Why Shiva Puja ?
Following the Pada Puja, the Shiva Puja is offered to our Atma Linga. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM reveals,
" On anything you put you put your time-life energy that will reveal its secrets to you. That is what I call Bhāva Samādhi. Sit and connect with Sadashiva. Wherever you may be, whoever you may be, whatever form you may be, something I may know, something I may not know –
O Sadashiva. I know you are the Source of Everything. You are Everything and you are in this Linga. You are in this body. You are the source for both. Let me connect with you. Let you reveal yourself to me. Let me be in the Bhava Samadhi of You, Shivoham.
When you sit in that bhava samadhi, and do the action of Shiva Puja, the Embodied States of Consciousness becomes your reality. Bhāva Samādhi becomes possibility. It is this Bhāva Samādhi, which are the juiciest moments and higher
taste of life. "