QUES ANSW DIVINE 2022-31 Dearfriends, Theseare information posted by members compiled as QA by me in 1998’s-2004’s andstored in my computer. At this date I have no information of the membersposted.
BEING COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS. Sincerely, R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, dated 30-01-2022 Q1 How did the name changed from Nala Setu toAdam’s Bridge? A1 The SriLankan Muslims called this bridge as ‘Aadhaam Bridge’ because their first Islamic leader traveledover this bridge by foot from India and thus this bridge has a holyconnotation for them. Whenthe Europeans conquered Sri Lanka, since the name Adam was easy on their tongue and had ameaning for the Europeans too, it popularly came to be called Adam’s Bridge Q2 How do we explain the monkeysin Ramayana? A2 Monkeys is a term that has been loosely usedin the last couple of hundred years to express the term Vanara in the Englishlanguage. The term Vanara when analysed can give us vital suggestive clues, towhat it really represented, some of them being: People ofthe forest or Vana Vanara could be an exclamation as to “Are they human too?”; so human like but yet sodifferent. This may have been the way to express different varietiesof people as evident from other words in our ancient texts such as Kinnara or Kimpurusha too. Q3 What is the birth day of Lord Sri rama? A3 Sri Rama Navami is the birth day of Rama. Rama was born on the Navami tithi of Shukla Pakshaof Chaitra masa .(9th day of the increasing phase of themoon in the lunar month of Chaitra). At that time, the nakshatra was Punarvasu, and Sun, Mars,Saturn, Jupiter and Venus were in Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Piscesrespectively. Lagna was Cancer and Jupiter & Moon were shining together.Since Mars was in Capricon he had Kuja dosha nullified to a certain extent since Kujais in exaltation. Q4 What is themeaning of Karma bhoomi told in our scripts? A4 Ideally these and for that matter all karmas are best done inKarmabhoomi i.e Bharatavarshe which includes Sri Lanka Singalpore and some more places. Infact in one of the sankalpas we do say karmabhoomau Q5How sandhya vandanam should be done? A5 Ideally sandhyavandanam should be done kanamal konamal kandu meaningbeforesunrise, right on top and just before sunset. Q6 What is the quote of Swami vivekanda on Ramayanan? A6 "Wherever four Hindus live,Rama and Sita will be there" so said Swami Vivekananda, one of theforemost harbingers of modern national vrenaissance of Bharat Sri Rama was Lord Vishnu'sseventh avatar (incarnation) on earth. Sri Rama was portrayed asbeing the ideal man, and his wife Sita, was the ideal woman Q7 What is adi kavya? A7 This story ofSri Rama by the great sage Valmiki is referred to as the Adi KavyaOther famous versions of Ramayana include Shri Ram Charit Manas by GoswamiTulasidas and Kambar´s Kambaraamayanam in Tamil. Q8 Why do sun worship is done during Srirama navami? A8 Celebrations begin with a prayerto the Sun early in the morning. Atmidday, when Lord Rama is supposed to have been born, a special prayer isperformed Surya - The Sun was recognized as the source of light and heat even inancient times. Manyroyal dynasties potrayed symbols of virility like the Sun, Eagle, Lion etc. astheir progenitor. Rama's dynasty consideredthemselves to have descended from the Sun. This could have led to the taggingon, of Rama's birthday to a festival devoted to the sun.The Sun is considered to be theprogenitor of Rama's dynasty which is called theSun dynasty(Raghukula or Raghuvamsa, Raghu means Sun and Kula or Vamsa mean familialdescendant). Rama is also known as Raghunatha, Raghupati, Raghavendra etc. That all these names begin with the prefix Raghu is also suggestive of some link with Sun-worship The syllable Ra is usedin the word to describe the sun and brilliance in many languages. In Sanskrit, Ravi and Ravindra mean Sun. The hour chosen for theobservance of the lord's birth is that when the sun is overhead and is at itsmaximum brilliance. Insome Hindu sects, prayers on Ramnavami day start not with an invocation to Ramabut to Surya (sun). Q9 In how many days the Rama sethu bridge wasmade?What was its distance made in the epic Ramayana? A9 On hisadvice, the Vanara then piled different varieties of trees and then largeboulders followed by smaller stones to create a causeway over the sea in 5 days,over which they crossed and reached Lanka.Total 90 yojana bridge. It isvery clear from the above statement that Rama has himself called this bridge 'Nala Setu' because of the singular effortof Nala in executing this civil engineering marvel Q10 What is the importance ofObseving Pradosha vratham? A10The Siddhas and the ancient seers clearly understood the importance ofpurifying ones souls. Bydoing so, the native could realize material and spiritual blessings.So they recommended a ritual by name Pradosham which means "to remove sins".This is a divine solution to purify your soul. This can also take place on adaily basis and is referred as daily Pradosham. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1755973792.2523329.1643518307211%40mail.yahoo.com.
