance-of-aarti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Significance of Aarti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b class=\"hl\">Aarti<\/b> is a form of congregational worship, in which the devotees stand facing the image of a deity or a defied saint or, the personage (\u2018living idol\u2019) of an exalted saint singing devotional songs in unison.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the singing is accompanied by musical instruments such as bells, gongs and crymbals. The object of worship is devoutly decorated with posy garlands and, aromatic incence and musk are kept smouldering.<\/p>\n<p>While the devotees sing psalms, either an official or a devotee revolves clockwise, (usually) a fivefold oil lamp \u2013 consisting of five oil \u2013traylets &#8211; round the object of adoration. Such a performance of aarti with a fivefold oil-lamp is called panchaarati.<\/p>\n<p>A lamp with wicks burning clarified butter (ghee) is most preferred. After the devotional singing, the flame of the aarti-lamp is offered to the devotees, who pass their hands by turns over the sacred flame and quickly draw them to their faces and heads as a gesture of drawing onto themselves the auspicious energy emanating from \u2018the receptable grace\u2019 i.e the flame.<\/p>\n<p>By waving the lights in circular motion, we, in fact, symbolically perform \u2018<b class=\"hl\">Pradakshina<\/b>\u2019 around our Deity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aarti is a form of congregational worship, in which the devotees stand facing the image of a deity or a defied saint or, the personage (\u2018living idol\u2019) of an exalted saint singing devotional songs in unison. Normally, the singing is accompanied by musical instruments such as bells, gongs and crymbals. The object of worship is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarthis-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saisharan.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}