There is certainly no need to do any pujas once one has turned to the Divine Mother. All our puja and worship and surrender must go to Her and Her alone. This is the fundamental rule of Yoga. But in our vision of Her we may limit Her to one body and physical space (which of course is important and special) or universalise our devotion finding Her everywhere and in everything. The former approach is a narrower and intense path, even a quicker one. But some may be called upon to take the latter, wider path. To each his own unique journey. Sri Aurobindo reveals this subtle but important distinction to us in The Synthesis of Yoga.
‘The way of the integral Yoga of bhakti will be to universalise this conception of the Deity, to personalise him intimately by a multiple and an all-embracing relation, to make him constantly present to all the being and to devote, give up, surrender the whole being to him, so that he shall dwell near to us and in us and we with him and in him. Manana and darśana, a constant thinking of him in all things and seeing of him always and everywhere is essential to this way of devotion. When we look on the things of physical Nature, in them we have to see the divine object of our love; when we look upon men and beings, we have to see him in them and in our relation with them to see that we are entering into relations with forms of him; when breaking beyond the limitation of the material world we know or have relations with the beings of other planes, still the same thought and vision has to be made real to our minds. The normal habit of our minds which are open only to the material and apparent form and the ordinary mutilated relation and ignore the secret Godhead within, has to yield by an unceasing habit of all-embracing love and delight to this deeper and ampler comprehension and this greater relation. In all godheads we have to see this one God whom we worship with our heart and all our being; they are forms of his divinity. So enlarging our spiritual embrace we reach a point at which all is he and the delight of this consciousness becomes to us our normal uninterrupted way of looking at the world. That brings us the outward or objective universality of our union with him.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
