15. Today some people are doing the rituals with the help of tape recorder. Is it right?

In one angle it is right, because a priest is just like a tape recorder, which utters the hymns without knowing their meaning and without preaching them to the people. Suppose you ask whether you can use a tape recorder in which the hymns are recorded along their meanings also, even then it is not correct in the real angle. The main aim of doing the rituals is not only to know the Vedic knowledge but also to do the sacrifice of the fruit of your work (money) to a deserving person. When you are using a tape recorder the real aim of ritual is not satisfied because the tape recorder cannot take the ‘Gurudakshina’. Whether you use a tape recorder or a priest you must know that burning substances like ghee or oil in the lamp, fume sticks, camphor etc., are not mentioned in the Vedas and are unnecessary. You must also know that the statues or photos worshipped in the rituals indicate the human form of the Lord to which only you have to perform all the sixteen modes of worship called ‘upacharas’, which involve the real sacrifice.