Pranam
Though repetitive galore yet appreciate that atlast accepted that srardham
shall be performed even after Bhadri which mutatis mutandi would apply to
Kasi too. Dharma is common and Vedic; samskara is tribes and place wise;
even a christian has few ceremonies for which even holidays are declared.
Samskara depends on so many factors; but all shall keep moving, whether one
performs or not, which is described in Rig Vedam, as the daily movements of
the SUN.
The Vedas are universal; meaning that the knowledge of leading life in
fairness; and what applied to the territory or tribe pari-passu would apply
to all. Samskaras in that respect are not prescribed to many and so will
those be partially treated?; no; yagnam is one profession to lead life FOR
THE WELFARE OF THE SOCIETY; the head shall lead; that head cannot lead
unless the shoulders and stomach have the strength, through the feet; thus
division of labour is not dividing the society. Then the feet shall be cut
off by those stubborn advocates of the heADS ONLY, BUT THEY WILL NOT DO IT.
So go out of the samskaras which had been taken care of already this way or
that way by the society. Kula dharmam is swadharma, which holds principles
to follow to elevate oneself.
Vararuchi folk tales are good to laugh at; but the name is misused;
how many more times on Vararuchi; I had written on true vararuchi already.
By one standard the guru, all those born to Mrs Vararuchi are only shudras
and so hell with it.
Transmigration is a physical movement; Rebirth is not for the body as
it does not travel; soul is never died to be reborn as soul does not
possess any sense to understand o0r agree por live, so soul is not reborn;
then what is reborn and rebirth; the actions one left behind the matter has
to take another shape in the form of body to continue the effectiveness of
the actions, in motion, with the other actions, transgressing or woven
into. Soul the life giver to act helps the consequences of the actions and
reactions, emanating through the senses , mentally and emotionally as a
cycle. There is nothing more. All matter as a singularity source is never
wiped out or tending to zero or infinity; it existed and will continue to
exist. Food is spoken much in Rig veda , not because the food eating is a
must incessantly. Food denotes that food is source and the same food is
resource; food as medicine and poison; food is health and cause of the
deterioration; fod shows te way7 the eater is eaten away which is nature.
Food eats the food eater. The evolution and the involution are cyclic, from
mini to maxi; end through the dark energy; the science which tries to adopt
the physics that what goes in shall come out, expects there to be a white
energy or white hole. But science knows till date that there is no white
hole. Our very own Milky Way has a black hole the size of 4 million solar
masses at its core. It would take us 27,000 years to reach it travelling at
the speed of light. This is the smallest and millions and billions are all
scattered over,one swallowing the other. Food eating food."*nAsadAsInno
sadAsIttadAnIM nAsIdrajo no vyomA paro yat |*
* kimAvarIvaH kuha kasya sharmannambhaH kimAsIdgahanaM gabhIram ||1||*
ná ásat āsīt ná u sát āsīt tadânīm.
na asit rajo na u vioma paro yat.
kím ávarīvaḥ?
kúha?
kásya śármann?
ambha kim asit gahanam gabhiram?
Neither was there non-existence, nor was there existence then
Neither was there land, nor the heaven/sky beyond that.
(In that case), what was the facade (or envelope)? Where? Encased in what?
How could there be/ was there, water, impenetrable and deep?
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor
the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping Was
there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed.
tama Asit tamasA gUhlam agre.
praketam salilam sarvamA idam.
tucchya ena Abhva pihitam yat Asit,
tapas stan mahina jAyate aikam.
At first darkness lay hidden in darkness (or nothing-ness existed in
nothing-ness, but concealed).
(And/ thus) water was visible everywhere.
(From) the gigantic all pervading void/ emptiness (that) existed,
With a mighty reverberation, the One was born, out of Contemplation.
tama - night/ drakness
gUh - hidden/ concealed
salilam - water
tuCchya - Void/ Emptiness
Abhva - gigantic
pihitam - enclosed/ pervaded
stan - resound/ reverberate/ roar/ thunder/
mahina - great/ mighty
an unknown high energy and unpredictable state (somewhat similar to
'Singularity' in Physics) and the contemplation of this state is Tapas - *that
contemplation which leads to Creation.*
At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was
only unillumined
water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born
of the power of heat.
