SHRAVANA ‘RAINED’ DEVOTION
ll ॐ नमः शिवाय ll Dear Bhaktas, 'May there be timely and bountiful rains, काले वर्षतु पर्जन्यः , and may mother earth be green with life-giving vegetation पृथिवी शस्य-शालिनी '; this we pray after every pooja (worship). It delights you thus to see it happen here, when trees and creepers assume forms of mountains! The Lord becomes all the Vanaspati that feeds the body, becoming the body as it were. Symbolically, we deck him up with leaves,