Gems from Divine

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Devotee: who should wear how many Yagno:pavi:thams?

 

HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami:

A student learning Ve:da:s should wear yagno:pavi:tham

with one knot. Sanya:si:s should wear Yagnyo:pavi:tham

with 3 strings with a knot in addition to one string

with a knot. Gruhastha:s, Va:naprasttha:s should wear,

2 yagnyo:pavi:thams each made of 3 pe:tas which in turn

are made of 3 strings with a knot.

 

 

Devotee: How many are the types of A:chamana:s?

 

HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami:

A:chamanas are of 4 types. They are:

a) Srowtha:chamanam

b) Sma:rtha:chamanam

c) Pura:na:chamanam

d) Tha:nthrika:chamanam

 

Devotee: Why should we do A:chamanam?

 

HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami:

One should do a:chamanam, to keep the mind steady.

 

Devotee: What is Pranavam?

 

HH Sri Jeeyar Swami:

"O:M" is called pranavam.

 

Devotee: What is Muhurta? What is Ghadiya? Are there only

three?

 

HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami:

There are 5 Major divisions of the time from sun-rise

to sun-set. Each division comes to 3 Muhu:rta:s ie.,

144 minutes ( 2 hours 24 min ). The associated names

are:

a) Pra:thah ka:lam

b) Sangava ka:lam

c) madhya:hna ka:lam

d) apara:hnam

e) sa:yam ka:lam

 

1 Muhurtam = 48 Minutes

1 Ghadiya = 24 minutes

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HH's conversation with buch of kids during US trip as we

remember