This is evolution out of the existence. Black energy in darkness ;
gobbled up swallowed up burning alive broken as source matter within, as
cosmic water without a vessel to store, yet was there as H2O , burst with
the sound AUM; H and O spreading, manifesting again the MAYA the prakrithi
;expanding since many a times -not 13.5 billion year old, but 155.52
trillion years old. Only 1/4th is visible and 3/4th hidden. *त्रिपादूर्ध्व*
*उदैत्पूरुषः* *पादोऽस्येहाभवत्पुनः* *।*
*ततो* *विष्वङ्* *व्यक्रामत्साशनानशने* *अभि* *॥४॥*
Tri-Paad-Uurdhva Udait-Puurussah Paado-Asye[a-I]ha-Abhavat-Punah |
Tato Vissvang Vya[i-A]kraamat-Saashana-Anashane Abhi ||4||
4.1: The Three Parts of the Purusha is High Above (in Transcendental
Realm), and His One Part becomes the Creation again and again.
4.2: There, in the Creation, He pervades all the Living (who eats) and the
Non-Living ( who does not eat ) beings.(purusha suktham)
*लेलिह्यसे* *ग्रसमान**: **समन्ता**-*
*ल्लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भि**: **|*
*तेजोभिरापूर्य* *जगत्समग्रं*
*भासस्तवोग्रा**: **प्रतपन्ति* *विष्णो* *|| **30**||*
lelihyase grasamanah samantal
lokan samagran vadanair jvaladbhih
tejobhir apurya jagat samagram
bhasas tavograh pratapanti vishno
*Bagavat Gita 11.30*: With Your fiery tongues You are licking up the hosts
of living beings on all sides and devouring them with Your blazing mouths.
O Vishnu, You are scorching the entire universe with the fierce,
all-pervading rays of Your effulgence. Xxxxxxxxx
*आख्याहि* *मे* *को* *भवानुग्ररूपो*
*नमोऽस्तु* *ते* *देववर* *प्रसीद* *|*
*विज्ञातुमिच्छामि* *भवन्तमाद्यं*
*न* *हि* *प्रजानामि* *तव* *प्रवृत्तिम्* *|| **31**||*
ākhyāhi me ko bhavān ugra-rūpo
namo ’stu te deva-vara prasīda
vijñātum ichchhāmi bhavantam ādyaṁ
na hi prajānāmi tava pravṛittim
*ugra-rūpaḥ* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/ugra-rupah>—fierce form;
*BG 11.31*: Tell me who You are, so fierce of form. O God of gods, I bow
before You; please bestow Your mercy on me. You, who existed before all
creation, I wish to know who You are, for I do not comprehend Your nature
and workings.
Xxxxxxxxxxx
*कालोऽस्मि* *लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो*
*लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह* *प्रवृत्त**: **|*
*ऋतेऽपि* *त्वां* *न* *भविष्यन्ति* *सर्वे*
*येऽवस्थिता**: **प्रत्यनीकेषु* *योधा**: **|| **32**||*
*kālaḥ* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/kalah>—time; *asmi*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/asmi>—I am; *loka-kṣhaya-kṛit*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/loka-kshaya-krit>—the source of
destruction of the worlds; *pravṛiddhaḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/pravriddhah>—mighty; *lokān*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/lokan>—the worlds; *samāhartum*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/samahartum>—annihilation; *iha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/iha>—this world
kalo ’smi loka-kshaya-krit pravriddho
lokan samahartum iha pravrittah
rite ’pi tvam na bhavishyanti sarve
ye ’vasthitah pratyanikeshu yodhah
*BG 11.32*: The Supreme Lord said: I am mighty Time, the source of
destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. Even without your
participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing army shall cease to
exist.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In this pattern learn what is expended to us. Science may be new to
west but not to us. KR IRS 22222
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 19:07, 'gopala krishnan' via Thatha_Patty <
[email protected]> wrote:
> QUES ANSW DIVINE 2-2022-21
>
> Dear friends,
>
> These are information compiled as QA by me in 1998’s-2004’s and stored in
> my computer. They are posted by *learnt members*. Some QA are based on
> concepts. *These concepts vary between people.*
>
> *BEING COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS.*
>
> Sincerely,
>
> *R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, dated 21-02-2022*
>
> Q1 Which nampoothii families perform yagya now?
