Guest guest Posted March 21, 2000 Report Share Posted March 21, 2000 Dear members, This is a post from Sri M.G.Vasudevan. adiyEn, chandrasekaran. > > ---------- > > L&T-ECCG-Buildings & Factories > > 18 mars, 2000 11:18 > > 'BHAKTI-LISTS (AT) EGROUPS (DOT) COM' > > REPARISHECHANA MANTHRAM- MGV2 > > > > Dear Chandrasekaran and other srivaishnava perunthagaiyeer, > > > > In continuation of yesterday's mail now let us see what thaithreeya > > upanishad says on this. In the fourth part called > naaraayaNa upanishad > > (refer Sri Uththamoor Veera raaghavaacharyaswami's book > page 175 sloka > > 122) which reads as > > > > "amrothOpastharaNamasi! Slokam 122 > > praaNE nivishtaamrutham juhOmi! PraaNaaya svaahaa!! > > ApaanE nivishtaamrutham juhOmi! apaanaaya svaahaa!! > > VyaanE nivishtaamrutham juhOmi! vyaanaaya svaahaa!! > > udhaanE nivishtaamrutham juhOmi! Udhaanaaya svaahaa!! > > samaanE nivishtaamrutham juhOmi! samaanaaya svaahaa!! > > BrahmaNima aathmaa amruthathvaaya! Slokam 123 anu 33- 48 part > > > > These are called praaNaahuthi manthraa-s. aahuthi is > oblation. PraaNa is > > breath or air or life. As already known the air we breath > is classified > > into five types > > praaNa - life's breath or basic > > apaana - another life wind > > vyaana - third vital air > > udhaana - breathing upwards > > samaana.- good air > > > > meaning of the slokam: for praaNaaya svaahaa- I oblate a > creature of > > amrutham the food to the breath (praaNan) with a high degree of > > satisfaction and with a resolution. Similarly substitute or > replace the > > praanan to apaanan, vyaanan, udhaanan samaanan etc to get > at the meaning > > of other parts. > > > > The Chandokya upanishad also deals with same and it also > gives by this > > pranaaya svaahaa which devadhai and which part of the body > gets satisfied. > > That we will see in next post. > > > > Dasan Vasudevan M.G. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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