Reason for Aachamanam at the beginning of every ritual

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Sri:mathe: Ra:ma:nuja:ya namaha:

Aum Asmadgurubhyo: namaha:

Jai Sri:manna:ra:yana

Alwa:r Emperumana:r Jeeyar Divya Tiruvadigale: saranam

 

Prana:mams to Bhagavd Bandhu:s,

Adiya:ne was reading the mail sent by "Srima:n Pulijal, Jagjeevan of Houston

Vika:sa Tarangini" regarding the importance of Deepam and Sri: Pa:da

Ti:rtham. Adiya:ne is blessed to be present at the time of that discourse by

H.H. Sree Sree Sree Jeeyar Swamijee during H.H. Sree Swamijee's Washington

visit last August.

 

Adiya:ne is making a bold attempt to present this. Adiya:ne begs pardons if

any mistakes are there. Mistakes can be there becuase of Adiya:ne's

inability to understand properly from H.H Sree Swa:mijee's discourse.

 

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H.H. Swamijee explained with a wonderful example why should we do Aachamanm

at the beginning of any ritual. The examples Sree Swa:mijee uses are very

simple and make us understand the point or philosophy behind these practices

very easily.

 

Discourse went on like a flow of nectar from the divine Sri:mukham of H.H.

Sree Swa:mi:jeee as follows:

Let us imagine a street with heavy traffic in the middle of the city. That

road is a sand road with full of dust. We know that it is very difficult for

a person even to walk on such kind of roads when a vehicle passes by because

of amount of dust raises on to the atmosphere around us. We need not explain

the difficulties faced by the people who live in houses close to that road.

What should they do to get away from this problem. Either they can leave

that place and live far from such kind of situations or think of some

alternatives so that the dust will not raise. Let us assume that they do not

have any other alternative, but only to stay in that house. Then, What can

be the bset solution? The easiest solution is to sprinkle some water in

front of the house. This is very simple. Right! We can imagine how much is a

problem to live close to one such road. If a house is located at the

junction of 4 roads, situation will be horrible.

 

This is where Sree Swamijee interpreted this very example to our(Souls)

situation.

We are exactly in the same situation. We live close to number of such high

speed traffic lanes. They are mouth, eyes, ears, nose, skin etc. You know

what is travelling on these lanes! Nothing but worldly matters(Ihika

Vishaya:lu) with high speeds. The road in the city might be free during less

traffic hours. These traffic lanes are always busy. These vehicles do not

allow us to live peacefully. They do not allow us to focus on one thing

constantly. If we are in such situation, can we do any ritual with

Sraddha(Lots of Interest) and Focus? But, Sradha is the most important

factor when we perform any ritual. Without Sradha, what ever we do is in

vain.

 

This is where the A:chamanam helps us in performing the ritual with utmost

Sradha. While doing A:chamanam, as explained by "Srima:n Pulijal,

Jagjeevan", Take water into palm with the feeling(PariPu:rna Bha:vana) that

it came on to us from the lotus feet of Lord Sri:mann:rayana and chant 1)

Aum Atchyuta:ya namaha: and drink it. Then, we should repeat the same for

these two mantr:s also.

2) Aum Ananta:ya namaha

3) Aum Go:vinda:ya namaha

 

What does it do?

These mantra:s make the water in our palm a "MantraJalam". That goes inside

of our body and suppressses our thoughts revolving aroud these worldly

matters and enable us to concentrate on divine qualities of Lord and perform

the ritual properly. We might get a doubt "Can this mantra jala have that

much effect?". The answer is "YES" when we have the belef. Swa:mijee

mentioned one example also. We all know "the great devotee Prahla:da". He

was given a glass posion by his own father. Then, Prahla:da chanted these

three mantams and did a:chamanam and drank that poision. Nothing has

happended to him. That means, these mantra:s can transfer the poision into

nectar also.

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Once again Adiya:ne begs pardons from Bhagat Bandhu:s for any mistakes and

request them to correct me.

 

 

Da:so:hamilato:

Adiya:ne Subrahmanyam Ra:ma:nuja Da:san

Alwa:r Emperuma:na:r Jeeyar Divya Tiruvadigale: Saranam.

Jai Sri:manna:ra:yana

 

 

 

 

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