>
> A1 According to history, after *Buddha and Jain periods,* the
> deteriorated Vedadharma and Yagna (Yaagam) culture were rejuvenated in
> Kerala, several years later, by *Mezhathol Agnihothri, *by performing
> Yaagam ninety-nine times, one after the other. *Only seven of the thirty
> two Namboothiri Graamams (villages) co-operated with Agnihothri* and
> accepted the Yaagam culture again.
>
> Even today, only these seven Graamams (Thaliparambu, Alathur, Karikkad,
> Panniyur, Sukapuram, Perumanam and Irinjalakkuda) have families having
> right to perform Yaagams.
>
> It is said that a person who performs 100 Yaagams will become god Indran.
> When 99 Yaagams were over, Lord Indran feared that his power would be lost
> to the Yajamaanan (leader) of this Yaagam. *Indran personally arrived in
> the 99th Yaagasaala to accept the oblations meant for each of them*, and
> pleaded to Mezhathol Agnihothri to stop performing the 100th Yaagam. The
> leader, *Mezhathol Agnihothri, declined the request saying that he is
> performing it not for a better position but for retaining the culture of
> Yaagam among Brahmanans*. Indran then conceded Mezhathol Agnihothri and
> his seven colleagues, his equal status.
>
> It is now believed that Aazhvaancheri Thampraakkal performed the duties of
> "Brahman" in all these Yaagams. Vaidyamadham family members were the
> Yaagasaala physicians
>
> Q2 Whether vararuchi offsprings families exist now?
>
> A2 Most of these twelve families still exist in the southern part of
> Palakkad district (Shoranur, Pattambi and Thrithala areas). *Recently, on
> 30-11-97, all of them met in Vemancheri Mana, the Illam (residence) of
> Mezhathol Agnihothri,* near Thrithala.
>
> Q3 What happened tp Vararuchi after the birth of
> Vayillakunnilappan?
>
> A3 After the "Prathishta" of Vaayillaa kkunnilappan",
> Vararuchi is believed to have *undergone Samaadhi at Mannoor*
>
> Q4 Do sraadha is necessay after Badri sraadha?
>
> A4 Even after performing Pithru Karya at Badri, the performance of
> Annual Cermony of parents every year as usual is *absolutely essential.*
>
> Q5 What is the period of Shraadh for nampoothiries?
>
> A5 The fifteen days of the dark half, the second half, of the Hindu month
> of Bhadarvo is known as Pitri Paksh (shraadh period). Hindus pay
> obeisance to their ancestors through a religious ceremony. Many families
> organises religious functions like Shreemad Bhagwat Saptah during this
> period.
>
>
>
> The second half of the month of Bhadarvo, by the Hindu calendar was
> observed as Pitrupaksh (literally a fortnight devoted to the ancestors).
> People
> could perform the Shraadh rites on any day during this period.
>
> This period is sometimes also known inauspicious month. Since during this
> fortnight, you were paying obeisance to your ancestors - basically
> remembering the departed souls - it was considered inauspicious to start
> something new, or buy something new during this period.
> Q6 What is death?
>
> A6 Death is *separation of the soul from the physical bod*y. Death
> becomes the starting point and is not the end of life. Life is one
> continuous never-ending process and is only a passing and necessary
> phenomenon, which every soul has to pass to gain experience for its further
> evolution.
>
> According to the theory of transmigration, the individual is to take
> another birth after his/her death.
>
> Shraddh (Kriya) is the name of the ceremonies performed by relatives to
> help the departed soul.
