Pradakshina for Hanumanji

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Namaskar,

The reverse Pradakshinam is performed if having an unsettled problem for a quite long time.It should be strictly done for a Mandalam (41days) Without break.

It is assumed that before you complete this Mandala Apradakshina your problem is solved. Now you have to do the Pradakshina for same Number of days at the same temple again without break. It is normally advised to do 101 Apradakshinams and if suppose ur health or physical condition is not helping you u can do 41 or a minimum of 9..The resuilts are fast if it is done at SriAnjaneya, SriGanesh or Lord Nrisimha Temples….
RP

On 11/8/08, Naveen
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Sat Nov 8, 2008
hi all..
Namaskar..

Yeterday when i visited temple i was shocked as 1 man was doing pradakshna for hanumnaji…

regularly we will do it from left to right but he was doing it from right to left…i got surprised and asked him why r u doing like that..then he told his guruji told to do the same for 41 days….but i was not able to ask reason why he was doing like that…’

please can any one explain what it means and the reason for the same and the outcome what we call doing the pradakshna from right to left…

OM NAMA SHIVAYA…
Om Nama Shivya , Naveen

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Namaste.

I did tarpan for ancestor at mahalaya new moon(28th September) on
this year.
From this acting,My life is changing little by little.
I ask for Brahmana at Special pandit at Kerala.

Your dead ancestors are governing your destiny. The greatest
contribution of India to the world is her spiritual science. No
civilization, however old it is, has ever attained the level of
sophistication reached by the yogis and siddhas of India. The yogis
and siddhas paid equal attention to the bodily existence while one is
alive and also the disembodied existence after one dies. They also
had knowledge of soul travel while still in embodiment. Sometimes
they left their body in a safe place in a cave and entered another
body. At other times they turned the body into light and disappeared.
Once having disappeared they could momentarily assume a human body
like an old man or a boy and return to the earth plane for a few
hours visit. There are many places in Southern India, like
Thiruvanamallai, Koli Hills and Kutralam where these siddhas hang out
in the subtle forms. If you are destined to meet them at those places
they will show up and bless you.

Siddhas have a special relationship with the earth plane. They are
constantly involved in making the earth plane a better place for the
souls who come to inhabit the earth. The siddhas are the source for
medicine, astrology, alchemy, yoga, rituals for worshiping different
deities for different purposes, etc. Siddhas emphasize that the most
important element in human life is the destiny of the individual
soul. Every soul has its own unique destiny. Every soul has its own
biological and spiritual baggage attached to it. How you look, what
diseases you will have are localized within the genes that the soul
creates. But the soul lives simultaneously as spirit existence as
well. In other words you have the biological existence defined by the
material body as well as a spiritual existence defined by the
invisible spirit. The soul living in the physical and non-physical
existence governs your destiny.

The siddhas contribution to the spirit existence of the soul is
amazing. When a person dies he takes with him all old good and bad
thought forms and experiences that he had while alive. If someone had
been a real bad person his soul starts the torture experience right
after death. If one had lived a luxurious life, committing all kinds
of crimes, that person will have the worst type of shadow existence.
This life in shadow form after death invariably is a troublesome
experience. The most intriguing thing is that there are a host of
your ancestors who are in shadow forms and hanging in the mid-air.
Some of them because of their evil nature are hanging upside down.
This pain experienced the ancestors spirits directly affects your
destiny while you are on the earth plane. Logically it doesnft make
sense that you should suffer for some misdoings of your great, great
grandfather. But the siddhas claim this is soul genetics. You are
your ancestor both biologically and spirit-ually.

I have been returning to this earth plane to find ways and means to
remove pain and sorrow for the human beings. In this life I am
convinced that until you clean the souls of your ancestors, you are
not going to free yourself from suffering. I have a vacuum cleaner
that can cleanse the souls of your grandfather, grandmother or your
great, great grandfather. The vacuum cleaner is called Tarpanam.
Tarpanam means food offering for the ancestors. During the new moon
day these departed spirits come to the earth plane at dawn and leaves
during sunset. They do in fact hang out with you or with your brother
or sister or any other relative. The Siddhas reveal that even your
enemies in your current life, are your reincarnated ancestors for
whom you did not tarpanam. You can feed them with black sesame seeds,
rice and water. This simple act will help change your destiny. It
gives me immense joy to share this knowledge with you.

Although you can do the tarpanam yourself, I recommend that you do it
with the help of a specialist in Kerala. The Kerala priests are adept
in tarpanam. They literally talk to the dead spirits to see that they
are satisfied and are ready to move to the next stage leaving their
shadow existence. A good tarpanam specialist can give you the right
feedback of tarpranam offerings.

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Two simple practices that everyone can do on a daily basis are:

(1) After taking morning shower, cut up a small amount of ginger
root, dip the pieces in honey and eat them, inwardly offering them to
the ancestors. The combination of the ginger and honey helps enliven
the DNA.

(2) Offer tarpanam (rice or rice flour along with black sesame seeds)
in your hand and wet it with water. Minimally, this can be done with
black sesame seeds and rice alone.

