Question regarding shrArDham

[Guest guest]

Dear friend:

This depends on where your father would like to perform the ceremony. If you

give your location, may be someone in the list would be able to point to an

appropriate help.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

[Guest guest]

Dear Members,

 

My parents have come here from India and my grand-mothers tiDhi falls on

9th of June. We would like to do it as close as possible as what is done in

India. Can any of the members give me any information on whom I can contact for

this? If yes, please reply to the list or to my e-mail "srikanth"

 

Any pointers will be extremely helpful.

 

thanks in anticipation

srikanth

[Guest guest]

Dear Members,

 

I am located at San Jose. Sorry to miss that in my previous post.

 

thanks & regards

srikanth

> Dear friend:

> This depends on where your father would like to perform the ceremony. If you

> give your location, may be someone in the list would be able to point to an

> appropriate help.

> Dasoham

> Anbil Ramaswamy

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Srikanth,

 

I live in the Bay Area and I'll tell you what my family

does. To perform a SRAddham ceremony with any degree of

correctness, you either have to be trained in the prayOga-s

yourself or you need to have a properly trained purOhita.

Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to find

someone in this country who is trained to be a purOhita,

particularly in the Sri Vaishnava fashion. Most people here

make the erroneous assumption that the local temple arcaka

is knowledgable enough to perform all the vaidika samskAras.

In fact, most are equipped so poorly that they can barely

correctly recite the panca-sUkta, let alone recite and apply

other, less popular vaidika mantras properly. This is not

really their fault. They are trained differently, with different

expectations in India. In India, the Veda/Prabandha adhyApaka,

the purOhita, the religious scholar, and the arcaka each

perform different and distinct roles. The problem is that it

is virtually impossible to find anyone in this country other

than an adhyApaka or an arcaka.

 

My feeling is that one should recognize that one's performance

of a SRAddham in this country will fall very short of the mark.

Since I am of the opinion that it is better to do one thing

well rather than many things poorly, I would suggest you keep

it simple. Just keep your house and kitchen very clean on that

day (as one would do in India), do all your nitya-karmAnushThAnam-s,

and prepare food strictly as one would do on a SRAddham.

Invite three bhAgavatas for lunch, say whatever stotrams you

know, and keep the memory of your departed ancestor at the forefront.

Then feed the bhAgavatas. This has been the practice of many

people here.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

Mani

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends:

 

My father was a Brahaspathi .I have inherited

the SrArdha PrayOgAs. I can help with the manthrAs

and the procedures .I do not know whether you

have the dharbhams and pavithrams et al.

 

The main problem here is to find the swamys to

take part and who will be able to observe

the requirements of eating once and follow

the other requirements. Vaayasa PinDam

placement et al are difficult to follow. One approach

is to finish the SrArdham and then place the remains

in a river or lake.

 

There is a qualified PurOhithar in the East Coast ,

who can travel to homes and perform the ceremonies.

It will however be an expensive proposition for

visiting West Coast. That is why I suggested

the HiraNya SrArdham route . It is common here

for the temple priests to perform this type of

Sraardham without proficiency in PrayOgAs.

There is atleast one such priest at most of the temples.

Many temples advertise the availability of such a priest.

 

V.Sadagopan

 

Mani Varadarajan wrote:

> Dear Srikanth,

>

> I live in the Bay Area and I'll tell you what my family

> does. To perform a SRAddham ceremony with any degree of

> correctness, you either have to be trained in the prayOga-s

> yourself or you need to have a properly trained purOhita.

> Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to find

> someone in this country who is trained to be a purOhita,

> particularly in the Sri Vaishnava fashion. Most people here

> make the erroneous assumption that the local temple arcaka

> is knowledgable enough to perform all the vaidika samskAras.

> In fact, most are equipped so poorly that they can barely

> correctly recite the panca-sUkta, let alone recite and apply

> other, less popular vaidika mantras properly. This is not

> really their fault. They are trained differently, with different

> expectations in India. In India, the Veda/Prabandha adhyApaka,

> the purOhita, the religious scholar, and the arcaka each

> perform different and distinct roles. The problem is that it

> is virtually impossible to find anyone in this country other

> than an adhyApaka or an arcaka.

>

> My feeling is that one should recognize that one's performance

> of a SRAddham in this country will fall very short of the mark.

> Since I am of the opinion that it is better to do one thing

> well rather than many things poorly, I would suggest you keep

> it simple. Just keep your house and kitchen very clean on that

> day (as one would do in India), do all your nitya-karmAnushThAnam-s,

> and prepare food strictly as one would do on a SRAddham.

> Invite three bhAgavatas for lunch, say whatever stotrams you

> know, and keep the memory of your departed ancestor at the forefront.

> Then feed the bhAgavatas. This has been the practice of many

> people here.

>

> aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

> Mani

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