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PUJARI // MOODBOARD
Why didn't the priest receive the full benefit?
Can a person not receive the true benefit even after years of performing pujas at the temple? This is a true experience in which a priest shares a deeply rooted truth from his life. He explains that he previously worshipped Goddess Kali and often experienced what he considered divine—such as appearances, trances, and other spiritual events.
But over time, he realized that these were only "partial benefits"... 👉 He would tell others about the benefits, 👉 But he himself was unable to find peace and stability in his life. This is the biggest question of this story— If devotion was true, why didn't he receive the full benefit?
A major change in his life occurred when he sought refuge in Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj and understood devotion as per the scriptures. 💭 This story forces us to think— Have we also accepted only experiences and feelings as truth? 👉 True devotion is what brings real change in life. 🎥 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/Gl58hcC-ujc?si=Hg_BViXdBIx9EBOm 👉 Watch the full video on the SA News Himachal Pradesh YouTube Channel.
DESTINYTOBER: Day 5 - Impasse
Read it on AO3
"All nighter, Pujari?" Wei Ning inquires. The warlock sits at a makeshift desk, in the epicenter of a veritable blast radius of papers — reports, manuals, maps, some pinned up and highlighted — sunken-eyed, hair mussed, Ghost looking equally weary.
Titans, warlocks, and especially unfortunate hunters gather on the outskirts of the Last City, ruins and tents acting as their quarters. One of six such camps set up around the perimeter in anticipation of a massive Fallen assault. Meanwhile, other hunters — the lucky ones — travel far afield, providing intel on the enemy's advance.
"Mm." Pujari picks up the tin cup and takes a gulp of coffee. "Scouts reported House Devil walkers in the Western mountains six hours ago. We're running out of time to formulate our counter-offensive."
Wei runs a hand over the back of her head, buzzcut fresh enough to prickle under her touch. "No one loves tactics more than a titan, so I don't want you to take what I'm about to say the wrong way. Isn't this … excessive?"
"If not through planning, how do we hope to triumph?"
"When they come through the pass over there," she gestures generally in the direction, "we unload artillery on them. If they get past that, bullets. Then, our fists. We're outnumbered, sure, but we have the Light and they don't."
"The Fallen look like ragtag scavengers, but we shouldn't forget they're representatives of the Darkness. We would be unwise to underestimate their power."
"I'm not. I just know we're better. We'll be better still if we don't commit ourselves so hard to a strategy that we can't improvise. We can't get lost in the weeds of theory and forget practicalities …" Wei scans over the stack of books on the desk. Picks up the top one, which was left opened and annotated. "'A Treatise on Sky and Deep'? Come on now."
Offended, Pujari snatches it from her hands.
"You two good over there?" Eriana-3 asks, optics cocked, stepping away from her briefing with the other Praxic Warlocks.
"Uh — yes, my sunflower," Wei smiles, with a pat of her bond arm.
"A difference of opinion on strategy," Pujari offers with a thin veneer of courtesy.
"Well, Mota reported activity near the cut, so you might want to settle it soon."
Wei and Pujari exchange skeptical glances, both aware this isn't the end. For now, an agreement to disagree.
Pankajanghri Prabhu 🙏
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Vaishnava devotees of the Lord. They are just like desire trees and can fulfill the desires of everyone, and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls.”~Vaishnava Pranam
Do you think it’s possible for guardians to experience chronic pain? Or would it be unlikely due to ghosts healing and rezzing them? i.e. chronic pain in a previously injured joint that is “healed” now but still flares up from time to time
I believe it's possible. One specific thing comes to mind here is the Warlock Druis who once met Crow. She mentioned that she had a persistent headache all day:
"I signed up for a simple salvage run," she said. "Transmat some supplies, run 'em to the City. I've had a headache all morning and didn't want anything loud."
I wonder why she'd have it in the first place, being a Guardian who can just get that fixed with a Ghost. Or can she? Curiously, she also said the following:
"Not as glad as I am," Druis said. "The last thing I needed today was to take a rez with this headache. I told the Cabal that, but they wouldn't listen. Rude of 'em."
Unless this is just exaggeration to lighten the mood, apparently "taking a rez with this headache" would've been somehow unpleasant. The implication is that the pain/unpleasant feeling would transcend being rezed and she would remember it or still be impacted by it.
There's one more I can think of, but it's tangled in a lot of metaphorical language, and that is Pujari's iconic stuff about visions of the Black Garden which ends with:
When my Ghost raised me from the sea there was a thorn-cut in my left hand and it has not healed since.
I don't currently remember if there are any other more direct or better examples, but I do think that there are some injuries and pain that can persist through rezes, even if healed. If someone knows of another example, feel free to add it!
Pujari offering obeisances
Destiny Lore Blorbo Elections: Fenchurch Everis vs Pujari
Fenchurch Everis
Pujari
Fenchurch Everis is a Guardian of the Last City and the uncle of Tess Everis. Described as "exuberant", Fenchurch is a renowned collector of curiosities and treasures. He assisted his niece in establishing the Eververse Trading Company, and provides her with a number of wares to sell.
Pujari was a Warlock Thanatonaut whose studies provided insight on the more arcane parts of the universe. In particular, he received a vision of the Black Garden when he drowned at the Shores of Time. Pujari also believed that the Darkness was the physical manifestation of evil, derived from the corruption of the Golden Age.
Today I’m thinking about that quote from Eris regarding the calcified fragments with Books of Sorrow coded within:
"Osiris speaks of Darkness as undisciplined chaos, that knows only destruction... Toland speaks of a bargain... Pujari writes that the Black Garden grows in both directions... How to reconcile these teachings with the fragments?" —Eris Morn
It’s fascinating to see the evolution of our understanding of the Darkness, and yes, most of it comes from the Books of Sorrow, but also I feel like before Unveiling we were all kind of stumbling around in the dark. We now know Osiris was wrong in those particular teachings and the Darkness is far from undisciplined chaos (I would even argue it is the Light that is the chaos, reckless and knowing only growth). Toland *was* on the right track, and at this point I’m pretty sure he had had access to at least some part of the Books (idk, Hive reprints that he found and translated, not knowing what it really was) with how on point his theory was. And Pujari puzzles me here, because what Eris refers to is the quote from this card (yes, the You Are A Dead Thing one) describing his visions of the Garden. And the entire quote is even more fascinating:
The Traveler moved across the face of the iron world. It opened the earth and stitched shut the sky. It made life possible. In these things there is always symmetry. Do you understand? This is not the beginning but it is the reason.
The Garden grows in both directions. It grows into tomorrow and yesterday. The red flowers bloom forever.
There are gardeners now. They came into the garden in vessels of bronze and they move through the groves in rivers of thought.
This is incredible, incredible, because this card was added back in D1 vanilla and yet it already disproves Elsie’s (and Uldren’s!!) position on the Garden as the birthplace of the Vex--something that was finally confirmed in Unveiling. And this strange nod towards the theory of symmetry, also something very profound yet oddly enough not getting Pujari kicked out of the City as it had Ulan-Tan, lol.
Out of all the things, though, I don’t understand the connection between the Garden growing in both directions and the Darkness! Maybe that the Heart’s corruption moves paracausally through time? I have no idea why she would even consider reconciling that teaching with what she found in Books, they just feel a bit like two different planes to me. It’s interesting that she sees them corresponding.