Holding the tarpanam in your hand, offer it to 3 generations of
ancestors on your mothers line (mother is 1 (if she is not alive),
grandmother 2, etc.) and 6 generations of ancestors up your fathers
line. Say to the ancestors, Come and take this offering and be at
peace. Ask the ancestors for their blessings and ask that the
blessings come to you now. Just as you have inherited some soul
conditionings from your family, so your prayers can reach them and
alter their patterns in a positive way. Begin with 3 generations and
work your way up to doing this practice for 12 generations. This is
also performed very powerfully in community or family.

Note: You can call the names of your ancestors whom you remember, may
be upto 3 generations. On daily tarpan, you have to use the fresh
rice and seasame seeds everyday.

After doing the above, the water, seasame, rice flour finally after
seeking the blessings, Please pour the water on a well or in a river
or in Sea or drain it.

Tarpan Pitara Part Two

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My intention is to place our traditions and custosm with their general significances in front of the new-gen who want answers to questions about the whys and wherefores.

What they do with the knowledge is their karma. Most of our practices are shrouded in mystery and kept secret. When there is transparency, then the appeal is more.

Padmini Natarajan

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Vaidyanathan Pushpagiri posted 2 mnths ago

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Why I am writing this in detail? Because Vivaha is the most important samskara in a man’s life. He enters the second Asrama, wherein he discharges his debts to Devas, Pitrs, Bhutas, Brahman and Manusha. Without a Sahadharmini it is imposible for a man to discharge his duties towards the other three Asramas as they depend on the Grihasta for their support and vitality.

Marriage to a girl gives her the status of a Sahadharmini. When King Janaka gives away Sita in marriage to Sri Rama, this is what he says in the famous sloka ‘Iyam Sita mama sudha sahadharmasaridhava: etc.etc. There are four more lines in the sloka but this is the operative line : “mama sudha saha dharma saridhava”.

Every Hindu believes in rebirth and the new birth depends on one’s past karma. Irrespective of whether it is a higher or lower form, one’s Jivatma is instrumental for one’s birth and being looked after in one’s early stages. So, as a mark of gratitude and repayment of the Pitr debt, Tarpanas are performed, with til and water. Sages have restricted this libation of water and til to the Pitrs of three generations on the paternal side, father, grand father and great grand father with their wives, and three generations on the maternal side, which includes mother’s father, his father, and grand father with their spouses. They are assigned the staus of Vasu /Rudra / Aditya Svarupas. One is supposed to do 96 Tarpanas in a year. (Shannavati). Actually the Tarpanas are the Gauna (shortened) form of the elaborate Sraddha Ceremonies and it is to be performed between 1.30 and 3.00 P.M. called Apara time. Since this karma has to be performed with faith it is called

Pushpagiri Chandrasekar Vaidyanathan Iyer.[VP]

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Thanks for such informative blog about our ancient traditions & rituals.

It is needed for the present generations to know about it more and more.

I recall to my previous write up in the other site last year and reproduce the same for more reference to Tarpan & Mahalaya paksh: Propitiation of Departed Spirits:

The day of Mahalaya Amavasya is the day of great significance and importance to all Hindus.

It is the annual festival for propitiating the spirits of our ancestors, with devout prayers for peace.

The Hindu Itihasas (histories) say, that on the Mahalaya Amavasya, there is a conjunction of the sun and the moon and that the sun enters the sign Virgo (Kanya).

On this day, the departed manes, i.e., our ancestors, leave their abode in the world of Yama and come down to the world of mortals and occupy the houses of their descendants.

The fortnight preceding the new moon is specially consecrated for the propitiation of such departed spirits.The ceremonies performed in honour of the manes or ancestors during each day of this fortnight are considered to be equal to those performed at Gaya.

The principle in all such rites is the worship of the departed souls and the satisfaction of their wishes so that they might be in peace during the rest of the year.

It is these fourteen days that offerings made during this period benefit all the departed souls, whether they are connected to you or not.

Charity in the form of food is important,The gift of food is the greatest gift.

Hence give food in plenty, not only during the Mahalaya fortnight but all through the year.

The ritual of Tarpana. Related to the Sanskrit word Trpti, which means satiation or satisfaction, Tarpana is a process of gratifying our ancestors. Tarpana works more deeply, reducing the emotional charges, which have accumulated in us as a result of the activities of our forebears.

Suppose one of our ancestors was overly fond of eating, so fond that he or she fantasized about food all day long.

All cravings are forms of energy, which are broadcast into the Ether (space) with every thought. Some of these thoughts will be rational &sensible, but many will be obsessive.

We, who are permanently tuned to our ancestors’ wavelengths, automatically receive these subtle broadcasts, which will induce us to become obsessive about food if we are susceptible to them. Anyone who is really obsessive about food is likely to be thinking of food at the moment of death.

This final message is more powerful than all those which went before, because it is transmitted with all the anguish of an unfillable desire.

Because of the power behind this desire, and the fact that the individual whose rational mind could partly negate it no longer exists, this last wish affects us much more powerfully than any living wishes can.

