Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Satish Arigela <satisharigela wrote: || Jai Sadguru Dutta || jayanthee mangalA kAlee Bhadhrakalee kapAlinee | dhurgA kShamA shivA DhAthree swAhA swaDhA namOsthuthE || A book containing the 700 verses should be necessarily used for chanting, even if one has memorized all of them. Without the book, the ritual won’t bear fruits. The book should be wrapped in a piece of silk cloth and should be treated sacredly. It should never be placed on the floor or touched by others. One should never chant while holding the book in his hands. The ‘X’ shaped stand called “Vyaasa peeTam” should be used. First, the book should be worshipped by invoking the Mother into it in the form of “sapthaShathi saraswathi” by the mantra: Query : I understand from the learned that the purpose of using Vyasa Peetam is that book should not be touched while chanting as one is supposed to know any Mantra or Shlokas within 1000 verses . ( As it should be memorised ) . Pl clarify this opinion with the rule aforesaid. On Next Rule : THE WORD “ITHI” SHOULD NOT BE UTTERED WHILE CONCLUDING A CHAPTER. INSTEAD “SWASTHI” SHOULD BE USED. For example: “ swasthi shree mArkanDEya purANE soorya sAvarNikE manvantharE, dhEvee mAhAthmyE, jagadhambaarpaNamasthu || “. ( maDhu-kaiTabha vaDhO nAma praThamODhyAyah | shree jagadhambaarpaNamasthu || “. ) Observation : Some books published by GITA PRESS states that Adhyah or Chapter Number and its contents should not be Chanted and I am not sure why it has said So. as per the book I have revised the Chant for getting my point clear. what is not required is put in bracket. pl clarify why it is so. The books version is Regards R.Srinath srinath_atreya -- pradiipajvaalaabhirdivasakaraniiraajanavidhiH sudhaasuuteshcandropalajalalavairarghyaracanaa . svakiiyairambhobhiH salilanidhisauhityakaraNaM tvadiiyaabhirvaagbhistava janani vaacaaM stutiriyam.h www : http://www.ambaa.org/ Contact: help Ganapathy --- Vijaya " Jai Bhavani " New and Improved Mail - Send 10MB messages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 || Jai Sadguru Dutta || RShyashrnga purADhiisham, thungA thiira nivAsinam | BhakthAmOdhapradham vandhE, BhArathii thiirTha sadgurum || AshESha vAk jAdya malApahanthri, navam navam spaShta suvAk pradhAyini | mamEha jihvAgra suranga narthaki, vAgdhEvathA me nayanE prasannA || > > Query : > > I understand from the learned that the purpose of using Vyasa Peetam is that book should not be >touched while chanting as one is supposed to know any Mantra or Shlokas within 1000 verses . ( >As it should be memorised ) . Pl clarify this opinion with the rule aforesaid. > Samaadhaanam: An important reason for using the vyaasa piitam is that the paarayana book should neither be placedon the ground not held with both hands. Almost all classical works on mantar shastra and Durgaa sadhana hold the same view. There may be various reasons for such a rule. Many a time, the shastras wontexplain the reasons. Shastras are like our Mother. Just as every mother always wishes the well being of her children, whatever the shastras advocate too are for our well-being only Sometimes due to our limitations, we misinterpret even very simple and straight forward rules of the shastras. Not dwelling much on such aberrations, I wish to mention a couple of referneces w.r.t to the paaraayana krama. || aaDhArE sThApayithwA thu pusthakam vaachayEth || [the book should always be placed on a support, above the ground] || hasthE sansThaapanAth dhEvii hanyarDhEhi Phalam yathah || [holding the (sapthashathii) book in hand during paaraayana destroys the benefits of the ritual] --- vArAhii thanthram It is true that before formally taking up the paaraayanam, the saadhak should have learnt the correct pronounciation of the shloka- manthras from an adept guru. Due to repeated chanting and listening to the verses (during learning), one would automatically memorize all of them. But the rule is that the paaraayana book should necessarily be used: || na mAnasam paTeth sthOthram vAchikam thu prashasyathE || [the sapthashathii should never be chanted mentally] || pusthakE vAchanam shastham sahasrAdhaDhikam yadhi || || thathO nyUnyasya thu BhavEdh vAcham pusthakam vinA || [chanting the sapthashathii shlokas while reading from the book is always highly beneficial. Failure in doing so makes the ritual futile.] --- prayOga chandrika Lalithaikya bramha Shrii Shankara Shaasthrigal (Bangalore) used to advice all devi upasaks to personally write down the shlokas in a book and use the same for paaraayanam. These rules are very strictly advocated and followed by the ShrngErii ShaaradhA piiTam. > > On Next Rule : > > > THE WORD gITHIh SHOULD NOT BE UTTERED WHILE CONCLUDING A CHAPTER. INSTEAD gSWASTHIh SHOULD BE USED. > > For example: g swasthi shree mArkanDEya purANE soorya sAvarNikE manvantharE, dhEvee mAhAthmyE, jagadhambaarpaNamasthu || g. > ( maDhu-kaiTabha vaDhO nAma praThamODhyAyah | shree jagadhambaarpaNamasthu || g. ) > > Observation : > > Some books published by GITA PRESS states that Adhyah or Chapter Number and its contents should >not be Chanted and I am not sure why it has said So. as per the book I have revised the Chant >for getting my point clear. what is not required is put in bracket. > > pl clarify why it is so. > Samaadhaanam: With my limited knowledge, I can only say that such a rule is not in vogue with those who follow the Shringeri sampradaaya. In many classical texts like "Vaaraahii Thantram", "Prayoga Chandrika", "Durgaa Thanthram", Hara-Gowri Thanthram", "Atharvana-Agama Sanhitha" and the Naagoji Bhatta tiikaa", it is clearly laid out that 13 seperate vessels containing milk should be used for tarpana at the end of each chapter, 13 seperate "Adhyaaya Thaamboolam" & "Adhyaaya poornahuthi" should be offered in the name of the Adhyaaya-Devatha": ||.....tat tat aDhyaaya devathaayei namah ithi pUjanE ithyAhuh || please see my article titled "dhurgA sapthashathi paaraayaNa kramam - part 2" for specific manthras at the end of each chapter. This also lets u know the 13 different goddesses associated with each chapter. The usage of "swasthi" instead of "ithi" while concluding each chapter involves the secrets of manthra shasthra and I don't wish to discuss it further here . "yaa dhEvii sarva BhUthEShu vidhyA rUpENa sansThithA | namasthasyei namasthasyei namasthasyei namO namah || " , ganapathy = = vijaya <srividya101> wrote: > > > > Query : > > I understand from the learned that the purpose of using Vyasa Peetam is that book should not be touched while chanting as one is supposed to know any Mantra or Shlokas within 1000 verses . ( As it should be memorised ) . Pl clarify this opinion with the rule aforesaid. > > > On Next Rule : > > > THE WORD ⌠ITHI¡ SHOULD NOT BE UTTERED WHILE CONCLUDING A CHAPTER. INSTEAD ⌠SWASTHI¡ SHOULD BE USED. > > For example: ⌠ swasthi shree mArkanDEya purANE soorya sAvarNikE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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