>
> *The performance of kriya adds to that soul’s happiness in the new
> birth. So it is the imperative duty of everybody to perform Shraadh
> ceremony for the departed soul.*
>
> According to our puranic shastra, the soul in its disembodied form hovers
> about its original and familiar places for ten days.
>
> The soul is fully embodied on the eleventh day. It starts on its journey
> to the judgement seat of Lord Yama, the God of death.
>
> The son performs the Kriya ceremony on the twelfth or the thirteenth day
> offerings. The soul is sustained on its onward march to the judgement seat
> by the libations (an act of pouring water) offered to it by the son. In
> the Ramayan, Bharat did it on the twelfth day of Dashrath's cremation
> ceremony
>
> Death is certain for those who are born, and birth is certain for the
> dead. This is inevitable. The soul which passes out of the body after
> death is termed ‘Preta’, one that is bound on its onward march to the
> Beyond.
>
> The difficulties can be removed and the journey is rendered easy and
> comfortable by the oblations (tarpan) One should offer oblations of water
> unto one's Pitris, naming them all of the deceased relatives and offerings
> given by the son of the deceased (in the absence of son, a male who may act
> as a son) during the soul’s journey and by feeding the pure, the poor,
> learned sant/swamis and feeding the sacred cows. (“The Ritual of Shraadh”
> From the Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva, Section LXXXIV)
>
> Q7 What is the importance of kriya(sraadha)?
>
> A7 When the Jiva (soul) undergoes transmigration and takes another birth
> after leaving this physical body, it is necessary that we should perform
> Shraadh ceremony. These rites (performance of Shraadh, Tarpana and other
> religious rites) should not be neglected.The soul leaves off its Preta on
> this day. Soul is raised to the status of a Pitru or Ancestor. Pitrus are
> forefathers (Ancestor) who dwell in the Pitruloka.
>
> There are three stages in the ancestral life viz., father, grandfather and
> great grandfather, and mother, grandmother and great grandmother. A priest
> who is performing the Shraadh ceremony may go back up to seven generations.
>
> He who has done good actions for a worthy cause on this earth-life becomes
> united with his ancestors in the Pitri-loka and lives with them. Shraadh
> ceremony should be performed with great Sraadha (faith).
>
> *Faith is the main support for our Hindu religion. In olden days the
> question whether to perform Shraadh ceremony or not did not arise at all.
> Then people were full of faith and had reverence for the scriptures.*
>
> The man of faith attains knowledge and thereby immortality and eternal
> peace is the declaration of the Gita. The Gita and the Upanishads clearly
> bear testimony to the fact that the performance of Shraadh is very
> important. *In the ninth chapter of the Gita, Lord Krishna has made it
> very clear that those Good persons who perform sacrifices to reach out to
> heaven will attain the world of enjoyments. *
>
> Q8 Why do the ashes of the dead are immersed in the sea?
>
> A8 *Since the river moves constantly towards the sea where all the waters
> of its various tributaries mingle, it is believed that it will also carry
> the ashes of the dead to their final resting place*, reintegrating them
> once again with the creator, the ocean from which all life began
>
> In Hinduism, the river Ganga is personified as a goddess. People travel
> from distant places to immerse the ashes of their kin in the waters of the
> Ganga; this immersion also is believed to be deemed worthy. This tradition
> is dating back thousands of years.
>
> Apart from River Ganges, ashes are also scattered on the waters of many
> India's sacred rivers, like Yamuna and Godavari, Brahmputra, etc. at places
> like Nasik, Vridavan, Somnath, etc.
>
> According to the principal of Hinduism, followed by the Krishna movement, the
> immersion or scattering of ashes on the sacred river is a symbol of the
> soul's journey towards uninterrupted journey to salvation.
>
> As the Ganges brought to life the ashes of Bhagiratha’s ancestors, so all
> Hindus believe that if the ashes of their dead are deposited in the river,
> they will be ensured a smooth transition to the next life, or freed from
> the cycle of death and rebirth
>
> Q9 Which place is called Gangadwar?