Tarpana enables us to negate these desires. Once they are gone, the pressure on our genes to make us obsessive about food eases, our diet and habits can induce other of our genes to begin to function, which changes our emotional climate. As long as these unseen influences continue to affect us, no amount of diet or routine can ever eliminate them because they do not strike at the source. 99% of human and chimpanzee genes are identical; the differences between the two species occur because some genes are expressed more than others.

We are our own creator, ceaselessly creating ourself from our own genes with the help of our physical and mental food and habits.

The traditional ritual of Tarpana is complex, but its essence is simple. It is much like the All Soul’s tradition, when people visit their relatives in the cemetery.

In preparation, consider what one food item our parent or grandparent was fondest of. May be it is the apple our grandmother used to eat, or tender coconut our father used to drink. That food will act as a vehicle for our emotion.

Sit comfortably facing south and visualize our dead ancestors, one by one, as far back as we can remember.

Make each one sit in front of us. Telling them we want to help release them from any residual earthly desires they might have, offer them a spoonful of water, a spoonful of milk, and a spoonful of sesame seeds, preferably the black variety. These offerings are the same for everyone. Then offer a little of the special item, with the heartfelt wish that this will satisfy any residual cravings and allow that individual, wherever he or she is, to continue with their own progression towards greater integration and clarity.

We then request them to return whence they came, and feed the food we have offered to an animal, or put it into a river or the ocean.

It is good to repeat this annually, preferably on the same New Moon Day each year. The best days for Tarpana are New Moon Days, especially those which fall in September (Pitr Paksha).

We need not even believe in reincarnation, or even life after death, to perform Tarpana. our parents and grandparents are still alive inside us, in our genes.

We are simply projecting a part of our personality, contacting it, and requesting it to be pleased with us and to relinquish any inappropriate influence it may have over us. This visualization releases us from any unhealthy psychological habits we may have as a result of the influence of these previous beings who also shared our genes, and of the images we have of those beings.

Tarpana is especially important for ancestors we knew personally. If we loved them, we show them our love in the only way remaining to us, by remembering them and offering part of ourself to them as a token of our love.

If our relationship with them was marred by negative emotions, Tarpana allows us to forgive them, to heal the relationship by sacrificing

our negativity & offering them the healing power of our love. Thankfulness for the genes which have given us life & forgiveness for those genes which have limited our existence, transport the sacrifice to its intended target. If we are convinced that this can actually help eliminate any negativity remaining between us & the image we hold of our ancestor, it will.

Faith is essential for it to work; we must make our offering with complete sincerity. Faith can truly make us whole. Faith can make our society whole as well.

Tarpana is important to all of us who have forgotten our roots. It creates the bond which should exist between our ancestors and us.

Tradition regards Tarpana as a duty, which every child must perform for its parents. When we accept this responsibility we relinquish forgetfulness.

Tarpana is an act of remembrance, which solidifies the link between the generations.

By opening ourselves to our ancestral influences & forgiving our forebears their imperfections, we open ourselves to their accumulated wisdom, which can cement our culture together.

Shradha is performed on many occasions, like pilgrimage, during an eclipse, birth , investiture of the sacred thread, marriage, after performing funeral rites, or during Bhadra.

It serves to remind one at important times throughout one’s life that death does not severe the link between the present & the past, between the living & the dead.

Shradda where the gods are first invoked and then the pitras.

Each offering is made in the name of a pitra.The food is then served to all those present.

It is believed that by feeding the Brahmins, the manes are being fed.

The remainder is offered to the fire and given to the crows to eat.

It is believed that the pitras take the form of crows to eat the offerings made to them. The Brahmins are given gifts and money.

The Brahmanda Purana has specified both the food and the utensils to be offered in shradha. It rates the pindas as most important. The food cooked during shradha should be saltless and free of all adulteration and impurities.

According to the Matsya Purana, the manes, gratified by the offerings of food, bless their descendants with a long life, happiness, wealth, learning, progeny and

Various kinds of shradha are mentioned in the Markandeya , like nitya or usual and naimitya or occasional, performed on death anniversaries.

The Kamya Shradha is performed on one of the 15 days in the dark fortnight of Bhadra to pay homage as well as to fulfil a specific desire.

Each of these 15 days signifies something different.

For example, shradha is performed on the first day if one desires a beautiful wife, on the eighth day if one desires wealth, and on the fifteenth day if one wishes complete gratification. In addition, there are other days considered auspicious for performing shradha.

Special merit is received if the ceremony is performed at holy places or pilgrimage sites, such as Gaya, Allahabad, Kurukshetra and Siddhpur

Every Hindu in his life time visit Allahabad ,Kasi, Gaya & Rameshwaram & do the Pithru Karma to fulfill the anchestors wishes & for our generations goodness.

This pilgrimage is like Christians visit to Rome – Vatican.Muslim’s trip to Mecca, Medhina.Kalsa’s visit to Golden Temple. Amritsar.

Punya kala Tarpans being performed on every month and during festive seasons. Even during Grahan’s ( Surya & Chandra ) period also tarpan being performed.

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