Guest guest Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Namaste Group: I was wondering if someone could assist me with the proper mantras for the upcoming Mahalaya Amavasya. I was also wondering if praying the thousand names of Maha Kali is also appropriate at this time. What offerings are appropriate as well. Any help would be appreciated. Shanti Om, Shankari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I think the apropriate mantra is vishnu sahasra nama followed with Lalita sahasra nama with the prayer for salvation to all your ancestors. , Shankari Kali <shankari_kali wrote: > > Namaste Group: > > I was wondering if someone could assist me with the proper mantras for the upcoming Mahalaya Amavasya. I was also wondering if praying the thousand names of Maha Kali is also appropriate at this time. > > What offerings are appropriate as well. Any help would be appreciated. > > Shanti Om, > Shankari > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Namaste: Thank you for answering. Are there any particular offerings to be made, and should one recite the Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram at night? Shanti Om! Shankari --- On Thu, 9/25/08, kochu1tz <kochu1tz wrote: kochu1tz <kochu1tz I think the apropriate mantra is vishnu sahasra nama followed with Lalita sahasra nama with the prayer for salvation to all your ancestors. , Shankari Kali <shankari_kali@ ...> wrote: > I was wondering if someone could assist me with the proper mantras > for the upcoming Mahalaya Amavasya. [....] > What offerings are appropriate as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 This is what is recommended at Shree Maa dot org. They'll pray for your ancestors when they celebrate Mahalaya Amavasya on the 28th of September. Send them names and donate! <http:// www.shreemaa. org/drupaldocs/Tarpan_Viddhi.pdf> cut and paste to your browser & remove spaces. dhkerr Srividya-Tantra , " Shankari Kali " <shankari_kali wrote: > > Namaste Group: > > I was wondering if someone could assist me with the proper mantras for > the upcoming Mahalaya Amavasya. I was also wondering if praying the > thousand names of Maha Kali is also appropriate at this time. > > What offerings are appropriate as well. Any help would be appreciated. > > Shanti Om, > Shankari > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 pls watch any bengali channel at 4.00 am where they recite ayagiri nandini and ya devi Sriram Medepalli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Namaste, This was new to mee so I looked it up and here is what I found: http://www.netglimse.com/holidays/durga_puja/mahalaya.shtml Mahalaya ushers in the aura of Durga Puja. The countdown for the Durga Puja begins much earlier, from the day of 'Ulto Rath'. It is only from the day of Mahalaya that the preparations for the Durga Puja reaches the final stage. Mahalaya is an auspicious occasion observed seven days before the Durga Puja, and heralds the advent of Durga, the goddess of supreme power. It's a kind of invocation or invitation to the mother goddess to descend on earth. This is done through the chanting of mantras. The day is being observed as Mahalaya, the day of invocation. In the dark night of amavasya (new moon), people pray to Goddess Durga to arrive in the earth to ward off all evils. On this auspicious day, people pray for the deceased relatives and take holy dip in the river Ganga - the act being called Tarpan. On the dawn of Mahalaya, homes in Bengal resonate with the immortal verses of the Chandipath (chanting from " Chandi " ). Chanting of the hymns from the holy book of " Chandi " in the recorded voice of late Birendra Krishna Bhadra over radio has become synonymous to the real Chandipath. The Chandipath is aired by All India Radio in the programme Mahisasura Mardini, narrating the incarnation of Goddess Durga and her fight with Mahishasura. Since the early 1930s, Mahalaya has come to associate itself with an early morning radio program called " Mahishasura Mardini " (the annihilator of the demon Mahishasura). This All India Radio (AIR) program is a beautiful audio montage of recitation from the scriptural verses of " Chandi " , Bengali devotional songs, classical music and a dash of acoustic melodrama. The program has also been translated into Hindi set to similar orchestration and is broadcast at the same time for a pan-Indian audience. For nearly six decades now, the whole of Bengal rises up in the chilly pre dawn hours, 4 am to be precise, of the Mahalaya day to tune in to the " Mahishasura Mardini " broadcast. The above does seem to be a particular Bengali perspective. I am not familiar with the Chandipath, unless I know it under some other name. Jai maa pr , " kochu1tz " <kochu1tz wrote: > > I think the apropriate mantra is vishnu sahasra nama followed with > Lalita sahasra nama with the prayer for salvation to all your > ancestors. > > , Shankari Kali > <shankari_kali@> wrote: > > > > Namaste Group: > > > > I was wondering if someone could assist me with the proper mantras > for the upcoming Mahalaya Amavasya. I was also wondering if praying > the thousand names of Maha Kali is also appropriate at this time. > > > > What offerings are appropriate as well.� Any help would be > appreciated. > > > > Shanti Om, > > Shankari > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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