The Importance of Trivikram Poojan

In Dainik Pratyaksha’s Tuslipatra (symbolic of the purity of the Tulsi leaf) 1483, Sadguru Shri Aniruddha  says - ‘Indeed if the Trivikram touches a person’s mind, body or soul even once and if that person accepts that Bhavsparsh (divine touch) out of the  sheer feeling of faith, repentance or even by improving upon one's mistake, that devotee’s life itself becomes a splendid mine.’

In Tulsipatra 1464, Bapu also writes, ‘The basis of Sadguru tattva that is the Trivikram, keeps his Shraddhavans connected to him and rids his truest Shraddhavans of their perils in times of difficulties. A Shraddhavan will never be able to apprehend, the ways in which Trivikram chooses to help him’.  

Also, while telling us the importance of worshipping Trivikram in the Agralekh no. 520 Bapu says, “Trivikram’s pooja, prayers or the devotional worship done in any form is an auspicious path which can surely rid a Shraddhavan of his insufficiency, poverty and weakness of any form or level. 

For Trivikram himself possesses excellent attributes (Saguna) and immensely full of the Nava-Ankur-Aishwarya. The Trivikram always grants his Shraddhavans in a fourfold measure the fruits of their faith and devotion. For his Shraddhavans, the Trivikram is the one and only support in this three-dimensional world encompassing all the three sides.

Such is the Trivikram, for whom Shraddhavans receive the opportunity to  perform pooja on the occasion of the Gurupournima.

The upasana of Trivikram isn’t just about reciting the prayers or the worship of the ‘Saakar’ (the embodiment of the divine form) or a divine idol, but it is the worship of the sacred or its ‘Mahadivya Saguna’ (the great divine virtues). 

The Trivikram Linga (symbolic abstract representation of the deity) is placed in a central position at the location of the Shree Trivikram Poojan at the festival venue, and every Shraddhavan performing the Poojan holds a Tabak (salver made from the beetle leaf), which contains the three footsteps of the Trivikram. 

These three footsteps of the Trivikram are unconditional love, forgiveness and the acceptance of faith. It is with these footsteps that the Trivikram destroys the ill-fate and blossoms joy in a Shraddhavan's life. The poojan of these three steps of the Trivikram is a prayer to him by all the Shraddhavans that 'may his divine footsteps occupy their lives forever'.