Rudraksha and smashan bhumi/Suryaji

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Namaste Suryaji,

 

For those who have transcended the difference between "life and

death" and found Smashan Maa, the soul once stretched to such

dimensions, will never return to its intitial state. Hats off to you.

 

On a physical note :-) Its like having sniffed the essence of

decomposing bodies till it no longer affects the senses, then one

truly proceeds and progresses..

 

Varanasi..! The old Benares.. One of Seven Holy Cities for

pilgrimage, also a Tirtha for Jains & Buddhists, etc., and one of the

holiest places for cremation.

 

No mean feat to have performed sadhanas there. Must be Maa's

blessings from preceeding births. (The great poet Kabir, lived there,

I think..)

 

Can envisage how incrediby charging the smashans and Lingams are. Do

you use oil before rubbing your Rudraksha Malas with ashes? Or

after? I'm trying to figure out the difference: before or after, if

at all..

 

Om Namah Shivaya

Sy

 

, "mahamuni"

<mahamuni@c...> wrote:

 

> I know I always found it a powerful place to wear them. I have

spent much time doing sadhana in the Smashan, including the Maha

Smashan, Manikarnika Ghat, in Varanasi. Sometimes I still rub my

rudraksha malas in some cremation ashes I brought back from there.

>

> I also find it incredibly charging to leave the malas for some time

on top of my Guru's padukas, on top of one of my Narmadeshwar Lingams

(the bigger the better) or one of my large Parad Lingams.

>

> Pranams,

>

> Surya

> -

> syzenith

>

> Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:13 PM

> Re: RBSC : Rudraksha and smashan bhumi?

>

>

> Namaste & Pranaams Mahamuniji and Ashwini Yogiji,

>

> In resonance with your thoughts.. Aghoris/Smashan Babas do.

>

> Sri Ashwini Yogiji, shall try and see if I can find the relevant

> scripture/s (may take a bit of time)..

>

> Jai Smashan Maa

> Sy

>

> , "mahamuni"

> <mahamuni@c...> wrote:

>

> > Only some don't take it there. Smashani Babas do. I have met

> several. How can the Smashan be a place of impurity?! It is as

you

> said.

>

> > -

> > ashwini yogi

> >

> > Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:06 PM

> > RBSC : Rudraksha and smashan bhumi?

> >

> >

> >

> > Blessings to all.

> >

> > Could someone here tell me that why the Rudraksha,is not

taken to

> the Smashan Bhumi.when One of the names of lord Shiva is

> Smashaneshwar.

> >

> > I would feel comfortable if the explanation is from a

> Vedic/Upnadshic text and not from a neo-age text.

> >

> > Yogi Ashwini

>