Sri Garuda mantram

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Dear bAgawathALs,

In the past few days there were many postings on Sri Garuda and the need for

prayers asking for a specific boons from nitya suris etc. I thoroughly

enoyed Sri Mohan Sagar's observation of Sri thrithandi jeers comment on

when prapatti will occur and whether one can realise or not when one is

pursuing the bhakti maargam. This is absolutely true. Even vadakalai

acharayALs think that when bhakti maargam is pursued prapatti is realised

sometime and all the angas arfe fulfilled at that time somehow. The only

difference

is that as per vadaklais prapatti can also be performed at the feet of

acharAryALs

who had the authirity to offer this when one is undertaking baranyAsam. Once

baranyAsam is performed one has to start and follow the codes of being a

prapanna

and that itself is enough to reach moksham at the end of this janman. Now there

are questions in one's mind can one follow the codes of a prapanna strictly and

without any lapase ? When lapses occur invlantgarily there are prayachiththams

prescribed in our saathram. how many of those who had undertaken baranyasam are

conducting themselves as trye prpannaas. Many elders in our families do. This is

where

the "maturity" aspect touched by Sri Viji comes into play. Most of the times

elders tell us to have our baranyAsam done at a late age. This is generally

conceived to let them (the children) enjoy for sometime and then get to this

stage. No,

it is not true. The correct notion for doing at a later age is such that one

will

be matured enough to follow the codes fully. There is a saying in tamil.

A man gets to become a full man only when hr reaches 40's and untill then

everything

else is only aRaiyum kuRaiyum. I was thrilled by the explanatins of both Sri

Viji

and Sri Mohan Sagar. I have had the oppurtunity to discuss with both of them

sometimes. I am amazed at the level of maturity these bhathaaLs possess.

I am also thrilled to see that Sri Mohan Sagar's depth of knowledge and

understanding is

is so much for a person having been brought up here in north america. I feel

that

Sri Mohan Sagar must be encouraged for his knoweldge and growth. I Was about to

request him to educate us on Sri ManavaLa maamunigaLs's aruLicheyaL and i found

that Sriman thirumalai is doing it. Thanks to him. I request Sri Mohan to step

in when ever

needed

and expand on the same with his insights. Coming to Sri Garuda's mantram,

the march 19, kal garuda sErvai is performed in thiru naRaiyoor and i intend

to post some

on sri garuda on that day. I thank the generous sponsors Sri Dileepan, Sri Viji,

Sri Sadagopan, Sri Ramesh Sarangapani, Sri Jagan for the naachiyaar koil

ursavams last year. Sri Murali's love for Sri Garuda is very great and i donot

see

him getting upset over the remarks on the posts on Sri Gruda's vaibavam. When

Murali had some difficult times i was told his achryan asked him to chant garadu

thandakam and based on this background and Murali's soncerity in following his

acharyALs aruL mozhigaL he is perfectly right in getting disturbed at times when

such fundamental faiths of him are questioned.

 

I thank most of those who posted

some "value" of information than passing general observations on who is at fault

etc. Observing the values of someone's post and *expanding*

on it is also a value. I and many of us with whom i had talked

think that currently only

Sri Sadagopan is the most matured person and thoroughly knowledgable in this

forum who can tell us as to

how we can conduct in this forum. All the others including me are evolving over

the last 2 years and while many are mellowed many are at times tempermental

and provocative. I am told by my mentor that a true bagwathAL

who had samAsrayEnam

should conduct themself as a true srivaishnava and not offend

other bagawathALs. The

bagwatha uththama thuvam i was taught is such that by default a srivaishnava

should concede

that

the other bagwatha is perumal's adiyar and ignore and condone all the

differences if they cannot sort it out among themselves eye to eye.

If this cannot be practiced then we must try to pratcise the same (I was told by

my mentor).

ourselves before we preach to others. Sri Srikantha wrote to me a personal

letter

and apologised to me (for what he has not done) and explained

to me when he thought I am quitting because of his remarks.

I never said I was quitting and it is almost not possible to upset me

by any remarks in a casual argument. This may be the spirit of annyOnyam between

us.

I liked his personal mail and i thanked him

for his explanations. My mentor told me that it is ok as long as everyone try

to conduct

themselves the way they are suggesting others to conduct.

Lately, I tend to avoid controversy and make it a

point that IN EACH SINGLE POST THERE IS

SOMETHING IS AVAILABLE as a contribution

for the net. Even in a a rejoinder for posts like Sri Garuda, I first try to

assemeble some valuable information than passing

judgements. Thanks to Smt Vasudha narayan and

score of others who poured their love

for the posts on thiru allik kENi. I think Sriman Mani may try to be the example

that Sri Sadagopan is suggesting in leading the group. This is not an advise.