>
> A9 Hardwar or Haridwar ( Vishnu's gate) is an important pilgrim centre of
> the Hindus and one of the seven holy places ( Sapt Puri ) that promise
> 'moksha' or salvation to the devout. At this place the Holy Ganges River
> emerges from the Himalayas. It is therefore, also known as 'Ganga Dwar' or
> the Gateway of Ganga.
>
> Q10 What is the importance of Leicester in England,?
>
> A10 *In Leicester in England, more than 30 funerals a week are being
> carried out on the River Soar *after it was blessed with water from the
> sacred Ganges. Many families from America, Italy, Germany and France are
> now coming to Barrow-upon-Soar for the ritual scattering of ashes of loved
> ones. Thus the Soar has now become an alternative to the Ganges in India.
> The River Thames one of three rivers to be designated as the ‘Ganges’
>
> However, British authorities have allowed the use of certain rivers where
> the ashes of the dead may be scattered, instead of travelling to Haridwar
> in India. The Soar, the Thames and the Wye are among such rivers
> officially designated as the 'Ganges'.
>
> Leicester has a large population of Gujarati Hindus, whose request to the
> Environment Agency to use the river Soar for post-death Hindu ceremonies
> was approved some time ago.
>
> A spokesman for the Environment Agency said that ceremonies in the Soar
> had been authorised. "We have designated a secluded place on the river,
> so that ashes are disposed of with due consideration for other river users.
> We have forbidden offerings such as photographs and metal and plastic
> items, which could litter the riverbanks.
>
> Q11Do there is death fo the soul?
>
> A11 Even though the soul is separated from the body of an entity in this
> materialistic world, the soul is never dying existence. The soul is
> either benefited or made suffered as per the actions it did alongwith its
> materialistic entity
>
> As we have different forms of diets (foods), souls are survived and
> revived by the diets. Their form of diet is with chanting by the successors
> who still exist in the materialistic existence. *They are called as
> Sraadhaa Karmas or Pithru Karyas*
>
> With stipulated intervals and anniversaries the performances of Sraadhaas
> will give a boost to the souls of eternal world.
>
> A common human may not be in a position to understand the set up of
> soul-creative explained in Vedas but scholars understand and get convinced
> with every logic of system.
>
> In Vedas it is clearly mentioned that gratitude is in the form of
> Sraadhaa Karmas and rituals. Not only eternal souls are benefited with
> Sraadhaa Karmas and rituals performed by their successors but also all the
> successors along with kith or kin and their successors will also be
> prospered. *An eternal soul’s one day is equivalent to our one-year
> time. That is why anniversary (in our terms) is taken as day for Pithru
> karyas i.e.Sraadhaas enabling the soul to have food (as discussed). *
>
> Q12 Do performing Pithru karyas by the successors is very important.?
>
> A12 By performing Pithru karyas, one get Punyam, not only for themselves
> and also for one’s Pithru Devata’s (eternal souls). So performing Pithru
> karyas by the successors has become very very important.
>
> *When a kartha cannot be present because of his employment, foreign trip
> or any other reason for performance, a representative can take the
> responsibility and arrange for performance on behalf of the user by giving
> Karthrikam (suggested by Vedas). Pithru Yagnya gives phala quicker than
> Deva Yagnya.*Dakshina should be four times of the value of the Bhojana
> offered.
>
> Q13 What is BRAHMA YAGNYA?
>
> A13 BRAHMA YAGNYA is a daily item. This is just to offer one Uddharni of
> water in the name of late parents who had sacrified so much for our sake in
> our childhood.
>
> Q14 Who is a true son?
>
> A144He is a true son who respects the words of his parents, One who
> offers sumptous food to as many persons as possible on the annual cermony
> day, And the one who offers Pinda in Vishnu Paada at Gaya and kiberate
> pithru to go to heaven from the pithruloka.
>
> Q15 From which direction pithrus come?
> A15. "APA - HATAASURA RAKSHAAH". -Chanting this sloka, Tila (gingelly) is
> sprinkled at the start of the sraadha cermony. This should be done facing
> the south because Pithrus come from that direction.
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