Qs: Namams, Ghana Paathi and some slokas

[Guest guest]

H H Sri ChinnaJeeyar Swamiji,

My Padavandanams to you. Respected Swamiji kindly please tell me about

these things:

1) I was watching the Ramanujacharya serial.Its very very nice but too

short just 20-22mins including ads,well in that i have seen that all the

alvars and even the pujaris have namas(if i am calling it correctly) all

over thier body hands neck stomach but only the one on the head has a

padam.Why?What is the significance of this namas is it any ritual or does

it have any medical reason.

 

2).I have heard about ghana pathi who are they.Is there any story which

can be written and remebered.Please tell me about it.

 

3).I dont know where but i heard this shloka

"Saame vasathu jhi:va:ghre"

Please clarify.

I have many more to ask but i remeber nly this much now.YOur calendar

shows that you are alwaays busy.Please swamiji please take good care of

yourself.WE need you the world needs you.Vaishnava matham needs you.

THank you guruji.

Jai srimanarayana

Your devotee

Srinvas

 

 

 

Vedantam Srinvas Chary

[Guest guest]

Priya Sriman Srinivasji!

Jai Srimannarayana!

 

WE have received you mail, but we could not reply to you

because we were in trip to Manas Sarovar for 15 days and

before that we are in preparation to Githajyothi etc.,

 

Even now we are in tour to Mauritius for a week days. We

are happy for your curiousity to know more about the

samprada:yam. We are replying to your questions in brief.

 

You have asked about the "pa:dam" to the Na:mam on the

fore-head. In other 11 places wherever they put na:mam.,

padam will not be there except on the face. The rule to

the Na:mam on the fore head is, to put it right from the

"na:sika:gram" viz. the end of the nose. Some people

thought that the end will be at the tip of the nose, so

some peole wear the na:mam upto the tip. And their pa:dam

will be appearing as too a longer one. Mainly we can see

such namam with Thirunarayna perumal. Some devotees also

were like that.

 

Some other devotees decided that the 'agra" will be the

middle part of the eyes. They took it granted to end the

padam there itself. You can hardly find pa:dam with such

na:mam. But great acharyas decided that they very form of

the nose based on the ending part of the bone, which ends

in the middle portion of the visible nose, so padam should

appear till there. that is why na:mam on the fore-head

will appear with pa:dam. For other places that 'na:sika:gra'

problem does not exist. They appear in flat.

 

2. A Ghanapatthi, means one who mastered in some subject.

Literally speaking, a person, who studied Vedic text.Then

finished the pada-pattham. Also learned krama-pattham.

Here splitting the text by individual words is padam.

Re-joining each word 3 times makes kramam. Where each word

repeated and netted with other words 13 times, that becomes

one Ghanapattham. It is a nice exercise, of course.

 

3. About your 3rd question, we do not know where did you

hear the slo:ka and in what context. Let your rememberance

be active always.

 

=chinnajeeyar=

 

Qs: Namams, Ghana Paathi and some slokas

1) I was watching the Ramanujacharya serial.Its very very nice but too

short just 20-22mins including ads,well in that i have seen that all the

alvars and even the pujaris have namas(if i am calling it correctly) all

over thier body hands neck stomach but only the one on the head has a

padam.Why?What is the significance of this namas is it any ritual or does

it have any medical reason.

 

2).I have heard about ghana pathi who are they.Is there any story which

can be written and remebered.Please tell me about it.

 

3).I dont know where but i heard this shloka

"Saame vasathu jhi:va:ghre"

Please clarify.

Vedantam Srinvas Chary