panchayatana puja

May 12, 2008

namaste and greetings. This is my first post seeking clarification

of certain doubts. I hope the learned members will guide me.

1. In the FAQ section certain information as to the number of

murties is given, such as not to have 2 pratimas of surya, 3 murties

of Lord Ganesha etc.

My question is whether the number of shivalingas or salagramas or

Ganesh idols can be more than the number, or I should have just one

pratima each. This is because in my puja set (which includes my own

and murties of others (who are not in a position to do the puja) the

no. of murties exceed the ideal situation of one pratima each.

2. In the laghu panchayata pooja book which I follow there is no

separate avahana mantra of Ambaa. The Someshwara avahana mantra

says " Gauri Sameth Someshwaran dhyami, avahiami " . Is it okay? If

not what is the avahanam mantra of Ambaa.

3. Is it okay to include idols of other Gods like Gopalakrishnan,

Laxmi etc. in the pooja, thuough sankalp is taken as " panchayatana

Pujaam karishye " .

4. What is the alternative method of disposing off " nirmalyam " when

u are not in a position to immerse it in the river/lake? The civic

authorities are strict here that waste is not dumped in the

river/waterbody.

Hope to get my doubts clarified at the earliest.

With regards and thanks in advance

narayan

May 15, 2008

Diwakarvlg <diwakarvlg wrote: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:51:31 -0000

" Diwakarvlg " <diwakarvlg

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Re: panchayatana puja

, " z1e1b1r1a " wrote:

Namaste

this is regarding the Panchayatana

in the regular panchayatana the ganapati,linga,ambica,aditya can be

one for one devata but for salagrama there can be more than one and

in that also they vary according to the type of sala grama

the hiranya garbha salagrama can be more than one

>

> namaste and greetings. This is my first post seeking clarification

> of certain doubts. I hope the learned members will guide me.

>

May 18, 2008

Dear narayan

Namaste. I thought of ignoring your mail, but somehow, my inner conscience

did not allow me to do so. Since you are sincerely doing the panchayatana

worship, here is a short piece of advice.

As per dharma sastra, there should be single set each of panchayatana with one

bana linga, ambika sila or srichakra, salagrama, aditya and ganapati. If

somebody gives you another set it should have a complete set of 5 idols. Dana

and parigraha of panchayatana should be performed with a complete set of 5

idols. Apart from these there can be any number of pancha loha idols. But

naivedya should be given sincerely to all the idols. It is said that one should

not have 2 siva lingas. But i have 4 siva lingas and nothing adverse has

happened to me. I have one bana linga, one marakata linga, one rasa (mercury)

linga and one sphatika linga.

As regards the dhyana sloka, one should perform dhyana of ambika and is

mandatory. Dhyana forms important part of the shodashopachara puja. However, i

have seen several people omitting dhyana which is wrong. We say " dhyana

avahanaadi shodashopachara pujaam karishye " which means there is importance to

dhyana sloka. So, when you are following laghu puja, restrict the upachara

mantras to Purusha Sukta and Sri Sukta but do chant the Dhyana sloka. I

personally use the dhyana slokas of Bhavani Shankara of sringeri parampara.

For siva i use " santam padmaasanastham..... " and for devi i use durga dhyana

ie., " vidyutdaama samaprabham.........durgam trinetraam bhaje " which are

MANDATORY.

If you are not able to visualise Siva-Shakti during the worship, you can

mentally visualise your father, mother and your guru and perform the Puja.

Because veda says " matru devo bhava, pitru devo bhava " . And it has been my

personal experience that during navaratris, whenever i perform sapthasathi

parayana and chandi archana, during the last day, either my gurupati or

guruputri or my own physical mother comes in my dream to bless me.

As regards the Nirmaalya, i too face similar problem. The best possible

solution is to reduce the number of flowers to bare minimum (the best form of

worship is to do with love and affection and bhavana). If you can afford,

purchase small silver bilva leaves made of silver and a small flower of gold.

During the worship, place these silver and gold flower and after the worship

take back these and put it in your puja samputa box.

Kanchi Mahaperiyavaal presented my gurunatha with 108 golden flowers at the

temple of Kamashi and asked my gurunatha to worship his panchayata with

srichakra with these golden flowers.

So, hope all your answers have been answered.

I wish all the members of this forum a blissful NRISIMHA JAYANTI.

With regards,

sriram

Lakshminrisimha mama dehi karaavalambam....

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