Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Dear Friends when one starts a pooja a Sankalpa should be done stating the place time year ,star . etc. For a person living in USA say Toledo,Ohio how the place can be mentioned..As far as I know N.america is called as krounchya dweepa..is it right? If not then which Dweepa? which varsha? which khanda? How about the indication of directions with respect to Meru can any one please enlighten me? Thank you so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 It will not be correct even then because you are assuming an Indian location for your spatial coordinates and American location for temporal (time) coordinate. Otherwise you will end doing prAtas-sandhyA in sAyaN^kAlam and the vice versa. Easiest way to substitute is to say puNya kShetre, puNya varShe, etc. This is similar to people substituting "Subha" for unknown entity in time (such as Subha karaNa). Here for the space you say puNya. Saying krau~ncha etc. is not correct because the cosmology as understood by seers is not same as what we understand now. bhUmA devi is sacred wherever you are and saying a particular place is a puNya bhUmi is not incorrect.. Regarding rivers, Colarado river is as sacred ganga and kAveri, so are other rivers. Water is sacred, period; and veda-s stand testimony to this. If you further want refine your sankalpa with term such as, texas rAjye, Austin nagare, etc., it is OK. The key is saying this space time coordinates in sankalpa is to learn our tradition. As far as geography is concerned, I think it may be difficult to grasp it and/or accept it (there are some websites that present a picture of what our seers thought). One can at least learn to compute panchAnga (based on lat/long) and say that correctly. But you should also keep in mind that She transcends space and time. My 2c. Ravi On 9/19/05, av krshnan <avkrshnan wrote: > dear all, > i do the sankalpam as if i were at my home in > india, and say, " ithi sankalpya"..." assuming i am at > my home in india"...., do this here at me place in > this residence... > a.v.krshnan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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