QUES ANSW DIVINE 05-2022-15 Dearfriends,
Theseare information compiled as QA by me in 1998’s-2004’s and stored in mycomputer. They are posted by very learntmembers. BEING COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS. Sincerely, R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, dated 19-05-2022 Q1 When do kajagari lakshmi pooja and kali pooja celebrated? A1 The Kojagari Lakhsmi puja is being celebrated 7 days after Bijayadasami on Poornima day. And Kalipuja ison Deepavali day, where the four handed idol of Goddess are worshipped inBengal and other eastern states. In that day the Goddess took the Kali avatarand killed the Demon Shumbha and Nishumbha The above QA is basedon a posting by esteemed member Sri. SOUMYA Achari ([email protected]) in iyer 123 groups. Q2 What is the legend behind Narayaneeyam? A2 NarayanaBhattathiri was unable to moveand he thought that if he would get the darshan of Guruvayurappan he might getsome relief. He told his people to carryhim to Guruvayur. He surrendered himself under the lotus feet of LordGuruvayurappan. It was then that he had received an advice from thegreat Malayalam Poet, Thunchathu Ezhuthachan (considered as the "Father ofMalayalam Language") to"start with fish". To theordinary ear this might have sounded as an advice for a non-vegetarian diet, ataboo for a Brahmin. However Bhattathiripad understood it in the right sense. The suggestion was that the poetshould compose a work narrating the various incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Fish, Turtle etc... Melpathur, whoknew all Puranas so well, straight away embarked on the project, assisted byhis brother. Thus happened Sri Narayaneeyam. It is said that the Lord personally accepted the poemby signifying his approval and also by giving him advice whenever the poet wasat a loss for words. For example, while dealing with the Lord's incarnationas Narasimha, the poet could not visualise his form. There upon the Lordhimself sprang out of a pillar in the temple as Narasimha. The Lord himself enacted Krishna's dancing on 'Kaliya'and the 'Kaliya Marddanam' slokas in the Narayaneeyam are set to the same tempoas Sri Krishna's dance. According to Bhagavatham, Sri Krishna, as a child, hadbroken a pot with a grinding stone where as Battatiri wrote that it was with achurning stick. While he was grieving that he got it wrong, the Lord himselfsaid from the sanctum that he had broken the pot both with the churning stickand the grinding stone. Q3 What are Divya desams and padal petra sthalam? A3 Divya Desams refer to the 108 Vishnutemples that are mentioned inthe works of the Tamil Azhvars (saints). Divya in the Tamil language indicates"premium" and Desam indicates "place" (temple). Of the 108 temples, 105 are located in India, one inNepal and two outside of the Earthly realms. Most of the Divya Desams in Tamil Nadu follow theThenkalai tradition. This includes theimportant temples of Srirangam and Triplicane. by the 12 Azhvars in the DivyaPrabandha, a collection of 4,000 Tamil verses. Lord Shiva, the other major deity in Hinduism, issimilarly associated with the Paadal Petra Sthalams, 275 Shiva temples whichare praised in the Tevaram canon by the 63 Nayanars. Based on a posting by esteemedmember Sri K Raman on 23-11-2012 Q4 What are the details of Poonthanam Nampoothiri? A4 Poonthanam wasborn in the year 1547 in a villagecalled Kezhatur near Angadipuram town in the Malappuram, district of Kerala. He was a great devotee of Guruvaurappan and is the celebrated author of a book called Jnanapana. He lived up tothe ripe old age of 93. Once when the old Poonthanam was insulted by the workers of the temple in Guruvayur, itseems Guruvayurappan told him that he himself would come to the place of Poonthanam and live there. The lord is supposed to be in the temple of LordKrishna called "idathupuram "meaning "left side "and in Sanskrit "Vamapuram" . Q5 What are the details of Bhasha karnamrutham by Poonthanam nampoothiri? A5 Possibly attracted by the very famousSanskrit work called Sri KrishnaKarnamrutham of Leela Sukha , Poonthanam might have decided to call it "Bhasha Karnamrutham" . In the 167th stanza of this great work he says "By your well decorated and coloured form , you made the entire earth getattracted to you,Oh God , Oh God, theworld is also surrounded by desire and great anger , And if my "Bhasha Karnamrutham" is always enjoyed by the toungue Then like olden times no one need not creep under the load of the tendrilsof Karma forever." Unlike the workof Sri Krishna Karnamrutham which are poems drenched with devotion addressed to Lord Krishna , this BHasha Karnamrutham relates the story of Lord Krishna from his birthto the famous incident of Lord Krishnahelping Arjuna to get back the dead son of a Brahmin. (Mostly from Dasama Skanda of Bhagwatham.Possibly he got this idea from the famous Narayaneeyam relating the story of Lord Vishnu.) Q6 How many verses in Bhaskara karnamritham? A6 These are narrated in the first 113 stanzas. Theportion from 114th to the 169th stanza emphasizes the need for chanting the name "Narayana" and also relates the philosophy of Poonthanam. Poonthanamstates in the work that his Guru was one Neelakanda and that this wasedited and corrected by one SriSoolapani. By the blessings of the dust of the feet of Neelakanda(Author's Guru) ,I wenton narrating the plays of LordKrishna somehow,Oh Mukunda , Victory toLord of Vamapura ,Please grant me devotion to your divinefeet. (117) Soolapani putin lot of efforts,To systematized andedited it ,Put in lot of efforts to make it great ,My "honey to theears " written in local language ,And please become happy at thefeet of Achyutha.(118) Poonthanamalso states that this work has been written when he was nearing the age on ninty. Oh sea of mercy , I was for a long time longing,Tosee the toys with which Lord Krishna played,Counting andcounting the singing of your names,Ninety years have almost passed by. (148) The above QAs arebased on a posting by PR Ramachandar on 13-11-2012. Q7 How is Skanda shashti vratam is related with King Muchhukunda? A7 Legend has it that Muchukunda, a King South India,was advised by saint Vasishta regarding the correct observances of the SkandaSashti Vratam. After observing the Vrata, King Muchukunda becamepowerful and famous and the fame of his kingdom spread around the three worlds.It is said that the Kingbecame so powerful that Lord Indra (the king of demi-gods) took his help todefeat Asuras. -- 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/503646956.369580.1652973892434%40mail.yahoo.com.
