To Afshin about Yagna kompensation method

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Afshin wrote:

 

....if one chant 125000 or 500000 how should i make a compensation if

one is not able to perfom a homa efter doing mantra japa, please

have your advice on this, thank you..

 

 

Dear Afshin ~ as I was away, I missed some digests, so I don't have the

context for your question. If you look in the files section, at the information

about the Mother Earth Sankalpa (referred to on the digest as EMS), you will

get an idea of the numerical difference between chanting the mantra for a

particular planet without homa and with homa. I will tell you, seeing those

numbers freaked me out. I am just a little turtle. However, I take comfort from the

fact that Swamiji has said, regarding all sorts of spiritual practice,

"according to your capacity."

 

So, as I recently discovered, I am 1/6 of the way through chanting the malas

(I haven't had a way to do homa) for the EMS. When I first joined the group

that would have discouraged me. Instead, now I feel good for what I have been

able to do, and I will continue with this sankalpa through the year.

 

So learn what you can about the numbers, but do what you can, "according to

your capacity." Sometimes my circumstances allow me only to chant one mala in

a day, or recently, because of my mother's death, two in a week. Although

during that time I did chant a lot of the Maha Mrtyunjaya Mantra for my mother.

I chanted silently, by myself. I sang it aloud with my daughter; and I sang

it aloud with my daughter and my sister.

 

If you have taken or are participating in a sankalpa, like the EMS, then the

numbers do have significance. But even this little turtle has learned to

accept her limitations, to cheer those who have finished and those who are on

their second round, and to keep plodding along, bit by bit. Jai Maa ~ Jai

Swamiji ~ Linda P.S. If anyone can direct me to the original post where this

compensation method was brought up, I would very much like to read it.