Planetary remedies

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At the Ganesha Temple in Flushing, New York City, when you enter at the

eastern entrance, there is a large table-altar with nine deity statues --

the Nava-grahas, or planetary devas. Saturdays at 10 AM there is a

scheduled Nava-graha Puja. (Since Surya, the Sun, is ruler of the

planets, this used to be perfomed on Sunday mornings. But the pujaris

soon realized that almost everyone needs to propitiate the Great Malefic,

Shani, Saturn, so the date was changed to Saturday mornings.)

 

I don't recall what planetary pujas cost, but you can discuss details

with the priests at the temple.

 

Hindu Temple Society of North America

45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355

<http:/www.indianet.com/ganesh>

<ganesh

 

I was given Johari's Planetary Meditation Kit as a gift, and I keep the

yantra cards beside my computer. Every morning as I boot up, I display

the card ruling the day, and chant the associated mantra for a bit. (I

must admit I have been tempted to celebrate Rahuday and Ketuday -- these

shadow-planets don't have days of the week assigned to them!)

 

Mercury is retrograde until February 8th. Wear something green every

day, and remember the mantra: <Om buum Budhaya namah>.

 

-- Len/ Kalipadma

 

 

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:55:52 -0000 "tomgull" <tomgull writes:

> Unfortunately there's no Brahmasthanam temples

> in the U.S. for people to attend planetary pujas

> as you could if in India. For anyone undergoing

> severe dark planetary periods and would like other

> ways of pacifying or strengthening planets, I

> recommend Harish Johari's "Planet Meditation Kit"

> with reservations. The booklet that comes with

> leaves alot to be desired, but the cassettes are

> pretty good to listen to while lying down going

> to sleep. The extra side with alternate mantras

> are not anywhere in the booklet, and even the

> particular Ganesh sloka he starts each tape with

> isn't in the book, and took alot of netsurfing to

> find the text. The yantra cards aren't really

> too helpful, compared to the copper ones they

> sell at the local Indo-pak store. I think Amazon

> lists the kit for $35, but I got a used one for

> much less from half.com.

>

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