A doubt on how to offer taLigai to perumal

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namaskaram! aDiyEn has a doubt on how to offer

taLigai to our Attup perumAL.

 

aDiyEn's doubt - all these days, aDiyEn has been

offering taLigai (amudu) to Attup perumAL - not in the

same vessel that aDiyEn cooks rice, but in a smaller

kiNNi - after adding ghee (aDiyEn always cooks rice +

some tuvaram paruppu together). A relative said that

we should offer food only after making sure it is not

hot for perumAL.

 

Recently, two friends indicated that we have to take

the whole vessel to perumAL and say "Avi umakku, amudu

emakku" and that we should not take cold amudu to

perumAL. aDiyEn's mAmiyAr (late) had said that we

should place the whole vengalappAnai in which we make

cakkaraip pongal for pongal day when we offer food to

perumAL. aDiyEn's aunt (who was very orthodox)

used to take perumAL SALagrAmam to the kitchen and

offer amudu there itself after she removed the vessels

from the fire and placed on the side.

 

Question is - should we take the whole vessel that is

hot and offer it hot

 

or

 

should we take a small amount in a small vessel and

offer it not hot for KrishNan since He is a baby?

 

Is there a difference between offering food to

SALagrAmam and KrishNan(tavazhum KrishNan is what

aDiyEn's mother offered and we have sALagrAmams

also)?

 

SrI ranganAtha divya maNi pAdukAbyAm nama:

aDiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari

 

 

 

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SrI:

 

Dear Smt KalyANi Krishnamachari,

 

The little that I know:

 

1. We should not offer in the same vessel in whcih we cooked the food.

2. We should not offer steaming hot, as it would burn num perumAL's tongue. It

should be warm enought to be tasteful forthe Lord.

3. We should offer as if we offer the king who has visited our home with all his

battalion. (means with respect, love maryAdhai and also offer to the entire

parivAr)

 

Offer with love (not as yet another ritual).

 

GItAchARyan says :

""Whoever offers me with loving devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or even

water, I enjoy this offering made with devotion by him who is pure-minded"

(pathram pushpam phalam thOyam..")

 

Regards

Narayana Narayana

adiyEn nAryana dAsan madhvakkannan