Well, as a social reality, temple pundits would not be likely to leave to do this, and 40 days is a long time. AS you can imagine the temples have very structured events that must take place in a timely manner and which generally require large numbers of priests. A few could go, but not a large number.
So as I said, most of the priests would have to be the sastry's who do the yagyas in people's homes. If the price was right they'd go. I think also we have to remember that as much as we admire and respect MMY, most priests have a generally low regard for gurus. In my experience they admire MMY as a buinessman more than as a spiritual leader. Try to do distributed yagyas might be possible, but then again the logistics would still be daunting. I know in Kanchipuram where we have done lots of yagyas, periodically they do the Maha Rudra yagya that takes 111 priests for 11 days. It is quite a big deal and takes a lot of planning. The priests come from all over south India and it is expensive even though it is done through the Shankaracharya Ashram. So imageine something 1000 times larger! I can't imagine how it could be done from a purely logistical perspective. As for power, my experience is that having the yagya conducted in 1 place with all the priests doing the same mantras at one time is significantly more powerful than having them do their own thing wherever they live. Priests do yagyas all the time on a small scale and they really do work. I have little doubt that if MMY could pull this off it would make something happen, but I can't see how it could be done purely from a practical perspective. It just doesn't make any sense to me based on my experience organizing yagyas in different parts of Tamil Nadu for the past 7-8 years. -Ben > > If pundits are hired for this yagya, taking them away from doing > yagyas at their temples to the maha yagya site, is there much net > gain? The number of yagyas are the same, just different location plus > similtaneous chanting of same yagya. > > How many pundits would go from not doing yagyas to doing yagyas on the > 40 yagya days? If there are 100,000 pundit available, what would they > all be doing if they were not hired for the maha yagya. I assume a > good % would be doing yagyas, whether they are hired to do do them, or > just for themselves, familiy etc. So again, how much net effect can we > expect? > > How much greater gain is there for same location, same yagya? If there > is a lot of increased gained for same site and same yagya at same > time, why don't pundits get together periodically to do this anyway -- > if the extra effect is so powerful? > > Could there be a downside? 100,000 pundits all brought to one site for > 40 days will probably have to live communally in large tents -- > sleepimng on the ground or on cots. They will be tired from travel to > the site. Toilet and bathing facilities may be quite strained. Food > will be mass cooking, not the nice home cooked meals they are used to. > And it will be monsoon season in India. Lots of wet, soggy pundits are > possible. And they will miss their families. Might they actually be > less effective in such circumstances compared to doing yagyas back > home at thier local temples? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