This

is just a request. Sri Mani is knowledgele in shastras and compared to him my

knowledge

is very minimum. I request Sri Mani and Sri Sadagopan

to agree among themselves and issue a code for all of us so that only a matured

person

like Sri Sadagopan writes on the code of conduct. I have never seen Sri

Sadagopna

offending anyone in the list so far. That is his "adakkam" and I salute him for

the same.

 

When

almost everyone accpets that we can pray to these adiyyars of the Lord , there

are other aspects of Sri Garuda worshiping that is not commonly known. I want to

share them now. Thanks to Smt Nagu and her mother for all the encouragement and

enthusiasm in sharing their anubavams with us. There are more such exists. A

station

master in our main line near kumbakonam was capable of treating any poison that

was put in a human's system due to a snake bite. people just used to goto their

railway station and tell their station master who will call this person in his

station and he will immediately take bath and chant and where ever the suffering

person is there the visham or poison will come down in minutes. This is

applicable

for persons suffering even miles away ! I have some experience with Sri garuda

mantram. Sri Garudawaar is in my car as I named my car after him. When i was

driving

one day the roof of a van ahead of me in the next lane took off flying in the

direction of my car. I had only a fraction seconds to decide if i must brake or

not.

I did look at the Sri Garuda's picture in front of me and chanted and braked my

car.

the roof came flying at my front wind sheild but landed vertically down at the

fron of

my car and without making any scratches into my car. All the other behind me

braked

and everyone stopped (HIGH WAY !) and people came to me to ask if i need to call

the cops. As nothing happend to me or anyone we didnot call and my wife and

children

witnessed this wonder as many others who thought we had taken the the hit from

this

flying roof coming at a very high speed. Sri Garuda mantram saved me that time.

There are several garuda mantrams that have unique features offered

from each of such matrams..

 

Sri Garuda panchmai

is for poison removing and Sri Garuda mantram Swami desikan chanted

is for everything. There is also one powerful garuda mantram known as Sri Garuda

kavacham told by Sri Naradhar is available now from 1963 ie after swami

desikan's

7 th centinary. Prior to this it was not heard of in this century. It was digged

from the archives of Raja saraboji library in Tanjore that time by LIFCO. When

there

is a debate as to whetehr we can seek prosperity and other material boons from

Lord and his adiyaars, there is also a case when we goto a doctor as we donot

wait

for Sriman Narayana to *directly* cure our fever saying it is our karma. ie when

the

fever or disease is a hinderence to our spiritual growth we seek to remove it

through other adiyars (Doctos) sriman narayana sent to serve us. I have

heard from my mentor that there

are powerful mantrams that has cured cancer absoluetley. Can we take this

descretion of taking a medicine or cure, into our hands and seek intermediate

releif

? Why not if our ultimate goal is to serve Sriman narayan only. More than

diseases

some time certain peole get into trouble when they are not at fault. It may be a

karmic act. If the karma is very severe it will make them go through it and even

without giving them the clarity of the mind

that there is solution to it and that they can seek refuge at the

feet of adiyaars and get this cured. If our karmic screen is wading due to

our mantra sidhdi and athma sudhdh swaroopam by doing nitya kaimkaryam like

gayathri jabapam, we come to know that there are cures available and seek to

it sometimes to serve our ultimate goal. When a bagwathal ( is it kanthaadai

swamigal's clan)

committed apachzram to Swami Desikan, he was

cured by consuing the sri paath theerthahm of swami desikan ! When thirumalai

swamigaL refused to sing on Lord venkateswara even after venkateswra requested

him,.

it is said that he got into a kaachchal or some disease due to this bagwatha\

apachAram. ie he said

"aranganai paaadiya vaayaal oru kuranganai paaduvEnaa ?" Later he sang on lord

of

thiruvenkadan and got his disease cured. Emperumanaar advised Sri

Kooraththazwaar to

pray to Lord of Kanch to get his eye sight back. There are many citations in our

guruparampariyam where our poorvachaaryaaLS themselves had sought certain

relief in material aspects that are hinderance to their spiritual path.

when chanting garuda mantram as a prayer on adiyaar is wrong how can chanting

acharyaa thaniyan be correct as acharyaa is also an adiyaar for the lord only.

If worshipping adiyar's are wrong then why did Sri Ramanuja meditated at HIS

acharya's feet

at the

time of HIS departure to paramapatham.

 

Coming to Sri Garuda kavacham, the speciality

of this mantram as per acharyaals is that when one is accused for a crime that

he is not committed and facing penalty or imprisonment, this mantram is supposed

to get them the relief from the situation. For those living in US they know how

people sue each other for many things in the name of freedom. If anyone has any

such

experience and really think that they need to get them out by seeking sri

garudazhawaar's

blessing they can chant it. I cannot post this clokam in the net. However please

keep

in mind and if you need, please request me and i can send you the slokam.

 

Sri Garudaazwaar thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sampath Rengarajan