Prasad’s benefits can be explained both at the material as well as spiritual levels. Prasad is a food that is cooked hygienically. Bhagavad-gita mentions about prasad as food to be in the mode of goodness (sattva-guna). When we eat prasad, it is healthy for the body. This is the benefit of prasad at the material level. However, the very word prasad itself focuses on something trans-material. Prasad means the mercy of the Lord that is coming through food.
What does mercy coming through food means? When we offer food to God, to Shiva, what happens? One may say when you keep the food in front of the Deities, the food remains as it is. Nothing happens. Keeping the food in front of Them is just a blind faith. No, it is not like that. Food is the medium by which we offer our devotion. For example, sometime when we go to meet a relative we carry some box of sweets for them. Normally, in cultured families if we are giving a gift they also give some gift back. They will also pack the box and will give us some sweets. An outsider who is watching us going inside and then coming outside from the house might think, “You entered with a box of sweets, but when you came out you had the same box of sweets, so what is a big deal?”
Here it is important to understand that the content of the box is not important, but what was reciprocated through that is more important. Actually, through that box of sweets we offered our affection to the relatives and by return gift the relatives also offered their affection back to us. In a similar way, when we offer bhoga to Lord Shiva, we are actually offering our devotion to Him. The Lord accepts our devotion and in return He puts back His mercy. It is this mercy that we receive. Externally, the food may seem the same but internally we will find that prasad has a delicious taste and most importantly it also has Shiva’s grace that can transform our heart.
The ritual of performing aarti is an integral a part of worshipping in Hinduism. The Mahadev Aarti lyrics are in praise of Lord Shiva and every verse ends with letter of invitation to the Lord to get rid of unhappiness and pain from life. The Mahadev Aarti is sung by devotees is an pleasant ways to please Him with the good benefits and receive His blessing. The last verse means that the performing of Mahadev Aarti regularly with an good heart can fulfil one's wishes. This Aarti is popularly performed during the Mahashivratri, Shravan Maas, on Mondays and it's said that Lord Shiva likes devotees performing His Aarti. The meaning within the English of the Mahadev Aarti has been provided after each verse for devotees to grasp what the lines mean.
जयशिवओंकारा, ॐजयशिवओंकारा। ब्रह्मा, विष्णु, सदाशिव, अर्द्धांगीधारा॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
Jai Shiv Omkara, Om jai Shiv Omkara, Brahma Vishnu Sadashiv ArddhagniDhara. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: Glory to you, O Shiva! Glory to you, O Omkaara! May Brahma, Vishnu and therefore the assembly of other gods, including the good Lord Shiva, relieve me of my afflictions!
एकाननचतुराननपंचाननराजे। हंसासनगरूड़ासनवृषवाहनसाजे॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
EkananChaturananPanchanan Rajai, HansananGarudasanVrishvahanSajai. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: Being absolutely the, True being, Consciousness and Bliss, you play the roles of all the three Gods - Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. As Vishnu, you have got but one face, as Brahma four and as Shiva five. They gladden the sight of all who behold them. As Brahma you favor the rear of the swan for your seat, as Vishnu you wish to ensconce yourself on the rear of Garuda (A large mythological and consumption of eagle - like bird they believed to be the vehicle of deity Lord Vishnu) and as Lord Shiva you create the sacred bull your conveyance; of these stand ready.
दोभुजचारचतुर्भुजदसभुजअतिसोहे। त्रिगुणरूपनिरखतेत्रिभुवनजनमोहे॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
Do Bhuj Char Chaturbhuj Das Bhuj AtiSohe, TrigunRoopNirakhta Tribhuvan Jan Mohe. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: As Brahma, you possess two arms of the body, as Lord Vishnu four and as Lord Shiva ten, all of which they look an matchlessly lovely and purity soul. No sooner do the inhabitants of the three spheres behold you than they're all enchanted.
अक्षमालावनमालामुण्डमालाधारी। त्रिपुरारीकंसारीकरमालाधारी॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
AkshaymalaVanmalaMundmala Dhari, ChadanMrigmadSohaiBhale Shashi Dhari. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
श्वेतांबरपीतांबरबाघंबरअंगे। सनकादिकगरुणादिकभूतादिकसंगे॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
ShvetambarPitambarBaghambar Ange, SankadikGarunadikBhootadikSange. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: O great Lord Omkaara the ruling deity, your body shape is attired in two colours white and yellow with two clothes silken clothes and in tiger skin, while in an company are troops of goblins, gods like Brahma and divine seers like Sanaka. Pray rid me of my afflictions.
करकेमध्यकमंडलुचक्रत्रिशूलधारी। सुखकारीदुखहारीजगपालनकारी॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
Kar keMashyaKamandalu Chakra Trishooldhari, SukhkariDukhhari Jag Palankari. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: O great Lord Omkaara, you hold akamandalu (the mendicants water-jar) in one in every of your hands and in another a trident; you bring joy to any or all or any, destroy all distress and sustain the whole world.
ब्रह्माविष्णुसदाशिवजानतअविवेका। प्रणवाक्षरमेंशोभितयेतीनोंएका॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
Brahma Vishnu Sadashiv JaanatAviveka, Pranvaakshar me Shobhit Yah Tinon Eka. Om Jai Shiv Omkara
Meaning: The ignorant know Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva as three different individual gods, but they're all very strong indistinguishably fused into one mystic syllable ‘OM’. Pray the rid me of my different afflictions.
कहतशिवानंदस्वामीसुखसंपतिपावे॥ ॐजयशिवओंकारा
KahatShivanand Swami Manvanchhit Phal Pave. Om Jai Shiv Omkara/
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